Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Every time I see these stories all I can think of is the the Moms from Drop Dead Gorgeous and giggle.
Matthew 21:17, “yeah, think about it”. He/Him and sometimes They when I am just too tired to keep up the construct. Came to this profile to see if the person you disagree with has "pronouns"? Ya basic. This is mainly a a thought dump space.
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Every time I see these stories all I can think of is the the Moms from Drop Dead Gorgeous and giggle.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Daniel Smith shouldn’t be so sensitive when people follow her orders. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
probably the whole time?
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Saw the movie “Weapons” last night. It was all right. I guess an allegory of who gets blamed and punished when children go missing also to lock your car.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
The hat is now on display next to a copy of “Who Moved My Cheese?”
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Post a meme made by you:
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Oh thank you! It looks like Ground no longer refers to the AdFontes rating. There is a lapse however, Media Bias labels it Far Right and @groundnews.bsky.social "softens" it to to just "right". However I wonder if maybe there is just a delay in updates. Thanks for engaging with me on this!
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m wondering the same. Because there’s a lot of smaller Canadian news sources that groundnews don’t index. I have been keeping an eye on rdx, I have had family members that were poisoned by their bizarre rhetoric. So found out about the brass knuckles, the white supremacy of their founder etc
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
So I been kind of keeping an eye on those proto-nzs for a bit and when I saw them on ground news and they had a “centre” rating. I emailed the rating company and asked about it . Here is the exchange.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
I like how in the game Pyst [a parody of Myst, after the 1 million players have gone through it] contained a note from a player that had a mental breakdown because they couldn’t figure out how to open the bookcase and there was cigarette butts everywhere. youtube.com/clip/UgkxF6w...
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s great that it talks about the history of the White Terror in Taiwanese history. Not many people learn about it. There’s also a game about Taiwan during the time of Japanese occupation called “The Legend of Tianding”. It’s more of a platformer though.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
I’m thankful I don’t have skin tags. But I see the kits to remove them. And I’m just very curious of what that’s like to use.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Robin LeBlanc, from work (@robinfromwork.bsky.social) reposted
Wild to see a tv interview with an eight year old talking about his friend who jumped on top of him and got shot and tomorrow there's just going to be nothing done about it
Alice Winterland (@alicewinterland.com) reposted
The transphobic nurse Amy Hamm has recently been supported by Pierre Poilievre, who just won a consolation Parliamentary seat after his humiliating defeat at the last election. And of course, the first thing he does is mislead Canadians and peddle in transphobia à la Trump.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
The more I dig into Amy Hamm the worse I find out she is and the lighter I discover how much her “sentence” is.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
And where Scott Moe Lives, double win!
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Hey look, trans people are now being banned for criticizing J. K. Rowling and pushed off. That was quick Bluesky ! I thought it would be a couple months from this skeet
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
Still doesn’t dispute the fact that…
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Bluesky doesn’t let you call out JK Rowling… got it. Is it because she name searches herself on here ?
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
I am sorry but the final two episodes of the show Pantheon is unrealistic. The Cloud would have a lot more furries.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
It is so weird, I’ve heard variations of this. Like literally people saying “I was for trans rights until one was rude to me, now I am against them” like having the political resolve of Scooby-Doo looking for a Scooby Snack no wait two Scooby Snacks…
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
Better install a garburator in the shower drain then.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
The weird thing is that I thought Cate Archer was a 00 agent. Turns out it was only inspired by James Bond.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
“How can we frame it to sound like it is trans people’s fault” must be a department at the BBC.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
“Hamm says in the statement that her comments are not hateful.” Gurl… have you seen her twitter? And also she “writes” for Reduxx that is hateful enough. I am sure Amy Hamm will get one of those shady word salad named non-profit law firms to pay for her. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
The “I am concerned about sports”, or “I just have questions” people are of course silent about it.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
But also continue to fight to remain on major platforms. And call them out whenever they try to erase.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
This is a step to erasure. I am not sure what platforms people can move to. I would definitely suggest That creator’s upload their content to other platforms (archive etc) People download and back up queer content & established a network of peer to peer people to help distribute the content.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Hello void! Many screams today ?
