malena

just moved from a big mastodon server to a new user-owned server by and for Alaskans!

obligate organizer, systems thinker, radical optimist, public good believer, artsy generalist

settler on Lingít lands

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2024-09-23 20:17:59

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it’s a winding road but the direction is clear. in stark contrast to its self-conception as global police & peacekeeper, the US acts in violation of its own laws and international law to escalate regional problems into full blown war. the cause of this is deep corruption of the US political process, in which pay to play donor politics defeat the will of voters and subvert democracy itself

2024-09-23 20:04:08

“The core fact remains that the only power that can change Israel’s calculations toward a durable ceasefire in Gaza is the US. Unfortunately Biden is unwilling to bring the pressure that would be necessary to get to that ceasefire which would then effectively [hasten] ceasefire in Lebanon. [Without that] it will be very difficult to avert a much higher level of war and disaster for the peoples of the region”
Nicholas Noe, Editor-in-chief, Mideastwire.com
https://pca.st/episode/bfcdcc7f-f770-4d73-b608-d0fe6b1c109b

2024-09-19 03:58:11

vast majority of earth’s nations officially call on Israel to end its occupation, and not only does the US oppose the majority, we maintain a ceaseless flow of 2,000 lbs bombs to Israel — I can’t compartmentalize that. don’t want to
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/un-general-assembly-overwhelmingly-calls-for-end-of-israeli-occupation

2024-09-13 19:31:07

the only fun thing early menopause has given me is zero fucks

2024-09-11 16:30:52

if musk tried to give me a child I would try to give him the end of his life

2024-09-01 17:43:45

“this suggests that getting hit by an additional 1,000lbs of steel and aluminium—roughly the difference between a Toyota Camry and a Ford Explorer—boosts the likelihood of death by 66%.”
the economist publishes research on how US car bloat kills people
no paywall: https://archive.ph/faiXa
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/063/534/302/634/755/original/32acdb43737ea28f.jpeg

2024-08-30 05:55:11

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mastodon re-discovered, eons later, severed from planetary discourse and floating in space, happily whale posting still

2024-08-30 05:10:55

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@npub1tdn…c2mh bluesky has officially taken the “absolutely effing obsessed with twitter and musk” baton, godspeed comrades

2024-08-29 17:07:00

i enjoyed the novel Dog Stars by Peter Heller in 2012, but maybe i got too woke to enjoy his later novels, just returned The Last Ranger early. got through the fly fishing play by plays but couldn’t get past the flustered young bar maid whispering in our savior protagonist’s ear as she dodges unwelcome advances ⭐️⭐️ out of 5, maybe older white men will enjoy it
going back to my no novels by white males rule sorry
https://share.libbyapp.com/title/9451919
#books

2024-08-24 21:05:13

yall know forest fire smoke sends forest fungus and other microorganisms into your lungs and those can really hurt people? yall know sniffing lactobacillus (yogurt probiotics) improves symptoms associated with lung cancer and infections?
could be that "covid is airborne" is only the beginning of a new popular understanding of how microorganisms enter us, and to what affect
https://radiolab.org/podcast/9d5209706f0cb91a4248748a
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9194447/

2024-08-20 01:47:53

setting up my loser Dem convention bingo card, let’s see
🔘hottest it’s been in 120,000 years and we’re doing something about it
🔘fighting for $22/hr, the minimum livable wage according to an MIT calculator
🔘 1 in 4 of all our birds gone since 1970 (2.9 billion), we’re taking commensurate action to protect habitat
🔘 infinite economic growth is impossible on a finite planet, we’re introducing new indicators to measure our social and ecological health as a society
hmm what else

2024-08-19 20:29:27

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@npub18gr…2eew yeah, as she says, moving from low info voters to no info voters ain’t great

2024-08-16 19:14:43

going back to george floyd summer of 2020, when even our tiny rural town turned out hundreds of people who circled around the courthouse for 8 minutes of silence together, most wearing masks and holding signs
I continue to think that large majorities of us are so eager to walk together toward justice
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/973/295/078/244/324/original/c504dfa7a7954a54.jpeg

