#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag @freeschool@qoto.org

The most effective form of #censorship is self adopted. The formula to get them to adopt it is simple:

1. Scare people about right wing extremists, conspiracy theorists, and disinformation.

2. Label any person or voice who speaks against the establishment as right wing, disinformation, conspiracy theorist etc.

Now you have people in self imposed information bubbles hearing only the establishment narrative.

I have zero comprehension how. Literally none. How does a convicted fraud, felon, rapist even get to be a candidate, let alone get any votes?

When a politician attacks a particular race it's obvious they are racist and trying to use identity politics.
When a politician attacks other groups, like trans people, they are still trying to use identity politics.
Never let them acuse others of identity politics.

I did it! My book on the history of the #Atari Jaguar is finished and freely available for download over at archive dot org. It took me a while to get there, and I enjoyed every minute of it. I hope you will appreciate and enjoy it as well. Let me know what you think and I would be thankful if you would share this post.

Edit: Second edition.

#gaming #atarijaguar #gaminghistory #videogames

https://archive.org/details/clipped-claws

If I may give a recommendation to those of you who might be interested: Do not buy from Strictly Limited Games. I ordered Steel Empire Chronicles 1,5 years ago, and it is still not in production. There was one lousy mail regarding this that I almost forgot already. So I asked them to either tell me when this is gonna happen or refund me. They did neither, but at least responded in a timely manner. Now I replied and hope that I'll get a least my money back. Looking over at TrustPilot, I saw that I am not the only one having issues with them. If it wasn't clear that the concept of paying for something you can maybe get in maybe a few months isn't a good one before, now it's pretty evident to me. I had some fun with Limited Run Games before, but at least they always delivered and I didn't wait more than a year. Still, that was already not my cup of tea. But I thought: SLG is a German based company, so this should work out way smoother. Well ... no. The idea has just turned into companies that run on Kickstarters that aren't Kickstarters, basically: Money up front and we'll see what we can do afterwards. This is some late stage capitalism madness 😂. But even if you as a company decide to hang out your customers to dry, at least have the courtesy to communicate! Tell us on where it's at with a game that can't be shipped. And for that - funny side note mentioned in their response to me - I should subscribe to their newsletter, as if it would help me in any way reading new Ford brochures if my ordered vehicle did not arrive as ordered. You get the idea. Too bad, I once liked the idea very much. From now on, if you come my way with anything that includes exchanging money for a ticket on a waiting list basically, I will bid you adieu 😎

#gaming #collecting #nintendoswitch #retrocollecting #StrictlyLimitedGames

Studio Ghibli Soaring High at the Oscars!

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Double win for Hayao Miyazaki!
Spirited Away took home the gold in 2003, and now The Boy and the Heron continues the legacy in 2024!

#ghibli #studioghibli #スタジオジブリ #anime #oscars #academyawards #spiritedaway #theboyandtheheron #hayaomiyazaki

@ghibli
1. Spirited Away, Zeniba handing Chihiro a charm in the form of a hair tie
2. Whisper of the Heart, Sugimura grabbing Shizuku's arm
3. Howl's Moving Castle, Sophie and Howl
4. Spirited Away again, Chihiro's hand slipping out of Haku's as she leaves the spirit world

Hypocrisy and hierarchy go hand in hand.

Five years of no flying
✈️ ❌ ➡️ 🚅 ✅

5 years ago, I realised that my #academic travels were emitting way too much #greenhouse #gas #GHG (up to 20 t #CO2 / yr) and hence that my #professional activity was not #sustainable. I thus decided to completely ban air #travel (#plane) and travel mainly by #train within #Europe.

5 years later (i.e. now), my professional travels' #carbonfootprint dropped by **a factor 50**, without impacting my #publication records (compared to 2017 - 2019).

I wrote a post for the #blog of @a4e about my experience. Check it out: https://astronomersforplanet.earth/five-years-of-no-flying/

cc @labos1point5 @LAM_Marseille @CNRS_INSU @academicchatter @astrophysics @StayGrounded_net

#Research #Science #sustainability #ecology #Earth #NoPlanetB #Climate #academicchatter #academicmastodon #ClimateChange #ClimateAction

“workers at the facility, located near Manesar in the state of Haryana, were asked to take verbal pledges not to take breaks, including for drinking water or using the toilet, until they met their targets for the day.”

Hey, reminder that there are still Amazon workers striking in 20 countries, through Cyber Monday.

So don’t cross the picket line. Shop somewhere else.
https://flipboard.com/@aljazeera/economy-90a2acd7z/-/a-IriexZKwQOGzhKzNkgagkQ%3Aa%3A3199698-%2F0