Jimijamflimflam

@Jimijamflimflam@mstdn.social
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I’m Jimi.

I quietly contemplate these days. I enjoy reading about and infrequently discussing #SciFi, #Fantasy, #Horror, #Science, #USPolitics and #Noir. I’ve been #TentCamping over half my life.

#StarTrek🖖rocks.
I love all #Tolkien.
#MST3K is hilarious.
Michael Myers🔪the 1st shape.
#Ghibli storytelling is *gorgeous*
#Svengoolie rules!
Han shot first.

Early Gen X feral latchkey kid. Married. Mostly harmless. I block AI & jagbags.

We call them gym shoes round here.

HumanNot Immortal. Really.
LocationIn far Northern Illinois. Previously Braga, Pt., Funchal, Pt., Barrie, Ontario. Far Northern Illinois before all that.
Banner ImageFall is the season on the lakefront in Barrie, Ontario. A photographer in a yellow jacket sits under a reddish dynamic sculpture. New construction is visible in the background. Blue sky with scattered white clouds. The lake is reflecting the blue sky.
TootsToots disappear like tears in the rain. However it takes a while. So I got that going for me at least.
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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀1d ago
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SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers5h ago

Weird Tales vol. 21, no. 6 (June 1933)

My version of Conan is the one brought to me by Marvel comics, mostly by John Buscema but incomparably by Barry Windsor-Smith.

It's always weird to remember that the stories date from the 1930s when I see something like this. Also damn, even for Brundage, this is pretty explicit.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV21n06193306IfcIbcBc

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)1d ago

Are you a boy or a girl?
I'm nonbinary.

Yeah, but what were you born as?
A baby.

No, I mean what is your sex?
Awesome.

FFS! Do you have a penis or a vagina??
I've had my share of both.

OMFG!! WHAT IS IN YOUR PANTS??
A frankly disturbing number of lockpicks.

Jimijamflimflam5h ago
Mats Holberg 🇺🇦5h ago

Saw 'Róisín Murphy' in the opening credits for an Irish show and got really stoked thinking it was the extremely stylish musician. Turned out it's another Róisín Murphy. Booooo.

If you're not familiar with MY Róisín Murphy haha this is she. In a video for 'You Know Me Better' inspired by Cindy Sherman's photography. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEkOj7x_IXQ

Róisín Murphy - You Know Me Better (Official Video)

YouTube
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Billings 5h ago

There is still some good in this world 💟 🐾

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats

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emptywheel9h ago
Right wingers will pass the Big Ugly. But they’re manufacturing a delay so they can craft the propaganda to explain their vote.
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Marcus Hutchins 13h ago
Yet more companies laying off employees not because AI is replacing them, but because they need more money to fund their AI. I can't remember the last time I saw sunk cost fallacy at this scale.
Jimijamflimflam11h ago
stux⚡15h ago
Remember, there are no ghosts... Only #cats..
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Kathy Reid1d ago

Are you a top US-based scientist looking to relocate to #Australia?

The Australian Academy of #Science is now offering generous relocation packages and guaranteed #research funding.

https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/news-and-media-releases/are-you-a-top-us-based-scientist-wanting-to-relocate-to-australia

#FediScience

Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? | Australian Academy of Science

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Jason Coward13h ago

The Shooting Star Columbine (Aquilegia elegantula), also known as the Western Columbine, is another of my favorite wildflowers here in the San Juan Mountains.

#WildflowerWednesday #WildflowerSeason #BloomScrolling #Photography #Nature #Outdoors #Colorado #CaptureOne #Wildflowers #Flowers

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European Commission19h ago

📣 We are proposing a reduction of 90% to the EU's emissions by 2040, a significant milestone on our road to net zero by 2050.

By setting this target, we want to:
🔹 Ensure certainty for investors
🔹 Guarantee energy security and resilience
🔹 Create more jobs
🔹 Drive innovation, prosperity, and competitiveness

Europeans want strong climate action. We are responding to this call.

For a European green transition that is clean, competitive, and fair for all!

Find out more: https://europa.eu/!3fpPhk

Show threadFeu d'jais 🥞19h ago
@EUCommission ban eating animal and animal products. Go vegan. This has a huge impact both on fighting global warming and fighting starvation. You know it. Be brave, enforce veganism.
Show threadSignalEleven19h ago

@feudjais @EUCommission you are right. But a ban would be catastrophical for getting the population onboard. Look at what happened to banning ICE cars.

I think policies should be enacted to make the environmental cost visible. Tax meat. Use that to pay handsomely farmers for dropping husbandry. Cut the malcontent there.
Heavy handed (could be heavier) regulation on production is what is working for energy, I'm curious to see it for food.

The backlash will be massive nonetheless. There is a lot of education to be done in parallel.

