Well there you have it kids, only a couple of months before the zombie apocalypse begins. No exact date given for it, of course, cos anon doesn’t want to be held to that sort of detail like Harold Camping or something. But if nothing out of the ordinary (at least in terms of normal American stupidity) happens by the end of September, I think we’ll all be justified in laughing at this guy as much as we are this one…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. press dinner explodes in war of words and farting
Page Six regrets to report that a press dinner to boost Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign descended into a foul bout of screaming and polemic farting Tuesday night.
The White House hopeful attended the affair at Tony’s on the Upper East Side, no doubt hoping to impress on the ladies and gentlemen of the Fourth Estate his worthiness to sit at the very same Oval Office desk once occupied by his late uncle.
But a shouting match over climate change broke out between two boisterous old men, sending the evening down an extremely unfortunate path.
The gaseous exchange — to which Page Six bore reluctant witness — began after a guest asked Kennedy, founder of the ecological organization Waterkeeper Alliance, about the environment.
And it seems that the mere inquiry was enough to set off apparently drunk gossip columnist-turned-flack Doug Dechert, the host of the event, who became enraged and screamed at the top of his lungs: “The climate hoax!”
Meanwhile, octogenarian art critic Anthony Haden-Guest, who appeared to have been sleeping happily for most of the dinner, was roused by the abrupt rumpus.
Haden-Guest suddenly opened his eyes and denounced his longtime pal Dechert, calling him a “miserable blob.” […]
Here, it seems, Dechert sensed the need for a new rhetorical tack, and let rip a loud, prolonged fart while yelling, as if to underscore his point, “I’m farting!”
The room, which included a handful of journalists as well as Kennedy’s campaign manager, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, was stunned, seemingly unsure about whether Dechert was farting at Haden-Guest personally or at the very notion of global warming.
I normally wouldn’t read Page Six, let alone post anything from it, but this just fills me with joy. If RFK2 weren’t the person he is, I’d almost feel sorry for him, and I’d be wondering why Doug Dechert was even invited; he’s a right-winger who’s apparently helped get book deals for a bunch of other right-wingers (including professional racist Laura Loomer) who apparently couldn’t even get the people at Regnery to look at them. But RFK2 is who he is, so, you know, fuck him. Not like his own publisher doesn’t have some kind of dubious books on its list, too…
Outrage as Republican says 1921 Tulsa massacre not motivated by race
The state official in charge of Oklahoma’s schools is facing calls for impeachment, after he said teachers should tell students that the Tulsa race massacre was not racially motivated.
In a public forum on Thursday, Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s state superintendent of public instruction, said teachers could cover the 1921 massacre, in which white Tulsans murdered an estimated 300 Black people, but teachers should not “say that the skin color determined it”.
Walters is a pro-Trump Republican who was elected to oversee Oklahoma education in November. He has consistently indulged in rightwing talking points including “woke ideology” and has said critical race theory should not be taught in classrooms. Republicans have frequently conflated banning critical race theory with banning any discussion of racial history in classrooms.
Nothing to do with race whatsoever. It was purely coincidental that the mob perpetrating the attacks was white and their targets were black and that the whole thing started when a young black man was falsely accused of raping a white woman. And, per Wikipedia, white families with black servants who refused to turn them over to be detained found themselves being attacked by the white mob too. Plus it appears that when the National Guard finally rolled up to impose martial law, it was largely black people they rounded up.
Not even remotely about race. I suppose people should be grateful this shithead’s allowing the subject to be taught at all, though… Obviously it’s a fucking Trumpeter insisting race had nothing to do with it, too, same cunt who helped spread the transparently absurd story that some schools were installing litter boxes for their students who identified as cats. I mean… really? I’ll confess to being a bit baffled by furries, to be sure, but I doubt many of them are that literal about it…
This is a couple of years old but, let’s face it, stupid has no expiry date. I mean, I’m not a beer expert and I couldn’t tell you how the full brewing process operates, but I do know there’s no point at which meat enters the picture. Then again, I’m not a host for Fox, so no wonder that I do at least know that much…
Via Taylor Lorenz on Masto. Threads is the literal work of Satan, apparently. The Satanic Panic never fully goes away in the US, does it? Although in this case it’s just been reduced to a particularly shitty tool in a shitty corporate battle between two shitty billionaires, one of whom has evidently inspired some of his his shitty cultists to… whatever the fuck this nonsense is. There is, of course, no dog-whistling involved in using this Satan bullshit to attack Oolong’s business rival when the latter just so happens to be, you know, one of THOSE people. Maybe not a practising or believing one, but one of THEM anyway. Nothing remotely antisemitic going on here at all.
