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Anyone know if there's a website like Threadless but for flags? I got an idea for some new merch.

#Vexillology #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice

The dream of most people on Twitter, Instagram, and such, is to have an enormous mansion in Florida. The dream of most people on Mastodon is to have a small decent house somewhere in a forest where it's not too hot.

Mark my words! I will go semi-pro one dayyy!!!

#Skateboarding #Sk8orDie #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi

Sometimes, people on Facebook don't know the Fediverse exists.
The European Commission likes to tell them. 💜 😉

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

Accountability for ICE and CBP

However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

Doomsday Scenario

I also have been thinking about this connection, it is so damn obvious, but no one in the media is talking about it.

The rise of authoritarianism, and the deep connection to the oil industry.

It has been obvious to anyone willing to stop for a moment and think... but #TheAmericanFascist, in his infinite wisdom and/or senility, has thrown down the veil.

#Venezuela is about access to #Oil in South America.

#Greenland is about access to Oil and Minerals in the #Arctic.

#Alberta Separatism is about access to Oil and Gas in #Canada.

Deposing the Iranian Regime is access to Oil and Gas in the Middle East. (Get #Iran, and you might get #Iraq too)

And lets not forget #Russia... fighting the #RussiaUkraineWar funded by their oil reserves and all about returning to an old empire in oil-rich Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

So is the fight to end fossil fuel use in order to preserve a liveable, recognizable planet, also a fight against authoritarianism and fascism?

You're damn right it is.

#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #USPoli #Alberta #Separatism #Fascism #FarRight #ABPoli #BCPoli #EndFossilFuels #climatechange

This is been posted here but resharing:

https://youtu.be/tmd6MDiJmQU?si=WkHNLcKkQ1Q_nhIP

with this:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf

Important to read, digest and begin to demand answers from policy makers about what concrete steps are they going to take to avoid the future that - right now - is ahead of all of us, not just the UK.

#Climatechange #climateaction

Tipping Points - Professor Tim Lenton OBE | National Emergency Briefing

YouTube

The UK government just v quietly released a stunning 9 page report on
'GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY LOSS, ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE & NATIONAL SECURITY':

"Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair)".
"Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security & prosperity".
"The impacts will range from crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks to conflict within & between states."

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/11/06/chinas-clean-energy-revolution-will-reshape-markets-and-politics

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics

The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The Economist