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

i feel like "rfk jr wants to do pol-pot shit to anyone who takes adhd meds" is a story that i should have been able to find out about last year, when he said it originally

just leaving this here as a useful guidepost to how white-power politics has always worked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre

@jonathankoren @waitworry @PallasRiot
the thing that drives me nuts is how it just gets endlessly edited and restructured, like half the people quoting the "poem" are basically like, "well i can say *that one,* people don't like them!!"

@waitworry @jonathankoren @PallasRiot
yup. and it was literally anti-communism that led him into supporting Hitler in the first place.

his 1946 speech also mentions Aktion T4 against disabled people and every single version of the "poem" I've seen ignores that

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i think that the (undiluted) admonition is useful but it kinda bothers me that Neimoller is the guy everyone's "learning from" when people like Hirschfeld already had the fascists thoroughly figured out as early as 1920

in a truly free and democratic society we would've killed all those guys with hammers by now

@purplepadma
all the people who call themselves "social media refugees" have very deep "expat" energy, tbqh

like when the "blue wave" democratic-party fandom people all jumped to bluesky in fall 2024 it was just constant interactions with people acting like they owned the place despite having showed up five minutes ago, with near-zero ability to actually communicate with another person

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