@TimStone oh he sounds like a dick

bitesizedbrains.wordpress.com/2019/07/06/…

read this and thought it was pretty cool

its about a story by the author who wrote the mc end poem

65% of British kids can't recognize a blue tit

Ohio State Has Filed A Trademark Application For The Word “The" twitter.com/JoshGerben/status/1161417568604827654?s=19

Five Burger King Workers Fired After Allegedly Drawing Cartoon Pig on Cop's Burger vice.com/en_ca/article/ne8wyd/…

@Wipqozn ... it took five people to draw a pig?

@Unionhawk I mean, I agree that Austin is pretty different from the rest of Texas but it still counts as Texas. Being the capital tends to help in that regard.

Yeah as it turns out it is still literally in texas

@Yuuki They probably just fired everyone working that night

@Wipqozn Always fun when a company does stuff that would constitute a war crime in certain situations (collective punishment)

@Wipqozn oh shit the McDonalds guy was right FAST FOOD WORKERS HATE COPS IT’S A CONSPIRACY!!!

Oh of course he was on Fox and Friends

@Nzall good fake headline :P

@Stormblessed Yeah, it wasn't the original, but I thought it would be a funnier headline than the original

I was thinking “wait am I dumb I don’t know that bird” but it’s just in Europe

The concerning one is 80% don’t know bumblebees

I can’t really distinguish bees other than honey vs everything else but still that’s not good

And the headline was baiting clicks, so I'd rather take something that's a bit more self-contained. And hey, you don't often get the chance to use the word "tit" in polite conversation.

@Stormblessed obviously must be an inflated state because they were counted with those who knew Bumblebee was an Autobot

@Stormblessed Eh, all I need to know is wasp vs. everything else.

I don't need to be a trained entomologist to be able to function.

> Ohio State Has Filed A Trademark Application For The Word “The”

@Yuuki Sir, I am sorry, I'm going to need you to collect your things and report to repost jail.

In related news, Nobody Does It Better is now about Wipqozn.

@puzzlepiece87 I went there but it turns out it's just a copy of a previous jail that I already broke out of.

Maggie Haberman had to give back her book advance; her cowriter who was accused of sexual misconduct and dropped did not

Steve King taking the uhhh rare pro-rape, pro-incest position for some reason that probably makes sense to a white supremacist I guess

Monster Penguin

@TimStone oh for a moment I thought you were talking about Stephen King

Oh, lol, no, the racist Iowa Representative

Also what the fuck

In the history of bad arguments, that is one of the top 10

> The district attorney says no charges will be filed against Wende Kerl, the CMPD officer who shot and killed Danquirs Franklin in a Burger King parking lot on March 25

> Helicopter parents, meet secret-surveillance-camera parents

what in the hell

@TimStone the facial recognition isn't even the creepy part. Live updating that many photos is the issue for me, that just seems weird and controlling

Yeah, no part of any of it seems necessary

………Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh???

@TimStone what

@TimStone Y'know, there are times that I wish lived anywhere other than Texas, politically speaking. This is not one of those times.

Yeah even if you wanted to elect a conservative I still feel like people should be embarrassed for voting for Steve King and not just, running literally anyone else

why are these guys all so universally bad at dogwhistling?

@Ash And then you'll be out a face and a desk.

@Ash Like I'm confused on the whole concept generally and then why Dersh looked at that and went "Well this is definitely a thing I should be doing right now"

How real is Andrew Scheer’s ‘real plan’ to tackle climate change?

> “I think it is a plan that is designed to appeal to a subset of voters who want to be convinced that Canada can step up and do its part without actually doing anything,” said Harrison, who studies environmental, climate and energy policy.

Also this is happening

@Wipqozn I had no opinion, but I don't think Liberals are good for the country any more.

But I don't know if any of the rest would be better.

@Ash I think we're in agreement on that one.

@Ash also Doug Ford

I wish I was less cynical about politics, but I honestly don't see how any of them are actually good for the country.

If Trudeau didn't intentionally sabotage the election reform movement then I could safely vote Green or NDP, but sadly I cannot.

All I see is corruption, broken promises, and basically just attacking your opposition.

@Wipqozn Yeah, that was the biggie for me.

All I want is a minority government.

I don't care who's technically forming the government.

If they have to work together, maybe they'll actually do something worthy of the office.

@Ash Which is unfortunately the more likely scenario.

The optimist in me says such a government goes down in flames in a vote of no confidence.

The pessimist says they get re-elected.

lmao what

tfw you're the racist guy in charge of immigration and definitely did not read the thread

@TimStone Actually, for the racist guy those changes he made probably appeared like good things

@Frank The pessimist in me says it'll go the Belgian way, where the racist right gets even more votes.

@Nzall There's a lot of anti-Trudeau hatred floating around.

Not really sure why; all of it questions his decisions and calls him stupid, but has no real reasoning behind it.

I really don't want to vote for our tax and spend party; there's no fiscal responsibility there.

Honestly, the only ones who have any sense of that are the conservatives, and they have other problems.

I might just decline my vote again, sadly.

@Stormblessed "would the gravediggers have jobs without murder and police brutality?"

News in hearts

@TimStone that is...strange to say the least

@Frank I think they’re fine

It’s not like the Labour Party in England

I voted libertarian

That news about Trudeau is bad, but the platform of the Liberals is alright

Don't really like any of the parties

@GnomeSlice Are they like the insane ones here who want to abolish the public school system?

Or are they less extreme

I’d not have a major problem with libertarianism if it weren’t for schools and climate change

I mean I still disagree with it on many other things

@Frank I've never thought the liberals were good for the country, but they're consistently less bad than the conservatives and thanks to our sad disaster of an electoral system they're the only real competition barring a massive shift in voting patterns, sooooooo

And I don't absolutely hate them the way I do the Ontario Liberals.

(I just hate them some, for punting on electoral reform)

@ToxicFrog This is unfortunately the same opinion I have about politicians.

None of them are good.

Some of them are just less bad than the rest.

I like that the Liberals got health care with no charges other than taxes

@Stormblessed I'll be honest, I didn't know we had a libertarian party til I got my ballot at the polling station

tfw you export your threat to democracy

Somehow the suspect in Philadelphia is still firing at officers

@TimStone a month before G20. ffs