Pretty cool that we went from "there's a garbage patch in the ocean the size of Texas" to "there's garbage on Everest and on the ocean floor" to "there's toxic garbage in our lungs and blood" without anyone anywhere giving a shit
A mature saguaro takes 125 years to grow. They keep going down around Phoenix thanks to the delay of the monsoon (getting some today finally) and cumulative heat without recovery! Through today 4th longest stretch without measurable rain (138 days). Photo:
@AmberSullins
The usual response to ecological collapse, when there is one, is to shrug dismissively and say "well what's the alternative?" and motherfucker, we are the only species on the planet that lives like this, working ourselves to death to kill ourselves and everything around us
It can't be said enough that both the decision to demolish a forest to build a mock city to train cops in urban warfare, and the decision to let cops murder a forest defender there, happened under Democrats. You know, the official opposition to fascism we all know and love
there's been a real lack of willingness to connect Gaza and the climate crisis, not just in the sense of "Israel and the US are climate criminals" but in the sense that genocide is the industrialized world's solution to climate change, to build a wall and kill everyone outside it
[looking at an AI-generated picture of the pope but the pope is like wearing a santa hat or something, and also my body is filled with toxic plastic waste] incredible, to live in such a time of wonders
@Kahlil_Kasir
hello perfectly normal person here, I just spent hours going through a bunch of paintings so I could give myself a reason to call a queer man of color a slur
Look, Jesus wants you to be the president of the animals, the boss animal, while Satan wants you to just hang out and be friends with a bunch of birds and bugs, which, uh, would be, bad?
This is your "green energy" - an ecosystem bulldozed in the desperate search to extract anything and everything from the earth as the planet is rendered increasingly uninhabitable
4,200 Joshua trees are scheduled to be removed are replaced by solar panels for the Aratina Solar Project near Boron, CA in June of this year. They will not be salvaged but funds based on the size of the tree will be placed in a mitigation bank.
I was fine with Bill Maher when he was being racist and sexist and wanted to kill everyone in the Middle East but I draw the line at his making fun of Spiderman comics
This is Pando, a giant clonal colony of quaking aspen, each tree just one stem of a single immense organism at least 80,000 years old, one of the oldest and largest living things on the planet
The Environment: weird niche issue for nerds and hippies, who cares
The Economy: very important, everyone believes in Economy, the very real science of why you have to work forever for a faraway man in a house made of gold
@MKupperman
great idea to set up a social network (thing where you want as many people as possible to join) and have a system where in order to get in you have to find one of Wonka's golden tickets
@alch3mii
@raynefq
bananas famously go bad really fast, maybe she realized she only needed one banana, why you gotta put her on blast for having modest banana needs
[as I am disappeared by the secret police] is this legal, though? is this in keeping with the constitution? is this, strictly speaking, in line with the wishes of the framers? is this, legally speaking,
fuck yeah, rain is poison now, if you’re outside and it’s raining that’s just poison falling from the sky and we did that, that’s Science, that’s Progress
No one writing these stories has apparently ever shoplifted anything because it’s way easier to steal deodorant by like sticking it in your pocket and walking out the door than going in with a mob of big dudes to tackle The Dry Idea Score
without downloading any new pictures, without downloading any pictures at all, without looking at any pictures, closing your eyes and clearing your mind of any images at all, releasing your self and your consciousness into the void,
[19th century] I just blew up the czar, I shot the president in the brain cause I saw the president on the street and I don't like presidents
[today] this old mass murderer died peacefully in his sleep at a thousand and three and I just posted a gif about it, bam, got im
@atothe_d
I haven’t eaten meat in like fifteen years but my memory of chain fried chicken places is that they were basically the same but they all had weird fanbases for some reason
there's no way to vote out fascism because this is a system that tends towards fascism, there's no reforming it, no good and just people who will listen if you go through the "proper channels," the only thing to do is burn it to the ground
Big changes are coming to Twitter!
- there will still be Nazis
- there will be new, faster ways for Nazis to get you banned for talking back to Nazis
- you will not be able to see how many likes and retweets you are getting, from Nazis
People burned down police stations and cop cars and liberals told them to settle down and vote for Democrats, and they did, and what we get is more money for cops
Saw someone passingly refer to manatees as stupid so it's worth pointing out that 1. no, they're not 2. the conflation of stupidity with vulnerability and gentleness results from our psychotic and predatory culture which sees any form of "weakness" as an effective death sentence
@MattPostSaysHi
it only "rarely works" because there's only a couple dozen left because europeans introduced cats and rats to new zealand and they wiped out all the other kakapos, kakapos' lek breeding system worked fine when they were as common as rabbits
I live in the most advanced civilization in history, the one where everyone spends their lives working themselves to death to turn everything around them into toxic waste
there's a tendency on the left to pretend this is just about American imperialism or about Biden being an old racist asshole when the truth is we're living in a civilization built on suffering and mass murder and the plan is to keep that going until the last of us are dead
incredible, yet terrifying… this new AI chat program effortlessly simulates any animal… within a year it will replace all our barnyard creatures… I fear for the future and also need more money to develop it
2004: Torture - good, or less good? Voters disagree
2010: Flying remote-controlled deathbots: what does our panel think?
2018: Child concentration camps: a land of contrasts