“Some say the world order has been broken for years and needed a good shake-up. But a rickety bridge is still better than none. What will replace it? Meanwhile climate change is bearing down on us with its inevitable catastrophic consequences.

Anyone else starting to stock up on food and meds in prep for the supply chain disruptions coming our way ? #foodsecurity

“Mr President, things are looking up. The Europeans have invited you to The Hague.”

“We're talking about Covid-level demand loss, no cars on the road, no planes in the sky, but with no pandemic.”

as per usual @roryjohnston.bsky.social summed it up perfectly: “This will be so, so, so, so, so bad."

As I’ve tried to explain taxation to people, the ultimate fairness in taxation is everyone feeling the same level of pain when doing their taxes The shared burden is the equality Which by default obviously makes rich people pay a fuck ton more in taxes

If you're being left rich enough to live a life beyond almost anyone's wildest dreams, you're not even being punished, you're being saved from yourself.

The moment billionaires became more than the rare oddity is the moment we entered the end game for democracy.

His use of "downstream" led me to start thinking about economic inequality as pollution in our social environment. It's an interesting analogy. And of course it dovetails with the effects that economic inequality has on our biological environment.

“The gas station prices are the first-order effect. The food prices and shortages are second-order. The political instability is third-order. Each wave takes longer to arrive and lasts longer when it does. We are still in the first wave. The second is forming. The third will not crest for months.”

The fact that people said no the the Metaverse and it went away gives me some hope that the AI vision for the future the Tech Bros have laid out is not inevitable.

My enemies are not in Iran. My enemies are in Washington & Tel Aviv. In London, Canberra. My enemies are western oligarchs and empire managers who are poisoning my society and making everything awful while slaughtering human beings with help of my tax dollars. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/my-enemies...

Caitlin Johnstone: The Iranians are not doing any of these things to me. These are things western power structure is doing I have no loyalty to that power structure. I have loyalty to my species, to my family, and to the values I hold sacred in my heart of hearts. The US empire can get fucked.

Look, at least they called the relevant parties instead of asking Grok…

@albomp.bsky.social Did you see this?

“Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capital­ism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of climate collapse is upon us: value is created by consuming the future.”

In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...

“Buy the CD. Save the seed. Use open-source tools. Bank with a credit union. Support right-to-repair legislation. Every act of reclaiming ownership is a withdrawal from the enclosure economy – individually symbolic, collectively structural.”

In 1984 the Doomsday clock was at 3mins to midnight. In 2026 the Doomsday clock is at 85seconds to midnight.

That’ll fix it.

WTF @support.bsky.team ?

The only thing less reliable than an AI's accuracy is an AI's stability

#Tasmania #politas

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In today’s episode David talks to Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, about the prospects for societal collapse in the 21st century. Is there any escape in an age when personal data has become the primary lootable resource? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

I made a bingo card

“Interestingly, they found that traffic fatalities associated with album releases were more prevalent among sober drivers and not more pronounced during the nighttime, therefore suggesting against other possible sources of distraction, including drunk driving.”

And please sign the petition while you’re there.

Musk v. Arendt #empathy #politics #philosophy

“Bringing democracy to the Middle East”

It doesn't fill me with great confidence that with the potential for WW3 to kick off, Australia currently has perhaps its most spineless PM in history.

“Abbott occupied the relative centre. That shift says something about where the centre of gravity has moved on the right of politics.”

If you are in the Dunstan electorate in SA, this is your chance to scare the bejeesus out of Malinauskas and vote #Greens Christal Mex. She's done the hard yards for the region.

Dear @albomp.bsky.social take it as an electoral warning… #auspol

A warning. All the worst people in the country are now shitting themselves. The mother of all campaigns is now going to be directed against the Green Party. It will be an unrelenting smear campaign. The Greens need to be ready for that - and so does everyone on the left.

If you want an example of recycling look no further than Cuba. Their ability to repair, or refunction everything, out of necessity is remarkable. That's how you save a climate.

What’s most baffling to me is the idea that walking to a coffee shop wouldn’t be viewed as a pleasure.

Take note @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is on the mark.

OH FFS! What else have they kept hidden?

He’s really let the mask slip. Clearly he thinks he’s in no danger at the polls so he’s not even pretending to represent the people who elected him anymore.

The PEOPLE’S choice

Today I asked a room of students (about 70) if they had seen Monty python and the holy grail and at least 60 hands shot up. Incredible durability.

High Speed Rail running on renewables would save Oz $billions annually in imported petroleum products and surely get planes out of the sky and vehicles off the highways.

TRAM TRACKS, CYCLISTS & CRASHES: About two-thirds of Sheffield's tram network is on-road, with a lot of cycle crashes as a result. In search of information regarding solutions to this that have been or are being trialled or implemented elsewhere. Grateful for retweets to extend reach.

If a government can do corporate bailouts, they can do universal basic income

Epstein mural in Sydney Australia

Imagine there would have been a great @kudelka.bsky.social cartoon about the political response to the Australian women and children in the Syrian detention camp.

That was Crack Paddock by Scaremongering Labour Minister