Notices by GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)

@jerry

your daily wild orchid

https://photog.social/@0xThylacine/113516396788891214

Well, I guess Donald Trump is going to kill any international student participation in US colleges. On the whole? It’s probably a good idea because I wouldn’t wanna be stuck at the United States with what’s going to happen.

If you’re applying to colleges internationally, reconsider the US just skip us over. It’s not gonna be worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKQzloUtOlM

#uspol

#sfba
Gotta say this for the valley and Bay Area, all those billionaires?

They are out to destroy everyone’s lives and especially have trained their sights on the region to transform it into an ultra right wing enclave.

Leonard Leo and his 1.6 billion dollar walking around money, has this as his very objective.

Leo’s résumé includes his leadership in the Federalist Society. That would be the billionaire country club used to scout and groom, corruptible judges.

@glynmoody

Musk isn’t really the tip of the iceberg, it’s Peter Thiel, who has a much stronger grip in the White House through his political clients JD Vance and Vivek.

Thiel’s particular AI interest find themselves in surveillance in military applications and his politics are nightmarish.

@br00t4c

Large corporate farms like this while they are very good at trying to drive up yields of a single crop, but that capacity pails and comparison to small plot multi farming, which has been demonstrated to be 6 to 10 times more productive, than single crop farms

The policy should be to encourage the return of small farms, because they have the potential of massively reducing dependence on petrochemical agriculture.

@glynmoody

Welcome to the techno fascist state

@AnarchoNinaWrites

And I’ll add the observation that the current fascist movement has been funded and developed and institutionalized over a half century in the form of the Koch network, its allies and adjacents.

They have the advantage over the Nazis of generational institution and indoctrination.

@mekkaokereke @jshirley

It’s been said and I think it’s quite accurate. Call a cop you’re calling a gun.

If you live in a blue state like California, or even in the red state whose National Guard might be sent into a blue state in open conflict (law enforcement) with citizens there, it might be a good time to send a little note to your state representatives, voicing your opinion on the matter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdr0aGXr86k

#uspol

@Taco_lad @AnarchoNinaWrites

Most importantly, a public is asking puppies to be drowned so it’s very important that we tack towards the puppy murdering faction because that’s what the public is asking for

@br00t4c @CassandraVert

As mentioned by beau of the fifth column, people in red states were ruled, not represented.

American plutocracy very deliberately has dismantled the US by consolidating powered in the states.

Brick brick to rule on its ashes

@br00t4c

Karma is a bitch.

@br00t4c :ablobcatpopcorn:

@JL_Lycette

It is something the far right, conservatives, have understood for some decades now.

From modern psychology, information is not an argument.

The substance of people's outlooks comes from confrontation with their moral sentiment, an intrinsic instinctive sense of what is right or fair.

Most political opposition has an enlightenment fetish. They refused to understand the importance, if not centrality, of moral appeal.

@GottaLaff

Concerns. I’m rather speechless. I just sent my passport out for renewal today by the way.

I think I will be able to sleep a little bit better but only when I have the thing in my grubby little hands in a month or so

@GottaLaff my level of distrust is so high right now I was unhappy, turning the damn thing in, but I am committed now.

@phaedral

The real answer to that question would be to ask them. My suspicion would be, she never gained their trust.

Regardless it is a candidates job to argue the case. As an attorney general, she should be aware of that.

@GottaLaff

I think it may be a very tall order to ask people who probably lost chunks of their families and families of friends from this conflict to back a politician who said there was no daylight between her and Biden.

Calls for ceasefire have gone on for a year over a conflict that is going to conclude one way: with the total ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from "greater Israel".

That conflict is now expanded into the northern extent of that concept.

@GottaLaff

I will stay first that I am of two distinct minds about this. The first is a level of upset that you’ve expressed: that by sitting out the election everything is going to be worse for those of us in the US and beyond.

But alternately, the individuals who sat out the election separate from the individuals who voted for, even as they voted to legalize abortion and raise minimum wages, are correct and saying she had to earn their vote.

🧵

@AnarchoNinaWrites

May I presume that Christmas and Thanksgiving are going to be really awkward this year.

Who knows maybe Junior or that cousin run around that is female relatives, saying your body my choice and think he’s clever.

It’s going to be a really awkward holiday season