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The human urge to make meaning from the meaningless not only causes us to see faces in clouds, but apparently has forced a whole mediasphere to translate Trump's nonsense into some vaguely coherent message.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/06/why-humans-see-faces-everyday-objects
@emc2 i am so very sorry life went skew whiff for you. Your description of living in a campsite amidst ruins is a powerful one. It must resonate with many, if not materially, then emotionally.
@elronxenu @BlairMountainWarrior I wake up every morning asking it.
@apenkop Yes, me too. And I really find it very difficult to 'hate' anyone. But them... I fucking hate them. @VampirePenguin
@GGMcBG The thing is, I can almost guarantee, if it makes you feel any better, that he's not at all happy.
His capacity to be happy only lasts about 30 seconds. He's probably one of the most unhappy people on the planet, and now the rest of us all have to pay for that.
@Theosoreass all the time!
@danielsreichenbach I think that is very much the case for some of them. For some, he is everything they want to be. What a dark aspiration, right?
@grootinside Valium for the win. No wonder mothers stayed high on it all the way through the 50's @clintruin @GezThePez
@cstross it’s gonna be hard, with his minted coins and his signature of currency bills. But I sister has a mortal fear of being erased
@mkoek Your fear is not misplaced.
It occurred to me this morning that it has now been over a decade in which we have all been forced to hear something about Donald Trump every fucking day - often many times a day.
There are people in journalism who have no experience of a world in which we actually covered many different topics in a day.
I feel like I've been mentally force fed McDonalds for ten years non-stop.
I would like it to be over before I die, please.
@emc2 Exactly this...
If there's a problem, then it lies with the institutions who exclude. Not the excluded.
I'm disgusted by the Olympic committee ruling.
Not because I don't think hormones matter.
Not because I don't think chromosomes can matter.
But because there's is not a fucking sports event in the world that is worth the erasure of a person's personhood.
Not one.
Fuck those people and PE angst.
Very disappointed with this podcast - inaccurate and both-sidesism.
Yes, the US has absolutely seen 10,000 person detention camps before. Ask Japanese Americans, ask Native Americans https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/radio-atlantic/id1258635512?i=1000757475591
Why yes, I do need to spruce up my plants a bit #Cats #CatsOfMastodon
@paulk me too!
My courtyard is like a seasonal sun dial. By the end of March, the earth’s inclination allows the sun to reach the entire back wall. I always know where to find my cats after the ides #Cats #CatsOfMastodon
Jacques enjoying the arrival of the sun in the courtyard #Cats #CatsOfMastodon
Too many people to reply to while I'm prepping lunch, but I just wanted to say to all of you that I'm so glad to be able to have these intelligent, insightful, and nuanced conversations with you. And to read your replies to each other.
It makes me happy and hopeful.