Mere Mortal Musings
@meremortalmusings.bsky.social
South African Atheist, Leftist, Feminist, Altruist and occasional sports enthusiast.
August 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Water circling a drain. - Is the immediate image that this design evoked. - So pretty apt, perhaps. 😉
August 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Water circling a drain. - Is the immediate image that this design evoked. - So pretty apt, perhaps. 😉
I just love these posts that clearly highlight how ridiculous some 'traditional' gendered expectations are.
August 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I just love these posts that clearly highlight how ridiculous some 'traditional' gendered expectations are.
I'm starting to think sometimes when conservatives ask "What is a woman?", they're just asking a sincere question, born out of genuine confusion.
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-The comment in the screenshot was left on a video of two women innocently doing a synchronised tiktok dance.
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-The comment in the screenshot was left on a video of two women innocently doing a synchronised tiktok dance.
August 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I'm starting to think sometimes when conservatives ask "What is a woman?", they're just asking a sincere question, born out of genuine confusion.
😉
-The comment in the screenshot was left on a video of two women innocently doing a synchronised tiktok dance.
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-The comment in the screenshot was left on a video of two women innocently doing a synchronised tiktok dance.
We all knew it was never about legality. "Upholding the law" was just a convenient rhetorical bunker for them to retreat to, so they didn't have to defend their actual bigotry.
June 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
We all knew it was never about legality. "Upholding the law" was just a convenient rhetorical bunker for them to retreat to, so they didn't have to defend their actual bigotry.
As I said on one of the other Apps.
May 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
As I said on one of the other Apps.
If your business relies on paying workers a starvation wage, then you obviously don't have a sustainable business model. - and if this problem is widespread in any sector, then obviously there's a bigger economic problem that needs to be addressed.
February 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
If your business relies on paying workers a starvation wage, then you obviously don't have a sustainable business model. - and if this problem is widespread in any sector, then obviously there's a bigger economic problem that needs to be addressed.
Decided to finally close all the open browser tabs on my phone. 😬
February 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Decided to finally close all the open browser tabs on my phone. 😬
Might seem a little silly to suggest empathy is 'radical' BUT tell people that we should actually prioritize fixing homelessness or that we should eliminate extreme poverty and ensure a basic level of comfort for every human, and just see how they respond...
February 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Might seem a little silly to suggest empathy is 'radical' BUT tell people that we should actually prioritize fixing homelessness or that we should eliminate extreme poverty and ensure a basic level of comfort for every human, and just see how they respond...
This is my experience exactly.
I recall a specific interaction, not too long ago, with some blatantly racist profile who was defending Candace Owens' antisemitism, and it was insane how many times I had to rewrite and 'soften' every reply to actually get them posted.
I recall a specific interaction, not too long ago, with some blatantly racist profile who was defending Candace Owens' antisemitism, and it was insane how many times I had to rewrite and 'soften' every reply to actually get them posted.
January 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This is my experience exactly.
I recall a specific interaction, not too long ago, with some blatantly racist profile who was defending Candace Owens' antisemitism, and it was insane how many times I had to rewrite and 'soften' every reply to actually get them posted.
I recall a specific interaction, not too long ago, with some blatantly racist profile who was defending Candace Owens' antisemitism, and it was insane how many times I had to rewrite and 'soften' every reply to actually get them posted.
A few highlights from the first day of 2025.
January 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A few highlights from the first day of 2025.
The 'agnostic' part of my agnostic Atheism shrunk a bit after encountering one of these fucks in my living room 😩😉
December 30, 2024 at 4:57 AM
The 'agnostic' part of my agnostic Atheism shrunk a bit after encountering one of these fucks in my living room 😩😉
The problem with a result like this is that it creates amnesia.
Beat a team who received a red card early in the game, and suddenly the fans forget that we've been trash for months now. Dobson's job is probably safe now for at least another 6 months.
Beat a team who received a red card early in the game, and suddenly the fans forget that we've been trash for months now. Dobson's job is probably safe now for at least another 6 months.
December 23, 2024 at 2:41 PM
The problem with a result like this is that it creates amnesia.
Beat a team who received a red card early in the game, and suddenly the fans forget that we've been trash for months now. Dobson's job is probably safe now for at least another 6 months.
Beat a team who received a red card early in the game, and suddenly the fans forget that we've been trash for months now. Dobson's job is probably safe now for at least another 6 months.
'Individual responsibility' is almost always useless as a potential solution to systemic problems.
December 17, 2024 at 5:34 PM
'Individual responsibility' is almost always useless as a potential solution to systemic problems.
Apparently the heat we've been experiencing is God's punishment for South Africa being too pro-Palestine. - Isn't Superstition just fun. 🤦🏻♂️
December 14, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Apparently the heat we've been experiencing is God's punishment for South Africa being too pro-Palestine. - Isn't Superstition just fun. 🤦🏻♂️
Throwback to some of the worst/funniest Covid vaccine superstition. As I described it at the time, (former)Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng channeling Kenneth Copeland.
December 14, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Throwback to some of the worst/funniest Covid vaccine superstition. As I described it at the time, (former)Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng channeling Kenneth Copeland.