{"id":12484,"date":"2025-02-06T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/?p=12484"},"modified":"2025-02-06T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:37:03","slug":"militant-decency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2025\/02\/militant-decency\/","title":{"rendered":"Militant decency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoo. Been a bit since I dusted this one off.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not done the pinball machine backglass, I just haven\u2019t had time to work on anything in\u2026. <em>checks notes\u2026.<\/em> a year. Or rather, I\u2019ve had the same amount of time as everyone else, [you get a lifetime] but I\u2019ve been dedicating it to lots of job and medical stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Today we\u2019re here to talk about militant decency.<\/p>\n<p>(If you\u2019re following me on bluesky, this is going to sound familiar.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12485\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1124.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12485\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1124.png?resize=525%2C522&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tweet by serialephemera: Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part I should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.\" width=\"525\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1124.png?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1124.png?resize=300%2C298&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1124.png?resize=1024%2C1018&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1124.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1124.png?resize=768%2C764&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_1124.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inspiration for the concept.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Resources to get us started<\/h2>\n<p>Things we can do when we\u2019re mad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/resist.bot\/\">https:\/\/resist.bot<\/a> &#8211; Message our congresscritters (or in some cases our lower level politicians) and say that enough is enough.<\/li>\n<li>Donate to a charity that is working against the things we\u2019re mad about. I&#8217;ll write later about the year of Everybody Gets $10.<\/li>\n<li>Do something in your neighborhood that helps everyone.<\/li>\n<li>Blog. Not social media. Blog. In your own space if you can. If you need help setting up a blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perpendicularangel.com\/\">contact me over on my business site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Use <a href=\"https:\/\/5calls.org\/\">https:\/\/5calls.org<\/a> to get scripts for issues that have you concerned and call about them. OR: combine them with resistbot and you don\u2019t even have to talk to anyone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Reading to get us started<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Short: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncannymagazine.com\/article\/the-year-without-sunshine\/\">Naomi Kritzer\u2019s \u201cThe Year Without a Sun\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Long: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Guards-Discworld-Terry-Pratchett\/dp\/0062225758\">Terry Pratchett&#8217;s Guards! Guards!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tomorrow, or sometime soon anyway, more. \u00a0We have things to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoo. Been a bit since I dusted this one off. We\u2019re not done the pinball machine backglass, I just haven\u2019t had time to work on anything in\u2026. checks notes\u2026. a year. Or rather, I\u2019ve had the same amount of time as everyone else, [you get a lifetime] but I\u2019ve been dedicating it to lots of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2025\/02\/militant-decency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Militant decency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-militant-decency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-3fm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12497,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12484\/revisions\/12497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}