Maybe A Sunflower. Or not.

Wife: GETMO? Husband: (after a moment, with a sigh) Yeah, GETMO. Me: GETMO? Wife and husband, in perfect unison: Good Enough To Move On

Yeah…I think he just uses our texts as his own personal tumblr at this point

“If you are a Christian and can’t hear #BlackLivesMatter without feeling the need to respond with a criticism that “All Lives Matter”, then crack open your Bible and hit up Luke 15.

Don’t have it handy? Let me summarize

There are 100 sheep but one goes missing. Jesus leaves the 99 and goes after the one.

the 99: “But… what about us? Don’t we matter?”

Of course the 99 still matter, but they’re not the one in danger.

The one is.

I’ll say it again, #BlackLivesMatter”]

Both come from the Latin "burgus", meaning castle or fortified town. A burglar being someone who bypassed the security of fortifications.

Meanwhile burger comes via Hamburg, the burg of Hamma.

Burglar (noun)

Burglarize (verb)

Burglarizer (noun)

Burglarizering (verb)

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.

TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.

They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”

And it fucking worked.

TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.

For the most part, he doesn't make accusations or insults people, he just repeats back the appalling shit they're telling him. And they get fucking furious. The example that went viral was him fielding a call from a kindergarten teacher who wanted to report one of her student's parents.

This absolutely disgusting piece of shit thought that the parents were "illegals" who were "taking up resources" because they weren't born in the US. The child was a US citizen because he was born here, but she wanted the "ICE" agent to "look into it."

So this dude just starts repeating stuff back like "so you want me to load the parents of the 5-year-old child you teach into a van and deport them, right?" and this bitch has the gall to say "you make it sound terrible 😅" in a self-conscious way. And then when he finally makes a more direct insult by nonchalantly saying that the 5-year-old "must be a major threat to national security," she demands to speak to his supervisor (which he agrees to and then makes no effort to change his voice for lmao).

For David Attenborough's 100th birthday you should watch Blue Planet or Blue Planet 2. The ocean is a magical and interesting place, with David an excellent narrator and educator.

Well I’ve never actually tried to DO that, so Im on my way home from work and I stop by a gallery and walk in

And like. The… boss? Curator? Who looks like a very polished and professional Real Adult is there, and she says i can look round. And I do, and there’s a bunch of cool stuf

And then finally I nut up and go over to her like “Hi. Don’t know anything about anything. Would you please tell me me what gallery is please. Like how do I gallery like real artist”

And she tells me where I can go to start getting my work out there and meet other artists, and she’s being very kid and supportive and adds me to their newsletter mailing list and it’s finally feeling like I’m not the most shrimplike loser as human being alive, and I’m getting ready to leave so she can s lose shop so I thank her for her time

And then as I’m about to go I add, “I’ll have to come back to see more”, gesture to a particularly enjoyable piece and say, “I have no idea who (insert name here) is but I like her stuff, I’ll have to look her up and did out who she is”

And she sort of looks at me for a beat, inscrutable, blank, just a FRACTION of silence longer than I was expecting, at which point my anxiety medication wears off, and I hear her go “That is… me, actually”

And

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