Tuesday, December 12, 2023

The Year When Unions Woke Up

The Year When Unions Woke Up: Labor scholar Kate Bronfenbrenner explains how workers have helped usher in a new era of union militancy.

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Getting a LGBT--friendly Green Party in GA

Is there any Green Party options for people in Georgia OTHER than the official Green Party of Georgia, which is bigoted against trans-folks? I live Athens & would like to start a chapter out of here.

We've got the American Jesus

Sunday, November 26, 2023

this is Hell

Of course I'm depressed. A genocide is happening in my lifetime. I'm watching more than one culture and people be completely wiped off of the face of the earth while most of humanity is gleefully distracting themselves with entertainment instead of caring. THIS is Hell defined.

Thursday, November 16, 2023

vent

I SWEAR Boomers are SO muggerfuggin' SPOILED. They brag about how their parents beat them in the "good ol' days" and how THAT'S what is  "wrong with the goddamn kids these days" WHILE they are telling you how they want their sheets washed & how they are too damn good to eat what you fix for them.

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

This will be an interesting week.

this will be an interesting week

Faulty FedEx

Thanks to the facts that FedEx doesn't require a recipient's signature or a picture anyplace but on the tail of the delivery truck, I hope a certain FedEx employee is enjoying their new flatscreen television. How is this company still in business?

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Karma's a bitch.

The same ones that think a constant barrage of insults, pranks, physical violence, etc. is "funny" and "a sign of true friendship" are the ones that spend their late middle-age wondering why their best-friends are their dogs, their meth-pipe and their semiautomatic-guns.

Monday, September 11, 2023

Where's this aforementioned "lifestyle"?

OK, here's my question: What's my lifestyle? Straight folks always talk about "the gay lifestyle", so I'm really, really, really curious to know what it is.  I doubt mine fits their mental conception that they tell me that I must have because THEIR media tells them that I do.I REALLY want some straight folks to tell me about this lifestyle that they tell me that I must have because their media tells them so.

Thursday, August 3, 2023

Peer-pressure

If you have to peer-pressure someone into seeing a movie by accusing them of being a bigot if they don't, it already fails. Same with a beer. Same with any other marketable commodity. The backlash-effect in advertising of selling a product by implying to someone that their enemies hate it, are offended by it & only bigoted assholes don't partake in it is working on the same crowd that purposely says and does whatever they are told they need to in order to stay fashionable.

Monday, July 24, 2023

Small-town, huh?

I grew-up in a town of 850 people. I would bet my small-town is a Hell of a lot smaller than your's. I live in northeast Georgia mountains. I would bet much more rural area than you do. At the same time, I never felt the need to wax poetic about lynching blacks, killing queers or immigrants . My father hand built black-powder flint-lock muzzleloader guns. I never felt the need to brag about owning or threaten someone with it. I'm intelligent-enough to know nobody is coming for them (which people refuse to admit).  Nobody except the town's racists feared the Black Panthers. It was the hard-drug addicts that you had to watch for - and it's the same problem now. Please don't "inform" me about how I don't know any of this because I lived it. Quit lying & saying that you need a certain "Murica" back when it never went away. You don't need to raise Hell about how everyone is coming for you & your guns just because a little progress is happening socially & I think you'll find that the real problem is more the conservative meth-heads than Antifa or BLM. Have you ever even met anyone BLM or Antifa in that small town of your's?

Friday, July 7, 2023

Question to pose

When folks that just maybe happen to be heterosexual stop introducing folks that just happen to be homosexual as "...And this is my gay friend _____ ...", perhaps the 'friend' part will be more believable than just "ally brownie-points". Can't they simply say "This is my friend _____"?

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

It really IS that simple

If you are still believe in "God" & "the Devil" as you were told that you must or else, you are still a primitive, unevolved monkey. If you declare things that you don't understand "Satanic", you are part of the problem. If you attend "services" and practice "worship", you are a cultist. It really is that simple for the reason that while you are free to believe what you wish, that freedom stops the second that you force it on others or use it to harm others.

The Risk of Gentrifying Queerness

The Risk of Gentrifying Queerness - YES! Magazine: Has a fixation with visibility hindered the fight for collective LGBTQ liberation?

