Sally Strange

Chronic illness, probably neurodivergent. White & anti-whiteness. #SolarPunk #Climate #DeGrowth #StrawBale #LivingMachine #Construction #Engineering #Crochet #GreenBuilding #SciFi #Anarchy
Liberals DNI. Just kidding, I love you liberals. Don't block me just because I'm right

pronouns: she/hers
Territory: Onondaga
As old as: Star Wars
Queer AF: Family friendly

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2026-03-23 15:13:25 UTC

Current status: frazzled and stressed because I've been sick, and Spouse got so sick that they were admitted to the hospital overnight. They're doing fine now and will be discharged later today. But I'm under a deadline at work and I ran out of sick days anyway so I'm trying hard to concentrate. But as you can see from how I'm posting during the middle of the day, that's challenging. Anyway, y'all, please take care of yourselves. No job is worth your health. 🩵🩵🩵

2026-02-21 15:01:17 UTC

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There was this Latvian (I think) folk-rock-electro artist from the late 90s, I can't remember her name or the album name. Just that it had a portrait of her in front of a wall covered in climbing vines. She was really ahead of her time.

2026-02-10 01:42:36 UTC

If you're an artist, I love you. What you do is important and I appreciate it all. Keep on keepin' on.

2026-02-06 01:40:15 UTC

I wish every crypto miner a very broke as fuck
https://futurism.com/future-society/bitcoin-crashing-miners-unplugging-equipment

2026-02-03 02:13:51 UTC

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Both people here have limited access to health care, very little money, and extreme distrust of psychology and psychiatry. One seems to have beliefs that verge on delusional, and the other one enables those beliefs. I asked for this specifically because I think it will at least provide some useful perspectives and maybe a strategy or two for things like setting boundaries. I don't take my choice of language lightly, so if I'm missing something here that's harmful, please let me know.

2026-02-02 20:01:08 UTC

I'd love some YouTube recommendations on the subject of dealing with narcissistic parents and siblings. Asking for a friend. (No, really, I lucked out in the family department.)

2026-02-02 17:54:21 UTC

Blows my mind that there are still people who think it should be illegal for anyone, anywhere, to move to a new place and get a job there.
#BordersAreBullshit #Borders #BordersAreMurders #BordersAreViolence #MovementIsAHumanRight

2025-12-26 05:22:08 UTC

AI slop is Soylent Green. And it really is made of people.

2025-12-12 17:48:06 UTC

It's my birthday, this is your invitation to post gifs, emojis, and warm wishes. If you wish to do more, please peruse the #MutualAid hashtag and give some money to someone who needs it.
Love you all! It's been 7+ years on this platform and it's been mostly great. I'm so glad we're still chugging along. I still think decentralized social media is the future.

2025-12-08 13:48:00 UTC

Trans lesbian is homeless in Austin - just trying to raise a few hundred dollars to get her back on her feet.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-lyliths-journey-to-safety-and-independence/cl/s
Please boost! #boost #MutualAid #LGBTQIA #queer #Trans

2025-11-28 19:07:08 UTC

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It's tragic and ironic--doesn't mean anyone feels bad for them. If you sign up to be a soldier and then get deployed to be a cop in your home country, and then don't immediately quit, then you're basically asking for it.

2025-11-12 18:55:06 UTC

So the latest on my local data center fight: the people behind it have belatedly hired someone to do PR for them and a local lawyer. Suddenly, it has always been a hydroponics research project with the server racks just an alternate method of providing the heat needed for indoor growing during the winter. Also, where before they were just "representatives" of Eco Yotta Inc, now they're the actual owners. And gosh maybe they might just move to the town if it all works out! And nevermind about them being able to purchase a multimillion dollar piece of real estate, they drive a Honda so clearly they're not THAT rich! Oh and also neither of them have any expertise in hydroponics but the wife used to run a day care center, so they're also thinking about starting some kind of childcare/child development tracking app.
It all sounds scammy as hell to me. Reality check: am I crazy? Can anyone else read this article and tell me if I'm overreacting? https://archive.is/rwkU0
Their company website has gone from all AI all the time to under construction to [this](https://ecoyotta.com ) and it still triggers my workplace safety filters.
I found out that their company registration was done in California, at an address that has about 150 other companies registered as having their headquarters, too.
#noAI #DataCenters

2025-11-08 16:38:07 UTC

How do I get my partner to stop saying "Do you want to do x" when what they really mean is "I want to do x"

2025-11-03 14:29:15 UTC

Very frustrating that debates about Daylight Saving™* Time vs standard time are always "should we keep it or not" and never "why can't we just adjust our schedules for different times of year without forcing everyone in the USA to pretend time itself has somehow changed?"
*it's a lie! The amount of daylight is the same no matter how we set our clocks!
https://mastodon.social/@rperezrosario/115482997902087975

2025-10-27 16:04:38 UTC

I know there's no such thing as a free lunch, which is fine, I brought my lunch. But is there any such thing as a free PDF editor?

