I’m infatuated with the concept of tiny tiny horses. The size of cats. But proportional like a full-sized horse. I fantasize about a tiny herd of them galloping down my hall. Imagine the little clipclop of their microhooves! The tiny neighs! I’d feed them trimmed baby carrots. I wonder if they could be house trained?
@claytoncubitt when I was ten years old the ku klux klan shot and killed several friends of my family with the collusion of the local police. I'm a middle aged white guy. The world he describes has never existed in my lifetime.
@claytoncubitt This story never passed even the most basic sniff test. If I were a 2.1 billion dollar restaurant chain and I was losing a lot of money on one of my promotions I would give strong consideration to ending that promotion some time between "Friday" and "filing for bankruptcy".
Any time it feels difficult to do the right thing, to do the moral thing, that's a moment when you can spiritually measure the toxicity of the society you're embedded in. A healthy society would and should make it painless to be good and to speak truth.
@claytoncubitt I read this post immediately after finishing an article on Me Too at the Cannes film fest & French film industry. Mastodon timeline delivers.
A still from the Apple commercial entitled "Crushing," featuring an emoji face being squished by a gigantic hydraulic press. The face is compressed and the eyes are beginning to big out from the pressure.
Maybe it was a bad idea to let three dork billionaires capture humanity's collective online social interactions so they can hire a couple thousand fellow socially-stunted nerds to design and twist dials marked "racism" and "hate" and "confusion" in order to monetize moral rot.