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Notices by KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz), page 11

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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 10:11:56 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • RadicalCartoons
    @RadicalCartoons @Flick It's a Greek/Latin hybrid coining. Nothing wrong with *telly* as the abbreviation.
    Interesting that we abbreviate television to telly, but telephone (another Greek/Latin hybrid word) to 'phone.
    Not sure there is an abbreviation of telescope.
    In conversation about 14 days ago from spinster.xyz permalink
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 01:07:58 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • HebrideanHecate
    • Flick ??
    • sim
    @sim @HebrideanHecate @Flick That's a good point. We can't underestimate the power of propaganda and advertising. We also can't underestimate the number of people that are in thrall to it. I like to think I can't be swayed by adverts or propaganda, but perhaps I might not recognise it if it works on me. Eternal vigilance.
    I do object to paying for government propaganda. The lockdown years were appalling.
    In conversation about 15 days ago from spinster.xyz permalink
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 22:19:38 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • Flick ??
    @HebrideanHecate @Flick Indeed.
    One thing I noticed more and more when I went into teaching was how resilience started to go out of the window. Children would cry at the thought of having to learn something new because they only wanted to do things they could already do and feel good about themselves. Parents would demand perfect scores in every test rather than see improvement over time. Adults in the school would value the constant success of *prizes for all* rather than reward effort to overcome obstacles. Learning is hard, but it's essential to becoming an adult. It means failing and getting up again. It means small steps rather than instant wins.
    Small wonder we have an infantilised population who cling to the comfort of childhood idylls.
    We see it in the *most marginalised* arguments, in the *government must keep us safe* covidians, in the hate speech laws. We have people crying out to be controlled and nannied. These people have always been there, but we're making more of them and calling it a virtue. And for every person demanding to be treated as fragile and needing help to exist, there will be a bad actor who would love subjects to control.
    In conversation about 15 days ago from spinster.xyz permalink
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 21:56:29 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    @Flick @HebrideanHecate Some people collect stuff as a hobby. I'd rather make things or do things as a hobby, but each to their own.
    What we all have to be aware of is when a hobby becomes an obsession.
    In conversation about 15 days ago from spinster.xyz permalink
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 21:54:44 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • TriptychTwinsRidesAgain
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    @amerika @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Queer theory is not about sexual orientation. It's about abolishing boundaries in society.
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 21:50:07 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • HebrideanHecate
    • Flick ??
    @HebrideanHecate @Flick I'm all for people following their hobbies and pursuits. What's interesting is the number of adults who seem to be stuck in a form of childhood. I think we saw this with Disney when it started to abandon its core group of families with young children and started to appeal more to young adults who grew up with Disney and never left childhood. In teaching I met no end of young teachers who knew no songs unless they came from Disney films, who knew no folk tales except the Disney version.
    I think it's a manifestation of a fear of the adult world. It's why we have this culture of safetyism and emotional harm; we're having to pander to people who can't/won't take responsibility for decisions (like adults have to do) because they fear getting it wrong.
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 21:39:12 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    @HebrideanHecate We need a DOGE here. This has been going on for years.
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 21:23:50 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • HebrideanHecate
    @HebrideanHecate There's money for pay rises at the managerial top, and plenty for outside providers for trans and other rubbish.
    You can put as much money as you want into education, but it will never make its way to the classroom and pupils.
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 21:21:47 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    @HebrideanHecate This woman has a wonderful turn of phrase in her dissection of the nonsense.
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 21:06:10 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    @reduxxmag No shit, Sherlock.
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 20:30:47 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • RadicalCartoons
    @RadicalCartoons It was definitely a game of two halves.
    The first bit with the poor terrified protesters was very telling.
    The second bit outside the police station was brilliant.
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 20:04:45 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • Lady Bexington
    • RadicalCartoons
    @RadicalCartoons @HebrideanHecate @Ladyfat I used to read the Eye and always liked that column.
    The Eye is just an establishment mouthpiece now. Sad.
    In conversation about 15 days ago from spinster.xyz permalink
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 20:03:13 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • HebrideanHecate
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    @HebrideanHecate @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Most people playing the victim card are just weaponising normal human empathy. They speak of *kindness* when they mean we are *kind* to them only (read - compliant to their demands). We can call them out.
    But there are a lot of people whose brains really have been broken by this nonsense. We've seen it with the children whose mums have told them that they risk being killed for being *trans*, with the college kids who have faked their own racist attacks, the people still walking around in masks talking about their *long covid* caused by selfish anti-vaxxers, the activists crying about the shortage of polar bears and throwing soup on paintings.
    These people think their ideas are their identity and any criticism is a personal attack. They have no resilience and no self-respect because they've been taught/encouraged to expect everyone to be *inclusive* (read - bend reality to their needs and wants).
    It feels harsh, but we can't keep living accommodating these people. We have to move on without them.
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 19:52:00 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • TriptychTwinsRidesAgain
    @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Remember - teachers are not teaching queer theory to children; they're practising queer theory on children.
    Big difference.
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 19:49:34 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • HebrideanHecate
    • TriptychTwinsRidesAgain
    • RadicalCartoons
    @RadicalCartoons @HebrideanHecate @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain I used to follow her on Twatter. She tells it like it is.
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 19:48:47 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • HebrideanHecate
    • Lady Bexington
    • Sherri_Ingrey
    • RadicalCartoons
    @Sherri_Ingrey @RadicalCartoons @HebrideanHecate @Ladyfat Betrayal makes us angry. That's why we channel our anger.
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 19:47:51 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
    • Sherri_Ingrey
    @Sherri_Ingrey These people have less than zero respect for us. They want us to work for them, give them our money, shut up, and believe what they tell us.
    Keep taking the Soma and read the words of the Ministry of Truth.
    They can fuck right off.
    The most powerful thing we can do is deny them our money and our attention.
    In conversation about 15 days ago from spinster.xyz permalink
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 19:44:55 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    • HebrideanHecate
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    • RadicalCartoons
    @RadicalCartoons @HebrideanHecate @Ladyfat It is an interesting idea.
    I often wonder why so many people join political parties, but I quickly remember the words of WS Gilbert:

