Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

We just made this graph showing most people in the world could get by on just some solar panels and batteries.

The X axis is basically latitude, but we filled in how many people live between the equator and a certain latitude.
The Y axis shows the amount of solar and batteries needed

this is one of the best responses I've ever seen a politician give to any question, let alone one this aggressive

generational political talent

A chart of an asshole - each pucker of the rose represents another spoke on the wheel of abuse - it includes things like abuse, exploitation, transphobia, misogyny, sexual assault

n The inability to tolerate discomfort n No self awareness n A lack of a strong internal sense of self that isn’t rooted in hate n Which creates a lack of selfactualization outside of racist tropes n Not being able to selfsoothe n An inability to sort out general information using a basic logic familiarity n No distinction between external fears & internal biases n A difficulty in changing perspective which translates into being trapped n Which all creates a self identify rooted in the persecution of others n Internally understanding these actions as wrong means that they will always doubledown because to do otherwise would dismantle their entire self Repeating this process is unsustainable. Come away from racism. Work on all of these faults within yourself. Learn how to change your brain.

1. Always distort the truth to make you seem favorable and frame the target of abuse as unfavorable. 2. Always misrepresent your motives to be beneficial while hiding the principles of abuse that are being used in whatever action is taken. 3. Frame any call to responsibility or consequences as invalid, and deny, deflect, distract, and attack the source of those calls. 4. Always promise what the targets of manipulation want, frame what you are doing as delivering what they ask for, and then do whatever you want anyway. 5. Undermine any circumstances that stand in your way for example if a wilderness area you want to exploit is pristine, get in and make an oil spill then there is nothing left to protect; or if you want to destroy public education install an abuser, destroy the agency, point at it as a failure of government and then implement your private education plan for profit. 6. Isolate the targets of abuse by dismantling support systems, cutting off access to resources, and opposing anything that could bolster the targets of abuse. 7. Always take the best and leave the least possible for the targets of abuse such as funneling PPE dollars to military contractors while heath care workers use trash bags for protection. 8. Always use unfavorable circumstances to your advantage and if possible, turn circumstances against the targets of abuse such as allowing COVID to ravage blue states while funneling dollars to red states. 9. Always blame the victim for anything bad that happens to them or anything that you do to them. 10. Always pretend to be the victim in any situation, co-opt any symbols or methods your targets use for selfdefense. 11. Never allow scrutiny of your actions and always reject any investigations. 12. Use high control, propaganda, fear, threats, and manipulation to manage the victims of abuse. 13. Never admit to any wrong. 14. Whatever you want to do is the only thing that is important and any suffering you cause along the way is inconsequential or ev…

A quadrant chart is a type of data visualization that divides a scatter plot into four quadrants, often used to identify trends, patterns, and relationships between two variables. THIS chart drafts the intersections of virtue and abuse - showing the most and least of each. The republican government exists in the most abuse and least virtue of the chart

Everything that is wrong with the GOP can be explained in these 4 charts

The principles of Abuse

The failures of racism

The Special Snowflake chart

The Virtue/Abuse Quadrant chart

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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

☀️ Solar power is now expected to dominate the global electricity system in the coming years, helping renewables overtake coal as soon as next year.

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this user is a professor, which makes this the bravest post I’ve ever seen on this website

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

2 years of default urban/village 20mph in Wales has resulted in over 1,000 fewer killed or injured. The data shows a 25% reduction in casualties on the 20/30mph roads. Drivers gain with damage risk, crashes and premiums down. Well done Wales. bit.ly/4ppl030

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Canada’s new government is creating an entirely new housing industry.

Build Canada Homes will use the latest technology — factory-built homes, modular housing, and mass timber — to build affordable homes at a scale and speed not seen in generations.

Free speech censorship
Political hit lists
Detentions w/o due process
Internment camps
Military in our streets
Corrupted law enforcement
Demonization of vulnerable communities Coercion of private institutions
MSM amplifying state propaganda

We are not barreling towards fascism.

We are in it.