2024-08-16 19:03:04

once again subtooting a tweet I glanced at like 4 years ago that said something like
everyday billions of us wake up and remake the world exactly how it was but we could be creating something else, none of this is mandatory

2024-08-14 22:54:08

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if i was kamala i would go right to the press and be like i wouldn't think 45 was hot if he was the last mammal on earth and then do her trademark laugh for a long ass time

2024-08-14 22:51:42

pausing all other discourse to just note that trump said kamala was hot

2024-08-14 18:35:21

it is wild that folks are just now noticing that NYT and friends hate us. many noticed this a long time ago, like when NYT issued the social license for the Iraq War (655,000 civilians killed), or when NYT treated Sanders as it now (kind of) treats Harris
I've been waving my hands about people uncritically consuming NYT/WaPo/NPR/CNN/MSNBC and often just get relentlessly mansplained for it in the replies.
Hope folks will acknowledge Kamala Harris isn't the only thing these outlets get wrong

2024-08-12 20:42:28

I just joined the High Speed Rail Alliance as a member ❤️
https://www.hsrail.org/high-speed-rail-shirts/

2024-08-12 20:28:44

"A Cascadia ultra-HSR line, running at up to 250 mph, would take riders from Seattle to Portland or Vancouver (B.C.) in about an hour. That’s three times faster than car trips and flights (with terminal time). The projected cost is less than half the price of adding a single lane in each direction to I-5: $42 billion for HSR versus $108 billion for the new lane..."
https://www.hsrail.org/northwest/

2024-08-10 19:48:11

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 it’s hard to miss this summer. I definitely got it outdoors ☹️

2024-08-10 17:25:07

i have consumed many books and podcasts about it and so I do kind of understand how history has led us to this point where mainstream Americans simply do not care that we are blank checking a shock and awe genocide, with widespread torture, starvation, and mutilation but my heart will never comprehend it
More than 100 people killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli attack on a Gaza City school housing displaced Palestinians
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/8/10/israels-war-on-gaza-live-70000-flee-new-israeli-operation-in-khan-younis

2024-08-09 23:09:20

feeling very good about this years garlic and also too tired to deal with processing it
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/934/581/436/110/751/original/c6596e1ba07e3953.jpeg

2024-08-09 18:22:14

Harris has not yet signaled any change in US policy in regard to #Gaza.
Biden/Harris *did* change the definition of “ceasefire” so that they can cynically co-opt the language while continuing to send Israel the bombs they use to kill Palestinian kids (which is why movement demands have now shifted to arms embargo rather than ceasefire)
https://pca.st/episode/e993d4ed-797c-47f1-b0fb-187a69e1d2dd

2024-08-08 16:37:48

hold these two ideas at the same time, I know you can do it!
- people can vote to defeat 45 in November
- people can be informed about Dem candidates weak points

2024-08-07 17:35:56

Israel is running concentration camps full of starving Palestinians and also deciding who gets to serve in the United States congress — this doesn’t end until we end it
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/8/6/israel-set-up-facilities-dedicated-to-torturing-palestinians-rights-group

2024-08-04 23:03:45

history is still going, and that’s why it’s confusing to some white people why brown people are allowed in their countries at all. but aren’t *we* the ones who colonize, history keeps whispering in their ears

2024-08-04 20:44:14

today I’m feeling a little like the mastodon police so feel free to ignore this but
-> regularly posting or sharing current dramatic or incendiary events, but without citing any source, creates the kind of internet where lies and rumors distort reality, whether or not your post is true
-> regularly posting or sharing photo posts without attribution or alt text is damaging both to original artists/photographer and blind people
the human algo spreads posts very quickly here, share wisely

2024-08-04 01:04:11

it’s 2024 and we’re out here discussing if women can be strong or exist without children

2024-08-02 17:11:56

A well researched summary of Kamala Harris's occasionally spirited, but often ephemeral, positions on public health care in the US
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/kamala-harris-medicare-for-all

2024-08-01 16:50:49

liberals hate poor people more than fascists and then wonder why poor people don’t vote
(Reminder that teeth are luxury bones in the US and no one has dental health issues by choice)
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/887/794/639/736/422/original/53b8b0026f64cedc.jpeg

