Notices by Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)

I had seen this photo and re-creation of it, and thought it was cool, but now that I know the full story, doubly so.

When you're unkind to children, they don't stop loving you, they stop loving themselves.

What makes sandwich fillings woke?! Does the cheese make you a feminist? Try our Black Lives Matter Egg Salad?! You have to get the I'm A Decent Person Cranberry Mustard?!

Okay, first of all, How dare you hit so close to home?!

House Hunters: So, what are you looking for?

Clients: Just a small simple cabin, something cozy.

The small simple cozy cabin they choose:

It's good to have priorities.

This is so frustrating!

You can't force someone to treat you better.

I wish when I became an adult the other adults in my life would have explained that you don't actually feel like a grown up, you just sort of feel like a kid pretending to be an adult, and hoping everything works out.

This is my message to women, minorities, LGBTQ+, Disabled people, ect. Ruin their lives, tell on them, show them actions have consequences. Report everything you can, encourage others to do the same. This is my message to cis men, back them up, shame the assholes. Let's stand up for each other. Peer pressure can be used for good.

When you roll a 20 for Attack, but 1 for Damage:

My Experience With Algorithm Extremism:

So, most of us have been through this. I needed to buy a rug, so, I searched a few websites, and purchased what I needed. Now over a week later, I'm still getting ads for rugs. You bought a rug, DON'T YOU WANT A DOZEN MORE!

This is mostly an annoyance, an Algorithm missing it's mark, but what if this also applied to ideas? Let me tell you another story:

If you follow me, you probably already know I'm a pretty ardent feminist. Occasionally, I will peruse other websites, and social media (not X, ffs get off X) that use Algorithms. I had liked a few feminist posts, so the Algorithm said she likes these let's give her more, which was nice, at first. I started noticing they were getting more extreme, less women deserve equality, and moving more into Fuck all men, I hope they die, territory. Not a fan of that, but I figured it's a one off no big deal. Within a few days it had moved into full TERF territory. It took several weeks of me aggressively blocking and reporting every post I saw for it to disappear from my Timeline.

Now imagine if you're a young man who searches or asks on social media, Why won't women date me?, think about how quickly they could get pulled into a world of lies and extremism. Imagine asking any question about a group of marginalized people. This is why places like Mastodon will become more and more essential, and why teaching children critical thinking skills is paramount.

Someone (who chose not to be tagged in this post) asked this question:

How are some of us aware and appalled that this (misinformation) is happening and others just go all in with the conspiracies?

What do you all think? What makes the difference?

Please refrain from just calling people stupid, I know it can definitely feel that way, but we can do better than that.

This would also work for me!

Oh, and despite everything the Ozone is still healing. It's almost as if when we make laws to help the planet, it helps the planet.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153523/ozone-hole-continues-healing-in-2024

American Alligators are no longer endangered.

In 2016, the global literacy rate of adult women was 83% compared to 90% for adult men. That 7% spread equates to a 263-million-person difference – that’s about the population size of Indonesia, the fourth largest country in the world. The good news is that the literacy rate globally has increased by 17.5% in 40 years, and the gender gap in literacy has decreased from 61% for women and 77% for men.

The phaseout of leaded gasoline has prevented more than 1.2 million premature deaths and saved $2.44 trillion per year. Lead exposure can have detrimental effects on children's brains and nervous systems.

The thing about positive changes is that they take a long time to institute, and often we don't notice positive change, it just becomes a part of our lives. This is why staying the course is imperative and why education is so important. And BTW negative changes can take a long time to institute too, so we should fight them as hard as we can.

Despite deforestation, America has more trees than we did 100 years ago, and so do many other countries. Now we work on the Amazon.