CRANKY OLD FART’S
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#367  [archive]
• It’s frustrating to watch civilization end
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    [Excerpt] We’ve
been marching and demonstrating and petitioning and getting arrested
for decades and yet greenhouse gas emissions are not going down. Forests
are burning, cities are sinking. This last summer, full of the
hottest-days-on-record, will be one of the coolest that today’s children
will ever experience. The deaths have started. …

 • How is it possible that software gets worse, not better, over time?
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    Lots
of insight in this article, and it’s true. There is certainly no website
or software I use that’s better than it was ten years ago, and most
are worse. • Meet the shadowy global network that’s been vilifying climate protesters — and writing laws — for decades
[Archived page] • She was a one-time aspiring nun, then fashion model, go-go dancer, sex-film performer/producer/director, XXX-production company owner, and the first (and only) female President of the Adult Film Association of America (AFAA)
[Archived page]• “There are nicer ways to do it. But the nice ways always fail.”
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• The hollow walls and hidden tunnels of Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre
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    I’m a sucker for old-time movie palaces, even without the movies. • Satanists stole F.W. Murnau’s skull
[Archived page] • The end of Saturday morning cartoons
[Archived page] • Why action on the climate crisis is all hot air
[Archived page]  • The Pirate Preservationists: When keeping cultural archives safe means stepping outside the law
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🌎 THE NEWS YOU NEED 🌎• Kansas will no longer change trans people’s birth certificates to reflect their gender identities
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    “Here’s
another chance to make people miserable,” said some Republican, because
making people miserable is their favorite thing to do. Your birth cert
is needed for all manner of things — a driver’s license, a job, a
mortgage, etc — all of which will now be much more difficult, and
involve telling your life story at every bureaucrat’s counter.
    Cruelty. No other purpose. Republicans are simply monstrous. 

• Two librarians were fired after the board mistook an autism symbol for a Pride display. They’re suing
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    We live in lunatic times. • Artist sends Fables into the public domain
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    Oh, man, this is beautiful. Happiest news of the week, and I didn’t even know who Bill Willingham is. Read it and laugh for joy.
    I don’t even care that the internet tells me Willingham  is a right-wing asshole.
    Actually, that’s even better! Now that Fables is in the public domain, and anyone can tell the characters’ stories, watch as they all go gay and trans and hand out abortions on demand.
• Alex Jones spent over $93,000 in July. Sandy Hook families who sued him have yet to see a dime.
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    I don’t understand why a loud liar is able to ignore court verdicts. Do we all have this right?• Embracing wingnut election denial, Wisconsin Senate Republicans vote to fire chief election official
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    Is Wisconsin even a democracy any more? It’s a blue state gerrymandered red, so Republicans own the state legislature. Here they’re removing the election overseer because she didn’t bow to the Big Lie of stolen elections, and next week they’ll impeach one of the sane voices on the now-blue state Supreme Court, to make sure all ultimate verdicts continue going red. 

• Rite Aid prepares bankruptcy filing, store closures amid opioid lawsuit
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 It was probably never true, but for many years I foolishly thought
that ‘bankruptcy’ meant ‘going out of business.’ That’s what it means if a mom-and-pop restaurant or shop declares bankruptcy.
    When
companies get ginormous, though, they never go away. Rite Aid will
‘reorganize’ itself with fresh investors, and it’ll still be a shitty
drug store long after everyone reading this is dead.• At least 24 people arrested at climate protest outside Citigroup global headquarters
[Archived page] • School shootings hit all-time high for second year in a row
[Archived page] • All cops continue being bastards
    This is my other project, an ongoing collection of police brutality, beatings, and general corruption, almost always unpunished.

📸  IMAGES  📸• The RCA Whirlpool Miracle Kitchen • From the police archives
    “Whipping was usually carried out in the Baltimore City Jail, where a designated official administered the punishment using a leather strap or whip.” • Sally Jessy 

♫♬  MUSIC  ♫• Coconut — Harry Nilsson • God Must Be Doing Cocaine — Charlotte Lawrence • Joy — Apollo 100 • Nobody’s In Love This Year — Warren Zevon • Step Right Up — Tom Waits 

❔  MYSTERY LINKS  ❔• Click • Click • Click • Click • Click 

⚰️ OBITUARIES  ⚰️ • Lawrence Lacks Sr
[Archived page] • Ferid Murad
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9/15/2023