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

The controversy about AI & art

Anyone claiming that AI steals artists' human-touch needs to truly study exactly how Johannes Vermeer made his paintings. It wasn't talent. It wasn't inspiration. It was using a mirror a la "camera obscura". He used the technique of objects and invention to make photographic quality images.

Friday, June 9, 2023

The Devil Inside

If you were a supporter of Donald Trump, you were a supporter of Roy Cohn. If you were a supporter of Roy Cohn, you were a supporter of Joe McCarthy. If you were,you are an advocate of corruption & the murder of the innocent. It's just that simple.

Cop City Must Be STOPPED! (clip)

Thursday, June 8, 2023

WHITE NOISE

: Well. The cinematography was superb. The characters were overly annoying & largely cliche ("Of course you're a killer! You're a man!" was an actual line repeated through the second half). The absurdist plot tried hard to be deeply philosophical, but wasn't sure what it wanted to say. The choreography was amusing but tired. I would imagine that the book would be interesting, but as a film... It is not essential viewing.

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

The Dark Mnd Of Blackwingbear

https://discord.gg/7jvVwfJ3

The supply of Hotpockets and Red bull...

Prior to meeting my husband, I was in homosexual, bisexual, pansexual and heterosexual relationships. Not always long-term & often short-term. Still, I do find it amusing when someone that hasn't been in any relationship whatsoever makes assumptions about what being in any of those four MEAN & what they consider the source of their knowledge to be.

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

How you know you're talking to a Christian

 You tell them or they find out secondhand that you're gay and their reaction is to start telling you about all the pedophiles they have known in their lifetime.

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

YOUR money

YOUR Social Security funds that YOU have spent a lifetime paying into are YOUR'S and do not belong to the federal government to play "Let's Kill The Poor"-games with. They do NOT have the right to take it away, limit it, take from it, borrow from it or the like. This is YOUR retirement and disability funds. This was setup for YOU.

Amused

Apparently, according to yet another of the hip, hip, hip "more trendy-than-thou" Atlanta-and-Georgia-crowd, I'm not only "aggressive" & "manic" (I like discussing my passions/interests with people I think are of like minds), but I'm "outspoken" and "a cornucopia of violence".  The polite, cold arrogance is quite a show.

Color me amused.

Kenneth Anger dead at 96

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/kenneth-anger-dies-fireworks-1235623957/

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Reviews from R'lyeh: Miskatonic Monday #190: The Things We Feed

Reviews from R'lyeh: Miskatonic Monday #190: The Things We Feed: Between October 2003 and October 2013,  Chaosium, Inc.  published a series of books for  Call of Cthulhu  under the Miskatonic University Li...

System Of A Down - Spiders (Official HD Video)

No Balls - Come Clean LP (Full)

Let's be fucking honest

A bunch of conservative and neoliberal homophobes asking a gay man not to use the word "f-**-t" because they claim they are offended by it IS about as MeWe as MeWe gets.  Same folks that ask black folks not to use "the N word" around them.

Sunday, April 30, 2023

CRUISING

I still believe that heterosexuals should never have heard about or been introduced to this one. It's just something that they will use an excuse to do more "bashing" or commit more murders. Just my opinion.

Friday, April 28, 2023

coffee..... more coffee

I need MORE  coffee. These parasites called humans keep trying to force interaction upon me and demand that I do things. I'm told that I'm not allowed to use bug-spray on them.

The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends (Official Video)

Let's talk about Republicans shifting on climate and numbers....

Dedicated to the most adorable actor in film....

A eulogy

....And God saw that the MAGAts just didn't quite feel familiar with their surroundings in the afterlife, for it was too kind and too peaceful...  And so he took Jerry Springer to make them feel more in their natural environment... And, in their joy, the MAGAts cooked-up a batch of meth, screwed their sisters, shot St. Peter's dog and blew-up a trailer park. Amen.

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

David Carter, masterful Stonewall chronicler, remembered at the iconic bar

David Carter, masterful Stonewall chronicler, remembered at the iconic bar: In a moving memorial celebration held at the Stonewall Inn on April 15, David Carter — the activist, historian, and writer who authored the definitive history

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The part of "go away" they can't grasp

I'm attempting to get others on social-media to grasp that I never actually liked their species that is intent on making the planet "disposable", their "invisible friend", and don't consider malevolently snarky parasites "funny". Instead of catching the hint, they just "like" & comment on my posts.

