Laura R.

Since Bluesky now has over 40 million users, and since a lot of those 40 million are really interested in better cities & how we get around them, I’m resharing one of my first STARTER PACKS full of people and orgs working hard to make cities work better for everyone.

Please share. #UrbanistShoutOut

Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!

Unelma totaalisesta valvonnasta Kun Edward Snowden paljasti vuonna 2013 Yhdysvaltojen signaalitiedusteluvirasto NSA:n maailmanlaajuisen verkkovakoilun, entinen Stasin agentti Wolfgang Schmidt sanoi haastattelussa, että NSA:n vako…

Kirjoitin DDR:än vakoilujärjestelmästä ja miten nykyiset kapitalistiset yhteiskunnat ovat onnistuneet ylittämään DDR:än salaisen poliisin villeimmät unelmat totaalisesta valvonnasta:
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According to lawyers from the NGO Adalah, the rights of the crew members have been “systematically violated”, activists denied water, sanitation, medication and immediate access to their legal representatives “in clear breach of their fundamental rights to due process, impartial trial and legal representation”. The Italian legal team representing the flotilla confirmed those detained were left “for hours without food or water – until late last night”, with the exception of “a packet of crisps handed to Greta and shown to the cameras”. Lawyers also reported instances of verbal and physical abuse. During a visit to Ashdod on Thursday night, Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was filmed calling the activists “terrorists” as he stood in front of them. “These are the terrorists of the flotilla,” he said, speaking in Hebrew and pointing at dozens of people sitting on the ground. His spokesperson confirmed the video was filmed at Ashdod port on Thursday night.

Labeling Humanitarian Aid as terrorism sounds a lot like labeling Antifa (Anti-fascism) as terrorism.

In other words: they threaten your evil.

You only criminalize food if it threatens your plan for starvation.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

STARTER PACK: I’ve got packs with different approaches, but ICYMI this one is specifically about those accounts that are good at changing the commmunication & conversation about better cities. Obvious people like @tomflood.bsky.social & less obvious like @dieworkwear.bsky.social. go.bsky.app/7iNmiCU

Less than 25 percent of Americans walk for more than ten minutes continuously in a typical week Many people in the U.S. do not walk, bike or engage in other forms of active transportation, missing an important opportunity to improve their cardiovascular health, concludes a new study.

Automobile dependence erodes public health in many ways: blunt force trauma (#1 cause for children and young adults), air pollution (CVD, asthma), noise pollution (QoL, dementia) but perhaps the most pernicious is that it has almost completely displaced walking. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...

Trump plan would eliminate NOAA climate research, slash agency budget The plan would cut NOAA’s budget by 27 percent overall and eliminate a research branch of the agency studying the world’s weather, climate and oceans.

How many lifetimes' worth of work is being destroyed by all this? And to what end?? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Kansalaisaloite on nyt julkaistu! Vaadimme aloitteessa, että pyöräilijän ja jalankulkijan minimiohitusetäisyydeksi säädetään 1,5 metriä

Jos haluat tukea aloitetta, käy allekirjoittamassa! Ja yhtä paljon auttaa myös se, että kerrot kaverille 🙏

www.kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/15...

I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking | Steven Donziger Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trial

Your weekend read:

„I was an independent observer in the #Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking“

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kelcy Warren, the founder and CEO of Energy Transfer, once said activists “should be removed from the gene pool”.

I'm a researcher primarily in adaptation. We are not even adapted to where the climate is today.

If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.

Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.

Media nosti tärkeäksi oikeistolaisen kulttuurisotien meemin, joka on oikeasti täysin toisarvoinen

Perintöveron poistaminen muka räjäyttää kasvun Ruotsin tasolle. Miehekäs puhe rikkaiden verohelpotuksista myös ärsyttää vasemmistoa, mikä on tietenkin pääasia, kirjoittaa ekonomisti Heikki Pursiainen.

How failing to invest in climate action today could cost the world a third of its GDP Boston Consulting Group highlights the 'massive opportunity for humanity' from accelerating climate action today to avoid future catastrophe

One of the world's most respected consultancies calculates climate change could knock a third off projected GDP, while acknowledging it could easily be a lot higher. It also explains why political and business leaders continue to ignore such obvious warnings. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

How do you say The Onion in Portuguese?

14 killed, 29 injured in Russian attacks against Ukraine over past day Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least 14 civilians and injured at least 29 over the past day, regional authorities reported on March 12. The casualties included children and Syrian crew membe...

⚡️ 14 killed, 29 injured in Russian attacks against Ukraine over past day.

Four Syrian crew members of a Barbados-flagged civilian vessel were killed during a Russian missile strike against Odesa, authorities said.

