Cindy B.

People said he wouldn’t give up and he’d do successful version of Jan 6. Please remember that when folks say Tr*mp and the GOP are “going to do” XYZ. None of us has a crystal ball. Why pretend you can forecast a future where the bad guy wins? Who benefits from that?

Far from "driving the energy transition", the data centre boom is swallowing up the mineral resources that were once meant to be going towards building technologies that help eliminate fossil fuels. heatmap.news/am/trump-win...

Russian military satellite comes within 26 meters of U.S.-Finnish spacecraft providing data to Ukraine Kosmos-2612 approached ICEYE-X36, a commercial satellite, at near-zero relative speed. An approach of less than 1 kilometer is considered critical.

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

as NKOTB once said, step by step

Chrystia Freeland: "Your government is siding with Vladimir Putin, who is a bloodthirsty dictator and war criminal. This is not a time for us to be divided. And it's certainly not a time for America to be on the side of the bad guys, which I'm sorry to say, you are right now."

TikTok is regime social media. You should not be on it.

Arrest Musk. Nationalize StarLink. Dismantle and totally reform this corrupt system so this can never happen again.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

The best way to ensure that Meta no longer censors political opposition to autocratic regimes is for people to stop using Meta platforms. There's no law that says you have to post there. There are open alternatives.

The ability to answer this well says everything about running as an empathetic three dimensional being in order to enact an agenda with and for people as opposed to running as an amalgam of poll-tested points to win simply for sake of doing so.

-- stewarding the knowledge and practices that could "emerge from the ashes" of current systems are all pretty much the same thing.

Increasingly it feels to me that: -- trying to survive power consolidation and/or collapsing systems -- creating the alternatives that show what is possible outside of dominant worldviews, and

We'll never exit revolving door of every cycle being a "throw bastards out" anti-party in power backlash & gain lasting majority to pass policy till we address how rightly infuriated people are at status quo. It's the billionaires, stupid - who purchase themselves politicians red & blue.

There are absolutely exceptional Dems running, and they merit praise, but we do the truth and ourselves a disservice to say "Blue Wave" as it implies voters' actions are motivated by embracing Democrats. It's a "Red Wipeout" or "Republican Repudiation." (H/t Michael Podhorzer.)

"The elite moneyed class that the media too often represents may find accountability uncomfortable or discourteous, but the American people demand it and it so we are committed to it." Or more colloquially: "bitch all you want, we're putting some motherfuckers in jail."

Christ. "Conservatism" now means overruling local government, imposing regulations, and restricting property rights. What a f'ing joke.

"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' & even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, & they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." Gonna link to this piece every week, forever.

All this begs the question, when political reporters more interested in horserace politics & the balance of power between Rs & Ds state that "both sides" get something in this turd grenade of a permitting deal, of WTF does that actually mean to you, me, and the people and places we care about?

Remember, too: Senator Heinrich accepted $31,500 linked to Palantir *AND* voted to confirm Markwayne Mullin as the Department of Homeland Security Secretary—the only Democrat, other than Fetterman, to do so.

It's a hard job, but Schmitt has what it takes!

Big ups to @katearonoff.bsky.social for covering this seemingly boring but actually really important story about the GHG Protocol. Standards are technical & opaque AND they’re where the politics happen. This is a classic case of “managing tons.” 🧵

I think one of the most empowering and powerful parts of living thru this period of history is how people are seeing all of the connections that have always existed right under the surface. What has been hidden is being brought into the light. We see how far the web has been woven through society.

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

If there's one thing that is genuinely easy to accomplish in US politics, it is getting the pack of slavering morons that is the Republican base to hate someone or something new. You just gotta point and say "we hate this now." They *love* hating shit. Canadians? Sure!

Say it with me: FORK. FOUND. IN. KITCHEN.

Remember, there’s infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch infrastructure.

This is a must read 👇

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