Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@qoto.org

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There's now a website with a list of almost all of the bail funds for each Student led protest with an encampment.

https://campusbailfunds.com

#studentspring #FreePalestine

I collect distinctions between liberals and conservatives. I loved this one from Steven Brust by way of Cory Doctorow:

“‘Left’ and ‘right’ mean the same thing today that they’ve meant since the French Revolution. Ask someone, ‘What’s more important: property rights, or human rights?’ If they answer: ‘Property rights *are* human rights,’ they are on the right.”

—“Capitalists Hate Capitalism”

https://locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/

#capitalism @pluralistic

When good environmental news is akshully bad news as a distraction from WaPo's owner fighting the constitutionality of the NLRB.

From the WaPo:

Grid operators in California are grappling with a strange reality: There is so much solar on the grid that, on sunny spring days when there’s not as much demand, electricity prices go negative. Gigawatts of solar are “curtailed” — essentially, thrown away.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/22/california-solar-duck-curve-rooftop/

@QueenValhalla Neighborhood solar that can switch off grid tie (utilities fight this idea tooth and nail) has the advantage of potential resiliency during ice storms, fires, floods, earthquakes, pandemics and wars. There should be battery storage (for example, in electric vehicles) and auto-switching so the microgrids can be called upon to help the macro-grid when needed.

Amazing! A hominin jawbone found in a floor tile.

https://johnhawks.net/weblog/how-many-bathrooms-have-neandertals-in-the-tile/

Maybe you’re the main character in a boring novel where very little happens

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/beastie-boys-paid-for-trans-womans-gender-affirming-surgery/#:~:text=Before%20she%20transitioned%2C%20she%20founded,for%20Parson's%20gender%20affirmation%20surgery

I'm still a fucking second class citizen, but sure, banning tiktok is super important.

Wankers.

My thoughts and prayers go out to #voyager1, which after journeying for half a century to reach interstellar space is still expected to answer fucking work emails