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Artemis
@Artemis

#horror and #ttrpg enthusiast.

I'm a bisexual anti-capitalist, artist, & aspiring propagandist. We're not free until we're *all* free.

I sometimes have updates from my brother "Apollo" on the ground in Minneapolis.

Guillermo del Toro fan account. Anarchist pep-talks are provided free of charge. Solidarity forever!

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Artemis · 1w
Actually it makes me really happy to be the person my parents turn to when they need someone to tell them that their wants & needs matter. I do get the sense that's why they sometimes mention certain...
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Texted my mom back "ooh"-ing & "ah"-ing over the nice amenities. "Oh, that sounds like it would work so well for you!" "That's such a nice, spacious kitchen!"

It looks pretty great for them.

I'm a bit annoyed at my brother & his wife that when my parents asked them to come view the house, their big concern was about themselves & their kids & not what my parents need! They wanted another trusted opinion. Mom & Dad weren't asking "is this good for you?" they were asking "is it good for us?"
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Cho · 1w
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Actually it makes me really happy to be the person my parents turn to when they need someone to tell them that their wants & needs matter.

I do get the sense that's why they sometimes mention certain things to me: so that I can say "I think you should do whatever is best for you" & ask them what they actually want.
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Artemis · 1w
Texted my mom back "ooh"-ing & "ah"-ing over the nice amenities. "Oh, that sounds like it would work so well for you!" "That's such a nice, spacious kitchen!" It looks pretty great for them. I'm a bit annoyed at my brother & his wife that when my parents asked them to come view the house, their bi...
Dave Clark · 1w
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Supposedly the US will start their "blockade" of the Strait today. Let's see how it goes & how long it lasts.

Time for an enormous game of "chicken".

I'm so tired.
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Daniel Lakeland · 1w
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Cho · 2w
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Hegseth says "maximum lethality." Ok, that was the Vietnam War strategy: "we'll count the corpses, & if we get a lot of corpses, that means we're winning."

Obviously that's monstrous & incentivizes indiscriminate killing, but it's also not focusing on strategically important objectives.

Also, when you are fighting a guerilla resistance, you continually create more enemy combatants. The more people you kill, the more they want to be rid of you. It's not hard to comprehend.
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Artemis · 2w
I don't want the US to be BETTER at war. It's just astounding to see how badly mixed up the priorities are. The Art of War is literally "War for Dummies," but maybe that's still too advanced for lil Petey Kegsbreath.
2xfo · 2w
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Artemis · 2w
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@nprofile1q...
Of course I didn't think about the fact that deleting that particular post orphans your reply so your caveat no longer show up for people reading the thread...hmm. Perhaps I'll just ditch the whole thread for now. I'd prefer at least for the pushback/alternative perspective to be available to read, so orphaning responses isn't really going to work...
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Artemis · 2w
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nostrich · 2w
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Thank you for sharing your experience. I think what I have realized today is that, while there is *something* in here that I think is important to talk about, it seems:

a) I haven't yet gotten down to the kernel of what feels important to me here & worked it through properly
b) I should be more careful with what I attribute to specific people. I'm going to delete the final post in this thread, because I stated something which is conjecture about an individual as fact.
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Artemis · 2w
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So the question is less "will Trump give the order to do absolutely wildly evil things to Iran?" & more "what orders are going to be followed?"

And no, military commanders declining to obey clearly unlawful orders would not constitute a coup. That would still be the US military functioning within its designated sphere.

I'm not betting on the morality of the leaders of the US Armed Forces, but they have plenty of reasons to not want to carry out Trump's nonsensical revenge. So... we'll see.
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squid64 · 2w
And the USA is not gaining anything from that war, they are losing billions in it and I think this is exactly what Russia and China wants which is why they're not involved.
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Problem-solving happens in community. We cannot solve all of our problems with rules & protocols. We cannot simply mechanically remove all harassment. We have to learn to react to things as members of a community, protecting & caring for each other.

The solutions aren't universal & top-down. They are solutions we arrive at together through effort, through listening to each other, through imagining better things.
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Tiota Sram · 2w
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Some Fedi users don't know how much their experience is shaped by the instance they are on, so if you don't like the experience you're having (whether it's too many interactions you don't want to have OR a too "filtered" experience where you are not connecting with as wide a variety of people & opinions as you would like), look into the moderation & federation choices of your instance.

#FediAdvice #FediMeta
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Artemis · 2w
I find dice.camp to be a pretty decent balance for what I want. It's not super-restrictive the way some instances are, but it is also not open to everything. My instance restricts mastodon.social which does reduce my reach somewhat & definitely limits who I can interact with, but the payoff is very...