I’ll take shitstorm for $100, Alex.

Elections are still coming. “Inflation” hasn’t been tamed. We’re also waiting for the next pandemic. Planetary thermal events are in progress. Mega drought in the American Southwest threatens to cripple hydroelectric power generation and agriculture for millions.

Normal? That’s just what they want you to think.

^ This needs upvotes. TFF.

Sadly, it’s the taxpayers footing the bill for this settlement.

Don’t get me wrong, he has compensation coming, but how about from the salaries of those responsible? Or from their departmental budget for the next five years?

Quit allowing them to dodge responsibility.

Arkansas, where transparency goes to die. Apparently.

OMFG! This is a shot across the bow of every skeevy publisher that’s done everything they can to screw the creators of myriad fictional characters in a variety of arenas. You go Mr. Willingham and god bless!

Judge Andrew Hanen, Republican, appointed by G.W. Bush, who received his law degree from Baylor, ruled as expected.

Nothing to see here, move on.

MSN was reposting a NY Post story. Would be unsurprising if, in about a decade or, there’re lawsuits alleging emotional distress, lost wages, trauma, etc., against various media outlets.

Nope.

Engagement numbers help the IPO, this in turn would put more $$ in u/spez pocket and that I will not support.

You’re lucky if the communities you have followed survived intact or unaffected. The tenor of my feed was changing for the worse before the API protests. When I left, after? It was a shithole.

Sure, there are communities that I miss, that are absent, or have weak, or hard to find presences. But the solution isn’t to go lurk and buff those engagement metrics, in my somewhat Reddit hostile opinion.

AP was light on photos, MSN doesn’t share that reluctance: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/virginia-house-democratic-candidate-performed-sex-acts-with-husband-on-webcam-for-tips/ar-AA1gA7t7

Chaturbate is mentioned.

Back of a church.

Just one?

Republicans killing a program instituted by one of their own, that saved millions of lives, is a clear indication of the depths the party has sunk to.

Mmm…and for certain populations control isn’t the goal, extermination is seen as the next logical step.

The roster of Republicans who signed the letter:

The House committee’s letter was signed by Chairman Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), as well as Reps. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), Aaron Bean (R-Fla.) and Jake Ellzey (R-Texas).

FL & TX ffs.

Guess who’s not getting paid.

kbin.social to start with, posted in random, now another kbin. is being used, but I didn’t note the suffix.

US Congress, or one party thereof?

Wait. Tucker? I thought he’d been deplatformed.

Don’t take it seriously. Don’t put up with toxicity. Don’t be afraid to do without.