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Strandjunker, to random
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There is not a single man alive who has done more harm on a global level, over a longer period of time and across more issues (Iraq, climate, Covid, white supremacy, authoritarianism) than Rupert Murdoch. You can’t change my mind.

gmoke,
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@Strandjunker
Allow me to introduce you to Thomas Midgley Jr who was one of the people who added lead to gasoline in the 1920s, testifying to Congress about its safety while suffering from lead poisoning, & then developed chlorofluorocarbons as a safer refrigerant than ammonia, not realizing it degrades stratospheric ozone.

Midgley changed our blood & our sky.

protecttruth, to journalism
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“It’s very important that people understand this: We reside in a media environment that promotes—whether it intends to or not—right-wing authoritarian spectacle.”

Magisterial piece on US media and democracy from Mike Tomasky at @newrepublic. He’s done a fabulous job with TNR since he took over as editor. Please read.

#USpol #media #journalism

https://newrepublic.com/article/175612/two-medias-trump-2024-spectacle

gmoke,
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@protecttruth @newrepublic
"We reside in a media environment that promotes—whether it intends to or not—right-wing authoritarian spectacle.”

Wotta surprise! Given that the media in this (and other countries) is corporate and focused almost exclusively on profit, profit, profit.

aral, to climate
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“Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was charged for a second time on Friday for not leaving a protest near an oil terminal after police ordered her to do so… If convicted again … she could face up to six months in prison.”

If Greta is thrown in prison while oil executives continue to walk free, I sure hope people start burning things down. I mean, burn it all down for all I care at this point. We’re being led by absolute fucking muppets.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/greta-thunberg-could-face-jail

#greta #climateCrisis

gmoke,
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@aral Yes, climate activists should be burning things down. Their righteous wrath will make the greenhouse gases of what they burn add NOTHING to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. /snark

currentbias, (edited ) to climate
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"A super strong El Niño and record high global sea surface temperatures are set to deliver devastating extreme weather events all over the planet in 2024. They will be extremely costly and traumatic for many millions of people around the world. But the real concern is what the consequences of those events will show us about the fragility and vulnerability [of] our global food supply network."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQkyouPOrD4

#climatechange #foodsecurity #famine

gmoke,
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@currentbias The USAmerican WWII Victory Garden program began in the Spring of 1942. By harvest of 1944, contemporary estimates were it produced a third to a half of all the fruits and vegetables consumed on the Home Front. Now, imagine a grassroots climate restorative gardening program using regenerative agriculture techniques which draw carbon out of the sky.

rbreich, to random
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Since the word ‘socialism’ is apparently so terrifying, let me be clear: Every advanced country on planet earth pools resources for the common good.

This is how a society functions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq02yuY4wDQ&ab_channel=RobertReich

gmoke,
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@rbreich
Best definition of Socialism I know of comes from the November 1, 1918 edition of the NY Daily Call, the Socialist paper of the time -
"Art Young's Political Primer: What is Socialism? It is business operated for public benefit instead of private profit."

Sounds like a B of Benefit Corporation to me. Also the concept of trusteeship in Gandhian or nonviolent economics.

stevesilberman, to random
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drummer was born 80 years ago today. His performances were the highlight for me of the recent tour. His solo albums are very underrated; this was recorded 20 years ago and still sounds like music from the future. https://youtu.be/PVjtKIMka8c?si=uRlWuFkf4BV0tvRJ

gmoke,
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@stevesilberman Mickey Hart's book Planet Drum is well worth reading too.

stevesilberman, to random
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Kids today don't appreciate the old recipes. I think this is an even older soup than Scotch Broth or Pepper Pot.

gmoke,
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@stevesilberman Once upon a time, I was fascinated by the Miller/Urey experiments with early Earth atmospheres & the possible generation of amino acids & peptide chains from those "primordial soups."

donni, to random
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Have you been injured by clouds? You may be entitled to condensation

gmoke,
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@donni Are you cirrus? Oh, hail snow.

flexghost, to random
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When they took trans rights away a lot of people shrugged

When they took women’s rights away a lot of people shrugged

Guess what, Tiny? They’re not going to stop there.

Texas is limiting interstate travel. They’re joining a cadre of states doing the same

This is over abortion now but soon—who knows.

Need to travel out of state for medicine? Family? Religion? Those days are ending

Stand up now or be forced to sit silent forever.

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Headline Idaho becomes one of the most extreme anti-abortion states with law restricting travel for abortions A bill that prohibits people in Idaho from helping pregnant minors leave the state to obtain abortions became law on Wednesday. It literally has to affect every single individual male in this country to get you to do something
Headlined from wired: interstate, travel post Roe isn’t as secure as you may think The alarm bells have been going off for years, but people still do nothing
Headline Republicans block bill to shield people who travel out of state for abortions Maybe if we start limiting the amount of Viagra, blood pressure, medicine, testosterone for cis makes with tiny weewees and big egos—people will care

gmoke,
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@flexghost The new slavery is based on gender as well as race and class (but let's not talk about that)

Sheril, to nature
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Tardigrades have survived every mass extinction on Earth since they evolved about a 1/2 billion years ago.There are ~1,300 known species.