2024-07-30 16:44:02

my partner trusting mastadom’s expertise on Craigslist bikes
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/876/443/302/297/776/original/d7202e028e3550d5.jpeg

2024-07-30 03:18:42

“Proposals to slap a wealth tax on the world’s super-rich could yield $250bn a year to tackle the climate crisis and address poverty and inequality, but would affect only a small number of billionaire families, Brazil’s climate chief has said.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/28/brazil-radical-plan-tax-global-super-rich-tackle-climate-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2024-07-29 18:05:00

we're totally not the weirdos say the people who implemented a multi-decade plan to force 10 yr olds to give birth

2024-07-29 04:21:43

I really had a discussion on here with someone who was stubbornly mad the “karen” meme was a “slur” against white women, I will be thinking about that for a hot minute!
it’s natural for people to come at this moment in time with various levels of awareness but white people: be coachable! be humble before all we do not know!

2024-07-28 17:47:53

Lyz Lenz emerged from an evangelical upbringing and bad marriage to become the kind of midwest wine mom intersectional feminist we need way more of. It’s a manifesto for understanding US “marriage”, the functions it serves, and the people it harms. I come from a really different subculture but still found a lot to think on here, all the ⭐️s for Lyz #book
https://share.libbyapp.com/title/9893179

2024-07-28 00:35:29

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this is also about how the JDs want to demonize one of the few American characters who manage to escape a great deal of capitalism and patriarchy
with free childcare & healthcare, generous paid parental leave, free college, pensions and free elder care YOU TOO can live liberated like childless cat ladies who are cool and rad actually

2024-07-27 23:35:06

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like it’s fine to defend the dignity of those of us who don’t bear children, but this also isn’t really about us. think about how the entire structure of our society shifts if we support the full sexual freedom and pleasure of women, and the freedom of any person simply to exist on their terms without having to perform free sexual, parental, or household labor for anyone else as a means of survival, success, or just fitting in

2024-07-27 23:11:42

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cats symbolize self sufficient companionship, the bond of playful & cool indifference, the inability to domesticate. none of this is random

2024-07-27 23:10:03

idk if we’ve quite gotten to the pt of the childless cat lady discourse yet but we should. because few things fuck with US society harder than the threat of sexually free women unrestrained by the labor of marriage & parenting. JD may not understand how that works but he is right to be afraid

2024-07-27 18:04:34

nonprofit, co-op social media is like all other nonprofit & coop type things: they are rarely without controversy or tension because they are organized by people who were socialized in problematic hierarchies and doing their best to put different social patterns in play, but often failing.
failing is good because you have to do it in order to move forward, but bad because real people get churned up in the gears, and the churning hurts marginalized people worse

2024-07-27 16:19:56

the editor of counter punch pulls none
‘The only words Harris should have spoken to Netanyahu were these: “Stop your killing, withdraw your troops, return the detainees or the arms shipments will stop and I will back the ICC’s arrest warrants for you and your regime.”’
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/26/the-spirit-of-jezebel/

2024-07-26 18:13:17

code switch is an under appreciated pod, imo. always insightful
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1198004955/revisting-kamala-harris-prosecutor-racial-identity

2024-07-26 01:20:03

as a seasoned constituent of lisa murkowski let me remind folks that "voices concern" translates as "i understand you think raw corporate warfare is distasteful and that's too bad for you"
empathy without action is empty rhetoric
if harris changes our course on Gaza, it will be because movements made it impossible for her not to. join If Not Now, Uncommitted etc. to work on that...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/jul/26/i-will-not-be-silent-harris-voices-concern-for-gaza-after-meeting-with-netanyahu-video?CMP=share_btn_url

2024-07-26 00:53:53

"couch fucker" is a rad epithet actually, i welcome it to the discourse with pleasure

2024-07-25 00:57:22

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@npub1qag…9gyn so does doing the conga

2024-07-25 00:53:17

you're listening to president biden, i'm listening to gloria estafan, we are not hte same

2024-07-24 04:48:31

keep mastodon weird

2024-07-23 16:39:18

just did my first irl “let’s talk about why you don’t like when she smiles a lot”

