It's just thought in my head that's been running around that I should do something, no idea how far I could even get. This more of an excuse to talk about running

Blue wave happened, but it seems like corporate Dems are the obstacle instead of fascist Republicans. So there's still work to be done.

Panhandle of Florida is so red that I think Democrats running barely find the motivation to run in the elections because they lose decisively and consistently, but I'm convinced that I could do better. I could run for house of representatives position or county commissioner position, I feel like running for those positions.

Seems like if I could get the signatures needed to get my name on the ballot for free then I can ramp up the campaign. I'd testing the connections I have made with my activism.

Angie Nixon going from nobody with no backing to 48% of the votes in the general has been inspiration and I probably could help her out and get the 200k votes she would need to win in 2028.

Asking here because I didn't want to bother with an ask Lemmy community. I am a cis man asking other men for advice so that is through line.

I made a presentation for my research on growing azolla filiculoides (im still working on a white paper that I intend to publish) and it was a success in that people liked it. Highlight was people trying the free sample of boiled azolla and basically interrupting my presentation to try it, no one took home live samples.

So now I'm thinking of doing more presentations to fill the end of meetings, as a finisher.

I have idea to set a precedent that of getting other members to speak and share their ideas and what they're doing or just do a show and tell.

I do have potential topics:

1. Everything is a resource. How to see things in what they can do and how to use ideas already existing
2. How to take down a maritime empire. Litterally and metaphor for taking down large established institutions.
3. How to maximize your odds of survival in a zombie apocalypse. Just me expressing my flavor of autism
4. There's no Geneva convention in biology. Explanation for how organism deals with cruelty of nature and how life persists despite cruelty through in what I believe to be the meaning of life

My presentation should be 20 minutes at most I guess I could do parts if I have too.

Is there topics I should talk about or if I should do one of these topics sooner than the rest, or just any public presentation advice.

Should I use power points.

I bought pumpkin pie spice because I couldn't find pumpkin spice. I made a pumpkin latte last night.

I made a simple recipe of oatmeal, pumpkin pie spice,milk and honey. It came out alright all the flavor was in certain chunks of the oatmeal. Need to brainstorm on how to distribute the flavor. Probably need to stir well

This is what the outcome of my first pumpkin pie spice cereal

The thumbnail is an image of mug cakes that I make as a snack. I failed making that cake because it overflowed out of the mug.

This is the cornbread mix I get from Walmart for pretty cheap and I can make over a weeks worth of mug cake with a single bag.

It only takes me about a few minutes to make in the microwave. I make mine with milk and honey instead of water. Cheap as packet of Ramen noodles and probably more calories than ramen noodles

I've been asking myself this since Trump's first term. Trump's best policy is going to be a tax cut, the reason why I say that is because it that it let people keep more of their money for those few years (Maybe I'll treat this sentence as a filter for reactionaries). Every other policy trump has done has been harmful or agnostic to his base (bombing an Iranian general isn't going to make Americans lives better). For the past decade they just blindly defended trump and stayed loyal for seemingly no reason.

I've been loyal to people just to have the relationship end because one or both of us just moved on in physical and emotional sense. I feel like I shouldn't have been loyal just excited to see them.

Seems that loyalty is more of a detriment, it can make your ignore faults in people and do reflexive and reactionary things. Like a tenous alliance seems more practical than loyalty.

I'm seeing if someone can advocate for loyalty in and of itself or if the merits loyalty is context based.

Just realized I helped phone bank for Oliver Larkin polls had him in a tie with moskowitz and kinda why I decided to help.

I did think the campaign team made some critical mistakes. Where their first day of phone banking was a fund raiser and ended up being a bait and switch. There might be some analysis there showing what they should have done.

I think Oliver should either run as an independent in the general or help campaign for other campaigns. With running as an independent Oliver really does have the numbers to spoil the election and that can be a DSA barging chip and the campaign can promote DSA values. Oliver can still do media tour and make his clips. An independent campaign can get concessions from moskowitz and get them to adopt more DSA values. Coumo ran independent after ZOHRAN Mamdani won the primaries, so establishment Dems seem to adopt the strategy

Of course helping other campaigns is also practical. Getting Nixon into Congress would be awesome and whoever else into local positions would lay ground work for future campaigns

Eddie Duran is charged with killing an innocent civilian and i attended all 3 days of the hearing in attempt to get immunity defense to fail and have charges go to trial. context surrounding the case

i wanted to do an AMA to essentially help me write a memoir and get detail. i did make notes during the trial but flow might be to unorganized to follow along. i did color code it for high lights.

everything below will be my philosophy on how you should stand in solidarity for strangers in a courtroom setting. better to ask your question before reading all of that

so i attended this trial in solidarity of the family of Rodger Fortson. didn't know who was family of Rodger and i tended to avoid the family because I could say something insensitive given that Rodger is complete stranger to me. like i felt that the witnesses are goofy, but i would want to share that with the family because the witnesses are testifying that Eddie Duran was in enough danger to justify killing but not enough danger to approach his door. yes there are some nutty people that just want cops to get away with killing and think "im afraid" should absolve them of killing innocent people. I see goofy, the family probably see people justifying the killing of their brother/son/cousin. when I did interact with the family i kept it small, commented on the uncomfortable padded chairs, the weather, and where the vending machines are. also i walked a family member to their car with an umbrella while it was raining (i was just helping a stranger)

