Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now

The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease. All kinds of social customs and economic practices, affecting the distribution of wealth and of economic rewards and penalties, which we now maintain at all costs, however distasteful and unjust they may be in themselves, because they are tremendously useful in promoting the accumulation of capital, we shall then be free, at last, to discard.

Economist John Maynard Keynes wrote hopefully of “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” in 1930:

“The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity…”

ICYMI: our new paper on climate risk to US drinking water utilities. Climate impacts threaten water utilities across multiple hazards: fire, drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, & other hazards. But many long-term utility bonds don’t mention the risks: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

And also, just like all fucking generative AI, this is just massive, scaled-up theft. This woman is functionally stealing money out of the KU pool from authors who are writing and publishing their own original works USING A TOOL that was itself built on stolen works.

The Left Hand of Darkness is the novel of the day

The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.

who called him Jeff Bezos and not Lex Loser

ICE is not an anomaly.

ICE is an extreme, externalized manifestation of what the myth of white supremacy looks like in everyday life for non-white folx.

Every single day, someone is required to “show their papers” in a meeting, in a classroom, in a hospital, in a boardroom, in a neighborhood,

Rudy demos Blacksky-only posts right at the beginning of Black History Month, and a bunch of non-Black ATProto devs get mad at the way he implemented it?

Yeah that tracks

One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"

And weirdly sweaty

retweet if you think trans people deserve a pack of cigarettes, six passports, nine flip phones, a pistol, a set of handcuffs, plane tickets, the key to a storage locker in ulaanbaatar, and $20,000 in cash

Batshit Misogyny is their fundamental philosophy/mythology (+ white supremacy;)

The Left Hand of Darkness is the novel of the day

An apparent 'sun' suspended overhead in a darkened room is actually an illusion created with 1/8 of a sphere and strategic mirrors.

The Olafur Eliasson: Presence exhibition at QAGOMA is such a joy for science nerds. It's art first- but underpinned by physics and materials science. Have a look at this illusion of a sun created by mirrors and moiré. It moves as you do 🤯 (video in next post)

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Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed

Humans mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk in the UK. buff.ly/1miYEUJ
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Canandaigua New York
Candle Vigil & Die-In Protest
Sunday, February 15

The UK "Labour" government sold y'all out.

trump's approval ratings don't really seem to fully be capturing how utterly shit Rs are doing in elections, either? 1

people are so fucking pissed

GOP senator calls for probe into Ketanji Brown Jackson attending Grammys — The Hill Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) called for an investigation Thursday into Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for attending the Grammy Awards, where various artists criticized Immigration and ...

This from the woman who supports adult men marrying female CHILDREN- that would concern me far more than a judge attending the Grammys

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Huge thanks to the No Kings protestor who let me photograph them with their “Action Absorbs Anxiety” sign. I think about that sign all the time! And many thanks to @prisonculture.bsky.social and @meganpiont.bsky.social, whose work and advocacy with zines made the idea of diving in so much easier.

Facebook is like the naivety network. There’s a lot of vulnerable people getting duped by disinfo on there.

stuff like this is why i have trouble with the incrementalism and slow-walking from dems. this is happening *right now*

I feel the same way about the Republican Party that I feel about ICE.

This is a FANTASTIC time to primary your local D electeds from the left.

I know you’re joking but literally this is the illegal backflip they’re referring to