Notices by GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai), page 9

@economics_that_works

In short, Oxfam is reporting that billionaires are threat to human life and a chief source of authoritarianism and poverty.

I mean, it’s not anything really new, but the interesting thing is that one of the most reputable global anti-poverty organizations is naming the problem with facts and data.

I can expect or I would not be surprised if the Labour government now moves to attack oxfam

What is it with #SF .. It was freaking cold this morning… and then it gets warm now fact it’s nice..

But we’re going between winter and summer every three days

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Brenna . Right now she’s covering the hyper local organizing going on in Minneapolis to deal with ice and all the horrible Fuckery they’ve been up to.

I want to say this is well worth watching

https://youtu.be/TBCR3_-N0Ps

RE: https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/115935299520371577

@ErickaSimone
@StillIRise1963

Apropos of nothing

@Nimbius666 @CedarTea

In case you didn’t read what I wrote particularly closely how advisable is it to wash ones eye with raw milk??

You know the stuff that isn’t sterile. It comes out of a cow’s udder which has been in the mud and cow feces?

I guess you think having a eye infection like a stye is a good thing

@ApostateEnglishman @Nimbius666 @CedarTea

I am more curious what the treatment for capsaicin is.

@CedarTea

RFK jr will insist on raw milk..

I’m not gonna look down on Americans turning against ICE. This kind of reaction though is a double edge sword because the quite justifiable emotion reacting to brutal treatment, is the same emotional leverage used to prosecute trans people over accusations of grooming and bullshit like that.

The distinction here being we all saw that freak shoot three bullets into her car.

Vilification of trans people or Somalis? Conservatives only have to say whatever they want.

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progressive-wins-january-18

@Nonilex

We are in totalitarian freefall at this point you can call it fascism as well .

This is total collapse as anyone who’s been paying attention understands. The institutions that are supposed to preserve law and order don’t exist. They do not exist in the United States.

The path out of this relies on Americans viscerally understanding this fact

@vegos_f06 @PIK_climate

I don’t know about Wohlleben, but it is certainly true that a forest health is intimately related to the biome under the soil that it lives in symbiosis with.

You’re going to see 2/3 of all the carbon and water in the soil itself in the living biomass.

Of the kinds of reforestation that seem to work the best it’s leaving tiny patches of old growth and let nature do its thing. Otherwise, Miyawaki.

@karlauerbach @annmlipton

“ If we will not endure a King as a political power we should not endure a King over the production, transportation, and sale of the necessaries of life. If we would not submit to an emperor we should not submit to an autocrat of trade with power to prevent competition and to fix the price of any commodity. — Senator John Sherman, 1890, arguing for the passage of the Sherman Act”

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

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@karlauerbach @annmlipton

Cory Doctorow a few probably had a few choice words.. looks like I have a little more reading to do

@pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/20/we-should-not-endure-a-king/

Seriously, The Onion is the finest journalism in America if not the world

https://theonion.com/conservatives-say-renee-good-was-brainwashed-by-bible-into-loving-thy-neighbor/

Oh, would you look at that.

billionaires and their corporations are out to destroy personal safety of Europeans and to destroy the unit if possible so they can pick over the corpse. Yes the EU has its problems. However, subjected to totalitarian rule by insane billionaires from the United States is about appealing to all of Europe, as annexation of Greenland is to Greenlanders.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1916422/us-tech-giants-allying-with-european-far-right-to-strip-back-eu-rules

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Your occasional dose of #neato

https://youtu.be/9aN3m4uO91c

Groan. Invading Greenland will end the US as a superpower.. NATO will uninvite US troops. The loss of both soft power which has been immeasurable so far and the loss of those military bases in Europe yeah that that’s just over.

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/trump-greenland-annex-republican-bill-congress

Benjamin Dixon posted the most beautiful and accurate political cartoon to comment on what happened to Good

It captures exactly the idea that they all pulled the trigger
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxcDTQYD9pMvT_hlaJqlFjKNyJTZNI2Or3

@kims

So the flight will complete its normal journey, just not with any paying customers in it.

Do I have that right?

😶

It seems a little bit Kafkaesque

@Infoseepage

Your overall message I might tend to agree with, but what I don’t like is you suggesting it’s irrelevant to tell people not to trust individual showing up at the door as utility workers.

I have a problem with that

@Infoseepage

Not to put too far find a point on it but what you’re saying is you might as well just let them in and let it happen to you.

If people won’t even call 911 to the question people impersonating utility workers what you are doing is complying in advance