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🌍🌎🌏 👋 “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” – Chief Seattle, Duwamish

Acknowledging that I live on the land of the #Atfalati tribe of the #Kalapuya people who inhabited this land before colonial settlers arrived

#PNW #Cascadia #knitting #crochet #gardening #BloomScrolling #SilentSunday #LichenSubscribe

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Norcal Gma 217h ago
Most of us are destined to overcome challenges. For some we have an uphill battle starting the day we are born.
For my daughter I was that challenge. She was a healthy beautiful baby born to a fourteen year old mom. I was a emancipated minor child trying to adult in a world of intolerance.
Somethings never change.
I couldn't legally drive or work, and was determined to avoid any kind of financial assistance that might become an excuse to take her away.
Together we grew up.
I can't put into words how I feel about the person she became.
Today I took our compost to her house. I admired the large new pride flag that they now hang in a window so it doesn't dissappear. I toured her garden that I haven't seen in a month and felt a million good feelings because she turned out to be a kind, talented and compassionate person who doesn't even know how to hate.
My reason to be thankful today.
Flowers are from her garden.
#BloomScrolling
K213h ago
Jeff C. 🇺🇦15h ago

Multiple ICE kidnappings here in Pasadena this morning.

Plain-clothes goons just straight-up grabbing people off the street.

https://pasadenanow.com/main/city-seeking-clarification-on-wednesdays-immigration-enforcement-events-in-pasadena

#FuckIce #FuckTrump #USPol #NoKings

K213h ago
Antifa International18h ago
#antifa, #nazis, #weimar #history, #WeimarRepublic
K213h ago
Franklin López21h ago

Yo, real talk—what the fuck are we gonna do when the internet gets shut off?

We've seen it in #Gaza, in #Iran, and when Elon “I-play-God” Musk blacked out Starlink in Ukraine. Every time shit gets heavy, the state or some oligarch clown just pulls the plug. It ain’t just a glitch—it’s strategic, it’s repression, and it’s a fucking reminder that most of our comms infrastructure is in the hands of fascists, corporations, or both.

I’ve been working with indigenous comrades who rely on #Starlink to stay connected in remote areas. And yeah, it’s wild that you can be deep in the bush and still shitpost from a mountaintop—but that signal still runs through a pipeline owned by a Nazi tech bro.

We need to be talking more about mesh networks, autonomous infrastructure, all that good shit that anarchist tech nerds have been yelling about for years. Decentralized, resilient, community-controlled comms aren’t just cool—they’re necessary for survival.

Let’s keep this convo alive and start building the lifelines before the next blackout. Shit’s coming fast.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/activists-are-designing-mesh-networks-to-deploy-during-civil-unrest/

Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest

The Mycelium Mesh Project is testing DIY networks that can be quickly deployed on trees or lamp posts during a political uprising.

VICE
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Nonilex17h ago

Barack #Obama warns the #US is ‘dangerously close’ to slipping into #autocracy under #Trump

In rare public remarks, the fmr president said recent actions from the admin are “not consistent with American #democracy.”

#USpol #democracy #Constitution #law
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/barack-obama-trump-speech-trump-autocracy-rcna213729

Barack Obama warns the U.S. is ‘dangerously close’ to slipping into autocracy under Trump

In rare public remarks, Barack Obama issued a warning on the state of American democracy but said he’s still “optimistic” about the future of the U.S.

MSNBC
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Juggling With Eggs17h ago

I have had basically this conversation with most of the people I consider close to me over the past few months…we all agree with Snoopy regardless of age and previous political persuasion…

Snoopy says: “Stop shaming the POOR for buying things that might not be necessary, and start shaming the RICH from profiteering off everything that is essential”

#Inequality
#WealthGap
#Privatisation
#EatTheRich

K213h ago
Joy18h ago

Share if your account is a safe space for 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️!!

Trans people exist, protect trans kids, trans rights are human rights, and solidarity with trans people, ALWAYS!

