Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

You wouldn’t have McDonald’s teaching your kids about nutrition or Philip Morris teaching them about maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Why are you happy having a surveillance capitalist like Google or Facebook teaching them about technology?

#surveillanceCapitalism #technology #web #education #SiliconValley #BigTech

Was passiert gerade im Mittelmeerraum, mit Hitze, Dürre und Bränden?
Genau das, wovor Klimaforscher viele Jahre gewarnt haben.
Hier ein kurzer Ausschnitt aus einem Vortrag von mir in Malaga vor 14 Jahren.

I love bees.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Slave collars were thirty pound iron contraptions with spikes, rods, and bells locked around your neck for days to punish those who tried unsuccessfully to run away. Also available in child sizes. #developedskills #personalbenefit

Trump will benefit from incarceration in Florida because it will teach him useful skills.

One of my favourite things on Tiktok a few weeks ago was when Ben Shapiro did a video reacting to some queer teen’s tiktok videos, and the kid did a response video and had no idea who Ben Shapiro was and felt like they were “punching down” because “he only has 1/4 the followers I do”.

The kids are good, and we need to do what we can to support them.

10/10 no notes

Are you finding Mastodon to be less vibrant and active?

I’m worried that we are not getting as much engagement on our Ukraine war reporting as we used to.

We are trying to decide which social media platforms to continue posting on, given how much effort it takes to replicate across all of them.

If you want to send a signal to us that we should keep posting here, will you sign up for our newsletter? Counteroffensive.substack.com

I’m only asking Mastodon users today so we can gauge impact.

Städte nennen es "Parkdruck", wenn Leute mehr Autos kaufen, als es Platz dafür zum Abstellen auf öffentlicher Straße gibt, und sind stets bereit, weitere öffentliche Flächen für Autos herzugeben.

Städte nennen es "angespannter Wohnungsmarkt", wenn mehr Menschen in einer Stadt leben, als es bezahlbare Wohnungen für sie gibt, und rühren keinen Finger, deren Situation zu verbessern, sondern vertreiben sie auch noch aktiv.

I saw a this screenshot of a sam altman tweet and I had hoped it was a joke but oh god oh no oh fuck it's real oh shit.

Honestly, part of me is still clinging to a bare shred of hope that he's joking, because the idea that someone who misunderstands shit This Badly gets lauded as a genius and invited to the white house and fêted to help craft literal life-altering national policy? Holy SHIT.

I mean just… holy fucking SHIT.

@GottaLaff The problem is that in order to capitalize on these indictments, Trump's opponents would have to denounce sexual violence, corruption, and gross abuse of power, and none of the republican primary contenders might be in a position to criticize someone for conduct they themselves are guilty of.

MORE STRIKES I NEED MORE STRIKES I NEED TO SEE MILLIONAIRES CRYING

@nerdseyeview you're one of those people whose photoshop layers look like this, aren't you?

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In 1950, the annual harvest of seaweed in Orkney and Shetland increased by 400%. Why?

ORCADIAN CHERRIES or CHELLIES were synthetic cocktail cherries made from seaweed and were produced from 1949 onwards. Most went to cocktail bars in the USA.

#OldWeirdScotland

If we are heading toward an ecological collapse sooner than predicted, when are people gonna just rise up and tear down the companies killing us and polluting the earth for short-term profits? Isn't the time now?

Like, we're in for a world of hurt.

Parable of the Sower is becoming our reality and as much as I adore Octavia Butler, this is not the future I wanted.

I wanted a solarpunk future of mutual aid and library economy. Not fucking billionaires killing us all as they fight one another in cage fights for fun. Ugh.

#ClimateChange #RiseUp #AntiCapitalist