Kiva is an easy way to make a real difference in someone's life. Will you join me in helping Palu in Holonga to pursue their dream? www.kiva.org/invitedby/fr...

And everyone is running around praising them for being "ethical" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I saw this guy in a museum in Montreal

I’m usually lucky enough to find one great horned owl a year, and I saw this one blending with branches in a scraggly forest on Sunday, buffeted by a harsh wind. I share its look of resignation – I am done with this winter, even if it isn’t done with this owl and me. #birds

Horrific news from Iraq where feminist activist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has been assassinated by gunmen outside of her home just days after returning from Canada.

I had switched from Spotify to Tidal, but since I'm not using it much, I decided to go back to Bandcamp, like the good ol' days, and buy 1 album a month instead of paying for those platforms. If you're on Bandcamp and you like folk, electronica, jazz, and more, let's follow each other! #musicsky

I had switched from Spotify to Tidal, but since I'm not using it much, I decided to go back to Bandcamp, like the good ol' days, and buy 1 album a month instead of paying for those platforms. If you're on Bandcamp and you like folk, electronica, jazz, and more, let's follow each other! #musicsky

Hundreds of billions circulate into U.S. weapons contracts, budgets for public needs are slashed, and the link between militarism, capitalism, and austerity is treated like a taboo. Watch the full video: Clara Mattei on the war economy youtu.be/oKP2WZN1lac

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

First, he comes out in support of Amodei. Then he nabs the contract, undercutting any such support. Now—he's lying about it! This man is a sociopath. May the backlash be swift and harsh.

I stand behind this review of Hamnet: the movie is superficial aesthetic that tricks you into feelings open.substack.com/pub/heatherp...

We discussed the case in our chapter. We were right.

Polveri. Cosa vediamo. L’immagine mattutina del satellite ci permette di osservare la presenza di polveri in sospensione sulla Val Padana. Si riconoscono agevolmente rispetto alle nubi basse e alle nebbie perché sono opache e grigiastre e si distribuiscono su tutta la pianura. 1/5

and they are on bluesky, @freefreeforum.bsky.social

Watched Hamnet and my question is: is "on the nature of daylight" by Max Richter the only song with pathos to use in a movie? I remember hearing it in at least 3 among movies and series and, as much as I love it, it made me think immediately of shutter island 🤦🏻‍♀️ #moviesky #filmsky #musicsky

I just discovered Clara Mattei has a whole channel, so I can have hours of her explaining anti-capitalist economics, and I am very happy www.youtube.com/@FreeFreeForum

I just discovered Clara Mattei has a whole channel, so I can have hours of her explaining anti-capitalist economics, and I am very happy www.youtube.com/@FreeFreeForum

non so, magari penso male, ma tutti questi lavori su upwork che chiedono di caricare contenuti fatti con ai su canali italiani mi sembrano sospetti e collegati al referendum imminente.

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

In normal times, in a normal democracy this 👇 should be all we talk about, drawing the connection that doubling down of gas makes Italy (a) locked in high electricity prices and (b) geopolitically dependent on foreign sources (eg US LNG). bsky.app/profile/fgen...

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

“astrology for men” was too generous

Stasera inizia Sanremo e io avevo delle cose da dire sul perché quest'anno non mi va di guardarlo. Si leggono qui: servizioadomicilio.substack.com/p/la-destra-...

🧵 L’omicidio del militante di estrema destra Quentin Deranque e la strategia per criminalizzare l’antifascismo | @blicero.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/caso-deranqu...

Creatures from the deepest sea

I made this colorwork chart in 2018 listening to Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony. Evergreen message. BELIEVE WOMEN is a free colorwork chart: insomniaknitting.com/designs/colo... #knitting #believewomen

Ethiopia and Eritrea are preparing for full-scale war again. One side backed by the UAE and the Nobel Peace Prize (thank you again for awarding the peace prize to a genocider), another side backed by Egypt and the Saudis. My whole life has been wars between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

To put it another way, we shouldn't frame critiques of AI as a challenge for it to do more. We should frame it as already having done too much damage, and unethical in its very methodology

THIS THIS THIS. It's NOT about the quality of the work, it's about the circumventing of process and the theft. The whole thing is fucked-up, not just that it adds a finger or whatever

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

hey guys i have some leftover howl blankets :-) alexsiple.bigcartel.com/product/fall...

The gendered and racialised dynamics of people (of course it's mostly men) telling women like @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social in the last couple of days, that their work and efforts against AI are not radical enough or other cryptogyny (gendered theft) 1/n

"We document the participation of women in European academia [from the year 1000 to 1800]. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better." doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

Today I have been listening to the book "Escape from capitalism - an intervention " by Clara Mattei. Recommended to everyone, especially if you don't know how/why capitalism was born, and think it's the only possible system (it's not). It's a quick read/listen (5hrs), time we'll spent! #booksky

Is there no alternative?

Today I have been listening to the book "Escape from capitalism - an intervention " by Clara Mattei. Recommended to everyone, especially if you don't know how/why capitalism was born, and think it's the only possible system (it's not). It's a quick read/listen (5hrs), time we'll spent! #booksky

Il pensiero che sta al cuore di questa uscita è l’evoluzione di un discorso che ho iniziato nel 2021 con Brutta. Ed è legato (anche) alla necessità sempre crescente di conservare le energie e indirizzarle verso quello che ci serve davvero. Qui: servizioadomicilio.substack.com/p/lestetica-...

At the park Cc @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

Year of the horse 🐎✨🍊 #artsky

write your own fucking words draw your own fucking pictures

Goertzel discusses with Epstein future scenario for "an AGI economy": "for the AGI parasite to overcome to regular-human-economy host (so it can grow to be more than a parasite and eventually gain its own superhuman autonomy) it first needs to suck off the resources of the host"

Nobody wants to know how to make platforms that work in ways that aren’t harmful to their users. They just don’t. They just want to put a fig leaf over the ways their business models directly correlate to those harms.

A gift for @itsthebeanie.bsky.social, one of my incredible discord moderators! They requested something with critters and something spaced themed, so it naturally followed that I had to draw space raccoons ✨

🚨 Top UN human rights experts have signed a letter to EU institutions denouncing human rights risks in the EU Deportation Regulation. This is a damning condemnation of a draconian measure that sees and treats migrants as a threat. ✉️ Read the full letter on spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...

Here's to another Italian woman shaping public discourse during these difficult years 🍷https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_dq_0ljsc (the other two being Francesca Albanese and Silvia Federici)

Funky embroidery on antique quilt piece. #embroidery #quiltsky #resist #artquilt