Grew up in the same town where Mike Pence is from.

You're shitting me?!

That's wild

first year in bay area Cal then lived in Northern Va

I went to high school with two of his nieces. Their only redeeming qualities were attached to their chests.

they had something there?

Massive.

Nice

>.>

And when you're 15 trying to go through AP Chem with those in the classroom was just rough.

*pics or it didn't happen amirite*

Ha, that was a good while ago.

But one of them was or maybe still is a local news anchor.

http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/nicole-pence-niece-of-vp-mike-pence-leaving-tv-news/186898

that one?

Yeah she was one of them

Oy vey time has been unkind

someone doesn't know how to do makeup on her 😱

But being an outspoken troublemaking atheist was just as difficult as one would expect.

that pic scared people away

atheist, Buddhist, whatever, I don't care so long as you're a kind person who tries to do right 🤷

Welp, so much for me then.

Amen to that

I honestly couldn't give half a shit about someone's beliefs so long as they're a decent person

If I wanted to be pedantic I could go on at great length about moral anti-realism, but that's a long and pointless train.

@Smartyrdom I didn't say nice I said kind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

Ok, that's amazing.

Oh yeah

Someone posted about that in another server

Cool af

A really cool and impractical extension of the player piano or Jacquard loom.

The maker of that one is trying to build one that he take apart and put back together so it can go on the road

I'm curious how sensitive it is to temperature with metal balls.

prolly not if you look at the way the sit

moisture would be more of an issue

Yeah moisture/humidity warping the wood would wreck it.

part of the reason for the ply wood rather that solid pieces

rube goldberg style stuff can be quite interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noqms4AhTJA

This is pretty neat to me.

prolly belongs in shitposting

It's a restored USAF training film, is that shitposting?

it's not news or fake news

Fair enough.

Frankly, the last convo probably belonged in shitposting

shitposting is for everything else really.
plus you can actually preview media there

Oh shit

Noice

@Timcast doesn't seem to respond to emails with story tips

any better way of reaching him?

that won't result in a restraining order?

lol yes

Maybe he's doing something like sleeping or working on something else?

i mean, it's perfectly possible that I'm just interested in something retarded taht nobody else will care about

or that he can't understand spergy emails with a shitload of links

I generally give at least a few hours for a response to an email.

it's been 2 days

Ah, well then I don't know.

well, since he doesn't seem interested, I'll just post it here. https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2018/04/27/san-francisco-public-library-hosts-transgender-art-exhibit-featuring-weapons-intended-to-kill-feminists

long story short, the San Fran Public library has an art exhibit featuring the "degenderettes"

including tons of weapons

"bloodstained" shirts with stuff like "I punch TERFS"

TERFs and other feminists are pissed, mostly because it glorifies violence by men against women

Ha nitpicky point, most violence against lesbians is committed by lesbians, contra article.

and are reviewbombing the library on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sfpl.org/reviews/?ref=page_internal

But interesting story I'm peeking at anyway.

nonstop arguing for several days in those facebook comments, many complaints of 1A violation censorship (since public libraries are gov.)

the library has double posted this in response: https://twitter.com/SFPublicLibrary/status/989219339306811392 but have not otherwise made comment

people are contacting the mayor and other gov officials, but there is no other public response

Also, many of the degenderettes were involved in antifa and the "Battle of Berkeley", lots of screenshots of the same shields, weapons, people, and props.

The shirt has been taken down in response to the complaints, but the weapons have stayed.

Seems like it's still playing out too.

the most notable development since my original email to Tim and Emily was that THE GUARDIAN mentioned it in an incel article https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/29/violent-misogyny-not-confined-to-internet-incels

It's relevant for multiple reasons as I see.

I thought so. Almost no mainstream reporting too, so far

Does anyone know how the "exhibition" was funded? Or if, I guess. There's a case that given limited public space in a library for exhibitions that allowing it is in fact a form of promotion or endorsement, I suppose, if they were given the space without paying.

If they rented it or such, then that argument is irrelevant,though

Oh, funded by "Friends of the SFPL"

seems like questions for a reporter to find out

or that

lol

So, they're an external private funding source, that paid for the exhibition. Taking it down (partly) is probably a 1A issue.

Maybe some wiggliness about calling for direct violence to neutralize the 1A issues?

my suspicion is that mass flagging triggers facebook to take out the comments. it's not the admins of the library doing it

I mean taking down part of the exhibition, one of the "bloody" shirts was removed but the rest of the exhibition is apparently still there.

oh

OH

1A double fucked

interesting

Having trouble finding objective information on it though.

https://www.facebook.com/degenderettes/ they have their own post on it as well.

zhey have zheir?

forgot about that

not much drama there that I've seen

Right. Isolated community,rather than the publicly funded institution, so that makes sense.

was just finishing up watching the Timcast from tonight....I think that there is definitely a difference between Left and Liberals...just my 2 cents

Left is near opposite to 'liberal values'

yeah the left now isn't liberal but still attempt to cloak themselves using the liberal label which is why people have been using centerist and other labels

Classical liberal is pretty much current conservatism