Notices by AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳‍🌈 (andthisismrspeacock@mas.to)

I just had another person, in my family no less, be SHOCKED that I belong to a church and follow a faith tradition.

So I'm going to write this as a "don't make me tap the sign" thread I can link people to later.

And this is kind of fraught, because one of the things about my religion is we think it's unethical to try to influence someone else's journey toward truth. So we don't really go out there buying billboards and shit.

#UCC #UUA #Religion

And since the Pilgrim religion was based on the church goers voting, conscience became a huge thing. People were expected to vote their conscience, and their votes became church doctrine.

What this did was create a religion that could evolve based on the values of its members. And it did.

While the 1620 Pilgrims were... not awesome on issues like slavery and sexism, they made a religion that could evolve along with the beliefs of the people.

So once upon a time there were the Pilgrims, and I could write about that for hours, but the tl;dr is the Pilgrims had a special sauce about religion. The Pilgrims violently distrusted any kind of central authority: no pope, no king, no bishops or cardinals or presbyters or elder council.

For the Pilgrims all doctrine is made by democratic vote of the church members. And ministers are hired and fired by the voters, not any central authority.

Ok, uh, positivity, silver linings... hm.

Boy, I sure am glad I'm not stuck in traffic in #Foxboro right now.

#NFL #SEAvsNE #Patriots

Happy 150th birthday to the best garment ever, the humble #jockstrap .

https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/jockstap-150-year-birthday-anniversary

#Gay #Fashion #Sports #Underwear

Yo I don't know who wrote this but it's exactly where it needs to be. The fact she has Prosecutor Voice helps, but she genuinely believes what she's saying and you can't fake that. 9/10.

I was a medium-warm Harris fan until now but I think she can really do this.

#USPol #DNC #DNC2024

Hi! US Politics Knower here. Been immersed this longer than I care to recount, so I'm gonna do a thread on it, partly to explain this situation and partly for my own personal therapy, so feel free to mute this if you aren't into it. Gonna be a long thread. Here's what's happening with Biden and the Democrats and why it's both boring and extremely dangerous. 1/

#USPol #Biden #Democrats #Politics

In a normal year, one of two things happens:

#1: There are several candidates vying for the nomination. They are trying to win enough pledged delegates to win the nomination outright, so they are running in all the states to win Delegates.

#2: There is an incumbent President that nobody is running against, so this whole thing is a formality, the President will have it locked up very early. 3/

#USPol #Biden #Democrats

First you need to understand how US party primaries work. It's a little bit like the Electoral College: every state Democratic party has a number of delegates. Those delegates get 'pledged' to go to the DNC and vote for whomever won the primary election in their state. (There's some wiggle room here, but let's not overcomplicate it.) 2/

#USPol #Democrats #Biden

Imagine, say 1800. Joe Seattle won the West coast primaries but Sam Philadelphia won the East coast states, because there was no national media to tell the whole country who was running.

So you get to the convention with several people having *some* delegates, but nobody having a majority. How did this work? 6/

#USPol #Democrats #Biden

So what happens now? Well, this is not unprecedented. Back in the day before radio/TV/Internet, it was not uncommon to have what they call a 'brokered convention'. This was when nobody had a majority of delegates and the convention itself had to figure out a nominee. It was actually pretty common back in the day. 5/

#USPol #Democrats #Biden

This year, #2 was happening. Nobody was seriously challenging #Biden, so all the delegates from states that have already voted are pledged to him. Normally, you go to the convention, everybody votes for Biden, and you're off to the general.

But it's pretty obvious that is not gonna happen this time. Biden is being pressured to drop out even though he already has all the delegate votes. 4/

#USPol #Democrats

What happens is that any candidate can release their delegates and tell them to vote for someone else. So, Joe Seattle would release his delegates and say to vote for Sam Philadelphia in exchange for becoming Joe Vice President. And Dave Miami would do the same in exchange for being named Joe Secretary of State.

The delegates, now released, told who to vote for, vote again, and off we go. 7/

#USPol #Democrats #Biden

Where things start to go off the rails for us is that (1) this hasn't happened in forever and (2) in the 1800 case, there were several clear front-runners who all controlled *some* delegates, and were in a position to make a deal (this is the "brokered" in "brokered convention"). Party members would know who to vote for if their guy didn't make it over the finish line. 8/

#USPol #Democrats #Biden

Biden has all the delegates.
Team Dump Biden want him to step aside gracefully, and say "For the good of the Republic, I release all my delegates, and instruct them to instead nominate..."

...

...you see where this is going.

Normally you'd have the guy who got the 2nd most delegates and nominate him instead but, *there is no 2nd guy*. Nobody else has been running a campaign at all. 9/

#USPol #Democrats #Biden

One thing about all the fucking noise over the last week: watching the entire US media go sulk because their "DEFENESTRATE BIDEN NOWWWWWW" feeding frenzy failed is gonna be really fucking funny.

Eagerly await tomorrow's headlines about how his NATO speech wasn't that great, really, not impressive, it could have been better, and he didn't even notice my new haircut, I never thought he was hot in the first place, I'm glad he's not dating me.

#USPol #Biden #Jounalismism

@cynthiarose @ryanhoulihan True story,

ME: (to Gen Z coworker 1) ...and that's how recursive DNS queries work.

GEN Z 2: Hey what are you guys doing?

GEN Z 1: (shaken) He was just showing me the terrifyingly fragile house of cards the entire internet depends on.

ME: ...

ME: Well, I don't know if I would say *terrifyingly* fragile, exactly,

@cynthiarose @ryanhoulihan Turns out struggling with DOS and trying to get Windows 3.1 to speak TCP/IP gave us important life skills that those who grew up with "it all just works" don't have 😆

[at the pub serving $1 #oyster specials]

FRIEND: They should have these all the time if the month doesn't have an R... or, wait, if it does?

ME: They're all farmed now so it doesn't really matter, but for wild oysters you generally don't want to eat them in the summer. They get pulpy because they're basically full of oyster cum.

OTHER FRIEND: Haha and how does that taste?

ME: Compared to human cum you barely notice it.

BARTENDER I DIDN'T REALIZE WAS STANDING RIGHT THERE: 😳

#TrueStory

Now, if you've gotten all the way here and still think #Threads integration is good, well, go for it! I can't stop you.

But I'm begging you, #Fedi #Admins: be honest with yourselves. This is not about user choice or community building or any of that. And the concerns are not moderation or harassment. This is about #Meta intending to strip mine the Fediverse for new eyeballs and data. That's it.