Notices by Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse)

now that millennials are all grown up, a lot of our boomer parents are like, "oh, church fucking sucks. we just pretended to believe all that shit so we could abuse you."

@sinvega
i'm still kinda haunted by the existence of a call of duty that's like, "we built this orbital megalaser to terrorize the global south into submission, but somehow they've gotten a hold of it and now they're terrorizing us! mom!! mo-om!!"

@sinvega
20000 cringe call of duties but also bespoke cringe shit like "50 cent: blood on the sand"

@AnarchoNinaWrites
I've noticed the same pattern in articles defending him:

1. pointing out that he's a "journalist," but only as a status signifier — no attention paid to the actual *work* of journalism, journalistic ethics, &c.

2. defending his "opinions" or "positions" as normal — no attention paid to his weird alliance with "kiwi farmers," the invasive personal frame he takes when women like Julia Serano criticize him, &c.

Singal never *does* anything in these stories, he simply *is*

@nixCraft
i guess i liked bitbucket somewhat but then they killed mercurial support so it could be yet another git front-end

don't want a spotify but i can tell you about the music i got really into this year

• Petsitter!
• Castle Rat!
• Teke-Teke!

Castle Rat — very "larpcore" doom metal! love to see millenials taking a genre i grew up with and really owning it like this

https://castlerat.bandcamp.com/track/cry-for-me-2

Petsitter — literally a social-media friend was like "oh also i released an album this week, no big deal, back to the shitposting mines" and it was an amazing album

https://petsitter.bandcamp.com/track/i-wont

Teke-Teke — just, like, goddamn they're so good, impeccable vibes, idk how to even describe it??

https://teketekeband.bandcamp.com/track/meikyu

@AnarchoNinaWrites
i feel like the most obvious thing here is that everyone who sees their coworker getting persecuted and says, "by not standing up for her i'm just following her lead, this is what respectful allyship looks like" is a monster and a liar

@Epidiah
video games like "Heroes of Might & Magic" and "Age of Wonders" ended up as an interesting hybrid where your army is also kind of an adventuring party and your little (mostly combat) adventures are unlocking military and economic resources from the visited locales

i feel like the thing that's missing from all the online voting discourse is that the core part of your base doesn't just vote, they *move their communities* by doing all the annoying door-knocker volunteer shit that gets other people voting

and they can't do that very well if they're eating shit

because you need enthusiasm to do all that volunteer shit

and you need enthusiasm to *sell* the candidate, it's the bedrock of doing outreach with any semblance of sincerity

@gwynnion
one of the cops (Swanson) shows up when you ctrl+f this article, lmao

https://newrepublic.com/article/161103/qanon-cultification-american-right

@gwynnion
i just feel like if you spent a year hunting fantasy mexican pedophiles side-by-side with a sex pest you should sit out "politics" for a little while

there is no major political party in the united states that is not in favor of liquidating the ghetto

all of this wrangling about what is the right way for palestinians to get to talk for five minutes at the big show wouldn't even happening if the president just stopped giving israel 2000-lb. bombs around the time that story about soldiers using a dying girl as bait to kill paramedics came out

i feel like the thing we should teach kids about being online is that you're just gonna run into the same missing stair for, like, decades, constantly hassling the same people

(this is also true in many in-person communities, to be clear)

@JasonPerseus
none of this can be disputed:
• routine massacres of civilians, including refugees
• non-combatants tortured to the point of death or maiming, including torture of a sexual nature
• famine conditions
• destruction of life-sustaining civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and water treatment facilities
• blockade of humanitarian resources
• targeted attacks on civilian medics and foreign aid workers

setting aside the label for a moment — how can anyone support *all this shit?*

@JasonPerseus
you're some sort of lawyer, right?

feel free to read South Africa's submission to the ICJ if you want a bunch of quotes of Israeli leaders saying they want to do genocidal shit to Gaza

that's an example of documented intent

someone who looks at that and says "looks like a genocide is happening!" isn't avoiding the issue — they've articulating a conclusion based on evidence

but, if their word choice is wrong somehow: u.s. weapons are being used to massacre civilians regularly

@JasonPerseus @waitworry
it's an *incredibly* black-and-white situation given that the starting point of the whole thing is a state of continuing apartheid, blockade, and occupation with the explicit goal of ghettoizing Gaza and ethnically cleansing Palestinians from the West Bank

the main reason people disagree is that they think Palestinians deserve what's happening to them, or that it's a sad inevitability required to achieve some magical dream-Israel that they are obligated to support