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igd_news, to oklahoma
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A community coalition has formed in a small town in order to push through a recall against a neo-Nazi elected to city council.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oklahoma-recall-vote-judd-blevins-enid-city-council-rcna143041

cthon1c,
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@igd_news that story is a wild ride and some of the best mainstream reporting I’ve seen on antifascism in forever

markmccaughrean, to random
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Who knew? 😳

While there are only 80,000 of those iconic giant redwoods left in their native California (I blame all those rubbish speedbike riders in Return of the Jedi), there are 500,000 now growing in the UK.

Smaller so far, given that they’re much younger, but apparently the warm wet weather conditions suit them well & the largest are already over 50 metres tall.

Story & pix by my lovely friends Becky Morelle, Ali Francis, & Tony Jolliffe at the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68518623

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@markmccaughrean Very interesting! And I feel like the piece could have been rounded out with some speculation on how those beautiful and potentially very long-lived trees will do after, for instance, the AMOC fails. Rosy mentions of 2,000 year lifespans without adding climate change context or caveats just feels like gaslighting now

ai6yr, to ai
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CNBC: ‘Stupidity’ poses a bigger threat than AI, CEO of Italian defense giant Leonardo says https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/01/defense-leonardo-ceo-says-stupidity-poses-a-bigger-threat-than-ai.html

cthon1c,
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@ai6yr why not both 😂

cthon1c, to actuallyautistic
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For all you sweet anarcho ’ers out there and everyone else, “Autism and anarchy: Self-diagnosis”

@actuallyautistic

From: @AnarchistFederation
https://kolektiva.social/@AnarchistFederation/112013947981254134

kimlockhartga, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon Even if it doesn't catch on, I would like to institute #WhatchaReadingWednesday a hashtag which already exists, I believe? Anywho, whatcha reading?

#IAmReading Ben H. Winter's new book BIG TIME, and it's really good so far. It is lean, so perfect for those who hate padding in their stories. I don't want to give away the premise, so I will just say that it's a bit of a thriller that involves time itself.

cthon1c,
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@rabbit_fighter @kimlockhartga @bookstodon I find myself recommending that book more frequently than any other and in response to the widest range of contexts (like basically everything)

cthon1c,
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@kimlockhartga @rabbit_fighter @bookstodon yes definitely, also lend/give to friends

cthon1c, to random
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Everything is fine

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random
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    cthon1c,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs when I hear it after a long time it feels also like all they talk about is money

    cthon1c, to random
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    Submitted with all the usual caveats about electoralism and the efficacy of a claimed resistance from within the heart of empire

    https://youtu.be/7-BdBy7wKHM

    igd_news, to random
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    "When the managers of a small bookstore in this Appalachian mountain town received a call from a distributor wondering if they could take in 22,000 books rejected by a Florida school district, it felt like a colossal ask.

    At the book-packing event, volunteers dropped surprise gifts in each box — a sticker that says, “Trash Fascism Not Books,” and a small paper pamphlet that looks like a coloring book titled “I Am a Unicorn and I like to Fight: A Kid’s Guide to Standing up to Fascism and Bullies.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/10/florida-book-ban-duval-schools/

    cthon1c,
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    @igd_news the words “smash capitalism” look great in the bezos paper they should print them more often

    pvonhellermannn, to random
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    What a time to be alive

    New research that tipping within this century, even quite soon, is a definite possibility:

    Sea levels would rise by a metre in some regions, inundating many coastal cities. The wet and dry seasons in the Amazon would flip, potentially pushing the already weakened rainforest past its own tipping point. The southern hemisphere would become warmer. Europe would cool dramatically and have less rainfall.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/09/atlantic-ocean-circulation-nearing-devastating-tipping-point-study-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

    cthon1c,
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    @pvonhellermannn @privateshufti I have the same problem, so I’ve been leaning very heavily on Paul Beckwith’s video read-throughs of recent papers to try to stay current. I find them very helpful and I appreciate his analysis being so openly grim. I associate that with a kind of courageous honesty these days.

    cthon1c, to random
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    Dear ,

    I moved a few years ago because winter was dying where I used to be. And now, about as far north as I can get without appealing to the tender mercies of Canadian immigration, we’re looking at 45 degrees F and pouring rain at the end of the week in what should be the coldest time of the year?

    ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, (edited ) to random
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    cthon1c,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs Sorry you’re on the receiving end of all@that. This is a sort of open letter to the left in response to a lot of bs that may be analogous to what you’re dealing with, icymi

    https://leftrenewal.net/

    Tl;dr: don’t stan monsters who may momentarily be facing in the same direction as justice

    cthon1c,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs the authors talking through it if you prefer audio 🙂 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vermont-movement-news/id1471998562?i=1000642337049

    alexwild, to random
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    As someone who lived with actual subsistance farmers for a couple years, I have to roll my eyes at survivalists and other farm romanticizers who blithely talk about "we'll grow our own food!" as if that were the easier option than keeping our society's ship afloat.

    Farming to feed yourself is hard. Really hard. Y'all have no idea.

    cthon1c,
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    @cy @alexwild thank you I was scrolling down looking for someone to remember community

    cthon1c, to Columbia
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    finally some mainstream coverage of last Friday’s disgusting chemical “skunk” attack by IDF-trained students on protestors at University

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/23/alleged-chemical-attack-columbia-students-pro-palestine-new-york

    cthon1c,
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    In-depth coverage this morning on @DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss of the chemical attack on pro-Palestine students by two of their IDF-trained peers

    https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/25/columbia_palestine_protest_attack

    @israel @palestine

    cthon1c, to random
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    cthon1c, to random
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    thoughts and prayers for the mainstream economist on here who stumbled into a climate collapse conversation with a bunch of well-read anarchists 😂

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    @donkeyherder @hannu_ikonen I believe this is where it starts

    https://econtwitter.net/@mwt/111786247455555815

    cthon1c,
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    @hannu_ikonen @donkeyherder ha yeah. Enjoy. It’s so weird when people confuse the laws of nature with the silly assumptions of capitalism

    SallyStrange, to Economics
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    "Debunking degrowth" or trying to, anyway

    "In the degrowth literature, a caricature of the typical economist is presented as believing in unlimited economic growth, and that growth should be pursued regardless of its environmental impact. This is a straw man. It would be a naïve economist who did not recognise that constraints exist. And economists usually limit their projections to a few decades to come, rather than to the infinite future, in which they supposedly believe in unlimited exponential economic growth. Certainly, there are theoretical economic growth models which portray the possibility of exponential growth into the infinite future, but economists have had enough common sense not to assume stylised theoretical models are the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to public policy."

    Then why, Mr. Tunny, is it so hard to find an economist who can tell us when the economy should stop growing?

    https://www.cis.org.au/publication/debunking-degrowth/

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    @violetmadder @pleaseclap @SallyStrange @simon_brooke @petealexharris @mwt immeasurably comforted to know that agribusiness will continue to make money as the world burns

    cthon1c,
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    @SallyStrange @thesquirrelfish @HeavenlyPossum @violetmadder @petealexharris @pleaseclap @mwt @simon_brooke speaking of topsoil, I feel like in North America the “just move farms north” argument is undone as well by the challenges of doing large scale agriculture on the Canadian Shield

    cthon1c, to bass
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    I don’t how many stans there are within earshot, and I don’t know if this even translates outside the world of players/geeks, but she just dropped a new video and, as always, it’s just such a joy to watch her joy in playing as she effortlessly improves every song she covers 😍🤯🥰

    https://youtu.be/2ymMiJUZ--g?si=gUsTie2yoqXlmxxg

    cthon1c,
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    It may be a masto overshare, and I’m not sure exactly how to phrase this, but there are many days now where the only thing that moves me past various moments of climate grief is watching this self-taught Polish bass virtuoso do her uncannily joyous thing?

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    @violetmadder ha thanks just saw this and agree, share the joy 🙂

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