The warnings must have been drowned about among the n-th debate about age of consent.

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

- China's growing through climate-saving cleantech - America's growing through climate-wrecking sloptech - Europe's.....kind of doing neither? ^^^ my takeaway from the IEA's new Electricity report iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/f5459...

The doubling of time to get permanent residency is an amoral act of cruelty against people. The fact politicians like Mahmood think this is acceptable shows why she and those who support her shouldn’t be anywhere near power. This would make the UK’s scheme the most strict in Europe.

The situation in this thread resonates. I've seen it in so many indian families, at all income levels. So very many of our problems are rooted in how we raise our sons.

This is a great essay, well worth reading, on the (very recent) origins of our world divided by borders as "wage cages".

Disappointed to learn Bad Bunny wore Zara, effectively promoting the brand to millions. Although Zara has made admirable strides to address labor conditions, fast fashion can never be ethical because it depends on rapid production and cheap prices, which results in worker exploitation.

So, there's also the tea, for which the East India Company started up opium farms in India to sell the drugs to China to balance payments. The conquest of Sindh was needed because the Company needed to lot the treasury to pay for a ship of opium burnt by Chinese customs officers.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Monday said one of her closest allies, Juan Pablo Guanipa, was kidnapped just hours after being released from prison

PSA you dogs

He said it better than me bsky.app/profile/shen...

Oddly enough, exactly true to Tolkien's vision, where he offers Rings of Power to elves, dwarves, and humans to ostensibly empower them, but the Ruling Ring is the embodiment of totalitarianism with an Eye that can search out whenever you use a Ring. Throw the crap down an active volcano.

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.

404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

The number of Birnam Wood jokes I have seen quote posting this has extended my life expectancy by at least a few months. Bluesky, you’re insufferable, but you’re my kind of nerds.

The person who really convinced me was Steve Almond, who LOVED football, & 11 years ago wound up writing a book about why we should all stop watching Bottom line: "Consuming as a form of entertainment a game that causes human beings to suffer brain damage is wrong." free link: archive.is/SHJms

I actually really enjoyed football. I watch all the Seahawks games, played Madden constantly as a kid, went to games when I was in college. I loved it. Haven't watched a game in five years because I just can't support both the long-term brain injuries and the acceptance of DV and SA by the league.

That's our David: Simultaneously everyone's best mate in the whole wide world and also the one guy who saw each and every clusterfuck coming down the pike from a mile off but was conveniently dumbstruck, powerless to intervene at all times—presumably because of what good friends he is with everyone!

I feel like this super bowl depicts a bad bunny.

Epstein “deceived them” is quite the wild position to pull considering this is after the world knew about Epstein island. Like Mr Manufacturing Consent was too bamboozled to question who his billionaire pal was.

I spoke to Nidheesh Tyagi of Harkara on Gen Naravane's revelations and the issues raised by my essay on his memoir in The Caravan magazine. (in Hindi) youtu.be/oaqmW94yeYs?...

LOUDER FOR THE FOLKS IN THE BACK

“Triple-tap” here means the IDF bombed the journalists at the hospital and then bombed emergency responders not once but TWICE:

Lots of good work out there on high-temperature heat pumps for decarbonizing industrial heat, but "make renewables cheap, use resistors to convert renewable power into high-temperature heat, store hot hot heat in box o' rocks til it's needed" is stupidly simple/robust and getting cheaper by the day.

Amen, sister

1. A short thread of how this story illustrates how the collapse of democracy has become a global problem, with few good fixes. Firstly, the "War on Terror" had already made the world leery of US spying. But in many cases the corporations fought, like the WhatsApp case against Israeli spyware.

““Most of the women in this economy are shouldering responsibilities all on their own,” Seema said. “Ninety-nine percent of them are single women and mothers, and the ones that are married usually come from households where they don’t have much support from their husbands or families.””

Very important point by Dirk Moses (shortened by me): "Germany’s fixation on the Nazi regime locks actors into a catastrophic binary of absolute innocence and absolute evil. Coming to terms with the Nazi past can't mean adopting its categorization of the world by simply inverting the value signs."

As an autistic person, I am so proud of Greta for representing us as the agents of the apocalypse that we are. Way to go Greta, we've got your back!

Food & Water x The Sameer Project are providing food & water to people in Gaza if you want to donate chuffed.org/project/help...

A perfect summary of our moment from armond(dot)needs(dot)rest on IG and Tiktok www.instagram.com/reel/DUU20Vg...

Sometimes I hear people say, “whatever happened to the party of Reagan?” with the implication being that the GOP has only recently incorporated bigotry into its core principles.

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want." — @lopatto.bsky.social

🙄 It's so interesting to me that people like this always say I'm being "pessimistic" rather than making any kind of actual case for living off this planet. What's pessimistic about acknowledging the reality that Earth is a wonderful place where we get to live out our future?

I am beginning to think that presidential posts have changed somewhat over the years in tone and content

Our monsters had a modicum of personality back then

The movie they make about Tulsi Gabbard's infiltration of US intelligence is going to simultaneously be a haunting look at the most damaging intelligence failure in US history and a hilarious romp about the stupidest fucking people alive

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Love it.

/3 Bad Bunny is an American citizen, but he could have been born on Plymouth Fucking Rock and he would still fall on the “immigrant” side of the “immigration divide” to Trump and his WaPo toadies.

The cost.

Get you a friend like @rosemarymosco.com who will remind you to stop and smell the stinkhorn fungus

After his article calling UAE a "Zionist Trojan horse" plotting with Israel against KSA, Altuwaijri doubles down in new article: "The orchestrated outcry over my article criticizing Israel and the UAE reflects a broader campaign of political intimidation" www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-...

From years of observation, my opinion of Cameron and his ilk is that the only real issue they have with the Islamic Republic is that they’re not the ones in charge of repression and killing.

Making cops pick up dildos is a victory in itself

As ever, great job media-literate pundits