Notices by Mother Bones (_l1vy_@mstdn.social)

@flockofnazguls They handed over the damn keys to begin with 😤

My question isn't "Why did Trump win" it's "Why on earth was he even (illegally) allowed to run??"

There's a lot of incredulity and outrage about how this administration is "governing" by destroying. But this administration does not intend to govern our country.
They want to dismantle it, strip it for parts, sell off the parts, starve and kill off everyone who is not "loyal."
Any universal supports will be redirected only to loyalists. All services limited to those who can pay.
It's still an outrage, but not at all inscrutable if we remember they do not want to govern.

@FlashMobOfOne We experience abuse, harm, and physical/mental injury in those systems (such as terror, anxiety, depressive shutdown, trauma, etc.,) and it is our responsibility as adults to learn not "pay it forward" by re-enacting it on others.

@FlashMobOfOne Yes, so was I. A Christian Fundamentalist household with a Nazi adult in charge. I escaped with an intention to change and the unlearning takes painful decades. But the alternative is re-enacting it. 🤷🏻♀️

First of all, bigotry is not a disability.

In fact it is the OPPOSITE of a disability. It is a constructed process that promotes unfair access for the person who engages it, it does not reduce access or create barriers for them. It is to unfairly advantage them.

Also bigotry is a behavior and thought process that is learned. It can be unlearned. Most of the time people do not bother because unlearning is hard AND reduces unfair advantage.

Second of all, bigotry is not a disability because disability is at least partly an individual condition that can often be successfully mitigated w/individual interventions (mobility aid, medication, glasses, PT, therapy, etc.)

Bigotry is a group-level, socially learned process that isn't effectively changed by individual interventions (like therapy).

For effective intervention it requires group-level interventions (laws limiting discrim. behavior, social actions like shunning, mockery, etc.)

A social ill requires social. Interventions. Group-level interventions.

And yes, there are socially constructed aspects of disability that would be GREAT to have social interventions for. It would help a lot. But it would lessen unfair disadvantages for the target population.

Social interventions for bigotry lessen unfair ADVANTAGES for the target population.

People are not bigots because they cannot reason, but because they have learned to hate and have contempt on the basis of group membership.

Their behaviors and thoughts seem irrational because they are. Emotions are by definition not rational, and they are using an emotion state to drive their behavior. Because it benefits them and ultimately feels good.

That's why the way to counter it is to socially deflate that good feeling, the gratification resulting from acting on bigotry.

TL;DR: People are bigots because it makes them feel better, not because they can't reason.

The REASON it is so important to separate these concepts. Is because. One of the ways bigots get people hauled off to camps, is to conflate mental illness / disability with wickedness in the mind of the public.

Because THEN people get more scared of someone with a developmental disability than of someone who is a "dapper" Nazi.

And then guess who suffers and is killed.

I'm going to have to pull out my piece of the discourse again and say that bigotry is NOT a mental illness nor an intellectual disability.

It is a social. Ill.

And--wait!! I need some people to consider this seriously before jumping in with superficial arguments, because this is my field(s) of expertise converging, I am not just throwing this off the top of my head as of five minutes ago.

Is there a wireless way to get internet that is not Starlink?

@kcarruthers Ok thanks. So 5G is separate from Starlink.

@kcarruthers In PA for now. I just wondered if there were options generally. For the uncharted territory we're entering. Who knows what will fall apart and what will not. 🤷🏻♀️

#Via Matt Novak
@paleofuture
Feb 13, 2025, 9:17 PM

"If you work at NNSA please talk to somebody in the press to alert the public about what’s going on right now. My Signal is mattnovak.11 but it obviously doesn’t need to be me. Just talk to anybody and get your story out. These cuts are incredibly dangerous."

#Via Matt Novak
@paleofuture
Feb 13, 2025, 9:40 PM

"Holy shit. This is fucking nuts.

Let me put it this way. If there’s a nuclear accident, NNSA are the people who are called to figure out what to do. These are the people who search the Super Bowl for radiation to make sure aren’t any nuclear devices planted for a terrorist attack. These are not the people you want to cut."

#Via Bob Mann
@robertmann
Feb 13, 2025, 2:53 PM

"Madness, insanity."

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/louisiana-vaccines-abraham-department-health/article_cb1705b4-bc06-59e9-9a2e-2647b0c80410.html

#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
Feb 13, 2025, 3:09 PM

"Wow. Wow.

The last ten minutes of news has been utterly insane."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/danielle-sassoon-eric-adams-us-attorney

#Via Taniel
@taniel
Feb 13, 2025, 4:58 PM

"oof at this footnote in the letter that the (resigning) U.S. Attorney of SDNY sent to Pam Bondi.

Sassoon alleges:

1. that Eric Adams' team directly offered a quid pro quo on helping Trump only if his charges are dropped, and that,
2. the DOJ admonished her office for taking written notes on this & creating a record."

Via Katie Phang
@katiephang
Feb 10, 2025, 5:38 PM

"Fed judge in MA enters Emergency Temp Restraining Order blocking Trump Administration from cutting health research grant money including 15% cap on overhead costs.

Judge orders Trump Admin to provide status report w/in 24 hrs of this Order & at biweekly intervals thereafter, confirming regular disbursement and obligation of fed financial assistance funds & reporting all steps that [NIH, HHS, et al] have taken to comply

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25517849-nihtro021025/