Octo (he/him)

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I am a middle-aged U.S. American surviving in the South. Interests include #Science #SocialJustice #Antifascism #Art #Books #Movies #Cinema #Nature #Dogs #Animals #MST3K and I think #TheExpanse is maybe the best show of all time, fight me
(ok #Succession might be in a tie with The Expanse)

ACAB, even tho I don't think that acronym is nearly harsh enough to accurately convey what I think of cops.
American policing is nothing but a protection racket.
Fascists are wretched, pea-brained losers.

Currently Reading:"The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln" by Stephen L. Carter
Octo (he/him)Aug 20, 2023

Billy Bragg's eloquent response to a certain astroturfed, pseudopopulist tune that was making the rounds recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNFR7pgxDY

Billy Bragg - Rich Men Earning North of a Million

YouTube
Show threadOcto (he/him)Dec 15, 2022

@KatMA Ohh that's a good quote. Ol' Billy Burroughs was so often on point about things like these.

Yeah, we have WAY too many *actual* police, but we have even MORE civilian LEO-auxiliaries who surveil themselves and their neighbors without even needing to be asked. What a world we've created.

Show threadOcto (he/him)Dec 15, 2022

@KatMA I think I'd be unsettled by that as well. I shudder at the thought of being observed all the time, especially by strangers.
But with those Ring devices on every doorbell and other kinds of DIY-surveillance gizmos along with constantly running smartphone cameras etc., we're probably ALL being recorded at all times, forever. *shudder*

I don't think you're being paranoid. That's a bit creepy!

Show threadOcto (he/him)Dec 14, 2022
@lmacb Now that's some gorgeous moss photography. 💚 👍
I've never seen this particular kind of moss: it almost looks like shag-carpeting or some kind of textile! It's really cool.
Show threadOcto (he/him)Dec 14, 2022
@StatGirlVT Raspberry glaze?! That looks and sounds seriously deeeelicious. 😍
Congrats on getting your paper submitted! 🥳 🙌
Show threadOcto (he/him)Dec 14, 2022
@erinwhalen Ah, that's a big beautiful chonk of a tree. I wonder how old it is? I always wonder about what was happening locally and globally when big fellers like this 'un were but mere saplings. This venerable old Fir-fella has been around the block and back
Octo (he/him)Dec 13, 2022
@Bommo Aww, I think that's totally fair and she should get a treat every time you come home! haha I also have been cajoled into giving my dogs a treat whenever I come home from shopping, since they explained to me that they felt excluded when all the shopping bags only contained Human Treats, and I said, "Okay, that's reasonable. You pleaded your case well. Here, have a salmon nugget treat, you silver-tongued devils"
Octo (he/him)Dec 13, 2022
My boy B. always assists me with deliveries. Whenever there is a delivery, he rushes to the door and alerts me with a ceaseless string of borkborkborkborks, then he very generously offers to aid me in opening and sampling the goods which are stored inside the newly arrived boxes, all because he is simply a Very Halpful Boi and not because he is an Extremely Hongry Boi Who Must Have All The Treets
#Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #animals
Show threadOcto (he/him)Dec 13, 2022

@Amazing_Facts LOL! Not entirely unpredictable that someone would do that, I guess.
Truly incredible the demeaning lengths to which boot-licking billionaire-toadies will go in order to prove how much they love the men who exploit them

"Please take my money, sir!" [emptying pockets of last crusty nickel into Elon's Smaug-Lair of lucre]

Show threadOcto (he/him)Dec 13, 2022
@Amazing_Facts Is this a joke? I haven't heard anything about this and when I search for it, I see that there was some kind of campaign to that end but it has been cancelled.
Was it all a joke or were the fundraisers in earnest?