2025-10-26 13:04:30 UTC

Thinking of everyone in Jamaica today, even my sister-in-law (we don't get along). Not much to do now except watch and pray and get ready to send help once the hurricane departs. #HurricaneMelissa

2025-10-22 18:40:49 UTC

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Have you had chicken pox?

2025-10-22 18:37:23 UTC

Two more years until I can get my shingles vaccine! I will be so mad if I get shingles right before I turn 50.

2025-10-22 14:00:44 UTC

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I can't lie, the preamble is kind of cool. At least compared to the rest of the Constitution.

2025-10-22 14:00:02 UTC

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I get it, you want to "save the republic" but maybe you shouldn't? Just a thought.

2025-10-22 13:58:01 UTC

Please do not tell me that the Constitution is an "antifa manual."
The Constitution is literally a slavery manual. Stop.

2025-10-16 16:26:21 UTC

Never not going to be conflicted about people calling the US military "antifa". Like. Come on now

2025-09-29 19:53:23 UTC

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
Soooo... Practice? Insanity is when you practice?

2025-09-29 19:18:41 UTC

Just thought I would share with you some stuff that I see while I'm at work. Moo! These cows are right about to decide that I'm too unsettling to be around.
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/289/176/217/833/174/original/15e8230f90b8fbd6.jpg
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/289/179/456/431/680/original/1a47debd06fd3f93.jpg

2025-09-24 15:32:53 UTC

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"We’re familiar with redlining. The real estate industry, big banks, and the federal government collaborated on home valuation schema that tethered race to risk, denied mortgages to millions of Black and brown people, and ensured most would be trapped in a captive housing market as tenants. But Ansfield’s book studies a later wave and a novel form of extractive abandonment: insurance “brownlining.” After riots erupted in almost 2,000 cities and towns in the late 1960s, Ansfield writes, “insurance personnel were, in a real sense, capitalism’s first responders,” working in an industry that aimed to convert “black resistance … into dollars and cents.” Surveying the damage, many insurance companies declared Black neighborhoods uninsurable. Riots had forced a racial reckoning—and inspired a racial panic. The federal government cut a deal with the insurance industry that reflected both: In exchange for a government backstop of reinsurance, companies would have to offer property owners in “riot-prone” areas access to Fair Access to Insurance Requirements, or FAIR, insurance plans. But these were “subprime” insurance plans—“‘back of the bus’ insurance,” in the words of one critic. They allowed insurers to charge higher monthly premiums for inferior coverage, and their exorbitant cost meant that generally only white absentee landlords could afford them. Far from a “remedy” for racist harms, FAIR plans turned racist fears into market logic.
Landlords often put this logic to work. Ansfield relates the story of Imre Oberlander and Yishai Webber, who in 1975 were among the first landlords indicted for arson conspiracy in the Bronx. When the duo were pulled over because of a broken taillight, officers discovered a pair of Hasidic men in blackface—along with two explosive devices. Ansfield suspects that to Oberlander and Webber, blackface must have seemed like its own “form of insurance.” Racism provided the cover, but FAIR plans had laid the economic kindling. One study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago suggests that in New York state, FAIR plans led to 13,000 excess fires in a single year."
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"Burned-out buildings also proved valuable for constructing the politics of law and order. “The cruel irony,” writes Ansfield, “was that to survive the fires was to become their scapegoat.” Ansfield cites Democratic New York senator and Nixon adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan throughout the book, and it’s worth revisiting Moynihan’s thinking in further depth here. Already in 1970, in his “Memorandum on the Status of Negroes,” Moynihan had warned the Nixon administration that the country was “heading for a genuinely serious fire problem in American cities,” because, he wrote, “the types of personalities which slums produce” were prone to “fire‐setting.”"
https://newrepublic.com/article/200735/burned-bronx-arson