NASA to eliminate chief scientist position Long-running advisory role cut along with two dozen others in agencywide reduction

The Trump Administration is eliminating the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA.
The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Kuntavaalit | Kokoomuksen kuntavaaliehdokas puolustaa autoilua keskisormi pystyssä – ”Vihervasuripolitiikkaa vastaan” Mervi Kärkkäisen mukaan keskustan asukkaita ja yrittäjiä on syyllistetty autoilusta pitkään.

Helsinkiläisten on hyvä ymmärtää, että kokoomuksen tarkoitus on kääntää liikennepolitiikan suunta Helsingissä. Kun autoille annetaan lisää tilaa keskustassa, se on otetaan pois jalankulkijoilta. Tämä on iso suunnanmuutos.

www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

As expected, public approval of congestion pricing in New York is following the same trajectory it followed in London, Stockholm and everywhere else it was tried. One would hope we could learn a lesson from such things!

Ministeri Essayah: Tarhakettu ei pääse jatkossakaan kaivamaan maata – tässä syy Maa- ja metsätalousministeriössä valmistellaan valtioneuvoston asetusta turkiseläinten hyvinvoinnista.

🦊 Jätin hallitukselle kirjallisen kysymyksen turkistarhauksen hallitusta alasajosta Ruotsin mallin mukaisesti, ja turkisasetuksen avoimesta ja tutkimustietoon pohjaavasta valmistelusta.
❌ Vastaus on karua luettavaa häkeissä kärsivien turkiseläinten näkökulmasta.
www.keski-uusimaa.fi/uutissuomala...

Graphic full of statistics on the inefficiency of private automobiles

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.

Sound efficient?

HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

Unelected kleptocrat Musk trying to belittle the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (which pays for Ukraine's Starlink).

💸 “Julkisen sektorin pitää pienentyä!” – mutta valtion pitää silti tukea yksityistä terveydenhuoltoa ja yrityksiä. Eli markkinatalous toimii, kunnes se ei toimikaan – ja silloin julkinen raha pelastaa. Pääoman sosialismia parhaimmillaan! 5/7

Opinion | Trump Is Hiding Something on Ukraine When you don’t call things by their real name, there is usually a reason.

Tom Friedman on point here, though he understated the case. Either Trump is the worse negotiator in all the universes of truth and fiction, or he is beginning an alliance with Russia with a joint attempt to subjugate Ukraine (and then much else).
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars | US EPA EPA News Release: EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars

literally nothing can prepare you for this EPA press release www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

We Finns should have learned this already from the Winter War. Without the social policies of the 20's-30s, the war would have most likely ended differently. But thanks to those policies, even the poor felt like 🇫🇮 was worth defending, unlike in 1918.

Indeed the large increase in defence spending in WWII was funded at least in part by high income taxes on the rich

Yhdenvertaisuusvaltuutetun johtopäätökset ovat nyt julki.

Sisäministeriön poliittinen johto syrji ihmisiä pakolaiskiintiön valmistelussa.

Syrjivän ohjeen antaminen on yhdenvertaisuuslain kieltämää syrjintää.

Mitä johtopäätöksiä tästä nyt vetää pääministeri Orpo?

Ilmeisesti sellaista kriisiä länsimaissa ei yksinkertaisesti ole mahdollista syntyä, että kasvanutta rahoitustarvetta paikattaisiin verottamalla hyvätuloisia kovemmin tai leikkaamalla rikkaiden etuja.

Ei, aina raha pitää repiä pienituloisilta ja vanhuksilta.

Ylen vaalikoneessa kysytään ehdokkaan sometilejä.

Listassa on tarjolla X.

Ei BlueSky, ei Mastodon, ei edes Threads.

Voisiko suomalainen media lopettaa Muskin alustan nostamisen jalustalle, jota se ei todellakaan ansaitse?

Verotus | VM: Jos elinkeinoelämä saa tahtonsa läpi, seuraukset voivat olla vakavia Suuret veronkevennykset voisivat nakertaa sijoittajien luottamusta ja aiheuttaa jopa äkillisen markkinareaktion, sanoo kansliapäällikkö Juha Majanen.

Ollaan Finnwatchissa oltu vuosikaudet jatkuvan loanheiton ja kommunistihuutelun kohteena kun ollaan sanottu listaamattomien osinkoverotuksesta samaa mitä VM:n Majanen tänään. Näin ne ajat muuttuu. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

En tiedä itkeäkö vaiko nauraa näille hallituksen työllistämistoimille. Tämä on kuvakaappaus tänään julkaistusta hallituksen esityksestä.