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Jesse McClure

@jmcclure@sciences.social

23 Followers

10 Following

119 Posts

Scientist | Anti-capitalist | Behaviorist

- PhD in Neuroscience & Behavior
- Member of the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB)
- Certified FearFree℠ Professional
- Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA)
- 20+ years professional experience in animal behavior
- Research in canine behavioral genomics
- Former professor of canine science & behavior
- Former USMC working dog handler

Web	https://jessemcclure.org
Pronouns	He / Him

This took me a second, but then, I’m a tad on the slow side.

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽4h ago

Glad to hear he is safe and back with his family. But if they can disappear a U.S. citizen and terrorize his family this way, imagine what they are doing with immigrants in ICE facilities.

This morning I spilled the collagen powder that I add to my coffee. I debated whether to clean it up or leave it for later.

I got the vacuum, plugged it in above the kitchen counter, and started cleaning. The cord caught my full coffee mug, dumped that all over the counter and floor, and splashed all over my phone.

Lesson: nothing good happens before coffee. Don't even try to be productive before coffee. Such efforts end only in disaster.

#PrecaffeinationProcrastinationSociety

Alfie Kohn 1d ago

@benroyce @sleepytako @pixelpusher220

But doesn't context affect the "unseemliness"?

In Japan, how would stripping down to undershorts and a t-shirt in public be viewed? Is it just silly and whimsical there?

I'm sure someone here can specify, but I'd not assume that it'd be viewed the same. That might be seen as raunchy / indecent already - just as the outfit / posture / etc of the woman in the Carl's Jr advertisement is to (more enlightened) westerners.

Sex sells. Everywhere.

@benroyce @poofer @shadowbottle @elala @Godfrey642 @monkeyborg

Premature capitulation?

Unable to get an election?

Ask your doctor if democracy is right for you.

No code written for, by, or with the assistance of AI should ever be executed. Only the authors of it should be.

Thomas 🔭🕹️2d ago

A very “surprising pattern” that people don’t want to use fucking shit that doesn’t fucking work and depends on stealing people’s work and fucking lighting the mother-fucking planet on fire while feeding their fucking money into the greedy throats of billionaires.

I used to have those combo-lock anxiety dreams frequently. It's been many years now though.

While speculative / anecdotal, it seems that these dreams were frequent during a period of my life when I had enormous insecurity about my home / privacy. I.e., making rent month to month with a horrible landlord who violated tenant privacy on a whim for little to no reason.

While I still have my share of financial anxiety, I own my own home now, and have not had those dreams since.

Reefer-Policy: Don't write official standards while high.

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Meanwhile in Canada Jul 6

This is like if Nazi's sold Auschwitz merchandise to their base in 1941.

It's beyond sick. The clinical term is sadistic psychopathy.

Rick Calkins Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada
I've lived in Flor-e-duh for 51 years now and thought that the right could not get any worse but day by day, they improve upon themselves, which enhances their (your term) sadistic psychopathy. Thanks for the definition and for being Canada!

@MeanwhileinCanada

I'm looking at this thinking "this has to be a sick joke, someone faked the ad"...but then I stopped and thought about the US news and it het me...it has to be true.

C++ Wage Slave Jul 6

No, it's real:

https://www.fastcompany.com/91362081/alligator-alcatraz-merch-shirts-hats-amazon-florida-gop-detention-center

Oh, and, guess what, you can buy this sadistic garbage on #Amazon as well. Why am I not surprised?

@MeanwhileinCanada

'Alligator Alcatraz' merch appears on Amazon and Florida GOP website, making light of controversial facility

Shirts, hats, and other merchandise celebrate a controversial Florida-based migrant detention center that has raised human rights concerns.

Fast Company

I am not shocked, but this makes me feel ill to think people in this world are this cruel.

@MeanwhileinCanada

@SnowyCA @MeanwhileinCanada
Snowy, I thought it could be fake too. It's just so stupidly incredible. So I checked and the website and store exist indeed!
What can I say ... they are ready to do anything for money, sell anything, or betray friends (allies).