    I grew so rich that I was sent,
    By a pocket borough into parliament,
    I always voted at my party's call,
    And never thought of thinking for myself at all,
    I thought so little, they rewarded me,
    By making me the ruler of the Queen's Navy.

    and

    When in that house MPs divide,
    If they've a brain a cerebellum too,
    They've got to leave that brain outside,
    And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.

    It's a career path which appeals to people who don't want to think too hard, but like to appear virtuous.
    We need to make it a vocation.
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 19:24:33 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
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    @HebrideanHecate @Ladyfat I had this conversation with a woman last night. She was defending our newly-elected local MP; *decent* was the word she used.
    I did try to inject a little healthy scepticism. He might be trying hard now to fight for our town, but if he's in a political party he may have to choose between party advancement and what is right. And most of them take the coin. At the moment he at least answers my emails and seems to care about personal freedom, but he's a Lib Dem, so I know he has to at least pretend that some women have penises in order to be allowed at the table, because that's what party politics does to the brain.
    I also had to remind her that this is not about one party over another. I'm non-partisan - I hate them all equally (except the Party of Women, of course).
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    KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 19:15:53 JST KeepTakingTheSoma KeepTakingTheSoma
    Well done Nottingham. What with fatal stabbings and violent protests, you're clearly vying for the top spot in the category of dangerous cities in the UK.
    Mind you, with London in the state it's in, you'll have to work a lot harder.
    In conversation about 15 days ago from spinster.xyz permalink
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    P*ssing off the government one post at a time. Definitely a dinosaur. Idiots, bores and virtue signallers need not apply. Whatever your cult is, I don't do it. Clean out of fucks to give.

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