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DeliaChristina

@DeliaChristina@sfba.social

By day, deputy director & strategic comms director for natl gender civil rights org; writer of romantica; by night, shenanigans, political rage, & snark.

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DeliaChristina, to random
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My Joyfriends are really coming through.

Day two of really messed up hair. I'm not going to bother for the rest of the day. I'm just gonna look like a bird made a nest on my head and call it.

DeliaChristina,
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@hazelweakly
Yeah I went to work one day in a sleeveless shirt with a ginormous bite bruise on my arm and one of the women asked me if I needed DV services. It was an awkward convo.

DeliaChristina, to random
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Why do universities have endowments and investment portfolios? Love this young woman's precise summary.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLphcaXo/

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Fascinating.
At a time when America took a hard right into neo-fascism, nonprofits retreated from public engagement and advocacy.

This does not bode well -- for the sector or society.

When literally the third plank in the social compact is saying, La La La, I can't hear you, then the social compact is FRAKKED.

The #nonprofit sector needs less chicken shit leaders. Jesus.

https://nonprofitlawblog.com/upswell-2023-decline-of-nonprofit-advocacy-public-engagement/

18+ DeliaChristina, to random
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Petty goes to Washington. SNORT.

THIS was better than ice cream.

MTG thought she could play. Then she discovered no one plays like a Black woman with a fast mouth.

Heh.

The white dudes in this clip crack me up.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLgqubJs/

DeliaChristina,
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@thepoliticalcat
I just love that it's on the record. Even if it was struck.

It's on the record of CSPAN.

DeliaChristina,
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@thepoliticalcat

Also, Jaime Raskin's face was priceless. He knew what she said. The Chair needed a moment to catch up.

And the way MTG immediately clutched her pearls and objected. SNORT

DeliaChristina, to random
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shit.
it's soft tissue cancer.

#DadsLump

DeliaChristina, to random
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Daycare pickup was hilarious.

Benson was wearing his Big Dog muzzle this time. Aaron was ready; I was ready. We got Benson in the back of the Subaru. He frolicked as usual.

I was chatting with Aaron from the back seat when Benson suddenly climbed over the seats and into my lap. He plops his big butt down on the workout bag next to me and just pants in my lap.

That's all he wants. He doesn't like being in the back. He wants to sit with me. So....I guess that's what we're doing from now on.

He's sleeping now, big Schmoopie.

DeliaChristina, to acab
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CA Supreme Court says cops can't detain you if you want nothing to do with them. 'Acting suspiciously' won't cut it anymore. They actually have to name the 'articulable facts' observed to justify detaining you.

Heh.

https://www.davisvanguard.org/2024/05/california-supreme-court-restricts-conditions-on-reasons-for-detainment-by-police/

DeliaChristina, to acab
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This is why the Dems and Black folks are going to need to have a conversation soon.

Because this is NOT it. Effing tone deaf.

#BlackLivesMatter #ACAB #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi

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And speaking of “The Breakfast Club,” (1985) you can be sure the cast of the inevitable remake won’t be quote so whitewashed.

DeliaChristina,
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@shoq
Eh, I dunno. Might be if it's still set in the North Shore. Whitest zip codes ever.

jonny, to random
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You wont believe the number of stormtroopers theyre deploying against unarmed students unless you see it. This is just one side: at least 7 police departments with at least two layers at every point of egress, with several layers in back for rear control and rotation. They've got the army out against your kids for having the audacity to do whatever they can to stop a genocide

a wide (~50m?) staircase with maybe 20 rows of cops in full riot gear stare down a handful of unarmed students

DeliaChristina,
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@jonny

This is an orgy of power.
Irvine's admin should be absolutely effing ashamed of doing this to their students.

DeliaChristina, to random
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And what's the U.S doing about the Congo, anyway?

(I'm procrastinating. I have work writing to do and I'm doing it! But I'm also doing this.)

AnarchoNinaWrites, to random
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Hada unfollow a bunch of you the past 10 days for my own sanity - I simply cannot do this for six months. On some level I hope you win, because I like breathing, but at the end of the day pretending things aren't the way they are, lives aren't already being destroyed, and being mad to the point of seeking the active fall of this fascist police state is a selfish choice somehow, is not acceptable to me. Especially not every 8 mins for 6 months. See you in December if you don't rage block me.

DeliaChristina,
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@msquebanh @dorkette888 @AnarchoNinaWrites

Every event I see from the WH is a super spreader. No one is masking at all and they're all in these reception rooms with zero mitigation.

A double candidate Covid wave in October/November would solve a lot of things, ethically, for me.

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TIL that low estrogen also affects the elasticity of tendons and can contribute to hip and joint pain.

Gotdammit. I'm gonna have to take some collagen pills, aren't i?

Thanks, . Yet another thing to love. is bullshit.

DeliaChristina, to random
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I fervently believe Benson will live forever.

Lalala, I can't hear you.
Nope.

DeliaChristina, to random
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Don't even get me started on that new Bumble ad.

DeliaChristina,
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What does Bumble do?

It tweaks their app, rolls out a bunch of new features like an AI to urge women to 'break the ice' faster (who asked for this).

And they run an ad that basically shows a young woman wanting to live her best life, swearing off dating, and going to some fucked up nunnery where she lusts after the hot gardener.

The Mother Superior of Celibacy I guess, gives her the Bumble app and she leaves. Presumably for a janky ass life dating tech bros from the bay area.

DeliaChristina,
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You can see the ad here:
https://youtu.be/vrE-D3Z7Xhw?si=vLAn79zypudkE3wq

DeliaChristina,
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These are the problems:
One, don't fucking insult the intelligence of your target market.

Jesus christ.

Two, telling women who choose their own company that their own company is like going to a convent is NOT GREAT.

Three, women choosing the bear IRL are actually living really fulfilled lives and they look NOTHING like a nunnery. They're finding peace, self actualization, other friends, hobby farms, and doing incredible interior design on a budget while rescuing pit bulls.

THAT's what bros have to compete with. Not a convent.

FINALLY, the problem that needs to be solved isn't WOMEN. It's the terrible BROS.

But Bumble didn't brag about the wonder dudes they have on their app.

Because there aren't any.

DeliaChristina,
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So Bumble ran a campaign targeting BROS' EGOS rather than the key demographic they rely on: women.

Stupid marketing, man.
Stupid.

DeliaChristina,
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Compare this to Match's campaign that ran on TikTok.

Did they insult women?
No.
They gave women what they wanted: men doing chores.

They chose 5 regular dudes who had profiles that were getting zero love.

They redid their profiles by showing them doing chores (like, literally doing laundry) and rewrote their profile content for the female gaze.

And guess what? These dudes got CLICKS.

And Match ran a campaign on that. It was fun. Appealing. Showed women that what they want is on the platform.

Huzzah!

DeliaChristina,
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Stupid marketing for the male gaze (Bumble) vs Smart marketing for the female gaze (Match).

DeliaChristina,
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@thepoliticalcat

It's right there in front of them!

DeliaChristina,
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@jonobie
Right?
I don't even like Match and I was like, Kudos! That was a good campaign!

DeliaChristina,
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@flyingsaceur @thepoliticalcat

You're absolutely right. Bumble prides itself on having an in-house marketing+PR team, I read somewhere.

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