guyjantic has moved!<p>This is my AOC canary.<br />If this post is still pinned, AOC has not yet seriously disappointed me.<br />Of course she _will_ disappoint me; that is how politics work. She just hasn't, yet.</p>
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guyjantic has moved!<p>I'm really not one for direct action with even a little risk. I'm more the "post a rant about fascist assholes on facebook" type.</p><p>However, someone attached a stupid Trump/misinformation flag to an overpass crossing a freeway in my town. My housemate sent me a photo. She was upset about having to drive under it every day to work. So I took it down.</p><p>Even though I was basically removing litter from public property it was a little nerve-wracking (racking? IDK). But I also feel much better, knowing it's gone.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>story</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/bullshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bullshit</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/litter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>litter</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/garbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>garbage</span></a></p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>All these fellow liberals talking about moving to Canada or Europe... I'm wondering if I can move to Rashida Tlaib's district, or AOC's.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/rashidatlaib" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rashidatlaib</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>aoc</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/envy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>envy</span></a></p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>Something I can't say on <a href="https://c.im/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>facebook</span></a> without repercussions from family and friends: faith is dead, long live faith.</p><p>I left the <a href="https://c.im/tags/lds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lds</span></a> church after about 40 years (Exodus joke here). The main reason was that I just stopped believing all the doctrine. Every "spiritual experience" I'd ever had could finally be explained much more easily by basic things I understood about humans and myself than by religious concepts.</p><p>And since then I have those "spiritual experiences" over and over. I feel what I would have once identified as The Spirit when I read about refugees or people who overcame great odds; when I hear moving music or watch an emotional scene in a movie.</p><p>The past few days I've been having spiritual experiences every time I feel a glimmer of hope for the continued existence of my democracy, or when I read about ways of helping vulnerable populations survive this administration.</p><p>I said "long life <a href="https://c.im/tags/faith" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>faith</span></a>" but that's not quite right. I don't have the kind of faith I had as a religious Mormon person. I am working on whether faith is a relevant concept anymore, for me. Hope, however--hope is something I understand and need.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hope</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/spiritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>spiritual</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/mormon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mormon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/exmormon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>exmormon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/nullhypothesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nullhypothesis</span></a></p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>Serious <a href="https://c.im/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> question: How did Rashida Tlaib survive AIPAC? </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gaza</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aipac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>aipac</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>israel</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RashidaTlaib" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RashidaTlaib</span></a></p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>The track linked above is the only one I found on Spotify. This one is on YouTube, and it's the version I fell in love with 20 years ago.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAlb0Pj_IgA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=TAlb0Pj_Ig</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a></p><p>Now I'm rocking out and rebuilding my hope in two slightly different ways.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hope</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>music</span></a></p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>Late addition to <a href="https://c.im/tags/thursdayfivelist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>thursdayfivelist</span></a> </p><p>Komeda - Got to Get it Out (B.L.O.S.S.O.M.) <a href="https://song.link/us/i/1443479192" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">song.link/us/i/1443479192</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Why is a song about the PowerPuff Girls making me misty-eyed?</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hope</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/pop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pop</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PowerPuffGirls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PowerPuffGirls</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/blossom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blossom</span></a></p>
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guyjantic has moved!<p>Hashtag games has a prompt tonight: ExtrovertsDatingProfile.</p><p>I think I've read enough "extroverts are horrible people" posts in the past few years to last a lifetime, so I'll sit this one out.</p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>Someday I still want to write a longish piece maybe titled "Trump on Campus" about how university upper administrators, despite shouting their social justice apologia at top volume 24/7, are deeply Trumpy.</p><p>Crushing labor movements, staunch opposition to democratic processes, authoritarianism, strong-man tactics, student-focused populism, anti-intellectualism, greed, gaslighting, victim blaming, interpersonal domination and intimidation, fiscal irresponsibility, elitism, glorification of profit, destruction of public goods for personal gain... literally the only thing about most university administrations that isn't damn close to fascism is the PR.</p><p>Yes, I know there are exceptions. There are also probably exceptions in the Republican Party. The exceptions don't change the overwhelming trends.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>highered</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/administration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>administration</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/trumpism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>trumpism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gaslighting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gaslighting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/victimBlaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>victimBlaming</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>universities</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/professor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>professor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/faculty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>faculty</span></a></p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>This week's Thursday Five List theme is "The Hope."