And SCOTUS is a disgrace... As a lawyer, it doubly hurts to see how horrible they are. 😭

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George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽17h ago
Take the masks off. Show your badges. This is America.
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Cory Doctorow15h ago

In reading a fascinating and important discussion of the lack of a termination clause in the new Mastodon.social Terms of Service:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

I was GOBSMACKED to discover the new ToS has a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.

These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)

New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodon

Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...

GitHub
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Crafty Gardener NZ14h ago

In this week's blog post, I knitted the Gro hat by Fiber Tales, just in time for winter.

#blog #blogging #crafting #knitting #craftingblog

https://www.craftygardener.co.nz/?post_id=144&title=knitting-the-gro-hat-by-fiber-tales

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Bread and Circuses2d ago

Don't blame people. Don't blame the whole world. Blame those who actually deserve it.

Blame the leaders of business and government in the world's richest nations. They are the ones actively destroying our climate and environment.
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Four wealthy nations — the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia — account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade, according to new data published by Oil Change International.

The analysis, titled 'Planet Wreckers', notes that if those four Global North nations stopped their planned oil and gas extraction, 32 billion tons of carbon pollution would stay in the ground instead of being burned and released into the atmosphere where they fuel planetary heating. That's the equivalent of three times the annual global emissions created by burning coal.

"A handful of the world's richest nations remain intent on leading us into disaster. This is not just hypocrisy. It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis," Oil Change International's Romain Ioualalen said in a statement.

"It is sickening that countries with the highest incomes and outsized historical responsibility for causing the climate crisis are planning massive oil and gas expansion with no regard for the lives and livelihoods at stake," Ioualalen added.
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➡️ https://www.commondreams.org/news/oil-change-report-planet-wreckers

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Show threadGreen Roc Thoughts2d ago
@breadandcircuses We could have had free energy but someone got in Nikola Tesla''s way.
Show threadAndy Wootton2d ago
@breadandcircuses Blame Reform in the UK. They are campaigning to re-open coal mines that were closed for very good reasons. Filth is free. Microsoft are building data centres in the sea, for AI we don't need to warm that up instead of paying for solar cooling.
Show threadAndrew 🏳️‍🌈 💻 🧦1d ago
@breadandcircuses Since those four nations are democracies, we can blame the people of those nations, as they have the ability to change their governments policies, but choose not to.
Show threadFenix1d ago
@amca In democracy the final result is always a compromise. You need a sole ruler to accomplish anything, but [...] We all know that a sole ruler is much worse than a democracy and the result will certainly not please you. Look around at all the sole rulers and you will find your answer.
Show threadAndrew 🏳️‍🌈 💻 🧦1d ago
@fenixmaster But how much of a compromise it is depends on how popular the issue is. If the popularity is close to 50/50 for/against climate change action, then, yes, there would have to be huge (possibly ineffective) compromise. But if 90% of the population is behind it, and basically willing to strike the nation to achieve every single item of climate action they want, then no compromise is necessary. The percentage for might not even need to be anywhere that high to achieve uncompromised climate action.
Show threadFenix1d ago
@amca In my country the climate change is popular at the left side of the political spectrum and most the the middle and right/far right are against and they want to let the oil burn, burn burn. Most of the ruling parties where right and middle, so democracy is nice but the issues are strongly linked to parties. I wish it was as easy as you write it down. Right and far right are popular in this era. Only people wit a conscience vote left (social).
Show threadAndrew 🏳️‍🌈 💻 🧦1d ago
@fenixmaster It's the same here in Australia. Too many (most?) people don't really want the consequences of climate action, they want the status quo to maintain their lifestyles, and fuck the future generations.
Show threadAndrew 🏳️‍🌈 💻 🧦1d ago
@fenixmaster My preference, blue sky dreaming, is that countries, in proportion to the per capita total carbon pollution, would voluntarily (perhaps with incentives) reduce their population. With less carbon polluting lifestyles, there is less global warming, and less environmental pollution of all types, so that more people in the world can have a better lifestyle (although probably not as good as a top developed nation lifestyle). But that's as unrealistic as wishing significantly more people cared more about climate action. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Show threadQwikStop Haderach1d ago
@breadandcircuses sorry it’s a death sentence for all oxygen based life on the planet. 5 degrees and oceanic plankton and similar organisms, which provides 50% of the oxygen for the planet, die. It’s not just losing nice coastlines and limited communities, as horrific as that is.
Show threadfirstprimate1d ago