2025-09-24 15:29:10 UTC

"Green capitalism will never facilitate the scale of action that is necessary to keep warming below 1.5ºC or even 2ºC because it refuses to take on the powerful people and industries that are fueling the climate crisis in the first place. It continues to ensure the benefits flow to the top while hollowing out the middle class and producing climate narratives that shift the burden of responsibility onto those who have little power to make the necessary changes: the public, if not the global poor."
Reminds me of the book that just came out about who burned the Bronx. *Born In Flames* by Bench Ansfield.
https://archive.is/tLcb9
h/t @npub1ld5…63uk for the article

2025-09-23 20:12:24 UTC

Apropos of nothing, here's up and coming reggae artist Koffee with "Rapture," one of my favorite songs by her.
"Koffee come in like a rapture
And everybody get capture
Place lift up like helicopter
When dem see di lyrics contractor"
#music #reggae #PopMusic #Jamaica #JamaicanMusic #Koffee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cm8duEzi3A#ddg-play

2025-09-23 15:37:13 UTC

The Guardian once again exposing why people are wary of their journalism when it comes to trans people. This article (archived link, no paywall) about female intersex athletes being over-represented starts out saying that these athletes "went through male puberty". These, to be clear, are people who have breasts and vaginas and were assigned female at birth. People who identify as girls and women and always have. Cheek swabs are destroying women's careers, all in the name of "protecting women". More of a "protection racket for women," really. Nice sports career, be shame if anything were to happen to it.
https://archive.is/5mvpD

2025-09-22 20:26:13 UTC

Saw a sign on my way to work today that said "I AM CHARLIE KIRK"
So yeah things are great in the USA

2025-09-18 15:19:43 UTC

I made a toad friend the other day
:)
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/115/225/969/532/273/716/original/9d04521abf5bca2d.jpg

2025-09-17 19:29:19 UTC

For my sins, I am on reddit as well as on here.
Today, my reddit adventures found me arguing with 5 - 6 people in the solarpunk subreddit about whether the "punk" in solarpunk means anything at all. I say yes. They say no, but they're still mad that I call giant power projects run by the state "not punk."
¯_(ツ)_/¯

2025-09-08 19:36:54 UTC

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In a nutshell:
Them: AI could help solve the climate crisis!
Environmentalists: We don't need AI to tell us to stop greenhouse gas emissions
Them: Oh shut up you luddites
AI: Here's how to reduce your costs in finding and extracting fossil fuels
Archived link: https://archive.is/VkCWQ
@npub17rf…au88

2025-08-14 17:06:53 UTC

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this has to be a joke omg

2025-08-14 15:57:06 UTC

I just found out, thanks to my local newspaper, that a brand new company called Eco Yotta Inc. is aiming to build a data center outside my tiny little town.
https://www.bizprofile.net/ny/oneonta/eco-yotta-inc
There is absolutely no information about either the company or its registered owner, Tirusha Pankaj Dave, online. Their website is a barely-registered generic techbro cutout.
What's extra troubling is that the city has a whole industrial district that has plenty of room for such a thing, but they bought 153 acres of residentially zoned land which they want the city to re-zone.
I'm so annoyed.
#noAI #NightmareOnLLMStreet #NYpol #NYS

2025-08-08 00:46:40 UTC

GloRilla got arrested because someone burgled her house. Yes. The cops smelled marijuana, got a search warrant, and found a lot of weed. Meanwhile the guys who broke in & stole jewelry are still at large. #ACAB
A GA state senator is trying to pass a bill to protect victims from being arrested... Good for him, I hope he succeeds, but it's patching around the edges.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rapper-glorillas-arrest-sparks-debate-032853925.html

2025-08-06 19:10:23 UTC

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Hiking ban why? Because of fire risk?

2025-08-04 18:48:12 UTC

So this is a bit niche even for enviro-nuts like me but if you're down to sign petitions, this one could use it. Tell SUNY ESF to drop their partnership with the dangerous, unproven, and disrespectful "Darling 58" genetically modified chestnut tree makers SilvaBio.
If you read "The Overstory," you may be familiar with the tale of chestnut trees in North America: afflicted by an invasive blight and then prematurely chopped down by panicking white people, to the extent that chestnut trees almost went extinct. Now this private company has been working with ESF to develop blight-resistant trees, but even though their results are poor, and even though indigenous communities of the northeast, such as the Onondaga Nation, have been urging a traditional breeding approach, and even though SilvaBio's stated intent to sell the trees for profit is in conflict with ESF's mission for "all people... to propagate them for personal or restoration use," ESF has been sticking with SilvaBio.
#trees #ChestnutTrees #Darling58 #SUNYESF #SUNY #NewYork #NYS #NYpol
https://globaljusticeecology.org/chestnut-pr-2025-1/

2025-07-30 16:05:40 UTC

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Nope, mostly not ironic, I'm an anarchist, so are many others, and even the "anarcho-capitalists" who really should know better seem to be sincere in their delusion.

