Libcom: **Three impossible things before breakfast: some comments on the "Full Brexit" group**
"Some critical commentary on the Full Brexit group's call for a "socialist and internationalist Brexit". Does “an internationalist Brexit” mean a withdrawal agreement that would not affect the rights of current and future EU migrants …"
https://libcom.org/blog/three-impossible-things-breakfast-some-comments-full-brexit-group-06042019
war crime
Turkey bombed villages in Afrin, Northern Syria,
killing one child and wounding other civilians.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-northern-syria/turkish-attack-on-afrin-villages-kills-a-child-34139
aphobia
They either belong to the same breed or think their popularity and influence is more important than moral.
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, actively ramping up the use of fossil fuels with AI and machine learning.
Maddening.
https://gizmodo.com/how-google-microsoft-and-big-tech-are-automating-the-1832790799
#OurStreets spotted in Seattle, WA, home to Amazon and 45,000 of their employees.
"Wanted For The Death Of Culture & Diversity, Jeff Bezos Will Displace, Surveil & Destroy Your Community" #bezosshithead
32000 years ago, during the last ice age, an Arctic ground squirrel was gathering food, which it took back to its burrow. That squirrel never ate all of the fruit and seeds it stashed, and so they stayed there, buried under the Arctic permafrost. Forgotten.
Until the squirrel's ancient home was discovered by a group of Russian scientists. The research team managed to grow 36 plants from those ancient seeds. Here's one of them – an ancient type of campion (Silene stenophylla).
This is a visualisation of current CO₂ levels in Earth's atmosphere (red is less, blue is more).
Earth's two largest rainforests are the Congo and the Amazon, and they show up here as very obvious red patches. Between them, they pull so much CO₂ out of the atmosphere that it affects the entire Southern Hemisphere!
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=co2sc/orthographic=-15.22,4.14,271
(via @tuxom)
What a coincidence that this popped up in my FB feed yesterday.
I've been calling out "Mann Coulter" shit and similar stuff for years, so this one really spoke to me.
I want to introduce a new hashtag, meant for small acts of direct action you spot in your community: #OurStreets. It could be graffiti, stickers, supplies left for your houseless neighbors, hostile architecture being dismantled - whatever, as long as you're *not* the one who did it
And to kick it off, let me introduce you to the building formerly known as Walli's Market. I don't know much about this place other than what it says on the signs (it was a convenience store in the middle of a neighborhood) - it's been in this state as long as I've lived here. It doesn't appear to have been broken into at any point
Outside is the biggest community library I've ever seen plus a smattering of stickers, including these huge art pieces on the outside of the windows (I don't like the conflation of empathy with kindness, it's a bit of an ableist microagression, but I appreciate the sentiment)
I wish I could meet whoever made this their pet project, because this is really inspiring
queer/geek/artist/entomologist/professional regiphagist
transphobes/aphobes/biphobes/panphobes and pedos please kindly fuck off