@DeputyGrocott I might be a bit wary around that colleague. It's just not right. The big light is for when something is lost or for when the police or ambulance services come to your home unexpectedly. It feels very institutional as well. It has no personality.
So a colleague today revealed that they only have a ‘big light’ in their living room! I was gobsmacked! No lamps! Can you imagine just having the big light on. All. The. Time?!
@Smil3yAngel Set up a Bluesky account. Keep this until 20th January to keep an eye on what is happening and then go if it is clear that Twitter is going to become a total propaganda machine.
@thejackhopkins I am trying desperately to fire up the democrats in my immediate family, but they are in the roll over and die phase, stating that no one can do anything and they'll just have to live with the fascists and extend their antidepressant prescriptions. They are scared. I am livid.
The greatest epiphany I’ve had since coming to this party, is that not even the threat of executions and a collapsed economy is enough to bring out the grit in many people. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.
The Universe willing, some day, someone will be lecturing in a graduate school psychology class, “After having gone through this section on the Holocaust, if you have any questions about how that happened, turn to page 389 on your iPad or laptop, and let’s begin with ‘The 2024 Election.’l
“I think when we’ve covered this section, most of your questions will have been answered.”
Lost a thousand followers today, which happens more now, probably for good reason cuz I warned you upfront I’m a terrible Twitter follow and an idiot, and all I can say is you’re gonna miss this quality stuff
Kamala Harris didn't lose, America did.
As a nation, we collectively failed her—and in doing so we failed girls and women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, Muslims, Jewish people, immigrants, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the people of Ukraine, and Gaza, and the planet.
It's unthinkable, that instead of being able to celebrate a beautiful, hopeful new chapter in the story of this nation with a leader who appealed to the best of our natures—we will instead be holding a postmortem for democracy as we enter our 250th year, stewarded by a malevolent sociopath who despises empathy and shuns the law.
I truly thought we were better than this, that our shared humanity would show up. I thought we would reject this hatred and ugliness once and for all.
I hate being wrong about the majority of the people of this nation.
I don't know what's ahead. All I know is that good-hearted human beings are more necessary now than ever.
We did all that we could to avoid this moment, but now that it's here we'll just have to decide who we will be.
There is no way to comprehend or measure how grievous an error this is, but the only thing the decent people of this nation can do is wake up tomorrow and fight like hell for what we still believe is worth the fight, and we will.
I'll be doing that with whoever has the strength to join me.
I'm mourning the country we could have been and the one we apparently are—but I refuse to give up believing that compassion is the right path, that diversity makes us better, and that love is greater than fear.