Notices by Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄 (notroot@notroot.online)

@ktneely@bookrastinating.com @bookstodon@a.gup.pe For years, I have been thoroughly convinced that the only reason we eat meals together -- and seriously whole religions have sprung up out of that tradition (Last Supper, anyone?) ...

Is so that we can't hear the disgusting sound of our loved ones masticating.

That would make us hate them.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org I moved all my projects off of GitHub when the "AI" craze started.

I'm not alone.

@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @davetroy@toad.social Yeah I signed up for BS, but notroot.online ain't going nowhere. I run it on a server I already had.

I wonder how long before there's another migration to the Fediverse... this time from Bluesky.

@knittingknots2@mstdn.social The "impossibly high standards" he means.

We're being thrown 3/4 of a century backwards in time, politically speaking.

An insurgent social movement vindictively intent on oppressing everyone who doesn't fit the fascist bill.

Fuck them.

Bring civil disobedience back.

#CivilDisobedience

@dangillmor@mastodon.social Who are the traitor fucking Dems, and how can we ruin their careers and lives?

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social That's touching. I dig it.

@ozof@beige.party @Lana@beige.party @anubis2814@friendica.myportal.social @setsly@mindly.social 👀 🦁

@AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange What can I say. I read up, and you're right.

So let's go ape on this.

QT for extra emphasis...

RE: https://musician.social/users/soulexpress/statuses/113513636500722108

@lovelylovely
This is what Americans rejected, choosing two unqualified white supremacist instead to disgrace America.

@UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com Looks like the keyboard player for a Mos Eisley cover band

WE ALREADY WON THIS WAR.

ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS DEFEND OUR GROUND.

Unsolicited opinion:

We need to give up the grievance politics and focus on fucking vengeance.

WE ALREADY WON THIS WAR.

ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS DEFEND OUR GROUND.

I grew up rural. Like really, realllllllllllllly rural, yo.

I took my horse to the pet town pet show.

I learned to swim in irrigation ditches.

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Lemme give y'all some insight into the rural American mind.

They are every bit as racist and sexist as the most foul-mouthed, over-reacting, hysterical liberal feminazi ever posited, times, like FUCKING TEN.

I mean... As a white man, I've heard it all. How we need to have a reality show to shoot immigrants.

The sexist jokes sort of blur together, I am ashamed to admit. I've heard so many.

Not like I didn't react to all these offenses...

It just didn't usually make a difference.

We're in trouble. This is a deeply misogynistic and racist nation, and always has been.

@lovelylovely@masto.ai In other words they can say "Ni99er" now without fear of reprisal.

...

Or so they stupidly think.

Spent some time on Bluesky.

Now I'm less Angry than Depressed.

I believe that's the point, so I'm gonna avoid it going forward. I honestly prefer to hang on to my anger.

Everyone grieves in their own motherfucking way, motherfucker.

Heheh right now I have more followers than posts on Bluesky.

It's rats and sinking ships, y'all. Rats and sinking ships. Only we're the rats.

In one scenario, Open Social wins the day and we all go on socializing openly with moderation depending on where we're doing that socialization. Like now, more or less.

In the OTHER scenario, we're socializing within the proscribed parameters of a Christian Nationalist takeover of the US government.

Wake. The. Fuck. Up. America.

My family has been here since the Mayflower. I'm INVESTED.

Rebel. Disobey, in a civilized fashion. Let's call it...

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.

EOM

If I could convince everyone we already lived in a state of anarchy, I'd be 90% of the way to a convincing argument that political change can ONLY EVER proceed from a sustained groundswell of popular support.

That's how women got the right the vote. That's how minority races won the same under a menage of white supremacist, patriarchal cultures.

One thing almost all these cultures agreed on?

Women are property.

And that's where we're seeing bulging in the bulwark.

It cannot break.

We're all monumentally fucked if women lose the franchise after less than a century in most states.

"Culture Wars" falsely frames social change in terms of a "war," when history tells us otherwise. Sure, social change often comes about AFTER wars, but it's unpredictable, and based in cultural forms that existed prior to the war.

These "Culture Wars" are perpetual. They're Orwellian constructs, and we buy into them.

Social change doesn't happen that way. It's always organic. It cannot be sourced from anywhere except US, as individuals, acting in concert with other individuals.

By definition.

That makes Trump's win in 2024 particularly aggravating. It means we are failing to change society. That it's changing in the wrong direction. It's reverting to old, comfortable norms.