Notices by tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social), page 6

I voted early, on the Thursday before Election Day, so l've had it on a day short of two weeks. I may keep it on 'til it falls off.

I still haven't taken off my "I voted today" wristband. I'm not sure why.

#election2024 #IVoted

I'm angry because I deluded myself that enough Americans were better than that, there were enough voters who could see the threat and keep Trump from becoming President again, no matter what grievances held against incumbent Democrats.

Now I see a deep indecency in the people around me. I'm up in my feels now but I don't know if I'll get over it.

I was way up in my silo too. I deceived myself. The indecency I see now was already there.

The last illusion is disillusionment. #USpol

Now I go to a store or other public place, I look at people and think "You voted for #Trump. You voted to harm, maybe to kill, friends, family, loved ones and plenty of others who have done you no wrong. Whatever you think you voted for, whatever excuse you make, you voted for that."

The gist of the TNR article seems to be that not only are a sizable number of the voting population racist and misogynist, but also poorly informed and stupid. The media distraction and misinformation industry has to take a lot of blame for the poorly informed part, but a lot of people don't seek or make any effort to inform themselves and in fact avoid it, and embrace misinformation like it's a warm blanket. Many know better, and it's a choice.

https://newrepublic.com/article/188238/trump-won-voter-perception-2024?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

@nachtet @JonasJRichter A metaphor rather than a euphemism.

@simsa03 and so on. Hardy?

@simsa03 Well, there's awful and awfuller. A friend who much more radical and down on Democratic Party posted "Ok, I did my duty and voted for the lesser fascist..." My parents thought it was important to vote I reckon I got my citizens vote sentimentality from them. I think one can make an reasonable, ethical decision to exercise the right not to vote, but most of the people who didn't vote in this election were more I can't be bothered, don't want to get my hands dirty by making a choice...

@tinydoctor what's wrong with this app ?
Why do you want to screw the data ?

@tinydoctor And why would i do that?

@wendyg I was seduced by the cute. As an act of resistance it is at second glance more therapeutic than effective. Anything that throws the slightest wrench into the proceedings is appealing.

@JonasJRichter Though it may be more therapeutic than effective. I like effective too.

@JonasJRichter Point taken. Creating "friction" is appealing even if it doesn't do much. I'm up for anything that throws even the tiniest wrench into the data harvest machinery.

One take. "How America Lost The 2024 Election"
Hint: White people

#uspol #2024Election #whitenationalism

https://www.politicalorphans.com/how-america-lost-the-2024-election/

@forse @BlackAzizAnansi "Yeah, fascism, what could go wrong for me and mine, fuck everyone else." That is the full mode.

@violetmadder My mom and dad borrowed this motorcycle one afternoon to tootle around a local lake. A drunk in a pick up truck hit them and my mom was killed. Motorcycles are so much fun, but not safe.

@violetmadder Ouch. I laid down my motorcycle once. Went round a corner too fast on rain slick pavement. Took the skin off one arm from wrist to elbow. It happened at night. Didn't start to hurt until I saw it under a streetlight. Cycle was fine. Ironically, I bought it from a guy who had scared himself laying the cycle down. 250 dollars (1978) and some minor repairs and it was mine. I put thousands of miles on that bike. 380 Suzuki.

Okay, I hung up the laundry. Imagine an enormous star flinging off its outer layers after it runs out of fuel and its core collapses under its own gravity. If it doesn't become a black hole, the core can shrink down to a ball of neutronium just 20 kilometers across. Just as a ballerina spins faster as she pulls in her arms, this ball spins really fast - like 1000 rotations a second. And since neutronium conducts electricity, it can blast out radio waves as it spins, creating a blinking radio signal, called a pulsar. Pulsars are so precisely periodic that when Jocelyn Bell first spotted one, people thought it was a signal from aliens!

Like the rest of us, pulsars slow down as they age. But this also means their signal weakens. So we usually don't see pulsars in the gray region of this chart - to the right of the line called the 'pulsar death line'. Pulsars are the gray dots to the left of this line. The pink squares are called 'magnetars'. These are the squalling infants in the world of pulsars: young and highly magnetized neutron stars that do crazy stuff like put out big bursts of X-rays now and then.

But then there are weirder things. A telescope array called the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder was searching for radio waves connected to a gamma ray burst in 2022 when it stumbled on something that blasts out radio waves about once an hour. It lost track of this object, so folks brought in the more powerful MeerKAT radio telescope and found it again.

Now it's called ASKAP J1935+2148. It's well to the right of the pulsar death line. What could it be?

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Men: Download the Flo App and start tracking your manstrual cycle. Screw up the data. Screw #reproductivesurveillance

#protectwomensreproductiverights #ProtectWomensRights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flo_(app)

@simsa03 I don't blame my daughter. At least she voted. Those who did not exercise their right, privilege, and responsibility as citizens to vote anger me more than those who voted, even if they voted for Trump. American voters and nonvoters do not take consideration or responsibility. Yes, appalling, not to say...deplorable?