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.
queer/geek/artist/entomologist/professional regiphagist
transphobes/aphobes/biphobes/panphobes and pedos please kindly fuck off