Notices by KatM (katm@mastodon.social), page 2

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@Independent @bmacDonald94

So, isolated application of a law to stifle free speech of students trying not to get COVID by masking up with N95s.

And what about these guys, AG Yost?

@blogdiva And Wray, and Powell, and probably a bunch more whose names we don’t know. This is Biden trying to demonstrate nonpartisanship for federal careerists. I’m surprised he hasn’t replaced Kamala Harris with Nancy Mace to show how bi-partisan he is.

@bmacDonald94

How to spend a Sunday.

#SilentSunday #kayaking #nature #photography #PNW #Washington

You are cordially invited, to take a deep breath.

Pacific Coast, Oregon

#PNW #beach #ocean #photography

@msbellows @JoBlakely

Whoa. That’s some sick shit.

@blogdiva That was fun! Thanks for the review!

@DrALJONES @Mary625

So, people supporting Israel who don’t like other people protesting Israel’s violence against Palestinians showed up, and their response was to commit violence against the protestors? That’s a little too on the nose.

@DrALJONES I believe reports may come out that those were mostly Proud Boys cosplaying as Zionists doing what the cops wanted to do, but those pesky cameras. Watch the UCLA videos and then watch known Proud Boy violence on video, they show up the same way using the same tactics.

@Mary625

@faab64 So, McCarthyism for protesting college students. It’s a very American response, that much is true. “Shut those kids up, and if they don’t shut up, beat them and keep them from gaining access to the levers of power.”

A fictional story idea hit me while I was soaking my sore muscles in a hot, Epsom salt bath yesterday (I refinished all the cupboards) and now I’m seeing pointers to this #story idea everywhere.

Guess I’m #writing it.

You are more than the sum of your parts. Just do YOU. 🤍🩶🖤

@carrideen @bmacDonald94

#Enshittification in higher ed.

Come into my comments defending and excusing Netanyahu’s genocide and I will block you faster than you can scream “antisemite” at me. Members of my family are Jewish. We don’t play those games with fair criticisms of political parties and their leaders.

On edit: To be clear, I think Israel has every right to go after Hamas. They are a serious threat to Israel and, frankly, to Palestinians. But indiscriminate killing of civilians, decimating their homes, schools, hospitals… that’s indefensible.

@oldredsubby You ought to sit around a seder table and have this convo with the many beliefs held by one Jewish family. Some loved Rabin, some thought him a traitor. It depends a lot on your connection to Israel. Our American Jewish family (also Holocaust survivors) thought him a hero for seeking a peaceful resolution. Our Israeli Jewish family, not so much. To be fair, those from Israel had experienced attacks and bombings from extremists. Harder to judge the folks living with that fear.

@oldredsubby Apologize? You wrote nothing offensive. We can all have these important discussions civilly.

Some of y’all’s #AltText is maddening. If you’re just going to write “a photo” or “a meme” - or some other shorthand cheat just to trigger the Alt Text icon, please skip it altogether. It’s bullshit and you know it.

Long chat with a neighbor, who was high ranking govnt personnel working in war zones, now retired. We discussed Gaza and Biden’s military support for Israel. S/he conveyed that we can’t expect Biden to abandon Israel over possible war crimes because they backed us in the Iraq war - and they know our hands were not clean under Bush/Cheney. S/he basically suggested that because of Bush II’s war in the ME, the US cannot demand a cease fire without risking exposure of our own closeted skeletons.

@TheJen I’m noticing that lots of people left in the past month or so - especially those who once had big Twitter followings, like Teri. I suspect they bounced to BlueSky once it opened up.

Reply guys exist everywhere, not just here. We’re all free to block/mute and move on. If that’s a reason for leaving Mastodon for BlueSky, I’ve got news for them… it isn’t better over there in a corporate-run ecosystem. If they bounce entirely out of social media, that’s an understandably different choice.

@FluentInFinance This became such a scam startup founders instituted so they could entice tech talent to take their dev jobs. “Sure, you can go to Spain for 2 weeks, but you’re bringing your laptop, right? Because we’ve got updates and new product to roll out in 6 weeks.” Employee pays for an expensive working vacation during which time they rarely log off their laptop. I think more people are onto the scam now.

@lisamelton