Link round-up for 12 November 2023

Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week.

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Faces, faces everywhere!

Jewish time travel could save the world a lot of trouble.

It's all fun and games until somebody gets hold of a pin.

I have no idea what these guys are doing.

Can our heroes hold back this all-devouring monster?

He hit the target perfectly.

This is not a Christmas tree.  But it's cool.

Which woman will win the spin?

Hey, you're not going anywhere.

Yikes, Barbenheimer is real!

This is very efficient crockery painting.  It's also somehow vaguely suggestive.

Philosophers don't do well with women, apparently.

Okay, what exactly was the point of doing that?

This movie looks kind of fun, though it's hard to tell just from a trailer.

The Ghostbusters are back, and apparently Paul Feig is not.  Might be worth a look, especially if there's more Bananarama.  But don't call a movie "Frozen" anything if you're not going to give us Elsa and Anna.

This is a skilled dog.

Do the British use too much pomp and ceremony?

Now this is a police chase (found via Hackwhackers).

Naz Hassan might have missed Halloween.  She didn't.

He may well have saved a life.

Mourn the abandoned library of a once-great city.

Guy Fawkes was a fanatical religious terrorist, not an anarchist, and people look like idiots wearing those stupid masks.

The activist group Indivisible is getting off Twitter.  So should you.

YouTube is escalating its attack on privacy.

Jesus fucking Christ, this thing looks like somebody glued a shoebox to a skateboard and then stepped on it (found via Miss Cellania).  What were they thinking?  Then there's this.

Cohost is a new blogging platform that might be worth checking out.

Dreamwidth has a lot to recommend it.

Here's a way of fighting back against the internet ad plague.

Bosses are escalating their bullying of home workers, despite lack of real evidence supporting returning to offices.

This person exists and there are far too many like him.

Your car is spying on you.

Taylor Swift's efforts to support democracy are pissing off the fundie nutbags.  Good for her.

John Fetterman's latest gesture in support of Israel is pissing off the Nazis.  Good for him.

Marsha Blackburn has subpoenaed Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs, thus hopefully scaring the shit out of a passel of big-name pedos.  Good for her.

Several baristas quit this café due to the owner's pro-Israel position.  Customers felt otherwise.

Once Ohio's Issue 2 goes into effect, the majority of Americans will live in states with legal marijuana.

Voters are restoring Roe, state by state.

The Nashville shooter's "manifesto" has leaked, and it's a semi-literate shitpile of anti-white, anti-gay hatred.  I can see why enemies of truth and reality wanted to keep this hidden.  See a couple more pages here.

Republican politicians who want to cut back food stamps seem to have forgotten who benefits the most from food stamps.  Such blunders will help them lose the House majority next year.

The SAG-AFTRA strike is ending with another big win, notably on the issue of AI-generated fake actors.

"Queers for Palestine" is like "Blacks for the KKK".

Will the Republicans cut off their own Johnson to get at Biden?

I hope the residents of rural northern Washington state have plenty of guns.  They're going to need them.

It's not only about Israel.  It's about the whole world.

Elon Musk's SpaceX ignores safety regulations, resulting in a wave of serious injuries to workers.  Would you trust this company with your life on a trip to Mars?  (Also, three of those rockets look suspiciously dick-shaped in silhouette.  Trying to be bigger than Bezos, maybe.....)

The mainstream left needs to repudiate the explosion of loathsome anti-Semitism on the far left.  This is a good start.  Hamas may have put our society on the road to curing the infection of "wokeness" by exposing its moral depravity.

"No Labels" is a Republican front group.

Why is marriage in decline?

This take is delusional.  Millions of people who don't like Biden or think he's too old will still vote for him over a Republican opponent because they trust him to protect abortion rights.

Speaking of delusional, RedState has posted a detailed analysis of Republicans' crushing defeat last week that doesn't even mention the word "abortion".

Marjoreene engages in outright reality-denial (and painful sentence structure).

Some Republican higher-ups do get it -- but we can't trust what they say.

A former Trump official openly calls for Christian terrorism.

It's a bad sign when a far-left ideology and a conservative religious view coincide.

Josh Hawley offers a real chance of a Democratic Senate pick-up.

"No more forced declarations that you will prioritize identity over excellence.  No more compelled speech.  No more going along with little lies for the sake of being polite."

Wingnut forced-birthers in Ohio and Michigan are already scheming to overturn the will of the voters on abortion.

Trump is going even crazier than he was as president.

A new law firm in Dallas will represent detransitioners fighting for justice.

Sam Harris dissects the reaction to the October 7 attack.

The Democrats' wave of victories this week is a positive sign for 2024.

It's good to be unpopular with evil.

Here's an idea for securing election integrity -- from Mongolia.

If you want to know what you would have done then, look what you are doing now.

Republican politicians are more interested in protecting bribery than in border security.

Renters in Toronto are going on strike against price-gouging landlords.

In Alberta, a step back toward sanity.

In British Columbia, a frightening attack on free speech.

The courts in Australia are going nutzoid and JK Rowling is telling the truth as usual.

Anne Frank is being canceled -- in Germany.

A Finnish doctor describes how she came to repudiate "affirming care".

A test of Russia's new Yars nuclear missile appears to have failed.

Wagner mercenaries have committed vile atrocities against Ukrainian POWs and civilians (found via Reaganite Independent).

"Israel does everything it can to avoid killing civilians.  Hamas does everything it can to get them killed."

Police in Israel are documenting the systematic use of gang rape by Hamas during the October 7 mass murder.

A majority of Gazans repudiate Hamas, which has even wrecked their infrastructure to serve its insane jihad against Israel (both found via Hackwhackers).

Hostility to the US among the Chinese public has greatly decreased this year.

More links at WAHF.

My own posts this week:  some truths and inspirations, and freedom won in Tuesday's elections.

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For decades, many Americans have looked back at the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and wondered, "could it happen here?".  Well, now we know.  On October 7 we saw the worst mass murder of Jews since 1945, perhaps the most sadistic war crime ever committed -- and since then, American streets have been filled with actual literal Nazi rallies, glorifying the murderers and waving Palestinian flags, while Jews and Jewish institutions are being menaced and attacked all over our country.  "Could it happen here" is no longer the question.  It is happening here, right now.  For those who said they would speak out and oppose it if it happened here, now is the time.  Put up or shut up.
I will not tolerate this.  Jewish people must be safe in my land.

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Right on target as usual: