Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

If Kamala was president:

The situation in Gaza wouldn't be different.

War with Iran would still be on the table.

China would still be demonized and provoked.

Yemen would still be bombed.

The US would still have the largest prison population, and a for profit prison industrial complex.

The bombs falling on Arab children would still be "made in the USA"

But middle class liberals would all be at brunch.

Hice esto a partir de una foto de guerrillerxs salvadoreños de los años 80 (la foto original es de Scott Walace). #GIMP y #GMIC, la fuente es Playfair Display y Helvetica CE 35 Thin Italic.

#Comunismo #Anarquismo #Anticolonialismo

#solidarity #sexwork #humanrights #classwar #ausgov #politas

me

RE: https://dirtyknight.life/objects/3bb4d959-8ae8-44d9-9997-5d3225e5abdc

I'm dying 🤣

#NewSpecies!
A newly discovered fungus from #china for #FungiFriday:

Clavaria orientalis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C72319-8183-55D9-8A84-7886304EEAF3
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.115.145774
#MycoKeys #ClavariaOrientalis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology

If you think that the only thing wrong with the USA is that now they have a fascist president and a boer head eunuch, then let me tell you you're part of the problem. 4 months ago they had a Liberal government and they were funding and facilitating a genocide, passing legislation against "domestic terrorism", arming proxies on endless wars, and so on.

So no, Cheeto Mussolini and his sidekick Apartheid Emeralds boy are a symptom, not the illness.

The illness is called capitalism.

Being trans is demoralizing right now because we had a brief period where we were treated almost like human beings and then everyone abandoned us. Because our rights are "frivolous." There are too few of us. We don't matter. We're "weird," "gross," "fake." All any of us wanted was to live authentically and largely anonymously. And instead there's a giant fucking spotlight on us every single day, blaming us for Trump and reminding us we're not welcome. And our cis "allies" mostly don't care.

#NewSpecies!
New amphipod from #panama just surfaced:

Konatopus tridens

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EDB299BE-18F1-5796-8439-238893029352
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1234.145826
#ZooKeys #KonatopusTridens

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustaceae #amphipoda #amphipods

New hospital study: air purifiers cut airborne COVID by 98%. Rooms with HEPA ventilation had 0 virus detected. Clean air is essential public health infrastructure — not a luxury.

#COVIDisnotover #wearamask #cleantheair #itsnotoverjustbecauseyouareoverit

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021850225000643

What.

Look, I occasionally share stuff from this guy, because his commentary on tech sometimes has some good points, but seriously, this is nonsense.

"Feel excited that your government was taking big, decisive action to tame the corporate behemoths"? What.

Dude, occasionally dragging a tiny concession out of the oligarchs is not "big, decisive action".

🤖 Producción de IA

"La producción de datos, concretamente de inteligencia artificial, no dista mucho de la producción capitalista de toda la vida", reflexiona @Atxe en su nueva viñeta.

https://climatica.coop/secciones/vinetas/

Congratulations to the top 3 images from the Node–FocalPlane image competition!

1. "Cell-estial bloom" by Özge Özgüç

2. "Dancing actinotroch" by Allan Carrillo-Baltodano

3. "Who’s active?" by Julia Peloggia de Castro

@the_node @focalplane_jcs

#biologists100 #biology #CellBiology #research #closeup #microscopy

some hard truths

“Your kids, your grandchildren, and your great grandchildren are all f*cked because the system you think can be reformed has been enslaving, bombing, genociding, ecoding, deforesting, pillaging, and exploiting for the last 500+ years and now it’s time to pay the piper.”

Nonviolent movements have not worked one single fucking time to achieve a transformative, radical change in society:

The Civil Rights movement? Wasn't nonviolent. People in Birmingham turned their backs on MLK, beat up the pigs, and burned all the white businesses to the ground.

The antiwar movement in Vietnam. Nonviolent? It would take an absolute racist to come to that conclusion. It was the Vietnamese killing tens of thousands of US troops, and then radicalized, discontented troops, refusing orders and killings hundreds of their own officers, that ended that war.

Peaceful hippies didn't accomplish shit.

Independence in India? There were riots and armed struggles for decades before the British left.

https://open.substack.com/pub/petergelderloos/p/hands-off-you-might-as-well-shoot?r=82ebc&utm_medium=ios