Show threadMatija Nalis18h ago

@signaleleven @feudjais @EUCommission Yes - E.g. tax airplanes and cars and give those as subsidies to (much more sustainable) trains and public transport.

It might work for meat too, but I'm much less optimistic there. For example, I'd love to go fully Vegan, but I can't financially afford it.

What needs to happen is that price for say 1000 kcal from eggplant should fall below prices of 1000 kcal of pork - and for ALL else too. And by reducing prices, not increasing them! Not an easy task.

Show threadMatija Nalis18h ago

@signaleleven @feudjais @EUCommission Just taxing the meat and giving the money for farmers ain't going to cut it, though. It would increase the prices of meat, while NOT lowering the prices of equivalent vegetarian food.

In other case, it would be forced starvation of people already living on the poverty line.

Taxing meat, and using those taxes to automatically reduce prices of vegan replacement food might work for short while, but falls apart financially when people DO stop producing meat.

Show threadSignalEleven17h ago

@mnalis @feudjais @EUCommission
Kind of true ("fake meat" products are expensive, but they are not necessary - if a person below the poverty line needs cheap meat to not be malnourished, the problem is not only the price), but as any transition, the policy will have to support the transition. If land is not used to feed animals, but for - say, grain - the price of grain should start falling for the increase offer?

It's maddening complicated, I recognize that. My comment wasn't a "easy fix", it was to acknowledge that "ban meat" cannot be the easy fix too!

Show threadDeath by Lambda11h ago

@signaleleven @feudjais @EUCommission
Utter Bullshit.

As long as one #billionaire is still flying a private jet, it really doesn't matter if 380 million people stop eating a foodstuff they are genetically predisposed to consume.

#taxTheRich

Show threadFeu d'jais 🥞10h ago

@xdydx @signaleleven @EUCommission kinda wrong because it would have a huge effect, these are not made up ideas but numbers by scientists saying we all need to be at least vegetarian (not vegan) to save the planet.

We still have to fight the billionaire flying jet too, I think we can do both. One is more urgent because it harms and make beings suffer for no reason that can be justified (there is no need to do it).

Show threadG 🇮🇹19h ago
@feudjais @EUCommission without meat we would still be hopping from tree to tree like chimps. Reducing the consumpion of meat would be great for starters though.
Show threadFeu d'jais 🥞18h ago

@ranx @EUCommission that's not a correct point tho. You know, you can happen to need something at some point in history, and then it becomes not needed anymore + it hurts beings. First, the non-human animals we eat. Second, the poor side of the planet who can't feed themselves because the other part chose to eat meat, using water and vegetables to breed animals. Third, the people who work on the meat chain, especially in slaughterhouses.

This is not about reducing. It is about stopping, purely and completely.

Show threadG 🇮🇹18h ago
@feudjais @EUCommission I'm not a meat lover but I cannot agree with you. You do not consider all the side effects of such action. That's why also in the energy sector they are trying a transition. Imagine a deadline from where noone on the planet could drive an internal combustion car. Words are easy, getting things done are not.
Show threadFeu d'jais 🥞18h ago

@ranx @EUCommission I am aware we won't stop tomorrow, Thursday the 3rd of July, but the process of ending it must start as soon as possible. We must start to dismantle slaughterhouses, ensure revenues and new jobs for meat-workers, start new productions of vegetables, etc.

The endgoal must be "stop meat and animal products, at 100%". But the journey is long, hence the emergency to start quickly.

Show threadgerbal17h ago

@ranx A) chimps eat a lot of meat B) Chimps live on the forest floor, not in trees.

Cooking is what enabled us to expand, not meat. We can do just fine without meat.

Show threadG 🇮🇹17h ago
@gerbal ok professor, I just tried to translate an idiom we use. You didn't get it, fine.
Show threadAndrea18h ago
@feudjais @EUCommission what about people who like to eat meat? Why do you feel you can decide for them?
Show threadFeu d'jais 🥞17h ago
@ott0disk @EUCommission why do you feel you can decide to breed animals in suffer, end their life early for the sake of your pleasure? 🤔
Show threadFeu d'jais 🥞17h ago

@ott0disk @EUCommission "deciding for others" is also a non-argument. Laws decide for you that you can't drive without your seatbelts, or above some speed limitations. Law also state that you can't kill your neighbours if they listen their music too loud. Do you feel we should abolish the laws?

Also, considering the causality between eating meat and global warming, why would you be allowed to destroy the planet we all live in? It will also be the planet of future beings, who would enjoy a breathable planet.

