Daveosaurus

randahl , 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

Do you think bleeping swear words on tv is good or bad?

Daveosaurus , 4 days ago

@randahl It's mainly a sign that the scriptwriters (or ad-libbing actors) need to expand their vocabulary. The same goes for music... Saint Bob's "Positively 4th Street" is twice as vicious as Lily Allen's "Fuck You" without anything in it needing bleeped.

Daveosaurus , 4 days ago

@randahl that said, it's a depressing sign of the state of the English-speaking world that "fuck" is considered obscene but "kill" isn't.

mondoweiss , 27 days ago to palestine group

The question we have to ask ourselves is not whether we condemn Hamas, but whether we condemn a settler colonial regime that makes armed struggle necessary for survival.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/do-you-condemn-hamas/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

Daveosaurus , 27 days ago

@JizzelEtBass @mondoweiss @palestine @israel

Today the Israelis bombed a school in Gaza, causing 32 fatalities. Another 32 murdered by Bibi the Butcher. If George Washington had done anything of that nature, I'd hold him in the same extreme contempt that I do Netanyahu.

ElleGray , 2 months ago to random

oh but I will

Daveosaurus , 2 months ago

@ElleGray That sign is crying out for help in the only way it can...

jeremy_pm , 3 months ago to random

Was just recommending :mastodon: to a journalist friend, who was concerned about the Orwellian state of social media and the rise of silencing opinions that don't suit the hasbara, only to receive this sad notification from Mastodon dot NZ. 🤔 No doubt this post will eventually be taken down too.
#Mastodon

Daveosaurus , 3 months ago

@randahl @jeremy_pm I'm staying here. This place seems to have become the default landing place for Kiwis escaping Xitter* to dip their toes into and to either stay here and find somewhere more narrowly focussed. This isn't a massive operation - I understand it's a server in someone's garage or shared working space and everyone's a volunteer. My guess is: someone just fucked up and something needs to get un-fucked-up.

pronounced: X as in Xi Jinping, itter as in Twitter.

#pol

flexghost , 3 months ago to random

** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON #MastodonMusic **

Tonight’s theme is:

🌈❀🛼 70s ⍟🎙🌈

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🎵 Post music from the outta sight 70s (any genre, no remixes) along with what you’re drinking 🎶
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Candy came from out on the Island
In the back room she was everybody's darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head

She says, "Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side"

🍷 Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side + Rusty Nail🍸

Post often • share • make some friends

Video with still of Lou Reed album cover. Name a more diverse decade than the 70s

Daveosaurus , 3 months ago

@flexghost @cbrines @maisiesummers Geography is what it is. This is our revenge for getting charged twice as much as anyone else for buying things on line. Suck it up, buttercup.

jeffowski , 3 months ago to random

https://youtu.be/q5MdVO23IXQ
"I'll Spray Every MF***er Here!!" Mesa Cops Terrorize Kids at B-day Party - FOLLOW UP
#ACAB #BadCops #BluePussies #EndQualifiedImmunityNow

Daveosaurus , 3 months ago

@jeffowski Guy's obviously not bright enough to figure out that it's not a good idea to deploy chemical weapons against children while showing to the cameras a very identifiable forearm tattoo.

luckytran , 5 months ago to random

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

Without vaccines, many transmissible diseases were once an early death sentence. People are so quick to forget how fortunate we are to have access to them.

18+ Daveosaurus , 5 months ago

@luckytran And the names of babies on the marked graves are few compared with all the babies in the register books (if the cemetery has managed to keep theirs). This newspaper clipping is the story behind a headstone in a cemetery near me.

Anyone who doesn't believe me? - the newspaper is here https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/bruce-herald/1889/05/28/3 (just past half way down the third column) and the little boys' headstone is on the local council web site https://gis.southlanddc.govt.nz/CemeteryPhotos/WALL_OLD_112_2.JPG .