Notices by Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 (theogrin@chaosfem.tw), page 2

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.

FBI: "We're at a loss to figure out what this series of arrows means. We assume it's a transgendered thing."

Every gamer out there: "That's the air strike code from Helldivers. Didn't you assholes just make a big stink about replacing career intelligence officers with new, younger recruits?"

FBI: "B... but traaaaaans..."

There's a lot of discourse going on here, but I'd just like to remind everyone that the perspective of 'there's a lot more mentally-ill cis white people, and they're allowed to own guns and commit mass murder' is giving a weapon to the ableist groups who'd like to strike all forms of neurodivergence from society, in entirety, in the stupidest possible way -- which is to say, eugenics.

Yes, it's highlighting hypocrisy, and that's good, but it's still granting legitimacy to the idea that a mental disorder or neurodivergence immediately renders someone dangerous to themselves or others. And the vast majority of mental and emotional concerns are undiagnosed through a combination of social stigma and shit psychological healthcare, anyway, so it's not like they're going to be going after anyone except the most visible. It's another layer of security theatre mixed with ableist hate and probably a good amount of warfare against other disadvantaged groups, as well.

(Hey, you know what exacerbates mental conditions as much as anything else? Poor living situations! Know who gets poorer living conditions? Visible minorities!)

In truth, the fact that the people who would shoot up a school are literally everywhere suggests to me another solution, e.g. banning guns overall. But that'd be ca-raaaaazy.

#mentalhealth #trans #uspol #fascism

One of the most obvious portents in which you can see the fall of an empire is when they stop trusting their military advisors, and begin replacing them en masse with yes-men and other useless wastes of flesh.

You cannot possibly obtain accurate assessments from civil or military servants who know that the instant they deliver bad news, they'll be shitcanned. There just aren't enough good folks willing or able to risk their positions. What you're going to get are a set of data which align with the boss' preconceived notions, and as it so transpires, reality doesn't care what premonitions Trump sees in his daily shit.

The US military is cooked. Hegseth has fucked it harder than one of Vance's couches, and there's no end to the damage that has to be repaired, if indeed it can be.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/22/defense-intelligence-agency-kruse-fired-hegseth/

https://archive.ph/cSAC9

#uspol #military #empire #hegseth #fascism

@HistoPol @theguardian

It's not even subtle. Not that I expect either of these assholes to know the meaning of the word, not when one's political opponents keep falling out of windows, but this isn't just a land grab, it's a land grope.

A reminder here that arbitration always favours the abuser -- which, in the case of a corporate/individual dispute, is almost invariably the corporation.

Background: Air Canada decided to skirt labour laws by saying that flight attendants aren't on the clock until the plane leaves the runway. This, combined with the fact that the contractual pay did not keep up with inflation, has led to a strike against the company, well-known for being abusive and dismissive towards employees and customers alike.

12 hours after the strike began, the Liberal government, known well for sucking off Air Canada's fuel line, declared that forced arbitration would need to be done.

The union saw that arbitration would, by its nature, favour Air Canada and fuck over their members, and said, 'No.' So good on them.

To those who've had their flights cancelled by Air Canada, remember that they legally have to reimburse you for a flight on another airline unless you accept another option, so don't accept a refund when the replacement might be more expensive.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/air-canada-flights-sunday-1.7611078

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes
There is a Tumblr post from some years ago which immediately sprang back to the forefront of my mind, because it's relevant and, ultimately, seems to come up every time a rich (usually but not always white, because wealth in the US, Canada and GB are functionally tied to a lack of melanin) gay guy decides to put money and institutional cachet ahead of basic human decency and the rest of the LGBTQIA+ community.

It's titled "Pete Buttigieg is just a faggot." And if the title throws you off at first, that's understandable, but that's not the author's view of Pete Buttigieg. It's the author's very accurate and piercing impression of what the conservatives think of him, of what the fascists believe him to be, of what the people who want us dead will always carry as a reason to want him dead, too.

"Just a faggot."

And with him throwing trans folks under the bus, Mayo Pete gets another distinction, not from the murderous fucktards scything through their own tendons in an effort to get at people who just want to be left alone, but from those people who are now watching him abandon us to the rabid pit bulls.

Quisling. He's just a quisling. And that's all he'll ever be. But unlike the fascists, we don't want to kill him for it. We just won't be inviting him to our birthday parties. We don't like you any more, Mayo Pete. You aren't our kind of guy anymore. They're coming for you, and we'll still try a little to protect you as a decent human being would, but because we know that you wouldn't do the same for us, we might be forgiven for trying a lot less hard.

Kind of an important difference, wouldn't you say? If you stop sucking up to the Orange Hitler Party, they'll want you shot dead. If you stop advocating for us, we'll just sigh and chalk you up as one more fair-weather ally, to be voted out and forgotten.

https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/687643661640581120/pete-buttigieg-is-just-a-faggot-its-very

@hellomiakoda

I can't help but feel that it's always to make themselves feel better. To feel better than the folks that are being oppressed and - increasingly - murdered, because otherwise they have absolutely nothing to their lives but a number in a bank account and a long list of failures.

Stomping with that spiked bootheel is a lot easier, if that much more expensive, than actually trying to be a better person.

@dalias @AnarchoNinaWrites

The way I see it, the world where a Nazi is happy is a world where no other people exist, at least in any meaningful way.

Dump 'em on an island with the requirements for basic living, drop in a package every few years, and forget about it. It's the most humane thing.

Billionaires are threatening to leave New York if their tax rates go up.

Everyone else in New York:

@AnarchoNinaWrites

I do not want Nazis on my side. I really don't. I want them to Go Away, preferably enjoy their lives in isolation where they don't have to interact with the rest of humanity. They bring nothing of value to the table, and in fact lower the value of everything with which they're associated, due to the fact that they eliminate so many of the benefits of social groups simply by sitting there in their jackboots and browncoats.

Bringing them to our supposed social project will drive away the most valuable members, those who contribute and help each other out, and all that's left is an empty shell with a few 'middle-ground' folks wondering where everyone else went amid a sea of 'sieg hail'-chanting eugenics-munching child rapists.

I'm glad I didn't lean into #bluesky. With them openly and even gleefully welcoming JD Vance to the 'conversation', they've happily pointed out the very sturdy curtain rods on which the swastikas can be hung (and the minorities hanged).

Twitter 2.0, indeed.

@radieschen @GottaLaff

I have no doubt, especially since the legislature is presently out of session, that one will almost immediately, and those two seats aren't particularly wavering in terms of support.

With the senate and house split the way they are, though, this seems like a possible attempt to push Democrats into quieting down and not voting, or voting with the Republicans, terrorism if ever there was. If a chilling effect takes hold, then that could swing the effective control back to the Republicans, even if the state's blue on paper.

@GottaLaff

Brought over from a Bluesky post:

https://bsky.app/profile/kjephd.bsky.social/post/3lrl3gqjvcs2h

Yesterday, during training (customer service position), one of my coworkers asked if they should be using #LLMs to answer customer queries, and my blood ran cold.

Before anyone could respond, I jumped in and said, "No, absolutely not. Generative #AI doesn't give correct answers. It gives responses which look superficially correct, but are factually wrong. And when we give the customer the wrong answer, they don't want us to blame the machine. The blame lands squarely on our shoulders. Do not use ChatGPT, don't use Google AI, don't use Bing's whatever, just DON'T."

Thankfully, everyone thinks I know what I'm doing, so they accepted that. But this is such a common question that nobody thought it odd to ask, and that makes me worried in a very different fashion.