AmberWavesoFlame @AmberWavesofFlame@qoto.org

@nosat nice dodge. Since I’m sure you don’t mean to imply you will only do so if called out about it, my question stands.

@nosat if it turns out that he “died suddenly” because he was hit by a truck or something, will you be updating this post, or nah?

@drskyskull

@gvdr for psychology, the whole disease model itself, literally built into the language of #mentalillness which is an unfortunate Frankenstein of several different concepts crudely stitched together. Especially where we pathologize natural protective reactions to horrible situations just to get people any help.

Mental illness was such a vast improvement on previous models, and critical for destigmatizing treatment and researching physical causes, but it needs more…development?

@gvdr #BMI. For years and years we’ve all known it’s a terrible way to measure obesity, they were never intended to be used to measure individual obesity anyway, and yet they still persist somehow.

Honorable mention to massive amounts of junk #forensics that are still widely used in policing and court despite having essentially zero evidentiary support.

@sarahburris Trump didn’t humiliate their party, Matt Gaetz didn’t humiliate their party, MTG didn’t humiliate their party, kissing a Russian dictator’s ass didn’t humiliate their party, but this is where they draw the line, just too unstatesmanlike.

@FJH2112 he actually has a terrible track record of endorsements. Nobody actually respects his opinion, they all just use him as a means to an end for power. Even his biggest fans— notice, all they ever talk about is who and what Trump is going to fight for them, not his ideas and certainly not his judgment of character.

#speaker #speakerofthehouse #speakervote

@knittingknots https://meduza.io/amp/en/news/2022/12/27/putin-gives-rings-of-power-to-eight-cis-leaders-keeping-another-one-for-himself

@adamasnemesis astonishes me how many people still buy into “look what you made me do” as valid discourse to shift responsibility away from spite, destruction, and abuse towards the targets of it.

#winter #memes #runninglate #humor #oof

@emsquared that being said, I mislike the accelerationist line of thought willing to throw others under the deadly bus of “things getting much worse before they get better.” Pushing for reform without violent upheaval is hard, discouraging work, but the magical thinking of those who treat rock bottom as a necessary part of a fade-to-black, ashes-forged Grand Solution represents a more subtle form of giving up. And it makes people vulnerable to Qanon-like grifts.

@emsquared the democracies that have succeeded us have been less afraid to adapt the model to avoid some of our electoral issues, like a perpetual two-party rift. In the process, they’ve created others, but at least they’re dynamic experiments that help us learn and get closer, while we’re stuck with, at most, updating the original software version because we’ve literally sanctified the Founding, imbuing it wherever feasible with divine inspiration and will.

@jackhutton Rasputin really won’t die.

Via Rep. Gerry Connolly:
George Santos on the Speaker’s race: “Kevin McCarthy was by my side at Normandy, and I’ll be by his today.

#santos #mccarthy #speaker #speakerofthehouse #uspolitics #clowns