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Folks with terabytes of stolen music and movies suddenly champions of #copyright
#pearlclutching over "plagiarism machines" stealing THEIR art and THEIR ( #FOSS) code

#hypocrites

sag mir, dass du #Multipolarity nicht verstanden hast, ohne mir zu sagen, dass du Multipolarity nicht verstanden hast.

“... weil am Ende muss das Land schon selbst entscheiden... welche Zukunft, in welchem Bündnis und in welcher Abhängigkeit oder Unabhängigkeit sieht. Das ist das Prinzip einfach dieses Völkerrechts, man will es gar nicht sagen, aber dieses Miteinander der Staatengemeinschaft.” (sic)

#PearlClutching #MichaelBröker
#StuhlkreisPolitik

#ronzheimer

https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1700432142?i=1000744748245&r=508&t=508

@kims #PearlClutching

The Adventures of Gobble Gobble!

Narration: On Thanksgiving eve, Gobble Gobble the turkey was headed for slaughter… when… unexpectedly… he was saved by the Johnsons whey they adopted him has their pet. Follow the adventures of Gobble Gobble the turkey in…

The Adventures of Gobble Gobble!

Son: Mooooom, Gobble Gobble did it again!

Mom: He did what, honey?

Son: He shat on my bed!

Laugh track: Ha ha ha ha ha ha….

Mother: Good god! Let me go get my pearls, so that I can grab them dramatically.

Laugh track: Ha ha ha ha ha ha….

Dad: Son, come over here.

Son: What is it, dad?

Dad: Let me first stuff my pipe of seriousness into my mouth so that you know that what I’m saying is serious. Nwww. Awaw flprt..

Son: Dad, I cannot make out what you are saying with that pipe in your mouth.

Laugh track: Ha ha ha ha ha ha….

Dad: [Takes the pipe out:] Alright, I’ll merely gesticulate with it then. So, as I was saying, Gobble Gob…

Son: Ouch! Why did you shove your pipe in my eye?

Dad: I was gesticulating, and your face was in the way. You know better than leaving your face in the way of my gesticulations, don’t you?

Laugh track: Ha ha ha ha ha ha….

Mom: Son, I think what your father was trying to say when you rudely interrupted him with your face is that Gobble Gobble has expressed with his excrement what we all think of you.

Son: I’m shit?

Mom and Dad, together: Yes. Ha ha ha ha ha…

Laugh track: Ha ha ha ha ha ha….

#TheDailyIsotope #AutisticWriters #thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025 #turkey #PipeOfSeriousness #PearlClutching

#autisticwriters #pearlclutching #pipeofseriousness #thanksgiving #thanksgiving2025 #thedailyisotope #turkey

@Andres4NY no, you wouldn’t! #leGasp #PearlClutching

Well, Senator Lisa Murkowski got "concessions" for Alaska for her vote on this disgusting bill. I guess the people who live in the other 49 states don't matter to her. ALL SHE HAD TO DO WAS VOTE NO!!!! JFC! #BigBadBill #PearlClutching

This is a beautiful bit of prose talking a bit about the state of Western cinematic art.

(from the description of Best of The Worst: Plinketto #12 by Red Letter Media (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGki5Lr_ISw).)

As the age of movies draws to a close, the boys at RLM are happy to have a very large collection of trash films that have been produced and released in the decades past. Films made by weird independent studios, cheapskate con-artists, and legit insane people. Exploitation films, movies with confusing plots, weird filmmaker visions that make no sense, embarrassing performances, terrible films made for the sole purpose so a perverted old man can open-mouth kiss an uncomfortable and disgusted young woman, awful discount and often reused visual FX, and some of the world’s ugliest people. Needless to say, unless you’re Donald Farmer, they don’t make them like they used to. Films today are made by Studios, Netflix, Amazon, etc and undergo a rigorous procedural vetting process. Algorithm compliance, plot beats calculated by computers to maximum engagement statistical sever product farming, actors and actresses that are “comfortable” and “safe” on set (if there is a set). Committees of lawyers, writers, producers and input content analytical engineers who have MBA and degrees from MIT to computer calculate the ultimate streaming product that will provide maximum efficiency for the data and number crunchers to release and stream said products to shareholder satisfaction.

