2024-09-08T19:10:16Z https://njump.me Paul Cantrell https://njump.me/npub1g909d3gr4lvzfvv80kz0a0tg0z9ck8m3a9n3w29ukdu0e4vae9fqcgr22m https://media.hachyderm.io/accounts/avatars/109/320/236/213/463/000/original/e340124bbfcf74a7.png https://media.hachyderm.io/accounts/avatars/109/320/236/213/463/000/original/e340124bbfcf74a7.png https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvttjpzsvcumr5wc72cp4h3ggnqmv3k8tta2yj37v8xuyl3uwky8gzypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4ypsykmu Just to state the obvious (and sorry for even mentioning the guy, I try to keep it to a minimum, but):<br/><br/>Elon Musk’s totally ew-gross stalker-creep post about Taylor Swift is a demonstration of power.<br/><br/>It isn’t just a dog dry-humping a stranger’s leg. The point isn’t what he thinks he can actually happen.<br/><br/>The point is to be •seen• saying something that disgusting and be •seen• experiencing no consequences for it. It’s about who gets impunity. 2024-09-11T16:36:59Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqp0gsmwwv7f0tdx9ktjgavrdcduj43a78e2dysd4cku7svejhkngzypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4y4c3zke In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs29wxse099vagf543w30x7xvx6at6hmmw2wqeya8hgppp4tzask8gw00ggd'>nevent1q…0ggd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>P.S. Some quick advice if you’re talking to a person who stutters:<br/><br/>Relax. Be patient. Don’t rush them. Don’t be anxious for them. Don’t “help” them by completing their word for them. (It’s NOT helpful!) If a stutter starts, let them find their own way through it. Chill. You’re good. It’s all good. Show them you’re listening and attentive, and you don’t mind them taking the time they need. Give them your patience, your attention, and your acceptance. 2024-09-10T04:39:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs29wxse099vagf543w30x7xvx6at6hmmw2wqeya8hgppp4tzask8gzypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4y8kupav In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx7sk94e0d7q3x0ycmeyr39ku0lq6qylcqvlwkeftku96ades0ydg657jgp'>nevent1q…7jgp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is James Earl frigging Jones. •The• voice. Stuttered. His whole life. Poetry and acting helped him speak.<br/><br/>We judge people impulsively and •incredibly• harshly by how they speak: a stutter, an accent, a dialect, how they make a certain sound, how they sound.<br/><br/>In honor of James Earl Jones, let’s all just try to find that judgement within ourselves, grab it with both hands, and yank it out. I know I’ll try.<br/><br/>/end 2024-09-10T04:29:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx7sk94e0d7q3x0ycmeyr39ku0lq6qylcqvlwkeftku96ades0ydgzypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4yjmhtnw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp97jawdkqzmmc3dpexxr9td64dgzqwgh7949x7vd4uvmt7nw39lqma80ud'>nevent1q…80ud</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>He said: “I was a stutterer. I couldn&#39;t talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year, and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.“ “It wasn’t that I stopped talking, it’s that I resolved that talking was too difficult.”<br/><br/>So what cured him? Wrong question: “I’m still a stutterer. But we all find a way to mask it.”<br/><br/>Interview video here: <a href="https://achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/#interview">https://achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/#interview</a><br/><br/>2/ 2024-09-10T04:23:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp97jawdkqzmmc3dpexxr9td64dgzqwgh7949x7vd4uvmt7nw39lqzypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4ymqjzxr A coworker of mine years ago once said of James Earl Jones’s voice, “When he says ‘This…is CNN,’ you think to yourself, ‘Oh my GOD, it is, why did I never think about that??!?”<br/><br/>There’s something I want you to about James Earl Jones: he was a person who stuttered.<br/><br/>1/ 2024-09-10T04:20:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9qsz02w695svrx64qz4cvenqlgj7lne5nvg6fyfwamjm366c9d7szypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4ynze65y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfhwzt9mtua2sa85v5jemhh3zvtnv4yfq6f3lpxswk0zeshmnnx9gr854dz'>nevent1q…54dz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Harris and Trump are running for the same job. It’s an enormous job. It’s a job that involves enormous power that probably no single human being should have — but •somebody• is going to end up having it regardless.<br/><br/>It’s a job that matters. It matters who does it. It matters if they can think. It matters if they’re a fascist.<br/><br/>I think it matters. I’m not sure the political press does, though.<br/><br/>#uspol 2024-09-10T03:05:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfhwzt9mtua2sa85v5jemhh3zvtnv4yfq6f3lpxswk0zeshmnnx9gzypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4ytrlqzt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstepflny4a2fh76dcsulg0lz6veggy0jamfkf3xs0dn7fp3g4mj0cja6ec3'>nevent1q…6ec3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>To hell with that.<br/><br/>One of these people is going to end up steering complex, half-broken systems that can help or harm millions of people. Billions.<br/><br/>One of these people is going to end up in control of a bunch of nuclear weapons.<br/><br/>One of these people is going to, according the SCOTUS, exist outside the reach of the law while in office.<br/><br/>I am not here to pat them on the head and give them doggie treats.