Show threadAndrea17h ago
@feudjais @EUCommission laws are agreed upon by us individuals through the people we elect in parliament. It's not like laws are imposed onto us by some divine entity, and in fact you're advocating for a law to ban meat, a law that would impose on others your personal preference. While I don't endorse the suffering of animals there is nothing wrong in eating meat, just like there is nothing wrong in a lion eating a gazelle.
Show threadFeu d'jais 🥞17h ago

@ott0disk @EUCommission then there is nothing wrong in me killing my neighbours, is it? You are advancing a "nature argument", it is a common fallacy.

Either you say that because of nature. Or you say that because we should be allowed to do whatever the lion is authorized to do? This would allow killing cold blood and eating children.

Laws are in fact made against the majority most of the time. I am from a country where a law was just passed against 75% of the population.

Not eating meat is not my "personal preference", it is an ethical choice that I follow because, I do not tolerate animal suffering.

PS: even anti-vegan people don't say the lion-gazelle argument anymore since it is really ridiculous. Even they, are ashamed of such poor argumentation. 😐

Show threadFeu d'jais 🥞17h ago
@ott0disk @EUCommission btw the difference between the lion and you is that the lion needs to eat meat, while you do not. You still didn't tell why you need to eat meat. You just take pleasure from the suffering and killing of other sentient beings.
Show threadAndrea16h ago
@feudjais @EUCommission again you throw the argument that I enjoy the suffering of animals. As usual these discussions don't lead anywhere 😁
Show threadFeu d'jais 🥞16h ago
@ott0disk @EUCommission I am not saying this in the way "you are sadistic". I just say facts., The pleasure you take eating meat comes from animal suffering. Is it wrong? How? I don't mean you are someone bad and sadistic. Just, in order to move on, people need to know what is hidden from them by the meat industry : the pleasure comes from animal suffering.
Show threadAndrea15h ago
@feudjais @EUCommission "I just say facts" lol you almost sound like Trump. Also the pleasure I got from eating (everything) comes from its taste that I get from my taste buds, is an evolutionary feat most animals have to distinguish between good/bad food.
Show threadFeu d'jais 🥞15h ago

@ott0disk @EUCommission you make it like you do not understand my point but you get it.

Let's be clear : how do you get your meat? How does it come to your plate? 🤔

You can distinguish good food from bad food but your human status also granted you philosophy and ethics to distinguish good actions from bad actions in particular actions involving useless suffering or killing.

Show threadFeu d'jais 🥞15h ago
@ott0disk @EUCommission and if you say that "meat is the result of suffering" is not a fact, then you are like Trump saying climate change isn't real. It is just science. I can't do anything for you if you deny it, maybe you need to step in a slaughterhouse to see it from your own eyes and listen to the screams with your own ears.
Show threadAndrea15h ago
@feudjais @EUCommission your reasoning is a stretch because the pleasure doesn't come from the perish of the animal, in fact I could eat an animal that has been killed by another animal or animal products that don't cause them any suffering like eggs. To put it another way: you get pleasure from eating veggies because you enjoy the suffering of the people who cultivated them, quite tragic isn't it?
Show threadFeu d'jais 🥞13h ago

@ott0disk @EUCommission but then, that is kind of hypocrite of you because meat workers suffer more, psychologically? 🤔 I don't get it. Next argument is "but you have a smartphone made from poor children in China", am I right?

You miss the point. Eating is essential. The goal is to find what causes the less harm. Vegan food is because : less harm to the planet, more people can be fed, no useless pain and death for non human animals and less mental illness for human on the chain.

Can you prove with fact my feeding is more harmful than people eating meat? I never said my food is perfect and causes no harm. You used a classical fallacy argument called the straw man : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Straw man - Wikipedia

Show threadGerard Braad19h ago

@EUCommission

"are" / "is" ... hmmm

Show threadbitbonk19h ago
@EUCommission The original text in the image had both a grammatical and a factual error. Good that both have been corrected. 👍🏻😉
Show threadjan Ki | 奇  19h ago
@EUCommission
2050 isn't soon enough
Show threadAlbert Borneo19h ago
@EUCommission
But don't tax #AI and #Gafam don't Tax data center because #Trump will retaliate us
Show threadHumam0100110119h ago

@EUCommission
I've been wanting to move to Europe for a while now, but it is really hard when the conditions in your cauntry makes it very hard to save up money, besides the currency in which you are paid is worth 6x less.

I guess I'll die in Brazil.

Show threadkali19h ago
@EUCommission bro that makes 0 sense grammatically lol
Show threadCIMB418h ago

@EUCommission look, if your main concerns are
"🔹 Ensure certainty for investors
🔹 Guarantee energy security and resilience
🔹 Create more jobs
🔹 Drive innovation, prosperity, and competitiveness"

you are clearly still on the same train as anyone else trying to appease billionaires, feeding the capitalist propaganda and doing the "say big words that mean nothing"-dance.

Taxes on animal products, fossil fuels, inheritance and multi-million-incomes need to skyrocket the same as climate change.

