Flying Squid
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News@lemmy.world•Gold Tesla Cybertruck owner in Massachusetts says he's been threatened and harassed.
0·2 years ago“I wish to buy something that tells everyone that I’m richer and better than them.”
Later…
“Waaaah! Everyone’s being mean to me because I’m telling everyone I’m richer and better than them!”
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News@lemmy.world•Trump tariffs to stoke US food inflation despite pledge to lower costs
0·2 years agoYeah, but the price of eggs will be going down though, right?
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News@lemmy.world•South Carolina executes Marion Bowman as he proclaims his innocence
0·2 years agoFor those who wish to know the salient details of this clear miscarriage of justice:
Bowman, imprisoned for more than half his life, was convicted of the 2001 killing of Kandee Martin, a 21-year-old childhood friend. He has said he did not kill her and that he refused to accept a plea deal because of his innocence. His attorneys said the evidence used against him was not reliable: the primary witnesses implicating him were two men also charged in the crime who received reduced sentences, and a third man who had pending charges in a separate case, which were subsequently dropped.
His lawyers also argued that the state had withheld evidence casting doubt on the witnesses, including a memo outlining a claim that one of the witnesses had confessed to the shooting.
Bowman’s legal team also argued in a recent petition that the lawyer who represented him at trial had been “infected by his own racism”, writing that the lawyer pressured him to plead guilty because he was Black and his victim was white.
Even if he was 100% guilty of the crime, he did not in any way get a fair trial. By any measure, this was a miscarriage of justice and he should be alive today.
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News@lemmy.world•Donald Trump announces plan to send 30,000 migrants to Guantanamo Bay
0·2 years agoMark my words- queer people will be next.
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News@lemmy.world•Autism community fears RFK Jr. would set back decades of progress
0·2 years agoYes, well what do you expect from people who think it’s a disease that can be cured (often with quack shit like bleach)?
I understand that parents find parenting an autistic child difficult. I have a high-functioning autistic child and that is difficult enough.
But they are just giving these people false hope. Autism can’t be cured, just like many other ways people can be disabled. No one seems to be talking about curing Down’s Syndrome.
A lot of this shit comes straight from Autism Speaks, by the way.
https://neuroclastic.com/autism-speaks-and-aba-same-corrupt-methods-different-coat-of-paint/
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News@lemmy.world•Harvey Weinstein due in court as judge weighs scope of his #MeToo retrial and when it will start
0·2 years agoJust in time for a Trump pardon.
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News@lemmy.world•Another convicted January 6 US Capitol attacker rejects Trump’s pardon
0·2 years agoI’m kind of amazed any time anyone in America feels guilt or shame or regret based on their actions at this point, but especially Trump’s fans.
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News@lemmy.world•The Supreme Court seems eager to curb First Amendment protections for porn
0·2 years agoTo quote a former Supreme Court justice and asshole, “I know it when I see it.”
Well not literally. The Vikings were in Canada. But close enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Anse_aux_Meadows#Norse_activity
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News@lemmy.world•‘I just felt trapped’ | Allegations of abuse at Arizona facility for troubled teens
0·2 years agoPlease note that Elan.school is an incredibly difficult read and could very much be triggering if you went through other kinds of trauma as a teenager.
Particles of cum.
Cells are made from cum. Which is made of cells.
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News@lemmy.world•Donald Trump loses appeal against E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict
0·2 years agoShe’ll probably be imprisoned next year.
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News@lemmy.world•Welcome to the femosphere, the latest dark, toxic corner of the internet… for women
0·2 years agoJesus and God are part of a trinity, so that’s not really an “or” situation, unless you’re one of the minority of Nontrinitarian Christians. But I was thinking of John 3:18 in specific:
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
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News@lemmy.world•Welcome to the femosphere, the latest dark, toxic corner of the internet… for women
0·2 years agoTo be fair, he also suggested if they worshipped other gods, they’d be punished in hell for it. That’s why I’m not a massive fan. But I like the ‘be nice to people’ part.
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News@lemmy.world•Welcome to the femosphere, the latest dark, toxic corner of the internet… for women
0·2 years agoIn the femosphere, as in the manosphere, there’s an overarching belief that life is about survival of the fittest, that men will always hurt women and that will never change, so strategies are needed to conquer the opposite gender.
I’m not a massive fan of the guy they nailed to a tree 2000 years ago for saying maybe people should be nice to each other once in a while, but the violent reaction to that suggestion no longer surprises me.
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News@lemmy.world•Women and LGBTQ+ people take up guns after Trump’s win: ‘We need to protect ourselves’
0·2 years agoIf you have examples of pacifism being effective against fascism, I’m quite open to having my mind changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_Slobodan_Milošević








…and other ridiculous things libertarians say.