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Your neighbour! Just a smol forest sprite hidden in the lilacs in Babcock's Grove

Be the strange you wish to see in the world

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Thinking about the Incredible Hulk comic from 45 years ago where the Hulk goes to the Middle East

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ats4shmeia7i7ildqm3denmd/post/3mgztrt2hhk27

@volts.wtf

I follow accounts on both Bluesky and Mastodon (like yours) that deal with facts, laws, science, technology, infosec and the experience is surprisingly similar but, I feel calmer reading the same news on Mastodon than on Bluesky. Less folks retweeting the same news, I think?

Breaking news seems to hit both equally, so I feel informed.

I prefer to be here for my own peace of mind. Others prefer Bluesky and I appreciate those who bridge (thank you!)

This week's comic: The Big Dumb War Cycle

#war #foreignpolicy #uspol #cartoon

@Edmonds_Scanner

The Cure, Standing on a beach, then Disintegration.

I have the tape for Standing on a beach but no way to play it. It has songs that aren't on the CD.

Seems like a dangerous precedent for Trump to be setting if his justification for killing the leader of another country is that the leader is dangerous and evil.
How it started/how it's going

Greg Gutfeld (Fox News "comedian"), speaking regarding Renee Good: "why are there so many liberal white women risking their lives & breaking the law for strangers?"

Ok, yes, I'm glad to hear Nazis upset & concerned about the number of white women involved, heart & soul, in protecting their neighbors.

That is GOOD fucking news that they are upset about that. They depend on white women to keep their white supremacist world running. If white women won't do it, their whole thing falls apart.

@stux

I'm in Chicagoland, the ICE raids are terrifying, my neighbors sold their home and moved their family to Mexico last August because they felt things would get even worse and they were so right! 😞

I was protesting in Wheaton, known as a "Christian" suburb, recently and the turnout against ICE was amazing. We the majority, hate it too, stux, but we can only protest peacefully and vote.

The protesters are so brave and our elected representatives are so weak! They could end this!

@RMiddleton

Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

I also like "My Neighbor Totoro (1988)" as I aspire to become a totoro. 😉

I lost a friend over my article about the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

He was angry I called out the underlying misogyny.

He was mad I didn’t give ICE the benefit of the doubt.

He made it personal.

He told me my “stupid clown hair” is why people don’t take me seriously

Everything he said to me was dripping with disdain and misogyny.

There was no debate.

There was no respectful disagreement.

In under five minutes he had attacked my intelligence, my politics, my appearance and my writing.

This is not normal behaviour.

He literally proved my point.

Had I taken the bait I’m convinced that I would have been called a “f*cking b*tch” by the end of the conversation.

This is what MAGA is doing to men.

It’s emboldening them.

It’s validating their bigotry.

I assume this person was always hateful and misogynistic on some level … but now he no longer feels he has to hide it.

He literally said as much.

He said “I never told you in the past because I wasn’t allowed. Now I am.”

Why is he allowed to tell me now??

Why does he feel justified in lashing out with rage and insults over something that has nothing to do with him?

It’s because of what happened to Renee Nicole Good.

We all watched a woman get shot in broad daylight and there’s been zero consequences

We’ve watched rapists, pedophiles and abusers go free for years.

Every woman who’s ever experienced abuse knew exactly what Jonathan Ross meant when he said “f*cking b*tch”

He didn’t fear for his life.

He was enraged she didn’t fear for hers.

My friend was enraged I dare speak out for a “lesbian leftist”.

He was enraged I didn’t remain silent, complicit and demure.

He was apparently also enraged I didn’t realize he hated my hair and change it to please him.

Make no mistake, there is a war against women going on.

This regime wants to make us “less than”.

They want us afraid.

They want us in the home serving our husbands and having children.

They want us seen and not heard.

They don’t want us resisting.

Which is why we must keep speaking out.

We must refuse to go back.

My life is better off without this person in it, and thankfully I can walk away.

Not everyone can.

Speak up if you see someone being hurt.

Protect your friends and neighbours.

Challenge misogynistic talking points.

Demand justice for Renee Nicole Good.

Don’t cower. Don’t be afraid. Don’t give up.

#reneenicolegood #abolishice #uspol #fascism #ableism #misogyny