Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

Methods of preservation:
Pickling - we make the environment too acidic for rot.
Salting - we make the environment too salty for rot.
Drying - we make the environment too dehydrated for rot.
Freezing - we make the environment too cold for rot.
Fermentation - we embrace the rot.

Can we just replace "influencer" with "internet dipshit" for clarity's sake?

It’s a fascinating thing to watch a video essay like this (The 1950s Ruined Everything, the points therein I am 110% in agreement with) and realize *just how much* our relationship (at least in America) with urbanism, art, and technology is either a MASSIVE reset to undo the many harms of that era, or a societal struggle to wrestle with the very real harms perpetuated today by self-serving capitalists who have yet to acknowledge the dangers of such a failed worldview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JQvNVn3nrM&feature=youtu.be

Migrants didn't cut council funding.
Migrants didn't raise energy bills.
Migrants didn't close community centres.

Know what would help solve Scotland’s problems? Taxing the super-rich and building an affordable country for all.

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

#Ukraine #UkraineWar #EU #USA

Just in case you had the slightest doubt about what Elon Musk is doing with X/Twitter, look at this brief thread. He is one of the true monsters of our era, and he uses X/Twitter to guide his fellow right-wing extremists to ever-more-extreme places.

If you are still there, you should be ashamed.

A comienzos de 2025, en medio de la ofensiva genocida en curso de Israel contra el pueblo palestino en Gaza, #ZARA abrió su tienda más grande hasta la fecha en Israel: una tienda insignia de 4.500 m² en el complejo Big Fashion Glilot, cerca de Tel Aviv. Esta expansión profundiza los lazos económicos de ZARA con Israel, donde la marca ya opera decenas de tiendas.

https://www.elsaltodiario.com/palestina/zara-senalada-movimiento-bds-madrid

@ElSaltoDiario @BDSpaisvalencia @BDS_Galiza #BDS

I was tempted to make this post "Avi Loeb Claims Millions of Spaceships Found" but decided against it.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-comets-swarm-around-other-stars/

Una capital de diez millones de habitantes tiene que plantearse su traslado literal por la sequía, pero tú haces "terrorismo climático" si abogas por medidas que eviten desastres como este.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yyjm6azqeob2dqgn47e4g6uf/post/3m64ido63kc2q

As a reminder, the notion that people should be able to maintain "a clean, well-organized household" came from the 19th century Western "upper classes" where the wife was expected to stay home and do this full time - and this was used as a status symbol and status marker to distinguish the affluent from the working classes, where women almost always had to work in (poorly paid) jobs in order to keep the household budget afloat.

Therefore, this notion is not only #Sexism but also #ClassWarfare . Thus, when someone presents this kind of "lifestyle" as something you should aspire to (whether a tv show, an Influencer, or a glossy magazine), you should really contemplate what kind of political agenda they are trying to sell to you.

Now, if you _enjoy_ keeping a household in a good, clean order, more power to you! Everyone needs their passion projects, after all! But it should not be the _expected_ thing - particularly for people who are already overwhelmed by the demands this late-stage Capitalist hellscape places on us!

Mientras tanto el novio de Ayuso usando el dinero que nos roba a todos para comprarse el piso que les regalaron a los dos. Es obsceno e intolerable.

La justicia francesa permite a Nestlé seguir vendiendo Perrier como "agua mineral natural" mientras se investigan las acusaciones que indican que un tercio del agua mineral que se vende en #Francia🇫🇷 ya no puede considerarse legalmente como tal porque los acuíferos están tan contaminados que hay que filtrarla a capón
#consumo #MedioAmbiente #economía #noticias https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2025/11/18/fraude-aux-eaux-en-bouteille-la-justice-autorise-perrier-a-rester-en-rayons-au-grand-dam-des-mineraliers-respectueux-des-regles_6653908_3244.html

@stshank I don’t think I ever really understood this until I saw this diagram and the Cecil Adams quote, and it *instantly* made sense to me.

Africa is BIG

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/