Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@timo21

Those of you not in the US should bring it up this is madness. If the US did this to China we’d have a world war. It’s bullying.

@osma

If you run a TV station you can control what people watch. YouTube less so but they have been trying to “fix” this for decades.

I wish there was more that I could do to stop these irresponsible callous killings by the US government in Venezuela. I wrote notes to my congresspeople. But, is there any thing anyone else is doing?

Rand Paul* pointed out that for some drug dealers we say “go back to your country” and turn them away but for these people they are murdered. Why?

It’s provocation and bullying. The US military is trying to start a war. We all SEE it. I’m outraged.

*shows how universal the disgust is

@aram That’s horrific. I love it.

All trump news is disappointing and very boring.

But mostly boring.

We assume bad things warrant attention— but some bad things are just not interesting. He is predictable and repetitive.

Please start the government again. Do your job. Nobody wants to WORK anymore.

@Npars01 @PCMag @software-news-and-reviews-PCMag

This is why my earnest pleas about the positive power of social media fall on deaf ears.

A halo meme? What wicked children have they left posting on his account. I’m so bored by these people.

@osma

I think another factor is the massive loss of central control real networks can represent.

When I try to engage people on this topic a huge obstacle is the trivialization of the role of social media in most people’s minds.

Consider how there was (and for some there still is) a debate about if a President should tweet at all. Social media is seen as an arena for vain, unserious, narcissistic people. People describe spending time on it like it is a vice: they talk about cutting back.

To say making good social media is important makes no sense through this lens.

But it’s The Media!

Social media is important. It’s not pointless gossip or just a waste of time. It’s the news and information distribution system of our world.

We can build things like the wikipedia, like the fedi OR we can keep pretending it’s all just a side game, unserious and not worth the effort of making it good. We can say “it’s just how I relax” as these powerful people plan out our reeducation to better serve the consolidation and concentration of their power.

Am I an alarmist? I am alarmed.

@LillyHerself
what article is this summary from?

@bright_helpings

From the way the people I’ve observed “transitioning” react it is more like they are going at long last to the right sort of water to thrive.

@aloe

Of course!

@johnzajac

i’ve always struggled with the notion of “teaching critical, thinking” some of the time it can just seem like a fancy way to say, teaching people to apply a wider sphere of self-criticism. It is a flaw that can never be fully rectified; and where we encounter or present or discover our own obstinance may either be matters so trivial they don’t warrant debate or matters so foundational that to debate them is terrifying.

The rules for inclusion in the book are strict. The rules of The Library of the Lost always are. This is where your chapters go if you destroy them unintentionally. This must be the fault of the author— not of some later catastrophe. Somehow highlighting the entire document, typing some nonsense then closing the application so you have no recourse to “undo” — no document history ..,since you were writing on a phone.

Gone forever. Or no?

This is where those chapters go.

There is a book in The Library of the Lost. In a way, it is The Book of this long sought after library: a multi-volume set. The binding methods span the ages- the first in bone slats hinged by lovingly replaced red string, later volumes in papyrus scrolls. (We will not speak of the clay tablets in the basement.) Most of the great book, sprawling over many shelves and rooms, the life’s work of countless librarians of this institution, is bound in paper. The Book of Accidentally Deleted Chapters.

The odious Woke Ideology, existed for a reason. Maybe DHS will tell the AI to add some non-white people in their future posts. And do not be shocked if they do this ... and it is met with backlash from their fans.

I'm curious to see what they do.

I do not envy trans people having "the spotlight" there is very little good about the spotlight.

Now is a great time to be loudly pro trans rights and try to soak up some of the damage.

4/4

The "Department of Homeland Security" has been posting AI generated fake paintings that look like Nazi posters complete with blonde Übermenschen.

Someone recently said "Isn't the lack of diversity a little odd? Most of the people in America don't look like this one guy."

But such criticism is "woke" and we are not doing that anymore.

The contradictions, the strain only increases. It will , eventually, break.

3/

The American Right is hosting some very strange bedfellows at the moment. There is a significant, and disturbing group who see America as a White Christian nation. These people think that one might have a debate about the merits of interracial marriage. They do realize this wouldn't be popular so they are starting with trans people.

Meanwhile many participants in this movement have vague notions of a post racial America.

2/

After The Obama Years and everyone noticing police violence, which is a 100+ old problem, with Black Lives Matter for a few years Black Issues(tm) have taken a back seat in mainstream discourse because no one can make hay over them at the moment.

Immigration, Transphobia, Islamophobia are being centered by the right, but their anti-black racism is less direct and obvious.

This won't last. 1/

@neurovagrant

And they say we have no shitposts on the fediverse!!!