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Social justice, equality, ecology #ClimateChange #Science #Psychology #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic writer & professional silly sausage. #EDS #SF #Writing #Robots #StarTrek #BLM #LGBTQ+ ally #European #OpenSource #Linux #UKPol #ClimateCrisis #Science #USPol #Vegan #CatsOfMastodon #AuDHD

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sentient_water , to random
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I have no idea why this is but #Mastodon feels like one of the sanest places in the world right now.

Still very grateful to have found it.

sentient_water , to random
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Here's my neighbour's cat & my very good friend.

GottaLaff , to random
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NEW: THE JURY HAS REACHED A VERDICT IN THE TRUMP TRIAL.

sentient_water ,
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@DoesntExist @GottaLaff @dannotdaniel @markwyner @thepoliticalcat Laffy gets the last laff. Thanks for all the coverage.

pluralistic , to random
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There's one overwhelmingly common mistake that people make about enshittification: assuming that the contagion is the result of the Great Forces of History, or that it is the inevitable end-point of any kind of for-profit online world.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/#rewilding-the-internet

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sentient_water ,
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@pluralistic & a very cheery, good morning to you. As ever making the dystopian, capitalist, technocratic nightmare a rip roaring read.

pluralistic , to random
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Combine Angelou's "When someone shows you who they are, believe them" with the truism that in politics, "every accusation is a confession" and you get: "Every time someone accuses you of a vice, they're showing you who they are and you should believe them."

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/make-them-afraid/#fear-is-their-mind-killer

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sentient_water ,
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@pluralistic We really need to destigmatize laziness. To my knowledge, no lazy person has ever started a war or liquidated a company or cut down a rainforest. It's always those busy mutha fuckas.

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Spiegel- Two agents working for Russian intelligence services arrested in Bavaria. They allegedly intended to sabotage German military infrastructure facilities to undermine support for Ukraine. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/generalbundesanwalt-ermittelt-zwei-mutmassliche-russische-saboteure-in-bayern-verhaftet-a-0115bebd-195a-41fb-83be-da8d642045cd?sara_ref=re-xx-cp-sh

sentient_water ,
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@Npars01 @w7voa This is so screamingly obvious that it's infuriating that nothing is being said or done.

sentient_water ,
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@paezha @Npars01 @w7voa Same with the Tories here in the UK. They're clearly all bought & paid for or kompromated to high heaven.

What infuriates me is that surely there are unsullied, patriots in the intelligence services who must know this infiltration is happening and aren't blowing the whistle.

The UK intel services made a vague stab at it when they said that Boris Johnson was in all likelihood a Russian asset. He still became PM & went on to put a Russian Oligarch into the House of Lords against the strong advice of the security services.

alice , (edited ) to random
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It seems like a lot of people I see here need a 🫂 or few lately.

If you're feeling like you might hurt yourself, please consider a helpline or even DMing me as an alternative (see profile for contact options). I may not be able to respond immediately, but I will read it and I will respond. :neocat_heart:

Yes, I'm just some queerdo on the internet, but sometimes that's enough to get through a hard patch. How do I know? Because if it wasn't for the kindness of some of the people on this site, I wouldn't be here today. (thank you 💕)

You can call a peer-run warm-line for your state here: https://warmline.org/warmdir.html

If it's critical, you can go to https://988lifeline.org/ or call tel:988, but beware of the risk of possible emergency services involvement.

If you're not in the US, here's a list of crisis lines by country: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines

#SuicidePrevention #ItGetsBetter #YouAreNotAlone #BoostWelcome #Boost

sentient_water ,
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@alice I'm not crying. You're crying. You've long been a fountain of joy to me. This is so important to hear & yeah the same goes for me. If you're struggling reach out to me or Alice or someone you trust. So many here have helped me feel less alone. I'd like to return the kindness.

GottaLaff , to random
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#MSNBC should be ashamed.

sentient_water ,
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@otownKim @GottaLaff Please share their email address so we can all join in.

breadandcircuses , to random
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What does it mean to be collapse-aware?

Below are some excerpts from a recent article by Alan Urban that discusses this. I'd be interested in your thoughts.

Also, for those who (predictably) are going to yell at me for being a 'doomer', my next couple of posts will be about solutions, changes we must make soon if we're aiming for a slightly less dire future.

If you’re collapse-aware, it means you’ve learned enough about climate change, pollution, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss to conclude that civilization is unsustainable and will eventually collapse.

Whether the collapse happens suddenly or takes several decades, and whether it happens soon or in the distant future, is up for debate. But the end result is the same: a pre-industrial world with a much smaller population.

It could be a world where nearly everyone works from sunup to sundown to put food on the table. It could be a world where people have to hunt and gather for survival, constantly moving in search of food and resources. Or it could be a world where humans, along with most other creatures, have gone extinct.

Before 2020, I was a techno-optimist. I believed advances in technology would allow us to overcome our problems and create a world where everyone was free to pursue their interests and lead a happy life. Goddamn was I naive.

In the fall of that year, I learned that the problem was much worse than I had thought. Climate change wasn’t the main problem. In fact, climate change — along with pollution, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss — were merely symptoms of a much bigger problem: overshoot.

For those who don’t know, overshoot is when a species exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecosystem. As a result, the ecosystem is unable to produce enough food for the species, and the population collapses. Once a species goes into overshoot, collapse is inevitable. There’s no way out.

According to the Global Footprint Network, humans exceeded the carrying capacity of planet Earth over 50 years ago. That means it’s only a matter of time before the human population collapses. The only question is when.

FULL ESSAY -- https://www.collapsemusings.com/what-it-means-to-be-collapse-aware/

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

sentient_water ,
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@breadandcircuses I feel seen & less alone.

sentient_water , to random
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Read this story from Cory Doctorow on Medium: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-03-11-no-foia-id-tell-you-but-then-id-have-to-kill-you-a5b11390153f

"It’s easy to feel powerless in these times, as local newsrooms close, and elected officials embrace disinformation as a standard political tool. But here’s what you can do, and we promise it’ll make you feel better: Pick a local agency — it could be a city council, a sheriff’s office or state department of natural resources — and send them an email demanding their public record-request log, or any other record showing what requests they receive, how long it took them to respond, whether they turned over records, and how much they charged the requester for copies."

@eff @pluralistic

sentient_water , to random
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I don't often promote stuff here but I just got an 18 book ebook collection from @pluralistic for a steal. Just about finished Walkaway & it's got me hooked. Anyway it's all DRM free & gives a donation to the @eff as well.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cory-doctorow-novel-collection-tor-books-books

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