You didn’t see people in masks standing in the rain risking their lives to vote. Not in America. You didn’t see the leader of the free world push an unproven miracle drug like a late-night infomercial salesman. That was a crisis update. You didn’t see homeless people dead on the street. You didn’t see inequality. You didn’t see indifference. You didn’t see utter failure of leadership and systems.
Jen found this article and read it aloud a couple of days ago, and it really struck home. In Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting, Julio Vincent Gambuto makes the case that this strange reality is the best opportunity we’ve ever had to stop, look, and evaluate our lives, our country, and our future, and prepare to make changes for the better right now before we are lulled back to sleep.
Interesting...
- June 29
Dries Buytaert did some sleuthing and found a way to remove YouTube tracking from embedded videos by using a simple addition to the embed URL. The result is that it's GDPR compliant, and, as an added benefit, the page will load faster because it's not sending a cookie off to Google. I used a Wordpress plugin called Search Regex to find and replace all the YouTube links on Idiotking.org, and now they should all be cookie free.
June 26
McSweeney's, normally a humor website, has been keeping tabs on what they call President Trump's Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes. They're up to 759 as of this post (June 26). It's amazing, absolutely gutting, and makes me want to throw up.
June 17
This is pretty cool: a website featuring thousands of high-resolution searchable, downloadable historical artworks.
June 11
J.K Rowling has been making biased comments about transgender women for a while now, which is disappointing, to say the least. Daniel Radcliffe wrote an excellent rebuttal that is both respectful and informative, and it is a masterclass in tolerance and inclusivity.
To all the people who now feel that their experience of the books has been tarnished or diminished, I am deeply sorry for the pain these comments have caused you. I really hope that you don’t entirely lose what was valuable in these stories to you.
June 2
Trump sent the DC Police out 1/2 hour before the official curfew to clear the streets so he could walk down to St. John’s Episcopal Church and shoot a photo op holding a bible. One of the Reverends was handing out food and snacks on the steps, and she and her staff were tear-gassed and driven off by police in riot gear. Fuck. This. Guy.
