Remember, communities are more akin to private walled gardens than public open fields.

Most of the time you’re walking into someone’s house to make a post or comment.

The Fediverse is built on the efforts of relatively few individuals on their own motivation and convictions. There are no duties to uphold for shareholders or governments.

People are welcome to be as open and inclusive as they can manage, but there’s no actual obligation to the public at large. So it’s wise just to be respectful in general and let this stuff roll off your back.

I can’t read these runes. Life sense, roll for initiative.

There are workgroups at my job that use it as acknowledgement and for voting consensus as we are allowed to attend meetings camera and mic off.

Post 9-11 America, abridged.

I saw the layout and instantly recognized it for what it was. The trailer park loop is unmistakeable.

But otherwise, man private developers love thematic street names. I got some pirate themed, herb themed, and gemstone themed developments around me. Worked with someone who lived in a house on the corner of Zircon Ct and Zircon St. But not the other corner which was the corner of Zircon St and Zircon Ct. Also a Zircon Ave.

I don’t see any mention of cleaning anything up.

That was kind of the critical issue going on. There was this whole movement to get some kind of course change on Israel. Biden made it clear there was a higher chance of Trump changing course on Israel. Kamala insisted she would not change course from Biden.

It really didn’t work out for their campaign.

There are whole portions of red states that currently lack OBGYNs. And the police are patrolling the roads for pregnant people that might appear to be leaving the state to see an OBGYN.

It’s been that way since 2022 though.

(Reference: Idaho.)

I went to a wedding where they played Bittersweet Symphony as she walked down the aisle.

It always felt slightly offputting.

…And then the groom’s mom made a speech about how love was like a dog, which had some sweet sentiments about loyalty in there. But also… vaguely shady.

I prefer me the multiplayer environment of Fromsoft games where it’s just absolute degeneracy and your own damn pride on the line. Where the sweat and the stupid blurs.

I didn’t see the original comment nor do I need to, but ethnic nationalism, the ‘blood and soil’ kind of nationalism, seeks to forge nationality into the same framework as race. Approaching nation states from this perspective is effectively racist, inherently so.

This is compared to civic nationalism where commitment to national values matters. So one could argue that without clarification it is a stretch, but at the same time… it’s usually pretty clear which version is meant.

Since '76? Not bad.

He called for a ceasefire in Gaza publicly. At that point embellishing stories for comedy acts, a staple and basic thing in standup, became an issue for uncritical people.

You can only get away with day-of purchases when its perishable.

Their job is to do nothing and cede power and influence to unregulated, uncontrolled private interests of billionaires. It is now, was last week, and was years back. It is the merging and takeover of state power by corporate power.

Double RIP

The normalization and defenses of it, the crying maga soyjack, has been coming from the the major media networks from what I have seen.

MAGA is stroking it.

Just like how ABC paid/donated $15 million for reporting an unpleasant fact about the preaident-elect.

This is mostly my job. I don’t do field work nearly as much anymore but for the most part you just need to have confidence and/or not bullshit the good ol’ boys.

Like some of the reddest parts of the country have some of the most stringent water rules and regulations. For good reason: their regulators can’t fuck around and so they don’t.

It helped my spouse deal with medical trauma by finding content creators expressing similar experiences. It worked better than any of the support groups which often felt more hopeless and isolating.

At this point though my spouse just hates instagram reels and how chaotic and pointless this is shaking out to be.