Tag: violence

Dayton mass shooting

Post author By jae
Post date 5 August, 2019

Shoes piled up after mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

So yeah, I live in Dayton. I mean, a suburb bordering right on city limits. I’ve lived in and around Dayton pretty much my whole life.

This shit has been surreal. You always think, in your most cynical moments, ‘yeah it’ll happen here some day’ – then that day suddenly becomes TODAY. And everything suddenly fucks itself up tremendously.

I know at least 2 people who were there. Not terribly well, but I worked with them for some time and one I got on with pretty well while we worked together. (The other one was a right-wing type who was active on something awful and loved griefing – be interesting if his ‘outlook’ changes, though I doubt it.) Neither injured.

I’m angry and sad and weirded out and frustrated and anxious and depressed, but I’ve also had plenty of (99% unrelated) laughs today, praise “Bob”.

Fuck guns and violence and selfishness and nastiness and death. Fuck hate. Fuck fear. Fuck the news. Fuck Mitch McConnell and fuck Wayne LaPierre and fuck Trump and all the ghouls and goons who perpetuate this moloch-worshipping culture of fear and seething hatred.

Fuck your spouse or partner. Fuck like rabbits.

I think it’s past time we have a general strike in the USA, for this and several other reasons. We should really be rioting in the fucking streets. Global warming. Treason in the White House and Senate. White nationalism, xenophobia, the normalization of bigotry in general. We’re going down hard and it’s gonna hurt like hell unless we act real quick.

But we won’t.

Tomorrow: 252

Tags asshole Republicans, assholes, death, guns, violence

internets

Facebook violates my standards

Post author By jae
Post date 10 February, 2019

So today i woke up and got this message from Facebook saying that one of my shares, from September 2017, violated their “community standards.”

So i went and found the original tweet and re-shared it a few times because fuck Facebook, that’s why. Here it is:

Ted Cruz: I believe in wholesome family values.

Also Ted Cruz: pic.twitter.com/wsNVu762Wd
— Secular Talk? (@KyleKulinski) September 12, 2017

See that part where the sexy shit is cropped out, toward the bottom? That’s it. That’s literally all there is. So a guy without a shirt, and rebellious talk against His Reviled Reptilian-ness Ted Cruz.

And so Facebook reviewed it. And reviewed it again. And again. And again. And every single motherfucking time, they said NO:

But, see, here’s the thing: Facebook’s reviews of content is the most inconsistent thing in the world. To wit:

So what can we infer from this? It seems as though they’re okay with [dumbass biker-porn] female nudity, self-harm (seriously, that video was of a guy cutting the shit out of himself), and people trying to sell shitty pills (for context, the guy had obviously stolen the drugs – shitty “diet” pills – from the dollar store where he worked). But if there’s an inference of sex or porn – or just speech going against a universally loathed Republican? – then they will bring the hammer straight the fuck down.