<br/><br/>#uspol 2024-09-10T03:02:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstepflny4a2fh76dcsulg0lz6veggy0jamfkf3xs0dn7fp3g4mj0czypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4yvu5mmv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrfpz3fnqajv2c6swn42m7mytfvwu86w0squss37hvjuvc7w2y87svx3s0s'>nevent1q…3s0s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Wednesday morning, a bunch of people are going to be dissecting some minor detail of an esoteric detail of a subclause of an offhand Harris remark about some perfectly well-formed policy idea…<br/><br/>…and the same people are going to be drooling down their chins in awe because Trump formed •three• nearly coherent sentences when he only formed •two• yesterday.<br/><br/>#uspol 2024-09-10T02:55:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrfpz3fnqajv2c6swn42m7mytfvwu86w0squss37hvjuvc7w2y87szypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4yszqkg4 To hell with the sliding scale.<br/><br/>When I hear the highlights from the presidential debate tomorrow, I expect candidates to be intelligent, articulate, in command of facts and ideas, and thinking in ways that stand to help instead of harm the millions they’ll impact.<br/><br/>That&#39;s just my lowest baseline standard here. The baseline doesn&#39;t move.<br/><br/>Harris and Trump are running for the same job, and it&#39;s about damned time the press started applying the same standards to both of them.<br/><br/>#uspol 2024-09-10T02:49:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9d800n4c3ulukg7k4k0t9ds5kspwgr36flgvztr949a4huyd5ytqzypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4ywgrrph In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg3qc75nurf5ewwzy4mk6m5z8cdln8femwp22kpluy3r795lshszcm48jys'>nevent1q…8jys</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>To hell with doomerism, cynicism, nihilism. We don’t have the luxury. Go wallow in despair some other day. We don’t have time for that shit now.<br/><br/>Hope, joy, action: these three are intimately connected, and they are the urgent work of this moment. Find them. Create them. Embrace them. Because right now, •everything• matters. 2024-09-08T17:25:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg3qc75nurf5ewwzy4mk6m5z8cdln8femwp22kpluy3r795lshszczypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4ye7s7md In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs95nf8x2njsjtchjz6wz45kgu64jgyltnvfq6c9q39y8gpuxec3tgscpzg5'>nevent1q…pzg5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>…we are •not• on an inevitable downslope. Knife’s edge, NOT off a cliff.<br/><br/>We are in a place in the US where things could get very bad very fast. We are •also• in a place where this newly resurgent fascism is on verge of total implosion.<br/><br/>Nothing is inevitable here: not the bad, and not the good. Now is one of those moments when •everything• matters. 2024-09-08T17:18:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs95nf8x2njsjtchjz6wz45kgu64jgyltnvfq6c9q39y8gpuxec3tgzypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4yjz2p5l I don’t like to overstate or exaggerate political danger. And I don&#39;t think <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub13f93fds9amp2q3sr5mdus65ds2xljntmnjw4dt5ux7wrppu9vuqsmfech3" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Indio Gringo ®</span> (<span class="italic">npub13f9…ech3</span>)</a></span> is overstating anything here.<br/><br/>We’ve avoided careless comparisons to the Nazi regime for generations, and rightly so: we don’t want that comparison to lose its power. We need to save it for the moments when it truly applies.<br/><br/>This is one of those moments, in the US and across the world. We are on the knife’s edge.<br/><br/>Here’s the thing, though… <a href="https://mastodon.world/@paninid/112768842226761788">https://mastodon.world/@paninid/112768842226761788</a> 2024-09-08T17:14:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs99u93j2y0nphkjpg7gcvvnp98x6av4xakscqq2ef9m82zdt6s2xczypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4yez57a4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq0ys35tt2h5qsq37ax6gyyfncn5meqtm2cya2k57sjh65wvwntmqcrtem3'>nevent1q…tem3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One ingredient of the puzzle: it depends entirely on the client. The web interface and all the apps can make different decisions about this. So even on the same post, not all your readers are seeing the same thing. <br/><br/>A second ingredient: it changes. When you first post, if your server doesn’t have a preview, it fetches one. If no preview appears, reload in a minute and it might be there. 2024-09-07T15:19:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswtlq77u753tyk7knqmftldcpucva3su9yven56arzx8fpp7vpluszypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4yulure5 Ha, this from <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1mpecaykykze5duduvyv3zxu53r4ysh896qzas5glj7hprqzzytqsvztar8" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Steve Wart</span> (<span class="italic">npub1mpe…tar8</span>)</a></span> is lovely.<br/><br/>1/ <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@swart/113086043018659766">https://mastodon.cloud/@swart/113086043018659766</a> 2024-09-06T14:54:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx0045anlyjkvrp0xcsgfhrscp56tr5zmhngyzs9vnuvwcxyjjt4szypq4u4k9qwhasf93sa7cfl4adpughzclw85kw9eghjeh3lx4nhy4y8adwve In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyj0e39qew2pn6jzqnap9ryq0qpya4jegz3v4ellcdq90h7hxewlq8se97d'>nevent1q…e97d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>OK ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2024-09-06T04:28:35Z