Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️

“This guy died let us all reflect on the various things he got wrong and how much of a hypocrite deceiver he was”

Lenin’s top 2 things to do when not talking about party politics
1. Book reviews
2. Articles roasting liberals that recently died

I just rrealized it's only Tuesday and I want to cry.

in a better structured society we'd see a lot more of them at libraries rather than in suburban homes

3d printers really needed this glow up. they can be great practical or creative tools but it's still the case that for every 1 actually useful publicly available print design you still see 300 jagoff spider-man masks or anime waifu figurines

Yup. There's also what I like to call proxy-contact.

Where the nature of a person's work makes them too high of a risk for direct involvement. In which case, indirect is the only way they can help and nothing else.

yeah exactly! someone in the av club comments said this proves it's about fame and ego to him.

there's enough awful apologists that he could write again without addressing this and assholes would buy his shit.

he's doing this smear campaign because he's furious he's no longer Famous Good Guy™️

I know it's not analogous in terms of harm but whenever someone apologizes like this I just keep thinking about Mike Vick and how he did his time, learned, and now like literally has devoted his life to rescuing abused dogs you know?

California, Illinois-- who's next?

There’s something ironic that this entire saga is about a *LITERAL* dumpster fire

(Insert famous poet) couldn’t write a better poem if (insert poet’s pronouns) tried

a donkey crucified

the earliest depiction of Christ’s crucifixion is among the ruins of a Roman palace turned messenger boy’s school - a student mocking one of his Christian classmates with a doodle of a boy praying to a donkey-headed figure on a cross captioned “Alexamenos worshipping his God”

Yep and I do tend to play support classes.

At the end of the day some people are just going to refuse to be helped.

It is rich the "anti-bullying" thing still in that profile too lol.

I don't usually get involved in any drama on here, I try to be supportive and helpful but some motherfuckers can really get under my skin still lol.

Nothing like an evil mirror universe of yourself to do that.

and I would NEVER tell someone they HAVE to do it anyway, it is a huge risk and that's a personal choice.

But you don't get to weaponize your fear against others and harass them because they were able to.

(and he was generally nice to me fwiw, I just hate shit like that)

Oh you have a mortgage, a spouse, a kid and a career?

Yeah buddy, me too. Guess what? It *might* just work out anyway.

I understand the fear of losing it, truly, and I'm lucky I didn't lose any of it but all of those things can go away for any number of reasons.

His case in particular stuck out to me because of some supposed desire to transition but "can't" because of what boils down to a bunch of factors we shared in common and I said fuck it, I want to live.

He chose differently and is a bitter bully because of it.

Just from my observations of course

That's the behavior I've seen over at least 2 years at this point and seems to only get worse.

Zero desire to improve one's own life will do that too.

There have been numerous good faith attempts at people on here trying to genuinely help him but he refuses and fights like a toddler about it

NS puts a lot of effort into harassing trans women in particular, tons of hours doing so. It is a matter of high posting numbers and persistence.

Once NS gets locked in it is a long string of doubling down, making things worse, etc.

Some people seem to live for online fighting bullshit

past example of a rancid creep defending Neil Gaiman & attacking trans women:

people on here will skeet anything. "Neil Gaiman assaulting women was nuanced; we need to give him the benefit of the doubt." no we don’t. that isn't true

Yeah but that's only if you're a woman who is communist or a teacher who says they're working class or a Black person who says racism still exists or a trans person saying he looks terrible in that outfit

yeah we should totally let this dude into our group. just a word of warning though if you ever have a disagreement he'll spend weeks belittling the you and the organization online to his hundred thousand simpering followers

i know what will get me back in the group chats

i just need to post harder about how Women Are All Stupid

this is part of respecting a diversity of tactics. Some people work inside and follow the rules whatever they are, and others work outside of that. Whatever the case, you do not give up your comrades to the cops.

"oh but those black bloc kids might be feds, only feds would set a trash can on fire"

No they are some anarchists who at worst got too excited and are doing some foolish escalatory things, do you hear yourself.

Tell them to knock it off, don't go proactively collect evidence for the Gestapo

The role of a Legal Observer is to document the actions state actors, not to become cops or help prosecutors.

I’ve trained hundreds of NLG observers over the years and it’s v important to stick to to a rigid structure both to preserve the validity of testimony and maintain trust in movement spaces

When you get to a point as a white dude with a huge following where you are logging into an alt so you can screenshot a woman critic who has blocked you, at a point when she is now studiously avoiding even use of your name...

It is time for some self-reflection.

To those lamenting seeing activists fight over what often appears to be trivial bullshit: if it makes you feel any better, this is absolutely nothing NEW, and it doesn’t appear to be an impediment to success in and of itself.

To those activists: take it to the Signal group chat more often. please!

steviebaby @steviebaby.bsky.social will stancil learn about consent before age 50 impossible difficulty

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social I mean I'm gonna get back in even if they don't know it, so it's fine

for future reference this is the post that he decided was A Bridge Too Far, and here is the post of his that it was quoting (i found this by searching "stancil get back")

like i'm sorry but there's simply no denying that this is a guy who does not respect consent of anyone else

also, as a reminder, i don't think will should be banned from bluesky. it's all he has