Hello, class. My name is Mr. Wolf.
My office hours are in the syllabus.
Extra credit can be earned by delivering goodie baskets of meat to my door.

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#Politics #Food

Penzy's took a very loud, very public stand.

Their website was down briefly, I guess. Flooded with hate mail.

It's back up though. If you want to read the statement, it's here.

https://www.penzeys.com/shop/about-republicans/

In hacker news:

The world's dumbest hacker decided it was a great idea to hack the central website of the biggest network of cyber security and computer programmers in the world. AND piss off the biggest collective of trolls on the net, at the same time.

It's not going well for them.

https://bsky.app/profile/aapur.bsky.social/post/3l27rrz5zqw2d

@th3j35t3r Fun little story for you.

A friend used to work at CS and nearly their entire job was writing & maintaining a testing bot to ensure that new code was in compliance with all the standards across all the platforms and didn't throw errors before it was committed.

They quit not too long ago. In large part because they got sick of all the programmers not using the software bot to check their work before trying to commit.

I want to call and ask... But also their portfolio is probably 📉😱.

One of my friends was describing how he wasn't allowed to post pictures of FOOD without a warning label on some furry .social site.

I was unaware this was a thing in the fed-iverse or whatever you call it. I've just been quietly enjoying hanging out on counter.social and bsky, blissfully unaware of the horrors just over the wall.

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I've had several conversations with friends about retweeting unverified Middle East propaganda. Most have been accepting that due diligence is important.

But one friend could not understand, despite me pointing to where major outlets like CNN say explicitly that "these reports are unverified."

When I showed him the videos of what's been going on in the US, he refused to believe it because major outlets hadn't reported the Arabic chants of "death to Jews."

We are now no longer friends.

Me, replying to someone: This chat is notoriously prudish and puritanical. Ask me in DMs.

SFW Chat Owner: Me and the whole mod team were irked by your derogatory description of the chat.

Me, to myself: Thus proving my point.

#Irony

#Funny #StarTrek

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Per my previous post about Bsky becoming the hellsite (re: campus protests):

It's amazing just how fast people shut the fuck up when it became clear - as Jews have been telling them all along - this campus bullshit was stirred up by outside antisemitic agitators.

I have to walk away from BlueSky, at least for a month. All my acquaintances are falling for every piece of Gaza propaganda that comes out.

I've had direct conversations with several of them and yet they keep reposting agitprop and lies. I've had long conversations about ethno-nationalist cleansing terms like River to the Sea, Blüt und Boden (Blood and Soil), Lebensraum, and Manifest Destiny yet it doesn't seem to break through the perasive haze of antisemitism.

I'm tired. And angry.

Not to sound flippant or dismissive of the death of a human being, but how is this news?

A) It's a Waffle House.
B) There was a murder.

A always implies B. In fact, all jokes aside, I don't think there's a single Waffle House in the US that hasn't seen at least one murder.

That said, the macabre humor is kinda funny, anyway. Or maybe it's just that I have to laugh so I don't scream at yet another mass shooting in the US.

#Funny

Someone posted the first image to my chat, and the second came flooding into my mind.

Because I'm old.

#Funny #Comics

That is NOT a rustic medieval chair, artist.

Those are Senegalese birthing chairs. 🤣😂🤣😂

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After a year on Counter Social, I consume social media so so differently.

Over on BlueSky, I watch the fireworks and have no interest in getting involved. In fact, I'm vaguely wondering where Jester is and why I haven't seen multiple troll-splat emojis.

My furry friends and the artists are over there, but so are the dramallamas.

It's exhausting.

Is anyone else getting weird negative-looking user icons on mobile? I've tried clearing my cache but a bunch of folks - including my own icon - still show up as a negative image next to posts.

#Politics #Twitter

You know you're super duper extra special bigoted when IBM - a company infamous for directly helping carry out the Holocaust (not an exaggeration at all) - thinks you're too antisemitic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/16/elon-musk-antisemitic-advertisers/

#Fraud #Scam #LightInTheBox

Almost fell for an online scam. The first image is the jacket they advertise, but the second is /also/ shown in the listing.

You don't have to be a fashion guru to see the massive difference in materials and manufacturing quality between the two.

Guess which one you'd get in the mail if you actually spent money with this scammy company. Avoid LightInTheBox.