Neoliberal/fascist people in positions of public power never say - Violence isn't the answer - when they give more raises to state mercenaries to buy more weapons of state funded violence & militarized/armored vehicles & to beat up nonviolent citizens exercising their rights to public dissent & peaceful protests.
I'm uninterested in bootlicker responses. I will block those who choose to commit bootlicking offenses on my timeline - on sight.
#ACAB #AntiFascist #DefundThePolice #PoliceReform #AbolishPoliceUnions #AbuseOfAuthority #AbuseOfPower #NoTransparency #DemandAccountability #TaxFundedStateViolence #Unethical #Immoral #StateTerrorists #StateViolence #YourTaxDollars #Taxpayers
Political musing
Listening to the House banter about some "Crucial Communism Education Act" designed to emphasize education on the atrocities of totalitarian communist regimes.
I find myself wondering how different the political impulses would be if communism wasn't constantly conflated with totalitarian forms of government and was more plainly regarded as the system of economics it is more literally defined as.
Like, honestly, totalitarian government is the problem, not a communist economic model. But goddamn the two are inseparable.
Thanks Stalin I guess.
“How did he know where the CEO was gonna be?” This was like a large public event, all he had to do was pay attention to their corporate press releases.
“Why didn’t the CEO have bodyguards?” It’s NYC. Rich/famous people ride the subway by themselves all the time.
“Why did he expose his face at Starby’s?” Dude, that wasn’t him, the Starby’s guy had a different color backpack and chest pockets on his jacket. Trust me bro I’ve spent a lot of time looking at pixelated photos on the internet
#NewSpecies!
New marine worm from #kuwait just surfaced:
Polydora mohammadi
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/2132ECD6-381C-4010-898B-15E84F2B0A9F
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5529.2.2
#Zootaxa #PolydoraMohammadi
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #annelida #worms #spionid #marineworm
It really cannot be overstated enough: "For-profit health insurance" is fundamentally incompatible with keeping people healthy. UnitedHealthcare did not deny 1 out of every 3 claims because they thought they weren't medically valuable, they did it because they knew they could get away with it. The entire system cannot ever provide health as a meaningful outcome. It must be eliminated and replaced with taxation and a single-payer institution built on care, not resource hoarding.
🗨️“Authoritarianism is not a regime, it’s in our minds.
The absence of authoritarianism is not democracy is freedom” - @lokmantsui
📍 Panel: When the long arm of authoritarianism reaches through your screen
#NewSpecies!
New pselaphine beetle from #china just snuck in:
Apharinodes baixiensis
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/68414648-693B-5572-888A-CBE0A3685841
Publication: http://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e139609
#BioDataJournal #ApharinodesBaixiensis
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles
Biologist
Love old tech and anti-authoritarian praxis
RISC and singlecore CPUs
#runbsd
Lots of body no worky Just a puppy