Merry Christmas, if you’re into that sort of thing!

@Pie:

“Police blame prankster for Wichita shooting”

And, in the process, absolve themselves of any blame for being too fucking trigger-happy.

There’s plenty of culpability to go around here, no need for the “prankster” (read: violent felon) to get all of it. You didn’t need to be the murderer’s tools.

@Dormousing_it:

A single year? Given what it results in, and can result in, swatting should be charged as assault with a deadly, and voluntary manslaughter up to 2nd degree murder if anyone dies as a consequence of it.

@opposablethumbs:

Scildfreja posted on or a bit after Christmas. There’s at least one person who’s really MIA though: Policy of Madness! I haven’t seen anything from them in months.

I’m a little frustrated by the praise being heaped on that guy who admitted he made a mistake voting for Trump. No, very concerned DailyKos writer, I’m not going to “attack” him. But my question for any regretful Trump voter is “Great. Now what?” It’s not enough to just say that they made a huge mistake. Their vote has done so much harm to this country and the whole world that I hardly know how to begin to catalog it. Amends are required. If regretful Trump voters aren’t going to vote for Dems in the midterms, vote for Trump’s 2020 opponent, campaign for those Democratic candidates in some capacity, talk to their friends and neighbors who are still supporting the GOP and pushing back against Trump in every way they can think of, I don’t really want to hear it.

Maybe that’s mean. But a vote for Trump was not the electoral equivalent of spilling a drink on the carpet or stepping on someone’s toe. It’s more like the equivalent of driving drunk, getting into an accident and killing someone. Saying it was a mistake just doesn’t fucking cover it.

And don’t read the comments. Unless you want to read a bunch of people scolding progressives who are still angry at Trump voters and blaming Hillary Clinton for Trump because she stole the primaries from Bernie Sanders.

HRC and Obama’s politics are pretty much identical. So anyone who likes Obama or at least doesn’t mind him but didn’t think Clinton should be president because she’s too conservative gets a pretty hefty side eye from me.

That’s not to say the Democratic party shouldn’t be pushed further to the left. It should. But sitting out a presidential election where the alternative to Hillary Clinton was someone like the Cheeto Monster does nothing to accomplish that. That’s a bottom up job.

I’m reiterating points I’ve made here about a hundred times now, so I’m shutting up about it, but it just astounds me that there are still people saying that a Hillary Clinton presidency wouldn’t be much different than Trumps. I can only hope they’re faux progressive trolls. They probably aren’t though. I’m just glad these people have stopped coming here. I’m really, really out of patience with them and have been for a long ass time.

@Surplus to Requirements:

That’s what I remember from the news article. This was about 2 years ago. I’m a layperson in regards to legal or police terminology…I think that was the actual time he wound up serving in prison…a year. I remembered it, because I was so shocked.

WWTH: I was screaming for a couple of years that — with the GOP in control of Congress — ANY Republican’t President would be a disaster. JEB? or Rubio probably would have been worse on domestic affairs if not as scary on foreign affairs. As time goes on I become more and more convinced that the Hillary scandals were mostly an excuse not to vote for a woman. Note the recent idiotic, hideously condescending Vanity Fair article encouraging her to take up knitting. She worked her butt off for 30 years, and then to be treated like … Sarah Palin?

I found this photo on the Interwebz:

Here’s the ad text:

Use old panda sized shopping bags from your favorite stores and tack them sturdily to the wall above a work space. This creates a fun way to store office supplies.

I thought that maybe “panda-sized” everything was all the rage. Panda-sized ice cream cones? Panda-sized umbrellas? Panda-sized bedroom slippers? But my search engine says no.

So I’m left scratching my head.

WWTH:

It’s so perfectly MRA because there’s initial sympathy then proof that he deserves none of it.

S4E6 will make people mad who deserve to be mad online as well.

Black Mirror

I recommend starting with S1E1 but it’s a tough episode to get over. No other is like it thematically, but it introduces the tech focus and lets you know to strap the fuck in mentally and morally because you’ll be tried.

If you want a soft, friendly intro that’ll probably still make you cry some people start with San Junperio

I illegally streamed it all off certain sites where you can “watch series”, but I won’t post those links since legally David is suppose to remove them if they get posted

@Kat, ambassador of the feminist government in exile:

That’s bizarre. I can’t imagine where that came from. Why not mastodon-sized? Or sperm whale-sized? Or, best of all, mammoth-sized?

I’ve been posting so much today, because I’m in the grip of procrastination. I must get my shit together, once and for all.

I’ve been meaning to watch Black Mirror for ages, and the posts here have convinced me. I’m thinking of starting with this new episode – if anyone wants to scream “NO! start from season 1!!!” please do so 🙂

We have a physical TV, because the big screen size is great, but we only use it for Netflix and Crunchyroll (and gaming). Watched quite a bit of regular TV when the boy was little, as the national broadcaster has fab kids’ shows, but it’s been ages now.

@Catalpa:

Well, then it’s not TV. It’s some sort of web video that will stutter, glitch, and blow up your data charges. 🙂