2025-07-28 14:11:18 UTC

Names for girls/women that just mean "girl/woman":
-Donna (Italian, woman)
-Colleen (Gaelic, woman)
Any others?
ETA: not Regina. Got it confused with ragazza

2025-07-25 14:28:25 UTC

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WU TANG IS FOR THE CHILDREN!!!

2025-07-25 14:27:34 UTC

Wu Tang Clan has endorsed Zohran Mamdani:
https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/932254-wu-tang-clan-democratic-nominee-zohran-mamdani-campaign-final-nyc-show-hip-hop-news

2025-07-24 13:25:21 UTC

Reached the point in the dystopia where I'm supremely grateful for breathable air and non-lethal temperatures

2025-07-14 13:47:55 UTC

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Fucking @/Radical_EgoCom@mastodon.social again.
I don't know what he is, I just know it's not what he says he is.
@npub1c8j…wng2

2025-07-09 14:29:26 UTC

Please spread the word
#ICE #NYS #NewYork #antifascism #HealthCare
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/114/823/739/724/457/452/original/0ac7cefe978d94c5.png

2025-07-09 00:39:51 UTC

Every time I think about Saying Something Important, I get so tired

2025-07-04 20:53:46 UTC

My cat's nose fits inside my nostril. I learned this against my will

2025-06-26 19:14:51 UTC

Mark Zuckerberg went to Svalbard on his massive superyacht that spews more greenhouse gases in a day than most people do in a year. He got a cold reception.
#FuckZuck #climate #ClimateCrisis #EatTheRich
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/mark-zuckerberg-yacht-svalbard-norway/

2025-06-25 19:31:07 UTC

One of my coworkers likes to crochet and she made these cuties
#crochet #FiberArts
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/114/745/653/277/961/693/original/27a689c7345a3cd5.jpg

2025-06-24 19:46:42 UTC

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Yeah if it's the same one I saw about the bald JD Vance meme, it was a Norwegian guy
And Norwegian govt was just like "Well this hardly ever happens, nothing to see here folks"

2025-06-24 19:43:26 UTC

Back at the end of March, the FBI kidnapped a Chinese academic couple, Xiaofeng Wang and his wife Nianli Ma. Apparently they're now free, but Indiana University, which employed them both, shamefully fired both of them without any process or explanation, and they were never charged with any crimes. Now they're seeking to unseal the warrant that was used to justify the raid on their house and their detention.
Another thing I learned from looking this up: the "China Initiative" which was basically a quota for the FBI to file cases against people linked to China somehow. Trump started it and Biden took two years to end it. This episode has people thinking it's back.
#FascismUSA #USpol #China
https://indianapublicradio.org/news/2025/06/wang-moves-to-join-court-fight-to-unseal-warrants-used-to-search-his-homes/

2025-06-16 17:24:34 UTC

Wow the Burlington VT protest had 16,000 people at it. Pretty decent turnout for a town of 60,000.
https://vtdigger.org/2025/06/14/no-kings-day-draws-over-16000-to-burlington-to-protest-trump-and-authoritarianism/

2025-06-03 22:57:17 UTC

Library funding cuts. Mean no more free nationwide library cards for teens. Many libraries are getting rid of even paid memberships for out of state people.
I hate all states, including the current state of things.

2025-05-13 19:26:06 UTC

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oh no! Yeah at this point, there's no disputing that.

2025-05-13 19:23:46 UTC

I get it now. Eurovision is basically drag race, there's just a few more straight people involved.
Right? Am I right? Euro friends, confirm this for me please

2025-05-11 15:44:01 UTC

My mom was in a jam session with Natalie Merchant (among others) last night. Wft am I supposed to do for her for mothers day?!?

2025-04-30 22:33:07 UTC

I have GERD. Standard recommendation is "eat several small meals throughout the day instead of 3 big ones"
Like yeah, sure, I'll just spend all day preparing and consuming food. I have absolutely nothing else to do.

2025-04-28 21:02:34 UTC

I have these two links sitting on two permanent tabs in my browser. <li>How Substack profits from promoting fascism and other bad stuff: <a href="https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-announcement-bari-weiss-free-press" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-announcement-bari-weiss-free-press</a></li><li>How former substack creators who moved to different online subscription platforms say they're making more money now: <a href="https://digiday.com/media/former-substack-creators-say-theyre-earning-more-on-new-platforms-that-offer-larger-shares-of-subscription-revenue/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://digiday.com/media/former-substack-creators-say-theyre-earning-more-on-new-platforms-that-offer-larger-shares-of-subscription-revenue/</a></li>
I'm going to start posting them in replies to every post that contains a link to substack. Is that obnoxious? Yes, clearly, but in a good way. You can do it too.

