"This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq"

Devastating accusation to imply he'd be into ska

The goal of the Liberty In Laundry Act is to roll back energy efficiency rules for washers and dryers.

In the spring, the [GOP] voted to roll back efficiency standards on refrigerators with the Refrigerator Freedom Act. In the summer, they targeted efficiency standards on dishwashers with the Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act. In the fall, evidently, it was time to focus on laundry machines.

balloons, drones, ufos it's always some weird distraction

There will be a quiz later

I feel like we need to explain again, amongst other things

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6496877

Bluesky posts

A recent Photobucket privacy update revealed plans to sell user photos and biometric face/iris data to AI companies for training. A lawsuit is seeking class action status that would cover anyone who uploaded photos from 2003-2024 and any non-users depicted in the photos.

One of the claims in the lawsuit is Photobucket pulled a bait-and-switch with email campaigns. Claiming to let users “reactivate” or delete their dormant accounts, which then forced them to accept new T&S. Also ignoring emails would automatically opt in users. That’s not informed consent.

I had a really bad week and a big influx of people I really think I'm gonna like has genuinely made me happy! I'm stoked more like minded people are here and that it's been such s smooth flood. Usually we have to fight off hordes of shitty people and the cool ones filter through. It's been all cool ones. It feels nice. It makes me feel happy. I'm also trying to work my post count up to 1000. 3 left.

First, congratulations on escaping the Bad Place . Some tips to make your time here the best it possibly can be from one of your Hexbear elders :

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Why the [redacted] family left Ireland

The passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act in 1829 added fresh fuel to the fires of bigotry that had raged all the years while Daniel O'Connell was striving to bring about this tardy justice to Catholics in both England and Ireland. Though it was no longer possible to pass laws against the Catholics, no restriction was placed on fanatical bigots who were free to indulge in such petty persecution as they could plan -- and carry out.

On one large estate in the townland of Ballan-na-grannan, County of Tipperary, this persecution took the form of refusing to renew the leases of Catholic tenants - unless they turned Protestant ... The Church of England. When it was nearing time for a lease to be renewed, the rent was raised. If a man protested, he was evicted, and a Protestant put in his place. If there was reason to believe a man would pay any rent rather than leave the place where his people had lived for generations, he was denied his lease unless he gave up his Catholic faith.

Some thought the agent was doing this with the knowledge or permission of the land lord. [redacted], my grandfather, was one who thought that way. When refused his lease for the usual reason, he went to the land lord and was told he would be given a ninety-nine years' lease, to him and his heirs, rent free - if he would promise to have his children brought up in the English church.

I have heard them say that Grandfather told the man he might go where he could light his pipe with the end of his finger. But I suspect he was wise enough not to say that until he was where neither landlord nor agent could hear him. Such language would have caused his arrest or imprisonment. Whether he said it or not does not matter. What he did was to hurry home and take himself out of his holding (little farm) before the bailiff had a chance to evict him.

This was in 1843, and [redacted], with his wife and three children - Joseph, Hannah, and Edmund, bade goodby to Ireland and took the long road to America.

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I want to stress again that we don’t allow any sort of support for undemocratic and violent nations. Whether that’s China, Iran, Russia, Venezuela or Hamas we condemn them unequivocally.

I just wanted to make that clear so that no one is confused. 😀

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A Ken Klippenstein post

https://subium.com/profile/kenklippenstein.bsky.social/post/3ld7d5daars2d

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