Notices by Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)

There's no reason for any world leader to meet Trump at the White House. He just wants to humiliate people.

@hellomiakoda @futurebird I'll pass.

Every advance in missile defense is countered by an increase in attack capability because no one wants their nuclear deterrent to be useless.

Every advance in this regard therefore brings us closer to nuclear war.

Indeed, the entire purpose of SDI or "Golden Dome" technologies is to allow the US to use nuclear weapons with impunity, safe from reprisal.

And everyone knows that.

Attack is cheap, defense is expensive.

Attack is easy, defense is hard.

You can always overwhelm the system with more missiles, decoys, and countermeasures.

Shooting down regular missiles is hard enough as it is. Patriot had a 5% success rate and Israeli propaganda aside, analysis suggests its Iron Dome is little better even over a tiny area.

Shooting down ICBMs and hypersonic missiles is orders of magnitude more difficult and requires global coverage.

We know this won't work. We know this can't work.

"Trump rolls out Golden Dome missile defense project and appoints leader"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/trump-appoints-michael-guetlin-golden-dome

@hellomiakoda @futurebird Oh, yeah, there are some racist white trans women. We are still white women and that unfortunately comes with the territory.

@futurebird Absolutely.

No one is a bigot in one way only; they're almost all white supremacists and other things besides and they say so constantly with a conception of womanhood that is exclusively white and stereotypical.

We see the way they attack non-white women athletes!

That they can find a few others willing to spout hate with them is neither surprising nor new. There are terrible trans people, too. Sellouts, unfortunately, are not hard to come by.

TERFs are almost always misogynists.

They typically agree with male misogynists, tacitly or explicitly, that women are trivial and only exist to make babies and being a woman is a miserable experience that no one would possibly choose given the alternative.

They smear their entire gender on a regular basis.

@hellomiakoda Oh, I drop them from time to time, but even I don't find me very interesting on that basis.

@hellomiakoda Books and short stories. I don't think anyone is that interested in my life. LOL.

I have multiple stories sitting on a mental shelf waiting for me to have enough oomph to tackle them.

I don't want to "talk" to my browser. I don't want my browser to "summarize" things. I don't want my browser to "help" me with things. I don't want my browser to do anything except show me web pages and shut the fuck up and get out of the way.

I'm feeling burned out on everything: work, writing, games, hobbies, politics, you name it.

There's a sick feeling that the best years of my life are over and even as everything around me is going to hell, I still have to go to work and pay the bills.

I felt almost good yesterday but today the Sartre levels are very high.

"We're just living in a fundamentally different world from the guys who say 'the economy is good, so it doesn't matter that everything is expensive and nobody can make rent.' I'm frankly sick of sharing a space with these guys when all they've ever done is force loser career politicians on us"

https://bsky.app/profile/beanwalrus.bsky.social/post/3lpkdqchagc2b

If you're platforming Nazis the same as a centrist piece of shit like Gavin Newsom then you are not, in fact, progressive or leftist or a good person.

It would be fucking amazing if people developed a coherent moral framework instead of letting individual issues be their Trojan Horse.

At least develop a healthy, anarchist critique of power for fuck's sake, if not some basic human empathy.

Progressives are suckered into supporting Nazis because of fake "anti-war" shit and protectionism.

Liberals are suckered into supporting Nazis because of defending Israel.

Centrists are suckered into supporting Nazis because of transphobia.

One of the things Americans fail to understand, because nobody tells them and politicians don't want them to know, is that the government can spend $10k on someone or something now (e.g., UBI, healthcare) and save itself hundreds of thousands in the future -- or even "profit" in the sense of higher productivity and tax revenues.

Instead, we live in a country that insists on spending $150 million on cops to prevent $104,000 in lost subway fares.

But the fundamental flaw of the American liberal, especially those who identify with the Democratic Party, is:

"I believe we should improve society, but not if it significantly changes the social hierarchy, or costs me anything, or affects my property values, or benefits the 'undeserving,' or offends my puritanical squeamishness, or goes against Israel, or gets in the way of successful businesses, or, or, or..."