vaskaraeca

vaskaraeca, 6 months ago to environment

If you've been noticing an uptick in laws proposed and often passed, that are criminalizing nearly all forms of protest, it's because the oil companies are paying politicians to make the peaceful fight against climate change impossible. #environment
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/study-fossil-fuel-industry-lobbying-anti-protest-bills/

vaskaraeca, 10 months ago to random

It's been interesting to watch, in my lifetime, companies change from responding to competition with, "We need to improve the product for our users." to "We need to trap the users in our burning building and squeeze them for every last dime."

vaskaraeca, 1 month ago to Israel

Part of Israel's strategy for creating famine conditions in Gaza is forcing aid agencies to completely unload their trucks, inspect, and then punitively ban items. The trucks are then only allowed to partially reload, meaning many convoys only carry half what they could to the starving. #israel
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/11/israel-aid-gaza-banned-blocked/

vaskaraeca, 10 months ago to twitter

So the announcement of payouts for verified subscribers for engagement was a lie, it was merely a way for Musk to give cash to his favorite right-wing chuds which included rapist and trafficker Andrew Tate so I'm eager for the site to die. #Twitter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

vaskaraeca, 5 months ago to environment

In the same way our infrastructure is built for a climate that no longer exists, our environmental regulations were written for a climate that's already vanishing. This needs to be updated, fast, before it sickens and kills more people. #environment
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/17/us-local-governments-oil-gas-lobbyists-use-millions-dollars-hiding-wildfire-climate-change-pollution

vaskaraeca, 6 months ago to environment

Billionaires shouldn't exist, not only because they demonstrate a failure of economic management, or because they have repeatedly proven themselves a threat to democratic institutions, but also because they're all crappy Bond villains as well. #environment
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/twelve-billionaires-climate-emissions-jeff-bezos-bill-gates-elon-musk-carbon-divide

vaskaraeca, 9 months ago to twitter

Between the Nazis and the child pornography enthusiasts, both of whom Musk has cut cheques for, any brand that advertises on Twitter is either willfully blind or impossibly naive to the fact that the place is turning into Parler 2.0. #Twitter
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/tech/x-ads-pro-nazi-account-brand-safety/index.html

vaskaraeca, 9 months ago to Florida

DeSantis may be unpopular, corrupt, and incompetent but he's also a petty fascist who has removed another elected official for being mildly critical of him, showing his contempt for voters and how he plans to continue governing through force. #Florida
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/08/09/desantis-suspends-monique-worrell-state-attorney-prosecutor/

vaskaraeca, 20 days ago to Health

This is going unnoticed in the background but there is a shortage of over 300 drugs (We can thank the DEA for the shortage of Adderall) but it's getting to the point that people are dying because they cannot acquire cancer drugs. #health
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/drug-shortages-hit-record-high-hundreds-short-supply/story?id=109160863

vaskaraeca, 1 month ago to environment

It is an embarrassing failure that it took three years from when these spills were first reported till California regulators hit the oil companies with fines and such small amounts Chevron can pay in pocket change. People should be in jail. #environment
https://www.propublica.org/article/chevron-will-pay-record-fines-for-california-oil-spills

vaskaraeca, 1 month ago to tech

Since 2020 Facebook has actively supported and boosted right-wing propaganda in the United States and abroad, partially because divisive content brings clicks but primarily because they use the right, like Dan Bongino, to attack any attempt to regulate the company. #tech #trans
https://glaad.org/smsi/report-meta-fails-to-moderate-extreme-anti-trans-hate-across-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

vaskaraeca, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

The steady, almost daily barrage of bad news from every corner of the globe is a grim reminder that we are already in the climate apocalypse. Unless people start taking direct action the planet that survives will be almost unrecognizable. #Environment
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/26/brown-bear-cubs-in-japan-die-of-starvation-amid-salmon-shortage

vaskaraeca, 3 months ago to Israel

Anyone who blocks an aid convoy should automatically be transferred to Scheveningen Prison. That these people are dancing and laughing as they prevent food and medicine from going to the starving and the sick, many of those children, is new low in depravity. #israel
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-protesters-set-tents-block-humanitarian-aid-entering-gaza

vaskaraeca, 3 months ago to environment

After more than a decade of industry stone-walling the EPA is finally going to push new rules through that will reduce fine particulate matter from 12 to 9 micrograms which will have a huge net positive for people and the environment. #environment
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/07/us/epa-rule-air-pollution-soot-climate/index.html

vaskaraeca, 7 months ago to Israel

Israel: If you don't evacuate we'll kill you.
Palestinians: [Evacuate]
Israel: Lol. Psyche. #Israel
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-scores-killed-israeli-air-strikes-families-fleeing-northern-gaza

vaskaraeca, 7 months ago to environment

The warming climate means perfect temperatures for the growth of cyanobacteria and toxic blooms, which suffocate life in ponds, lakes, and streams. This means having to fight on more fronts simply to maintain the current ecosystem. #Environment
https://www.wired.com/story/blue-green-algae-is-filling-rivers-with-toxic-sludge/

vaskaraeca, 3 months ago to environment

The oil, gas, and coal companies are buying out politicians in state after state to prevent the installation of cheaper, safer alternatives like wind and solar, saying the projects are a blight on the land at the same time their output turns the west into another dustbowl. #environment
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/02/04/us-counties-ban-renewable-energy-plants/71841063007/

vaskaraeca, 7 months ago to random

The American invasion of Afghanistan wasn't only two decades of violence and pain, it left behind a toxic legacy of munition chemicals, waste dumps, toxic spills, burn areas, and the degradation of fields and forests as civilians hid from the fighting.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/how-americas-war-devastated-afghanistans-environment/

vaskaraeca, 4 months ago to Israel

It's been interesting watching the American and European press, which will normally start a row if a journalist is barred from a briefing, be nearly silent when it comes to the wholesale murder of their colleagues by Israeli forces. #Israel
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-unprecedented-killing-of-journalists-is-affecting-coverage-of-gaza/

vaskaraeca, 5 months ago to environment

Grimly impressive how the Cop meetings shifted from political leaders making insufficient promises they never planned to fulfill to outright scheming by the industries most responsible for environmental destruction and climate change. #environment #climate
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/29/plans-to-present-meat-as-sustainable-nutrition-at-cop28-revealed

vaskaraeca, 4 months ago to environment

Black communities repeatedly tried to create safe spaces for themselves away from White Supremacy and for their efforts, they were redlined into unwanted, marginal areas that were subject to dumping, bad air quality, and long-term poisoning. #environment #pollution #racism
https://capitalbnews.org/midwest-migration-environment/

vaskaraeca, 5 months ago to environment

Decades after the severe dangers of lead fuel became known, there's still a loophole allowing rich, bored dentists to poison us with their expensive hobby. Another reason private planes need to go (away). #environment #health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/10/18/lead-aviation-fuel-epa-toxic-pollution/

vaskaraeca, 24 days ago to random

Well, this is vaguely less awkward. #caturday

vaskaraeca, 5 months ago to random

Despite attempts to re-write the history of Renaissance fairs as conservative nostalgia, the original festival began as a hopeful counter-cultural that promoted alternative lifestyles and politics that outraged the right.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-surprisingly-radical-roots-of-the-renaissance-fair-180982918/

vaskaraeca, 2 months ago to random

Someone in town has great taste in trucks. It should be noted the gigantic, gas-guzzling Toyota Tundra behind it is four times heavier but has the same hauling capacity.