@IndyRichard He knows how to work the media. If there's a new outrage every day then the press focuses on the latest one and forgets about the one the day before, and the day before that, and all the ones prior. And because they never take a stand and describe him as lying or racist (which would not be "objective" in their world-view) they never follow anything through. The public generally does the same. His followers love that he can do all this and never face any consequences.

Has anyone ever applied the Bechdel test to opera? (Does the opera include two women singing to each other about something other than a man?)

I'll start:

Puccini's Tosca: Fail.
Delibes' Lakmé: Pass.

Love this image of Epstein victims looking at Bondi with all the respect she deserves.

@randahl "Requests for financial assistance" is one way I might put it. Often people in the Fediverse call it mutual aid: so "mutual aid requests" would be another way to put it.

@randahl I also have mixed feelings, and usually just scroll past them. I wouldn't call it begging myself, because that sounds pejorative.

@sylvia That's fascinating. I haven't been able to find any information about the company, "verbiest & de decker." It's like an artifact that's dropped in from a parallel dimension!

@jonas_trostle @newsguyusa Presumably not for divulging classified information.

@randahl He said not only that Trump was dangerous, but that he was the worst person he’d ever met.

@nowster @BenCotterill @purplepadma

OMG! I had forgotten that entirely!

@rich One story was that Izal gave it away to institutions that bought their cleaning products. I imagine that free toilet paper would hard to turn down — especially if other people were going to use it.

@FeloniousPunk @purplepadma I've never come across anything in the US that's similar. This stuff literally was like wiping your a-hole with tracing paper. It was insanity!

@fullyabstract @pigworker I'm so glad I went to Glasgow Uni, then! I don't think I ever saw any there.

@pigworker You made me laugh out loud!

@andy_the_frazzled It is a scarring memory!

@luddchem It was Izal. I've never heard of the other one. Where was that?

@noodlemaz @avatastic The 80's and 90's! Incredible! We had it in school in the 60's and 70's. I don't remember seeing it after that.

@Clutha Dear god! Everything about that is awful!

@phl Unnecessary suffering is Britain's national obsession. I mean ... Brexit?

@linguacelta I'm so sorry!

@relache Wow! I didn't think Americans would have stood for that. Or sat, or whatever.