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fkamiah17

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Tory-hating, Brexit-denying, nature-loving book nerd. Inept gardener, sketcher, knitter and music-maker. Queen of lazy town, prone to aimless wittering. Pro-independence for anyone who wants it. Proud to live in Wales. Very sweary but only at the wrong kind of people, and they know who they are. #FreePalestine #Bookstodon #FuckTheTories #NoVotesForGenocide #YesCymru #tea #history #art #mythology #folklore #space #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #Music

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fkamiah17 , to random
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Nigel Farage is in Blackpool today.

Led By Donkeys got there first.

fkamiah17 , to random
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Word.

A picture of author and activist Akala, with a quote from his book Natives: Race an Class in the Ruins of Empire. "I often look at the world and just think fuck it, why bother, but I know that's how we are supposed to feel, that's why the corruption is so naked and freely visible - to wear down people who have the conviction that things could be better."
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    fkamiah17 , to random
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    I don't know if it's cheating to use a poem - it is all one sentence - but here's my selection for this week:

    "There are nights in the forest of words
    when I panic, every step into a thicker darkness,
    the only way out to write myself into a clearing,
    which is silence"

    from 'What The Light Teaches Us', by Anne Michaels

    fkamiah17 OP ,
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    @bookgaga 🥰
    Tbh I'm not much of a one for sticking to the rules of things 😂

    fkamiah17 , to random
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    Active disinformation, straight from the top.

    https://newrepublic.com/post/182772/biden-criticize-protests-antisemitic-gaza-palestine-new-york

    fkamiah17 , to random
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    Happening now in Glasgow

    fkamiah17 , to random
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    Protests work.

    fkamiah17 , to random
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    There's no lack of monuments to the Tories' 14 years of utter destruction and callous incompetence, but we should never forget this one.
    Seven years today 🕯️ 💚

    wdlindsy , to random
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    It's hard to get more conservative, in the traditional sense, than David French is. He's rooted in white evangelical Southern culture, and even though he has come out as an outspoken critic of the Trumpist turn in the Republican party, he remains rooted in that culture.

    But as he reports here, his welcome in that culture is now proving very conditional.

    His church is Presbyterian Church in America.


    /1

    Gift link below from Wonkette

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/opinion/presbyterian-church-evangelical-canceled.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk0.eeM8.4fuiVRRiANtC

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @wdlindsy But but but ... I thought they wanted all women barefoot and pregnant forever 😡

    fkamiah17 , to random
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    And they're not fucking around.

    Update: Things are going off in France. Unions and leftist groups across the Hexagon, in Corsica and in the Pays Basque are planning an ongoing national protest and coordinated labour strikes starting tomorrow.

    fkamiah17 , to random
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    "We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asleep, and the same the next day, and the next. Each single seahorse contains enough wonder to knock the whole of humanity off its feet, if we would but pay attention."

    from 'The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure', by Katherine Rundell

    fkamiah17 , to random
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    Yep.

    Circular diagram showing the progression of Western politics Stage one: Uninspiring centrist refuses to tackle the underlying social probles that led to the rise of the far-right Stage 2: Stagnating living standards create fertile ground for fascism. Far right wins elections Stage 3: Far right drives economy off a cliff, lowers standards of public life and generally makes everything objectively worse Stage 4: Uninspiring centrist defeats farright with a promise of change. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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    "She uses writing and art to find a kind of rightness in putting things together wrong."

    from Fox and Hedgehog - The myths of Anne Carson by Emily Wilson (2024 The Nation) https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/anne-carson-wrong-norma/

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @bookgaga Oh, I didn't know this book even existed! Marvellous.
    Thanks for the post 😊

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @bookgaga Definitely going to! I love Anne Carson and Emily Wilson, so it's bound to be a winner.
    I guess you've read her translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey?

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    There is nothing a single person has ever ever ever ever done or will ever ever ever ever do in all of time and space that merits paying them 56 billion dollars—

    Madness. Obscenity. Ludicracy

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @futurebird Or even 1 billion tbf.

