lol

https://bsky.app/profile/laurajedeed.bsky.social/post/3mpud3blgds2o

i was actually gonna make a joke post that patriots should stay on the mall and remember that lightning is woke, but it turns out they are already saying that anyway

The US banned Hawaiian language, overthrew our country, poisoned our water, devastated our universal healthcare, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. My mother's hands were broken for speaking Hawaiian in school. The US is not a beacon but the destroyer of independence

Amusing

https://bsky.app/profile/leighsus.bsky.social/post/3mpttbnh4dk2a

Chuck Tingle, proponent of love, has had it with July 4

"your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour."

2/2

--Frederick Douglass

"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; "

1/2

I would kill or die for Larry the cat.

new metaphor just dropped

Betting markets are allowing bets on wildfires -- wow, this is a another great sabotage one that I never even would have come up with. Really, I'm impressed.

The best music video ever made -- Devo's cover of "Are You Experienced"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKXaVYZYEtM

There's a US Congressional investigation report called "From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday".

Damn right a Nazi America doesn't get a birthday party. Americans don't deserve one. I hope that Trump rips off every last dime.

#uspol

Found a Fediverse posting starter pack

#cats #catsofmastodon #asstodon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@richpuchalsky/116850753221366226

Reposting the picture of this absolute unit of a bird who graced our yard with (her?) meaty presence.

People talk about biophilia, and I'm firmly of the opinion that biophilia arose as a way of having beings attracted to places where there would be many good things to eat.

Decided to stop for a flat white before work, and this raven tried to feed me breakfast. I did not order food; he actually picked that off another table and gifted it to me.

This is why I prefer animals over people. I don't have to be "useful" in order to not be ignored.

On Saturday June 21, a 23 year old anti-fascist was stabbed by a fascist in Göttingen, Germany. As a result of his injuries, he was in a coma for three days. The following Saturday, June 27th, 1,500 anti-fascists took to the streets of Göttingen in a show of solidarity with their injured comrade.

Solidarity means attack!

https://kolektiva.media/w/rWv8ugP2UsTXtmNPcaMtqj

PPS: "Everyone is just admitting it." What is the proper emotional response to someone who says "Well, we could have the useless product 'AI', or lots of us could die", and then chooses death? Publicly, knowing that the people will just nod their heads?

Contempt.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/post/3mpooxkyk522b

Massive, ultra-detailed report about the climate, air pollution and water disasters created by America's fossil fuelled data centre boom. There is such a huge amount of v v useful information in this report

Includes a huge free table of all gas plants

environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/u...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@richpuchalsky/116845897809361231

More about this (and quoting a post boosted by Tim from Polycrisis): the US has unlimited rock phosphate and is phosphate fertilizer independent, but 30% of the global sulfur supply used to produce sulfuric acid to process rock phosphate comes from the Persian Gulf

PS: "June 22-28 saw 20,390 heat-related deaths across Europe": this is only the beginning. We'll be very lucky to only have millions of deaths, as opposed to hundreds of millions, from all of the connected and incipient disasters we've caused.