the Imam just spoke.
huge blood drive going on at ONeBlood. I don't know my blood type and neither does my mother. but there's a line out the door of donors right now.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 14:36 (seven years ago) link
and of course a reminder that gay men like me can't give blood unless you've been a celibate a year.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 June 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
there was communication between law enforcement and the shooter, but they aren't willing to release details yet (which is the right move - still too preliminary).
I must say Orlando PD has done a great job this weekend in both scenarios. SWAT probably saved more lives last night.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
being called worst mass shooting in US history now.
if someone pulls out the "the problem is actually mental health" canard today, please do me a favor and knock out their teeth
Horrific
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 June 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
xpost sorry, inappropriate.
here's a press conference: http://www.wftv.com/live-stream1
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
think it's a good month or twelve to start a personal news blackout
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 June 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
― Neanderthal, Sunday, June 12, 2016 10:43 AM (6 minutes ago)
Bernie Sanders: "I believed that we should not be selling automatic weapons which are designed to kill people, and we’ve got to do everything we can on top of that to make sure that guns do not fall into the hands of people who should not have them. Criminals and people who are mentally ill, so that struggle continues.”
― remy bean, Sunday, 12 June 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
That isn't that
― wins, Sunday, 12 June 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
At least CNN and MSNBC are humanizing the dead: it was last call, Pride weekend, Latin night is popular, etc. FOX News has a fellow with an execrable hair piece reminding listeners that the policies of the Obama administration "facilitated in part" the massacre
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
I've seen folks in other places comment only that 'it's terrible how bad our mental health care is', in response to the disproportionate level of shootings in the US.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
Fox News has been shrill and excessively focused on the Islamic terror bent, they can go fuck themselves.
State of Emergency has been declared - I have a feeling folks are going to be jumpy in public for a while.
there is a lot of rallying going on in the community already. the LGBT community here has been great about banding together and achieving community in a tough time, and there are grief counselors being brought to various sites. but many are scared that this is only the tip of the iceberg - maybe not, but it's hard to feel safe now. especially given the meticulous selection of the target.
suspect law enforcement presence is going to be stepped up for weeks to come.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
xpost
I'm curious to hear how so
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
In an interview on WFTV, a witness said the shooter was laughing.
I'm so fucking angry right now I don't even know what to do with myself.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
it's such a feeling of helplessness that pieces of shit like that guy can pretty much effortlessly destroy 100+ people's lives and shatter hundreds of thousands of people's emotions, all while smirking.
feeling numb cos my psyche just doesn't want to experience this horror.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
(My xpost was in response to the bad-haired FOX moron claiming this was obsma's fault, sorry)
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
so I said earlier this is now the worst spree shooting in US History.
the previous #1 and #2? were in 2007 (VA Tech) and 2012 (Sandy Hook).
doesn't it say something about the problem that the top three spree shootings in US history have HAPPENED WITHIN THE LAST TEN YEARS??!!!!
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
Obviously, more people are crazy. It has nothing to do with the assault weapons ban being allowed to expire. o_O
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
Aye, you can work in a secure psychiatric hospital where the patients have foam bats, or one where they have knives and guns. Who would pick the latter.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
"doesn't it say something about the problem that the top three spree shootings in US history have HAPPENED WITHIN THE LAST TEN YEARS??!!!!"
THANKS OBAMA
― akm, Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
This is absolutely heartbreaking. Blood drive information here, in case any ILXors are around Orlando (O+ and O- blood and AB plasma needed, blood from gay and queer men will be accepted):http://hydramoon.tumblr.com/post/145805294600/anyone-in-orlando-or-has-followers-from-the-area
― one way street, Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
Since the job I currently have (but in no way like) is in the commercial insurance field, I just started thinking about how this is probably the end of Pulse. On top of the fact that it would be hard to make people ever want to go there again, for a variety of reasons, it will probably send their liability premiums through the roof after they're hit with 103 (or more) claims. And now I'm wondering if other LGBTQ bars will run into the same problem, because the insurance industry is a fucking vulture. :(
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
I really hope not. we have a thriving LGBTQ scene and those places are needed to continue that. but that is a valid concern.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
I think the trouble of owning a business but by tragedy is you either go under or you use the tragedy, which can seem ghoulish.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Sunday, 12 June 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
This is probably a better donor information link for people statewide (all donors welcome, O+ and O- blood and AB plasma needed):https://www.oneblood.org/donate-now/
― one way street, Sunday, 12 June 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
they're at capacity today and asking us to make appointments for later in the week, which works for me. that and the fact that all of my friends have checked in as ok is reassuring.
