Notices by Diligence Jones (deliachristina@sfba.social), page 2

Last year, for my birthday, I told the Heauxtation to give me Treats. They came through with massages, cocktails, back blowage, and various shenanigans.

This year, I'm asking for specific Treats: a fancy ass charcuterie board/box, aka Adult Lunchables.

I want to spend my 55th relaxing, being middle-aged, and eating fancy meats and cheeses on crackers.

#ThisIs55 #Heauxtation #MiddleAgedHotness

So....basically Kamala walked Trump like a dog.

SNORT.

#debate

@Polychrome

That sounds like Nonprofit or the Law.

As more and more USian folks post their interactions with cops I hope this is becoming clearer to everyone:

while Black folks and brown folks still experience an outsized amount of contact with LEOs (which often leads to unjustified death and murder of Black folks), the risk is spreading to everyone, including white folks.

Traffic stops escalating, egregious arrests for minor things (like trespassing when you're waiting for a bus you missed or providing translation help when a cop isn't listening to a woman struggling with English), wellness checks going horribly wrong, school discipline turning into child abuse quickly -- cops are a direct threat to *every* community.

Engage with them (if one must) as you would a wild, unpredictable animal.

#ACAB #BLM

Also, tiktok is a bunch of SOBs for giving me strikes for saying ACAB but leaving up comments I've reported for using the n-word and threatening women with sexual Assault.

Interesting content moderation standards.

This is super depressing.

"Between 2019 and 2022, nearly 40% of countries – home to more than 1 billion women and girls – stagnated or declined on gender equality."

#GenderEquality

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/sep/04/gender-equality-stalling-or-going-backwards-for-1bn-women-and-girls

Leaders,

Asking folks with the *least* power in the room to take the most risks (or what feels like the most risk to them) is just not the way.

If you want them to show up, you need to create the path for them to participate in ways that meet them where they're at.

Yeah. That's a lot of work.
But you can either do that or watch as they disengage one by one.

Jesus I'm cranky.

#Leadership

We spent the afternoon in a Bestie's backyard, burning our journals, incinerating old histories.

I called it Burning Gal. I burned 2002-2013. The grief sex, the comp het, the desperate emptiness that was my companion after my mother died in 2001. I burned the seeking, the mistakes; I burned Steve, Ben, Matthew, Mike, and all the ones in between.

We ate hot dogs grilled on the embers of our burned journals. Benson laid on an old yoga mat (now his picnic mat), chomping on watermelon in the shade, and I let my baggage go.

I came home lighter -- and tanner. Showering the smoke smell out my hair, I thought about how far I've come.

And how one thing hasn't changed much: my lack of work/life balance.

Guess I know what my unfinished business is.

#Today

Things Benson Put In His Mouth Today:

A whole damn croissant.🥐
A bag of organic potting soil.🪴
A neighbor's Amazon delivery📦 (through his muzzle!)

I love his bouts of senior-puppy energy but gotdamn.

That was super extra.

#BensonUpdate

There's a developing story about massive telegram rooms discovered by feminists in south Korea that basically showcase why women choose the Bear. Widescale sexual violence against women -- virtual and actual.

The way that men take a relatively value neutral thing like a chat room and transform it into a channel for the worst kind of violence against women. Just disgusting.

Here's a video about it.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNwbUD3L/

My dad has decided to vote for #Kamala.

The last time this man voted was probably for Carter, Mondale, or maaaaaaybe Obama.

He said Michelle Obama fired him up.

Again, target audience reached.

Q: why are y'all leftists nagging the Dems about Gaza/economic policy/whatever problematic position they have when you could be nagging Trump who would be far worse on those issues?

I see that question a lot on here and I'm going to cut y'all a break and pretend it's being asked in good faith.

So here I am, pulling back the curtain on issue advocacy.

One of the first things you do in these campaigns is know who needs to move. Who's the Decider? Who has the POWER to do what you want done?

Then you ask yourself, Can the Decider be moved? Yes or No?

And WHO can push the Decider to Move?

And then, what levers can be pulled to trigger all that movement so that the Decider sluggishly decides to move?

1/

Trump is immoveable AND he's not the target. He's not the Decider. So stop asking folks to bother Trump. That's stupid (I'll just be blunt - that's boneheaded and ignorant.)

So that leaves who the real Decider is/are: The Biden-Harris admin.

And the triggers are their supporters during this election.

If the issue is Gaza, advocates and activists *should* be trying to leverage all the folks who are excited about the Harris win so WE can carry that message into the DNC and create a really uncomfortable atmosphere in order to push BidenHarris on selling arms to Izzy.

If the issue is something else, yeah, you use your messengers and your grassroots to create pressure. That's the whole point. You FORCE (by carrot or stick) the Decider to move.

2/

@inthehands

I'm relieved she survived the primary!!

If you haven't read Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom's piece on the ilegibility of Black women to Trump and his team, you really should.

For folks who manage hybrid remote teams:

If you do something for team members who are on site (like office waffles), how do you create an inclusive and equitable experience for the folks who are remote?

Asking for a friend who is Me.

#RemoteWork #Inclusivity #managing_people

Ah.
Spies on Horseback.

#paris2024 #ModernPentathlon

Wait. They're just running around the tiny horse jumping area? They don't get a chance to run through Versailles?!?

Didn't they used to run cross country and then stop at stations throughout and shoot at some targets? Like real spies?

What kind of race is this?!?
Hmph.

It's like they're running around a mini golf course.
Hmph.

#paris2024 #ModernPentathlon

So basically the Modern Pentathlon is a modern reimagining of Musketeer Bootcamp.

Big fencing melee.
A horse jumping course on a horse you just met.
More fencing.
A weird footrace.
Some swimming.
Some shooting.

And then you dedicate your life to defending the Crown.

Basically.*

Whennnn is the Men's Final? Did I miss it? And what is the final? Do they run around a different mini-golf course?

I wanna see which spy wins.

#paris2024 #ModernPentathlon