Companies like BP and Shell caused the climate crisis, and in the last two years they’ve made a combined £87 billions in profit. How about we tax them properly to pay for our transition to just, green, cheaper energy for all?
"... in Scotland - where there is no cull, and the government has taken other measures - bovine tuberculosis has been eradicated altogether ...the [#UK] government already ignored the experts when they introduced the cull in the first place, and they’re set to ignore them again. We need to send them a message, from hundreds of thousands of members of the public..."
If that's you, then: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stop_the_cull_loc/ #BadgerCull#WildlifeProtection
"...what’s “Christian” about the so-called “Christian Right”? As a person of faith, I find the term deeply, deeply offensive — and yet journalists continue to use it, even as they acknowledge the contradictions... How does the Religious Right stack up, either biblically or historically? Not very well, I think, and for that reason the movement has no claim on the word “Christian.”
Quite so. #kkkristian#religious#fascism#ChristianRight
The conflict between minor local patriarchs, large distant governmental patriarchs, and wannabe-patriarchs lurking in the wings, often gets hilariously complex, doesn't it?
What is it with this fashion for putting the Euro sign after the number? I first saw it a couple of weeks or so ago, and now it's all over the place.
eg 40€ rather than €40
I'm not against it: just wondering what gives? #typography#convention#currency#communication
In many non-English speaking European countries, the customary currency symbol follows the amount, and is preceded by a space, whereas in English there is usually no space and the symbol for the main unit comes before the amount.
Eeeh. Well. Mastodon has given me a new experience: I tooted a post engaging enough that I've been getting notifications of boosts pretty solidly for over a day now.
Better than a pile-on at the birdsite.
Cory Doctorow on the money again: "The problem with, say, Meta, is only partially that Mark Zuckerberg is personally monumentally unsuited to serving as the unelected, unaccountable permanent social media czar for three billion people. The real problem is that no one should have that job. That job shouldn’t exist. We don’t need to find a better Mark Zuckerberg. We need to abolish Mark Zuckerberg." #enshittification#socialMedia#democracy#privacy
"Cuba had made two effective coronavirus vaccines from scratch — and then vowed to share its intellectual property worldwide.... In August 2021, one of BioCubaFarma’s laboratories also produced a booster... more than 90 percent efficacy, on par with the leading Western vaccines. The cost of developing these shots was $50 million,...far less than the billions invested by the U.S. government and the hundreds of millions invested by Germany in theirs" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/01/pandemic-vaccines-cuba-who-planning/ #pandemic