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Tweet from @thekafkadude It's really funny how America and the UK stopped investing in infrastructure in the 1980s because the free market will pave potholes and make the trains run on time and now literally nothing works and you cannot go anywhere or do anything but like 4 people are richer than God.

The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.

Stream video games till your lover shows up. YMMV

Begging yall to develop a more sophisticated analysis and critique of tech power than “all AI is bad” when you have been using machine learning tools for more than a decade without even realizing it

So… we’re doomed?

Welcome to soap gang, it sucks here! Too many food places include the icky soap leaf as standard and it feels obstinate requesting they leave it out… you gotta, every time, or enjoy delicious soap for the rest of the day.

Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

Historians of the ancient world who specialize in collapse are in the stands, sobbing

So much going wrong, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly.The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.

Andor (2022)

I was going to quote “oppression is the mark of fear” but this one's not bad either.

Welp, there goes the US defense industry.

Tweet by Molly White @molly0xFFF it's always fascinating to watch grown adults discover the concept of public libraries for the first time Quoted tweet by Ken Herman @kherman Ponderable? And do free people expect to read every book they want to read for free (at public expense)? After all, many people who write and produce the books do expect a return on their effort and investment. Just a thought.

Tweet thread: Molly White @molly0xFFF 37m and when you decide to defund libraries because "people who can afford it can just buy the books", you restrict access to those who can't afford it Ken Herman @kherman 21m How about if we use those tax dollars to buy the books for those who can't afford them? Molly White @molly0xFFF congratulations! you have just invented libraries

every damn time

I’m going to be honest: I have no idea how.

A book, “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab” sitting on a floral bedsheet.

Been sitting on my shelf for a while. Let’s go?

Meme in real life

Love this from Denmark

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.

One feature of the Nazi conquest of France was the astonishing defections among the intelligentsia, including some of the left-wing political intelligentsia. The intelligentsia are the people who squeal loudest against Fascism, and yet a respectable proportion of them collapse into defeatism when the pinch comes. They are far-sighted enough to see the odds against them, and moreover they can be bribed—for it is evident that the Nazis think it worth while to bribe the intellectuals.

Was reading George Orwell on the Spanish civil war last night and this part stuck out.

I can’t deal with American ignorance any more.

Hosts of a podcast I’ve listened to for years just asked what a geography degree could be, “knowing capitals and recognising countries on a map?”.

Previously I could laugh this off, now I see the political results. I can’t listen to any more.

Enshittification is our new overlord. All hail.

Keep telling this to people who seem disinterested about the future generation: these people will support everything you rely on!!

True Bostonian spirit is only encapsulated within an amphibious quacking vehicle— I, for one, would enjoy the Korean spin on this, perhaps a mech or automation of some kind?

OK cool cool, The Handmaid’s Tale was prophetic— we were just all too stubborn to realise… great.

Lionsmane les goooooo

I tried to lead an interesting life in a boring world but noooo the world had to be "spicy" so now I'm trying to live a boring life in a chaotic world.

Appropriate mix of headlines. Climate change accelerates, while the business world, under pressure from US conservatives, abandons any attempt to stop it

Why I have no hope in humanity, in a single reskeet.

It was another stunning year for global climate and weather extremes.

As data is processed and released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new historical records. Apologies for my many graphs in advance! 😬

Spiral below produced by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190

I’d try to tell people they should care about their privacy but the tech industry had so successfully duped everyone into thinking they didn’t need it I was basically shouting into the void.