Notices by Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 (theogrin@chaosfem.tw)

The Texas GOP brought an elephant to their convention hall.

Elephants are known for many things, but being toilet-trained is not one of them.

The convention hall has, in accordance, developed an aroma, and I can't help but think of what a wonderful microcosm they've brought into this world.

@dyckron

I was hitherto unaware that being chained to one's thankless, life-draining job for fear of losing one's home was in the definition of 'hug'. Thank you, CBC, for re-educating me on this one.

@DavidM_yeg @Paulatics

I'm constantly struck by how the same logic seems to permeate the cruelties of the Conservatives in all their incarnations. Abortions, for example. Make abortions fundamentally illegal except in cases where the exceptions can never be met in a timely fashion -- and then eliminate childcare provisions (on 'ideological grounds'!), healthcare and the like for children.

Or housing -- allow the private corporations and 'investor' class to buy up all the housing within a region in order to inflate the price, and then rather than assist with public housing, criminalize homelessness and destroy the property of the unhoused at every opportunity.

In each case, blame the victim - the disabled, the homeless, the pregnant, claiming that their suffering is a moral failing on their part. And in each case, highlight supposed edge cases which really don't exist as an example of what 'harm' helping these people could cause, be it the hypothetical Einstein or the theoretical person who intentionally becomes unhoused in order to take advantage of the largesse -- or as noted, supposed children who might be killed under MAID. (Death panels!)

The pattern is stark and almost impossible to ignore once it's seen.

@inthehands

Rebranding! It's an industry standard. Facebook is now Meta. Twitter is now 'X'. And the Torment Nexus is now NEXXUS, with the superfluous X standing for 'X-tra Torment!'

And now YOU can get a lifetime subscription‡ for the FREE price of just ninety-nine, ninety-nine, ninety-nine, so buy now before the price goes up again!

‡ Lifetime subscription valid until the company's name changes into something else. Like TN. We'll do that in a few months.

Do you know how I know that 'AI' won't lead to a fantastic revolution and a world full of equity and kindness?

If it ever threatened to do so, billionaires would kill it in the creche. Billionaires exist because of inequity and inequality. They're allowed their impunity because of the power they hold over other people and the power their money gives.

Any social change which would benefit non-billionaires is opposed by billionaires. Why would AI be different?

The Onion have finally completed their takeover of InfoWars, and it's everything I wanted and more.

https://theonion.info/

Just a reminder that one of my great joys in life is reading an opinion by a thoroughly angry judge, and today's decision on the Kennedy Declaration is absolutely full of that. Ahh, the delicious, nutritious rage.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.191371/gov.uscourts.ord.191371.93.0_1.pdf

#legal #uspol #hhs

@L1vY@mstdn.social @oldoldcojote @futurebird

It is, also, the standard practice of the genocidal IDF.

We're going to be seeing this constantly, now that it's been shown with Palestine that international authorities will do nothing to stop these war crimes.

@TheJen

Is it at all surprising, this level of fundamental ineptitude? They can't even install a Shah anymore without fucking it up in a multitude of ways.

First it's the trans folks, then it's all the other queers. And if anyone around here didn't see it coming, hie you to a library and learn something about history before they try to burn all of those down.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-administration-takes-down-rainbow-flag-at-stonewall-national-monument

#lgbtqia #lgbtq #history #censorship #pride

All this CSAM stuff on X with Grok has been making the rounds, and it's properly and appropriately sickening. But you know what we haven't heard from? We haven't heard from MasterCard or VISA blocking payments to Xhitter. We haven't heard from Collective Shout...

Say, yeah! Hey Collective Shout! Weren't you all about protecting the children? Weren't you all against abusive sexual material? Weren't you trying to be soooooo feminist with your targeting of LGBTQIA+ content? Weren't you intent on fixing these things?

Where's your campaign against Xhitter, where's your letter writing against the payment providers still supporting Musk in the middle of all this? After all, clearly Grok was trained on images of young girls. Why aren't you speaking up? Why aren't you shouting?

