"They have weapons, you have weapons, everyone has weapons; but right now, no one has a clear advantage. So the price of peace is at an all-time low. This is the perfect time to sit down and hammer out an agreement. Don't you get it? Attacking the Cardassians now will only escalate the conflict and make peace more expensive in the long run! Now, I ask you: is that logical?"

— Quark, #StarTrek Deep Space Nine: "The Maquis, Part 2"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hdQcGzbpN7s

I was out #cycling with my wife and kid yesterday. Wife was on the cargo e-bike, kid on her little Frog bike, and me on my typical road bike with an unused FollowMe attached.

A family of four walking by stopped us to ask questions about all three, clearly interested. Dude just deadpans: "You don't even have a car do you?"

"Nope, that's our car", I say, pointing to the cargo bike.

"Wild" he says.

There's real #FuckCars energy out there, but I think modelling it helps inspire others.

All the clever bootlickers remarking on how Canada could help "tilt US politics to the left" by allowing annexation really don't get it.

The US has never dealt with Canada in good faith, and they certainly wouldn't be any better as overlords. We wouldn't be the 51st state, let alone the ambitious 51st, 52nd, 53rd, and 54th states I've heard bragged about. We'd be fucking Puerto Rico: essentially a vassal state with no power, owned & subjugated by literal Nazis.

#cdnpoli

@GossiTheDog it's about time EU leaders started waking up the fact that the United States (at least in my lifetime) has *never* been a partner with anyone. They don't play well with others, and will choose domination over cooperation every time.

We cannot rely on them for anything, and doing so runs the risk of their crazy rubbing off on the rest of us.

@eff so your advice to avoid Meta collecting your data is to... [reads article] ...ask them nicely not to do it?

That's rather naïve don't you think? Shouldn't we be talking about how to delete your account, file a GDPR request, and switch to better alternatives?

@amici if you're looking for suggestions:

https://www.tumblr.com/the-lemonaut/710271433164668928/thats-why-im-looking-into-solarpunk-and-am

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nil

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/

I just joined a #union!

Volunteering with Greens here in Cambridge, I've discovered that my having worked with Greens in Canada and having met Elizabeth May lends me some street cred :-)

We were just talking about how amazing she is, and someone here called her "fierce". I can think of no better adjective.

#cdnpoli #greens

@selzero where can I find these? They might be a fun present 🙂

"Labour has pledged to increase deportations, and since taking office, has removed more than 10,000 people"

Ah yes, that well-established left-wing platform of deportation quotas.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/09/husband-and-wife-to-be-forced-apart-by-home-office-deportation-flight

#ukpolitics #uklabour

@patrickcmiller I'm pretty sure this is exactly what I predicted back in 2018 and even wrote a Free software project to fight it: https://danielquinn.github.io/aletheia/

Too bad it never caught on.

@soller @thestrangelet @lucasmz I can sympathise with that, but the sticking point for @aral I think is that this isn't just unfinished work lacking a few features, but rather unfinished work that's remained unfinished for so long *while still being used as the default* for years. This decision, that an unfinished product lacking fundamental #a11y functionality was "good enough to ship" is an ableist one.

I tried Minecraft for the first time today. Fell down a hole and spent 15min trying to dig myself out by hand before I gave up. I don't understand the appeal.

Hooray! Duolingo says I'm a "Galactic Legend"!

That's it, today I'm finally leaving #Shell (formerly Limejump). I am relieved to no longer be part of the problem.

I've written something to outline the flawed reasoning I used to get in, along with a breakdown of the depth of my naïvety:

https://danielquinn.org/blog/getting-out-of-shell/

#JustStopOil #fossilfuels #climatechange