Notices by lauren boethiah (esvrld@normal.style)

the ogdo's guerilla marketing strategy was born from a series of constraints i had going into the experiment, among which were that i did not want to invest in any kind of permanent distribution infrastructure and wanted to excise any kind of marketing-brained thinking that might bind me to any criteria other than the artistic programme i'd set to myself. and in those respects it has succeeded

but as a strategy to get people to actually read it i can at this point say it has been a complete failure. you can tell people that the work is free and that they can and should save copies and send them forward; and they simply will not do that. it will not filter anywhere, it will not find its audience, it will not spread organically

– ignore anything phrased as a twee maxim. 'show don't tell', 'write what you know' are, at best, meant to promote extremely specific stylistic movements
– separate the writing and editing parts of your mind. when you're writing your sole goal should be to get the words out. you can look them over later
– you do need to look them over later. first draft is never good (and when it is, it could still be better)

i don't want to overuse descriptors like 'ridiculous' as there are, ofc, actual war crimes being committed, but it is a type of thing how utterly helpless the us military becomes when their decapitation strike doesn't work

like even with the caveat that this entire war seems to have spent approximately 0 time being planned on by anyone with actual military experience how are you this ill-prepared for your opponents being aware of your doctrine and able to develop counterstrategies

if i had a dollar for every time someone's waged a war against iran where they tried and failed to neutralise its air forces, then ran out of ideas and defaulted to bombing cities,

lot of people talking about saturn being the true sun. now i don't really know about all that but it just makes sense, doesn't it

defend queer spaces (the stall at the back of the ladies' loo at the public library with 'any other lesbos pissing here' written on the wall)

said this before but the way ice are carrying out these acts does not give the impression of a deliberate strategy. kidnapping people off the streets did; the shootings look like them losing control of a situation, panicking, and reaching for their guns

@mischievoustomato see i gather this is supposed to be shocking or own the libs or w/e but it mainly comes across as you trying to recapture the magic of the time you shitted yourself in 3rd grade and everyone saw or whatever it was that made you like that. 'that' being a soggy loser whose sole value to the world is as a habitat for exotic fungi that feed on the sweat and desperation of anime paedophiles trying and failing to beat their terminally grip-dicked puds

fun #historical #meme i saw on bluesky just now. thought i'd share as a distraction from current events

remember when gargron was saying he and his team would help the white house set up a fedi presence for free? the white house, every executive department, and what looks like most branches of the military just moved to bluesky

here's a fairly interesting example of spurious reasoning from university of michigan economics professor justin wolfers. he assumes that people who've invested more time in ai like it better b/c they've invested more time in it, which makes their judgements about it more trustworthy. but the same split in opinions could also be explained more simply by the people who've invested time in ai being gullible dorks with shit judgement

@fauxpenhauer @lizzy mao was notably somewhat more successful in his undertakings than stirner was in his attempts to open a milk shop with his wife's money

proving once again that it's a completely worthless organisation, the nobel committee has awarded the peace prize to a cia stooge & noted oil privatisation advocate whose achievements include several glowing profiles in western news media

we've gone back to the dial-up days when you'd wait for the page to finish loading, only now it also mocks you with the capability it has to load anything fast, just not anything you want to see or that's useful to you

click on a youtube link. video thumbnail flashes for a split second before going black as the rest of the page loads, then comes back as the video starts buffering. before it has finished, the cookie consent dialog pops up. before that's finished loading, it redirects to a cookie consent page, which redirects back to the video, which again flashes the thumbnail, goes to black, goes back to the thumbnail, starts playing, stops, & finally manages to load the video title

here's the un special rapporteur francesca albanese's report on companies enabling "israel"'s genocide in gaza https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupation-economy-genocide-report-special-rapporteur

i see the omegaverse is federated now too

@clarity no politics on my page, thanks 🙏