IT turns my stomach to think someone is profiting from misery. @MeanwhileinCanada

PandaChronicle Resists Jul 6

@SnowyCA @hadon @MeanwhileinCanada

It is beyond disgusting

@hadon @SnowyCA @MeanwhileinCanada whatever you do, don't go to the GOP FL website that sells this stuff, don't load up your shopping cart with several items,, then go to checkout and don't enter your name or other info such as payment. It messes up the inventory count for a while and that would cause problems, however temporary, for the vendor. You should not do this. Nor should your friends, family, like-minded folks.

I am sure no one would do this. ;)
@hadon @MeanwhileinCanada

@SnowyCA @hadon @MeanwhileinCanada heaven forbid! And surely no clever tech person (s) would set a plague of bots upon the website.

@patrascan
Nope, that wouldn't be ok. @hadon @MeanwhileinCanada

🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦Jul 6

@SnowyCA @MeanwhileinCanada it is: Google it. There are even more illustrations...

No thanks, I believe you.

I have no desire to increase my sorrow about the state of the human race.

@MeanwhileinCanada

@MeanwhileinCanada The so-called "party" should be banned as a terrorist organization

@MeanwhileinCanada grifter lesson 101 : always target the dumbest ones. Remind me of that black dude who made a killing selling trump merch outside his events. Dude was super happy to make money and empty the pockets of peoples who despise him. Of course all of that is morally questionable.

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada these are evil people, these are the ones who enable genocide

Matthewchat Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada Nazi merch - a board game.

From here:
https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/propaganda/1933-1939-dictatorship/deceiving-the-public-nazi-concentration-camps

@MatthewChat @MeanwhileinCanada I was gonna say, like, aside from the books and lamps made from Nazi victims? Nazis have always been grifters.

Where did they learn it in the first place? "Gator bait" was a huge *extremely racist* meme in the US (especially the South)... It's probably more than just an interesting coincidence that this specific racist institution also happens to reference that meme.

Atrocities and merch go hand-in-hand when cruelty is the point.

@Hex @MatthewChat @MeanwhileinCanada

US racists and eugenecists taught the Nazis how to Nazi in the first place. Read up on Henry Ford's connection to Hitler sometime. It's just one vicious cycle of hatred that goes round and round.

@MeanwhileinCanada @MatthewChat I can only look forward to a day, maybe 50 years from now, when merch from the Trump administration is displayed in a museum to everyone’s horror.

BuckRogers1965 Jul 6

@MatthewChat @MeanwhileinCanada

Wow, if you updated that to latinos out, you could sell millions of copies to maga.

Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada
No different than the other nazi regalia the yankee nazis already wear.

Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada @chad this makes me realise: someone had to print up those yellow stars, too.

Kierkegaanks regretfully Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada I’d like a response tshirt saying PROJECT NÜRNBERG

@MeanwhileinCanada
Let them buy that stuff.
It will make harder for them to pretend they "did not know nor take part in" this shit, when it's over.

Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑Jul 6

Get pix or it didn't happen...

@MeanwhileinCanada

@rgulick @MeanwhileinCanada
Records of online purchases?

Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑Jul 7

Pix of people wearing the gear.

@MeanwhileinCanada

Aethelstan Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada well. It’s good when the nazis self-identify. Ya know who to punch.

John Meadows Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada

Absolutely shameless.

Dan Neuman 🇨🇦Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada Could I make "Alligator Auschwitz" merch to drive home the point? Is that going too far?

Edit: more a question for Jewish people about usurping a painful part of their history.

João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)Jul 6

@dan613 I think
https://beige.party/@Kierkegaanks/114806106813685910 is a little better.
@MeanwhileinCanada

Kierkegaanks regretfully (@Kierkegaanks@beige.party)

Attached: 1 image @MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social I’d like a response tshirt saying PROJECT NÜRNBERG

beige.party

@dan613 @MeanwhileinCanada That might force the MAGA crowd to ask “why Auschwitz?” - “Because Alcatraz implies due process”.

Dan Neuman 🇨🇦Jul 6

@CAWguy @MeanwhileinCanada I also wanted alliteration. Someone else pointed out that Dachau, being in Germany, not Poland, is more accurate. But Auschwitz is also more familiar.

@dan613 Auschwitz was located in Germany proper at the time, today’s border between Germany and Poland was drawn after WW2 by the USSR.

@CAWguy @MeanwhileinCanada

Ariaflame Jul 7

@skittles @dan613 @CAWguy @MeanwhileinCanada If you can call 'annexed in 1939' part of Germany Proper. Do you call the areas occupied by the Russians in Ukraine currently 'Russia proper'?

