Notices by skry (skry@mastodon.social)

MT:

Streets full of destroyed and abandoned cars after flooding in and around Valencia, an estimated 137,000 cars.
The costs resulting from this one rain shower are approximately thirty billion euros.
€30,000,000,000.

But taking measures to combat the #climatecrisis is still considered too expensive. https://mastodon.green/@gevoel/113500230706030946

Denial = Death

https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-christine-maggiore30-2008dec30-story.html

@MattTheQuick Why is E the one?

“But billionaires on the right have invested far more heavily in media in the last two decades than their counterparts on the left—whose ad-supported, VC-funded operations started to fizzle out once social media and Google starting eating up the revenue pie.” (1/3)

More of this.
https://apnews.com/article/california-donald-trump-gavin-newsom-special-session-32511d5887409d68d692e094ed50a272

@openbuddha @ekis And a wild sarcast appears.

There is no reason to give up.
“They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.” —Rebecca Solnit

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/if-donald-trumps-win-scares-you-here-are-some-words-of-encouragement-to-help-today

Realist leftists vote for the leftmost candidate that can win and continue to organize for justice in the context of a working society free of pogroms.

'With a profile photo of a Black soldier and the tagline “I FOLLOW BACK TRUE PATRIOTS,” the account on the platform X amassed more than 300,000 followers while posting dubious claims about Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Some were amplified by former President Donald Trump, his running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance, and their Republican allies in Congress.’ https://apnews.com/article/black-trump-kamala-harris-tim-walz-aca31c66fe5bfef1e8827581e7919ece (2/2)

#USPol #BlackMastodon

‘“#BlackInsurrectionist,” the anonymous social media persona behind some of the most widely circulated conspiracy theories about the 2024 election, can be traced to a man from upstate New York.

‘He’s also white. (1/2)

The US now has journalists writing explainers about how nobody can actually control the weather: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/if-meteorologists-could-stop-hurricanes-we-would-heres-why-humans-still-cant-control-the-weather

And meteorologists are getting death threats from the incredibly ignorant and delusioned.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hurricane-milton-misinformation-meteorlogist-death-threats-1235130352/

Elon has achieved Steve Bannon’s goal of maximum noisy bullshit drowning out any useful signal on X.

‘From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide
… (1/6)

“PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions officially is being repealed Saturday.
…
Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed the bill in May, declaring it was just the beginning of a fight to protect reproductive health care in Arizona.”

https://apnews.com/article/arizona-abortion-ban-repeal-ac4a1eb97efcd3c506aeaac8f8152127

The term “political correctness” (using less harmful language and terms that people prefer to apply to themselves for race, gender, ethnicity, etc.) is a dog whistle for racists, because the term implies that caring about other people is performative. They can’t accept that it’s possible for people to actually care about other people.

Shortsighted websites-ID-everyone bill is dead in California. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/victory-california-bill-impose-mandatory-internet-id-checks-dead-it-should-stay

23 Stephen King novels banned in #Florida. #wtf #censorship #library #schools

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/stephen-king-florida-book-ban-b2605632.html

https://nitter.poast.org/USA_Polling/status/1827424889361367056#m

Around 76% of high-performing women receive negative feedback compared to only 2% of men

“About 40% of top workers who get inactionable criticism plan to leave their companies, compared to just 22% of successful employees who get actionable assessments.

“High-performers are pretty ambitious people. So if you’re providing feedback that is not specific, not actionable, and you’re not promoting them, they will leave. These are people who are being recruited all the time”

https://archive.is/hsGsC

Rules for Radicals - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals

@dymaxion You probably already have this on your list, but just in case.