2025-04-21 19:33:59 UTC

Losing two more people from my office thanks to the fascist purges. One biologist and one engineer. Both women. #FascismUSA

2025-04-10 20:20:11 UTC

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government

2025-04-09 02:19:00 UTC

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*when a baker makes up a story about being asked bake a cake for a gay couple

2025-03-27 19:30:21 UTC

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Huh. I wonder what that record is and who holds it. Maybe it's her!

2025-03-21 15:54:15 UTC

Just saw a link to an article justifying Schumer's bullshit. Ended with the following sentence:
"Carville reminds us to have patience and trust our leaders."
ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT. Take your "patience and trust" and shove it up your ass. Trust and patience in oligarchs is how you get fucked over.
It was Daily Kos. I'd heard things had gone downhill there but goddamn!

2025-03-21 02:29:49 UTC

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not me, thank the gods

2025-03-20 15:59:47 UTC

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"Much like her father, Wilson is extremely online; unlike her father, she’s really good at it."
hehehe yep.

2025-03-19 12:50:59 UTC

Hey so I don't know how many people might be seeking a relatively low-paid job* at a very inclusive library in a mildly welcoming town, but my local library is expanding its physical premises and is now also hiring a new library clerk. This position is full time, doesn't require advanced degrees, and comes with good benefits and, if it's like my civil service job, also comes with a guaranteed pay raise of 2-3% every year.
*a bit less than 35K per year
Anyway my upstate NY people please spread this around!
#Hiring #GetFediHired #FediJobs #Classifieds #NYS #UpstateNY
https://hmloneonta.org/

2025-03-17 14:10:05 UTC

Damn. A struggling small town newspaper. In print for 150+ years. But tariffs on Canadian products meant their paper costs 25% more now. That was the final nail in the coffin. The Cortland Standard, one of the 5 oldest family-owned newspapers in the USA, is shuttering.
#news #breaking #NYS #upstateNY
https://www.cortlandstandard.com/stories/goodbye-cortland-and-godspeed,133575

2025-03-07 03:00:39 UTC

Please report this comedian. I feel like the admin's name is ringing an ominous bell. Idk. We'll see I guess.
https://twit.social/@McFlyer/114117928325269733
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/114/118/893/896/294/916/original/5e5c355f4683b0bd.png
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2025-03-06 19:07:08 UTC

Pro-tip: when reading "transgender ban" simply substitute "underpants police" and whatever statement you're reading will be more accurate.

2025-03-05 14:26:24 UTC

My little* brother is not just a paramedic... He's paramedic of the year! So proud of him.
*He's 6'1" and I'm 5'2", but I'm older.

2025-02-19 20:03:18 UTC

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A city slicker went to a county fair up by the Québec border. He saw a sign that said "COUNTING PIG."
"I gotta see this," the city slicker said to himself. So he goes over to the farmer. "Hey, your pig can count? Show me!"
Farmer (in a thick Québecois accent of course): Bon, I will show you. Pig! What is one plus eight?
Pig: neuf neuf neuf
Farmer: Pig! Tell me what is six plus three!
Pig: Neuf neuf
Farmer: Pig! What is four plus five?
Pig: neuf neuf neuf neuf
City Slicker: HOLD ON. You can't just keep asking him questions that add up to nine!
Farmer: Mais oui, OK. Pig! What is four plus four?
Pig: neuf ne--
Farmer: [kicks pig]
Pig: HUIIIT HUIIIIIIT HUIIIIIIIT
@npub1zvl…qckq

2025-02-19 19:51:59 UTC

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If they flew over the bay, they'd be bagels!
@npub1zvl…qckq

2025-02-19 19:49:59 UTC

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Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan!
@npub1zvl…qckq

2025-02-14 18:42:17 UTC

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Definitely no half-assing it with Ozark. Worth watching just for Julia Garner's performance.

2025-02-14 18:36:14 UTC

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It's very very dark. Well done but dark as fuck.