@ariaflame No, I don’t. Germany, however, did. Prior to 1918 it was part of Austria. Until 1939 it was probably not even 5 km behind the German border, not several hundred like today.

My point being: Auschwitz was considered part of the German Reich proper (not e.g. the „Generalgouvernement“), which meant German „law“ applied, i.e. Germans deported there did not become stateless. Auschwitz was not Poland.

@dan613 @CAWguy @MeanwhileinCanada

Ariaflame Jul 7

@skittles @dan613 @CAWguy @MeanwhileinCanada Well, Russia considers Ukraine its. So I don't see the distinction. If you go back far enough every country has different borders.

@ariaflame The point is not about whether it was „lawfully“ (or whatever) Germany.

People (many Germans as well) look at a modern map and think the Nazis deported and murdered people somewhere far far away, in the middle of nowhere rural Poland.

They didn’t. They did it in „their backyard“, a stone’s throw across the river Vistula, the official border until I think 1921.

If you look at the map of 1914 Germany you get a very different idea:

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@dan613 @CAWguy

Ariaflame Jul 7

@skittles @dan613 @CAWguy And yet so many Germans after the war claimed they didn't know what was going on. Authoritarians don't care about whether they were 'stateless' people because they didn't consider them to be people.

@ariaflame Yes, and that’s a lie that’s been thoroughly debunked. No, not all Germans knew, not about the full extent. But they knew plenty enough.

@dan613 @CAWguy

Ariaflame Jul 7

@skittles @dan613 @CAWguy And the people today with the internet and so forth have no real excuse for saying they don't know either.
And I don't think I ever said Auschwitz was in the middle of nowhere.

@ariaflame https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/izbp%20329%20Deutsches%20Kaiserreich_2_Bevoelkerung.pdf (Population)

https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/izbp%20329%20Deutsches%20Kaiserreich_3_Wirtschaft.pdf (Economy)

That area was densely populated, hugely important and highly industrialised, Wrocław (Breslau) was one of the largest cities of the Reich.

They didn’t put Auschwitz in „the middle of nowhere“. They put it where they already had an extensive railway network in place.

@dan613 @CAWguy

Chad McCullough Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada This is absolutely disgusting.

Kid Mania Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada
🤦‍♂️ jfc
I--

#doomed
☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️

steev hise Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada exit through the gift shop.

Crowsinger Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada After a certain point, I think living surrounded by millions of absolute sociopaths who rejoice in cruelty has broken me. I mean I live in one of the bluest states, and it still wrecks your idealism because the viciousness is everywhere, cackling loudly day by day. Horrifying things that bring to mind the worst regimes in history.

"What can men do against such reckless hate?"

@Crowsinger @MeanwhileinCanada

It sucks living in a red patch of a blue state.

Spread The Truth Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada OH NO!!! this is just sick

Jim Schoch Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada Uggggg the ugliest mindset is presenting a truly horrible manifestation of what our society is capable of when leadership is failing on so many levels.

DC Deejay 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada I suspect years from now, my belief that big tech & adtech has been used by those with a deep understanding of how to manipulate the darkest instincts in a target audience, leading to millions finding things like this normal, en route to mass atrocities.

DC Deejay 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Jul 6

...will be confirmed.

Kpl Klink Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada A very appropriate analogy.

Toni Aittoniemi Jul 6

@MeanwhileinCanada And in 80 years it’s going to happen again.

@gimulnautti @MeanwhileinCanada Which is why I'm begging people outside the US to chronicle what's happening as it happens, including especially what led up to it. And teach the younger folks about it, unflinchingly. Make sure they understand that yes, **it can happen here**. Most citizens will not see it coming. It happens right under your nose. There will be people who think you're paranoid right up until the gas chambers open -- and my guess is, even after that.

Toni Aittoniemi 6d ago

@hosford42 @MeanwhileinCanada Definitely many kids aren’t taught fascism right. Some of us got taught merely the end result and not how it starts.

The parallels between 1930s Germany and USA now are striking.

But the fascists didn’t invent racism. Racism was staple in all colonial empires before the Reich. It was the populist message to drive anger & shift blame.

Underneath it all was total eradication of emancipatory left politics. The real threat was and is that.