Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

I love bees.
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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.

These days you can't even tell people to google it themselves, because you can't find shit anymore with Google

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.

@GottaLaff On the one hand, it’ll keep Trump crimes fresh in voter minds.

On the other hand we’ll have another election cycle where we talk about a candidate crimes instead of how to address housing and health care costs (among many other issues)

People that will vote for Trump will still vote for him and people that won’t, wont. Independents have made up their minds as have moderates.

The media will broadcast the circus and we kick the “democracy is struggling” can down the road again. 😟

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

Pro tip: if your partner asks what you’d like for your birthday and you say “I’d like a multi-coupler”, be sure to clarify very quickly it’s a radio antenna thing versus any sort of adult situation

The only good capitalism is no capitalism at all.

@mick @vmatinnia @YaRo @cian @breadandcircuses @jackofalltrades

On point.

The cure for petrol-fueled, car-centric development isn’t EVs. It’s to pivot to non-car-centric alternatives. This needs to be shouted from every rooftop, and demanded of every politician.

Cars are the most expensive and wasteful option.