2024-07-21 21:27:53

labor organizer Brett Banditelli: "Although Kamala and I disagree on core issues, we know the risk of a second Trump presidency and l'm excited to see individuals across the political spectrum unite behind her candidacy. Although we may fight in the future, today we're united to defeat the biggest threat. #UnionsForAll"
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/826/592/918/138/402/original/5a6b1c1e3bb863d2.png

2024-07-21 15:45:02

joe manchin can stfu

2024-07-21 03:29:47

i'm undercover on bluesky being weird

2024-07-20 22:14:54

since i was in southern Oregon for both the 108F temps and my (presumed) second covid case, thought I would just pass these along
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/821/114/259/070/703/original/484775a274fdc54b.png
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/821/114/299/696/761/original/e66f44b51c839542.png

2024-07-19 22:28:20

"Let me be direct:
1. President Biden should endorse Kamala for President
2. He should direct his delegates to vote for her, aggressively campaign for her, and call on Democrats to unite around her
3. Kamala can improve on Biden's standing by winning back younger, Black, Latino and women voters"
Max Berger, co-founder of More Perfect Union, former Justice Dem etc. https://bsky.app/profile/maxberger.bsky.social/post/3kxo36hdrr427

2024-07-19 20:18:04

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@npub106e…wxgn i ship on major international airlines, i'm not talking about my business (we are the cargo, not the shipper)

2024-07-19 20:11:59

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@npub106e…wxgn idk i'm just running a lot of cargo through major airports and had all my problems yesterday, so i'm confused about the timing of the IT outages

2024-07-19 17:46:42

love how aoc introduces her ideas
"If you think joe biden should step down, i'm not here to attack you. but i'm going to take you through my thinking, if you disagree with it, that's fine. we can all come to our own conclusions"
she goes on to say hey, we're all motivated by wanting to defeat trump, and we're all very worried. let's step away from this keyboard culture of freaking out and assuming anyone who disagrees with us is bad/dumb/corrupt
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9l41vgOAGj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

2024-07-19 02:04:41

who came up with the idea that people can’t have ponies. if I run for office it’s gonna be a simple platform: everyone gets a little pony
https://mstdn.social/@CP93/111594042242781392

2024-07-12 16:14:54

practicing solidarity vs demanding unity
what I love about “practicing solidarity” as a frame is that it affords everyone agency, and it acknowledges that this is a set of skills and way of life that requires practice. it’s not a one and done hierarchical demand from on high. it’s a call to the circle of humanity and an earnest ask of each of us: look around, who needs the protection of the group, how can we best leverage our diversity on behalf of our most vulnerable

2024-07-12 00:10:09

mastodon be less liberal challenge

2024-07-11 15:00:05

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@npub10sy…cdrt that’s the kind of property that should get destructed

2024-07-07 23:49:37

after a week in fire country, i'm a #WatchDuty believer. really cool nonprofit model for coordinating instant alerts from multiple agencies beyond social media bubbles
"Watch Duty is a service, not an app, powered by over 100 volunteers – firefighters, dispatchers, and first responders – who diligently monitor radio scanners and other official sources 24 hours a day to send you the most up-to-date information."
https://www.watchduty.org/

2024-07-03 05:38:50

catching up on all the scotus posts and my dudes, of course the bad guys will grab power and install cronies—the real question we have to get serious about asking is why have the democrats spent 40 years watching it happen and telling us nothing can ever be done about it

2024-07-03 05:14:19

my friends have realized I don’t get their Instagram messages since I don’t go on Instagram so now they download and text me things like this which is great
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/720/843/541/048/135/original/f7854e22be5b3bff.mp4

2024-07-01 22:32:02

fun fact: through incentivizing my customers to use checks and e-check payment, i have diverted nearly $1000 in credit card fees over the last few months to this amazing all volunteer non profit in my town with the mission to "provide connection of basic needs for people experiencing housing insecurity while educating the community on the importance of housing first and preventing homelessness in Petersburg."
https://www.psghumanity.org/

2024-06-28 16:58:38

Alaska encompasses more lands than California and Texas combined, and after a decade+ of modern misinfo campaigning, our state apparatus is a warren of cronies and Christian nationalists run by and for Conoco Phillips
As someone who used to direct an environmental org in Alaska, I can tell you that weakening federal regulations puts many ecosystems, and the people who have lived as part of them for millenia, in the cross hairs of relentless & careless industrial extraction #chevron