    Natasha_Jay , (edited ) to random
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    CTRL - SALT - DELETE
    Winner of snow plough naming competition (Hamilton, Ontario)

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @Natasha_Jay Not a patch on the Scottish and Welsh ones.
    Gritter Thunberg and Spready Mercury are a couple of my favourites 😂

    https://www.scotsman.com/news/weather/scotland-gritter-names-here-are-the-hilarious-names-of-scotlands-gritters-and-how-to-track-them-from-sled-zeppelin-to-basil-salty-3946388

    https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2021-03-03/auntie-freeze-sir-gritalot-and-dave-wales-newest-gritter-names-revealed

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @Natasha_Jay No shade - it's a good 'un 😊

    fkamiah17 , to random
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    WHAT.
    THE.
    FUCK.

    It's in today's edition, I'm not linking to this shit.

    (note: "small" is 250lbs, and they were used in the tent massacre and at the UN school)

    fkamiah17 , to random
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    Truth.

    Quote from Carl Sagan, with a black and white profile image of him at the top. "One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
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    In order to make themselves look good so they'll be allowed to continue with Business As Usual, huge corporations try to project a public image of being "climate aware" and "green" and on track for "net zero" — but it's just a phony pose.

    Some of the world’s most profitable – and most polluting corporations – have invested in carbon offset projects that have fundamental failings and are “probably junk”, suggesting industry claims about greenhouse gas reductions were likely overblown, according to new analysis.

    Delta, ExxonMobil, Disney, and Nestlé are among the major corporations to have purchased millions of carbon credits from climate friendly projects that are “likely junk” or worthless when it comes to offsetting their greenhouse gas emissions, according to a classification system developed by Corporate Accountability, a non-profit, transnational corporate watchdog.

    The fossil fuel industry is by far the largest investor in the world’s most popular CO₂ offsetting schemes. At least 43% of the CO₂ credits purchased by the oil and gas majors are for projects that have at least one fundamental flaw and are “probably junk,” according to the analysis.

    The transport industry, which accounts for about a fifth of all global planet-warming emissions, has also relied heavily on carbon offsetting projects to meet climate goals. Just over 42% of the total credits purchased by airlines and 38% purchased by automakers are likely worthless at reducing emissions, the analysis found.

    “These findings add to the mounting evidence that peels back the greenwashed facade of the voluntary carbon market and lays bare the ways it dangerously distracts from the real, lasting action the world’s largest corporations and polluters need to be taking,” said Rachel Rose Jackson, Corporate Accountability’s director of research.

    FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/30/corporate-carbon-offsets-credits

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @TomSwirly @breadandcircuses The whole carbon offset thing was a massive scam so people could feel better about continuing to behave as if everything isn't burning, and as a weak greenwashing exercise.

    MaJ1 , to weirdfolks group
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    Good evening Squirrel Fans.

    One lives & learns, in the last week I‘ve mostly been learning about gout!

    “Is it not written in the sacred text. 'There's a lot goes on we don't know about, in my opinion'" said Lu-Tze”
    -Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

    Where ever you are in your day I hope you’re enjoying it! 😊🫶🐿️🖖
    @weirdfolks
    #WeirdFolks #SquirrelsOfMastodon #TheMammutMoves
    Todays diary entry is here: https://beige.party/@Tim_McTuffty/112554098790265437

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @MaJ1 @Thebratdragon @SurrealSeal @weirdfolks I used to listen to those with my grandad in his shed when I was wee 🥰

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @MaJ1 @Thebratdragon @SurrealSeal @weirdfolks He rather subversively introduced me to Pete and Dud, too 😂

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @MaJ1 @Thebratdragon @SurrealSeal @weirdfolks And bizarrely not bothered by the swearing, considering I was about nine! Every time we found something funny, we repeated this bit:
    "Laugh, I nearly shat,
    I haven't laughed so much since grandma died,
    Or Auntie Mabel caught her left tit in the mangle ... "

    fkamiah17 ,
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    @Thebratdragon @MaJ1 @SurrealSeal @weirdfolks
    "I've got cancer of the bus ticket"

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