This is the problem with trying to inspire hope using the message "we have the solutions": such a message may inspire the kind of techno-optimism that actually fosters political *dis*engagement. 1/n

Polska wieś nie chce ferm futrzarskich – według sondaży przeprowadzonych na początku listopada, aż 65,5% mieszkańców wsi POPIERA zakaz hodowli zwierząt na futra. Od wprowadzenia zakazu dzieli nas TYLKO JEDEN podpis – Panie Prezydencie czy posłucha Pan głosu mieszkańców wsi?

No przecież taki był cel, żeby nie wprowadzać konsumentów w błąd, a nie żeby walczyć z roślinnymi zamiennikami, prawda? PRAWDA??

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

People w a quasi-religious faith in tech seem serious, because that is how ideology works — ideas that support the economic system are valued and promoted, which is to say the language that expresses them feels good and seems plausible.

Zając szarak - Lepus europaeus Las Wolski - Sowiniec

Raport EAT-Lancet: "Produkcja mięsa i nabiału odpowiada dziś za większość emisji metanu i podtlenku azotu – dwóch gazów cieplarnianych o znacznie silniejszym działaniu niż dwutlenek węgla. Tymczasem uprawa roślin wymaga znacznie mniej ziemi i wody, sprzyja odbudowie gleb i zwiększa bioróżnorodność".

With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.

Idźcie do kawiarni i tam sobie deliberujcie, ale do polityki nie wchodźcie. To was przerasta. Głosowania ws. Ziobry. Razem tłumaczy się ze swojej decyzji. 'Błąd i polityczny prezent' wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/polityka/7,1...

this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.

Spodziewałem się, że z przyrodą i faktami wygra jednak polityczna lojalność. I, niestety, nie pomyliłem się. #RobertJurszo #wyborcza wyborcza.pl/7,177851,323...

Right-wing populism has no antidote to genuine left-wing populism. Because the conservative movement, no matter how much you dress it up, is fundamentally about one thing: shielding capital from the reach of democracy. It cannot solve problems like declining affordability that its agenda created.

Ha, this Polish saying has already been assimilated into English enough to end up in Cambridge Dictionary, first English-language dictionary other than Wiktionary to include it. It's become popular in English in the last few years, starting mostly with its use in Orange Is the New Black in 2017 🐦🐦

Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo - "It's not surprising that people from the computing industry think in binary" says Christiana Figueres #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100. Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth. 🧵

The "abundance agenda" is an incredibly designed piece of centre-right climate delay The entire project of climate action comes down to *not extracting and burning fossil fuels*. So if you frame "being against things" as inherently bad, you can pull thousands of ppl into a pro-fossil stance.

Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society! We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology. Thread below 🧵

Zastanawialiście się kiedyś, ilu jest w Sejmie członków Polski Związek Łowiecki? Zapytał o to Ośrodek Działań Ekologicznych "Źródła", a my skromnie wspieramy to działanie. Zobaczcie kto i co już odpowiedział - czypolujesz.pl

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

widzę po komentarzach o wygranej Zohrana, że jakaś część ludzi dowiedziała się dzisiaj, że mogą istnieć progresywni muzułmanie (a nie tylko ISIS, talibowie, Hamas...) a nawet tacy bardziej progresywni od nich samych - na razie reakcją jest mindfuck 🤯

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

I hate "socialized" health care. US is the only country that uses that weird term. No one calls publicly funded military, the socialized military. It's just health care. What next, schools, socialized education?

The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani. The president and his allies came after him. Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute. He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters. His politics can win anywhere.

Dziś będą świetne warunki do oglądania Księżyca Bobrów 🦫

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Democrats swept a trio of races in the first major elections since Donald Trump regained the presidency, elevating a new generation of leaders and giving the beleaguered party a shot of momentum ahead of next year's congressional elections reut.rs/47Fz2Wq

I have now read a few dozen different takes from Republicans on last night’s election results and none of them have concluded that Trump is responsible for it in any way. Lots of lots of other takes and theories, but none of them include accountability for their infallible hero.

“Let the words we've spoken together, the dreams we've dreamt together, become the agenda we deliver together." - @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social As he showed that an alternative NY is possible, we will continue showing that an alternative Europe is possible - one for the people, not the lobbies.

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Looking for a different gift idea this year? How about a #kakapo adoption? Adoptions are open again until 25th Nov, with postage or email options. These fund a significant proportion of our programme and make a real difference to the #conservation work we do. Thanks! www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

New study: Right-wing adherents tend to show stronger commitment to consuming meat and animal products, partly due to beliefs in human superiority over animals and resistance to the perceived threat that veganism/vegetarianism poses to traditional food norms www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New academic research suggests that the areas in Poland which introduced anti-LGBT+ resolutions subsequently saw an increase in people seeking to move away, with data showing in particular that young residents - and especially young women - left.

Myśliwi polują bez badań. To niezgodne z prawem unijnym – mówią społecznicy i skarżą Polskę do KE - https://oko.press/badania-mysliwych-skarga-do-ke

Wprowadzanie do szkół diety planetarnej rodzi problemy, to co będzie, jak do sejmu trafi projekt darmowych obiadów w szkołach podstawowych, pod którym podpisuje się Lewica, Razem i PiS. Komentarze już są: popomagać jasne, ale dlaczego innym i z moich pieniędzy? klubjagiellonski.pl/2025/10/21/p...

Orestes Kowalski jak zwykle ze spokojem i merytorycznie – obala 10 mitów o hodowaniu zwierząt na futra oraz ustawie, która tej hodowli zakazuje. Polecamy Waszej uwadze: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu5G...

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

bloomberg ran an absolutely killer investigation this week into the Silicon Valley + Koch/Abundance forces running the show on nuclear deregulation this year:

Napisałem w KryPolu parę słów motywowanych tym, że lobbing leży, świeci na czerwono i prosi, żeby podnieść, ale duże media go nie zauważą, choćby się o niego potknęły, zapraszam cieplutko (na nowej stronie KP można też subować konkretnego autora, zachęcam nieśmiało)

Z ciekawosci, nie paczac na symoatie polityczne, praworzadnosc, polityke zagraniczna, co chcielibyscie od panstwa dla siebie. Tylko dla siebie. 3 rzeczy. Ja bym chcial w Belchu kolej. Szybka. Do Lodzi i Czewy. Chcialbym sciezki pieszej wzdluz Wisly, od zrodla do ujscia. I podwyzek dla nauczycieli.

#Affinity najgroźniejszy konkurent programów Adobe, po połączeniu z #Canva, swoją najnowszą edycję całego studia graficznego (Vector, Pixel, Layout) udostępnia od teraz za darmo. Od lat używam płatnego (płaciło się raz, bez abonamentu) Affinity i sobie chwalę. www.affinity.studio/get-affinity

Zbliżamy się do końca 🦊 To kolejny krok legislacyjny w stronę wygaszenia ferm futrzarskich w Polsce! Po wielu latach protestów, kampanii i zaciekłej walki polski Parlament odpowiedział na oczekiwania społeczeństwa – to historyczna chwila dla zwierząt ✊

Serdecznie polecam artykuł autorstwa Jacka Liziniewicza w Gazecie Polskiej. Link do wersji online: www.gazetapolska.pl/36145-piec-p...

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

This is where the Effective Altruist Brain spins up to full frequency: because climate change isn't the only or most significant problem, that means we need to start firing emissions goals into the sun. This is why EA ends up so frequently directly helping corporate wrongdoing and fossil fuels....

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same