Notices by Diligence Jones (deliachristina@sfba.social), page 3

I would respect this more if they were at least forced to jump over the jump rails like a steeplechase or something.

Hmph.

What a weird event.

#ModernPentathlon #paris2024

Also, what the heck is wrong with the US men's relay team??

And yayyyyy! US women's relay team got the job *done*!

Clearly, I'm catching up on my Olympic highlights.

I loved these summer Games. From the weird ass Frenchiness to the girl power to the esprit de sportz.

It has been a welcome brain break from the current ongoing dumpster fire that is western civilization.

#paris2024

Am I the only one who watches this weird ass event?

It cracks me up.

I also like the musicality of telling someone to 'eat a bag of dicks.'

It just feels good to say.

@bradwilson
And I just got the visual pun. LOL.

Calling me a proto fascist Trump supporter (for saying marginalized brown people suffering at the hands of US foreign policy SHOULD apply pressure to the presumptive candidate because it's a fucking democracy) gets a fucking block and some well-delivered profanity.

ASS.

Amazing.
Folks thinking that this community lobbying the current WH admin aren't from *this country* is incredible.

"Fuck off! I'm worried about THIS country!! Worry about Bibi later!"

Honey, people who live in THIS country are being personally affected by US foreign policy in the middle east. THEIR families, friends live in Gaza or have been displaced from it, or killed there. By OUR weapons. And we're about to send in more air support as Israel disrupts the entire region with its war on Lebanon and skirmishes in the Golan Heights (Syria). Which means more families in the US being affected.

Do people not know diasporic populations live HERE and have for a while?? And they VOTE.

My GOD the ignorance.

This what I have to say about the significant core of folks still amplifying the US position on arming Israel and calling for an answer from the presumptive candidate:

They are making very good points. Points that a significant amount of us agree with.

They have every right to pressure Kamala to make her position clear.

Kamala's team should take their position seriously -- especially if they want to win in certain geographies.

What isn't cool is a bunch of folks who've decided to quickly fall in formation behind Kamala to pressure these folks to shut up. No. They should keep going. She wants to be the candidate, then she can struggle with how arming an apartheid state conflicts with that vision of EVERYONE HAS A SEAT AT THE TABLE, lady.

What also isn't cool is a bunch of white leftist bros getting up in brown folks' faces to lecture us on solidarity. Y'all are the LEAST solidarity focused or reliable assholes on this planet. Shut up.

@evan
However -- it's an attack Kamala (and other Black folks) is used to.

We literally get this every day, no matter what level of accomplishment we reach. Even me -- and I'm not a veep.

These kinds of attacks are, on one hand, exhausting but not diverting.

Because our paths are strewn with the bodies of folks who underestimated us.

That's one reason why the crowd of Black journalists laughed at Trump. He can try it but errrrrryone can see his weirdass racist bullshit. And it's nothing new.

@evan
i really believe that was the real start of what we see now. it didn't matter if their accusations were founded in truth (they weren't); it just mattered that the media and other influential platforms/people amplified it so that it became a sort of Truth.

they were everywhere. they adapted quickly to the new media landscape and the growing opportunity of social media.

Colleague: yeah, must be some weird cold we're having in July.

Girl, it's Covid.
You and your husband have Covid.

#CovidIsNotOver

I am convinced that Celine Dion's #ParisOlympics performance was the emotional catharsis the entire world needed.

Seriously.

I've been watching reaction videos for the past hour, and everyone around the world burst into sobs.

the announcer all choked up.
pull yourself together! you have weeks of inspiration to get through!

This is probably why I'm wearing my 'God grant me the confidence of a mediocre white dude' t-shirt today to the office.

My last ceo did *not* like it when my team wore our shirts all on the same day. Heh. He could eat it.

And hey!
It fits me even better these days. Whoo!

#NotHumble

A girlfriend is buying a 5br 2 ba house in Chicago metro for 600k.

Sighing in Bay area.

#RentingForever

Over the weekend, my dad had a friend over the house who kept going on and on about Trump's 'genius.'

I was mad until I realized it's the Dude Caucus at work: no matter how mediocre, most dudes will back each other up, especially when the alternative is to support a woman.

In this very specific incident, it was a man of color caping for a fascist rather than say a Black woman could kick his electoral ass.

I'm so tired of the patriarchy and misogynoir.

Dying isn't what it looks like in the movies.

In the movies you don't see the mess, the frustration, the sadness.

Especially when you die poor.

Dying poor in the US means you die hard and your family goes through the hard with you. The hard of hospice care -- when you're on Medicaid and have scant resources. The hard of estate planning -- when there is no estate. The hard of settling debt -- when there was no financial rigor in the first place.The hard of making peace -- when there is no peace for a man whose family trauma traps him in a cycle of self deception and anger.

Who was the poet that said 'do not go easy into that good night'? Dylan Thomas? I want dad to die easy. I want his passing to be gentle and soft.

But it's not going to be that. It's going to be struggle.

That's what I cried about. That's what I'm grieving. That I can't even give my dad an easy death when he deserves and needs it.

Gotdamn this is hard.

#DadsLump #Adulting

What the HELL just happened.

Welp.
Today is over.

It was hard.
Dad's paperwork was all over the place but at least we got started organizing it.

But we are facing some hard truths about dad's ability to take care of himself at a level that is reassuring. If I had to give him a grade he's scratching a C-/D+.

There's more but I need to process it.

But he's OK. For an under resourced Black man dying of cancer.

#DadsLump

Also, he has an adorable dog. A shiba-huahua. And poor thing has been so neglected.

Dad's one of those old school dog owners. Poor thing was unwalked, bored, had fleas, was stinky as hell, and looked up at me with big eyes.

I took things in hand. Walked him. Peed and pooped him. Gave him porch time. Ordered dog grooming stuff, shampoos, medicated wash, flea collar, washing glove.

Dad was like, He hates water.

I scooped up that dog, put him in the sink, and gave him the best bath he's had in his life. The fleas were jumping off him. He tucked himself under my arm and into my chest as I rubbed him with a towel and brushed him. My cute mini dress was ruined but whatever.

Dad: You're doing witchcraft.

Hmph. Dogs know who Mommy is.