Notices by GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)

The idea that "alphas" are strong violent males has been debunked more times than the flat-earth theory, including by its own original proposers.

Many troupe leaders, amongst primates, wolves, and others, are female. And, male or female, they mostly lead by ensuring peace and prosperity, not by violence.

Like.

You know.

Read a fucking book one time.

@LRRRonEarth Or an insta-pot, but it has to be pretty big.

As a 65yo, I have achieved a certain hard-earned wisdom that may have eluded you. I will share:

1) Just get up and go pee, it's not goin' away.

2) Start the fitted sheet at the hardest-to-reach corner.

3) If you get a cold drink, only to discover that you already had one, drink the coldest one first.

4) Work and feel shitty, or don't-work and don't feel shitty. Don't-work and feel shitty is a lousy choice.

5) Being weird is, in fact, a perfectly normal thing to be. *Everyone* does it.

"Micro-retirement" is not the stupidest neologism in use today. But I had to think about it for a minute, cuz it's that close.

The third volume of Caro's LBJ biography opens with a very long disquisition on the intended role of the US Senate, as bulwark against both king and mob, including several richly described "great moments in Senate history".

Very well-written.

But also pretty depressing.

(Now, Caro's about to explain why the Senate was useless and ineffective when LBJ came to it, so it's not all good times. But the opening is about the Senate in *grandeur*.)

Depressing read, for today.

In my personal experience, rabid atheists are just as sophomoric, thoughtless, intolerant, and given to hatred as rabid deists.

@dalias @hailey Sorry, no, it was not.

@hailey May I ask, who are you furious with, and why?

It's a good night, to be sure, but it's premature to proclaim Mamdani as the next mayor of NYC.

Both Cuomo & Adams have already filed to get on the general ballot.

Anyone who's ever studied LBJ's Senate loss in '41 or his Senate win in '48 knows that it ain't over until it's over.

Cuomo's & Adams's backers play for keeps, and they could give a fuck what the voters want.

It's a good night. Celebrate that. But don't think it's a done deal, cuz it isn't.

@skinnylatte "Do I contradict myself? Well, then, I contradict myself. ... I am large, I contain multitudes."

Maybe, idunno, this is crazy crazy-talk, maybe stop rationalizing hurting people because they are different from you.

@kims It took me a while to read the lyrics, tho they were close-captioned.

It's not great, I'll give you that, and it oddly mis-represents the show, which is actually at least as much about loyalty and family as it is about making money.

But idunno. I feel I've heard worse.

And, truth to tell, in spite of myself, I enjoyed the series, and finished it, and cared about the characters.

I, personally, do not follow anyone on Bluesky.

I already know how trustworthy extractive capitalists are when they say they are creating a commons.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me time and time and time again across three decades, shame on me.

The sponsors, owners, executives, and funders of bluesky are *notorious* for their rapacious greed. They are *already* lying about their system, cuz that's what professional con-persons *do*. They lie, for their personal gain.

Get off Bluesky.

A gentle reminder: saying Trump is a toddler is not only implying that the grace we give our toddlers should be given to him, it is also mis-representing toddlers.

Every toddler I've known has been capable of sullen antics, ferocious jealousy, comical entitlement, screaming fits, and so on.

But every toddler I've known has also been capable of simple silly delight, of love for those unlike them, of giving freely w/o trading.

Can't say that of Trump.

So, maybe, lay off the toddler metaphor?

@WarnerCrocker And do we mention here in the lede that they detained an American citizen who was a vet on his way to a VA appointment?

@tyil Ummmm, thanks so much for reaching out.

Ya wanna change the world, but you need to do something that is cheap and fast and risk-free.

No problem.

Start here, now, on mastodon.

Write a simple public message to someone here -- not me, please, i'm well-supported -- whose output here improves your life.

Don't star. Don't boost. *Tell* them. Use your words, honey. A single sentence will do the trick.

Takes one minute. Costs nothing. Risks nothing.

Just tell them.

To you, it's miniscule, useless, trivial.

To them, it's *juice*.

People keep saying "the LA riots".

Honestly, I haven't seen much "riot". A little bit of trouble, to be sure, but not much. Most of what I've seen has been ordinary big-group protest.

I gotta wonder if these folks have ever been in an actual riot.

I've been in two in my life.

There was no dancing or singing goin' on.

Hard to watch citizen journalist streamers in protests w/o thinking of Linda Tirado.

Amateur Tip: Before you buy the phone-cam stabilizer, go ahead and get a helmet, eye protection, and a gas mask.