It’s ok to be vaccine hesitant if you’re black, but not if you’re white pic.twitter.com/2BGCSmgVy0
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) October 1, 2021
WTF?
wtf
University of Chicago professor satirizes abortion supporters in Telegram poetry group
A University of Chicago medievalist has formed a social media poetry group that trains writers to mock “woke politics,” including abortion supporters, as part of what she calls a bid to save Western civilization through preserving the English language.
Professor Rachel Fulton Brown, a medieval history professor at the Chicago school since 1994, said she set the group up on Telegram in summer 2020 with 10 people who soon set to work on lampooning abortion backers.
A welcome relief.
German car park unveils ‘diversity’ spaces reserved for LGBT drivers or migrants
A car park located in Hanau, Germany, has unveiled dedicated parking spaces reserved for LGBTQ and migrant drivers.
Hanauer Parkhaus GmbH (HPG) built three ‘diversity’ parking spaces in an underground car park in Hanau city centre, which will cater only to LGBTQ individuals and migrants.
Gays and the religion of peace? This guy has a wicked sense of humour.
Military units track guns using tech that could aid foes
Determined to keep track of their guns, some U.S. military units have turned to a technology that could let enemies detect troops on the battlefield, The Associated Press has found.
The rollout on Army and Air Force bases continues even though the Department of Defense itself describes putting the technology in firearms as a “significant” security risk.
The Marines have rejected radio frequency identification technology in weapons for that very reason, and the Navy said this week that it was halting its own dalliance.
Suspect in ATM attacks blew himself up filming tutorial, says Europol
Dutch and German police have broken up a criminal gang involved in making video tutorials on how to bomb cash machines after one of its members blew himself up in the process.
One suspect was killed and another was badly hurt in the Dutch city of Utrecht when a trial run went wrong at an illegal “training centre” for explosives attacks on ATMs, Europol said.
Police eventually made nine arrests during an 18-month operation targeting the gang, which the EU’s police agency said was linked to at least 15 bombings on ATMs in Germany that resulted in losses of €2.15m (£1.5m).
Trudeau spends 1st Truth and Reconciliation Day in Tofino on vacation, contradicting itinerary
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is spending the first National Truth and Reconciliation Day on vacation in Tofino, B.C., with his family, despite his official itinerary placing him in private meetings in Ottawa.
The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed the vacation in a statement sent to Global News.
Americans aren’t just blocking our oil pipelines, now they’re fighting Hydro-Quebec’s clean power lines
Last week, Quebec Premier François Legault took to Twitter to celebrate after New York State authorities tentatively approved the first new transmission line in three decades that would connect Quebec’s vast hydroelectric network to the northeastern U.S. grid.
Danish museum wants artist to pay back money after producing blank canvasses
A Danish museum wants an artist to return around 534,000 kroner ($83,000) he had been given in cash to recreate old artworks using banknotes, after he produced blank canvasses with the title “Take the Money and Run”.
Jens Haaning, a Danish artist, was commissioned by the Kunsten Museum.
He was asked to reproduce two of his works representing the annual salary in Denmark and Austria.
But the artist pocketed the cash and produced the blank canvasses.
I’ll do a couple of stick men for a few hundred.
Milley Admits Telling Chinese He‘d ‘Probably‘ Call Before an Attack
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley admitted Wednesday during a hearing that he told his Chinese counterpart he would give him a call if the United States were about to attack.
Post-Covid CLOWN SHORTAGE hits Northern Ireland
Alongside the UK’s ongoing fuel crisis, there’s a clown shortage in Northern Ireland’s circuses. With circus bosses searching for new clowns, some commenters suggested they look to the political arena for recruits.
Circuses will soon tour Northern Ireland again once Covid-19 restrictions are lifted, but according to the BBC, they’re facing an acute shortage of clowns. Many of these funnymen (and women), circus owner David Duffy explained, either returned to their own countries at the outset of the pandemic last year, or have since gone abroad to look for work in countries that have already reopened.
‘Slap in the face’: Marines reveal commanders forced them to wipe clean abusive messages left for the Taliban & ISIS-K at Kabul airport days after blast killed 13 US troops
A US Marine has shared his dismay at being forced to remove obscene messages insulting the Taliban and ISIS that they daubed on the walls of Kabul Airport.
Three examples of the insults were shared to social media – with one showing a serviceman in front of a tiled wall at Hamid Karzai Airport sprayed with the phrase ‘F*** ISIS + Taliban’ in black paint, as well as an image of a penis and testicles sprayed in purple.
WTF?
Imagine having no real problems so you have to make some up pic.twitter.com/kqrVG4PNq5
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) September 24, 2021
Who says there’s no fun in Islam? Taliban day at the fairground!
Heavily armed Taliban fighters were pictured on Tuesday enjoying a lake-side fairground near Kabul, weeks after the militant group took control of Afghanistan and began re-implementing their hardline Islamic rule.
‘This is Afghanistan!’ one Taliban fighter shouted while on a pirate ship ride at the fairground found in western Kabul, as his armed comrades cackled and whooped onboard the rickety attraction.
FGM a go
Judge throws out historic female genital mutilation case, calls feds ‘vindictive’
A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the nation’s first female genital mutilation case, delivering a major blow to the prosecution and FGM survivors who had hoped the Detroit case would help end a practice that is still performed on millions of girls worldwide.
In dismissing the four-year-old case, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman concluded the prosecution was vindictive in seeking new charges against the accused, who had previously convinced the judge to declare the federal FGM ban as unconstitutional.