@breadandcircuses

#cdnpoli

Show threadJonathan Schofield1d ago
@firstprimate horribly perfect
Show threadRoy Brander🇨🇦1d ago

@breadandcircuses

Actually, I DO blame a whole world of people buying cars, and buying homes with gas furnaces in them, and taking transcontinental vacations.

Without them, the "plotters" would have no market to pay for their plots.

Show threadmillennial falcon1d ago
@RoyBrander @breadandcircuses quite right. it is a shared and complex responsibility. leverage must be applied in many places simultaneously to shift this one. targetting one thing or another has not been working.
Show threadPhogna Bologna1d ago
@falcennial @RoyBrander @breadandcircuses at the same time, it's hard to blame the huge majority of people that are lower income families who have to buy used gas cars and rent houses they can't retrofit.
Show threadRoy Brander🇨🇦23h ago

@bransonturner @falcennial @breadandcircuses

The whole complaint is about consumption; poor people are more likely to be on public transit, and in multi-family housing that's inherently more heat-efficient, if they're so poor.

But the bottom 50% of the income distribution is basically excused from the complaint anyway: the upper 50% do about 80% of the carbon.

(I live in a city packed with big SUVs with one occupant.)

Show threadan actual bus1d ago
@RoyBrander @breadandcircuses Damn straight. We *all* have a duty to resist being part of this machine as much as we can.
Show threadRavensrod 🫖 🍰1d ago
@breadandcircuses
I still blame thatcher 🤬
Show threadQueen of Teacups1d ago
@ravensrod @breadandcircuses Yes. She was the trial run.
Show threadRavensrod 🫖 🍰1d ago
@JMacfie @breadandcircuses
And that crap b movie actor, when the republicans decided to see if the US electorate were gullible enough to vote for moron
Show threadQueen of Teacups1d ago
@ravensrod @breadandcircuses So true. So tragic, also.
Show threadDoug 🌈🇨🇦 1d ago
@ravensrod @breadandcircuses and she's still dead.
Show threadDahmonium1d ago
@breadandcircuses Who else do you think is preventing the Palestinians especially Gazans, from exploiting their recently found marine gas field? And preventing the Libanese from exploiting their recently found marine gas field? It's not only about worsening climate changes, which affect the weakest of the world. It's also about keeping them poor. Keeping them under and left behind.
Show threadJacob Urlich 🌍1d ago

@breadandcircuses They trade to live the same as all of us, try to blame a trade and make it obsolete! They are the same as you, and you would do the same- look at the origin of the problems! Listen to open minded people: theguardian.com/environment/20…


How many trade-free products and services are available for THEM? None!

World faces new danger of ‘economic denial’ in climate fight, Cop30 head says

Exclusive: André Corrêa do Lago says ‘answers have to come from the economy’ as climate policies trigger populist-fuelled backlash

The Guardian
Show threadBargearse1d ago

@breadandcircuses

As one example, I just watched the recent Australian election, some 88% of Australian voters deliberately chose climate deniers as their elected representatives. I find it difficult to articulate what sort of greedy, self absorbed, stupid thinking leads to people doing that but Australia got a taste of what the results of that will be going foward when not long after when a climate change enhanced flood hit Taree, a true "Leopards Ate my Face" moment

Now, if the voter isn't held responsible then how can the CEO of Exxon etal be?

At some stage you'll have to ackowledge this deliberate malfeasance by voters and then hold them vicariously liable for their choices.

