Refugee from left Twitter, fb, etc. Father, husband, 30ish year net/sysadmin, atheist, vegan, humanist, Marxist.
WEAR YOUR MASKS! It isn't "just" the vulnerable who are sick and dying en masse.
This is a warning about Meta and Threads.
Please boost this here and outside of Mastodon so that pregnant people in the United States are informed that using Meta/Threads is dangerous.
I'm unlikely to get pregnant but I have ZERO presence on Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads as a matter of principle.
Boss: we are all in the same boat
But the boat is a slave ship where one is whipped by the boss/masters.
The US should be broken up. Break it into smaller groups of independent states. Enough of this bullshit where we pretend these are united states or people, or that fascist white supremacists and their capitalist oligarchs can *ever* be united with everyone else. It doesn't work. Fascist bootlickers and capitalist oligarchs are connected and inseperable, commander and those being commanded, and you can see this not only inside the US.
Fascist white supremacist grifters like Marjorie Taylor Green are the tools of the wealthy late-stage oligarchy, which is why someone *so* grotesque, ignorant, and incompetent has been elevated to the federal government and given security clearance, lol. This is intentional - the senior leaders and corporate investors know the effect someone like her has on the public, seeing a trailer trash goblin walking the halls of high government is disruptive, terrifying, and paralyzing for many voters.
Remember what Greta Thunberg has said?
"I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act."
The opinion piece below from Bloomberg/WaPo seems to agree with her...
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"Global Heat Records Are Falling. A Little Panic Might Be in Order."
The planet could easily set a record-high average temperature in 2023, especially with an El Niño weather pattern kicking in later this year. We have already suffered through the hottest early June on record, with global land temperatures briefly touching 1.5C above the pre-industrial average. Ocean temperatures this spring have been the hottest ever at this time of year, in records going back 174 years.
Many people, including myself, have warned against panicking about such stunning new highs, given the temporary nature of El Niño’s boost. Even if we temporarily hit 1.5C of warming this year, it will still be theoretically possible to avoid long-term warming beyond that level and all the catastrophic consequences that would come with it.
But first we must kick our fossil-fuel addiction and stop spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And judging by how little the world’s policymakers seem to be interested in taking such steps, perhaps just a smidgen of panic might be helpful.
Scientists agree the world must zero out its emissions by 2050 in order to keep warming to 1.5C, a target set at the Paris climate accords in 2015. And so far 95 countries have made "net-zero" pledges.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that the vast majority of those pledges aren’t credible. Current policies and practices have the world on pace to hit nearly 3C of warming by the end of the century. Even the most dependable net-zero pledges would still lead to close to 2.5C of warming, a recent study found.
One big problem is that significant numbers of "net-zero" countries have zero plans to stop burning oil, gas, and coal, according to a new study from the Stockholm Environment Institute. Of the 95 pledging countries, 45 talk about "continuing or expanding fossil-fuel production" right there in their net-zero pledges, according to the study. Only 5 of the 95 countries, in contrast, discuss transitioning out of fossil-fuel production as part of their net-zero pledges.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://archive.is/uz5Nr#selection-341.0-341.66
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
@Mayfly @lowqualityfacts I'm really not kind to him when I talk about him.
In all seriousness, when I realized the personal and professional/political/ideological nature of most of the founders, I realized the bounty of America was never designed to be shared with indigenous, immigrant workers(despite the founders all being immigrants), or any black and brown folks unless new wars were fought to right these 200 year-old wrongs. We may be headed that way today... : /
@Mayfly @lowqualityfacts yes, I'm sure that's fact, and I'm sure the half black/white children he fathered must have just been a cover story used to protect his masculine pride.
I'm sure the wig George Washington, also a bourgeoise parasite and slaver just like those from European shores, was a giant success in bed. Mmhmm. Let's tell that America First history, instead of the truth.
@lowqualityfacts illegitimate children -- some of whom were oddly dark-skinned. Washington also owned and purchased numerous slaves.....
Yikes. We live in a country founded by some fairly bad people.
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