Notices by Cabbidges (thedailyburble@mastodon.social)

Little glimmers of light in the horror
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/palestinian-food-brand-uk-sales-up-shoppers-solidarity-zaytoun

@fritzoids @dramypsyd It's bollox that "love the sinner" thing. It's immediately followed up by hating the sinner totally, but pretending not to.

If MAGAs don't find a way to sideline DT, he *will* turn on them. The little tumblers in his brain are probably already shifting. He's already picking off individuals.
They've served their purpose, he's elected, he's making money of his own, it's easy. Now they're a nuisance with their ICE's and DOGES and project 25s and tax cuts. And - the huge big thing - they are consistently making him look bad.

He doesn't like that.

And I doubt he really cares about any of their issues.

@rooftopjaxx @MediaActivist @openrightsgroup

Yes it's a plague. I've stopped looking at any site that does this, and given up on YouTube as well unless I absolutely need to use it (which turns out to be not that often)

@aral
Someone told me women aren't allowed to laugh there. No idea if true.

@jessew Many a truth spoken in jest?

@jessew
Novels seem to be quite keen on detailed torture and violence as well. I suppose they're still into that "shock" thing, although it's a bit dated now with all the real horrors we're experiencing. I do find myself ho-humming and move onto another book. I'm reading for leisure, relaxationa and entertainment. I have more than enough shock-junk in the real zone.

@elilla
You're so right. And what a shame.

Also YouTube keeps suggesting Trump stuff. The last time I had this much suggestive intrusions was when Netflix overpaid for Jermey Clarkson and clearly weren't making bank. I cancelled Netflix soon after, because I'm not good at dealing with irritation coercion. Or whatever it's called. Nagging.

I live on a war torn planet, where every technology is directed at better weapons or more control of people or hoovering money. That's it. That's all that has been achieved.

As an addition to my last toot. You can use knowledge in as many ways as there are people on earth. In my dealings with controlling people (when I can't avoid them ugh) I think I most commonly make them as uncomfortable as possible by steering them into situations where the uniformity, conformity and obedience they require to feel safe isn't easy to achieve.
Eventually avoidance behaviour kicks in. Theirs.

But knowing how easy they are to disrupt and upset is the key. Then just use it your way

I hope this gives people hope and it's based purely on my personal experience here goes:

Controlling people are the most easy people on earth to upset and more importantly nowadays - to disrupt. They can do big nasty things but have trouble coping with granularity, diversity and patchiness which they are hypersensitive to. They require big uniformity to feel safe.

They will use force on one mouse that barks, and none on 100 prowling angry tigers, because the tigers are behaving as expected.

@glynmoody On a personal level, ues I suppose so, but in bulk it's just stolen identities being sold. Also anyone could decide anything about me if I was annoying. I'm not the datascraped me that's being sold off and have no way of knowing what that persona even is.

Apart from pseudo me watches Jeremy Clarkson and has a lawn to mow. Apparently pseudo me is also willing to consider football of amazing importance. I'm an old lady.

@glynmoody
I'm more bothered by being a pseudo person, using my stolen data and ID. It's like there's a fake me person out there who actually "likes Jeremy Clarkson and wants to see more of him"
or "is definitely interested in wedding venues" to name but two of the bizarre things this imaginary, but ID and datalinked (to me!) confection is supposed to be interested in.
It's a kind of identity theft, really.

@glynmoody

Going by the adverts foisted on me, my scraped digital identity is some kind of wishful thinking or AI doppelganger using my real name, identity and existence to dupe advertisers into believing it's worth wasting their time extolling products I'd never look at in my wildest dreams. Like lawnmowers.

I presume that advertisers are being told that all this scraping means adverts are targetted. Well, as far as I can make out they're targetted to a fake person with my digital ID.

@dangillmor Google, like everyone else, collected more data than they can sell. AI isn't going to help, the storage costs are huge, the data is old, the cost of curating and sifting, storage aside are stupendous.
Fresh data is still (just about) valuable, youbet they don't want adblockers.
Ads are the only market they have for their data now. Nobody else wants it, and only the fresh stuff counts for targetted ads. I don't want the same stuff I wanted a month ago, let alone a year ago.

@CloudyMrs They were shut apart from for very necessary workers (I forget the exact term), whereupon the category of very necessary workers expanded greatly, and I only remember that being for some weeks, back open at the first opportunity. My memory may be faulty, but I'm sure records were kept.

@CloudyMrs
Ah yes. I forgot.

Can close school for instaff - but not for wilde wilde weather with trees flying about, the Forth bridge closed (lest precious traffic be damaged), nor a deadly pandemic, nor below zero temperatures - in those cases school remains open.

@CloudyMrs

Except school. It could be any extreme weather event with trees flying about and the Forth Bridge closed and -30C or a global pandemic - school is never closed.

The they you refer to might be whomsover decides that fun is cancelled with a mere spot of rain, but nastystuff must go on no matter what.

Frankly I'm too knackered to join in the massive panic about the French and German results, oh and the Dutch too, and everyone else that's gone all right wing. The shine wears off fast.