Notices by Ika Makimaki (pezmico@mastodon.nz), page 6

Important message from @gretathunberg

(in other social network, long alt text so posted the image twice with the text split in half)

🇵🇸 ✊ ❤️ 🌍

#UsaElection #USA2024 #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine #ClimateJusticeNow #USPol

Another hit from the same album is the UN vote to make food a right.

In which (you guessed it) only the US and Israel vote against.

Not that I believe for one second that the UN voting in favour would solve world hunger, but it takes a special kind of entitled evil to be out there proudly saying "Food? Nah, not a basic human right. Screw your hungry people."

Every country in the UN has voted to lift the unjustified embargo against Cuba. AGAIN. 🇨🇺

Everyone except for Moldova (abstained) and Israel and the US. (voted against)

This happens every year, pretty much in the same way. And the embargo continues. 🙄

Just in case you were still wondering who the 'bad guys' really are.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1156316

In my experience, one of the most underrated but insidious blockers of environmental action is the idea that yeah it's real and serious and man made, but it will happen later.

So many people think it's a problem for their children to worry about, not themselves.

Beyond that idea being horrific in of itself. It's false.

Biodiversity is collapsing today. The climate crisis is here and every fraction of a degree we can avoid is precious.

But the time for action is NOW.
For real.

#ClimateDiary

Or, you know, just don't engage.

That's another option.

You can scroll past them and let them do their own journey and answer themselves the questions we all asked when we were new.

Xitter is changing their block feature, making it meaningless.

That means there'll be a new wave of users arriving to the fedi and with them yet another iteration of the conversation about it.

You know: "choosing a server is confusing", "what if I don't want to use content warnings?", "what? No algorithm?", "yay, no algorithm!", "we need quoting" and so on. .

We've been there, but they haven't.

Be nice to them! that network is now a fascist tool.
Be good to get people to stay out of it!

Scientists are discovering life UNDER the seafloor, existing in ways and depths we never considered possible before.

And yet the capitalists want to wreck it all by mining the seabed for their own profit.

No pasarán. ✊🏽

Surprise Discovery Reveals Animal Life Thriving Under The Seafloor
https://www.sciencealert.com/surprise-discovery-reveals-animal-life-thriving-under-the-seafloor

#stopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOceans #ocean

If you are still wearing a respirator out there, you are a hero and you've got my love and solidarity.

😷✊❤️

If not, you could become one anytime.

#CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #WeKeepEachOtherSafe

Capitalism is imploding in slow motion.
So you can't work from home anymore.

"Once again, the elite have gotten themselves into big trouble. They want the rest of us to bail them out. If they don't want our tax money, they want us to give up our freedom and autonomy. They want us to sacrifice ourselves on the altar of capitalism to protect their fortunes."

The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity by @jessicawildfire https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/heres-why-they-want-you-back-at-the-office-so-bad

#CovidIsNotOver related.

Dehumanisation of The Other is a tool of control.

Break free.

Caring about other people is an act of liberation.

Even beyond the horrific war crimes by themselves, we are so not ready for the consequences of a world where acts like remotely exploding devices, bombing healthcare facilities, impersonating doctors, murdering humanitarian aid workers, targeting journalists, or weaponising water and food supplies are normalised.

There is a reason these things are not acceptable, even in war.

Israel is setting a terrifying precedent.

#sanctionIsrael #freePalestine #endTheOccupation #fromTheRiverToTheSea

If hundreds of explosions went off simultaneously killing tens and wounding thousands in New York, London, Berlin or Paris, media would rightfully be denouncing it as a terrorist attack.

Similarly, a car bomb 'targeted' at a military leader is called terrorism because it hurts innocent civilians who happen to be nearby.

Israel is a terrorist state.

The same media outlets that one day say:
"Climate change is a serious issue and action is necessary" and "Cost of living is rising, working families need alternatives to help their budgets",

Will be the same ones clutching their pearls and writing about "Elite cyclists coming to take your carparks" every time a community may get 100 metres for kids to to ride to school without being run over by a maniac in a 2 ton ute.

So tired of our media farming outrage clicks by stoking a pointless culture war against bicycles, that in the end hurts everyone.

Cyclists are worse off, children are worse off, the environment is worse off, public finances are worse off, and even motorists are worse off.

The only ones who benefit from the anti bike rhetoric are car companies and the fossil fuel industry.

(*looks at the ads*.... ohhhh that's right)

Often the same columnists who frequently criticise younger generations for being "sensitive snowflakes" and complain about how people these days need to 'harden up' and be tough, will be the ones writing about how it's impossible to ride a bicycle anyway because sometimes it might rain, or perhaps there'll be a hill on the way.

Or you know, maybe once a decade you'll buy a new refrigerator. Touche, can't ever ride a bike because of that one trip you might do with a piano or a bed.

They'll title their piece something like "Council just spent 1 bajillion dollars on a bike rack" and when you actually read the article they're talking about a project that demolished and rebuilt an entire street, upgraded pipes, power, traffic, got new signage, added all kinds of upgrades and yes, included a bike rack (that by itself cost maybe a couple of thousand dollars).
😩

They pretend to not see the irony of saying that riding a bike is elitist.

The bike you can get cheap and ride free forever, with maintenance you can do or get done for little, that doesn't require license or insurance, and that anyone any age can use.

But it's not elitist to require everyone to own a much more expensive car, with yearly insurance and maintenance costs, that you pay heaps to run and that may kill you and those around you if you ever make a mistake.

Love it when people who *still* vote for the Trickle down neoliberal scam call me a "naive idealist".

Sure, hun.

It's been 40+ years but status quo is going to get better any day now.

One more tax cut for the rich should do it.

There is no alternative, huh?
/sarcasm

Once again in case it's not clear yet:

The policing of gender and how it is performed in society has nothing to do with "protecting women" and has everything to do with upholding white supremacy and its narrow definitions of what are acceptable ways of being.

Not by coincidence cis women of colour are the ones who are misgendered, discriminated and publicly humiliated when they over achieve and dare to deviate from what the patriarchal white norm expects from "the weaker sex".

The RNC giving Idiocracy vibes.

#USPol