We’re all just drops from an ocean, forced into the isolation of our own skin bags, longing to return to that joined source.

The internet is a crutch, simulating a false sense of linkage, permitting the actual connective tissues inside us to atrophy.

Anyway, be sure to like and subscribe.

seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"

folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself

it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird

As Rachel Reeves (finally) swings behind an explicit statement that Brexit has cost the UK around 8% of GDP, we might ask what that looks like:

It equals around £224bn a year (in 2025), which given the UK's tax burden of around 35% is £78bn in lost tax revenue a year.

So if you wondering why the public sector is under-funded, while a continuing austerity logic is always in play, this lost tax income for the state is also contributing to budget shortfalls.

#Brexit #politics
h/t Observer

They don't care. 🇺🇲🇮🇱

“Every missile strike is another downpayment on a hotter, more unstable planet, and none of it makes anyone safer,” said Patrick Bigger, a research director at the Climate and Community Institute and a co-author of the analysis.

“Every refinery fire and tanker strike is a reminder that fossil‑fuelled geopolitics is incompatible with a livable planet."

US and Israel’s war on Iran is a disaster for the environment, analysis shows

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/middle-east-iran-conflict-environment-climate