🇪🇺 The Irate Penguin 🇺🇦 💉 @Max_in_Vienna@mastodon.online

Every day I ride the U1 across the Danube, reminding me that I haven't been sailing this year. Not once. Who was it that said: "There's s fine line between social networking and wasting your fucking life"? #mtcross #socialnetworking

The children survived? How very untexan. #mtcross

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/2-dead-after-shooting-at-dallas-apartment-children-found-alive-police-say

99% of Twitter business accounts aren't meant to "interface" with the customer, they are only bullhorns for their sales depts.

Has ANYONE EVER received a helpful answer from one of these (unless they could up- or cross-sell you a purported solution)?

via Mastodon #mtcross

Am I supposed to act surprised? No? Good.

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-covid-health-presidential-e50db07385831e67f866ec45402be8b9 via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross

The new #googlenews look includes a fact-check section. Nice.

To US readers: this might not be of interest to you, as it reports on facts, not scripture.

https://news.google.com/home via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross

How many leaks in the dingy does it take to realize that the boat's going under? #RoeVWade #systemicracism #gunviolence #whitesupremacy #incomeinequality #religiousextremism #criminaljusticereform

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/24/us/roe-wade-abortion-supreme-court #RoeVsWade #racism via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross

No, #SCOTUS justices don't lash out. Well, they didn't use to. It seems that the last traces of that democratic rule-of-law patina has peeled off, revealing an impotent, divided empire in dissolution.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/samuel-alito-stephen-breyer-guns/index.html via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross

Congratulations on taking a bold step into the 19th century. How does it feel living in a theocracy? What's next? Slavery? ... though that one was never really gone, was it?

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/roe-wade-abortion-supreme-court-ruling/index.html via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross #RoeVsWade #RoeVWade

Insanity. You inculcate children with drivel of the first order, then watch them spend their lives arguing about said poppycock. What a colossal waste of time and effort.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/calvin-university-professor-joe-kuilema-gay-marriage-lgbtq_n_62aca02de4b06169ca988191 via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross #religion #atheism

No doubt, #MBS will be in charge of manicures. Members of the media can request to have them cut extra, extra short. The #Saudis have some experience in this field.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/19/politics/joe-biden-mohammed-bin-salman-meeting/index.html via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross #Saudi #Biden #SaudiArabia

The Russian Federation replaced the USSR when it fell apart. Perhaps it would be more apt to speak of the American Federation, rather than the increasingly irrelevant United States of America.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/us/politics/texas-republicans-approve-far-right-platform-declaring-bidens-election-illegitimate.html via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross #ussr #texas #russia

Kids, blink twice if the bad man is holding you against your will.

On reading this headline, my first thought was: "What a load of hooey."

Now, after reading through the article, I stand corrected: "What a load of manure."

https://www.aol.com/news/religion-keep-united-states-sliding-090010236.html via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross #atheism #religion

"It's complicated" is what all sides of an argument hate hearing, especially if it threatens the trenches they have dug out for themselves.

Perhaps the question should be: why is this (beyond scientific curiosity) anyone's business or interest?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/there-is-no-gay-gene-there-is-no-straight-gene-sexuality-is-just-complex-study-confirms #mtcross

It's funny, what some people call "low".
Americans believe in:

God 81%
Biblical God 56%
Demons & Ghosts 45%
Creationism 40%
Sun revolves around earth 25%
Vampires 13%
Moon landings were faked 10%

https://news.gallup.com/poll/393737/belief-god-dips-new-low.aspx via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross #religion #atheism

If you have to ask ...
She certainly looks panicky. Did the call come from INSIDE the House ... or Senate? Allow me a guess: Manchin? Sinema?

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/midterm-election-house-gains-republican-democrat/index.html via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross #Election2022

Cancún, Italy, I assume?

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/montana-governor-faces-criticism-for-vacation-during-floods via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross #CancunCruz

Steaming full speed backwards.

Revanchism, loss of purpose, preoccupation only with oneself, loss of values & moral authority until a nation has nothing left but a bloated yet still lethal military, are classic indicators of an empire in demise. https://www.salon.com/2022/06/17/its-time-to-rethink-born-this-way-a-phrase-thats-been-key-to-lgbtq-acceptance/ #tmcross

If they also settle in Antarctica, would they then be bipolar bears?
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk2793 via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross #polarbear