Notices by timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)

Even Erin Reed is saying that she'd sit out the election at this point.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3mtyukknx5s2t

Amy Acton, Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio, says that law enforcement should work with ICE and that officers should have qualified immunity.

Qualified immunity protects officers from facing legal repercussions when they murder people (usually POC) while on the job.

Between this and her anti-trans political positions, she is essentially a Republican running under the Democratic banner.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/08/amy-acton-says-ohio-police-should-work-with-ice-backs-qualified-immunity.html

I don't know if this is clear, but this is a Dem candidate who has abandoned trans people, and with that, has likely also lost the support of many cis queer people, and she has abandoned people of color.

If you're a Dem, you've essentially given up the election to your GOP opponent at that point. It will be a miracle (or a curse) if she squeaks out a win at this point.

I don't know when the Democratic Party will understand that they need stop running Republicans as their candidates.

Right now, leadership seems to be obsessed with pushing out DSA or DSA adjacent candidates who actually represent policies that *real* Democrats might have run on when I was a kid, decades ago.

The party has absolutely lost its way.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@timberwraith/117163911860859725

More seriously, if adults can not bring themselves to *not* behave like the worst children imaginable, I don't think you should get to have ANY fucking input into how schools should be run.

In fact, they need to send your ass back to first grade to start over again.

That's a reply in the source thread, btw.

https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3mtza5ddhxk2j

Not exactly a ringing endorsement of Iowa.

[bigoted adult yells hate at public gathering]

Truant Officer: Sir, you'll be coming with us. Do you remember Ms. Hollingsworth, your first grade teacher? She's waiting for you. She has a revised lesson plan just for you.

Funny, but I was talking about something quite similar just a few days ago.

People aren't property. Or they shouldn't be. Under any circumstances.

I know, in a kyriarchal, patriarchal, capitalist, money obsessed, wealth driven world, pretty much anyone who isn't near the top of the hierarchy is treated like some other people's or some other institution's property.

It's a thing.

It's a thing that's destroying us.

Don't reproduce that social pattern.

Geld the patriarchy.

It might not immediately solve the problem but at least they won't be able to reproduce.

I had no idea who Usain Bolt was until now.

Also, my brain "autocorrected" Usain to usian (US-ian), which is the vaguely derogatory word substitution for "american" a word that I mostly refuse to use.

In the end, special novice exorcism christian guy steps in to save the mother of the story who has been possessed by bad pagan witch woman's evil satanic spirit.

Also, novice exorcism christian guy has his psychic wife as his sidekick to provide intel from the spirit realm.

It's kind of a shit, christian religious themed movie with the usual patriarchal bullshit, as far as I'm concerned.

But it is set in the 1970s for some nice GenX nostalgia. So, there's that.

Well, I watched "The Conjuring" (2013) last night. It was one of those movies I wanted to like but in the end, it was just more disappointing Hollywood drek.

I do remember having feelings of deep "meh" from when the movie first came out in 2013 but I didn't remember why.

But, it was in Half Price Books' bargain bin for $3, so, what the heck...

Cool. It ripped successfully, in spite of the tiny hairs.

I guess I'm set for the evening.

The Conjuring (2013) is my next watch. I don't think I've seen it since it came out in theaters in 2013.

I'm ripping a blu-ray to an mkv file from a disc with that problem right now. I can hear the blu-ray drive slow down when it encounters too many clingy tiny hairs. I guess it's frustrated by the situation too.

Have you ever encountered blu-ray/dvd discs where tiny little hairs of lint or fabric dust or something are so bonded to the surface of the disc that it's virtually impossible to wipe them away?

It doesn't happen often but it's really frustrating when it does. I wonder what happens to make them THAT stubborn? Is it a particularly intense static charge or what? It's bizarre how hard it is to clean off.

Here's where I step in with my on-brand criticism of christian theology:

The christian god is a spiritual mobster with a cosmic protection racket. He created all kinds of forces to torment his human pets and then presents himself and his religious sycophants as the solution to the problem he created in the first place.

Sell your soul and your society to god and he'll protect you from the violence he created.

What a cosmic shithead.

I'm going to drop lots of spoilers but without a CW because I have no respect for this movie:

At the heart of the haunted house's origin story is a witch who turned to demonic forces from the times of u.s. witch hunts in New England.

So, it does the standard christian shit of literally demonizing pagans and the standard christian thing of portraying the origin of evil as a woman turning to Satanic influences.

Then, it presents christian sourced exorcism and its god as the solution.

From just a pure horror/ghost story perspective, it's a pretty good movie. It's legitimately scary and has that "mysterious shit is being scary and mysterious" feel that I do love in a good ghost story.

BUT it falls on its face because it's slathered in christianity with a dose of christian bigotry against others outside its religious grasp.

You need men and god to protect you from evil shit created by men and god.

God's not real but men are and men created the Abrahamic god. Seems like it's propaganda that exists to center religious men as heroes of the story just as patriarchy centers men as heroes of the story.

And that's what I got out of a $3 bargain bin horror movie.