Notices by Jay (whitecattamer@mastodon.online)

@thekitmalone It’s also a great (terrible) gateway into reactionary conspiracy theories.

A vanishingly small group whose practices are unknown or weird, must propagate themselves by “devouring” children, will hide in plain sight and pretend to be weak while really wielding so much power that they can direct the movements of nations?

Seriously, how thin is the line between transphobic conspiracies and antisemitic ones? And if you finally fall for one, it’s easier to keep falling.

@Fragglemuppet Couldn’t find a recorder version, so this is the closest I can get to a pied piper: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rEBEigBHHPk

Calling all Rizzos!

@ATLeagle How much you wanna bet that without the word “Urban” they wouldn’t be hating on the Department of Housing and Urban Development half as much?

Anybody and their 40,000 friends with American IP addresses wanna take a customer service survey about DOGE by the Heritage Foundation?
#DOGE

https://secured.heritage.org/the-doge-survey/

@hacks4pancakes @morebento Where they’re forced to grow crops, so…literally plantations. His plan to deal with depression is to send people to plantations.

@ShadowJonathan Humans: why can’t I hold all these limes
LLMs: why can’t I count all these kiwis

@WillA763 @rodhilton I agree that Trump supporters are overwhelmingly to blame for Trump’s chances, and that the gap between my idea of an ideal world and theirs is monstrous.

I do, however, lay some blame at the feet of the ones who won’t vote Harris because they believe they are preserving their good moral character while claiming they are allies for the marginalized groups who will be in the crosshairs under Trump.

@WillA763 @rodhilton OP is talking about progressives/leftists who refuse to vote for Harris, thus risking Trump’s win. It’s not about Trump supporters.

@Bwasscher @ankostis@libretooth.gr @skykiss Dude is a “we hateses the West so very much and loveses their enemies, yes we do” kind of troll and a scroll through their posts will reveal that. Anyone rocking up to a post like this with an entrance like that is just trying to stir up shit, anyways. Best to block and move on.

From: @ankostis@libretooth.gr
https://libretooth.gr/@ankostis/112147101925440407

@hgfernan @RickiTarr It…it would probably literally be faster to walk or jog that, when you factor in the time it would take to load, accelerate, decelerate, and unload.

@NeonPurpleStar @MikeDunnAuthor @TobiWanKenobi I figure they’re basically one of the common kinds of trolls that operate in leftwing spaces. Comes with the territory, but at least there’s blocklists.

So I just finished my first 5k (apparently actually almost 6k).

I have only ever run on treadmills before, and this was trail running. Longest I’ve ever run in my life is 9 km.

If you’ve ever seen my body type, throw words like “ectomorph” or “endomorph” out the window: my proper classification is “brick with legs”.

I gasped and panted through the entire thing, got outpaced by the 10k runners on their second lap, and finished dead last. I think I was told “a quarter mile left!” three times.

But you know what?

My goal was to finish the race at all, and I -did-, while never walking. And I’m down 45 pounds from January and no longer prediabetic.

I’m an abysmal runner, and probably always will be; my favorite exercise is weight lifting, not so much cardio.

So despite the race turning out to be way more physically challenging for me than I expected, what I’m focusing on is that I’m doing way better than old me.

It helps that people were so encouraging and nice, even as I was dying.

@MaryAustinBooks My cat is also very brave at the vet in the same way that a berserker warrior is brave in battle.

But the vet gives me free bandaids, which is nice.

@TeaKayB I highly recommend “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea” by Charles Seife.

@FlashMobOfOne @geekysteven Especially since an honest answer involves about sixteen pages of backstory to understand, and at its core is “because I can’t feel good about myself unless someone is below me”.

@ryanhoulihan When they’re asking that question, they’re often not asking about the safety of the equipment, but rather how safe you are amongst many strangers.

@Lesliesez @evacide Harris obliterates Trump in a debate.

Pundits: I dunno, she just seemed offputting, you know?

Harris pledges to continue Biden’s work in forgiving student debt, union support, infrastructure, pushing back against SCOTUS.

Pundits: Is she biting off more than she can chew, is she overextending herself?

Harris outlines in detail how fucked we’d be if even a tenth of Project 2025 is enacted.

Pundits: Is Harris turning into the Complainer in Chief?

@JustinMac84 @goatsarah Bigotry is based in a lack of empathy paired with a background hum of discrimination as the person moves through society, and part of that discrimination is a failure to recognize what IS discrimination. It rarely keeps to its own little box.

You are approaching this from an active and aware kind of hatred perspective - “has it in for” - which is not how many bigots act; they defend themselves as not -ist all the time.

@JustinMac84 @goatsarah To be transphobic, one must lack the ability or willingness to extend empathy to those whose lives are unlike one’s own, and to treat them as full and complete human beings.

This failure is mirrored in misogyny, whether the person recognizes it as such or not. “Treating them right”, when you can’t understand how THEY wish to be treated, is merely “commit no obvious violence towards them”, but it is not “respect their personhood”.