Notices by Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary (pteryx@dice.camp)

@Da_Gut
My roommate has pointed out in the past that back in the 80s, no one could have predicted that Weird Al would remain musically and culturally relevant for longer than Michael Jackson.

@futurebird @faithisleaping
Beyond just not doing anything about bullies, the school system I went to treated *me* as the problem for 1) *being* bullied, 2) honestly expecting teachers to do their alleged job in stopping bullies, and 3) just generally not fitting in (*especially* because "fitting in" is what girls are "supposed to be" good at).

I half-wonder if some faculty secretly thinks bullying is a *good* thing that punishes misfits for them.

@futurebird @faithisleaping
I'm pretty sure the majority of my own bullies knew damned well that they were being mean and no one would want to be treated the way I was; beyond merely not caring, they actively wanted to harm me specifically. There *was*, however, a minority who didn't actually *want* to bully me and was peer-pressured into it.

@futurebird @faithisleaping
At first, the teachers *did* scold the bullies... and that didn't work, which meant that the teachers got frustrated with my continuing to ask them to perform a futile task, which quite frankly had a lot to do with them starting to treat me as the problem for expecting them to do their jobs.

@futurebird @faithisleaping
Of course, there were *also* attempts at deflection on the part of all the faculty I ever had to deal with (I went to a few different schools when I was very young):

"It's not 'bullying', it's just teasing. Calling it bullying if they don't hit you is not allowed."

...followed up with, "If they're teasing you, that must mean they like you! 😀 " (I had to learn the word "malicious" in second grade to stop that one.)

@futurebird @faithisleaping
"Just ignore them." 'How?' "Pretend they're not there." 'How?'

"Remember, 'Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.'" — I WILL KILL EVERYONE YOU LOVE IN FRONT OF YOU AND THEN YOU, FACULTY SCUM

@lritter @bmacDonald94
I'd say more "centrist" blaming.

@mjg @cwebber
Someone in another branch of the thread suggested this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhGeNPJlIK4

@hellomiakoda @LGBTQNation @lgbtq-nation-LGBTQNation
I was able to channel it into prep for a while, myself, having had the savings to do so. Though now I'm low on both savings and nonviolent ideas for how to be ready for disaster...

@hellomiakoda @LGBTQNation @lgbtq-nation-LGBTQNation
Same here... and one friend who *isn't* trans is poor, disabled several times over, *and* has a particular combination of sexual and romantic orientations that even "inclusive" spaces often find heretical in women.

@hellomiakoda @LGBTQNation @lgbtq-nation-LGBTQNation
I see I'm not the only one who feels surrounded by people who think I'm being hyperbolic when I say "Republicans want all my friends dead"...

@RnDanger @Thebratdragon @artemis
Fundamentally, this boils down to these sorts of men not seeing women as *people* at all.

@hellomiakoda
I'm pretty sure that the drive towards ULTRA-REALISTIC GRAPHICS is driven mainly by manchildren who are utterly convinced that the more realistic a game is, the more mature and well-endowed and badass they are, and the slightest break from photorealism reveals their childishness. >_>

Graphics got good enough as of the PS3. That's the point where a 3D game's style was decided more by the artists than the hardware.

@Colman @girlonthenet
I get the sense that the wealthy — and I count politicians in corrupt countries like ours among them — have three major derangements that make them a threat to all other life: greed, powerlust, and detachment. It's not *just* that they want everything and want to control everyone, it's that they don't even see other living things as anything but resources to be exploited, let alone people as people. They can't even imagine that we need food, or tools that actually work.

@jeffowski Is it really an "open" letter if you can only read it on Facebook, which generally requires a login?

This is something I've *definitely* noticed that the right no longer understands.
#MemesFromOutside

@pluralistic A frightening thought: What if, in addition to using surveillance pricing to adjust prices based on perceived means to pay, prices were also adjusted based on what the panopticon concludes your politics are?

One thing I appreciate about this site: you're actually allowed to feel things.

...Seriously. In my experience, that's *incredibly* rare.

@pluralistic My concern, really, is that the Republicans' infighting *won't be enough*. I fear it'll create space for the oligarchs to just make things worse and worse unchecked.

@seedling Possibly of interest to @pluralistic for his collages.