Notices by Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse), page 2

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

@JasonPerseus @waitworry
when the IDF starts shooting fish in a barrel you kinda have to ask how those fish all got in the barrel in the first place

you keep saying there's ample reason to disagree but you haven't offered any actual examples

@larsfrommars
time to rebrand mastodon as Verrit

@silverwizard
so kinda like "devops (we have a lot of devs and one person who does ops)?"

@AnarchoNinaWrites
and the people who get nuclear-level defensive about it instantly are never doing it over, like, some piece of really effective messaging that's problematic in a certain context

it's always just some shit-tier facebook memes

like, yeah, bro, you were so close to winning the propaganda war with that meme you copied right out of a "boomer cringe compilation"

@AnarchoNinaWrites
how many fucking republicans have recent democratic administrations appointed to "cop boss" / "spy boss" jobs in the past few decades? i've lost count by now

@AnarchoNinaWrites
if it wasn't mid-summer and political campaign season, he'd have shot up a school instead

not sure why people are twisting themselves in knots figuring this out

@AnarchoNinaWrites
honestly, i know this is all ghoul games for murderous ghouls, but i gotta admit that whoever got all the declarations of support lined up so cleanly without leaking anything did a good job of it

banking and credit card processors sabotage sex workers because they're prudes, but also because the people paying sex workers often pretend they were defrauded the second anyone else looks at their monthly statement

so it's two slightly different kinds of conservative cowardice working together

the whole country's gonna get soooo many lectures about "political violence" from the people who think all of society will crumble if the cops don't beat the shit out of black teens and homeless people every day of the week

i continue to hold the opinion that the only way you're gonna get everyone to use alt text is to actually integrate it with the experience for sighted users:

• all users should be able to interact with alt text easily, in a form that's friendly to font scaling and copy-paste

• it should be searchable (this is a *killer* feature — now you can find your old art/memes/photos using simple text search!)

• the alt-text indicator should never cover up part of the image, that's a huge anti-pattern

@silverwizard
i definitely got the computer stockhold syndrome about a lot of things

@silverwizard
i get not moving your fingers; my point is that J and K should have had their values reversed

you gotta admit the "HJKL" thing is heinous and unintuitive:

when editing text in most languages,

Left and Up are the two "backward" directions

Right and Down are the two "forward" directions

but it places Down (J) next to Left and Up (K) next to Right

@silverwizard
my friend wrote a really good article about this

https://grimoire.ca/code/incident-response/

i would rather have a constitutional crisis than this thing where we just sorta pretend one isn't happening while the worst people in the world reap all the benefits