Show threadCIMB418h ago
@EUCommission
companies and the 1% wealthiest people are responsible for climate change so don't go crawling up their asses. you owe us, 99% of the population, a life worth living and we have signed countless official petitions and sang countless pleas for you to kick them to the curb. we are tired of this negligance and ignorance. By 2040, countless millions more people will have died because of your inaction and incompetence.
Show threadCIMB418h ago
@EUCommission if 1% of europes population has to die because of climate change, let that 1% be every billionaire who shits on us all by fighting against climate change in whatever way neccessary, not the 1% of the most vulnerable who have contributed nothing to global warming, by the EU just letting it happen while keeping us peasants entertained with a few green slogans here and there.
Show threadCIMB418h ago
@EUCommission noone wants to work opressive jobs in harsher and harsher conditions for less and less money, going home for less and less time to their smaller and smaller appartments.
noone asked for you to make inbestor's jobs easier. the claim that we'd go poor without investors is a blatant lie and every politian who preaches it should be ashamed of themselves.
where is the wellfare union that the EU always so proudly portraits itself as? get going, work for the ones who voted for you.
Show threadAndré Simões 🇵🇹🇪🇺18h ago
@EUCommission you should focus on energetic and resource independence first, no matter if of low or high emissions, then we can think on reducing emissions.
Show threadCIMB418h ago

@andresr @EUCommission there's no reason we can't have both at the same time. solar energy in the south and wind farms in the north are simply the cheapest, quickest, easiest, modt sustainable ways to get electricity in europe. that includes countries with coal, oil and gas deposits. green energy just happens to be the cheapest.

outside of intransparent lobbying and ideologic conservatism the places fossil fuels make economical and souverain sense are very rare

Show threadHelen LH18h ago

@EUCommission You only have 3 years to keep us under 1.5c

Without drastic action now we are walking into a long term climate disaster. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4l927dj5zo

Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, top scientists warn

The Earth could be doomed to breach a key climate target in as little as three years, scientists warn.

BBC News
Show threadJeff C18h ago

@EUCommission
This is terrific.
Now also reduce your plastics consumption by 90%.
Also implement the Villars framework so you don't export your pollution to oversees manufacturers.

#climate

Show threadAndrea18h ago
@EUCommission what's the plan to back the proposal? Because if there is no plan you might very well just "ban climate change". The past 15 years of ESG and green activisms have brought almost zero results so is it going to be different this time?
Show threadKaede🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♀️17h ago
@EUCommission nice Europe take me please ffs I don't even feel safe in the US
Show threadFrankieBeast17h ago
@EUCommission Reducing greenhouse gas emissions could give us a considerable foreign policy advantage by limiting our dependence on energy sources that come from nations with totalitarian or autocratic governments. Perhaps starting to point to this as a major benefit could crack the rhetoric of many anti-European nationalist parties. What do you think?
Show threadWeltzeitgeist16h ago

@EUCommission 'By setting this target, we want to:
🔹 Ensure certainty for investors'

You couldn't be more blunt that you are slaves to Capital. You won't achieve anything at all with this thinking.

Show threadKoen 🇺🇦16h ago

@EUCommission you need to apply tarrifs on imports based on global warming emissions / GDP of the exporting country

we need to make sure china, US also do their part or pay for it at least

dump Trump's "deal" and tarrif the US to the hilt, including US big tech, and for Gods' sake, start helping really green companies and stop wasting money on 'non-green' hydrogen BS

Show threadKuo14h ago

@EUCommission

Nearly everyone is affected by climate change, the rich buy a chateau on a mountain, can afford acclimatized rooms, cars offices, huge pools and vacations anywhere on the planet.

The poor workers and marginalized suffer, especially those who must work outside in the searing heat rain cold.
Something 99,999% of politicians would not manage to do for one hour let alone a lifetime.

Show threadAngela Scholder13h ago
@EUCommission Just stop trying to sell us fairytales.....
The EU commission clearly is primarily owned by the fossil fuels lobby.....!
Show threadAngela Scholder12h ago
@EUCommission And obviously the EU needs to catch up with the AI hype, so it's going to stimulate the building of energy and water guzzling 'data' centres...
Show threadDeath by Lambda11h ago
@EUCommission
Sag das bitte die @Bundesregierung
Show threadThe Yangsi Michael Dillon11h ago
@EUCommission Dick Schoof of The Netherlands needs that memo too.
Show threadChris22m ago

@EUCommission

NATO’s 5 percent spending pledge is a threat to people and the planet

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/6/26/natos-5-percent-spending-pledge-is-a-threat-to-people-and-the-planet

NATO’s 5 percent spending pledge is a threat to people and the planet

The alliance’s spending surge will prompt war, cut services and worsen the climate crisis.

Al Jazeera