Notices by M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im), page 6

@mattb @CynAq @aral And this exchange is the perfect metaphor for why the far left is as hypocritical as the far right. Privileged scolds.

@blogdiva @Teri_Kanefield Of course! Because conservatism requires that there be "us" and "the other," and so cannot exist comfortably in a true democracy, which by definition includes and empowers "the other."

I just saw @emptywheel refer to X (née Twitter) as "Xitter," which is freaking perfect once you realize how to pronounce it.

@gerrymcgovern
"The Oregonian revealed that Google’s global data centers guzzled 15 billion gallons of water in 2022, after it challenged the city of Dallas, Oregon to disclose how much water a single Google data center in the region was using. The investigation showed that the company consumed about 1.25 billion liters of water in the area in 2021 alone. That is enough water to supply more than a million households for a year, according to some estimates."

Wow.

@NMBA @VeroBalderasI Agreed.

"Democracy is a better idea than fascism, but the liberal international order does not exist because it is a better idea. It exists because the democratic powers built bigger and better guns, killed millions of fascists, overthrew fascist governments, tried and hanged fascist leaders, and liberated or coercively democratized former fascist countries.... The liberal international order rests on a founding act of violence, of which the Normandy campaign was a crucial part. It was justified, of course, because it was also an act of self-defense against the fascists’ attempts to found their preferred world order on the rest of us."
https://warontherocks.com/2018/06/why-visit-normandy-reflections-on-a-birthplace-of-the-liberal-international-order/

Today would be a good day for that White House interpreter to say "screw the usual ethics rules" and tell us what Trump and Putin talked about in private right before Trump asked for, then shredded, her notes. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/13/trump-putin-meetings-interpreter-notes/2565471002/

@mekkaokereke @BlackAzizAnansi @Are0h But is Blue Sky any better? I mean, a lot of folks are sticking with Twitter, which sure as hell isn't better moderation-wise than Mastodon.

@TexasObserver @gbhnews I hate to be That Guy™®©, but... now what?

@Mrfunkedude Also, he singlehandedly kept the French Horn player industry afloat for two decades.

[Thread] Merry Christmas. Let's all remember the Reason for the Season: finally cracking and righteously slaughtering your coworkers.

Merry Christmas. Let's all remember the Reason for the Season: promoting a healthy industrial economy.