2025-02-13 19:44:23 UTC

Watershed Sentinel, a magazine based in CANADA*, has several articles about #DeGrowth in its latest issue, including one by the hottest Degrowther (imo, I don't know what all of them look like), Timothée Parrique, debunking the idea of decoupling/green growth.
The other articles are worth checking out too. Environmental news from all around the west and northwest, e.g. the Pacific herring population appears to be in collapse.
*I don't know why the fuck I thought the .ca ending meant fucking California, please excuse my USA-poisoned brain
#DeGrowth #Watershed #Fisheries #EnvironmentalNews #News
https://watershedsentinel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ws-april-may-2022-web-version.pdf

2025-02-13 18:56:10 UTC

"Now that Trump has dealt a decisive deathblow to the post-Obama political system, it’s worth taking stock of where that moment went. Postmortems on Bidenomics have tended to focus on climate provisions, rising protectionism in trade, and the macroeconomics of stimulus and inflation. The limits of the administration’s “industrial policy,” touted as marking a “post-neoliberal” paradigm shift, have been extensively documented; it was always a national security program first—an ill-conceived reaction to fears of a rising China—and a pro-worker agenda second, if at all. The bigger, less talked-about picture is the long arc of ten years of failure to confront inequality after the Piketty moment in 2014. Across four key policy areas—taxation, labor standards, the welfare state, and antitrust—Democrats could have pursued a comprehensive program for combating plutocracy and empowering workers. But the opportunity was frittered away through a relentless focus on playing by the old rules of policy debate and routing reform through the usual elite channels, insulated from—and often outright hostile to—the voices and views of on-the-ground constituencies. All that came at the cost of forging a durable political coalition."
#Neoliberalism #USpol
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-real-post-neoliberal-agenda/

2025-02-13 00:30:51 UTC

#3GoodThings
1) There was a talk at my local library about the history of transgender medicine in the USA. Given by a doctor who has a practice here.
2) My mom went. She said it was packed, standing room only.
3) Mom signed up to provide free temporary housing for trans people who travel from far away to get treatment at the clinic.
#ThreeGoodThings
P.S. If you want more details about the town, the library, or the clinic, feel free to DM me.

2025-02-10 14:20:04 UTC

Hey listen up! Literally!
If you have a Libro.FM membership, you can get a free credit just by telling them that you super promise you listened to at least 10 hours of audiobooks during February.
If you don't have a Libro.FM membership, maybe you can still get a free audiobook credit anyway, I'm not sure.
Anyway, Libro.FM is a nice alternative to Audible and they share a portion of their proceeds from every purchase with a local participating independent bookshop of your choice! #reading #AudioBooks #books @npub1q60…kp90 @npub1ny7…uv57 https://blog.libro.fm/love/?utm_source=Libro.fm&utm_campaign=b537c730c3-Consumer_For+the+Love+of+Audio_020525

2025-02-06 21:02:45 UTC

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It's not unusual to read an academic paper that concludes "more research is needed," but it is unusual for academic writers to conclude "more research is needed on the subject of how to change the politics of this world!"
"Finally, the question of politics emerges as an important research frontier. Whereas science is advancing on the questions of desired pathways, provisioning systems, and policies for a post-growth economy, we still know little about the politics that could make post-growth transitions possible in reality. A particular blind spot concerns geopolitical relations, and how changes in international governance and world orders open up, or close down, opportunities for post-growth and sovereign development."
Anyway, this paper was not as long as I thought, since the lower half of it is all citations. Go ahead and check it out!
#degrowth #DegrowthResearch @npub17ly…gk05
@npub12tc…x7a3
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext

2025-02-06 20:59:14 UTC

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"You just want everyone to be poor and miserable!" is what capitalism apologists say (with zero sense of irony). Nope, they're either uninformed or lying--and I seriously urge you to go with "lying" as the default, in order to reduce the potential for mischief by bad actors.
> "Empirical research points therefore to an important conundrum. On the one hand, high-income countries achieve high levels of human wellbeing but significantly overshoot their fair share of planetary boundaries. The level of resource use of these high-income countries cannot be universalised. On the other hand, despite a decline in the amount of energy required to achieve human development goals, modelling decent living standards for all within planetary boundaries shows that, under existing conditions, there is very little room for excess or for inequality.
> This research has led to a shift of attention towards alternative provisioning systems and the types of distributional dynamics that could radically change current relationships between resource use and human wellbeing... A recent review of industrial transformation models and scenarios found that combined supply-side and demand-side measures could reduce current economy-wide material use by 56%, energy use by 40–60%, and greenhouse gas emissions by 70% to net zero."
#degrowth #equality
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext

2025-02-06 20:27:26 UTC

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Growth as a goal for societies is basically brand new.
> "Historians and social scientists have sought to explain the origins of the political hegemony of growth: the dominance of the pursuit of GDP growth as a political objective. Growth might not be an economic imperative in the abstract, this literature suggests, but rather a political imperative, locked in by power relations, institutions, and accounting systems geared towards its pursuit. The contemporary preoccupation with GDP first emerged as a response to the need of governments to manage economic production during the Great Depression and the Second World War, whereas growth-targeting became entrenched during the Cold War, linked to the arms race between the two blocs. An iterative process between accounting and targeting, and the institutions geared towards the measurement and pursuit of GDP, gradually made growth appear as a natural and unquestionable objective. But the success of growth, as a political objective, stems from its function, which was to appease and deflect distributional conflict, becoming a core factor of state legitimacy and political stability."
Btw basically every sentence in this has citations, in case you want to read MORE. I'm taking the citation numbers out to make for easier reading.
#Degrowth #history #WWII #ColdWar #Growth #EconomicGrowth @npub1uc0…cpgf
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext

2025-02-06 18:42:26 UTC

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Continuing to read the new Lancet study on degrowth/post-growth ideas!
They have a table listing post-growth oriented policies, their good points, and the critiques against them.
-Universal basic income
-work time reduction
-universal basic services
-job guarantee
-maximum income
-wealth tax
-public money
-replacing GDP
-cap and adapt
-green new deal
-carbon taxes or dividends
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showFullTableHTML?isHtml=true&tableId=tbl1&pii=S2542-5196%2824%2900310-3
#Degrowth

2025-02-06 18:23:55 UTC

Can anyone recommend an online ADHD self-diagnosis test please?

2025-02-05 17:34:38 UTC

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they want us but cannot have us. Their self-image requires a submissive woman to parade around, but convincing a woman to act that way is continuously hard work, which is something they can't do. We are the weak point of their fantasies and self-esteem. Our existence as autonomous beings calls the foundations of their ideology into question.

2025-02-04 19:24:51 UTC

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But isn't lack of growth destabilizing?
"Economic research has shown that the desired (or optimal) rate of consumption growth might decline to close to zero if (environmental) risks associated with new technologies and people's preferences for safety are taken into account. From a post-growth perspective, the problem then is not that growth might be coming to an end, but rather that, given that economic and political systems are dependent on growth for their stability, stagnation under capitalism poses substantial risks to institutional stability. How to prosper without growth therefore becomes a crucial question."
#DeGrowth #capitalism
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext

2025-02-04 19:22:22 UTC

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On human wellbeing vs GDP:
"The social limits hypothesis holds that there is a limit to the extent that growth improves subjective wellbeing, because humans adapt to higher levels of income, and compare themselves to others who are also getting richer, or because additional production goes towards zero-sum status goods. The social cost hypothesis is that above a certain level of GDP, the costs of growth (eg, congestion, pollution, mental health, social upheaval) might offset its wellbeing benefits.90 Growth is said to become uneconomic."
#DeGrowth #GDP #Capitalism
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext

2025-02-04 19:12:56 UTC

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"Decoupling"? It's possible but extremely unlikely (authors being politic here); "the post-growth field suggests taking a precautionary approach, given the historical record and the rapid narrowing of the window to prevent ecological breakdown. Post-growth, it should be emphasised, does not state that decoupling economic activity from emissions and getting to net zero emissions is impossible, just that it is made harder by economic growth. For energy and material use, which can only be reduced and never brought to zero, the necessary reductions are easier to achieve with post-growth."
#DeGrowth #PostGrowth #Decoupling
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext

2025-02-04 19:07:55 UTC

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fuck William Nordhaus

2025-02-04 19:05:59 UTC

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Revisiting "Limits To Growth" on its 50th anniversary:
"Scientists have also sought to assess the validity of the Limits to Growth model by looking at how well it fits historical trends since its publication. Previous studies have explored how the various runs of the Limits to Growth model compare with actual trends and suggest that the world is most closely tracking the Double Resources scenario, which differs from the Standard Run in its assumption that the initial stock of non-renewable resources is twice as large as the Standard Run resource stock (figure 1). In this scenario, collapse occurs later and is driven not by scarcity of non-renewable resources (ie, a source limit), as in the Standard Run, but by persistent pollution and its impact on ecosystem stability (ie, a sink limit, otherwise known as a regenerative capacity limit)."
#DeGrowth #LimitsToGrowth
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext