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
What about a Star Trek: Lwaxana?
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
The wrong Superman got thrown from the horse.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks Jessie my reading list just got longer :( Legit thank you. I know some family that was poisoned by GC rhetoric
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
What I’m trying to say. Is that those who claim they understand “economics” doesn’t understand how companies act. And will gouge you because that is what the system incentivizes them to do.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
Until a product reaches a certain low point to capture the market lower prices could actually happen with decrease costs. After that, however, the prices will just go up. Sometimes there are “sales”. But once they know they can increase it they will increase it non stop.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
The one scene I remember of Anne Shirley when I was a kid. youtube.com/watch?v=ZgZX...
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Does it count as the Bury Your Gays trope if the sexuality of the character is not known but you find them hot?
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
There is a couple billionaires that could afford to pay that out. Just saying.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
Well that was a sad google search.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
“Bluesky can’t take a joke” isn’t this the same bs comment that allowed the alt right to control the discourse on twitter?
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
God the bedroom speak of GCs must be so weird. “Give your small gametes to my egg producing machine!!”
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
The NYT is just figuring this out? This was old when Carlos Maza covered it on Vox… youtube.com/watch?v=VzoZ...
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Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m always a fan of backwards compatibility. The fact that the steam deck with its emulation or application wrapper(? not 100% sure what it is) that old Windows games play better on it than they do on Windows 11.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
It is tempting to go back to Ubuntu, I like Debian but Debian doesn’t like me. Maybe time to learn arch Linux
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
One will be forced off the platform the other will have thousands of dollars thrown at them and a team of lawyers. In Canada this is usually the “Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms”, they are currently defending a transphobe who got fired for using her “clout” as a nurse to justify her hate.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
It has to do w/ views of free speech vs free market , if you are a queer content creator & a company takes down your stuff there’s the “they’re a private company, they can dictate what is on their platform” crowd, if they take down hate speech that same crowd is like “but that is censorship!!”
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
I do know people get upset when servers do earn a living wage for some weird reason. Grifter papers in Canada do these pieces all the time. “Oh dear, this service worker is earning lots of money, tipping is awful”. I call it the _margaritas amplecti_ fallacy nationalpost.com/news/the-100...
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
I think PayPal does it for Reduxx as well. Betar US a group that doxxes anti-genocide protestors has GoFundMe process their donations. I am not sure stripe process the payments specifically for Reduxx’s weapon but worth mentioning. I know it was sold through their Shopify account.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
They also process the payments for Canary Mission a website that doxxes anti-genocide protesters and harasses them to silence them.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
Stripe processes payments for Reduxx, they are a website that focuses primarily on the crimes of transgender people. Similar how certain publications focused the crimes of minorities in WW2. They also sold an illegal weapon in Canada on their Patreon and Merch Store. rationalwiki.org/wiki/Reduxx
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
Literal hate groups still use Stripe payments, yet they allow moral panic over art. It is stupid.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
I wish Bluesky had a 10 minute editing window.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
“I want to roll my eyes right now, but the doctor says that if I keep doing it, my ocular muscles might spasm and eject my eyeballs.”
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
But it is easier to scream at people for buying nice coffee now and then.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
If I remember correctly the season pretty much highlighted the willingness of politicians to "sacrifice less desirable" children (ITC ones with low test scores), even their own children, under the guise of protecting children, but to only save their own skin.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
In the "Children of Earth" Season of Torchwood a politician was asked to publicly send his children for a treatment (that was a plan to hand over children to Aliens). Thus sacrificing his children to "the cause", this is very much that. However that character had a bit more empathy one could say.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
So in the end it boils down to jealousy
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah if you write for a transphobic website that was started by an alleged white nationalist. Do you have a complaint? rationalwiki.org/wiki/Reduxx
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
So amazing this session. Sad that transphobia shut down the comments. youtube.com/watch?v=IJBw...
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Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
Shoes?
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
Nope. We got rid of him. You guys can keep him.
