Notices by baconandcoconut (baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone), page 3

You do not have to do one big ball of governance all at once. VM Brasseur at @SeaGL on how you can start small with governance and iterate.

Happy Star Trek Day, y'all!

May the Data be with you. 😉😁😘🖖🖖🖖

#StarTrekDay
#StarTrek58Years

@SeaGL Day two of SeaGL! Excited to see some talks and give my talk. :blobsnuggle:

LOL. According to her research, people submit crappy bad code to "dirty repos" and nice clean code to clean, well-maintained repos. The same people. @kaylea at @SeaGL

@jeffowski *Only* people who don't think themselves and their loved ones are about to be targeted and endangered by state funded, facilitated and supported violence are worried. :blobdisapproval:

@peterbrown @Aphrodite @stevenrosenthal @spaf Which is a thing people could work on at the state level, although for obvious reasons people belonging to each state's minority party would be the most motivated to make it happen.

@seachanger I'm also a white woman and I don't want to tell people "never take breaks." Maybe a useful piece of advice for white women might be to show up and conserve your energy by NOT putting your fingerprints on everything. On topics that aren't about us, we don't have to always weigh in on the tactics and messaging and we don't have to make sure our perspectives are included in the final plan. That could be a less tiring and more sustainable plan for everyone involved.

@SeaGL I'm giving a talk on "How to Solve Brand New Problems" on Saturday morning. Looking forward to seeing some friendly faces out at UW this weekend!

https://pretalx.seagl.org/2024/talk/AXHJ7S/

On another note, I'm in Seattle today for @SeaGL which starts tomorrow! Let me know if you're also in town for SeaGL!

@Aphrodite @stevenrosenthal @spaf I think changing the way the national parties interact with voters in all states might've changed the way the popular vote went. Maybe it wouldn't have been enough this time, if we'd changed it say, 4 years ago, but decades of ignoring voters in 30 or so states would take a long time to fix.

@QasimRashid Agree. I think a longer time with Harris as the candidate could've helped. Yeah, a lot of people would've still voted Trump but more time for individual conversations with swing voters about their specific issues could only have helped. And maybe with a linger time the mainstream media would've had to cover something other than, "Who even is she?" bc it would've gotten old.

@Aphrodite @stevenrosenthal @spaf Oregon is a "safely democratic state" and I think voters in safe states" feel increasingly like they don't matter. National candidates don't talk to us, but they do send 1000 fundraising requests for outreach to other voters. If voters in "safe states" voted third party or just didn't vote then that doesn't feel like the right place for our collective anger to me. Maybe instead it should power a conversation about abolishing the electoral college?

@dan613 @alicemcalicepants @TheBreadmonkey @LoganFive Yeah, many of those folks are elderly and/or experiencing dementia.

@jackemled Ahh. Good to know. Perhaps this org is a good one for donating then, https://transequality.org/

@jackemled The mismanagement stuff news to me and I mentioned this somewhere else where another person mentioned that there might be better options to call for self harm thoughts. If you've got alternatives, please share them. (I'll also do some more research.)

@glyph Yes and... being kind to yourself means you will be more likely to have the health and energy to do all the things we're going to need to do. So yeah, take a walk, take a shower, cook a nice meal for yourself, etc.

Between here and the horrors, we must each do what we can. And that means helping each other. But it also means doing what we are good at.

There *are* some people for whom that is constantly posting about politics. We need polemicists and "influencers", polling analysts and newscasters. But that's not me. And if it's not you, either, you need to give yourself grace not just to rest and grieve, but to get back to your actual work, even if it feels further from the fight.

@Ashedryden Selfish opportunists. Gross.

@peterbutler @inthehands I think we can work on things locally. Run progressives locally. Craft local policy that feels like it's 100 years ahead of the Federal government. Work with our neighbors on building the connections and trust that makes us all stronger.

Another place you might consider pitching in for the long haul (and wow, is it going to be long) is with Run For Something. They work on getting young progressives, especially women, queer people and non-white candidates into office. Their newsletter this morning has some good news from the down ballot races they worked on.

https://open.substack.com/pub/rfsfeelgoodupdates/p/rfs-feel-good-update-116-what-happened?r=4nyezs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email