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Doug Holland

@ DougHolland @lemmy.world

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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.

Publishes itsdougholland.com and SeattleSoon.com. 

  • Gangsters

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  • Truth.

  • Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

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  • This is a pittance — about $3,000 per victim, for having their life's work copied and distributed to, effectively, anyone and everyone on Earth.

  • San Francisco restaurant gets angry backlash for AI menu images

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  • Well said & correct, thank you.

  • 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 files

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  • Well, 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.

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    These are a few of my favorite things.

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    Let's violate that law today!

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    The Urbanist's 2026 primary election endorsements

    www.theurbanist.org /2026-primary-election-endorsements/

  • E. Jean Carroll has finally been paid her $5 million

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  • It wasn't his choice, ha!

  • Leaders From Home and Abroad Remember Senator Lindsey Graham

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  • "Haw, haw, yeah, I remember that fuckwad."

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    E. Jean Carroll has finally been paid her $5 million

    www.nytimes.com /2026/07/14/nyregion/carroll-trump-settlement-million.html

  • TIL about the "Aroma of Tacoma"

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  • 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.

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    ICE ramps up kidnappings in Puget Sound region

    www.cascadia-journal.com /ice-ramps-up-kidnappings-in-puget-sound-region/
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    1933

    NAZI PRISON CAMPS TO BE PERMANENT; Building Going On at Dachau to Convert Institution From a Revolutionary Makeshift

    www.nytimes.com /1933/07/27/archives/nazi-prison-camps-to-be-permanent-building-going-on-at-dachau-to.html
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    Pete Buttigieg didn’t have to let those CPS officers in: Here’s what he could have done instead.

    slate.com /news-and-politics/2026/07/pete-buttigieg-cps-child-protective-services-rights.html
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    Capitalism is way better than socialism.

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    Biblical values

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    Black woman surrounded by white toxic douchebags

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    Council amendments would slash transit funding plan, subject measure to annual Council vote

    publicola.com /2026/07/03/council-amendments-would-slash-transit-funding-plan-subject-measure-to-annual-council-vote/
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    Man arrested for playing Darth Vader’s theme music at National Guard troops scores settlement

    www.techdirt.com /2026/07/02/man-arrested-for-playing-darth-vaders-theme-music-at-national-guard-troops-scores-settlement/

  • Pete Buttigieg Says He Was Separated From His Children After ‘Swatting’ Tip

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  • If 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.

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    “Why is there so much punishment in this life?”

    acebackwords5.wordpress.com /2026/06/26/why-is-there-so-much-punishment-in-this-life/

  • FEMA Official Who Claimed He Once Teleported to a Waffle House Is Leaving

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  • FEMA should offer this man a raise and try to keep him. Teleportation could be a valuable tool in an emergency!

  • Pete Buttigieg Says He Was Separated From His Children After ‘Swatting’ Tip

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  • That 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.

  • Supreme Court bars lawsuit after prison guards shaved inmate’s dreadlocks

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  • When 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.

  • ‘The View’ asks its audience for help in battle with FCC

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  • This 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.

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    ‘The View’ asks its audience for help in battle with FCC

    www.nytimes.com /2026/06/22/business/media/the-view-fcc-abc-investigation.html
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    Supreme Court bars lawsuit after prison guards shaved inmate’s dreadlocks

    www.nytimes.com /2026/06/23/us/politics/supreme-court-inmates-dreadlocks.html
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    The idiot left

  • Life is a sonovabitch, but...

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  • You 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.

  • 'A dream 42 years in the making': Ezell's Famous Chicken owner eyes nationwide franchise

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  • Honestly, 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.

  • 'A dream 42 years in the making': Ezell's Famous Chicken owner eyes nationwide franchise

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  • Tried it twice, and Ezell's is two-for-two as the blandest, most sorry-ass chicken ever.

  • Things Are Looking Quite Bad for Trump

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  • That headline is rubbish, so I assume the article is as well.

    If I believed in God I'd simply know Trump is the antichrist, but it doesn't matter. Trump seems to have absolute immunity for every crime, every scandal, every ghastly thing he says. Things have never and will never "look bad" for Trump until he's dead, and if he dies while he's President, rest assured JD Vance will be worse.

  • Ex-staffer says Eric Swalwell, candidate for California governor, sexually assaulted her

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  • Saying they got the right guy. (:

  • Ex-staffer says Eric Swalwell, candidate for California governor, sexually assaulted her

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  • Yeah, but that's what they said about the Unabomber.

  • Man shot by ICE agents was stripped naked and abandoned without medical care, his lawyer says

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  • I read the article, didn't find the excerpt, then searched via CTRL-F for both 'clothes' and 'handcuffed' and got nada — six hours ago, but it's there now. I envision hot, loud arguments over censorship at the

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    , but more likely it was just a glitch.