Jewish Voice for Peace (@jvp.bsky.social) reposted
Yesterday, 12 countries announced their commitment to a full arms embargo on the Israeli government. The resolution comes out of an emergency summit in Bogota where the Hague Group gathered to coordinate legal and diplomatic action to counter the “climate of impunity” for Israeli war crimes.
The Transfeminine Review (@thetransfemininereview.com) reposted
Hey guys, so remember how I wrote about the four stages of how P25 and Republicans want to enact anti-trans censorship? This signals that we have FULLY entered Stage Two: We lose the trans internet. Stage One is over - they've already gotten there. Please pay attention to this now.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
I just want get involved in government to push for equality a to make her IP public domain out of spite
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Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
This dropped seemingly out of nowhere. Kind of explains a bit of my obsession of how stupid transphobia. This content creator just released an almost 5 hour video essay debunking Transphobic Arguments and connects lots of people. Please watch and share youtube.com/watch?v=JiOc...
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
My folks use to say “back in my day we there was no [new thing] and you are weaker because of it”, now that I am helping raise a nibbling, I say “we didn’t have that back in the day and I am glad you now have access to it and it hope it helps you succeed at life” (usually said in a less elegant way)
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
I wish @marksauce.bsky.social was on here more. But his videos have made me fearful of letting Aqua Fava go to waste. So made vegan mayo. I used Xanthum Gum and Mustard to help with the emulsification.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
The audio reader for your site got it right as well. As someone who use to work with old text to speech I was prepared for a very terrible interpretation. I wonder how it would do with the IPA “ʃxʷməθkʷəjʔəmasəm ˈstɹit”. One good use for AI at least, helping keep languages alive.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
You know the generation that complained about kids and their “ghetto blasters” definitely likes to sit in a coffee shop and blast their news clips in the middle of a coffee shop.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Does JK Rowling aka Joanne name search herself on Bluesky ? That would be sad…
Charles Gaba (@charlesgaba.com) reposted
Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Sucks what Simone Giles was bullied into apologizing to fascists like Riley Gaines. Gaines made it very clear in the end that it was never about transgender people in sports it is erasing transgender people.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
And they sold brass knuckles in Canada, a restricted weapon here.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
I am at a lost of words for this graphic www.vice.com/en/article/y...
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
So Switch 2 has more backwards compatibility with ps2 products than the ps5…?
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Children are now below speed bumps on the societal hierarchy.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
You know how you use to have to explain connections of various rhetorics to white supremacy… now they are just speed running it.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
oh yeah, I understand that :), I am Canadian, so like demi-french? haha.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
I was looking where to purchase these, but they don't ship to Canada :(, might have to make my own.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
It was one of the most frustrating systems I have worked with
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
It won’t let me do a refund and I have to now open another ticket … ugh.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
@microsoft.com just scammed me. The system wouldn’t let me buy a gift copy of Minecraft for the nephew for some reason and it was very frustrating. So I called. We tried many different ways. Eventually the Microsoft employee completed the sale but just purchased me an extra copy after I checked.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
But all the GCs said the Liberals won’t protect women and privatize gender or something and women overwhelmingly would vote against Carny….
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
I found that my rule of “don’t buy notebooks“ didn’t work for me, but my rule of “only by A5 coil notebooks with a dot grid” has restricted my notebook buying way more. For me it is the best format.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social) reply parent
Also to bring up the stupidity of companies not letting me choose Post for delivery. Courier is fine for businesses that operates 9-5 and someone is there to receive it. Like the fact Purolator was owned by Canada post and I couldn’t go pick up the parcel at a Canada post office was so brain dead.
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Paraphrased from audio: “If someone opens and reads my mail it is a crime, if the state opens and reads my mail I have recourse as a citizen against spying and invasion of privacy, I don’t have that recourse if Facebook reads my messages or Bluesky reads my messages.”
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Legit question. Does anyone ever use that breakfast bar they insist on putting in every kitchen now? Maybe to talk to who is cooking ? But does anyone start the day with “hey, I want to have coffee and breakfast in a very uncomfortable stool in the morning!” ?
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
I am so glad that there is still some progress made in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Veldt (@veldtwalker.bsky.social)
Updating an old house is fun. People use 4 different screws to screw in a smoke alarm bracket. Adventure.