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Red Flags for Disruption Perpetual brainstorming Sessions that do not lead to any specific goal or next step. Strategy meetings that merely function as historic type critiques in the contemporary. Lots of “first date” type meetings with people, not a lot of follow-ups. Investing time & energy in actions at the wrong level or directed at inappropriate targets Sending comments to an agency or civil servant, outside a comment period or recognized process. Suggestions to contact elected representatives in a state you don’t live in. Boosting and promoting items and activities that are incongruent with the group’s current goals. Engaging in “food fight” controversy that goes nowhere and may serve to boost opposition framing. Disruptors or chaos agents Ingratiate themselves with leaders, key people, or governing committee members. Disrespectful exchanges with others, including overt verbal abuse or more subtle belittling Engages in gaslighting or tone policing. Disparages the already agreed upon projects of the group or criticizes activism generally. Remains mysterious in relevant ways that raise questions. References grandiose plans or extremely unrealistic goals. Talks of violence

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Red Flags for Disruption

2024-01-19

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CDC made medical guidelines please Delta Airlines, and now lots of people work sick and contagious in every industry - Image is the letter from Delta Airlines to the CDC Director asking for shortened guidelines because of the impact on their business caused by 10 day isolation.

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CDC made medical guidelines please Delta Airlines, and now lots of people work sick and contagious in every industry

2024-01-10

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Sedevacantism, and naming “progressives” as “the enemy”

2024-01-06

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Drawing in watercolor of 4 polaroid instant camera prints and from left to right they are labeled Mere Exposure Effect exclamation point. In the photos, it’s a poo emoji that gradually morphs into a heart emoji. An owl is sitting nearby looking concerned with his one wing bent up to his beak like a hand. The caption reads, After repeated exposure to something it becomes familiar, and even if it’s false or bad, it can come to be viewed as true or acceptable - even favorable, simply because it feels familiar. reiteration effect, illusion of truth effect, validity effect, illusory truth effect, and the truth effect. Those in the know regularly capitalize on this influential advertising trick to promote products, services, people, actions, agendas, politics, beliefs, ideas & attitudes — you name it. Signed by Chloe 2022, watermelonpunch.com

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Mere Exposure Effect

2024-01-01

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Ridiculous headlines in the New York Times, 2023

2023-12-31

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Pandemic memes 2023

2023-12-31

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The image is 2 photos, one is of a man in a baseball cap, black leather jacket and tan cargo pants standing in a museum among life size statues of people including a shabbily dressed man with a duffle bag, trench coat and golf cap looking tired, another statue of a man in light blue overalls and a red scarf and train conductor hat standing straight back against a wall, and the third statue is of a businessman leaning back against a wall all in a black top hat, black long coat, black pants, black boots, a white shirt with a black tie, wearing white gloves and holding a black cane, and looking downward. Next to the top hat man is a yellow sign the image includes a closeup of the yellow sign which has a one line quote from J.P. Morgan saying I owe the public nothing. The caption on the image says Steamtown National Historic Site Scranton Pennsylvania USA. November 10, 2013. Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert.

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Christmas movie propaganda, job creator myths, and “sides” in perpendicular axis

2023-12-25

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The problem is, we’re not post pandemic.

2023-12-03

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Lockdown revisionist hysteria taken to its ultimate conclusion.

2023-12-20

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Upgrade Your Masking Chart, Explained

2023-12-04

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Image text: Youth could be the answer to election worker shortage. Editor: Each election we have trouble staffing the polls. We need to expand the pool of possible workers. High School seniors need a project to graduate, maybe this could be it. Local colleges and universities are another possibility. Counties should reach out. If laws need to be changed or enacted, I see a rare issue where all political parties can come together. John Figliomeni Childs.

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Compuslory teen poll workers sounds like a bad idea.

2023-12-02

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Covid contrarian trucker offers charity infection control supplies.

2023-11-18

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A broken clock is wrong most of the day.

2023-10-07

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The Internet of Fakes — PR Tactics, Troll Farms, Sock Puppets, Botnets, Influencers, Operatives, & Chaos Agents

2023-09-14

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Dear Public Officials: Stop falling for the myth of an irrational panicked public

2023-08-25

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drawing of NIOSH N95 mask

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Aerosol transmission & respirator masks, a PPE timeline

2023-08-22

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10 postcards out of 100 to Biden, Recommendations from the People’s CDC External Review of the CDC

2023-07-07

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The Wrong Impact Research

2023-06-25

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Canadian wildfire smoke in Scranton Pennsylvania USA on 6 June 2023 photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert. Picture is a photograph looking downhill on a residential street with a brown haze over everything and visible smoke in the air against the backdrop of houses and trees and telephone poles, and mountains in the distance.

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The push against public health is all part of the same problem: profiteering on a wrecked living environment.

2023-06-12

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Canadian wildfire smoke in Scranton Pennsylvania USA on 6 June 2023 photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert. Picture is a photograph looking downhill on a residential street with a brown haze over everything and visible smoke in the air against the backdrop of houses and trees and telephone poles, and mountains in the distance.

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Canadian wildfire smoke in Scranton Pennsylvania USA on 6 June 2023

2023-06-06

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Cats in Wonderland – the Uncanny Valley of lying AIs

2023-05-29

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And Voila, An Anti-Mask Twitter Rando

2023-04-07

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