I see your schlong, and raise you another schlong.
• Climate change could trigger more earthquakes, study suggests
• “An exclamation point on global warming”: Climate scientists warn 2024 was marked by broken records
• Canada's cities are losing up to 19 days of winter
• Earth’s clouds are shrinking, boosting global warming
• More people are now dying from the cold
• Even NASA can't explain the alarming surge in global heat we're seeing
• Workers' deaths by heatstroke are often unreported by Florida employers
• Warming exacerbates oxygen depletion in the Baltic Sea, undermining nutrient reduction efforts
Both sides do it, both sides do it.
Yawn.
I'm intrigued, but it looks like the organization that handed out Grimmys, The Society of Professional Obituary Writers, didn't survive the pandemic.
Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).
There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
• Suchir Balaji
whistleblower
• Wolfgang Becker
film director, Good Bye, Lenin! (archived link)
• David Bonderman
private equity fucker (archived link)
• Michael Brewer
rock'n'roller, "One Toke Over the Line" (archived link)
• Robert Brooks
in county jail (archived link)
• Diane Delano
actress, Northern Exposure (archived link)
• Sugar Pie DeSanto
R&B singer, "Rock Me Baby"
• Bob “Slim” Dunlap
rock'n'roller, the Replacements (archived link)
• Rayful Edmond
cocaine entrepreneur (archived link)
• Eli Fletcher a/k/a Keith Thornhill
Guitar Man (archived link)
• Meena Ganesh
actress, Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njanum (archived link)
• Nikki Giovanni
poet, activist
• Gerd Heidemann
journalist who got it wrong (archived link)
• Bridgette Hempstead
Cierra Sisters
• Rickey Henderson
baseballer, Oakland A's (archived link)
• Zakir Hussain
tabla (archived link)
• identity withheld pending notification of next of kin
forgotten person (archived link)
• Linwood Jones
in county jail (archived link)
• Wesley Joyner
in county jail (archived link)
• Cheung Kan-Shing
forgotten person (archived link)
• David Mallett
singer-songwriter, "The Garden Song" (archived link)
• Troy Masters
journalist, activist (archived link)
• Matthew McCarthy
in county jail (archived link)
• Lorenzo Melendez
forgotten person (archived link)
• Eric Nelson
forgotten person (archived link)
• Marisa Paredes
actress, Like Death Warmed Up
• Hassau Powell
forgotten person (archived link)
• Janis Scott
bus lady (archived link)
• Sir Lady Java
illegal drag queen (archived link)
• Stacy
forgotten person
• Timothy Scott Towne
in county jail (archived link)
• Dick Van Arsdale
basketballer, Phoenix Suns (archived link)
Anybody could be wrong about anything, but Ken Klippenstien has a track record of being right. You have a two-day-old account on Lemmy, and an unwarranted reliance on ChatGPT.
But Amazon can deliver that rope free, within two business days!
I have never seen this, heard this, or done this in real life.
• Priest jailed for train sex attack on sleeping man
• Missouri pastor gets three months in prison for embezzling at least $358,000
(archived link)
• Survivors seek a reckoning as FBI investigates child sex abuse in little-known Christian sect
(archived link)
• Former deputy police chief, now pastor, arrested for alleged child sex crimes
(archived link)
• Pornography use among Christians, including pastors, has now surpassed the national average for Americans in general, says noted Christian wingnut
(archived link)
• Lutheran deacon charged with bringing a minor to New York for sex
(archived link)
• Pervert priest gets probation in New York
(archived link)
• Three dead in mass shooting at Madison's Abundant Life Christian School
(archived link)
• Retired New Orleans priest gets life in prison after pleading guilty to child rape
Humans, man. What a bunch of idiots we are, bragging about our accomplishments and triple-digit IQs but spinning such nonsense out of nothing. What the article gets wrong is only its bizarre implication that such kookiness is in our past, not our present and our shared psychotic future.
No peaceful discourse with those who seek the end of peaceful discourse.
Counselors will be available in the lobby.
Is there good way to express anger?
FUCK YOU.
• Pregnant Kentucky woman cited for street camping while in labor
(archived link)
• Indiana decertifies ex-cop who sexually abused a teen. It took two years and a Washington Post investigation.
(archived link)
• City of Chicago is ordered to pay nearly $80M over police chase that killed a 10-year-old girl
(archived link)
• Kerwin Harris died after a St. Louis cop held him in a chokehold. It was ruled 'accidental'.
• Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office supervisor recommended that officers should receive an award, after jail staff left man in a mental health crisis handcuffed, face down, dying in a cell
(archived link)
• Judge allows testing of tissue from George Floyd, as officer convicted of killing him seeks new trial via wingnut claim Floyd died of a heart condition aggravated by a rare tumor
(archived link)
• Wyoming police officer charged with child sex crimes
• 4th Circuit strips immunity from cops who engaged in an insane amount of unconstitutional fuckery
• A St. Louis cop sent a Black man to prison, but the jury never heard about the officer’s past
(archived link)
• Family of ‘Cop City’ activist shot dead by Georgia police sue officers involved
• After 12 delays, ex-police chief who raped teen is sentenced to federal prison
(archived link)
• Michigan cop is fired, as he's charged with six child sex crimes
(archived link)
• L.A. sheriff’s deputy pleads guilty to beating transgender man who flipped him off
(archived link)
• US Bureau of Prisons pays ‘historic’ $115m to survivors of staff sexual abuse
• Judge rules El Paso DA illegally withheld evidence in at least 5 rural cases
(archived link)
• Deputies, medical staff plead not guilty in Santa Rita Jail death
(archived link)
• A suburban police force in New York strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DoJ says
(archived link)
• Former deputy police chief, now pastor, arrested for alleged child sex crimes
(archived link)
This is the rule for any strike, anywhere, in any industry. When people take a stand instead of taking a paycheck, it means their situation was literally unworkable.
There's never been a strike where management was in the right.
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What a shallow, panicked take. Listening to an "experienced child exploitation investigator," Reuters did a deep-dig at OnlyFans and found 26 accounts featuring females who "appeared" to be underage.
That's not my kink, but 26 ain't many, "appeared underage" is an incredibly low bar, OnlyFans requires proof of age, which all the pages in question had on file, and the site took the pages down immediately anyway. I'm not seeing how OnlyFans could be more rigorous about this, but Reuters should be. This is just anti-porn hysteria.