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Quark and Worf are in a busy bar on DS9. Worf, in red uniform ,is sitting and looking irritated as per usual. Quark, wearing a jacket made from the leftover fabric scraps bin, is standing over him holding a drink tray and looking at something in Worf's lap. There are random bar folk barfolking in the background. Closed caption reads, "That is the worst mugshot I have ever seen."

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The fact that 6 out of the 8 top GOP presidential candidates on stage last night in Milwaukee would still vote for and support Donald Trump even if he is a convicted felon, even if found guilty beyond a reason sable doubt by a jury of ordinary red-leaning citizens in his own backyard of Florida, shows you how far the GOP has fallen. It is nothing more than a cult of Trump.

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People are complaining that Trump’s bond was only $200K, and that he could easily wind up fleeing justice.

Okay, but if he does, please let it involve a golf cart chase. OJ style if possible.

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Laura Ann Carleton was a mother of nine. She was a beloved shopkeeper in Lake Arrowhead, CA. And she was shot and killed for standing up as an ally to the LGBTQ+ community.

Her crime in the eyes of the murderer? Officials say he "made several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag” outside her store before shooting her. Her killer died later in an encounter with police.

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Orca Pod Escalates War on Wealthy After Knocking Blue Origin Spaceship Out of Orbit: https://theneedling.com/2023/08/21/orca-pod-escalates-war-on-wealthy-after-knocking-blue-origin-spaceship-out-of-orbit/

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Are we just going to ignore the fact that Biden let Hurricane Hillary hit California when he could have used a Sharpie to move it out to sea safely?

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This is not how to deal with climate change.

@tip the plant has basically taken over it's corner of the garden so we can't easily see the zucchini without grabbing a hatchet and donning a pith helmet

New eggplant emoji just dropped.

(This is a zucchini from my garden. It's... It's a lot).

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Smudge is happy to see you.

Smudge, looking like he's smiling quite excitedly. He's probably just yawning, but even so!

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‘I’m from Seattle,’ Says Liar from Shoreline: https://bit.ly/3Ov8jTX

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And I say to Justice Alito, no provision in the Constitution gives him the authority to regulate women's bodies.

I believe we can now use the term "X-plaining" to describe folks who won't shut up about how Elon's rebranding of Twitter is... well, actually good.

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POV: When Worldcoin starts advertising their dystopian bullshit in your neighborhood.

A wall covered in giant ads from Worldcoin. These are wheatpasted up, probably without permission. Each one is about 4 feet tall and shows the silver orb that Worldcoin uses for scanning retinas.

A row of stickers that were printed in a thermal home printer. One says “there is no use for blockchain that can’t be solved cheaper, better, and more reliably with existing tech”. Another says "Worldcoin wants to scan and store your biometric data. If you see a cyrptobro with an orb, run the other way." A third sticker says "OpenAI makes money by stealing the work of artists, coders, and writers. Now their CEO, Sam Altman, wants your biometric data. Fuck Worldcoin."

The labels are all simple black text on white 4" by 6" label paper.

A sticker placed over the QR code on the Worldcoin flyer. The sticker says “Trade offer.
Worldcoin receives: your most sensitive data and the ability to track your activities online and IRL.
You receive: Fake money”

A label that has been slapped over a big QR code. The label has a quote by Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, that says “It’s appalling that investors are wasting tens of millions in a new crypto scheme in the name of helping the world’s poor,. If they were really interested in helping low-income communities, they should give away their money instead of investing in yet another form of surveillance.”

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I would just like to note I offered an explanation for "non-human biologics" in my 2010 short story "The President's Brain is Missing." Something to think about when you're wondering if those congressional hearings finally revealed the aliens among us (answer: really probably not, sorry).

Also, you can read the whole short story here:

https://www.tor.com/2010/07/12/the-presidents-brain-is-missing/

“Anyway, it’s all crap,” Jefferson said. “The alien stuff. The whole Roswell thing. Complete crap. The Roswell thing was a test model of a high-altitude surveillance balloon. They put a chimp in the cabin to test its build integrity. That was the alien. How people confuse a chimp with an alien tells you how much people want to believe. That’s where they got the alien autopsy thing from, too, since they had to examine the chimp after the crash.”

“That poor chimp,” Alex said.

“There was a memorial to it at Groom Lake,” Jefferson said. “A banana tree.”

“That’s sweet,” Alex said.

Jefferson shrugged. “It’s dead. Can’t grow bananas in the desert, man.”

@attoparsec gonna be a Rush song, either Limelight or Tom Sawyer

Y'all think Dragon Con
keeps growing, but it's got nothing on this southern giant.

If you're not familiar, Dollar General is what happens when a dollar store gets bitten by radioactive kudzu.

The Six Million Dollar General https://youtu.be/JYNpmyerdfw (DragonConTV)

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Woman Caught Sipping Pumpkin Spice Latte Month Earlier Than Legally Permitted Arrested: https://bit.ly/43Mdd3g

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what is vulcansplaining

@RikerGoogling Vulcan Man Meld

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