Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

I must not engage with the discourse
Discourse is the time-killer
Discourse is the little error that leads to table-flipping
I will ignore the discourse
I will permit it to pass through me and over me
When it has gone past, I will turn to my timeline and see no posts
Where the discourse was, there will be nothing
Only cat pics will remain

#Alito is a full-throated fucking neo-Nazi who would greenlight the Nuremberg Laws if he got/gets the chance, and his sadboi, aggrieved entreaties for "respect" for the "institution" should get lost in a neverending chorus of "Shut the fuck up, Nazi."

I hate flying. I love trains. Trains are wonderful. High-speed rail is one of those things that would make America so much better for literally everyone except airlines, oil companies, and car manufacturers. Can we build it, please?

Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).

In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.

The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.

...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.

https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/

The world is short on lithium and we're letting the same car manufacturers which sold 8mpg SUVs make electric cars as big as they want.

GOP: We are pro-life!

So—free pre-natal care?

GOP: No

Extend child tax credit?

GOP: No

Paid family leave?

GOP: No

Universal pre-K?

GOP: No
Universal healthcare?

GOP: No

Gun reform?

GOP: No

How exactly are you pro-life?🤔

GOP: Ban reproductive health access & increase women’s death.

Really impressed by the number of people on social media who turn out to have expertise in both deep sea engineering AND modern Russian political dynamics.

Nice to see #Mastodon is becoming as good as #Twitter used to be in it's heyday when global news is breaking.

If you have a hard time understanding where the shortage of empathy for the sub crew comes from. here is a pretty good explainer.

@w7voa later, he affirmed the US's commitment to making sure the Palestianians are murdered with American weapons

Happy birthday to the 19" equipment rack, which turns 100 next month. From the July, 1923, Bell Systems Technical Journal: "All panels are to be of a uniform length, designed to mount on vertical supports spaced 19>< inches between centers. The height of the different panels will vary, according to the amount of apparatus in each unit, but this vertical dimension is in all cases to be a whole multiple of 1-3/4 inches."(p139 at https://archive.org/details/bstj2-3-112/page/n27/mode/2up )

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish by flying him by private jet to a fancy fishing resort, you lock in a supreme court vote whenever you need one.

One my biggest frustrations is with siloed networks of transformation.

FOSS, social activism, environmental activism, personal growth, spiritual understanding, group dynamics, Actually Doing Stuff Together, co-ops, new economics, nature connection, land rights, vagabonding....

I do find little spaces of overlap, but surprisingly little.

I would prefer to nurture 5% of each of those things than go 100% into any of them.

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My goal isn't for Mastodon to replace Twitter.

My goal is for the Fediverse to attack and dethrone God.

The best way to combat anti-vax isn’t with logic or facts or debate. It’s by launching our healthcare system into the sun and building something compassionate, universal, and affordable.

Conspiracy theories about health gain traction when everyone accurately associates formalized healthcare with bankruptcy, surprise medical bills, and organized crime. There’s no trust, and I don’t blame them.

The reason Republicans go after trans people, CRT, etc is they have professionals who have done polling & focus groups & examined the psychology telling them there are effective targets.

As with everything they do, the goal is to get the public to move power to them so they can use that power to benefit their benefactors.

Tax cuts, get kill regulations that protect the public but impede profits, privatize public goods, etc.

This is why they do it.

#Republicans #power #trans #crt

Libraries are civic marvels.

Besides lending books and providing internet access, the Chicago Public Library lets you check out fishing poles, telescopes, cameras, knitting supplies, sewing machines, puzzles, tools, cooking equipment, a (model) human skull, sheet music, instruments, toys, museum passes, laptops, wifi hotspots, craft kits, seeds.

You can book meeting rooms or 3D printers. Some branches have teachers on site for homework help. Story time for kids, literacy programs for adults.

People who can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bug me in ways I cannot put into words.