2025-02-04 19:02:38 UTC

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Some choice quotes from new Lancet study on #degrowth or #PostGrowth and planetary health:
"Doughnut, wellbeing, and steady-state economics generally position their proposals within the current capitalist system, whereas degrowth is critical of the possibilities of an egalitarian slowdown within capitalism given that capitalist competition is structurally geared towards growth. Degrowth therefore emphasises the need for a planned, democratic transformation of the economic system to drastically reduce ecological impact and inequality and improve wellbeing. Degrowth, similarly to steady-state economics, regards a lower GDP as a probable outcome of efforts to substantially reduce resource use. Reducing GDP is not a goal of these approaches, however, but, it is seen as something that economies need to be made resilient to. The Doughnut and wellbeing approaches are more agnostic about GDP growth, but still view it as a poor measure of progress. Post-growth is plural and open to all these perspectives. All approaches converge on the need for qualitative improvement without relying on quantitative growth, and on selectively decreasing the production of less necessary and more damaging goods and services, while increasing beneficial ones."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext

2025-02-04 18:59:36 UTC

The Lancet says: #DEGROWTH NOW!
"The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext

2025-02-04 18:21:16 UTC

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I dramatically lost weight after hysterectomy surgery to treat endometriosis. "How'd you do it??" Life threatening illness. "You look great!" Thanks. I feel weak and miss being fat.

2025-02-04 18:13:24 UTC

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I've gone through this. Then I gained weight again. Phew! People are so annoyingly entitled about other people's weight.

2025-02-04 14:05:59 UTC

Musk says the IRS direct file is being shut down, but I just accessed it via the IRS website. However when I tried to click the link from an IRS email I'd gotten previously, it wouldn't work. Just FYI
#taxes #USpol #IRS #ConstitutionalCrisis

2025-02-03 21:27:55 UTC

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OK, so, when you're talking to a bunch of misogynists who think the law sets morality (and would thus have been fine with slavery until it was rendered illegal), you just... cater to their sensibilities? That's also a choice. I'd say "let us know how that works out for you" but I doubt that scenario is ever going to come to pass. You're just making excuses for your... choices.

2025-02-03 19:20:48 UTC

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I mean. He's a rapist.
Going for felon as an insult instead of that... It's a choice.

2025-02-02 00:00:43 UTC

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Source: https://crimethinc.com/2018/02/19/escaping-washington-for-freedom-lets-not-celebrate-george-washington-but-the-slaves-who-escaped-him
"As Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh describe in The Many-Headed Hydra, the American Revolution began in the 1760s with a series of protests and riots involving sailors, slaves, stevedores, working women, and other marginalized people. Networked in a global ferment involving mutinies, slave revolts, and strikes, these disturbances threatened to undermine the entire imperial order. Sensing that the empire was overextended and upheaval was inevitable, the colonial elite set themselves at the head of the rebellion, using it to free themselves of the financial burden of supporting the Crown. George Washington and his colleagues were not the initiators of the revolt, but the ones who coopted and contained it—a lesson about what happens when revolutionaries seek to gain legitimacy and resources through alliances with the upper class."
#BlackHistoryMonth

2025-02-01 23:01:23 UTC

On the first day of #BlackHistoryMonth, let's celebrate the many, many enslaved/indentured people who ran away from George Washington. The only USA president with a greater (inflation-adjusted) net worth than Washington is Trump. The USA has always been a threat to the world.
Most but not all of these people were Black. Many escaped multiple times. Some managed to do it permanently. Names listed twice are not the same people. Names listed together are people who escaped together.
Mary Monroe “Mol” Bowden
John Winter
Boson, Peros, Jack, and Neptune
Cupid
Caesar
Topsom
Nan
Breechy
Cloe
Tom and Bett
Michael Tracey
Will Shag
Harry
Venus and Jack Dismal
Coachman Jemmy
William Webster
Thomas Spears
Charles
Joseph Smith
Zeny and Nelly
Peter, Frederick, Frank, Gunner, Harry, Tom, Sambo, Thomas, Peter, Stephen, James, Watty, Daniel, Lucy, Esther, and Deborah
Abram
Priscilla
Oney Judge
Hercules
Christopher Sheels
These are just the people whose names are known. And of course these aren't their true or full names. Still, their humanity and desire for freedom shines through the centuries.

2025-02-01 14:52:37 UTC

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It's true, not all billionaires are bad. After all there are some dead billionaires. @npub1a26…sycp @npub1k3q…4fpu
https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/929/195/088/788/754/original/2d0161058674e5f3.jpg

2025-02-01 03:53:26 UTC

Wow 2025 was a wild ride, can't believe it's over already