Show threadpapiris1d ago

@breadandcircuses I'm norwegian, living in the north. We've been brainwashed from a young age that "oil built this great welfare state, and we've gotta keep drilling to sustain ourselves".

It's a toxic half-truth. Oil brought riches yes, but our strong democratic institutions courtesy of the workers movement as well as civic society, is what ensured the riches were actually put to use for the sake of people.

We don't need to pump up another litre of oil or gas to stay rich, the profits from our sovereign wealth fund (although problematic by skimming off of others' hard work, investing in Israel and disregarding human rights) already cover 1/3 of our national budget. Bar societal collapse, which gets increasingly likely with every additional kg of co2e in the atmosphere, we'll keep raking in undeserved dough forever, enough to cover 1/3 of our natonal budget; even without pumping up more oil/gas or putting any more money into the fund.

Just Stop Oil

Show threadAbortedOrange1d ago
@papiris @breadandcircuses man when I hear norwegians say "we can't stop with oil, that's all we have" it's the saddest and most infuriating thing ever.
Like, do you genuinely believe that you, your family, your friends, and every other person you share this country with, plus the country itself, is worth so little and has so little options?
Norway has the riches and political stability to do basically everything, stopping with oil instead of blaming other polluters should be a no-brainer
Show threadAbortedOrange1d ago

@papiris @breadandcircuses

The actual XR Norway campaign is something worth keeping an eye on rn:
https://social.rebellion.global/@XR_Norway/114693202724652310

Extinction Rebellion Norway (@XR_Norway@social.rebellion.global)

Attached: 1 video Join the climate movement from Europe and beyond this August for the biggest action against Norwegian Oil. Ever. 🔥🌎 Together we demand that Europe’s biggest fossil fuel producer PHASE OUT NOW‼️🛢️ 🔗 Go to the links in XR Norway’s bio to register/sign up for an intro call. #extinctionrebellion #climatechange #fossil fuel #phaseout

Mastodon
Show threadSteve Moore 1d ago
@papiris @breadandcircuses Alaska could have done this instead of lining pockets to buy votes. Now the gov. is locked into increasing resource extraction to keep up appearances, while the pipeline is threatening to sink into the melting permafrost. Coulda, shoulda, wouldn’t.
Show threadhallunke23 🇺🇦1d ago

Wasn't Norway the country which mandated that all new cars must be electric?

@papiris @breadandcircuses

Show threadpapiris1d ago

@hallunke23 @breadandcircuses Yes, quite successfully so. I think it was 15 years or so ago, we enacted some laws which provided tons of benefits to electric cars (reduced road tax, exempt from road toll, access to bus and taxi lanes, reduced sales tax, reduced parking fees). Those benefits are gradually being rolled back as the electric + hybrid share of new car sales have reached ~93%. Electric-only is about 70%. [1]

Of about 3 million cars currently registered in Norway, about 800k of them are fully electric and another 260k are hybrids. [2]

[1] https://kommunikasjon.ntb.no/pressemelding/18548429/kampanjer-driver-nybilsalget-opp?publisherId=17848801&lang=no

[2] https://www.ssb.no/transport-og-reiseliv/landtransport/statistikk/bilparken

Kampanjer driver nybilsalget opp | Opplysningsrådet for veitrafikken (OFV)

Svært mange hentet ut sin nye bil i mai. Det ble registrert 14 260 nye personbiler, og det er hele 39,1 prosent flere enn i mai i fjor. Så langt i år har 57 142 nye personbiler fått skilter på, og det er 30,6 prosent flere enn i samme periode i 2024.

Show threadWaine1d ago
@papiris @breadandcircuses
You're absolutely right, and what's more you don't have to look far for the counterfactual that proves your point.
Just across the North sea here in the UK, we frittered away the income on tax breaks for the rich. Now we have a strikingly unequal society and UN investigations into the way we treat our most vulnerable.
Show threadMerciless Ming1d ago
@breadandcircuses Would you sell your children down river if you could assure yourself a life of luxury? That's called being a success in the US.