So given i had next to nothing to do with the case, i tried my best to come off as a model jury member. I brought clipboard with pen and paper, i dressed up, didn't wear any hats, and i look as attentive as i could. the pen and paper kept me off my phone, i knew it would look bad if my head was down a lot. I didn't sit in the front row, i sat behind the family to show solidarity. I made sure to nod as judge communicated information to give a sense of reasonably so that the judge would be upfront with what they are trying to do. Looking at witnesses with a clipboard puts pressure on them (Eddie Duran did testify so putting pressure on him would get information than if they were comfortable). I believe that Eddie Duran doesn't trust his lawyers. the results so far is that the decision of the immunity hearing got pushed down the road for some other cases to be decided; it sounds like it would have happened if i didn't show up, but i do consider it a victory that the immunity wasn't granted on the last day. **point being that in activism your not going to have clear and defined feedback you just have to be confident in what you know and the actions you take based on what you know. **

I did take an edible to the hearing, dont recomend btw.

i knew about his case for like 2 weeks at this point and I read one article and i only watch the footage twice. in my first viewing i saw the video i could tell that fortson was not going to shoot back as soon as the gun was drawn and pointed at fortson. fortson body language was too calm and clearly fortson did not even react to a gun being drawn on him. if deputy really get acquitted of charges then law enforcement can shoot you at your door basically if you arm yourself and apparently theres a bunch of code of conduct you'll have to follow that's not law just to answer your door for a cop and cop doesn't need any code of conduct they can believe they're responding to a domestic violence, feel you have a weapon, and just kill you and at best serve as law enforcement till their replacement get hired. one of the witness testimony that the defense requested said that fortson could have put his weapon down before answering the door.

I could rant about the pro police witnesses, there's a lot of social commentary to be made. how the expert witnesses get paid thousands of dollars, but the witnesses relevant to the killing like the ones that called the police didn't get paid. the pro police expert witnesses will most likely have there testimony thrown out. the pro police expert witnesses actually tried to say that Eddie Duran was responding to domestic violence and they were making up shit like "classic domestic", "violent domestic", or just "domestic" to promote the idea that Eddie believed that was responding to a domestic violence situation. expert witnesses credential to testify are weird. like the medical examiner that did the autopsy makes sense, but the guy that has a law degree, can practice in a federal courtroom, and trains ex military people to be cops, probably has very little to do with a police shooting case (seriously all he does is make recommendations didnt even say he worked with the sheriffs department prior to the case)

So I got feeling for a woman that I share a hobby with and I run into her fairly regularly, she also surprises and impresses me.

She probably knows I have feelings because I said I care about her over text (out of legitimate concern). Now I'm catching myself laughing at the things she says and I actually asked her to calm down because I was laughing at her and another person going at it while im high on an edible in the courthouse.

Like I haven't pursue a relationship. She has a boyfriend and I'm learning healthy relationships (I used to be more antisocial).

I do feel like I come off as a friend,but I feel like women know mens feelings

I got this idea of making an mmo that uses meshtastic devices to play. The core gameplay would simply be trading random token and phrases and lore could be part of token.

Like their could be a token called pile or 100 gold coins and their could be a description tag saying "they're all chocolate coins".

The idea is to keep the game simple and robust so that future games can build on top of it.

Part 2 could be centralization/federalization of these games. Basically a central server could be used to track all accounts and transactions if one player allows cellular or has a wifi connection somewhere in the network then mqtt function can facilitate communication to the game server of course these servers can form a federated system where they respect the ledgers of other servers.

Meshtastic games could be pokemon go style games

this is my more serious post that i want to talk about and i want to help out various communities to help engagement.

so i got into a leadership position for Pensacola democratic socialist of america after 4 months of being an member and 6 month of interacting with them and i have been in leadership since march. I dont consider it like that big of an accomplishment that im in leadership, im just the guy that just has responsibilities and should put out fires.

if you want to get into leadership into a chapter in a chapter its not that hard.

Too lazy to get the original post and the subsequent drama related to it so I'll just summarize.

I told a community they shouldn't celebrate "kys posts" because it's mentally unhealthy and isolating. Made another post asking a similarly named community to look out and help out another post. I got accused of being transphobic because I finger wagged at celebrating the death/murder of other people. Then I pretty much stood up for myself, explained what I mean the best I could, and let people know that I think they're mentally ill things. Amazing

Ask me anything. Yes I am petty.

I had a better way of articulating it, but I went with that.

So for the longest time I felt like I shouldn't give people reasons behind an answer because you can put in the reasons behind it can sway their decisions. Also I know that I had incomplete data set. Humans do lean on each other to think and you can inject what idea and have it spread.

To attempt something more coherent. You can do propaganda when you try to reason. It's just natural to talk as if they know and just bridge the gaps in their knowledge with any old phrase