Notices by Masonic Cowgirl (julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social), page 7

@elilla literally a year ago I watched a documentary about a band that was like, what if we used AI to write an album, the film treated like it was this cutting edge thing

Now it's like lmao you wrote your lyrics with chatgpt fucking losers

@AnarchoNinaWrites in the few cases I have seen Nazis use "pig" - from the James Mason wing of the movement - they're also just using it to refer to cops. Since whenever they have used it, it's just vocabulary they tried and failed to appropriate from the left

@AnarchoNinaWrites yeah there is absolutely nothing objectionable in any of those posts you have my full solidarity

@servelan @AnarchoNinaWrites one of those posts even makes it clear that it's not about some bankers but all bankers - and key to the far right narrative about bankers is that only the Jewish bankers are bad, which is why they need to be replaced by good solid Aryan bankers whose blood emerges from this soil, it was a narrative that was designed to specifically avoid a structural critique of the financial industry

Classical music isn't actually that elitist these days. If I went to the symphony, it'd cost me a little more than going to the movies, or maybe twice as much as a punk show. You know what actually is elitist? Pop music. Taylor Swift came to Mexico for the first time this past week and the tickets cost more than I make in a month

@inthehands the two likely candidates in next year's election in Mexico have absolutely no policy differences and it's entirely down to which ingroup their discourse is appealing to

@inthehands or the way Rufo mobilizes racist narratives while making it appear that it's just a disagreement about educational policy, coming off as a pta busybody appealing to other pta busybodies

@inthehands this is also why the far right is picking up critiques of trans people developed by radical feminists, or are pushing things like "gays against groomers" - a lot of people have antibodies against queerphobia when it comes in the guise of "adam and eve not adam and steve" but not when it comes in a more secular, even feminist discourse

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. - Simone Weil

@AnarchoNinaWrites it's because writing a book takes time, which means it takes money, which means that with few exceptions it's rich people

I have an open offer to publish something at a publisher I respect but hey guess who's too busy paying the bills for that to happen

The Blacks for Trump guy is, aside from everything else, a holdover from the old school Internet when any crank could come up with a website explaining the wildest ideas...

What if John Titor or the Time Cube guy had tried to overthrow the US government...

@mjf_pro @mekkaokereke it's definitely not "their culture", it goes against the regulations of the Spanish football association and there were recent attempts to pass a law on sexual assault that would be far stricter than anywhere in the Anglosphere, taking the burden of proof away from victims and putting it on perpetrators

@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs I've never actually read him but what is extreme male brain, dare I ask

What do you do when a member of your community is being targeted by mass harassment campaigns by external hate groups, but this same individual is incredibly violent to others within their community?

@Outersider

@YKantRachelRead it's also more than reasonable to keep lists in your head of people that you don't like, that you think are problematic, etc., and not want to associate with people who associate with certain people. I do the same thing IRL! We all have freedom of association. I also don't force my shitlists onto my IRL friends though because that would be wild

@AutumnMeowMeow @YKantRachelRead I mean in theory that's what instance blocks are supposed to be for, but instead it turns into more drama where people block you for not blocking the same instances as you

@hakan_geijer yeah, and part of doing health outreach is meeting people where they are at, understanding the reasons they take certain personal decisions, and then working from there through a harm reduction framework. you can't just preach at people

Is it just me or is there a large part of the still-coviding movement that has a strong charge of victim-blaming around people who have had covid? That is very smug about having never had it? I just saw a post about someone bragging about how they never got it because they masked, but oh buddy. Honey. The first time I got it I hadn't left the house in a year except for the most absolutely necessary things (signing contracts with clients so I could get paid, paying bills, etc.), and we're pretty sure my wife got it when she left the house to pay the water bill, because that was the only time any of us had human contact in the previous week. So maybe if you're bragging about how you never got it because you do know how to follow instructions, maybe you just got lucky, and on top of that are a bit of an asshole

Social movements around diseases should be led by those who have it, not those who are smug about having avoided it, and as someone with long covid I don't actually feel comfortable around a lot of still-coviding people because of their victim-blaming attitudes

And they say that capitalism offers no solutions to our problems