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Eco-socialism, agroecology, degrowth. Subscribe to my very good newsletter 👇 Same handle on B*ueS*y
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- Has there ever been a more embarrassing time to be aliveI’m aware that this is AI of course — but it has moved me, I can only imagine how Charlie is celebrating 🕊️
00:00 - A far greater loss than a 1,000 McMansions
- The plume of yellow plastic dust at the end is just 🧑🍳💋
- Only one of these people was a little too far to the leftGenerational choke jobs
- As climate collapse brings increasingly catastrophic flooding, we’re going to need these little guys more than everA beaver dam in British Columbia showing its ability to hold back sediment pollution during heavy rainfall.
- Dummies think that caring about butterflies is for romantics & bleeding hearts. It’s not. The larvae of butterflies are one of the primary paths by which solar radiation is converted into a living food web, i.e. the ecosystem upon which all life relies. Without them, we are gone“In 20 years, the fleeting time it takes for a human baby to grow into a young adult, the country has lost 22 percent of its butterflies, researchers found.”
- I read this horrifying piece & it boils down to this: Armies of low-wage workers across the Global South sit in front of computer monitors all day either generating spam or moderating it, depending on their employer What an utter waste of human potential
- A sane society would’ve given this man $4,000 worth of food safety equipment & a pat on the back instead of trying to ruin his lifeNYC vending laws can put a family into poverty in under 10 minutes Floriberto, a father of 4, started selling tamales 🫔on Fordham Road after working in restaurants for 15 yrs @NYCSanitation fined him $4,000 - due to the cap on permits he’s unable to get one #StreetVendorReform
- A perfect example of why the U.S. Senate should not exist. Iowa’s 3.2 million residents should not have an equal say in federal policy as California’s 39.5 million. It makes a mockery of democracyI don’t want to see the country look like California. I think the country needs to look a whole lot more like Iowa! That’s why I’m running for U.S. Senate.
00:00 - There’s a realistic chance this psycho shit backfires in far-reaching ways, and lord knows I’m keeping my fingers crossedFederal immigration agents seeking to detain a Honduran landscaper chased him into a Southern California surgical center and quickly found themselves in a tense standoff as clinic staff demanded to see identification and a warrant. The landscaper was eventually arrested.
00:00 - I do not love how industrial society perpetually holds our health & survival hostage for the dumbest shit. A single fire sprinkler malfunctioned at a swimming pool chemical factory & now millions of people & countless acres of land will be bathed in unholy toxic bullshit
- I’m coming to appreciate that the awful music & embarrassing aesthetics are exactly what allow this to continue as a real counterculture. If the music were good & the lifestyle marketable, then everything oppositional about it would be commodified. Sucking is the inoculantA sweet syrupy fog is choking central Ohio, which can only mean one thing: The 25th Gathering of the Juggalos is kicking off today. Tap in for my third annual Gathering roundup👇
- See all that trash in the flood water? That’s not the worst of it: sewage, pesticides, transmission fluid, anti-freeze, etc Floods are natural disturbances necessary for ecological succession. But industrial society has turned them into toxic spills that forever poison the landMarshall, North Carolina
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