I’m finally approaching 500 followers on Bluesky. And I didn’t even have to buy a single one. This whole social media bingo card thing was so unnecessary. It’s just too bad government didn’t build Twitter. It would have been more open, accountable, and always evolving. Sure worked for the Internet.

One of the most destructive ideas in the last 50 years was this notion that everyone should have the right to speak as they wish, even in private venues. That “free speech” was some kind of entitlement card you could swipe anywhere and get a pass on whatever bullshit you wanted to spew.

I’m reached the end of the streaming Internet again. I may have to start watching those zombie movies that are made just to be distributed to foreign markets. It’s that bad. I am open to suggestions.

HA! I told you the Johnson crap would come rolling in fast now. @npub1zeql...qpj8: Guys, the new Speaker was involved with that Ark Park/Creation museum and obnoxious grifter Ken Hamm:

Answers in Genesis

Ark Encounter Incentives Are About Tourism

When the Ark Project sails, everybody will benefit—even those who are stubbornly trying to sink it.

Zounds! A Chrome upgrade that actually matters. Finally, search marks from the sidebar. That only took 15 f-ing years.

Good morning. Well, more or less, anyway. I mean Kevin McCarthy is giving Jim Jordan a verbal blow job on the House floor. It’s good in the same way that candy laced with razor blades tastes good.

Note: This article refers to the “bad” Charles Johnson (of twitter infamy), and not my app partner, the “good” Charles F. Johnson (@npub1d0sp...egda) Exclusive: Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Was an FBI Informant

Business Insider

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant

In 2021, Thiel, a top tech investor and Trump megadonor, began a secret life as a confidential FBI informant.

#ThreadsEcho

The Evil Geniuses who sold free enterprise and competition as the most important national goals a people could have, are sure going to have some explaining to do when we fight a war with China and it becomes painfully clear that far too many of the moving parts of our mighty military are now made in China, often by the same oligarchs assembling them in the USA and making crazy amounts of money on the flip. Once again, you couldn’t write a movie script this unbelievable. But here we are.

When I said yesterday that the cruelty of this evacuation was that they “had nowhere else to go” I assumed many people knew the simple reality: that Palestinians are about as welcome in most of the Arab world as fire ants are at a picnic. That’s been the open secret of the whole issue for over two generations now. Nobody ever wants to talk about it. But there it is.

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Why Do the Arabs Hate the Palestinians?

For many reasons, the Arab world is not at all interested in giving the Palestinian Arabs a state. The Palestinian Arabs don't really want one...

From the roach-infested mind of the hideous asshole who brought us the “critical race theory” hysteria.

“The fog of war” is a well worn metaphor. We need a new short saying to describe the “fog of social media bullshit.”

I would argue that the Arab states have never wanted or cared about the Palestinians (but many of their subjects did), and still don’t. It has nothing to do with a “genocidal ideology” See:

Al Jazeera

The Arab world has forsaken the Palestine cause

The Palestinians have lost their Arab allies amid Arab regimes' increasing authoritarianism and dependence on the US.

Source: @npub1kgmk...nv54

Mastodon

I said when this started that Israel would overreact. But it’s been much worse than I thought it would be. 6,000 bombs in 5 days? That’s Putin level death and destruction. But he did it a long way from his own home. These Israeli generals and their families don’t live very far from the ruins that they’ve just made into the biggest incubator of terrorism anywhere. Just incredibly stupid. And most of them probably know it.

I can’t speak for you, but I am so tired of being forced to see the world through the completely average eyes of ex-Bush stooge, Nicole Wallace. There’s a limit to my tolerance for endless handwringing posturing as critical analysis. It’s been years of this shit. I am just fed up with it.

Any “news” organization that doesn’t run this story should be shut down or burned to the ground. I am so sick of a multi trillion dollar “news” industry that never publishes much news. I’m even sicker of the American Left just treating the media as an minor annoyance, rather a major reason fascism is a ascendant around the world. Source: @npub1d0sp...egda

Mastodon

Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs@mastodon.social)

Trump allegedly discussed US nuclear subs with foreign national after leaving White House: Sources - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/US/after-whit...

This an example of why I just love the fediverse. I ask questions and get answers. I am still waiting for answers to questions asked on Xitter a decade ago. As for Bluesky, nothing. Even low hanging political questions get ignored routinely. It has all the community feel of a morgue’s waiting room.

This football game has more flags than the United Nations.

Funded by billionaires, the American right has a massive agitprop network that converts countless molehill stories into mountains in a matter of hours for purely partisan purposes. The Left can’t make a genuine mountain like this speech trend for a full day. Source: @npub1grx4...uxfe

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Shoq (@shoq@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Biden’s Bold Stand Against MAGA’s Threat To Democracy: A Compelling Message For 2024 https://dailyboulder.com/bidens-bold-s...

Raise Your Hand if You’re Fed Up with Mainstream News • by @npub1jzsh...jpwv

Raise Your Hand if You’re Fed Up with Mainstream News

As democracy appears to deteriorate, the press is not covering itself in glory.