Notices by Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)

I'm definitely seeing new followers. Hi! Thanks for coming here. I know it's fiddly but I think it's worth it.

Here's the most important tip I can give you:

\🥳/ HASHTAGS \🥳/

Like old Twitter, this place lives on hashtags. Here's how to use them:

1) Put tags on EVERYTHING you don't want hidden.

1A) Seriously. Everything. Keep them appropriate! But.

2) FOLLOW hashtags. That's a thing you can do here. You can follow a hashtag like you can follow a person. Type in the search box, select it, then click follow.

4) Whenever you see someone interesting on that hashtag? Follow them. Follow people WITH ABANDON. Unfollow if it doesn't work out, that's okay here!

That's it. Welcome!

#twitter #x #BlueSky #TwitterMigration

So here's the breakdown: white woman moved to Harris, but not quite a majority. Latino men moved heavily to Trump, and it was not just a majority, but a 33 point swing from 2020.

Not a thing I saw coming. I mean... how do you vote for the guy calling you and yours what he calls you? How do you vote for the one _campaigning_ on an _ethnic purge against you_?

That's not all of it, but it's a lot of it.

This isn't over but this is some very, very bad case scenario here.

ETA: Poll source is NBC News, and it's across the "battleground" states plus Florida. Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin. Here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism

I expected 2024 to have more overt religion and less overt Hitlerites. I mean, in the end, the fundamentalist movement will get whatever it wants out of a Trump presidency – and that’s a lot – but I didn’t think they’d be so openly support someone so pro-Hitler.

Not just fascist, not even just Nazi: pro-Hitler.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/10/23/they-dont-even-pretend-its-not-true-anymore/

#fascism #uspolitics #uspol #politics #trump #maga #election2024 #2024election

(this being a CWed repost for those who prefer them)

With Orange Mussolini saying yet again that he'll use the military against his political opponents on the ground, I keep recalling the words of top-level Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov some few weeks ago, addressing those of us who monitor such things directly, on the air, telling us to get it straight:

"We don't care about your politics! We care about your CIVIL WAR."

I don't know how to work this into an article yet. Tomorrow's comes close, I might yet find a way to work it in.

But they really want a second American civil war, and Trump's eager to give it to them.

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism

i annotated a clip of harris and the pause

#uspolitics #politics #uspol #debate #debate2024

y'gotta understand. nobody - and i mean nobody - agrees to be this douchbag's lawyer if they don't have a humiliation kink. they just can't.

#trump #magats #fascism #uspol #uspolitics #politics

Mr. Trump, as we all should know, promises a military- and police-driven mass deportation effort, expelling millions of people. As will be inevitable in all such ethnic purges – and has happened in the previous cases of such purges in the United States – many other people seen as “undesirable” will be simultaneously expelled.

How does The New York Times choose to characterise this military- and police-driven ethnic purge today?

As Trump’s _housing affordability plan_.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/08/30/the-new-york-times-is-an-obscenity/

#fascism #uspol #uspolitics #politics #NYTimes #racism #housing

Looks like mastodon.social has a fleet of incoming trollbots. The typical mode of operation (based on those I've seen from this wave) is to create a new account, reblog a bunch of old posts - mostly political - to fill their timelines so they don't look empty on first glance, then go trolling into replies.

The funniest so far has been the one which posts in Russian because apparently the operator forgot to set the reply language. So _that's_ hilarious.

Unfortunately, this round seems to be hardened against "ignore all previous instructions" so there's no fun - yet - to be had there.

#fediblock

Y'know, if you separate off the Palestinian part of the Israel-Palestine section of the speech, it's actually pretty good.

But goddamn, I wish we'd got more in the Israel half.

The needle she's trying to thread probably isn't threadable and she gave it a shot, and maybe it was the best a major party could do.

But... damn.

Way too much passive voice. Suffering isn't just happening. It's being caused, and Bibi is maximising it.

But at the same time, you say that here, and now? And if there's _any_ shot of getting a ceasefire, it goes away at that very moment.

Once again, sometimes this shit is... hard. Really hard.

#uspolitics #uspol #politics #israel #DNC2024

oh this is neat

harris's acceptance speech isn't until thursday but she's making a special appearance by remote from her rally tonight

which means she's addressing a packed arena _from another packed arena_.

_that's_ clever and holy _shit_ it works

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #dns2025

Given how… blessedly normal… the DNC is this year, I thought it might be good to revive a couple of stories and images from the Republican National Convention, in order to to provide some contrast between that fest of fear and fascism what we're seeing now.

I know, most people reading me don’t really need the reminder, but it might be useful to remind some of your zero-attention-span low-info-white-voter friends of exactly how nuts that was, in the context of a political convention that’s actually about improving the state of the republic.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/08/20/offered-in-contrast/

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism

how do I say "the pound sign"? do you actually want me to say "the pound sign"?

i hate voice recognition bullshit so much

oh good the equifax website account creation doesn't work on chromium either

it's time for PHONE CALLS AGAIN

#christ #herewego #equifax

and it told me to copy a bunch of documents but didn't say which and mail to them to a post office box, what the actual fuck, and then hung up on me.

United Healthcare, you have competition!

#Equifax #UnitedHealthcare

(no you don't want that you want me to hit the pound sign button despite the fact that everything else is voice)

take two LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

#Equifax

it's demanding i go to the website

it's demanding i go to the website

it hung up on me.

#equifax

every answer this time is gonna be REPRESENTATIVE

"I understand you would like to speak to an agent, is this correct?"

okay I'll say "yes" this time. but that's it.

#equifax

if you answer before it's entirely through whatever voicemail menu it might be spooling at you right now, it backs up to the previous menu

#equifax