Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Folks, I just spoke to my MP and the main takeaway was that we have to mobilise people who aren't transphobic because MPs are inundated with cis women who are scared and angry about trans folks.

They are simply not hearing from people who aren't scared and angry.

If you haven't contacted your MP about this - please do it now! Especially if you're a cis woman.

Every year, millions of books are pulped by the book industry’s big distribution companies when they are returned by retail outlets and on-line stores. Last month, we purchased another pallet of "damaged" books from our distributor before they were destroyed.

The majority of returns in the book industry come from Amazon, but small retailers are also forced to send good books to the landfill. Why?

While Amazon and Barnes & Noble receive great rates from the industry’s big distributors, small bookstores are squeezed–their margins are substantially smaller. For a small bookstore, selling a new book is only profitable when you sell it at full price. It’s impossible to compete with Amazon’s prices, and returning unsold stock is the only way to ensure that you aren’t losing money.

We pay to save our books from the landfill to challenge the absurd capitalistic logic forcing booksellers everywhere to destroy perfectly good books. Most major publishers have little physical contact with their stock, but our warehousing experience allows us to offer these books back to our readers at a steep discount. We do this to mitigate large losses and to get radical books into more hands.

So, pick up a few great books cheap while helping us fight back against capitalist profligacy.

All damages are 70% off with coupon code "Damages" until August 1st. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=195

#books #capitalism #anarchism

Just a quick shoutout to Mastodon.

You’re awesome.

I don't know if we have the reach here in the Fediverse that we used to have on Txitter (please boost for reach!), but this photo reminds me:

Send me your photos of packaged and homemade #carob food & drink. And recipes for how you're using carob in its native Mediterranean range! (map by Alex Baumel Thanks to Imran Nazar for transcription to alt text)

https://indieweb.social/@emilygorcenski/111796044557019156 #FruitToot #Ethnobotany #Food

Project 2025 would sabotage science-based policies that address climate change, the environment, abortion, health care access, technology and education. It would impose religious and conservative ideology on the federal civil service. Read Scientific American's analysis of its threats: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/project-2025-plan-for-trump-presidency-has-far-reaching-threats-to-science/

Southwest’s tech debt hurt it a few months ago but it seems to be doing it some favors today.

Windows 3.1 taketh away, but sometimes Windows 3.1 giveth.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/southwest-cloudstrike-windows-3-1/

A crucial piece of NASA's next crewed flight to the Moon was shipped out this week from New Orleans and is on a barge headed to Florida.

The rocket stage was constructed at NASA's Michoud facility and is the largest of its kind in the world.

https://t.co/ngZYLbJWXi

"Their new Steam Deck Toolkit comes in at $12.95 / £11.99 / €17,95 and it looks like it's already out of stock in a couple of regions. Seems like a pretty reasonable price, considering iFixit generally have pretty good quality and support. It's nothing fancy, but a nice little kit for doing smaller stuff": iFixit released a Steam Deck Toolkit https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/ifixit-released-a-steam-deck-toolkit/