Oolong vs Zuck looks like it might actually happen… not in the cage but in court.
Yeah, he’s not happy that Zuck is, allegedly, stealing “trade secrets” by hiring a bunch of people who used to work at Twitter before its current owner fired them. I suspect he’s more unhappy that Threads is now, according to Zuck, already up to thirty million users and this is how he chooses to lash out at that… well, given his propensity to not pay his bills, I hope anyone who might take this silly case on has enough sense to demand payment up front.
As for me, I just decided to reply directly to the prick for once. Personally I think my idea is rather good, which is why I half expect my account to be suspended, if not whacked altogether, for saying it…
Apparently this was a tweet posted to the Republican party’s official Twitter account; I say “was” because they apparently deleted the thing once they realised there was a slight problem. And when I say “realised”, I mean a bunch of other people laughed at them for having posted a graphic with the LIBERIAN flag rather than the American one… honestly, these fucking people fetishise their fucking flag like some sacred fucking object, and they can’t even tell it apart from the flag of the country they founded so they could tell their freed black people to get lost back in the early 1800s. Still, it’s not like their loyalty is to the US as such anyway…
I said the other day I’d probably finally stop using Twitter if anything happened to Tweetdeck, and, well, it’s like Elon heard me:
Twitter users will soon need to be verified in order to use the online dashboard TweetDeck, the company announced on Monday.
The popular and previously free tool allows users to organize the accounts they follow into different columns to easily monitor content. It has been popular with businesses and news organizations.
The new policy will take effect in 30 days, the company said in a tweet, and could bring a revenue boost to Twitter, which has struggled to retain advertisers under Elon Musk’s ownership. […]
The TweetDeck change could be an attempt to push more users to the Twitter Blue program, through which users can pay for verification. The subscription service costs $11 per month in the US (on iOS or Android), £11 in the UK and $19 in Australia, and includes the blue checkmark, a demarcation previously free to politicians, journalists and other notable public figures.
The service attracted just 150,000 subscribers in its first weeks – a small portion of the platform’s global user base of nearly 400 million. As of 30 April, the number of paid subscribers had fallen to about 68,000, according to reports from Mashable.
I was a little perplexed, if not indeed a little concerned, when Tweetdeck suddenly launched a new design at me last night. I no longer remember when I started using it, but it was certainly at least back in the days when it still supported Facebook, and it stopped doing that in May 2013. And in 10 (plus?) years I don’t believe it’s ever changed its design until now. I am not a fan of the new look, which now makes it look and behave more like the web version of Twitter which I am not a fan of either. I was puzzled by what this new design indicated… and I’m guessing this is it.
And if I’m going to have to pay to use a version of Tweetdeck that just looks like the web version of the site within the next few weeks then, well, I’m not. If the site lasts long enough I’ve no doubt the web version will also require payment to use it (on top of how you currently already need an account to see anything). So once Tweetdeck starts demanding cash, I’m gone.
For what it may be worth, while on Mastodon yesterday, someone posted this interesting theory…
…but, as nice as it looks, I don’t buy it. The whole idea outlined here is simply too complicated for me to believe it, and the fact that we now know Jack Dorsey is no longer as keen on that “singular solution” as he was last October doesn’t help. Also, it kind of relies in some degree on Oolong actually knowing what he’s doing… which is debatable at best.
Also, I joined the queue for Bluesky the other day. We’ll see how that goes. If it does.
Seen this being shared on Twatter:
Jordan Peterson’s daughter reminding him that their side has idiots too. (Everything I’ve seen about Pearly indicates that she is indeed a complete fucking tool, to be sure.) Fascinating that Mikhaila is snapping back at her old man like this… cos remember she snapped at him a bit when he reposted the “Chinese Communist milking machines” a few months ago, too. Onviously she and him share politics broadly, but she seems able to see through at least some of the shitheads on the right, moreso than daddy does, and she’s… reluctant, perhaps, to let get away with at least some nonsense? I don’t suppose Jurr Durr will take much notice, though, cos after all, even if Mikhaila is his own daughter, she’s still just a woman…
Yeah, the story of Oolong vs Zuck in a cage fight wasn’t sufficiently idiotic, apparently, cos now mother Musk has stepped in and demanded Zuck leave her little boy alone. I can’t wait for the followup story interviewing Beast about his feelings on the matter:
“I don’t know, man, I’m just a sheepdog, and these two-legged sheep just confuse the crap out of me… This ‘money’ thing I’ve heard about just seems to make them into complete fuckwits for some reason…”
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