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‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty

‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

This is super bad for US citizens, especially on the left of the spectrum. Gives this authoritarian administration potentially the power to surveil & go after US citizens on spurious "funding of FTO" grounds. This whole antifa boogeyman is being fully weaponized. So dangerous.

This political cartoon uses Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons to criticize Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s vaccination policies. Ralph is covered with red spots, likely representing measles or chickenpox. The text "Freedom Freckles" refers to the "freedom!" rhetoric used by MAGAts and Maple MAGAs regarding public health measures and vaccinations. A small crest on the character's shirt identifies the "Alberta Premier Danielle Smith" with the title "Freedom Fighter".

Danielle Smith keeps parroting MAGA-style “freedom” rhetoric & conspiracy theories instead of listening to doctors & scientists. The results?

🔹 38% of all Canadian measles cases come from Alberta
🔹 Alberta has more measles cases than the entire U.S.

Read more:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#cdnpoli

This should never have happened to 🇨🇦’s newspaper ownership. #Canada #ElbowsUp #cdnpoli

And why aren’t they targeting short term rentals…oh I see…

⏰ wake the f*ck up folks!

We’ve effectively created another class of people with the term “homeless” and we accept the fact that humanity & decency that others deserve does not apply to them.

If you spend any time in Edmonton with the folks who live on its streets, you'll see how the elites have condemned them to horrific situations, including the obvious possibility of disease.

I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash. I wish I were joking. In early October, I referenced the "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" lyric of "Folsom Prison Blues" in response to a terrible Wall Street Journal article saying that Johnny Cash was uncool. I quote-tweeted the article and everyone understood the reference. There was no outcry. I stand by my assessment that Johnny Cash is cool. I do not like being the subject of so much attention, especially when I cannot see the discussion. But the BlueSky admins are now claiming that I wrote a post saying, out of nowhere, "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die". They are not posting a screenshot of the actual tweet, which shows that I am quote-tweeting an article about Johnny Cash, and that my post is obviously not a threat but a play on "Folsom Prison Blues." BlueSky is lying and saying I posted this line on November 10. I did not. I posted it in early October, when the WS) article came out. You can see that they are lying about the date from this page showing my last BlueSky tweets: I was not given any explanation for my suspension the first two times l inquired. Later I was told it was for the "Folsom Prison Blues" reference, and I asked for clarification but did not receive it. I thought it might be a prank until a reporter reached out this morning and confirmed it. BlueSky's behavior is bizarre and unwarranted. I have lost access to friends and all my posts and photos. I am incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support here on Substack and also on BlueSky - though I cannot see it, because I am suspended. To quote another Johnny Cash song: "I ain't never done nothin' to nobody/ I ain't never got nothin from nobody, no time/ And until I get somethin' from somebody, sometime, I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time." As for BlueSky...

Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner

Today is Thursday, Nov 13
Good morning ❤️

eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back

We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.

I find it hard to celebrate news like this when I’ve had the misfortune of trying the product…🥴

Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.

Climate disinformation is delaying responses to extreme weather events & climate solutions

We’re demanding that governments commit to upholding information integrity as a non-negotiable for climate action. #COP30

@caadcoalition.bsky.social👇
https://caad.info/analysis/reports/cop30-open-letter/

🤣🤣🤣❤️

Mark Carney is about to announce more of his “elbows up” major projects.

But under the surface, one that’s being sold as an Indigenous-led LNG project is actually — spoiler — American as hell.

That’s not even the worst part!

@emilylowan.bsky.social joined me to discuss:

Hahaha!

It's so over for Tesla in China.

The Xiaomi YU7, a Model Y rival, not only outsold Tesla's Model Y in October, but it outsold Tesla's *total* October sales of 26,006 vehicles by 29%.

💀☠️

Just wait until Nelly gets into the Chardonnay…

Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list ., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

Data centre boom fuelling economic recovery But merger lawyers warn inconsistent and uncertain government guidelines for foreign investment put at risk the overseas capital required to fuel the boom.

This is not good news ...

www.afr.com/policy/forei...

Grapefruit 😇 #art #oilpainting

Communicating why a 50 year mortgage costs more, overall, than a 30 year mortgage should not be a hard task.

The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.

Reason 735,963 to deactivate and delete your Facebook/Meta accounts.

Beginning December 16, Facebook will start reading and storing your private DMs and incorporating the data into A.I. technologies.

The sun is deep over the horizon now. November has its magic with fog or special light & deep shadows on cloudless days.
#nature #hiking

The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.