2024-06-26 02:42:54

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@npub10sy…cdrt powerful! the color and proportions really work, it’s luminous

2024-06-25 17:56:12

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@npub1dgz…4q3g Pamela A has more than one right? I always see them on my library app feed

2024-06-24 20:52:37

"if #biden loses its the fault of young apathetic voters"
since you all keep trying to sell this car, let's check under the hood...
- unlikely voters skew young, low wage, BIPOC -- people who are often excluded from economic stability due to low wages, housing insecurity, student and medical debt, and the need to care for under resourced family and friends
- the hypothetical privileged young leftists this theory demonizes are statistically irrelevant, stop hating ghosts

2024-06-23 17:35:33

one problem with telling Americans we are ruled by oligarchs is that Americans only care about oligarchs if they are Russian or from the Middle East. Apply the word domestically and suddenly people legit have no idea what it means

2024-06-21 23:15:43

we’re all in charge of remembering someone I guess and I have been choosing to remember Lauri Carleton, who was shot dead in the United States of America last year for flying a rainbow flag in public
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna100849

2024-06-21 05:51:49

A 9000 person climate corps is not nothing but in my dreams it’s 90,000, nay it is 900,000!
https://grist.org/solutions/american-climate-corps-swearing-in-ceremony/

2024-06-15 18:49:55

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@npub17u8…uhnv this has been on my list! just purchased at audiobooks.com & looking forward to reading it

2024-06-12 18:27:19

Managing a mastodon server of 50-100 has been so far doable for our crew, and the cost is about $300 a year. it’s possible that this is a scale at which ad-free, user-owned social media works well. it does require 10% of the members help govern, but I think that’s good practice for co-op culture in general. Also pay what you can works fine at this scale and sorts itself out

2024-06-10 17:23:18

I love when the sky does this
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/593/482/192/370/933/original/5a6018ea6f6c634a.jpeg

2024-06-10 01:56:06

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viciously blaming all current problems on hypothetical leftists or nonvoters is a big win for fascists: they really want you sitting at your keyboard enraged at your own base or an abstract left wing. because then you’re not out building community with vulnerable people, you’re not having nuanced and intelligent discussion with folk who have different life experiences, you’re not — to put it bluntly — practicing the kind of solidarity that defeats fascism

2024-06-10 00:56:13

if you’ve ever tried to organize political change irl, you know that broad appeals on social media are a footnote to your real work of spreadsheets, phone calls, knocking on doors, and learning how to meet folks where they’re at & catalyze action. you know you don’t turn out your votes or actions by posting, and you definitely know that insulting people is not persuasive and gives your cause a bad name

2024-06-09 04:16:48

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Let me clarify “indoor air revolution” for the contrarians — there are ways to design or retrofit buildings to increase air exchange and flow, including with window placements and passive ventilation and strategic use of basic fans. We can make schools and hospitals etc healthier for everyone by recognizing, as we once did with sewage and sanitation, that we can design sickness out of our living spaces

2024-06-09 02:34:53

New research suggests the concentration of CO2 is not only a potential indicator of airborne virus incidence, but that relatively high CO2 concentration helps keep virus particles viable due to pH levels. it is definitely time for that indoor air revolution!
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/112584279962798365

2024-06-08 17:44:16

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 I mean I live in the US’s 14th busiest fishing port so maybe not but who cares

2024-06-08 17:40:06

#SeaweedSaturday found this massive kelp frond on the beach and carried it around, ate a few bites, took photos
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/582/223/601/089/097/original/198f3fd4fa8dea11.jpeg

2024-06-06 23:24:34

sadly the era of easy data reference for Covid wastewater levels is over with Biobot taking its Covid graphs away 💔.
I dug into CDCs data and found Alaska (only 3 sites reporting) is above even the US west coast’s recent spike
https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/572/253/475/695/146/original/54344efa890e9f81.png

2024-06-06 17:00:49

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@npub1qk5…jlda thanks for this window into your world!

