James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

Last night SNL's Cold open was about Fox News scandal of how Fox hosts and executives knowingly peddled 2020 election lies. That means SNL has covered that scandal more in one sketch than Fox News has in the weeks since the story broke. (Fox has literally banned story from air)

Onlybeans is delighted to present a compact, bijou, studio apartment available to let in a sought after location. €2500 per month with pretzels included.

People love the idea that masks don't work against COVID because they'd rather live in a world where there's no way to prevent COVID than live in a world where there is a way to prevent COVID that they personally don't wanna do.

My alt text is gonna be weird

People who don't speak a word of German are far too confident in their ability to assassinate baby Hitler if given the opportunity to time travel.

If overwhelming hypocrisy destroying a nation was a news story this would be "above the fold" - in "WAR fonts."

Hate farming Republicans are in convention, sowing seeds of division and hate for LGBT communities, 👉 while seeking anonymous gay sex with locals 👈 👉 that they plan to imprison, fire and ruin the lives of.👈

Science is grand, look at these GOP 🤡 hypocrites humping men.🍆

"First, they came for the transgender, and I spoke out immediately even though I'm straight and cis because I've read the rest of the fucking poem." – Patrick Tomlinson on Twitter

It’s an illusion to think we can make any major progress in this country without getting corporate money out of politics. It is the root of all evil in Washington.

The ever dependable Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) with a blistering diatribe against corporate “recycling” programs...
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Plastic recycling’s origin story starts in 1973, when Exxon’s scientists concluded that plastic recycling would never, ever be cost-effective.

Exxon sprang into action: they popularized the recycling arrow logo and backed “anti-littering” campaigns that blamed the rising tide of immortal toxic garbage on peoples’ laziness.

When I was a kid in Ontario, we had centralized, regulated, reusable bottle depots — beer and soda bottles came in standard sizes, differentiated by paper labels that could be pressure-washed off. When you were done with your bottle, you returned it for a deposit and it got washed and returned to bottlers to be refilled again and again and again.

After intense lobbying from soda companies, brewers and the plastic industry, that program was replaced with curbside “blue boxes” that promised to recycle our plastic waste. 90% of the plastics created has never been — and will never be — recycled. Today, the plastic industry plans on *tripling* the amount of single-use plastic in use worldwide.

Think of the billions of human labor hours we all spent washing and sorting our plastics for a recycling program that didn’t exist and will never exist — imagine if we’d spent that time and energy demanding that our politicians hold petrochemical companies to account instead.
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FULL ARTICLE HERE -- https://doctorow.medium.com/dow-promised-to-turn-sneakers-into-playground-surfaces-then-dumped-them-in-indonesia-ef7e1168a0c1

#GreenWashing #Pollution #AntiCapitalism

Tea With Milk

Ah, gotta love malicious compliance.

The Financial Accountability Office of #Ontario has released its report on the Province’s spending over the first three quarters of the 2022-23 fiscal year. All sectors spent less than expected.

Health: underspent by $1.2 BILLION
Education: underspent by $844M
Children’s & Soc Services: underspent by $458M
Post-Sec Education: underspent by $175M
#DOFO #Onpoli
https://www.fao-on.org/en/Blog/Publications/2022-23-expenditure-monitor-q3

Ford government to reveal plans to speed up mining projects in Ontario | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-mining-act-amendments-1.6764906?cmp=rss
>Premier Doug Ford's government will on Thursday propose changes to the laws governing approval of mining projects in Ontario, CBC News has learned.

As I’ve said, the Fediverse is much larger than duplicating Twitter. These kinds of academic communities rarely evolved on Twitter. Humanity’s brightest are setting up shop to move social networking to the next level.

Academics on Mastodon
https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

h/t @davidslifka
https://medium.com/@davidslifka_86286/cb845f30cfe8