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gnocchi dokey

@gnocchidokey.bsky.social

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Math teacher, anti-racist, friend to animals. Officially elsewhere. Nowhere near my original coordinates. She or they preferred. Oh & as a Jew whose great-grands fled Germany before WW2: Israel's actions are genocide & the US is currently a fascist state.

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gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · Jun 25

HERE IT IS! MASTERPOST -- WHO TO CALL AND WHAT TO DO IF YOU SEE ICE IN PHILLY OR SOUTHEASTERN PA:

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MASTERPOST: WHAT TO DO IF YOU SEE ICE IN SOUTHEAST PA

1. CALL IT IN! Here’s our big list of responding organizations in the area: South Philadelphia (or if none of the other regions of the city listed below seem accurate) — contact JUNTOS …

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gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 27m

excerpt that i found particularly shocking

On a recent episode of the Carmudgeon Show podcast, auto journalist Jason Cammisa described a phenomenon occurring with some LED headlights in which there are observable minor spots of dimness among an otherwise bright field of light. “With complex arrays of LEDs and of optics,” he said, “car companies realized they can engineer in a dark spot where it’s being measured, but the rest of the field is vastly over-illuminated. And I’ve had now two car companies’ engineers, when I played stupid and said, ‘What’s the dark spot?’ … And the lighting engineers are all fucking proud of themselves: ‘That’s where they measure the fucking thing!’ And I’m like, ‘You assholes, you’re the reason that every fucking new car is blinding the shit out of everyone.’”

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 32m

for those who prefer text (and don't mind pretentious intros):

Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars

The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industr...

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gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 34m

god i love that show (agent carter, for those unaware)

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 49m

i am also having this exact experience and finding it befuddling

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 50m

literally so what? that is clearly intended to be satire??? christ

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 51m

obviously there are a million things wrong with what happened to those men, but if there's one thing i've learned from real-world discussions, it's to pick one or two of your strongest arguments and just stick with those

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 52m

he wanted to know why i was against criminals (kilmar abrego garcia and the others) being sent to prison (cecot)

i explained about due process and how some of them didn't seem to be criminals actually

he agreed that due process seemed like a good thing probably

their bubbles are so fragile

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gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 56m

ok right, so in that case i would say we cannot allow republicans to dictate our priorities in defending the constitution. if republicans believe the civil rights of queer people should be less important to us than someone else's rights, that fact is irrelevant.

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 5h

wait really?

...should we get coffee first?

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gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 5h

no wait shit shit

i'm not yer buddy, guy!

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gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 5h

sit 'n spin, ya jerk!

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gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 5h

i'm gnocchidokey, fuck you!

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gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 5h

all the people in the replies explaining how wrong the post is lmaoooooo

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 5h

THIS

even if the bottom line $$ effect is identical, the policies are different because of what they mean socially

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 6h

i feel like a lot of fictional bad guys are fascists because everyone understands how evil fascists are

or, like... used to

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 6h

i see that as you overcoming your ingrained speciesism to have empathy even when nobody explicitly asked you to, which is a huge fucking deal and if everybody thought like that the world would be a wonderful place

but then again i am also crazy so

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 6h

we may be talking around each other actually. by pillars i assumed you meant really existentially important issues/threats. not like, current talking points. it's true the gop has disproportionate control over the news cycle, but that doesn't change what's important and what's not

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 6h

oooh i do enjoy me some chicks

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 6h

like hell

according to the GOP, people being disappeared in the dead of night & sent off to concentration camps and foreign prisons is nbd. they don't get to decide anything for me, or for you.

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 6h

had a right-wing guy approach me after a protest and ask "can i ask you some questions without you becoming violent?"

(this is much funnier if you know that i am a not-yet-40 chubby, benign-looking white lady who can't even bring herself to kill most bugs)

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gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 6h

you really had me in the first half lmaooo

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 9h

ok but framing exists actually and this framing blows

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 9h

but a well-written article would clarify

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 10h

one underrated thing about tom waits is his name is a full sentence, that's pretty cool

i had a teacher once named rita burrows, found that very cool as well

gnocchi dokey @gnocchidokey.bsky.social · 12h

my two best college friends both met their husbands through okcupid but that was before it sucked