Notices by wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)

@JoeQuinlan @burnoutqueen I send Rashida small donations so I can keep her thank you postcards current up on my fridge

dams out, salmon in!

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/17/salmon-return-to-lay-eggs-in-historic-habitat-after-largest-dam-removal-project-in-us-history/

@MattMerk @PedestrianError @majorlinux yeah i'd say as a propaganda for that message, MSNBC has been remarkably effective. they are also perpetually mixing up the frames so people are confused about what progressive even means

like idk how this space manages to be 95% computer workers and also unable to fix its own computer problems, but that seems to be a core issue here

on the left we're clear that one thing Dems lack is a simple story about what it is we need to do, a story that names villains and heroes and puts any policy proposals in context. liberals/mainstream Dems don't understand this critique because from their perspective, the Dems DO actually have a simple story and its speaking directly to them. that's why Harris made gains this election only among people making over $100,000. that's the group that sees themselves in the Dems' narrative

its important to see clearly: the rejection of mastodon for bluesky is not a rejection of the desire to be free of our corporate overlords; its a rejection of white bros controlling digital spaces. sit with that

eugen and his interlocutors have had immense power with which to challenge twitter but their racial and cultural and ideological insularity prevented them from using it

as in USpol discourse, don't blame the electorate, find fault with those whose leadership and strategy choices disproportionately impact the electorate

mob justice is messy and you're not going to be able to find the logical throughlines you want. you want the simple universe where things succeed based on moral righteousness but irl shit is complex. sometimes the good guys are the bad guys too

there is nothing wrong with being here because everything we're doing is research, or as @inquiline said yesterday, maybe mastodon learns to walk so something else later can run. obviously @are0h has been saying this very clearly since before most of us got here, but to say the least many of you have not been listening. one of the hardest and also most important things we can do is scrub the mirror and try to see ourselves a little more clearly

what we've seen in post-musk twitter world, is that people want to be with their people, and that people want to be in communities in which Black people are free. both bluesky and mastodon inherited major racism problems and tech bro culture, but jay made different choices than eugen about how to address that inheritance. no doubt she had more cash with which to do it and that cash may be the end of bluesky too. over and over i say this: don't deny it, learn from it

i worked for Klamath Riverkeeper when RFK Jr was less slightly bonks and was the long time president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, which protected clean water by suing over the Clean Water Act (a major tactic in Klamath dam removal, btw). I’m still close friends with other people who were in that movement and we’re hoping some fraction of RFK’s 20+ yr commitment to clean water is still in there, but it really feels like a darth Vader situation

@sarae exactly. plus all of them trying to out-bootlick eachother and willing to kill for it

@sarae I just wish we could steer both RFK lovers and haters toward the need to get corproate greed out of health care and out of our whole medical system. people are right not to trust a system that profits immensely from cancer and pumps out doctors who are unable and unwilling to turn that ship around

one thing I will be talking to my Republican acquaintances about is how weak and beta every single one of their dumb dumb leaders looks as they compete on who can be most blindly obedient to trump

funny how the rebel movement that captured the manosphere turns out to be a bunch of giant babies terrified of triggering dad

democrats won’t say it but I will: good men don’t tuck their tails and cower when a dumb rich guy bullies people. good men stand up for their own dignity and definitely take a stand for people less fortunate, even if it has consequences

hearing a lot about starter packs on bsky but did u know here we have starter flack. you start, we give you flack

founders syndrome is a thing. so common for the person who gets a project started to also be the one to end up killing it https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/113465976846264162

@dyckron @mloxton someone made tbr point that not only is “shut up and appreciate the economy” super tone deaf in an age of historic income inequality, it’s also demeaning right. if you don’t experience the great economy, if you have debt or can’t afford housing or are working shit job for tiny wages, they’re telling you to your face that you’re a failure! and then on top of that shaming you for not voting for them lolll it’s straight up “let them eat cake” bs

i've read many takes and written a few myself this week. today i think we need to get aggressive about hijacking the democratic party itself. in many places, it's a nothing burger so empty you can walk right in and make it your own. i wish RCV had had a big night last week but it got routed. we may have even LOST our new RCV here in Alaska. so the path to stop Trump is still locked up within the Dems. we just have to also be organizing in fierce coalitions outside of the Dems too