And millions of years from now, they won’t even notice we’re gone.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tardigrades-turn-out-not-be-dna-thieves-180964236/ Image: Eye of Science/Science Photo Library

gmoke,
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@Sheril Have tardigrades ever notices that we're even here?

georgetakei, to random

Oh, how sweet is this!
https://www.comicsands.com/library-kids-reading-book-together-2663855466.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

gmoke,
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@georgetakei Every day is Christmas at the library and librarians are a combination of Santa's helper and Sherlock Holmes.

Green_Footballs, to random
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Baby Snidely cannot resist Trump’s animal attraction.

gmoke,
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@Green_Footballs Baby Snidely is right. The mug shot is "instantly iconic"

How long do you think it took Trmp to get that look down
in his (golden) bathroom mirror?

donni, to random
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Sorry I’ve been weird recently, and also in the past, and will also be in the future

gmoke,
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@donni The word "weird" comes from the Old English or Anglo-Saxon "wyrd" which means something like fate. So everyone has their own wyrd or weird or fate.

mrcompletely, to bluegrass
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I shared this privately before, but I just got the okay to share it in public. The Bluegrass Archive is online with a website and everything. This is a MASSIVE trove of legal live #bluegrass recordings from earliest days right up to now, which you can download and listen to for free. It is one of the greatest achievements of the fan-driven #music archiving community I've ever seen. I contributed a small number of filesets out of the thousands here. #music

https://bluegrassarchive.com/

gmoke,
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@mrcompletely Thank you and congratualitons.

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gmoke,
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@EgyptianAphorist @neilhimself @bookstodon Every day is Christmas at the library and librarians are part Santa's Helpers and Sherlock Holmes.

donni, to random
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Everything happens for a reason that is usually dumb and poorly thought out

gmoke,
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@donni Everything happens for a reason just because

marcelias, to random
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    gmoke,
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    @marcelias

    The Grand Mahatma says, “Plenty of people will tell you that it’s the Fate of Man to be eternally a day late and a dollar short. Don’t you believe it.”
    Imaginary Speeches for a Brazen Head by Philip Whalen

    Thanks for all you're doing.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    The new U.S. majority isn't just young, tolerant and diverse. They vote. The right hates that, and it hates what it sees when it looks at something like U.S. women's soccer

    They hate America AND democracy, and it's devolving toward violence.

    If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵

    https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/us-conservatives-embrace-authoritarianism-anti-democracy-20230813.html#loaded

    gmoke,
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    @GottaLaff "...we’re clear-eyed that nearly half of Americans hate who we’ve become, hate democracy when they no longer can win, and will embrace violence to get the results they can’t get at the ballot box."

    Probably more like a third but that's more than enough. We are lucky if we can get it down to the 24% who supported Nixon on the day he resigned or the 23% who supported Cheney after he shot a hunting companion.

    internetarchive, to random
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    We ❤️ interlibrary loan - it's a library superpower! Learn how librarians like Laurie are connecting their patrons with materials from our collection in our ILL help doc: https://help.archive.org/help/inter-library-loan-ill-at-the-internet-archive/ #EmpoweringResearch

    gmoke,
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    @internetarchive Every day is Christmas at the library and librarians are part Santa Claus, part Sherlock Holmes.

    MikeDunnAuthor, to random

    Fuck child labor

    gmoke,
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    @MikeDunnAuthor You have to be careful these days. One could read "fuck child labor" as an exhortation to underage sex by someone with a very dirty (or literal) mind.

    I share your sentiment that the recent push for expanding employment for children is, however, retrograde and disturbing.

    Sheril, to science
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    Were this the start of a movie, it probably wouldn’t end well. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/science/roundworm-nematodes-siberia-permafrost.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

    gmoke,
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    @Sheril Oh boy, another sequel to Tremors!

    stevesilberman, to random
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    Happy birthday to Stanley Kunitz, one of the greatest #poets of the 20th Century, born OTD in 1905. I grew up walking past his garden at 32 Commercial in #Provincetown every summer, not realizing until much later in my life who he was.

    . . . The heart breaks and breaks
    and lives by breaking.
    It is necessary to go
    through dark and deeper dark
    and not to turn.

    • Stanley Kunitz
    gmoke,
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    @stevesilberman Once took a trip to Provincetown specifically to see Kunitz' garden.

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    We made a comic about deer.

    gmoke,
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    @lowqualityfacts

    People say "fight or flight" but it's really "fight, flight, or freeze" and freeze happens at least a third of the time, sometimes 100% as in "playing possum."

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    gmoke,
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    @Teri_Kanefield @jobsboils

    Then one day at dinner my great-uncle William Middleton says, “We should not make light of the troubles of children. They are worse than ours, because we can see the end of our trouble and they can never see any end,” and I feel grateful for I know that I am very unhappy and have often said to myself, “When you grow up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood."

    William Butler Yeats

    virginiaheffernan, to random
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    I wrote about manliness and Josh Hawley for Politico.

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/14/josh-hawley-masculinity-crisis-00105436

    gmoke,
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    @virginiaheffernan

    Lots of people insecure in their own skins these days it seems

    from Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances by Barbara Kruger
    Cambridge, MA: MIt Press, 1993
    ISBN 0-262-61106-6

    (page 224) “Man” can be nature but “Manhood” is culture. Being a man can be about pleasure but belonging to a manhood is usually about desire. Which is kind of sad because desire only exists where pleasure is absent. Manhood is what you’re supposed to want.

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