Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory D...

A great read on how we can actually finally regulate tech and move away from the US government’s blackmail grip over global tech markets that are currently forced to favour US tech bros.

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Israel has a habit of doing this to humanitarians and human rights activists. I will never forget what they did to Rachel Corrie.

They sold out to whatever propaganda billionaires fed them long ago and they’ve never come back from that. Their values are deeply individualistic if they hold any at all and humanitarian work makes them look bad and feel bad.

Yes but still baffled at "why". Does right-wing meaning no empathy, no sense of a larger humanity?

The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

“In other words, the BBC behaves much like Starmer’s government: appeasing critics on the right and far right, while suppressing the left.”

Sometimes Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail, sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well. A people sometimes will step back from war; elect an honest man; decide they care enough, that they can't leave a stranger poor. Some men become what they were born for. Sometimes our best efforts do not go amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to. The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow that seemed hard frozen: may it happen for you. Sheenagh Pugh (December 20th 1950 -)

A little joyful one today, I think given the news from Canada.

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”

In one of the Gaza war's darkest nights, the IDF killed nearly 300 women and children ***

Funded by the US taxpayer.

YouTube video by National Book Ursula Le Guin

I miss her so much, but the work is on the rest of us now.

@ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."

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Co-produced this ep about the intricate dynamics of water governance, the challenges of transboundary negotiations, and the critical importance of cooperation in the #MekongRegion

Best team forever with @rajeshbkk.bsky.social 🤣

So why did they vote for Trump in the first place?

This #WorldWaterDay, dive into the complexities of transboundary water governance in the #MekongRegion with Dr. Anoulak Kittikhoun, former CEO of the Mekong River Commission and @rajeshbkk.bsky.social from @sei.org in Asia.

Tune in to the podcast episode here: is.gd/NXLQc6

Best team forever!

"Every bombed village is my hometown" - James Baldwin And every dead child is my child. Every grieving mother is my mother. Every crying father is my father. Every home turned to rubble is the home I grew up in. Every brother carrying the remains of his brother across borders is my brother. Every sister waiting for a sister who will never come home is my sister. Every one of these people are ours, Just like we are theirs. We belong to them and they belong to us.

What is happening to the people of Gaza can happen to any of us.

Podcast: Water politics, not politicization: Negotiating transboundary water governance in the Mekong River Basin This episode unpacks the challenges and approaches of the MRC for transboundary water governance of the Mekong River Basin.

On the occasion of #WorldWaterday, now out: Podcast on water governance in the #Mekong
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What Ceasefire? Trump Helps Netanyahu Kill Over 400 Palestinians in Gaza The Trump administration backs war against Palestine abroad and repression against supporters of Palestine at home.

"What Ceasefire? Trump Helps Netanyahu Kill Over 400 Palestinians in Gaza"

For Zeteo, @attackerman.bsky.social lays out how the Trump administration backs war against Palestine abroad and repression against supporters of Palestine at home.

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

‘The Interview’: Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat The Senate minority leader discusses the backlash to his vote on the Republican spending bill, how he sees his role within the party and his new book.

Chuck Schumer suggests it is antisemitic to say what Israel is doing in Gaza is a genocide. Yet some of Israel’s own top scholars of genocide and the Holocaust, all of them Jewish - Omer Bartov, Amos Goldberg, Daniel Blatman - say it is a genocide in Gaza.

Does Schumer consider them antisemite too?

So true. This app lets us be human again.

Is the bald eagle a metaphor for America and the goose a metaphor for Donald the Goose?

Podcast: Powering inequity: Lithium mining’s impacts on Indigenous communities and ecosystems in the Andes In this podcast episode SEI’s Laura Forni explores how lithium mining in the Andean mountains is impacting Indigenous communities, and how including Indigenous.

My podcast ep: #Lithium mining and impacts on indigenous communities. #WomensDay2025 #renewable #Indigenous
"Will the world prioritize equitable solutions or repeat historical cycles of exploitation?
Will gender equity be a pillar and not an afterthought of climate action?"
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Beautiful, thank you! I needed this.

Hahahaha. The responses to this are awesomely hilarious!

Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik

You are remembered.
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It's in Samyan :) Will try to go watch it.

the best content for my first post on Bsky!

Wonderful! Look fwd to reading over the hols.

Nan Goldin Speaks Out on Censorship of Berlin Show "I felt disavowed by the museum," the artist said of the Neue Nationalgalerie in an interview published for the first time in English in Hyperallergic.

"In the NYTimes, people in Gaza just “die” — they’re never killed. They’ve been a propaganda mouthpiece for Israel for the longest time. Even intelligent people ... often don’t fully understand what’s going on in Gaza because to them the NYT is the paper of record." hyperallergic.com/973848/nan-g...