Diligence Jones

By day, a woman who knows and does some things in the social impact space; writer of romantica; by night, shenanigans, political side eye, & snark. Y'all, I'm TIREDT.

Pronouns: She/Her
D/s: a D who giggles (it's fun dammit)
IFKYK: SoPo

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2025-03-29 20:17:58

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I gotta keep hope alive.

2024-08-31 23:38:06

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The younger Millennials in my office are telling me I need to listen to someone called a Chapel Roan or something.
I have learned to take their recommendations.

2024-08-31 21:05:23

it's one thing to vibe to a song, another to actually read the lyrics and realize it's dumb.
sigh.
looking at you, Million Dollar Baby.
love you but you dumb.

2024-08-24 18:20:30

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I've been in rooms with Kamala Harris. Private homes. I get it.
She and Doug are charming people. They're witty, tell good stories, they're charismatic AF. She lights up a room and can werk that room like Bill Clinton.
But if you don't have a political spine, you will absorb all that light and think, Everything is fine.
Girl, you in danger.

2024-08-24 18:13:41

Folks need better politics.

2024-08-23 03:12:11

The DNC missed an opportunity when they denied this Palestinian public official from GA a chance to call for peace at the convention.
That's really disappointing.
(And see the inside/outside strategy I talked about the other day.)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/dnc-speech-uncommitted-movement-harris-walz-ruwan-romman/

2024-08-23 02:16:34

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I'm stumped.
I asked it to explain its creative process and it reflected the concept of 'struggle bus' back to me correctly.
But this is not that.
Copilot is confuzzled.

2024-08-23 02:11:55

LOLLLL.
I asked #Copilot to create an image of a struggle bus.
SNORT.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/113/008/904/448/764/305/original/92d82239063bcc38.png

2024-08-22 22:08:47

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And it didn't get better.
This was truly WTF.
Me: what the hell.
🤖: Maybe it's time to move on.
#copilot
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/113/007/971/496/167/484/original/9c43b044c9da2817.jpg

2024-08-22 22:06:33

More adventures with #Copilot.
On a whim I asked it to generate an image I could use in a presentation about how the election could impact staff safety, morale and organizational infrastructure.
This happened.
Whaaat.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/113/007/975/749/412/566/original/0d338d6b21ff8dd3.jpg

2024-08-22 00:53:06

My dad has decided to vote for #Kamala.
The last time this man voted was probably for Carter, Mondale, or maaaaaaybe Obama.
He said Michelle Obama fired him up.
Again, target audience reached.

2024-08-14 04:26:30

So, I was a dungeon master when I was a kid.
But I didn't know it.
When my sister and I were playing in the backyard, I would stand at the top of the stairs and say something like, OK. I am Nancy Drew and you're George, and we have to rescue Bess. This is a pirate ship. And we have to go into the basement.
(Don't judge.)
And bam! We played. I would add plots and twists, and Bess was always rescued. Or we foiled a kidnapping or we found the treasure or we were japanese variety singers who were ALSO detectives.
Goddammit. I wanna play some D&D! I had no idea this was what it was!!
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/112/958/466/330/926/081/original/a1a70b420b879425.mp4

2024-08-11 22:38:17

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That show needed to come with an Emotional Trauma warning label on each episode for all the ways it put us through it each week.

2024-08-10 23:23:57

In that closed door meeting she had with protesters Harris made it clear she was NOT for an arms embargo.
That says *everything.*
If the US won't stop arming Israel and giving it air and sea support, the genocide continues.
I wipe my hands of the rest of you.

2024-08-08 04:32:03

Check in on your Black/Brown/POC friends in Britain. They are not ok right now.
(Also keeping my mouth shut about the online beef between Afro Brits and Black Americans about who knows better where they come from. Seriously. Slavery vs colonialism. And we're beefing over homelands? LOL.)
#raceriots #britain

2024-08-02 19:51:19

This what I have to say about the significant core of folks still amplifying the US position on arming Israel and calling for an answer from the presumptive candidate:
They are making very good points. Points that a significant amount of us agree with.
They have every right to pressure Kamala to make her position clear.
Kamala's team should take their position seriously -- especially if they want to win in certain geographies.
What isn't cool is a bunch of folks who've decided to quickly fall in formation behind Kamala to pressure these folks to shut up. No. They should keep going. She wants to be the candidate, then she can struggle with how arming an apartheid state conflicts with that vision of EVERYONE HAS A SEAT AT THE TABLE, lady.
What also isn't cool is a bunch of white leftist bros getting up in brown folks' faces to lecture us on solidarity. Y'all are the LEAST solidarity focused or reliable assholes on this planet. Shut up.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/112/894/158/344/068/819/original/3cef4385c3f123fb.mp4