my brother has a co-worker who is missing and the friend of this co-worker is in the hospital with gunshots :(.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
*wounds
holy fucking shit: http://www.latimes.com/la-me-ln-gay-pride-la-weapons-20160612-snap-story.html
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
Ugh, it looks like the usual homophobic and transmisogynistic restrictions are still in effect:
http://67.media.tumblr.com/5a085ff3fdffbdf5033eeccb98d89299/tumblr_o8o4ieSk7R1rge7zlo1_500.png
― one way street, Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
Everything is nauseating right now; I need to go offline.
― one way street, Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
wtf xpost
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
yeah my psyche gave up with its usual repression, I'm bawling now. the LA news is just too much, though I am thankful they thwarted it. hoping to Odin there are no other shoes to drop.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
it won't be, in fact it might even win him support, but I really want this to be his Waterloo: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-gets-self-congratulatory-after-orlando-mass-shooting/
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Obama looks so tired of having to talk about this shit.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
yep
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
clearly we shouldn't ban handguns cos that'll just make gun crime worse. I mean England has only had one school shooting ever and only one spree shooting since 2010 but that's just too many man.
we'd have zero crimes if everybody had guns clearly. criminals would just jump in the ocean and swim away
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
sigh: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/texas-lt-gov-ripped-ill-timed-tweet-mass-shooting-article-1.2670663
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
# of private guns in England and Wales: 1.8M# of private guns in America: 313M
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
Giving wall to wall coverage to this shit, which killed fewer people than automobiles will today, both this and every time it happens a) gives the disturbed attention whores, in this case someone likely adopting the brand of a self-styled homophobic death cult likely enabled by our failure to depose Assad, what they want, and b) increases the likelihood of something like this happening again. IMNSFHO.
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
his handlers claim he's out of the country and that this was scheduled on Thursday. still tho....this was news when I woke up this morning (and that was early, thanks to my asshole roommate). you don't think maybe you coulda re-read it and said "uhhh wait maybe not a good idea".
xpost jesus fuck go away dude
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
But I'm sure if we just stop raining bombs on them Steph Curry-style they'll either kill only people we don't care about or turn into a tolerant eden
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
hey mods wanna zap this dude out of this thread pls
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkxHAVgVEAA6PGD.jpg
*heart sinks*
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
In the past two weeks Mateen legally purchased a Glock pistol, found at the shooting scene, from a St. Lucie County area gun store, a law enforcement official said.
― nomar, Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
woke up this morning after a horrible nightmare inspired by having read about this just before going to bed
i can only imagine the horror of folks in that club
this is two sicknesses colliding — the sickness of ISIS and the sickness of America’s obsession with "gun rights".
i don’t know which one is "worse," but i sure know which one I’m more worried about as an American.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 12 June 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
fun fact: fewer people were killed by ISIS in 2012–2014 than were murdered with guns in the USA
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 12 June 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
i was pretty terrified about the notion of a bataclan-style attack on american soil, based on the relative ease that one can acquire guns here plus the idea that someone (not necessarily ISIS related) would be inspired by it. and it's a particularly sickening thing that the first thing to knock the christine grimmie murder off the front page of CNN.com is a mass killing in the same city.
― nomar, Sunday, 12 June 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
this sort of thing is going to start happening more often, and it's only going to make millions of idiots more secure in their resolve not to give an inch on "gun rights"
if i sound angry, i am, but i'm mostly just sad as hell
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 12 June 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
gabbneb, I don't generally have a problem with you and I hardly ever FP anyone but you are making me FP the shit out of you today and you need to stop. Seriously.
― Manspread Mann (Old Lunch), Sunday, 12 June 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link