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I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Climate Activists Celebrate Lula’s Win in Brazil, but Warn the Fight Is Far From Over. The three-term president has fought to stop Amazon deforestation. Many see his re-election as a victory for environmental defenders and climate progress. insideclimatenews.org/news/2610202...

in person or online lecture in Oxford next week - the Genealogy of I var the Boneless events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event... #medievalsky #history

France: crowds fill Marseille's Old Port in anti-racism protest

Gaspard-Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), more known simply as ‘Nadar,’ a studio self- portrait in a balloon basket (he rode balloons frequently) and his studio portrait of French actress Sarah Bernhardt, ca early 1860s. “I’m formerly a maker of caricatures, ultimately a refugee in the Botany Bay of

Can you believe things got so busy we never even told you about our super cool, first ever #BioDiversityBikeJam? The weather was perfect, the vibes immaculate and the DUCKS stole the show! #yyc #yycbike #Biodiversity #BioBlitz @inaturalist.bsky.social @cwf-fcf.bsky.social #Wildlife

I made these masu and this bell there. The idea the place won't be there anymore hurts like hell.

"It is kind of crazy that we live in the heart of the tech community and yet we can’t tap into those resources," he told me. "It’s one of those things that’s baffled us for a long time, about how we can't secure major funding from these individuals or companies."

I've spent deeply happy hours here building tables. Thousands of kids have learned craft here. One of the world's great concentrations of wealth, and the Bay Area can't keep a community gem like this going? The second biggest cultural institution in Oakland? www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

as a long time fan of paris's work i absolutely loved HYPERSCALE, his new book, which really pulls together so many disparate threads of the data center convo—past, present, in the us and abroad—into a ripping narrative caught up with him about it for my latest power play newsletter!

sic semper comemierdas!

So-called “inclusionary zoning” is an attempt to outsource a key state responsibility—providing subsidized housing to poor people—to private for-profit actors so the state does not have to raise and spend tax money. It is profoundly neoliberal policy.

HUGE, GOOD NEWS: In total reversal from Friday’s stonewalling, perjury-flirting “status report,” ICE now says it has secured a one-way travel document so Ahmed Soliman can return to the US via a commercial flight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The only reason anyone is talking about Marissa Mayer or Dazzle is that her marketing team understands how to deploy rage bait, and most of the Internet still can't spot it in the wild.

Les invitamos a nuestro programa de mañana, martes 27, donde @raxxie.com y yo hablaremos de #novelas de #aventuras. (¡Muchas!) 21:30, hora del centro de México, en vivo. Ya saben dónde: www.youtube.com/AlbertoyRaqu...

The midterms will decide who is running election mechanics in 2028, the next presidential cycle. Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, and Ohio are just some of the states with open contests for secretary of state.

Storyteller just won a World Fantasy Award!!!!!

No book deals, or column inches in well-known blogging sites, for comemierdas!

Deplatforming fascists works. Refusing them the audience beyond the roachholes they already occupy, peopled with amoral and immoral lost causes,works. Continue to deny opportunities to fascists.

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"I don’t think that repeating the same non-explanations for another three weeks will make much difference," said James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell Law School. "But maybe they’ll use the time to come up with better explanations." buff.ly/adsXveE

Young people are taking the feds to court, arguing Canada’s climate law fails to protect their Charter rights. Ottawa says its control over climate change is limited. The trial could reshape climate accountability. @stefanlabbe.bsky.social's first for The Narwhal: thenarwhal.ca/canada-youth...

We live in a country that has historically privileged property & power & willingly excused or even abetted white conservative lawlessness so long as it advances those interests. That is incompatible with democracy, equality, & basic stability & simply cannot be tolerated any longer.

We must do what the country refused to do during Reconstruction: dispossess & banish those who organized & facilitated this vile & lawless regime.

BRIAN DE PALMA on modern filmmaking and why movies look so much worse than they used to.

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

In the rush to build data centers, companies are starting to use their own off grid gas generators. This results in much higher emissions – 60% to 80% – compared with using their local electricity grid and risks locking in longer-term fossil dependence. www.theclimatebrink....

No, it's a straightforward move. We all remember what Jon Del Arroz has done-you reported a lot of it yourself. What changed in the interim that you've decided to platform him now?

No, it's rather active. We object to you getting chummy with a serial harasser, troll and fascist. We're trying to keep fandom safe from nastiness, and right now, that means keeping fandom safe from you.

@file770.bsky.social Drop me from your follows unless Del Arroz is gone.

Happy #IntersexAwarenessDay! Today I'm reposting my old Intersex 101 thread from Twitter - with new improvements, resources, and more! It's starting right here, read on!

In August, the Trump administration flew 12 Somali immigrants to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay. “Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay,” Sakariye Abdi Mohamed told journalist Amanda Moore in a phone call from the detention facility. “Just like kidnapping.”

I talked to Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker who was arrested at work, while he was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. I called him again once he was deported to Mogadishu. Here's what he had to say.

Who does the ocean belong to? I asked Otto Spijkers of Leiden University to explain the law of the sea, from territorial waters and fishing rights to deep-sea resources and international disputes. We also built a glossary to make the key terms easy to follow. ⬇️🌊

one last week of Fated States to go before Election Day, it'll be on Sunday (to avoid Halloween), Nov 1 from 1-3 eastern, and we're calling to Michigan for Abdul El-Sayed. JOIN US. fatedmates.net/fatedstates

First of all: thank you. This is necessary and important and good. Second: who tf is not signing on to this because I would like to have a little conversation.

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

Voter ID laws don't just block eligible voters — they also cost taxpayers millions. 💸 Voter ID is on the ballot in six states this November. If passed, states will spend millions on unnecessary new rules instead of things communities actually need. Learn more: voteriders.org/article/cost...

Properly blown away to win non-fiction readers’ choice for Who Wants Normal? at the Diverse Book Awards. It was voted for by the public, so that’s YOU lot. Thanks so much to all the readers who keep supporting this book.

"this time we think the cheating won't work or won't work as well" I mean seriously what the fuck

"yes well we think the republicans maybe won't pick up the seats they intended from their gerrymandering" like you realize just printing that as normal is nuts right, like it's severely fucked up that you can do that in a country

Even after living here for ~15 years seeing reporting cover gerrymandering as a totally normal thing and not batshit politics and evidence of a broken constitution drives me nuts

On this day, Oct. 26, in 1856, a wood-fed locomotive with a huge sparkcatcher hauled 7 yellow passenger coaches at 50 km/h between Montreal and Toronto. It made 64 stops along the way. The Grand Trunk was Canada’s first mainline railway. Five months later, sleeping cars were introduced.

Spectred Isle is a post-war story set in the same world with war trauma and supernatural plots. and bonking.