2024-07-31 17:18:48

Colleague: yeah, must be some weird cold we're having in July.
Girl, it's Covid.
You and your husband have Covid.
#CovidIsNotOver

2024-07-09 14:33:27

Mekka's threads are often like going to brunch with all your Black friends, and having all the white folks at the tables around you go noticeably silent as they eavesdrop and get really uncomfortable.
LOL.
It makes me inwardly chortle.

2024-07-09 03:19:12

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he seems much less traumatized by modernity.

2024-07-09 03:09:59

#Grantchester just made me yell 'That is TOTALLY inappropriate!'
Just because the new vicar is hot does not mean you can just grab and lay one on him.

2024-06-29 03:17:49

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I'll do my duty but for once I'd really love the party to build a value proposition on something visionary, radical and truly progressive-- not "Hey, We're the Smaller Evil."
Like, who runs on that?

2024-06-29 03:00:17

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It's SO bad.
It basically destroys regulations, period.
I hope folks enjoyed the turn of the century because that's where our govt just got reset to.

2024-06-26 04:28:52

Oakland Animal Services, where I got Benson, is having an open adoptathon! They need to free up some room in their kennels and these dogs have been in the shelter a while.
Just look at JoJo. And Jax.
#dogsOfBayArea #sfba #EastBay
#adoptdontshop #RescueDogs
https://www.instagram.com/p/C8cxdsky-I3/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

2024-06-19 19:21:19

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Everything about Christian fascists is about trapping someone in a situation they don't want.
Their whole vibe is predatory, abusive, oppressive, and anti-liberatory.
Don't wanna be pregnant -- for any reason? Too bad. We're forcing you to give birth.
Don't want to be married to your jerk of a spouse? Too bad, suck it up, bucko. You married her - she's yours .... FOREVER.
Don't want to live life as the wrong gender? LOL, jokes on you, there are only 2 genders and you already have one.
Ugh. These people.
The Christian Right is just full of effing horrible people who should never be allowed to have power over anyone. Period.

2024-06-19 19:16:02

Headline: The Christian Right is coming for divorce next:
OOH - Of course they are.
OTOH - time to embrace the tenets of Adrienne Rich's anti-comp het classic essay (*Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence*) and reject marriage, period. (as well as childbearing and financial dependence on cishet men.)
https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/354635/divorce-no-fault-states-marriage-republicans

2024-06-16 22:41:57

Seeing that young Black scholar dip out of the Fediverse makes me tired.
This is how white supremacist culture (in all its permutations and manifestations) deprives YOU of opportunity -- opportunity to grow, change, learn, be curious, be *more*.
It's exhausting watching it happen, everywhere it happens.
It won't stop Black brilliance and achievement but it will slow the pace of radical reformation.

2024-05-12 23:02:49

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Benson is skeptical and thinks they're suspect.

2024-05-12 22:52:34

Me: [googling] can...dogs...eat...bananas?
Google: Yes.
Benson: 👁️ 👅 👁️ 🍌 mleh.

2024-05-05 19:52:52

Brunch with a friend.
We're both GenX.
Me: M-, are you radical now?
Him: Yes. Well, more radical than I was before. I mean, I'm a white guy. People are used to the bare minimum from me. But shit is fucked up and fuckit. I'm going to do more than that now and if that means radical then yeah, I'm radical.
And then he went on an ACAB rant that was stupendous. This man was raised a good moderate Lutheran and his father was a Lutheran minister. He runs an arts/performance nonprofit in the city. He's got kids, an ex, a current partner, and a mortgage.
He's not a black bloc radical. But he has stepped far away from his socialization. When good liberals are now ACAB, something is happening.

2024-05-04 02:22:14

I swear, having a Black president literally made America go insane.
When I think about how utterly wiiiiild everything is, I think, Hm, what was the catalyst? What was the thing that made half this country go completely bonkers?
Barack Obama.