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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Every millenial grew up hearing "don't feed the trolls", that is the ultimate way to beat the far-right online. Starve them of attention long enough, they will come to your posts to rage bait. And you will LET THEM, because their noise on YOUR posts boosts YOU.

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Solar farms in the Gobi are cutting dust storms. A study of 17 farms found the panels slow surface winds by more than 9% and make soil up to 17% less erodible, reducing springtime dust by about 352,000 tonnes a month. RenewEconomy buff.ly/bambHT8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

The first film I remember being taken to was 2001: A Space Odyssey. I was WAAAAAAAY to young to be there *and* to form a memory of it, so it must have been secondary release... which somehow made it to a mainline theatre in a dinky city in the Canadian prairies.

If you don't get at least a little damp in the eyes reading this thread, you've got something important broken inside you.

I get it. 1) Elon says egregious nonsense. 2) Coterie of lickspittles nod and agree. 3) Elon thinks "Wow. People sure are willing to swallow egregious nonsense! WHICH IS WHAT AI MAKES!" [Side-track: Elon owns a platform which rewards nonsense-shouting and punishes displays of critical thinking]

Struggling to concentrate on my work because I keep thinking of this house I saw on a walk and hoping the house across the street will get eyes, too, so they can stare at one another and, perhaps, fall in love

i know this is tiring, sorry, but also this is why we dont have to splash ads every paragraph or worry about access bullshit:

Now we need an inquest to find out how much American & Russian money has been put behind the Leave side.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Happy #NationalCryptidDay / #NationalSasquatchAwarenessDay to all who celebrate!

I'm terrible at self promotion. Drawing maps is more fun than making stupid videos. But, my website was neglected and sad, so i fixed it. www.chloethecartographer.com. Check it out. Back to designing a spaceship, which honestly is the most fun. #artist #maps #portfolio #cartography

I love this answer so much because it gets at the heart of what humanities scholars do and what's so threatening to authoritarians about it: Criticism is not inherently a negative. Criticism is looking at something to understand the parts of it and form deeper opinions about it with appreciation.

I would like someone with a grip on physics to work out the necessary fuel consumption, and thus tankage, for an actual vehicle (let's say 1500kg to steelman the matter) to get that kind of delta-V. Let's not look too closely at the observed ballistics, either. We don't want to be mean.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

I would have been an astronaut, if there wasn't a position for a James Mason As Captain Nemo available.

BREAK: DYK as part of an ecological & cultural reconciliation, several wood bison (or bagwaji-bizhikiwag) were recently moved from Alberta NP to a free-ranging herd stewarded by the Skownan First Nation? indiginews.com/winnipeg/gro... #BMW2026Resist #BlackSky #IndigenousPeoplesDay

So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

For indigenous peoples day i wanted to bring attention to the chinook tribe. I live on unconceded chinook territory however they are not federally recognized. Meaning they have no protections They were legally recognized in 2001 however this was reversed 18 months later Official website below

The number of time I've stood up and shrieked about a fountain pen not being in an appropriate setting for its period of manufacture is large. Usually three seconds on screen and not germane to the story, too. I also melt warmly when the pen is *correct* in a setting.

Yes this! Also who's out here writing a book so EXACTLY INTERCHANGEABLE with another author's book that a reader would, in theory, only buy one of the two? Nobody! Books books books delicious books Nothing more delicious than a book I want ALL writers to write more books for me

When colonization came to call in the US, many folks wrote about america as a pristine Eden whose forest were filled with delights and bounty. This was because indigenous folk (Like mine) built up food forest. Things that were razed and destroyed as a part of racist violence. Colonization is ongoing

My comment on this excellent thread: those who would shut down museums and libraries absolutely do not value other people and their potential, and in many cases would openly declare the vast majority as not more than lubricant for the machinery of commerce.

You do NOT want the flu. It is not just a cold, it is way, WAY worse. Get vaxxed.

I would really love to see what Tom Clancy's books would be like if he had started his career in 2015. Like... I'm trying to picture CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN with *anything* like the current cast of weirdos running around on the US side.

Eric Claxton's guiding principle when designing Stevenage was that separating bikes and cars was fine, if: - Their routes ran parallel - For every metre the bikes gave up in gradient, the cars should give up two - If necessary, you make the cars go further not the bikes Because cars have ENGINES

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People! Book people, people who love books & people who talk about books! Here is a beautiful thing! Dunsany's stories are rich with ancient & undiluted wonder, & they deserve to be read again. And Thomas Brown's illustrations will carry them like music, deep into your heart.

Bell lying on the CBC morning news in response to a Regina area First Nation's concerns. Said they're following all environmental regulations in building their #AIDatacentre. They're actually exempted by both Moe and Carney. #skpoli #cdnpoli

Nothing wrong with spending all day talking to a thing you hold.

Do you stand against Fascism? REPOST. Do you stand against Fascism & have $5-10 to spare? GIVE AND REPOST. Fascism wants disabled people dead. Inaction supports Fascism. Action to keep marginalized people safe is Antifascism. Even small acts CAN help keep people housed. #MutualAid #HelpSky 💸💕

Holy shit.

Nice fuzzy cryptid

“One day, when it’s safe, when there is no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will always have been against this”

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

Well. I guess, based on what I've heard about it, this is OK (although Yugoslavia of the previous age is a bit dubious).

Let's talk about a book series NOT getting attention that is among the finest of the decade: James Elkins' Five Strange Languages, the latest of which is Stories, Like Illnesses-- just released to resounding silence. Prior 2 novels are among my favorites ever and the new one so far is as good 1/?

"What if we could go back in time and kill baby Hitler?" is one thing. "What if we could go back in time and *possibly* kill the grandparents of Hitler, Salk, Einstein, Oishi, Chandrasekar, Banting, Best, Franklin, and Parton so there's more ice cream now?" is quite another.

My favourite, in terms of imagined backstory, is the single snowshoe. [comfortable shiver]