Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/ "it is very scary to make yourself 100% dependent on the goodwill of the American government merely because it is convenient. So let’s not." #gdpr #privacy #surveillance

@HarriettMB

did you see this when I posted it; its sort of speaks to your concern...

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-the-billionaires-saying

Our economy should be measured by how the bottom 30% are doing in the supermarket,
not how the top 1% are doing in the stock market.

Roses are red,
violets are blue,
Scotland voted to remain
in the EU.

#ValentinesDay

Urgent: Call on the Iranian authorities to halt the execution of Pakhshan Azizi - Amnesty International Australia https://www.amnesty.org.au/act-now/free-pakhshan-azizi/?

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States - The Onion

https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/

(satire)

time for coffee...

#Presidents come and #Presidents go...

the sooner feking 47 goes the better...

#agentorange...

We simply should not let people become so rich that their personal issues become society's problems.

Oh this is great!

The #ProudBoys owed $1 million to Metropolitan African #Methodist Episcopal Church in #WashingtonDC after the #bigot #fascists attacked the #historic #Black #church in 2020

They didn't pay

So the #courts just ruled that the church now *owns* their #trademark

An #AME church legally owns the term "Proud Boys" and all of their #merchandizing!

Couldn't have happened to a nicer #gang of #violent #racist assholes

https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/04/a-historic-dc-black-church-now-owns-the-proud-boys-name/

The deputy chairman of the Swedish Dockworkers' Union has been fired from his job because his union has decided to block Israeli arms in Swedish ports. The employer calls Erik Helgeson a threat to Swedish national security and accuses him of disloyalty to the company in a context of national security.

This employer is going to lose in court and have to pay Helgeson major damages. And also the entire Swedish union apparatus will hit them.

https://www.arbetsvarlden.se/hamnfackets-vice-ordforande-far-sparken-hanvisar-till-rikets-sakerhet/

#union #israel #peace

In honor of Black History Month, I am posting my personal gratitude for Frederick Douglass.

Before July 2022, I mostly knew FD as an abolitionist whose name graced 8th Avenue in Manhattan (north of Central Park):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

Separately, as a climate scientist, I was so intrigued to learn about a WOMAN being one of the first people in the world to realize how important greenhouse gases like CO2 are in modulating our earth’s temperature. Eunice Foote was this amazing woman who figured out that CO2 was THE molecule that could increase earth’s temperature through the greenhouse effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote

AND THUS
A couple years ago, I biked the Erie Canal path through Seneca Falls — eagerly anticipating walking the streets where I knew the originator woman scientist EN had ALSO been an active suffragette.

And, to my surprise, on researching my trip, I learned that the famous abolishionist FREDERICK DOUGLASS was himself also an ACTIVE supporter of women’s suffrage.

The life I live today as a mother and scientist and VOTER was enabled by solidarity amongst all people as PEOPLE to be treated as PEOPLE.

https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/women-fight-for-the-vote/about-this-exhibition/seneca-falls-and-building-a-movement-1776-1890/seneca-falls-and-the-start-of-annual-conventions/frederick-douglass-speaks-in-support/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Falls_Convention