Notices by timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)

Have you ever befriended a feral cat and then you manage to get them into your house somehow and adopt them?

You know how they have a tendency to run away and hide under the couch whenever people enter the room?

And you're just sitting there, chatting with other people while there's a set of eyes staring out from under the couch?

I'm a lot like that cat.

Especially if more than 3 or 4 people enter a room.

As for the states that are telling president ass lint to shove his anti-trans, anti-DEI executive odors, I think they should deduct whatever federal funds might be cancelled in retribution for defying the tyrant from any money they send to the federal government, and then they should ignore any court rulings saying that they must send that money.

If the president gets to ignore court rulings, then so do the states.

If you flat out refuse to follow the rules set down by a primary founding document of the country, you've basically ended that country.

What comes after that will be decided by violence, most likely, as the country starts to separate from itself into warring factions.

But, what do you do when the executive branch says, "We don't follow laws or the constitution."

That's pretty much an act that says, "Yeah, fuck whatever agreements we have between the federal government and everyone else. We don't follow laws."

That's tantamount to dissolving the union.

"If that's done, we're looking at a move toward states dissolving the union."

Yes. I think that's basically the eventual outcome.

We have a Christmas cactus here at work that bloomed during Christmas, stopped for several months, and is now blooming a few weeks before Easter.

Weirdest damned thing.

I noticed people talking about a Teen Vogue opinion piece that addresses why younger people are alienated by the Democratic Party because its useless middle of the road politics have left younger people feeling that they have been abandoned by the party.

Yeah, I feel that way too and I'm in my 50s. You aren't alone.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/chuck-schumer-young-people-democratic-party

Meanwhile, Sarah McBride appeases transphobes in her own party and beyond. She wants the Dems to be a big tent that includes bigots.

Maybe we should just burn the entire Democratic Party down at this point. It's clearly a refuge of cowards, fascist coddling careerists, and past their expiration date dotards.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/sarah-mcbride-says-democrats-should-be-more-open-to-opponents-of-trans-rights/

Here's the defining quote of Sarah McBride's sentiments on the matter. She doesn't think fellow Dems who call trans girls "biological boys" should face a backlash.

Maybe she should only have one term in the government and then she can consider the backlash after the end of her career as a federal representative.

You know, I could care less about the burning of luxury cars like Teslas, given that most people can even afford these things and that they're sold by a fascist asshole who is using his access to the federal government's inner workings as a means to further impoverish and destroy people's lives.

I just don't care.

Oh, and to add to this, his factories are managed by people who are incredibly racist and misogynist.

There have been several exposes about how awful Musk's Tesla factories are and how they abuse the shit out of women and other marginalized workers. They are *extraordinarily* horrible.

So, Tesla's are burning... Oh well.

Gee, we've come such a long way from worrying about a former presidential candidate's emails to letting some rich guy from another country access everyone's personal data, to accidentally sharing war plans because someone in the current administration whoopsied on Signal.

Not that I'm a personal fan of said candidate and her emails but I do feel a sense of irony so strong right now that I'm considering sedatives.

To the current administration in the u.s. executive branch:

If you'd like, you can include me in any of your text messages.

I promise that I won't divulge anything shared therein. I'm a true patriot. You can trust me. 🤐🇺🇸

I understand A LOT more than people might realize. Because of all of that brainwashing bullshit.

And I'm usually not impressed with the latest gifter dude who pops up with a supposed solution to the latest "crisis of masculinity."

They never seem to get it right.

I'm still waiting...

But I do take an interest from time to time in "men's issues" surrounding gender and the construction of masculinity.

a) Because I like to keep tabs on the group of people who abused the fuck out of me when I was a kid.

b) I understand a metric fuck ton of what is toxic about masculinity because cis society tried to force that garbage on me when I was a kid, when society was trying to force boy-ness upon me.

But I do, from time to time, read an article about "men's issues" in lefty publications if I think maybe, just maybe, the article might get something right.

I'm usually disappointed in what I read.

I was, once again, disappointed in what I read.

No, I am not interested in the "what about the menz" guy.

I did read about guy just now in an extensive article in a liberal/left publication that sung accolades about him.

That was enough for me.

If you don't get why that key statement I quoted was a turn off, I can't help you.

But people aren't willing to start there because that would mean dismantling how society trains boys/men to ascend into positions of power in patriarchal society.

It would challenge the genesis of that power at its root, on a developmental basis.

And that shakes up the system too hard.

And unless people *seriously* confront the fact that patriarchal society inculcates boys/men to center their sense of self and social standing upon an ability to wield dominance over others and wield violence over others, there is no chance that we can effectively confront and dismantle what is toxic in so much of masculinity.

If you aren't willing to start *there*, the rest of what you do will be meaningless, ineffectual bullshit.

There is a ton of social complexity that builds upon that flawed foundational "building block" of male self-hood. A lot.

But I see few people in the media spotlight who are honest about this.

And I don't expect to see that level of honesty because people are too chickenshit to go near the truth.