Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

Researchers, please, please, please create RSS feeds for your blogs. We desperately need alternatives to social media to get your work out there.

Biden will be remembered for genocide in Gaza | #AJOPINION
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/14/biden-will-be-remembered-for-genocide-in-gaza-ajopinion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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How apt that Mozilla closed their Fedi server on December 17th, and then announce #FreeOurFeeds less than a month later to try to pump money into AT/Bluesky by setting up a relay.

(The President and Executive Director of Mozilla are involved in this before anyone asks)

I smell some corpo-bollocks with this.

A sustainable future will probably not have next-day delivery for most things.

Get used to that idea, so you're not going to stand in the way of getting there.

This is my main gripe with the "individual change doesn't matter against systemic issues" crowd:

People who build their lives on the conveniences of hyper-capitalism will not support policies that require those conveniences to be diminished.

But those policies are going to be necessary.

What's happening to the US right now is exactly what the US did to Latin America.

Regardless of how bad climate disasters become, the state will still fight to kill off the "undesirables" of society. They're still actively sweeping unhoused folks in LA. They are still heavily relying on prisoners to fight the fires. They are still going after black families with false accusations, they are still murdering drug users, implying they are starting fires!

It's almost as if we're seeing the techbro class all having mass mid-life crises at once.

Instead of hiring that ghost writer, they're outsourcing it to a stack of GPUs.

Then they realize that they don't enjoy creative work, and in their privilege, assume everyone is like them.

And they're so unable to stop min-maxing their empty little lives for profit they can't resist productizing it.

Now, with your help and Cvkvlv.com, we have brought the Cvkvlv back to life for all to know about in my art and life. My hope is my beadwork and other art brings good medicine to you in honor of the great Cvkvlv!

Mvto!


-Tzipporah

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Thought to be extinct, the Cvkvlv was heavily affected by the removal of Indigenous people from its habitat, including the Mvskoke, in the Trail of Tears and other removals. After that, for a hundred years colonizers further destroyed its habitats until it could live no longer.

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Cvkvlv is pronounced CHUH kuh luh, kind of like chocolate.

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Woodpeckers are medicine birds, respected for their persistence and power

The largest and strongest of the woodpeckers is the Cvkvlv, the ivory-billed woodpecker. Traditional Mvskoke medicine practitioners still use songs about the Cvkvlv. Its own song was recorded only once, in 1935.

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"We survived centuries...because we knew what we were doing and used every scrap of a tool at our disposal. That is how we can continue to survive and how, if they dared listen to us instead of hating us, we could lend ourselves to others who wish to survive."

https://newrepublic.com/article/189389/black-southern-gun-culture-readiness-threats

Senita Cactus

A big specimen of Senita Cactus found close to Quitobaquito Spring 😊

In the US, this cactus is found only in the southern edge of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ 😉

#Nature #Photography #Hiking #Walking #Wildlife #Cactus #Arizona #Mindfulness #OrganPipe #NationalPark #NationalMonument #Desert

we should all get together and go beat up the dork who invented work

The rich will not escape climate change and the ensuing catastrophic ecological collapse.

𝗚𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗲, 𝗔𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁, 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹

❝According to the Peoria Police Department, which is investigating the police shooting, a woman called police, saying her 23-year-old ex-boyfriend was threatening her and pointed a gun at her in the area of 47th Avenue and Glendale Avenue around 7 p.m.

She gave officers a description of him and the pickup truck he drove off in.

The truck was parked on Diana Avenue along the north side of the park.

Officers approached the truck but couldn’t see inside because of the dark-tinted windows.

They tried calling for anyone inside, but no one answered; that’s when they noticed a man sitting at a gazebo at the park, investigators said.

Officers thought he was the ex-boyfriend, so they told the man to raise his hands.

He didn’t obey and “made a movement” toward his waistband, Peoria police said.

One Glendale police officer fired his gun, hitting the man.

The victim, only identified as a 46-year-old homeless man from Tucson, died at the scene.

No guns were found on the man or in the park, police said.

After the shooting, officers checked out the truck more and found the ex-boyfriend inside, who had shot himself, investigators said.

He was taken to the hospital, where he later died.❞

https://www.azfamily.com/2025/01/09/glendale-police-shoot-kill-unarmed-man-not-involved-domestic-violence-call/