Shelby

Abolish prisons, Homeland Security/ICE, and the police.
she/they.

[Shelby @datadruidry]

Video games would be way better under socialism

[Shelby @datadruidry]

@CarriePoppyYES Yours is one of the most insightful, informed, and thoughtful voices in science communication. I'm a PhD candidate in social work, and I've been eager to read your book as long as you've been talking about it. I wish you so much healing and joy and hot drinks.

[Shelby @datadruidry]

@OhNoPodcast Wow. I'm in tears. Your show has inspired me to be more thoughtful in so many aspects of my life, to READ FACTFULNESS and several other books (mostly by Jon Ronson), to be fascinated by the things my fellow humans believe even when I disagree or don't understand,

[Shelby @datadruidry]

Thanks to Carrie Poppy & Ross Blocher for 13 years of laughter and tears and learning and growing. When I first heard about ONRAC, I thought it was too good to be true. Now I know there are actually tons of other people who are obsessed with weird ideas. I'm sure it was all true.

[UMN Graduate Labor Union- UE 1105 @umnglu]

Please read this joint statement from Teamsters Local 320 @IBT_320 and UMN GLU-UE Local 1105 on the building closures and the hardships caused to union employees. If you are a graduate worker at UMN, share your own experiences at https://t.co/8XyhWJh9dY

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil. May a curse attach itself to him, like a garment one puts on, or a belt one wears continually."

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

"For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy and killed the disheartened. He loved to curse others, so those curses have come upon him. He had no desire to bless anyone, so he has experienced no blessings.

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

Psalm 109 for example

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

imprecatory Psalms are abundant in the Bible, it's basic moral reasoning. If you have a guy who got away with spraying napalm on villages, there is no moral shame in wishing that person can plague this earth no further

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

the dead of Cambodia and Laos and Vietnam have never seen a shred of justice and still cry out from their graves.

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

Henry the K is not in the group of people whose better side we have to take into account. his wickedness in this world has been profound.

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

again, I differentiate between "monsters" and "people who've done a lot of foul shit but to whom there are also other sides." there is none worthy, no, not one is also a real scripture. but.

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

but it seems morally not just acceptable, but imperative to me, to be relieved when a true monster departs this world and can do no further harm

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

spiritually, I agree with the "generally, don't party too hard when people die" position. people are complex. people do good and bad and they have moms & dads & kids, judge not lest ye also be judged is a real scripture and I take it seriously

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

like not to go off too hard but

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

and that, mindless scolding fast-talking-equals-intelligence!! dude, is why, when another leader whose record had some heavy "wasn't this pretty bad for people?" marks on it dies, many of us will always think "Lord, how long must Henry Kissinger's victims be deprived of justice"

[Shelby @datadruidry]

obsessed with the character whose dream vacation home is an airport/airplane

[Shelby @datadruidry]

@theocado Not sure if this is helpful or not but a friend of mine has a theory that a certain character disapproving when you do good stuff is actually part of a front they put up and it doesn't actually affect your approval that much in the long run!

[Shelby @datadruidry]

@kathbarbadoro "Spirit tells me you're cursed and I can help" is a weirdly common scam in the woowoo internet world, she would probably read your palm and then tell you she can unblock you for $500

[Shelby @datadruidry]

Also to be clear I don't think rich conservatives or industry lobbyists are secretly environmentalists or pro-choice. Probably the thinking is more like "climate change won't affect me in my lifetime" or "abortion is bad for the structure of society"

[Shelby @datadruidry]

It seems like there are some beliefs, like climate change denial or the idea that abortion is murder, where the more powerful you are, the less likely you are to actually believe it. True believers exist but, for the most part, they aren't rich or powerful.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

One of my chief character flaws is thinking that no one /actually/ doesn’t believe in human-caused climate change.

[Shelby @datadruidry]

My question is whether these beliefs are top-down or bottom-up. For example, do real climate change deniers only exist because of propaganda from oil tycoons? Or does it begin as a sincere belief and later become a convenience for people with an economic stake in it?