Today’s unpopular thought: Industrial Revolution was the corporate take over of the Industrious Revolution which was created by so called “traditional wives” who were hidden laborers and had to manage house economics while facing falling wages. Fashion in particular was invented by them.

Adan Funez was one of three men arrested this week over alleged involvement in the shooting of activist Juan Lopez.

No wonder their symbol is a mule. Stubborn idiots cannot see middle class for what it really is.

If you are paywalling education, you are not an educator but a capitalist. AI doesn’t pay subscription or membership fees. Cause its boss is a rich, welcome guest.

It took the authorities 30 years to admit Ticketmaster is a monopoly. 3 f..ing decades!

There is no way this is true. He must have known. Once again two lower ranking aides (both women) taking the fall for the infallible white men. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Genocidal colonialism is OK until it interferes with oil prices and the fossil fuel dictatorship.

Can we have the Epstein files now? I mean the whole lot?

The fed us garbage and made people get fat/sick. Now they’ll feed us drugs to loose weight and “healthy.” Of course we will pay from our pocket for all of it because the health insurance won’t cover it. seekingalpha.com/news/4572534...

— 1–2× MQ-9 Reapers — destroyed Possible / unconfirmed damage: — 1× F-16 Fighting Falcon — emergency squawk — 1× KC-135 Stratotanker — emergency squawk — 1× A-10 Thunderbolt II — possible emergency landing (dubious) Source: ripplebrain

U.S. Army aircraft losses to rescue the two crew members of downed F-15E jet over Iran: Confirmed losses (current tally): — 1× F-15E Strike Eagle — destroyed — 2× HH-60 helicopters — damaged — 1x MH-6 Little Bird — destroyed — 1× A-10 Thunderbolt II — destroyed — 2× C-130 Hercules — destroyed

"About 16m tonnes of fertilisers were transported by sea from the region in 2024, according to the UN conference on trade and development (Unctad). After Russia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Iran is the fourth-largest global exporter of urea, the most widely used nitrogen fertiliser."

Just watched the new Frankenstein and super disappointed. After two years of genocide and a year of Trump Presidency what did people see in this film? I honestly don’t get it. It was dull, repetitive and unnecessarily blood covered from start to end. Shameful interpretation of a true masterpiece.

She wasn’t successful enough at being an unethical tool.

Trump is slowly firing all the unqualified women in his administration and replacing them with even more unqualified men.

I used to live in a house where we would pay rent but the lease owner wouldn’t give it to the landlord and lived off of it. In return, we would steal his food. I am telling you this because there was more dignity in that house than there is now in the Democratic party.

Here is the image, via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social, that stirred the White House's ire

No Kings marches barely made it to the online front pages… so what’s next?

I really feel like we are at the dawn of an age in which truth, the simple facts of the matter, will be more valuable than ever and also less accessible than ever.

Being governed by Trump & the crew is like being married to an unhinged husband. You ask him to stop drinking, he starts doing crack. You beg him to stop gambling, he robs a bank. Parents want you to work it out, for the sake of the kids. Landlord & neighbors want you to move out by the morning.

Here we go…

I have the translate function on all my social media apps. None ever asked me to download a language. BlueSky used to have translate but now it requesting to download languages which it claims would be used across all apps. Sounds like a design problem. @bsky.app

Am I the only one who thinks UK Saturday Night Live is going to be funnier than the US one. For 36 years I tried to get into this enterprise but couldn’t. But the UK one is making me giggle before it aired one skit.

"The conflation of capitalism with “free markets” is one of the most successful lies in human history. The historical and ongoing plunder of resources; the police, armies and death squads deployed against those who resist... all this is the opposite of “free”... coercive and extremely expensive."

One day we are going to interpret this war as the one in which the fossil fuel industry and its military industrial complex set themselves on fire, because they knew the were about to become obsolete due to climate change renewable alternatives.

Just as the lived experience of individual wealthy people is largely irrelevant when discussing the reality of capitalism, the lived experience of individual men is largely irrelevant when discussing patriarchy - and yet everything must be couched and approached softly for fear of setting one off.

Patriarchy is a bargain in which men gain structural power over non-men and the fact that the biggest obstacle to making this clear and doing something about it is the insecurity of men when this is made explicit tells you a lot about how that system operates and what they get out of it as a class.

In sci-fi, AI is always discussed in terms of its ability to make humans believe if it’s self conscious. And, whether it’s or isn’t is less important than whether people think it is or isn’t. From Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep to Klara And The Sun, the “outward personhood” counts more.

Israeli attacks kill 13 in Gaza, including 2 children and a pregnant woman https://aje.news/fvuhv9

If Palestinians had set fire to a synagogue in Israel you can bet news channels here in the UK would cover the story. But a mosque in the occupied West Bank set on fire by Israeli settlers? Nah.

Yep, that’s what we thought… wait till the panic at the gas pumps summer.

İran Devrim Muhafızları: Hürmüz Boğazı kapalı kalacak www.diken.com.tr/iran-devrim-...

It’s called Persian Gulf for a reason.

“At present Iran does not need a new leader – dead, alive or injured – to update the IRGC target base. It instead can watch Donald Trump tie himself in knots daily explaining what he is trying to achieve… for the moment if there is one country in this war that is rudderless, it is not Iran.”

Iranians are discovering that Netanyahu doesn’t hate the Islamic Republic but the Iranians themselves. He wants their oil and doesn’t care about the people.

People and the developers are just realizing that AI is nothing but an app. A simple boycott can bring it down to its knees. In virtual reality, everything is a fad, a Ponzi scam. There is no difference between the dynamics that govern the popularity of a porn site and ChatGPT.

Conflicts with Afghanistan, Iraq and now Iran all could have been resolved peacefully. The only reason why they became wars was because the West refuses to share wealth. Everything else, including capitalism itself or even the state of Israel is subordinate to this core greed.

I recommend the Abraham Joseph Heschel documentary titled Spiritual Audacity and compare his idea of witnessing injustice and taking action to everyone who is now closing their eyes and ears to what is happening in Palestine and Israel. We should ask wwhd?

A school in Tehran has been struck in US-Israeli attacks, according to Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei. Baghaei shared a video purportedly showing the aftermath without elaborating on the circumstances or the number of casualties.