Friday, April 7, 2023

You want it darker?

While the Republican Party continues to expel any representatives not in agreement with their agenda, currently 215,000 in Tennessee are without representation. This will continue until ONLY Republicans are allowed in office & anyone NOT a Republican will go unrepresented. Soon, the labor & extermination camps for LGBT+.

The Halluci Nation - The Virus Ft. Saul Williams, Chippewa Travellers (O...

Monday, March 27, 2023

Barney Bishop III is an insane bureaucrat.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/03/florida-principal-fired-michelangelo-david-statue.html

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Careful

Careful who you hate - it just might be someone that you love and you don't even realize it.

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

When treason is allowed because the one calling for it is Republican

Isn't Marjorie Taylor-Greene calling for succession and civil-war considered treason? Isn't treason still recognized as a crime?

Why Socrates Hated Democracy

Does Fox News merit criminal prosecution?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/does-fox-news-merit-criminal-prosecution?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=302288&post_id=103928544&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Thursday, February 16, 2023

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Petition: America is NOT a Christian Theocracy

https://m.dailykos.com/campaigns/petitions/sign-if-you-agree-america-is-not-a-christian-theocracy-3?pm_source=storypage&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/13/2152733/-Those-cloying-He-Gets-Us-Super-Bowl-ads-were-funded-by-billions-from-right-wing-organizations

Why Would Anyone Embrace Fascism?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-would-anybody-embrace-fascism?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=302288&post_id=73894977&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Microsoft's Chatbot imitating AI goes unhinged

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/bing-microsoft-chatgpt-ai-unhinged-b2281802.html

Monday, February 13, 2023

The Return Of Horse & Sparrow

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/is-the-horse-and-sparrow-economic?r=2ev6v&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Drag Queen event at Tate Britain sparks protests

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/13/drag-queen-event-at-tate-britain-sparks-protests-between-trans-rights-activists-and-right-wing-groups?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&utm_campaign=14a0352c89-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_02_13_12_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-14a0352c89-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

Thursday, February 2, 2023

A little advice

At some point, people accidentally tell you what they really think of you. Pay attention. Remember it. When the time comes due, remind yourself.

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

It is now illegal to listen to Pink Floyd in the state of Florida

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/florida-gov-ron-desantis-announces?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#details

Friday, January 27, 2023

Rainbow Railroad

https://thegavoice.com/news/national/rainbow-railroad-to-participate-in-new-us-refugee-resettlement-program/

Police are illegally using Google location data

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-geofence-warrant-appeal-murder-rcna67028?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=14616274-ef2f-4f99-b659-b69e965d3750

Thursday, January 26, 2023

The insanity of religious beliefs

If someone were to state to you that their imaginary friend talks to them and tells them what to do & who to hate, you would agree that they have a mental-illness and need help. If they substitute the word "God" for the phrase "imaginary friend", it is socially acceptable and considered sane.

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Ort is gone

https://www.ajc.com/life/arts-culture/william-ort-carlton-beloved-athens-character-leaves-the-building/4KBRTKTOMZF6HE6ISGICC63NEM/

Monday, January 9, 2023

American Airlines retailiated against workers

https://whistleblowersblog.org/osha-whistleblowers/osha-finds-american-airlines-retaliated-against-flight-attendants-who-reported-illness-due-to-toxic-fumes-in-airplane-cabins/

Whistleblower protection is frozen in time in Switzerland

https://whistleblowersblog.org/global-whistleblowers/whistleblower-protection-in-switzerland-is-frozen-in-time-report-finds/

Venezuelan embassy in US closes

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/01/07/venezuelan-embassy-in-us-closes-as-opposition-crumbles/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=64554f72-0ef3-4ae1-a5a6-21112e5289f8

Math minus the militarism

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/math-minus-militarism-us-mathematicians-disrupt-nsa-sponsored-math-convention?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=64554f72-0ef3-4ae1-a5a6-21112e5289f8