Remittancegirl

Remittancegirl, 3 days ago to uk

I would like to try and persuade people in the UK to make sure they are registered to vote and to get out and do so.

I suspect a significant number of you feel no desire to vote because you feel the system itself is rigged against you.

This makes you feel apathetic and disenfranchised.

The Tory government has done pretty much everything in its power to make you feel exactly this way.

#Elections #UK

Remittancegirl, 3 days ago to random

Sadly, I have been taken off the electoral roll and cannot vote in this election because I have lived outside of the uk for more than five years.

However, if you CAN vote, please do. Also, please check to see what type of identification you are going to need to vote, because they've gotten tricky about it.

Don't let the bastards make you feel like it's not worth bothering. It is.

Even if things get a TINY bit better.

Remittancegirl, 3 days ago to random

Hey people. Just a reminder that our admins are working hard for us all. Won't you please chip in and help them with their costs?

#MastoAdmin

Remittancegirl, 22 days ago to animals

Dora doesn’t give a fuck for gravity or dignity #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Remittancegirl, 29 days ago to random

I'm genuinely ashamed of myself.

I don't share political views with the conservatives on the SCOTUS, but I was under the shameful misapprehension that they were not unintelligent men, that they were capable of rational thought.

But I was wrong. Because not a single one of them managed to figure out that a President who is immune from prosecution for assassinating a political rival cannot possibly HAVE a congress who might impeach him. Do they imagine congresspersons do not fear death? #SCOTUS

Remittancegirl, 1 month ago to random

Determined #thursday

Remittancegirl, 2 months ago to random

It is a considerable thing to comprehend that the USA, if Trump is elected, might be bought outright for half a billion dollars.

Ponder that.

Remittancegirl, 2 months ago to random

So… my vet tells me that antivax lunacy has now spread to pet owners who are convinced that vaccines will give their pets autism.

Fuck these cretinous halfwits

Remittancegirl, 2 months ago to animals

Dora needs to put her scent in ALL the groceries! #CatsOfMastodon

Remittancegirl, 2 months ago to random

I'm so fucking deeply pissed off. I've tried to find a way to frame this with a wider lens, but that will take a while.

The SCOTUS has decided that the conceit of putting their finger on the scales is more important than affording the American people the opportunity to make an informed choice in the upcoming election.

#SCOTUS

Remittancegirl, 3 months ago to random

Why yes, I’m totally watching the #moonlanding

Remittancegirl, 3 months ago to random

I girded my loins and watched #breathtaking

It felt like breaking open a barely joined wound.

It reminded me that one of the massive problems with institutional loyalty is that it causes people to circumvent their own critical thinking skills.

Remittancegirl, 3 months ago to random

I don’t need to agree on everything with someone to consider them courageous or heroic.

They don’t even have to share my political orientation.

I consider Liz Cheney pretty courageous and heroic and I’m quite sure I disagree with 90% of her positions.

Remittancegirl, 3 months ago to random

Jacques has been hanging out on the bench for days. There’s a pigeon who sits on the wall, teasing her. #Caturday

Remittancegirl, 3 months ago to random

RIP Alexey Navaly

No one can be surprised by this, but he gave his life, knowingly, heroically for the country he loved beyond his own life.

He could have kept himself safe, but he chose a level of mad courage beyond most people’s imagination. #AlexyNavalny

Remittancegirl, 3 months ago to random

So, I've been working on hatching a theoretical structure to address the quandary of MAGA for a long time. I think it is almost impossible to combat it unless one can identify grasp the causal factors of the eruption of a mass psychosis. This is going to be a really long thread and I'm developing it slowly. Please feel free to mute me if this irritates you - I'm thinking aloud here. And most of my ideas aren't original, I'm just sometimes gathering them together in novel ways. #musings

Remittancegirl, 3 months ago to random

What disturbed me most about listening to the Supreme Court questions in yesterday's hearing was the repeated demands for responses to the threat that other states could kick other candidates off ballots willy-nilly. The case is before the SC BECAUSE the highest court in CO found Trump guilty of insurrection and - because of this - kicked him off the ballot

Those questions contain in their essence an implication that the rule of law no longer holds sway in the US.

#SupremeCourt #RuleofLaw

Remittancegirl, 4 months ago to random

I sometimes wonder if all this language assist stuff - sentence completion, word choice suggestion, etc. is going to end up rendering half the language tired clichés.

Or rather, that our languages will split into factions of those who allow computers to determine what to say for them, and those who stubbornly resist and therefore formulate rather odd sentences just to spite the algorithm.

Remittancegirl, 4 months ago to random

I'm posting this, because I occasionally need to remind myself of this, and perhaps you do to:

The things that other people do that piss you off are often not designed to annoy you. They're the way that other person has formulated to get through the life they have.

It's often the only way they know how to cope with the cards they've been dealt.

1/

Remittancegirl, 4 months ago to random

Snoozy kitty #Caturday

Remittancegirl, 5 months ago to random

Although Don and I do not celebrate Christmas, we do have a tradition of having breakfast for lunch. We're having pancakes.

We both agreed that, in our experience, the whole Christmas thing generated completely unnecessary levels of stress and waste. So, for over 35 years, we have eschewed Christmas in favor of brunch.

For those of you who have found a way to make Christmas truly joyous - enjoy! For the rest of you... try pancakes.

Remittancegirl, 5 months ago to random

A PhD student in Australia, @nad1a is studying how people use Mastodon (and social media in general) and is asking if people would consider filling out her survey -

https://uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1EKNV4HaKYA0nQy

Remittancegirl, 5 months ago to animals

#CatsOfMastodon turn this thing up, bitch.

Remittancegirl, 5 months ago to random

I’m forcing myself to watch Johnson’s testimony at the Covid Inquiry.

And my overall takeaway is that he was neither intellectually nor ethically equipped to be Prime Minister but he manages to present this as nothing more than unfortunate timing. A failure of imagination, dedication, responsibility, compassion and competence are spun as hapless innocence.

The single problem is a political class that conflates marketing for leadership.
#idiotscorner

Remittancegirl, 5 months ago to animals

Today, Dora met a dog, sort of #CatsOfMastodon