Notices by M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im), page 5

@steter I suspect that 90% of the mutual aid requests we see here are scammers. It makes me sad, but I won't donate to anyone I can't trace a strong human connection to.

Anyone out there reasonably adept at Photoshop? I need a picture of Ted Nugent wearing Minnie Pearl's price-tagged HeeHaw hat, for: reasons.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-says-firing-kennedy-232612293.html

Dear Everyone Physically Near A Certain Billionaire:

LUIGI IS A VERB.

@flyingsaceur @paninid Wait, #TESCREAL stands for "transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism"? My God. It's like that one stoned guy I used to debate late at night in my freshman dorm, who dropped out the next year, suddenly is in charge of policy.

In "It's A Wonderful Life," George Bailey is born in 1907 and therefore turns 65 in 1972, which is the year The Poseidon Adventure was released.

In my head, it's canon that when George retired from the Bailey Building & Loan, the grateful community of Bedford Falls all chipped in to send him and Donna Reed on the trip he'd always dreamed of – where they die on a doomed ship capsized by a freak tsunami.

This is how I'm starting to feel about America in general.

If I edit a poll post to correct a typo, will it reset the count?

@Nazani @kelson @steter @ai6yr Because even if the Army is courageous enough to stand against illegal orders, they absolutely are trained to obey merely stupid ones.

@kelson @steter @ai6yr Trump releasing water from reservoirs in Tulare County to help with the now-extinguished fires in Los Angeles is like a spaceship captain dumping his ship's oxygen out the airlock so it can be breathed by a spacewalking astronaut... who's not currently suffocating.

@arstechnica MY GOD, IT ACTUALLY WORKS! "Who were the three greatest Romans?" yields an AI result; "Who were the three fucking greatest fucking Romans?" turns AI off.

@nazokiyoubinbou @MCDuncanLab Ding ding ding! Trump doesn't have authority to make this promise! If you quit, you will not be paid.

@nazokiyoubinbou @fizzlebah @MCDuncanLab It's just the GOP. It's the Republican Party. We need to make Republicanism itself radioactive.

@nazokiyoubinbou @fizzlebah @MCDuncanLab But for communications purposes, it's important that we make them one thing. Which, ultimately, they are. But even if they weren't, it doesn't matter: for comms, it's all "the GOP."

@nazokiyoubinbou @fizzlebah @MCDuncanLab That's because we've never messaged correctly. We've never truly FOUGHT. Or, at least, the Dems haven't, and they're the only ones positioned to do so with maximum effect.

@nazokiyoubinbou @fizzlebah @MCDuncanLab I'm a former trial lawyer and a former political journalist.

Simpler is better. Repeat constantly. It takes a hundred iterations before it sinks in: "The GOP did this. The GOP did this. Blame the GOP. The GOP did this." Over and over and over and over and over.

@nazokiyoubinbou @fizzlebah @MCDuncanLab Except GOP makes it clear who the Nazis are. Otherwise, people might think "Nazis" are merely a subset of "Republicans."

@nazokiyoubinbou @fizzlebah @MCDuncanLab Some voters still mistakenly think that only Trump and his advisors are the fascists here. We need to make it clear that the entire GOP is responsible and that no Republican is good.

@skinnylatte How can one not have a small bowl? Soup is the most scaleable food! Want one ounce? Have an ounce!

The rich are destroying America so they can buy it at fire sale prices – think of all the homes that can be turned into corporate-owned rentals when the r.e. market crashes and unemployment soars! – and somehow they don't realize that when that happens the rest of us will just fucking kill and eat them and take our homes back.

@earthlingusa @RickiTarr The best answer I can think of to their "flood the zone" tactic is to pick one thing you can do to resist, and do it. Then repeat. If millions of us just persistently do what we can, they'll lose.

@egallager @GraniteGeek Hmmmm. If only I could remember the word that describes a political leader whose dictum is law without any further procedures....