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you sure showed him

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Simon Reynolds-recommended blogger Aloysius lets rip:

no point in following old people on twitter
one annoying thing i've noticed is they all love when MSNBC blue checkmark guys reply to trump tweets with shit like "Mr. President, you are not the commander-in-chief. You are the liar-in-chief." wow, you sure showed him! when he sees your tweet (and he definitely will), no doubt he'll be too devastated to do anything but resign in shame.

it doesn't matter how smart or interesting they are elsewhere -- that's great content to literally any left leaning middle aged person.

https://twitter.com/DethVeggie/status/1221362421677379584

renick bell liked this tweet. he must be older than i thought.

edit: another example lol https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1223204571729711104

Oh, those old people. But yes, this is a good example of what's wrong in Twitterville.

more harvard obligations

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When Lawrence Lessig explained why he couldn't be the lawyer for prosecutorially hounded hacker (and later suicide) Aaron Swartz, he mentioned that he had a conflict that forced him to choose between Swartz and "obligations to Harvard," where Lessig was employed. That's the phrase he used, "my obligations to Harvard."

Now comes Ricardo Hausman, adviser to Juan Guaido, explaining that he had to break with America's chosen Venezuela coup leader because of "obligations at Harvard," where Hausman teaches.

Apparently the black hole of this elite school allows neither darkness nor light to escape its gravitational pull.

bad g**gle drawing of the day - the spectators

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As noted previously, Eric Schmidt's company greenwashes its diversity problem with an endless parade of cultural "others" on its main search page.

Above is a drawing cropped from the same picture as yesterday's bad G**gle image of the day, celebrating women's soccer.
These are the spectators, a happy melting pot of women waving tiny American flags. (With one male, wearing a lei.)
They are all reacting with identical robotic smiles as lady liberty smacks the ball with her shin.
The artist combines Norman Rockwell feelgood-ism with a kind of desperate propaganda style, like old Chinese Communist posters of happy factory workers.

Bonus: If you like women with tiny heads and big thighs, there is a monopoly technology company that openly displays them:

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This somewhat resembles the work of Matisse, except the poor figure drawing is unintentional. He also had a better color sense.

bad g**gle drawing of the day

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The Incredible Hulk meets Pippi Longstocking?
Is it possible a human figure drawing could be more poorly proportioned?
How is it these artists always make the most dynamic moments seem utterly slack and lifeless?
Can this artist draw a round ball?
Would someone actually play soccer wearing a foam NYC tourist "lady liberty" hat?
Is that color supposed to be verdigris?
Is it better to kick with the toe or the shin?
Do soccer fields have small mountain ranges on them?