Maybe Collective Shout are afraid of the backlash they'd get from MuskE.

Maybe they're just having too much fun using the product.

@pteryx @futurebird @faithisleaping

A.R. Moxon has a pretty good statement on bullies and the fact that they will always continue to push, and push, and push some more, unless a line is clearly drawn. They make it impossible to ignore them. Their actions are calculated to that effect. Only when it's made clear that they can't push more, either through the intervention of authority or the victim lashing back out in a way they can't ignore, do they finally stop.

Every adult who pretends otherwise is an enabler.

One thing we know, at least.

Not one trans person was invited to Epstein Island. Not a single one. You can tell, because if even one single trans person had been beholden to that scumbag based on the items released, the media would not shut up about it for at least 17 hours a day.

@ai6yr

It's an old trick to assign agency, and every time I notice it I'm careful to pay attention, because that exposes the biases and intentions of the speaker.

A 'grown man' of 16 was shot dead for a pack of skittles, but a 'young boy' of 25 was found planning murder in a neo-Nazi chat room...

In the minds of the pedophile apologists, assigning agency to a girl who was caught being forced into sex makes her the one at fault, not the shitfuck who flew out to Epstein Island to partake in rape.

Step 1: Recognize that it is impossible to become a billionaire without a failure of morality and an abrogation of one's responsibility towards basic human rights.
Step 2: Realize that when a person has once declared that money is more important than morals, they are likely to do so again.
Step 3: Be unsurprised when Bill Gates abandons any commitment to ensuring the continued health of the planet and declares that the climate change crisis is overblown.

There are no good billionaires, people. There are only the ones who are aligned with humanity for as long as it suits their immediate interests, and that never, ever lasts long.

#capitalism #billionaires #eattherich #climate

At this point, the most patriotic thing for the contractors tasked with creating the Epstein Memorial Ballroom to do would be to fuck it up.

Delays in supply chains, delays in processing, delays in paperwork, delays, delays, delays. Fuck up the wiring, fuck up the walls, use substandard materials so that 3 months afterwards you'll see them crumbling like a house of cards in an earthquake. Provide no explanation for these other than that the contract was unclear. Pretend reasonable instructions were unreasonable; follow unreasonable instructions to the letter.

Go on, boys (and I know he'll only 'hire' boys). Do the shittiest job you've ever wanted to do. Cut every corner, mince every step.

It's not like you're getting paid for all this anyway.

#uspol #eastwing #whitehouse

@gdinwiddie @tinker

And in typical fashion, the company (Samsung) stated that they had no plans to unleash ads on their internet-connected refrigerators, before doing exactly that.

This is not an ecosystem of trust.

@BlueDot @inthehands

Agreed, though at the same time, we need to have them understand that the road to redemption is not just a matter of hopping the fence. Every one of these mooks whining, "I didn't vote for that!"? They did. They voted for exactly that. They just voted for it to happen to someone else.

We cannot let them whitewash their pasts, we cannot let them just carry on while pretending they're on our side, because that's how they bring their fascism to us. And that's how we lose ourselves and each other.

Dear Liberal Government:

I understand that your Chicago Schooled brains may find this difficult to understand, as your whole worlds revolve around capitalist economics, but here's a little tip for you, a word in your shell-like ears.

The purpose of the post office is to deliver mail.

It's not supposed to make money! Charges and fees are meant to defray the costs of running it, most of which are gathered through taxes and apportioned through Parliament. This is not rocket science! Not everything has to be financially solvent! The returns from the delivery of mail, especially to rural Canadians, far and away outweigh the cost of service!

I swear to fuck, fiscal conservatives will throw away a $100 to save a dime.

#canpoli #mail #canadapost #economics

If you're discomfited by seeing homeless folks in the street, the solution is to support programs to house them, not to demand that they be given lethal injections for being dealt a shit hand in life.