</p><p>Eilen Jewell - How Long <a href="https://song.link/us/i/1507064063" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">song.link/us/i/1507064063</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Laurie Anderson - Ramon <a href="https://song.link/us/i/194935" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">song.link/us/i/194935</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>James - Sit Down <a href="https://song.link/us/i/1440911488" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">song.link/us/i/1440911488</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>The Ocean Blue - Cerulean <a href="https://song.link/us/i/63491698" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">song.link/us/i/63491698</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>The Mountain Goats - This Year <a href="https://song.link/us/i/1445589202" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">song.link/us/i/1445589202</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Notable lyric:<br />When you see a man who's broken<br />Pick him up and carry him<br />When you see a woman who's broken<br />Put her all into your arms<br />Cause we don't know where we come from<br />We don't know what we are</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/ThursdayFiveList" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThursdayFiveList</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hope</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ThingWithFeathers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThingWithFeathers</span></a></p>
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guyjantic has moved!<p>This is nurturing me exactly right in this stupid, cruel, insane fucking moment in American history. This track is wrapping me in its strong, angry, loving arms and slowly squeezing until it's just right.</p><p><a href="https://song.link/us/i/1460008303" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">song.link/us/i/1460008303</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/elder" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>elder</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/heavy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>heavy</span></a></p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>FYI</p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>Hey, just in case my instance administrator is serious and not joking or whatever... accepting <a href="https://c.im/tags/suggestions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>suggestions</span></a> for non-fascist-managed <a href="https://c.im/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mastodon</span></a> instances</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/antifascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antifascist</span></a></p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>I have been wondering what kind of music to listen to for the next 4-40 years. Punk it is.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>uspol</span></a></p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>On the family screen<br />All the punchable faces<br />It's election night</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fuckthis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fuckthis</span></a></p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>Award-winning podcast creators circa 2015: We don't really know what "mixing" or "mastering" mean, but what if we all mumbled kind of fast, half as loud as these cool ambient sounds we recorded, and then randomly started screaming at full volume? Awesome, right? Audiences will love it. We are going to win so many Webbies.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/audioengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>audioengineering</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/sounddesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sounddesign</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/shittydesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>shittydesign</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/baddesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>baddesign</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fail</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hearingloss" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hearingloss</span></a></p>
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guyjantic has moved!<p>Capitalist Interaction Story #2 (not as happy as the last one):</p><p>My partner is in another city, traveling for work. The luck of the draw gave her a brand new Mustang as a rental. Oh, nice!</p><p>Not all nice (see image for text from partner about Ford aggressively harvesting data from her phone just to use <a href="https://c.im/tags/bluetooth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bluetooth</span></a>).</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/sadstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sadstory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/smartcar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>smartcar</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/iot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iot</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ford" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ford</span></a>#telemetry <a href="https://c.im/tags/fuckyourcar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fuckyourcar</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/dataharvesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dataharvesting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/bullshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bullshit</span></a></p>
guyjantic has moved!<p>Two stories about capitalist interactions today, one bad and one good. </p><p>Story 1: I ordered something from backcountry.com. I had good experiences with them a long time ago, found some bike shoes I wanted for a good price, and ordered. Had to dig through old passwords and emails to reactivate my account, but no problem. After many days I was wondering where my effing order was. </p><p>Well.</p><p>I didn't change my address since the last time I used that account (approx. 2012). So it was being delivered over and over to the wrong place in the wrong entire state.</p><p>Got online, huge sigh, girded my loins, and clicked the "chat with a rep" button, hoping this wouldn't be AI or party-line bullshit.</p><p>It wasn't. In 8 minutes the rep had redirected my order, and even gave me a one-time pass (it was totally my fault) on sending it to the wrong address; no restocking fee, no delivery charge, nothing.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/goodnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>goodnews</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/happy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>happy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/success" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>success</span></a></p>
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