
Doug Holland
Old, cranky, & woke but needs a nap. Enjoys solitude, old movies, long bus rides, and a good bowel movement.
No DMs, please, and no AI, no BS, and no Substack.
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Doug Holland@lemmy.worldtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•He Plagiarized and Promoted Falsehoods. The White House Embraces Him. Meet Benny JohnsonEnglish
1·6 days agoFrustrating, right? The Times has been rolling out this anti-feature to random users, and apparently once you’re selected it’ll always demand logging in. You will be spammed, you will be sold. I set up a dummy email, so they’ll be spamming and selling the ether.
Doug Holland@lemmy.worldtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•Top Science Body Deletes Climate Chapter From Judges’ Manual | The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine had been under pressure from Republican leaders, including President TrumpEnglish
1·7 days agoPre-Trump, I thought I grokked how rotten everything was, but watching the one-by-one asskissing collapse of the few institutions I’d sorta respected — like the NAS — is srsly depressing.
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Seattle@lemmy.world•The Office of Public Lecture presents: An Evening with Hasan PikerEnglish
3·8 days agoAlready cancelled by UW.
Doug Holland@lemmy.worldtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to IranEnglish
1·16 days agoTrump said Minnesota did it to themselves, so now they’re probably doing it to other states. That damned Minnesota! Or maybe Trump shouldn’t have DOGE’d America’s cyberdefences.
Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPMtoAMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND@lemmy.world•GangstersEnglish
1·18 days agoTruth.






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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbotEnglish
16·26 days agoThis is a pittance — about $3,000 per victim, for having their life’s work copied and distributed to, effectively, anyone and everyone on Earth.
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•San Francisco restaurant gets angry backlash for AI menu imagesEnglish
1·26 days agoWell said & correct, thank you.
Doug Holland@lemmy.worldtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest | The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry filesEnglish
1·27 days agoWell, of fucking course they knew. I knew it, decades ago, and I’m nobody with no degree. Anyone with a functional noggin knew it. It wasn’t ever a secret.
Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPMtoAMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND@lemmy.world•E. Jean Carroll has finally been paid her $5 millionEnglish
7·1 month agoIt wasn’t his choice, ha!
Doug Holland@lemmy.worldtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•Leaders From Home and Abroad Remember Senator Lindsey GrahamEnglish
2·1 month ago“Haw, haw, yeah, I remember that fuckwad.”
Didn’t know there was still a scent of it anywhere, but when I was a kid (50+ years ago) Tacoma indeed flat-out stank. Even driving through, you’d roll up your windows and close the vents, and it was all over Tacoma, not just in some tiny enclaves of stink.
Doug Holland@lemmy.worldtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•Pete Buttigieg Says He Was Separated From His Children After ‘Swatting’ TipEnglish
21·2 months agoIf there’s no evidence beyond an anonymous tip, this is the wrong response. Make enough anonymous tips, and every kid in America could be required to sit for an interview, over and over.
Doug Holland@lemmy.worldtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•FEMA Official Who Claimed He Once Teleported to a Waffle House Is LeavingEnglish
3·2 months agoFEMA should offer this man a raise and try to keep him. Teleportation could be a valuable tool in an emergency!
Doug Holland@lemmy.worldtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•Pete Buttigieg Says He Was Separated From His Children After ‘Swatting’ TipEnglish
182·2 months agoThat night, the twins slept at their grandparents’ house. The authorities required them to sit alone for the interviews with the CPS workers, as is common during such investigations.
Being forced to “sit alone” with CPS staffers is pretty rough for a kid, and if CPS “requires” it without first requiring some damned evidence, that’s a form of child abuse.
Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•Supreme Court bars lawsuit after prison guards shaved inmate’s dreadlocksEnglish
2·2 months agoWhen Mr. Landor reported for a five-month sentence for drug possession in Louisiana, he had not cut his hair for almost two decades, in keeping with his faith. His dreadlocks fell nearly to his knees.
Four months into his term, in 2020, he was transferred to a new prison. He carried with him a copy of a 2017 legal opinion that held that inmates must be allowed to keep their dreadlocks under a federal law protecting prisoners’ religious freedom.
When he pulled out a copy of that decision, a guard threw it in the trash, according to court documents he filed in a later lawsuit.
Two guards then handcuffed Mr. Landor to a chair and forcibly shaved him bald.
Six of nine on the Supreme Court belong on the other side of the courtroom.
Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•‘The View’ asks its audience for help in battle with FCCEnglish
4·2 months agoThis is surreal — The View is inane chitchat that barely qualifies as journalism, but Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar are too edgy for Trump & the Republicans.
Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPMtoAMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND@lemmy.world•Life is a sonovabitch, but...English
2·2 months agoYou are an exact match for my mental state today. If this was a dating profile, I would be ready to bear your children, except, of course, that I never wanted kids and can’t stand all their screaming and pooping.
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Seattle@lemmy.world•'A dream 42 years in the making': Ezell's Famous Chicken owner eyes nationwide franchiseEnglish
2·3 months agoHonestly, and insanely, the best fried chicken I’ve found around Seattle is takeout from Saar’s (bargain priced on Mondays and Fridays). Used to beg for better recommendations, but now it’s too late cuz I’ve gone vegetarian.
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Seattle@lemmy.world•'A dream 42 years in the making': Ezell's Famous Chicken owner eyes nationwide franchiseEnglish
2·4 months agoTried it twice, and Ezell’s is two-for-two as the blandest, most sorry-ass chicken ever.





We must somehow choose between that article, sourced from Daily Caller News Foundation, and The Lancet and the rest of scientific research. For me, it’s not really hard to know.