News & Links: Saturday, November 4, 2023

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 • Alabama pastor/mayor kills himself after being outed for wearing drag — "unBiblical behavior"
    Bubba Copeland could've had a happy life, if his brain hadn't been contaminated by religion and Republicans telling him no, no, no.

• Public transit to the rescue: Commuter boat nudges loose barge away from crowded waterfront
    This captain was making a normal afternoon run when all of a sudden...
    And despite the misleading name, Seattle's 'Water Taxi' is no taxi. It's a car-free ferry — a water-bus — and part of the county's public transit system. You can ride it with the same monthly pass that pays fares for buses and trains and the monorail. So public transit may have saved some lives! I love public transit!

• Elite charter schools to recoup $1.16M in settlement with Vallejo school district
    Everything about public money to private schools is laughably unconstitutional, and yet — was the Constitution ever worth even the paper and now pixels it's printed on?

• Uber, Lyft are ordered to pay $328 million for cheating drivers out of earnings
    Long it's been argued Lyft and Uber drivers are 'contractors' so the companies can skip out on taxes and benefits, but this certainly refutes that. 'Gig workers' are employees, and you can tell, because their employers are screwing them over.

• Panama Canal operators to cut ship crossings as drought worsens
    Why look, it's another of the thousands of easily-predicted consequence of the growing climate catastrophe. Just wait til we get to the surprises — the consequences that weren't so obviously bearing down on all of us, but there they are.

• Oh no, the golf course is being destroyed by herds of javelina 

• One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days, study shows 

• Die-in and rotten food at shitty architect's office 

• Some lady saved a trove of 4,000 glass plate negatives that nearly went into the trash 

• Amazon used an algorithm to essentially raise prices on other sites, the FTC says 

• My favorite thing that's ever happened to me on the internet 

• Cats make nearly 300 different facial expressions 

• The world's first pocket phonograph 

• Amusing, Interesting, Outrageous, or Profound
    AIOP is my Lemmy page, for anything that's (in my opinion) amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound. It's mostly a rough draft of this page, but you're invited to stop by.

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• A Supermarket in California — Allen Ginsberg 

• Crying — Roy Orbison 

• Hail to Thee, Fat Person — Allan Sherman 

• The Last Day of June 1934 — Al Stewart 

• Piano Concerto #21 — Mozart 

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• Ken Mattingly 

• Keith Moore 

• Susan Patron 

• Herschel Savage 

• Shannon Wilcox

11/4/2023   

Cranky Old Fart is annoyed and complains and very occasionally offers a kindness, along with anything off the internet that's made me smile or snarl. All opinions fresh from my ass. Top illustration by Jeff Meyer. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited. 

Tip 'o the hat to the AVA, BoingBoing, Breakfast at Ralf's, Kottke,org, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, MetaFilter, Miss Miriam's Mirror, RanPrieur.com, @soberscientistlife, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I've stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.

Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Wynn Bruce, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn't always shitty.

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