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by badmachine
Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:22 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: "WAZ and the Magic Circle", a film about expat Ukrainian nationalists
Replies: 11
Views: 54420

Re: "WAZ and the Magic Circle", a film about expat Ukrainian nationalists

Appears that Chris has found himself a "calling": reporting atrocities by the Russian military on X, which isn't an especially good place to do it, apart from the large quantities of NAFOites still there. The Russian army has always been like this, going back centuries, Soviet or not Soviet. So it'...
by badmachine
Wed Feb 05, 2025 6:12 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 541
Views: 409722

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Barry Humphries has had an alleged slur in his bio since October 24, 2024 : The current usage of “transgenderism” arises from anti-trans extremists who seek to delegitimize and dehumanize trans people by implying that being trans is an ideology rather than an identity. (See here for a longer histor...
by badmachine
Sun Feb 02, 2025 3:22 am
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Tamzin RfA
Replies: 129
Views: 74600

Re: Tamzin RfA

haha Clovermoss nominated Newyorkbrad's BLP for deletion possibly out of butthurt over Tamzin's article being nominated :jerkoff:
by badmachine
Sat Feb 01, 2025 7:43 pm
Forum: Misc
Topic: Health payments to 77 million Americans suspended after deranged White House OMB memo, payments restored after backlash
Replies: 5
Views: 8740

Re: Health payments to 77 million Americans suspended after deranged White House OMB memo, payments restored after backl

Upon further research, Cassidy was promoting his DUALS Act, which RJK jr. took as codeword for "cutting Medicaid", which, upon closer inspection, is not exactly that in spirit. On the face of it, it seems to be a good bill. people eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid would be stuck with somethin...
by badmachine
Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:13 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Tamzin RfA
Replies: 129
Views: 74600

Re: Tamzin RfA

snow deleted by Zzuuzz. there are (at least) two copies saved at Archive.today

i wonder what the "drama" at work was :shrug:
by badmachine
Sat Jan 18, 2025 11:55 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: subtle vandalism may persist
Replies: 33
Views: 35075

Re: subtle vandalism may persist

probably unintentional, but this edit has caused this sentence to be displayed on wikipedia since July 2, 2023:
In 2021, Almena pled guilty to the 36 counts of and was sentenced to 12 years in prison and released for time served.
by badmachine
Sat Jan 11, 2025 2:50 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 541
Views: 409722

Re: Crap or questionable articles

And a badly-written AUTOBIOGRAPHY of the week....... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alok_Vaid-Menon too obvious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Tamieparkersong Alok's aunt was Urvashi Vaid, an LGBT rights activist, lawyer, and writer.[38] ref #38 is a link to his personal site. i...
by badmachine
Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:49 pm
Forum: Misc
Topic: California fires
Replies: 3
Views: 918

Re: California fires

Brian Williams, Los Angeles's "deputy mayor of public safety", is the man in charge of the Los Angeles Fire Department. about three weeks ago, he was placed on administrative leave for allegedly calling in a bomb threat to city hall. "Mr. Williams strongly maintains his innocence and intends to vig...
by badmachine
Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:09 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Kris Degioia
Replies: 2
Views: 7934

Re: Kris Degioia

wow thats the shortest AfD i ever saw. 11 whole minutes, but the nominating person is Praxidicae so she gets special treatment
by badmachine
Wed Jan 01, 2025 1:28 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Elon Musk re-offers Wikimedia 1 Billion USD to rename Wikipedia to "Dickipedia" for a year
Replies: 13
Views: 24840

Re: Elon Musk re-offers Wikimedia 1 Billion USD to rename Wikipedia to "Dickipedia" for a year

much hay is being made on social media of the removal from Bill Clinton's wikipedia article of all mentions of Jeffrey Epstein on July 22 2024 . the user who moved the content to the lesser viewed 'sexual misconduct of Bill Clinton' article is called ThingsCanOnlyGetWetter , now blocked as a sockpup...