Americans are witnessing one of the largest and most well coordinated attacks on free speech in generation, and it is only the opening salvo of the Republicans plan to destroy all ability to defend against their fascist violence and becoming fascist civil conflict

recently, Kirk kept calling for the release of the Epstein Files, even after Trump called him and asked him to stop, and Fuentes has been FURIOUS about it, and won't-someone-rid-me-of-this-meddlesome-priest about it: stochastic terrorism wasn't a "if", at this point, it was a "when".

by kneeling to the groypers, Kirk was - successfully - defusing the tension in the Hitlerjugend, conceding ALL the ground on racism and immigration and, like, channer shit, basically, in exchange for being able to position himself as the intellectual heir to Trumpism.

1/10

So the fake claims of "trans" and "antifa" symbols comes from both ammo stamps and casing inscriptions wrongly reported.

They try to paint Tyler as left, but like Crooks this is a fringe right wing Groyper.

Here's the details on registered Republican, Tyler Robinson:
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The US Keeps Breaking Renewable Energy Records New highs for solar and wind power and battery storage are emerging on an almost weekly basis across the country.

The US keeps breaking renewable energy records 🌞💨⚡ Despite policy headwinds, market forces & falling costs are unstoppable. Each new milestone proves the shift is locked in—clean power keeps winning, day after day. The transition isn’t fragile, it’s inevitable. #EnergyTransition #Solar #Wind #EVs

So not surprising that the people who fetishize assault rifles kill more Americans than those who don't.

Violating my "no Bluesky during football season" tenets to parachute in and say that my weird obsession with far right splinter groups and their shibboleths has finally made me the expert on something.

The shooter wrote 4 shitpost memes on bullets and every single one of them is a dumb groyper meme

Does the right know the real danger is to their right? Looks like Charlie Kirk’s killer spoke groyper.

Very good thank you Russell. This article further down was good too:
www.editorialboard.com/does-the-rig...

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence

And idk if it's 'weird' or 'extremely fitting' that the better explainers are coming from outlets with names like 'garbage day' while the BBC is just shitting its pants in public.

We are where we are.

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Screenshot of a quote from a 2024 NBC News article https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/charlie-kirk-turning-point-donald-trump-christian-nationalism-rcna156565 Kirk, known then primarily for his work mobilizing college-age Republicans, described Jesus as welcoming and tolerant and denounced Christians' "sanctimonious approach" to homosexuality and other issues. He argued politics should be advanced through a "secular worldview" and slammed attempts by the evangelical right, beginning in the 1970s, to "impose" their version of morality "through government policy."

Screenshot of the quote continued "We do have a separation of church and state," Kirk told the conservative commentator Dave Rubin in 2018, "and we should support that." Kirk, now 30, has since reversed his position. It's a transformation that, according to political and religious scholars, embodies and reinforces a growing embrace of Christian nationalist thinking within the Republican Party in the era of Donald Trump. "There is no separation of church and state," Kirk said on his podcast in 2022. "It's a fabrication. It's a fiction. It's not in the Constitution. It's made up by secular humanists."

And Kirk "became" a "Christian" "again" relatively recently, to further the grift and broaden the base of his potential dupes.

Climate action can feel slow – but the fastest energy leap in history has begun Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is glacially slow – isn’t it? This pessimistic narrative doesn’t stack up against evidence of very rapid change in the real world.

“We’re living through the fastest energy transformation in human history. Every previous large-scale shift in energy—from muscle power to wood to coal to oil—has taken decades or even longer. But the ‘renewable revolution’ is happening far faster.”

The analogy doesn't work, you might say. Palin's crosshairs symbol was misinterpreted. The left isn't being misinterpreted when it calls Trump's movement fascist. Yes, but it is fascist. That's the point. An inflammatory truth is still the truth, and no one should feel obliged to pretend otherwise following Kirk's atrocious murder just because one side would rather not hear it. (You would think a faction that valorizes political incorrectness might appreciate that.) It's not irresponsible to shout "fire" in a crowded theater when there is a fire. It's irresponsible not to. That's doing politics "the right way."

Holy shit bro