Oh bsky not again

Seriously needs a fail whale

Sorrento Fire: Suspect charged with arson, due in court Wednesday
https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2026/08/17/sorrento-fire-suspect-charged-with-arson-due-in-court-wednesday?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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I want a society designed around people.

Not quarterly profits.
Not shareholder value.
Not “disruption.”
Not making some tech bro with a rocket fetish another billion richer.

And certainly not teaching human beings to arrange their lives around whatever algorithm happens to be hungry today.

Technology is a tool.

A magnificent one! Give me solar panels, open-source software, accessible public transport, robots doing the filthy and dangerous jobs, libraries full of knowledge, green cities, beautiful trains, community gardens, and machines that quietly make everyone's lives easier.

But the question should always be:
“Does this make human life better?”

Not:
“Can we monetise it?”
Not:
“Can we automate it?”
Not:
“Can we scale it to infinity?”

And definitely not:
“Can we make people click on it 47 times before they can see the thing they actually wanted?”
😌

I don't want a shiny dystopia with better branding.

I want technology serving people.
Cities serving communities.
Economies serving human flourishing.
Humanity living as part of nature rather than treating the planet like a particularly inconvenient warehouse.
Build things that help us live.
Build things that help us care for one another.
Build things that give people more time to be alive.

And if your business model requires everyone to be miserable so that you can become a trillionaire…

Darling.

Perhaps your business model is the thing that needs disrupting. 💅🌱

#HumanCentered #PeopleOverProfit #PostCapitalism #Solarpunk #SustainableFuture #TechForPeople #GreenFuture #Community

Surviving shouldn't be the ceiling. Everyone deserves more than just getting by.

Trans CIA analyst explains how Laura Loomer got her fired from her job briefing Trump officials
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/trans-cia-analyst-explains-how-laura-loomer-got-her-fired-from-her-job-briefing-officials/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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‘There is nothing else’: Californians face eviction as insurer cancels assisted living benefit
https://www.kpbs.org/news/health/2026/08/17/there-is-nothing-else-californians-face-eviction-as-insurer-cancels-assisted-living-benefit?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Went to visit a "Community Farm" today in my town.

The farm is completely run by volunteers. All food produced goes into the local food bank, free fridges, and similar.

They had a goal of harvesting 60,000 lbs ( ~27,000 kg) this year.

They've already reached that goal.

Now they're pushing for 100,000 lbs ( ~45,000 kg) by the end of the year.

Website and Contact: https://www.rappahannockfarm.org/

Latest Updates via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Rappahannock-Education-Farm-61551104154024/

#solarpunk #foodscarcity #communityfarm

“The bourgeoisie loves so-called “positive” types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.”
- Anton Chekhov, in a letter to A.S. Suvorin. (April 13, 1895)

> New recruits are joining the military in big numbers, but not for reason Hegseth says https://abcnews.com/Politics/new-recruits-joining-military-big-numbers-reason-hegseth/story?id=135546620

The reason is the usual reason, especially in a #BadEconomy: "...steady pay, education benefits, job training and a direct path to the middle class."

#miitary #warfare #HardTimes #AmericanEmpire

I just signed the petition demanding justice for 18-year-old Alisa Hackett. She was crying for her mom when a state trooper threw her to the ground and punched her in the face with a closed fist. He remains on active duty!
Join me in demanding an independent investigation and the immediate FIRING of the state trooper who punched Alisa.
https://share.weareultraviolet.org/s/RW9SBCjy

"Let's be real. We voted for this. I'll take the blame."

I'm not concerned about blame. I care that these people change how they vote in every race. The problems we're creating aren't due to Trump; they're due to Republicans.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/16/texas-democrats-hispanics-gerrymander-01038880

After 71 Years, Columbia House Closes for Good: The Mail-Order Giant That Defined a Generation Is Gone | Cord Cutters News https://cordcuttersnews.com/after-71-years-columbia-house-closes-for-good-the-mail-order-giant-that-defined-a-generation-is-gone/

#stunting #computers #walnuts

"Forget Raspberry Pis, mini PCs, and laptops. Someone looked at a walnut and thought, 'You know what this needs? Windows XP.'"

https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2026/08/14/someone-crammed-a-working-windows-xp-pc-inside-a-walnut/

“There are different types of value,” the bookseller said. “There's monetary value...(but there's also) historical value, intellectual value, sentimental value. All sorts of things, and all of those the AI companies don't care about. They just want the content as a bunch of words strung together.”

"A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health."
https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year/

: #delusionaldon #democrats #donaldthehoaxtrump #eightysix47 #makebelieveeconomy #nokings #trumpcurse #trumpstein #trumpsteincoverup #trumpublicans #uspol #uspolitics @uspolitics :

“Trump and his MAGA minions would like nothing more than to numb you, me, and the rest of us to their growing archipelago of death, a bloodstained map that stretches from the icy streets of Minneapolis to a dingy detention site in Newark, and from a bomb-blasted island off Iran to the sickbeds in an African refugee camp. They want us to feel numb as their authoritarian death cult expands, and we cannot allow that to happen.

"The truth is that the United States will remain a global pariah — a pitiful, helpless giant — as long as there is no accountability for these war crimes, including, or perhaps especially, the terror perpetrated by mystery men with American flag patches on the high seas. That means public hearings, trials, prison sentences, and the kind of truth and reconciliation this nation has not seen before.”

Will Bunch. Gift link.

https://share.inquirer.com/SVJriM

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/117111225982253256

Amazon goes from book seller to book destroyer.

Perfect.

Yale study: “A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace.” https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year