Alice Lastname

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kottke.org
@kottke.org

Bertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate. “The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us." [kottke.org]

kottke.orgBertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to DebateLate in his life, the prominent English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell was subject to an attempt in the early 1960s by Oswald Mosley to provoke him into a debate about the merits of fascism. Before WWII,

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David Ho
@davidho.bsky.social

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Kieran Healy
@kjhealy.co

Sounds like a Future Me problem, not a Current Me problem

Dorsa Amir@dorsaamir.bsky.social

✨A fun little reminder for everyone✨: Future You is not magically less busy. Future You is actually just as busy as Current You + also hates Past You for all the extra stuff you signed them up for.

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Alasdair Beckett-King
@misterabk.bsky.social

The first person to say the word "shit" on television, now angling to be the first person to have the word "cunt" in his obituary.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

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Ellie Silverman
@byelliesilverman.bsky.social

In my first story with Kelley French for @notus.com, I spoke to the woman pictured in the Metro photo on July 4. She didn't know she went viral. Her family wants people to know their difficult reality. Please take some time with our story today www.notus.org/metro/viral-...

notus.orgThe Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.America saw what it wanted to see on the face of its newest icon. And everyone saw it wrong.

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werquer
@werquer.bsky.social

#Seenotrettung: Nach mehr als neun Jahre wurde in Italien ein Verfahren gegen Kolleg:innen von mir eingestellt. Das ist ein kleiner Lichtblick. Wir fordern einmal mehr, die Behinderung ziviler Seenotrettung einzustellen! Leben retten ist kein Verbrechen. www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.at/artikel/seen...

aerzte-ohne-grenzen.atSeenotrettung: Italienisches Gericht stellt Verfahren gegen Mitarbeitende von Ärzte ohne Grenzen nach neun Jahren einÄrzte ohne Grenzen begrüßt die Entscheidung des Gerichts von Catania, die Vorwürfe im Zusammenhang mit der Entsorgung von Abfällen an Bord der Aquarius, dem Seenotrettungsschiff der Hilfsorganisation,...

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Joel S.
@joelhs.bsky.social

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

Miriam Adelson is horrible, but she's horrible because she's a billionaire buying elections. Thomas Massie can't make a principled critique of all billionaires, because that would lead him to leftism, so he has to single out the "Tel Aviv born" ones. He knows exactly what he's doing here.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin
@microsff.com

Long ago, dragons rose up against the gods. After a long war, the dragons were defeated. As punishment, the dragons were split, literally, and spread across the world. Their diminished selves seek their lost parts. Once the right nine lives of cats meet, they'll reform a dragon. #CrossRepost

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Lee
@my-liquid-head.bsky.social

Stinging nettles seen through a prism. This a test shot for an idea that's not yet fully formed. Expect more to follow. #BlueSkyArtShow #macro #BNWmacro #monochrome #infrared #ECK

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George Monbiot
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Oh the irony. “the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is .... the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; .... who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'” Martin Luther King

mistergrumpy.bsky.social@mistergrumpy.bsky.social

Have you considered that the most famous political prisoners and campaigners had deep / lasting impact precisely bc they avoided such tactics? Christ's persecution & murder, and more recently Martin Luther King?

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