Thankfully, time has not eroded away our VHS and DVDs that showcase a magical time when artists took risks. Made a movie based on a singular weird idea that wasn’t tested before a focus group. These movies are real, raw, and disturbing, but often magical. When we pop a tape in or a DVD we never really know what’s going to happen. I’m glad you are all here to join us on this seemingly never-ending adventure into 1s and 0s and magnetic tape stock to discover what humans have created before the dark times. Before the Empire.

Also Rich Evans is now wearing a toupee. Now THAT’S embarrassing.

#artisdead #baldies #consolidation #corpos #designbycommittee #groan #hrisintheroom #movies #murikanpuritans #pearlclutching #prigs #puritans #redlettermedia #rlm #sigh #suits

I know it's a tired old phrase now but imagine, just IMAGINE their #PearlClutching if the roles were reversed?? The difference being when it happens to a Democrat its "funny" A Republican? A war cry. #Democrats need better messaging. More anger. Stronger voices. More ATTITUDE!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yly3aulwiwaboatf2v2pjkhc/post/3lroeuzaeuk2o

Conservatives were never serious | @destiny

#NotSerious #ExecutiveOrders #Hypocrisy #PearlClutching

who are these gullible people who think Trump was emboldened by Biden pardoning his son? The Cheeto is a total felon and did illegal things the first time he was president, but suddenly it's Biden's fault?
#Biden #HunterBiden #MAGA #TheCheeto #pardon #pearlclutching

How many Karens does it take to change a school dress code?

Middle school bans all-black clothing, citing mental health concerns
https://www.kkco11news.com/2024/08/06/middle-school-bans-all-black-clothing-citing-mental-health-concerns/
#school #PearlClutching #schools #kids #education #dresscode #elpaso #elpasotx

@thehill

Rick Scott has not read the tea leaves.

There is no second term for him to worry about.

He knows he is in deep doo-doo.

#FaintingCouch #PearlClutching

Alberta's UCP government, wholly owned and operated by the fossil fuel industry, recently came out in support of lying by its proprietors.

As a matter or principle, you understand.

The Alberta Environment Minister's hair spontaneously ignites in this one.

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/06/04/UCP-New-Target-Limits-Fossil-Fuel-Greenwashing/

#Disinformation #Lies #Greenwashing #FossilFuels #Industry #Corruption #abpoli #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis #PearlClutching #Fascism

Saying this out loud for the people in the back! #protest #pearlclutching

#Radicalesbians, the first #LesbianRights group post-#Stonewall.

#RitaMaeBrown would go on to co-found #Radicalesbians a few months later, after declaring that “#lesbianism is the one #word which gives the #NewYork #NOW #ExecutiveCommittee a #collective #heartattack.”

#Women #Lesbians #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #History #Activism #NOW #PearlClutching

https://epgn.com/2023/10/18/radicalesbians-the-first-lesbian-rights-group-post-stonewall/

I've heard good things about the new Barbie movie. Google TV decided to slap it in my face, so I took a look, then I realized that someone was yanking my chain.

$30 to buy.
$25 to rent.

Twenty-five fucking dollars to rent!!!!!!!! I'm not paying this.

Let me tell you what's going to happen. I'm not paying this now. So when am I going to watch it? It is going to fall out of my head, and I'm going to watch it whenever I happen to watch it... maybe never.

The film industry can cry a fucking river about how everybody is "unfair" to them. As far as I'm concerned, all their wounds are self-inflicted.

I'll just rewatch Metropolis, for free, or maybe The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, or some oldie that does not hold a gun to my head and ask for my wallet.

Hollywood: "OMG! He's going to watch something for free. Is he serious??? Let's clutch our pearls and gasp in unison! The cheekiness!!!!!"

