The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.

As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.

Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg #ShareGoodNewsToo

In my headcanon, Americans think this is a bad thing

In self-interest but also general interest, folks: Black Friday is coming up, and small publishers/independent creators will always be a better choice than megacorps. When the sales drop, please remember that!

If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers

My Brain: "Psst, here's a great idea for your book." Me: "I'm busy. I'll write it down later. I'll remember it." Morgan Freeman: "But he did not remember it, for his brain soon moved on to wonder how cottage cheese gets made." #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky

The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.

If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media

Source: https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie Median US households (income $80K) are in poverty if the same calculations as in 1963 are used to rebase the poverty line threshold.

Anyway, if you're saying it's fine to steal from people because you don't want to pay them, that's not Marxism or Communism. That's just capitalism.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

It would be a real kick in the pants to have insomnia because you have The Barenaked Ladies 'Who Needs Sleep' stuck in your head.

Gender-affirming care saves lives

The Trump administration asks you to consider just what kind of society we would have if everyone, soldiers included, simply stopped doing things that were illegal.

Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working.

Don't cross the picket line!

Weird how this works EVERY SINGLE TIME

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

My new sidekick in our Amber #ttrpg game. GM described him as a small messenger demon with four bat wings and little stick arms and little stick legs. I named him Geraint Wing Davies. #art #drawing #autodeskSketchbook

WTF

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later. Remembering us is not enough.

The narrative that we are being sold that our children's safety is somehow threatened by trans people participating in all aspects of public life as their authentic selves is the exact same bullshit that was peddled about queer folks 30 years ago. It was a lie then and it's a lie now.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

The crime of genocide didn't exist until after WW2. It was something we decided was real, needed to be identified and punished. Even if we've been spectacularly bad at putting it in practise, we conceptualised it. I think it's about time for a CEO crime of murder-by-Economy.

Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

We've had these two little posters hanging on our wall for basically ever. They helped our kids get through middle school and high school and I personally still take a second to read them often. Printable PDF here: lumpley.games/wp-content/u...

Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want

Power Grid Terraforming Mars Small World Innovation Race for the Galaxy Lunar Rails Ascension Le Havre Orleans Above and Below

You don't end at the tip of your nose. You are your family, those you're in community with, our species, this world, and all their futures. These are part of you. You are vast, and stretch out into the future. You are already immortal. "Being progressive" is just... acting like it.

Last year, Starbucks’ CEO took home $95.8 million. The typical Starbucks worker got $14,674. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1. It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today. Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.

I think my favourite example of a game security flaw was in the Firefly game where the Captain Reynolds outfit DLC entirely compromised your system. It was Malwear.

Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people. And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

*supervillain with a heart of gold voice* Well well well

When Jeffrey fucking Epstein repeatedly said you were one of the worst people he knew… 😲

TYPEWRITTEN. TYPEWRITTEN PAINTING.