The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

Rage bait that's meaningful. Superb reporting on a depressing state of affairs on these *Great* British shores. It's wild how refugees get demonised while these absolute parasites ("businessmen" as a category) keep getting exalted. Watch out for the "businessmen" in politics, as the last post shows.

Women of the resistance! The quiet beauty of anti-fash activism.

Red meat for the racists who cloak themselves in fake patriotism while actually not giving a shit about their own language, their own art and culture or their own actual history. Constantly pumping themselves up with WWII, the communal global endeavour, while ignoring the Tolpuddle Martyrs.

It’s that time of year - folks asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain. Please #repost! Every queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist and produce new queen #bees for next year! So important to #share! 1/9 #nature #caring

List of all the countries in the world that ban all Afghan women from studying in their sovereign Higher Education institutions: 1. Afghanistan 2. United Kingdom Must make you proud to wave your flags, UK patriots with legitimate concerns. Wave them!!!

I am not convinced that MAGA cruelty is based on perceived self-interest. Afropessimists argue, convincingly IMHO, that antiblack cruelty and violence is based fundamentally in a psychic need to dehumanize others to stabilize their own existential angst. It's why it's called *gratuitous* violence.

Just sad about it really

everyone’s discussing how financially stupid this is and they’re right but it’s also logistically stupid. zero way to charge foreigners and not locals without a hell of a lot of racism coming out in the wash

Today is #LongCovidAwarenessDay Long Covid changed my life beyond recognition. I got ill. I never recovered. Lost my job. Became housebound. I rely on others to do things for me. I lie on my bed most of the day. Watch the Guardian's short film about my life with #LongCovid 👇

Why isn't your GROWN ASS SELF seeking out young people to SUPPORT instead of pointing your judgemental finger at them from your couch?

“If we had English names, I don’t think there would have have been an issue,” she said. Conditional citizenship is no citizenship at all.

Best song of the year

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

No surprises, surely? Candidate is arrogant charmless TV presenter & hates everything: lose. Campaign is entitled technocracy + smearing left-liberalism: lose. Candidate is local & can make OK speech about how a good job should lead to a good life: win. Normal politics is trying to be born.

This framing brings into focus one of the major offenses this regime has perpetrated against us. They have stolen our collective investment in a more just society.

The launch of every piece of AI-driven surveillance/security/criminal justice software basically goes like this: AI COMPANY: this is an error free, bias free, state of the art, highly intelligent software system Two Weeks Later: …aaaand it’s racist

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

adrienne maree brown: "Pleasure activism asserts that we all need & deserve pleasure & our social structures must reflect this… Desire & pleasure are 2 ways we assert that there’s something worth living for… There's no justice for black women without pleasure." Gonna keep sharing 🔥 activist quotes

Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’) Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...

In June 1937 Nancy Cunard, on behalf of various left-wing thinkers, asked 'writers and poets' to state where they stood on the Spanish Civil War. Although the focus was on Spain, the question was framed in terms of anti-fascist internationalism and commitment: 'ironic detachment will no longer do'.

Craft isn’t apolitical. It builds care, skills, and material survival outside capitalist extraction. That is resistance. Don't get me wrong. Go out and protest. Do it. Be brave & loud. And equally, no need to choose between making things AND organizing. We do both. One sustains the other. 🧶

well there’s an instant switch

Keir Starmer made a speech about Epstein survivors saying how unacceptable it was that they faced barriers to justice. BUT HIS OWN GOVT has blocked justice for hundreds of Harrods abuse & trafficking survivors. Complete hypocrisy 😡 Write to your MP. See: www.nooneabove.org

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

"[Since the '80s], private equity has gobbled up £1.2 trillion in assets across Britain, a greater proportion than any other advanced economy... everything from schools, daycare centres, dentists and care homes to water companies, vets and even bucolic little villages in the Cotswolds".

Meta has been lobbying for this all around the world. It moves the cost of compliance to the App platforms (Apple and Google) and government and away from them. It also literally does nothing to address any of the actual problems we’ve seen this month with Grok, CSAM etc.

Indeed. As a result of their non-violent actions opposing the UK’s complicity in the genocide, PA got prescribed as a terrorist organisation. The hunger strikers were largely ignored as their rights were stripped away. This man planted a bomb

If Bezos wasted $75 million daily it would take him nearly a decade to go broke. There can be no just society with billionaires in them. Their very existence as billionaires is a societal failure.

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

"There has always been a path back...but the path back involves repair. Undoing harm." That's absolutely fuckin right. Public admissions of "regret" as if they will bring absolution are not that path. Y'all know what you need to do, deep down. Get busy or be quiet.

Palantir is using medical records to help ICE target its victims in the US. And Wes Streeting is pitch-rolling for Farage to do the same in the UK.

Not coping well w/ the events of the world. My therapist says empathy, just like anxiety, has to have boundaries. Otherwise both spin out of control. He said empathy’s boundary is compassion & compassion is actionable. We’re not meant to physically FEEL the pain of EVERYTHING around us. It’d kill us

Trump's got a taste for blood.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Calls for individuals to be stripped of their citizenship to protect public safety are going to turn into calls for entire sections of the populace to get the same treatment so fast, it will make your head spin.

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

Not only is capitalism isolating and debilitating us it produces ‘care’ which only mocks and minimizes us when we express distress and suffering or seek comfort and/or help for said suffering. ‘Suck it up, buttercup,’ might not be the best way to approach this

By the way everyone, what right-wing politicians say about immigrants is literally also what they believe about you. You having an ordinary job is a kind of favour your generous employer and the nation has done you, allowing you to reproduce your existence despite not being AN ENTREPRENEUR

You might think that the "Labour" Party would consider labour itself to be a contribution to society, alas no, only "having lots of money" is a real contribution. Perhaps they need to change their name to the Capital Party?

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

I once attended a talk on this subject and they said in Roman times there was suspicion about whether 'blind beggars' were faking it and getting stuff 'they didn't deserve'. A toxic anxiety as old as time.

This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI. First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte

Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?" My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.) The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope? Because Greta is right ..

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The Labour Party is utterly putrid.

The grotesque spectacle of a Labour government — a Labour government! — promoting the idea of stealing from refugees to appease the far right