#Movies #Hollywood #SelfInflictedWounds #HollywoodIsBatshitCrazy #Barbie #BarbieMovie #Metropolis #PearlClutching #gasp

https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Barbie?id=Md6WzAbrnyU.P&hl=en_US&gl=US&pli=1

OMG! the seniors-first party in NL is giving all younger generations a big middle finger in a political ad: health-care basically free (ok) but to pay for it less climate, fewer migrants.

#50plus #climatechange #PearlClutching

I'm well over 50 myself but really! Fucking boomers 🤮

True story. Once upon a time, a website that shall remain nameless, for reasons that are soon going to be evident, suspended me for "hacking."

Oh, I'll also mention that this site is a site for software engineers. Yeah, that's relevant.

I had not done any hacking. So I contacted them. They said that they could clearly see in their logs that I had been hacking them, but they could not tell me what it is they actually saw, because that would allow me to hack them some more. They thought they were playing some sort of four-dimensional chess with a mastermind.

I was angry... but then I relaxed, and I talked to my cable modem. I said:

"Yo! Could you renegotiate a new address on the Internet?"

It replied:

"No trouble, boss!"

It renegotiated, got a new address, and then... I was able to access the site again.

:catthinking:

So:

1. These idiots used a technique that could easily be circumvented.

2. Why the hell did they not suspend *my login?????* I could use the site just as well as before.

:headache:

====

Bonus storytelling round!!!

I can imagine this being the plot of some #shitty #Hollywood show.

Prosecution: "Member of the jury, I'd like to point out that the defendant asked his modem to... [dramatic pause]... negotiate an IP address!!!!!! [Points to the defendant dramatically.]"

Audience: [Gasps and clutches the pearls.]

Judge: "Negotiating an IP address is so vile, that I find you guilty on all charges, irrevocably, and in perpetuity. TO THE CROCODILES!!!!!!"

Jury: "What's our role in all this?"

Judge: "Fuck all! I decide everything, hahahahaha!"

#CableModem #IPNegotiation #SoftwareEngineers #SoftwareEngineering #FourDimensionalChess #PearlClutching #Law #HollywoodLaw

True story. Once upon a time, a website that shall remain nameless, for reasons that are soon going to be evident, suspended me for "hacking."

Oh, I'll also mention that this site is a site for software engineers. Yeah, that's relevant.

I had not done any hacking. So I contacted them. They said that they could clearly see in their logs that I had been hacking them, but they could not tell me what it is they actually saw, because that would allow me to hack them some more. They thought they were playing some sort of four-dimensional chess with a mastermind.

I was angry... but then I relaxed, and I talked to my cable modem. I said:

"Yo! Could you renegotiate a new address on the Internet?"

It replied:

"No trouble, boss!"

It renegotiated, got a new address, and then... I was able to access the site again.

:catthinking:

So:

1. These idiots used a technique that could easily be circumvented.

2. Why the hell did they not suspend *my login?????* I could use the site just as well as before.

:headache:

====

Bonus storytelling round!!!

I can imagine this being the plot of some #shitty #Hollywood show.

Prosecution: "Member of the jury, I'd like to point out that the defendant asked his modem to... [dramatic pause]... negotiate an IP address!!!!!! [Points to the defendant dramatically.]"

Audience: [Gasps and clutches the pearls.]

Judge: "Negotiating an IP address is so vile, that I find you guilty on all charges, irrevocably, and in perpetuity. TO THE CROCODILES!!!!!!"

Jury: "What's our role in all this?"

Judge: "Fuck all! I decide everything, hahahahaha!"

#CableModem #IPNegotiation #SoftwareEngineers #SoftwareEngineering #FourDimensionalChess #PearlClutching #Law #HollywoodLaw

True story. Once upon a time, a website that shall remain nameless, for reasons that are soon going to be evident, suspended me for "hacking."

Oh, I'll also mention that this site is a site for software engineers. Yeah, that's relevant.

I had not done any hacking. So I contacted them. They said that they could clearly see in their logs that I had been hacking them, but they could not tell me what it is they actually saw, because that would allow me to hack them some more. They thought they were playing some sort of four-dimensional chess with a mastermind.