2024-06-05 17:44:54

48 degrees and raining hard today in Petersburg, quite the mid week storm off the gulf. boaters around here canceled plans amid big winds yesterday
#MyAlaskaWx

2024-06-03 19:22:32

just to expand on Arendt's whole banality of evil thing: this entire climate crisis, gaza genocide and a great deal of past and modern white supremacy and colonizer bullshit coasts on social processes made possible be careerism and respectability politics. the road to right now has been so polite, so professional

2024-06-01 22:10:50

H5N1 can go airborne, who could have foreseen
https://mastodon.social/@SylvainLagu/112538122078550173

2024-05-31 20:55:30

finally read this older piece from Sarah Kendzior on trump & garland et al that one of you posted and just, yikes
“… It is easier to attribute disaster to one political party instead of examining networks and recurring figures responsible for a multitude of tragedies over the past twenty-five years.”
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-of-the-mafia-state

2024-05-31 19:18:17

“I can’t be any happier that I’m alive to see something like this”
Beautiful audio postcard of the Tlingit canoe delegation’s landing in Petersburg this week on their long, traditional paddle up the Inside Passage to Celebration in Juneau, a once per 2 years event where Tribal people from our region come together for song, dance, parade etc
https://www.kfsk.org/2024/05/31/canoes-journeying-to-celebration-welcomed-in-petersburg/

2024-05-22 21:48:26

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@npub1mdk…aptk to be excruciatingly honest i wrote my first 1000 words last night on this topic, and am keen on the 1000 words a day method, but you know also working full time at the moment

2024-05-22 21:35:17

this is where I’m coming from with #SocialTech for changing culture, we need to rescue the idea of change/innovation/evolution from capitalism and its bros and girl bosses. We need a working vision & definition of technology that centers long term societies oriented around life itself, not just short term profits for a few. this is def a note to self for my upcoming book lol https://fediscience.org/@steve/112486844345257840

2024-05-19 17:05:25

sipping my coffee like it’s the tears of jesus, blood of gods, ancient serum of everlasting life

2024-05-18 17:49:47

if I were biden, I’d whip every single willing rep and senator into a full action plan to bring integrity to the supreme court, starting with the demand that judges whose households have documented partisan or ethics issues involving politicians must be recused from all decisions involving those leaders
https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/may/18/samuel-alito-flag-supreme-court-ethics-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2024-05-18 01:40:51

if you ask me to provide music for your parade float I SHOW UP
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/459/543/156/880/272/original/8f7f6e4233937427.jpeg

2024-05-17 22:14:05

people who pop on social media to act super cavalier about nuclear waste always give me pause. the track record speaks for itself — we don’t live in a hypothetical society, we live in a world that can’t even produce frying pans without killing bystanders, natural disasters are not predictable, and advanced civ is itself in jeopardy.
fine to debate the finer points and possibilities of nuclear but the weird guy condescending attitude that its dumb or wrong to be cautious has got to go

2024-05-15 05:32:51

if anyone is looking for something to feel good about on this timeline: anchorage, alaska just voted out their corrupt & christofascist mayor 🥳

2024-05-14 05:36:02

just glanced at this #openai tag and imagining if we applied this level of innovation and resources to neighborhood scale organic food systems or healing generational trauma

2024-05-11 17:36:30

my ancient iphone 8 couldn't really grasp what was happening, but my ancient panasonic lumix picked up quite a bit with its little leica lens on aperture priority #aurora #alaska
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2024-05-10 22:50:32

nbd we're just cruising through a magnitude g4 solar storm rn

2024-05-10 19:09:15

For ever $1000 you purchase at a small business...
pay by credit card: about $30 to credit card corporation, $970 to small biz
pay by cash or paper check: $1000 to small biz
pay by e-check: about $10 to banks, $990 to small biz
most small businesses have 10-30% profit margin, so a 3% credit card fee may actually be 1/10 -1/3 of their profit on your transaction

2024-05-10 16:42:04

imagine having this much wealth and influence and choosing to descend into performative, anti-youth, pro-war, condescending punditry as a way of life
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2024-05-05 06:03:25

remember how the US post office was doing great actually, pretty phenomenal really, until republicans pulled that weird forward funding crap and then trump installed one of his own corrupt mega donors to run the place and then Joe Biden just left it like that