for-profit water companies shouldn't exist.
for-profit healthcare shouldn't exist.
for-profit social media shouldn't exist.
for-profit energy companies shouldn't exist.
any more for any more?
accessible text: "Stop using AI or do you like being a serf?"
Stop 👏 Using 👏 AI 👏 Or 👏 Do 👏 You 👏 Like 👏 Being 👏 A 👏 Serf?
i didn't think i needed to say this but:
don't buy ai toys for your kids! what the hell is wrong with you?
AI is the tool of the fascist oppressor.
use your brain, because they don't want you to.
it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of 'highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat' while increasing the power of working-class men."
Remind me again why Labour is shoving vast public contracts down its throat?
can we stop making everyday things into products we have to buy if we want to live? thanks.
of course the country built on stolen land supports the country built on stolen land in bombing - *checks notes* - children.
you: my home town is such a sh*t hole
also you: *buys something from amazon instead of a local business*
i PROMISE there is a local business that does/sells the thing you need
stop giving billionaires more money, FFS.
humans: america is killing children and civilians in iran!
the british media: okay, but how do we make people care about that?
humans: THEY'RE KILLING CHILDREN - ON PURPOSE
the british media: no, that doesn't seem relevant. oh! maybe if we focus on how iran is making oil more expensive...
The reason the media are going after Zack Polanski:
His opposition to Israel's genocide & Iran war
The media is not your friend
"War is an abomination; a barbarity; war must be stopped."
- Virginia Woolf
Awks for Tories & Reform who want to keep us hooked on fossil fuels: new @theCCCuk report shows transition to net zero will cost less than a single oil shock - £4bn a year - as well as delivering health & security benefits
made in china (cheap)
branded in america (made expensive)
brands like these are lies designed to make you pay more in response to a narrative cooked up by sociopaths
support local businesses that haven't been gobbled up by massive corporatations
This is from 1975.
Achieving UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, says CCC:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
the long-term effects of *gestures broadly* can't be good
POV: you want to study humanities but it turns out everything links back to economics and you need to learn maths now
your meditation app won't fix this
haha it's alright - always nice to say hello to the trees and birds
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
"Outside is a special treat" - @michaelburns.bsky.social
Fascinating video on the attention economy, and a book I need to read!
Feel like I'm always finding something new to add to my PhD TBR 🤣
youtube.com/watch?v=rknp...
Stinks so bad it's taking on a life of it's own
Hello—here’s the official trailer for UNDERLAND, based on my book of the same name, dir. by Rob Petit, with a haunting, glittering score by @hannahpeel.bsky.social, & the ‘Storyteller’ voiced by Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest). Hope you like it.
In UK/Irish cinemas 27 March.
spent the day outside with my kids instead of despairing about things i can't change on the internet.
happy brain ☺️
no, i'm not angry at everything. i'm happy that trees exist 🌳and they can help me forget for a moment that the land they are on IS OWNED??
Lily has made an amazing video about how the NYT’s slide to the right is primarily a worker’s rights issue, it’s brilliantly researched - check it out!
literally never miss a michael burns video 🫡
the only eternal growth i wanna see is green party membership 💚