I was angry... but then I relaxed, and I talked to my cable modem. I said:

"Yo! Could you renegotiate a new address on the Internet?"

It replied:

"No trouble, boss!"

It renegotiated, got a new address, and then... I was able to access the site again.

:catthinking:

So:

1. These idiots used a technique that could easily be circumvented.

2. Why the hell did they not suspend *my login?????* I could use the site just as well as before.

:headache:

====

Bonus storytelling round!!!

I can imagine this being the plot of some #shitty #Hollywood show.

Prosecution: "Member of the jury, I'd like to point out that the defendant asked his modem to... [dramatic pause]... negotiate an IP address!!!!!! [Points to the defendant dramatically.]"

Audience: [Gasps and clutches the pearls.]

Judge: "Negotiating an IP address is so vile, that I find you guilty on all charges, irrevocably, and in perpetuity. TO THE CROCODILES!!!!!!"

Jury: "What's our role in all this?"

Judge: "Fuck all! I decide everything, hahahahaha!"

#CableModem #IPNegotiation #SoftwareEngineers #SoftwareEngineering #FourDimensionalChess #PearlClutching #Law #HollywoodLaw

True story. Once upon a time, a website that shall remain nameless, for reasons that are soon going to be evident, suspended me for "hacking."

Oh, I'll also mention that this site is a site for software engineers. Yeah, that's relevant.

I had not done any hacking. So I contacted them. They said that they could clearly see in their logs that I had been hacking them, but they could not tell me what it is they actually saw, because that would allow me to hack them some more. They thought they were playing some sort of four-dimensional chess with a mastermind.

I was angry... but then I relaxed, and I talked to my cable modem. I said:

"Yo! Could you renegotiate a new address on the Internet?"

It replied:

"No trouble, boss!"

It renegotiated, got a new address, and then... I was able to access the site again.

:catthinking:

So:

1. These idiots used a technique that could easily be circumvented.

2. Why the hell did they not suspend *my login?????* I could use the site just as well as before.

:headache:

====

Bonus storytelling round!!!

I can imagine this being the plot of some #shitty #Hollywood show.

Prosecution: "Member of the jury, I'd like to point out that the defendant asked his modem to... [dramatic pause]... negotiate an IP address!!!!!! [Points to the defendant dramatically.]"

Audience: [Gasps and clutches the pearls.]

Judge: "Negotiating an IP address is so vile, that I find you guilty on all charges, irrevocably, and in perpetuity. TO THE CROCODILES!!!!!!"

Jury: "What's our role in all this?"

Judge: "Fuck all! I decide everything, hahahahaha!"

#CableModem #IPNegotiation #SoftwareEngineers #SoftwareEngineering #FourDimensionalChess #PearlClutching #Law #HollywoodLaw

Oh, while I'm on the topic of #marijuana. It's been legalized today in #Maryland.

So people should grab their kids, clutch their pearls, clench their rear ends, and run to the:

#PearlClutching #dispensary #beach #hills #pluto #poll #PollsOfMastodon

If they can indict Trump, who incited an insurrection while attempting to overthrow the government, stole classified documents, attempted to extort Zelensky, and served as Putin's agent, then by gosh they can indict ANYone who breaks laws!!!
#NationOfLaws
#PearlClutching

McConnell continues protecting those who tried to violently overthrow the US government while clutching his pearls about a court draft being leaked from his stacked activist court

He remains silent about his wife using the executive branch to help her dad's shipping company in China and the Russian investment she arranged to help his senate campaign

#PearlClutching #MoscowMitch

I came here as soon as I heard about Richard Stallman, and I find the fediverse response to be...

Well, TBH my standards are a bit higher when it comes to salt. No threats of violence? No painful hand wringing about death of society?

It's almost like his defenders aren't really sure they believe their own message.

Obnoxious uber-nerd loses job isn't much of a story nowadays. Whats next?

#RMS #PearlClutching