Detta

“Has more or less this exact same thing happened before, and what does the general disinclination to remember that suggest?” are a pair of questions imo people should ask more

Are there a lot of covert Australians? In Nunavut?

THIS, for Gods sake!

Archives provide real, complex stories that can be placed in a wider context. Who needs that when we can have AI that sells us simplistic nationalism to serve an agenda?

Bingo, @jamestalarico.bsky.social 🎯

“Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft”

Most people do not understand St Vandalstein’s Day the way I do.

Omg I love you

Western quoll joey born in the wild after conservation program success Once thought to be extinct in NSW, the small, spotted, and highly photogenic western quoll is making a hard-fought comeback to the wild.

A little good news story that shows that we can look after the world. If we choose to. 🇦🇺 🐨 🌱 #Biodiversity #Sustainability

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

I would love to be wrong, btw. Me & all the climate scientists. The ecologists. We’d all love to be fucking wrong.

I went to art school. I’m used to people thinking I’m nutty. It doesn’t make me any less right. And, unfortunately, I’m bringing peer-reviewed citations.

His racism has been documented back to the ‘70s. If this is news to anyone, at this point, well, that represents a spectacular level of disengagement with reality.

Learning is time consuming. Save valuable time by using AI to stay stupid.

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

I suspect the planet will do our work for us here.

NEW: Enormous anti-ICE, anti-Trump protest happening in Baltimore right now.

Crowd stretching back over the horizon.

(🎥 PSL Baltimore)

Or living, apparently. The ecocide continues apace.

Gunpower (w/ Patrick Blanchfield) | Know Your Enemy Matt and Sam talk with author Patrick Blanchfield about gun violence and America's commitment to a social order predicated on human disposability. Patrick's book "Gunpower" is out from Verso in March ...

I wish @patblanchfield.bsky.social 's philosophy of "gunpower" wasn't being buttressed by so many recent events, but it's a way of viewing them as products of a system functioning as it's meant to, rather than one that's corrupted or broken.
know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/gun...

two problems with the notion of a “civil war” is that it (1) can suggest some sort of balance of belligerents, as opposed to a state just liquidating its own people; and (2) implies a disjunction from some sort of status quo “civil society” that didn’t already run on brutal public repression

Added up the tax cuts I've received through the years probably wouldn't pay a month's rent, but what has been lost in services as a result has been immense, not just personally, but for for those in desperate need of them.
Meanwhile those at the top and corporations have gotten wealthier

pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim

We are seeing incredible bravery out of Minnesota right now. When this comes to Canada - and in one form or another, it will - I hope Canadians will be as brave.

Before speaking with two armed men at the Pretti vigil last night, a man approached & asked if I was going to tell the truth. I said yes. He told me how frustrated he was at the media & the harm it’s causing to his community.

I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:

In framing geopolitical events, I’m always surprised that people leave out what I would consider to be the most important aspect. These events are an authoritarian response to the realization that ecological collapse is about to occur in our lifetimes.

REST IN POWER!

Marxist historian and political scientist Michael Parenti has passed away at the age of 92.

He devoted his life to dissenting from the mainstream, challenging power and institutions, exposing contradictions, and ripping the mask off of propaganda.

‘The third world is not poor.’

I need Canadians to think about what is happening here at home. Carney is cutting the very agencies we need more than ever as things erode in the US.

Wake. Up.

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I more-or-less wandered into a field that taught me to source reliable, factual information, in a setting that places this information into a critical context. It’s wonderful and horrifying. I don’t regret it one bit. I love my work; it’s a sacred calling. But now I’m Cassandra.

Seems Apple News thinks I‘m interested in living to be 101. A geriatric, living on a collapsing planet, well past the ability to sustain civilization. I’ve only just managed to sustain interest in being here in the good times.

Toolbox - Beautiful Trouble An interconnected web of the key strategies and tactics that have inspired people-powered victories & upended the status quo. Start anywhere and explore…

An interesting resource for activists. Please share.

beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/