As an immigrant to the US, I sometimes find things a little alien here even after 16 years of moving from the UK.

That's why it's always good to hear Tim Stanley on BBC Radio4's Any Questions. Listening to that man on any topic leaves me with the sense that emigrating was a good move and that I want nothing to do with that man or the culture that sustains such cretins in the public arena. Fuck that guy and all that he stands for.

It's been an hour and they haven't kicked in yet.

@rpardee ooft I only got 4/8. Certainly justifies me getting off Twitter since my radar is quite faulty.

@Ellico2020bis such as might be provoked by the threat of eternal damnation in a lake of fire?

One of the nice bits about being 2 to 3 decades younger than most of the pro-life religious conservatives is the thought that I'll be alive long enough to leave a portion of my estate to funding an abortion clinic named in their honor.

I like to think that with a large enough endowment, the clinic would grow to prominence and that by association, the names of those politicians would in time be associated with something that appalled them.

I'm thinking about it right now.
Thinking. Smiling.

@Ellico2020bis A glance through the old testament shows that God's pretty aligned with those dicks.

Petty, jealous, authoritarian, cruel, genocidal, misogynist. God's practically their role model.

Vallejo man, identified by Instagram page for aspiring rap career, charged with $5,000 armed robbery in Orinda

Arrgh...the Stupidity.... It burns!
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/03/13/vallejo-man-identified-by-instagram-page-for-aspiring-rap-career-charged-with-5000-armed-robbery-in-orinda/

@DadeMurphy that's a tricky one to judge since an awful lot of those wars were because of religious disagreements.

Oh look! The same Catholic church that agreed the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany had thoughts about what Ukraine should do about their invaders.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/10/pope-francis-ukraine-russia-war-00146147

The blamehound notion remained as a conversational shared reference for a decade until I got my dog.

Only my dog is a blamehound in the sense that he detects them and points his muzzle toward the person who farted in an accusatory and startled fashion.

My dog fartles easily.

My brother once told me that he hadn't farted even once since he got a dog. We laughed at the idea of a blamehound, a special breed bred with fart-blame absorption characteristics as a guiding principle.

@Alfred do you know where this picture was taken?

@th3j35t3r @Alfred

@Alfred ah, I see! No, I wasn't looking for the location of a particular image. I'd like to know how you go about answering those types of queries.

@Alfred lost you there, I'm afraid. Which image are you referring to?

@Alfred when asked to identify where a picture was taken, are you using exif data embedded in images?

Inside the Internal Debates of a Hospital Abortion Committee
https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-doctor-decisions-hospital-committee

Holy shit. The ending.
https://youtu.be/GE-VJrdHMug

@Wbtphdjd If I were the clinic, I'd arrange to take my cryogenic freezer of embryos on a road trip of indeterminate length to the great state of California to contribute to their cultural enrichment. I might even go so far as to send the Alabama AG a postcard showing their safe arrival.