The old chatroom and Twitter phrase #WATB (for "whiny-ass titty-baby") doesn't get nearly enough play these days. It perfectly describes all these fashy victim-mentality dudebro incel techtypes, it doesn't insult women or homosexuals or gentle souls or cats the way most of its synonyms do, and I hereby take my oath to use it at least once a day until I forget. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/whiny-ass_titty_baby
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Okay, friends, I could use a little AITA advice.
My understanding of CWs is that they're meant to protect people from specific triggers like SA, DV, etc., and I strongly respect that. OTOH, it seems silly to me to CW universal realities of life like death, illness, disasters, etc. E.g., some individuals may have been traumatized by fire, but discussions of the L.A. wildfires are still just news, not CW-worthy.
To me, Musk and Trump and Putin and fascism are unpleasant but general facts of life that are scary but not the sort of trauma that warrants a CW. In this convo; I even believe they're so important that barriers to communicating about them (CWs, paywalls) are harmful. However, a couple people have disagreed strongly (re: a post 100+ others have reposted and faved). I'd like to learn. AITA? Thanks! https://queer.party/@briellebouquet/113864482504334683
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@karlauerbach I honor you for being humble enough to ask a good question. _/_
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Sadly, being a Nazi no longer is a valid reason for revoking a naturalized citizen's citizenship.
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You DID see Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute – twice.
You did NOT see that woman missing her period, or that person stealing food.
These are your assignment for the next four years. If you don't understand this, feel free to reach out and I will explain it more clearly.
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Hey I don't know who needs to hear this but just FYI cutting the tire on a federal immigration enforcement vehicle means causing several hundred dollars worth of property damage which could result in jail time but cutting the valve stem disables it just as effectively while only costing a couple dollars, and therefore is more likely to be charged as a violation like a parking ticket.
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It's okay to protect yourself. Survival itself is an act of resistance.
Every trans person alive four years from today will be a victory for us and a failure for them.
Every queer person alive four years from today will be a victory.
Every Black person alive four years from today will be a victory.
Every immigrant alive four years from today will be a victory.
Every liberal person and spiritual person and freethinking person and socialist person and differently-abled person and kind person alive four years from today will be a victory.
It's okay to take care of yourself. Survival itself is an act of #resistance.
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The climber Mark Twight tells a story about his friend who was benighted on an Alpine cliff in winter with his climbing partner. Basically, they had a 6-inch ledge to sit on, roped in, while a storm raged around them. No tent, no sleeping bag, no stove. The other guy asked, "what do we do now?" And Twight's friend answered, "now we suffer."
Which sounds like a horrible and demoralizing story, but it actually isn't. The two climbers survived until morning, got themselves moving again, summited, and made it over the mountain to the smooth path down to warmth and food and friendship and safety.
It's easy to catastrophize and say, "everything is over!," when actually, no, it's just that sometimes we have to suffer through a dark night before it's morning again. It really is helpful to understand that this is just suffering, and that it will end, and especially that it's okay to stop climbing for a while and just protect yourself and your partner and huddle up and endure the suffering without expecting anything more of yourself, and then it will be morning and you will go on and things will become better.
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R.I.P. my @msbellows account on Twitter (2008-2025). Deactivated at the precise moment Fascism and Oligarchy took office.
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States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County.
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Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me, where is sanity?
Tax the rich, feed the poor
'Til there are no rich no more
Population keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding, still more feeding, economy
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey, who needs money? No, not poor me
World pollution, there's no solution
Institution, electrocution
Just black and white, rich or poor
Them and us, stop the war
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
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Meteorites are hitting walkways and being captured on camera and spaceships are blowing up and endangering nearby aircraft and yet no billionaires have been killed by these events, which makes me think maybe we actually need more billionaires just so they're thicker on the ground.
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"[Mike] Johnson incorrectly said that [Jimmy] Carter served in the Army and then followed it with the detail that Carter was on a submarine." (Carter was a Naval Academy graduate. The Army doesn't have submarines.)
https://www.alternet.org/jimmy-carter-dc/
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Hey, people more knowledgeable than me: are there any apps that combine multiple #Fedi functions, like having #Pixelfed and #Mastodon and #Peertube in one place? Also, does each one require a separate server instance? Thanks!
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[#]JustSayin'
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Tech help request: I'd like to be able to scan/convert a handwritten document into a text document – and do so on my desktop (not in the cloud/online, for client privacy reasons). It seems like this should be doable using the OCR in Acrobat Pro XI (which I own), but I'm not seeing it. Ideas? (Windows 10)
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Status: watching the last presidential speech I'll see for at least four years.
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Imagine you're a multi-billionaire, like the owners of Twitter and the Washington Post and the L.A. Times. Would you: (please boost)
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For anyone following the battle over whether Jack Smith's closing report can/should/must be made public, here are the relevant parts of the Code of Federal Regulations:
§ 600.8 Notification and reports by the Special Counsel: ...
(c) Closing documentation. At the conclusion of the Special Counsel's work, he or she shall provide the Attorney General with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the Special Counsel.
§ 600.9 Notification and reports by the Attorney General.
(a) The Attorney General will notify the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Judiciary Committees of each House of Congress, with an explanation for each action—...
(3) Upon conclusion of the Special Counsels investigation, including, to the extent consistent with applicable law, a description and explanation of instances (if any) in which the Attorney General concluded that a proposed action by a Special Counsel was so inappropriate or unwarranted under established Departmental practices that it should not be pursued.
(b) The notification requirement in paragraph (a)(1) of this section may be tolled by the Attorney General upon a finding that legitimate investigative or privacy concerns require confidentiality. At such time as confidentiality is no longer needed, the notification will be provided.
(c) The Attorney General may determine that public release of these reports would be in the public interest, <<< to the extent that release would comply with applicable legal restrictions. All other releases of information by any Department of Justice employee, including the Special Counsel and staff, concerning matters handled by Special Counsels shall be governed by the generally applicable Departmental guidelines concerning public comment with respect to any criminal investigation, and relevant law.
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