Notices by Jay (whitecattamer@mastodon.online), page 2

@VeroniqueB99

@ATLeagle Had a word vomit reply that was about 2.5k characters and then just backed out by accident. Probably for the best. Not angry or debating just…trying to explain feelings and fears, talk like a person.

Anyways.

I get it, and I don’t like to fight people. I just know, personally, how misdirected, though legitimate, anger and failure of control turns into self-harm and obsessively focusing on keeping one’s own body (politic?) clean, and social media turbocharges it.

@ATLeagle @QasimRashid They are. That’s why Biden is making pitches at Haley voters.

The right has been very good at shifting the Overton window. It won’t be shifted back within one, two, three elections; it was a decades long push and it will be a decades long push back.

@talia_christine Would yelling “This isn’t the blowjob he was asking for!” into the darkness help any?

@ATLeagle @QasimRashid Would there? I’d think if it were as simple as that that 3rd party candidates, especially in local races, would be getting far more of the electorate than they are.

I think the simple reality is that it’s much harder to turn a nonvoter into a voter than it is to turn a voter into a voter for one party.

That, and when the party must be a big tent in order to succeed, reflecting every aspect of its individual elements is simply impossible.

@ATLeagle @QasimRashid If half the left consistently sits out every election, and Biden only needs to pull fractions of percents of Trump’s support in order to win, and he’s clearly trying to be the president for all Americans, do you think he’ll shift to the left or to the center?

Baking pro-tip: if you didn’t plan on baking and so did not pre-soften your butter and you are baking NOW, if you get the butter out and then search “how to soften butter quickly” and then click on “why butter has to be soft” and then on links about how different fat contents and temperatures affect the size and stability of the air bubbles and on and on and on, the butter will be sufficiently soft by the time you remember what you were doing.

@ATLeagle @thomasapowell @davidgerard Some definitely will, but others won’t because those companies will keep their prices low enough that they’re competitive.

Think of how phone trees, self-service lines, listicles/generic written garbage and customer service chatbots have proliferated. If enough of the big players do it long enough, it becomes the norm, and fewer people will be able to justify (especially to their bosses) paying extra.

@thomasapowell @ATLeagle @davidgerard I think they see it as investment that will pay exponential dividends in the future when they have even greater economic leverage to drive salaries down.

@thomasapowell @ATLeagle @davidgerard They’ll push hard to use it to replace entry level jobs, retail jobs, customer service/HR jobs, etc., many of which are more commonly held by women, younger people, and minorities, thus putting greater economic pressure on those groups and pushing many out of the workforce. They’ll tout them as increasingly necessary studying aides for the increasingly necessary college degrees for the vanishing middle class level positions.

@StillIRise1963 What constitutes child abuse will change DRASTICALLY.

Mixed race couple? Child abuse.
Queer couple? Child abuse.
Failure to put children through Christian style religious schools? Child abuse.
Feeding children any nonstandard (read: must contain meat, dairy) diet? Child abuse.
Beating children? Ehhhh, that’s a matter of degree, wouldn’t you say?

@WarnerCrocker @GottaLaff NFL
It can only be topped by Marco Rubio moving out of Florida for the VP nod and then just getting ignored.

@Oggie @QueerInTheCountry @StillIRise1963 Lotta people thinking that people were hysterical for thinking Roe could fall, but fall it did, and then Thomas explicitly cited Griswold (contraception), Lawrence (private sexual behaviour), and Obergefell (same sex marriage) as next on the chopping block.

@goatsarah @taylorlorenz @sarajw Your gametes must be (———————-) this big to be denied rights.

@goatsarah @Twitter_expat @taylorlorenz If I were Rowling I’d be taking a page from Enya’s book and live in a secluded castle with cats.

@freakazoid @aral @taki @senj Trump is arguing he can murder political opponents and it should be fine. Biden does not want to lose to him.

@trabern White male conservative justices: Is it not, perhaps, concerning to limit the power of the presidency (which has gone hand in hand with white male power for, uh, forever)?
Female black justice: …no. No it is not. Quite the opposite.

@bujiraso @thomasfuchs Yeah, short of tossing all of humanity into a salad bowl and scooping up some, we’re always going to arrange ourselves in SOME way.

The problem with bubbles arises when it means you develop biases or practices that are harmful to yourself or others, be it by action or inaction. You and your therapist are a bubble, but most of the time it’s a good one.

@GrimmReality I would like to see a news clip wherein the reporter is talking about something important and boring and over the course of their report, in the background the Wiener bus slooooooooowly edges out from hidden behind a building to its full glory.

@eaton @Meyerweb Something something wrestle not with pigs, for the pig will stare back into you and you’ll both enjoy it.