Brutkey

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social

I have friends and acquaintances from the UK, but I'm unable to see why I'm supposed to have broad sympathy for the people of the UK when they brought this on themselves by voting for a right-wing party that is apparently the left-most of the right-wing parties that have any chance of winning. Democracies are not safe from the people's will and if it's a consistent over time bad democracy then it's probably a bad people, as my own people in the US are a bad people.

https://www.thejournal.ie/uk-government-advises-people-to-delete-old-photos-and-emails-as-england-faces-water-shortfall-6788643-Aug2025/?utm_source=shortlink

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social

I recognize that the US democracy, for example, has been scientifically proven to be only responsive to the wealthiest people's concerns, but this is also the fault of the people. Why do people still defend the system? Why is resistance in the US still focused around "we have to get it back to how it was before Trump"?

Because people broadly don't have any political commitments other than are they getting theirs.

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social

I have friends and acquaintances from the UK, but I'm unable to see why I'm supposed to have broad sympathy for the people of the UK when they brought this on themselves by voting for a right-wing party that is apparently the left-most of the right-wing parties that have any chance of winning. Democracies are not safe from the people's will and if it's a consistent over time bad democracy then it's probably a bad people, as my own people in the US are a bad people.

https://www.thejournal.ie/uk-government-advises-people-to-delete-old-photos-and-emails-as-england-faces-water-shortfall-6788643-Aug2025/?utm_source=shortlink

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social

People love this kind of post because a) FOSS is objectively bad, and only survives as the lesser evil to enshittified stuff, b) people hate being given advice on any topic.

I'm an old guy, we give advice. It's one of the very common temptations of age. It doesn't matter whether it's about gardening or whatever, people will be like "how dare you respond to my social media post as if I wanted advice on the problem I posted about."

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115015765968617946

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social

I don't expect anything from Columbia University but it's amusing to find out that they're banning Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem because it criticizes the founding of Israel.

If anyone ever took academic statements about freedom of anything seriously, you were a sucker.

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social

#introduction

Hello fediverse. I post:

* about global warming data
* anarchist boosts
* poetry
* literary criticism I guess?
* animal picture boosts
* reply person jokes

In short no one who is carefully curating their feed should follow me