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An Oral History of My Aging Body

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-oral-history-of-my-aging-body
Created
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 03:00

EYES: Not to brag, but we were among the first to go. We’ve required glasses or contact lenses for decades.

STOMACH: Eyes said that? No, I was definitely the first—not to mention the worst.

EYES: I guess I started to act up around the same time as Stomach. That was quite a year.

EARS: We got damaged early on, with all the loud music, but she didn’t really know it was happening at the time. Then years later, tinnitus. We’re sneaky like that.

BRAIN: I’ve always been a little different. Can’t do math, but can remember every song lyric ever. Ears played a role in that too.

FEET: We’ve always been problematic. But we’ve really ramped things up over the last several years. The need for orthotic insoles? That’s all us.

BLADDER: I work overtime all the time. During the day, at night, I never stop.

Weirdos

https://digbysblog.net/2024/08/07/weirdos/
Created
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 02:00
Here’s Tim Walz: The reaction to that: The choice couldn’t be more clear. If American democracy produces a result that puts that freak Stephen Miller in power we’re probably doomed anyway.

Coalition Of The Aggrieved Male

https://digbysblog.net/2024/08/07/coalition-of-the-aggrieved-male/
Created
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 00:30
Their reasons are not all meritless On the topic of the sort of “Hey, watch this!” idiots who’d run off when told to join the new Confederacy, The Bulwark cautions: WHEN 23-YEAR-OLD GAMER ADIN ROSS presented Donald Trump with a Rolex watch in a first-of-its-kind livestreamed interview on the platform Kick Monday, a tiny subset of the internet descended into blows over whether it was a campaign finance violation or not. The rest of the approximately 600,000 people watching thought it was hilarious and cool.  And that, unfortunately, is a major problem for Democrats—the majority of whom were likely oblivious to the whole episode.  Ross, who boasts 1.3 million followers, is part of a cohort of young hyperonline men who promote an unapologetically MAGA aesthetic and culture. He is a sycophant of the legendary king of the manosphere, Andrew Tate, known equally for his overt misogyny and the charges he faces for rape and human trafficking.  These clowns are heirs to Gamergate, dubbed the “Barstool Sports generation” by Harvard youth pollster John Della Volpe.

World-Ending Maneuvers?

https://tomdispatch.com/world-ending-maneuvers/
Created
Wed, 07/08/2024 - 23:27

The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion multiyear plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines. A large chunk of that funding will go to major nuclear weapons contractors like Bechtel, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. And they will do everything in their power to keep that money flowing. This January, a review of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program under the Nunn-McCurdy Act — a congressional provision designed to rein in cost overruns of Pentagon weapons programs — found that the missile, the crown jewel of the nuclear overhaul plan involving 450 missile-holding silos spread across five states, is already 81% over its original budget. It is now estimated... Read more

The Instigators

https://www.monbiot.com/2024/08/07/the-instigators/
Created
Wed, 07/08/2024 - 23:27
For 14 years, the Conservatives and their friends in the media whipped up racism and Islamophobia. These riots are the result. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 6th August 2024 “Fight, fight, fight,” senior Tories urged for years. Now they express shock, and condemn the results, when people prove stupid enough to have taken […]

Introducing Drupal Starshot's product strategy

https://www.drupal.org/blog/introducing-drupal-starshots-product-strategy
Created
Wed, 07/08/2024 - 23:10

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog.

Drupal Starshot aims to attract mid-market marketers by offering out-of-the-box marketing best practices, user-friendly tools, AI-driven site building features, all while maintaining the many advantages of Drupal Core.

Drupal Starshot ship illustration

I'm excited to share the first version of Drupal Starshot's product strategy, a document that aims to guide the development and marketing of Drupal Starshot. To read it, download the full Drupal Starshot strategy document as a PDF (8 MB).

Introducing Drupal Starshot's product strategy

https://www.drupal.org/blog/introducing-drupal-starshots-product-strategy
Created
Wed, 07/08/2024 - 23:10

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog.

Drupal Starshot aims to attract mid-market marketers by offering out-of-the-box marketing best practices, user-friendly tools, AI-driven site building features, all while maintaining the many advantages of Drupal Core.

Drupal Starshot ship illustration

I'm excited to share the first version of Drupal Starshot's product strategy, a document that aims to guide the development and marketing of Drupal Starshot. To read it, download the full Drupal Starshot strategy document as a PDF (8 MB).

What Non-Weird Adults Act Like This?

https://digbysblog.net/2024/08/07/what-non-weird-adults-act-like-this/
Created
Wed, 07/08/2024 - 23:00
Others would sign up to be cannon fodder The spouse the other day blurted out (re: the MAGA cult), “What are they so angry about? What about their lives in this country is so terrible?” It’s a fair question. These MAGA people’s lives look pretty un-terrible. What does a rig like that truck at the top cost? How oppressed are you if you can afford to own and operate vehicles like that (and these below), accessorized as they are? “Fully 83% of the arrestees resided in areas with an average annual per capita income between $20K and $50K,” reports one study of January 6 arrestees. Just a guess, but the boat parade and truck parade people are not likely to have family incomes as low as $50k. Nor the Texas women who chartered a private jet to attend the Stop the Steal rally on January 6, 2021. They aren’t that worried about the price of gas. You can call them many things, but just don’t call these adults weird. Nothing weird about adults wearing diapers (outside their clothes). The clip below speaks for itself, as does the former celebrity. Or these totally non-weird people.

Minority Rule

https://www.monbiot.com/2024/08/07/minority-rule/
Created
Wed, 07/08/2024 - 22:53
Tax the billionaires or their oppressive power will only grow. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 31st July 2024 Who is government for? It’s a question we should never stop asking. The answer that keeps coming back is “not the majority”. For example, the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic produced remarkably consistent polling […]

Animal Farewells for the Sixth Extinction

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/animal-farewells-for-the-sixth-extinction
Created
Wed, 07/08/2024 - 22:00

Scientists largely agree that Earth is in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, so we will be called upon to say goodbye to animals with increasing frequency. Unfortunately, the average American knows pitifully few ways to do so. If you ask anyone on the street, their list will likely stop short after just two: “In a while, crocodile” and “See you later, alligator.” In light of this, we offer the following non-exhaustive list of animal farewells:

Take care, Polar Bear

It’s been real, Hawaiian Monk Seal

See ya mañana, Marine Iguana

Sorry we’ve been so negligent, Sumatran Elephant

It was nice to meet ya, Vaquita

Gotta bounce, Greater Sage-Grouse

Have a great day, Giant Manta Ray

Kick rocks, Arctic Fox

Sorry for revvin’ our engines, Galápagos Penguins

Wouldn’t you agree highways are fine though, Greater One-Horned Rhino?

So long, Dugong

Our bad on the grievous damage to your corpus, Yangtze Finless Porpoise

Take a hike, San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike