@JUMBOblotto

fyi "treepeople" is an astroturfing greenwashing operation run by executives from:

boeing (war profiteers/genocidaires/anti-environmentalists)

morgan stanley (war profiteers/genocidaires/anti-environmentalists)

delta air lines (anti-environmentalists/genocidaires/recently discovered to be the only airline transporting children to ice concentration camps)

also "cal fire" is the state firefighter labor union that openly and publicly argued in favor of then-attorney general kamala harris's policy of forcing prisoners/slaves in california to be kept explicitly as slaves beyond their release date, this was even after the federal government demanded the prisoners be released because they had fully served their assigned sentence. so to be 100% clear cal fire was arguing openly that slavery is in the public good

anyway, to anyone reading this who may actually care about things like slavery and corpo greenwashing via astroturfing, make no mistake this is pure trash

@poofbirb

Man On Fart

@Antisap

a wild nepobaby appears! /s

but seriously these fawning media debuts of nepobabies always crack me up

@activistchecklist

i keep notifications fully disabled on my lock screen for this reason

@quietmarc

i perused that person's profile and they arent an actual journalist, theyre a pseudojournalist, but more importantly theyre a pr flack. glowingly reposting press release "news" that exists to glaze tech companies does not a journalist make

as an example, this dude actually reposted an nyt article that was already proven like a year ago to be essentially an article-length advert filled with lies about some "ai" scam medical company that provided nonfunctioning weight loss drugs. and this pseudojournalist did the classic thing where he reposted the article and said it was a great article, while offering no commentary or anything else newsworthy to the discussion

i assume he did this because he only read the headline which agrees with his "ai" sycophancy, but regardless it's abundantly clear he never read the actual article because it's chock-full of red flags! it even has several open, blatant admissions that this "ai" medical company is doing scams on "patients" lmaoo, flags dont get redder, crimson itself would blush with envy. so no he is not a journalist, he's a pseudojournalist and pr flack for monopolistic tech companies, some of which are operated by executives who are literally named in the epstein files

i love to see pseudojournalists and hubristic tech sycophants like this get draaagged to hell, and hopefully he fucks off into the distant galaxies. but i will also say it saddens me to see people working in the upper echelons at mastodon are publicly coming to his defense and openly arguing that we should let all these bad actors join our social circles because. i assume they defend him because tech executives fundamentally misunderstand what inclusion is or how it functions, though i'm sure a convincing argument could be made that mastodon executives are trying to do enshittification

mastodon executives out here defending "journalists" who spread glowing reviews of proven scams? and physically harmful medical scams at that? john mastodon would be aghast!

@kaedu

omg wtf you talk shit on lumpen too? genuinely i hope you die you fucking richie rich class war loser, because i am homeless you automatically think i will "steal your phone?" why are marxists?

@kaedu

i aint no "dude" neither you piece of absolute trash

climb back into whatever right-wing reactionary hellhole you crawled out of and die slow

@kaedu

hey bigot: this aint a conversation and you aint seen "mean" yet, why dont you take your queerphobic morality and fuck yourself to death with it

@neonsnake

you're welcome! i hope you enjoy the cooking, and dancing to the 90s music!

@neonsnake

i've been writing songs for almost 30 years, and that moment you describe, when a creative thought seems to appear from nowhere, fully formed in your mind? i live for that moment, it is everything to me. i actually dont think i could go on living if i couldnt create

to your point about the magic of creation, even after being a musician for 30 years, i still couldnt explain how i go from playing one chord to a whole chord progression to a melody that fits and so on. it is a huge reason why i focus so much of my energy on creating music, the unknowability means i am always drawn back to try and discover something new about the song, and by extension myself

so i believe the creative act is genuinely a type of magic, probably the only real magic ever to exist in the world. there's something that happens beyond my awareness or understanding that is tangible and real, but also ephemeral and dreamlike. i never get into a flow state as fast as when i start writing songs, i'll look up and realize my throat is sore and my lips are chapped and i havent stopped to take a sip of my now-stale tea for 2 or 3 hours

that's why i am so frustrated and even disgusted by people who choose to sacrifice their creativity for convenience! when i write a catchy hook or melody it's a revelation, heaven opens up and lets me glimpse eternity for a moment. and of course it's gone just as quickly, but for that instant i feel like an angel trumpeting god's arrival on the earth

the creative act is a power beyond my comprehension, a true magic, and that's without even getting into how my music affects other people! there's is nothing as addictive to me as playing a song i wrote and hearing people sing my words back to me. or like the last time i played a gig when i heard someone say "holy shit!" at a particularly provocative line i had written, i think about that moment nearly every day. i used to be an actor and i got a similar feeling when there was a strong audience response to a well-delivered line. and i've been a home cook for decades, and a commercial cook at times, and the feeling is the same for me when a dish comes out tasty and people are humming as they eat it, even if i'm eating alone and doing the humming lmaoo

anyway, this went on much longer than i intended, but i agree with you wholeheartedly. my only personal goal at this point is to keep creating every day