Notices by liferstate (liferstate@mas.to)

@skinnylatte Same. I just learned that according to the Oakland County Health Department, STFU stands for "Special Transitory Food Unit."

So where did we get the tradition that Frankenstein monsters are green? The original films were black and white. Is it something to do with putrefaction? #Monsterdon

The producers took all the money they saved on dialogue and spent it on Foley artists, apparently #Monsterdon

They keep switching abruptly between the just-ok film stock and the really shitty film stock. It's like a window into the exact moment the production ran out of money. #Monsterdon

@inthehands Is aral being antisemitic again, or is it something else? (I blocked him some time ago. On account of the antisemitism.)

@skinnylatte The bizarro inverted US flag is a sovereign citizen emblem. I just don't understand why sovereign citizens would come out in favor of *any* political candidate. "The government is fake and illegitimate, license plates are how they get you to sign away your Constitutional rights, but Ellen Lee Zhou for mayor, you guys, she's the best!" Doesn't compute.

(cf. https://www.vice.com/en/article/learn-to-spot-the-secret-signals-of-far-right-sovereign-citizens/)

@blogdiva CNN's cocaine shark article also casually dropped the news that there are trout addicted to meth. I can't stop thinking about this.

@sjuvonen @inthehands I regret to inform you that the press in fact has no self-respect left.

Starting tomorrow, they're gonna run the same "shadows cast" and "people have doubts" playbook they ran on Biden and before him HRC, with bonus misogynoir. That's inevitable. The only thing we can control is how we respond.

@inthehands That is my take as well. It's unfounded speculation but it matches the available facts.

Also, waiting until *after* the Sunday NYT hit newsstands was a power move. Their headline of the day was something about "ailing, isolated, Biden dithers." His actions today and the response have been the opposite of that. Their last three weeks of reportage are now irrelevant, and it's clear they never had a window into the Biden campaign at all.

@mcnado Another thing that really bothers me is a slogan I've seen various places that's pushing the false notion US taxpayers are funding Israeli healthcare. It is ~*remarkably *~ similar to the "why are our tax dollars going to Ukraine and not Hawaiian wildfire relief" slogan that was later conclusively demonstrated to be Russian disinfo.

(Also, if Israel has better healthcare than the US, that's because it's basically impossible to have a *worse* healthcare system than we do.)

@mcnado The left is not immune to thought-terminating cliches, and this is one of them.

Lot of people in the US seem to think that Israel has the same status as Guam. It is actually an entirely separate sovereign country!

@inthehands @Adam_Cadmon1 Something I rarely if ever see brought into the open is that Sanders is Jewish, and seeing a Jew running for the highest office in the land (regardless of how assimilated or secular he is) would've brought out an unbelievable amount of ugliness. I'd bet there're lifelong progressive Dems who'd hesitate at pulling the lever for a Jew.

Antisemitism in the US is like background noise. It's always there, but sometimes it gets loud enough for non-Jews to hear.

@ainmosni @tess @alienghic @mekkaokereke I am guessing that not only have you never been to Detroit, you have never looked at Detroit on a map.

@blogdiva AMAZING

@blogdiva I don't even know what offside means, for me it's the utter sincerity of the commentary combined with the wackiness of...whatever that is on the field.

Peter Schickele did something similar-- there's a bit where he & another guy do color commentary on a Beethoven symphony as if it's a sporting event. But their commentary is likewise based in real knowledge, so it's funny on multiple levels.

@inthehands I re-read Sontag's Illness As Metaphor/AIDS and Its Metaphors in spring 2020, and still believe now what I said then: COVID will come to have its own metaphors, its own body of art and literature. But it's too close now, we're still in the thick of it.

It is a sick and bitter irony that the IDF has in Gaza recreated the conditions of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942-43. And now they are recreating the Warsaw Ghetto of 1944.