Notices by Keith D Johnson (keithdjohnson@sfba.social), page 4

On the UK riots, Joan Westenberg suggests: "Think about it this way: if someone broke into your house & started smashing your belongings, you wouldn't describe them as an "interior design critic." You'd call them what they are: a criminal. So why the fuck are we bending over backwards to find polite terms for people who are, quite literally, advocating for the destruction of entire communities?
When we use euphemisms like "protestor" to describe rioting, rabid, dogshit neo-Nazis, we're not just being inaccurate – we're actively contributing to the normalization of their ideology.
This tendency to soften our language when it comes to extremist ideologies isn't evenly applied. We don't hesitate to use harsh, condemnatory language when talking about other forms of violent extremism. We don't call ISIS members "religious freedom activists" or refer to cartel enforcers as "pharmaceutical distribution protestors." So why the kid gloves when it comes to neo-Nazis?"
https://joanwestenberg.com/nazis-arent-protestors-theyre-wankers

Odd, isn't it?

😂 💚
Aug 6, 2024 #DailyShow #TimWalz #KamalaHarris
Michael Kosta gets to know Tim Walz, the Minn. governor Kamala Harris chose as her running mate. While the Trump campaign claims the vice presidential candidate will “unleash hell on earth,” #Democrats love his political record & "Midwestern dad af" vibes. Plus, Josh Johnson weighs in on why Walz is the “right type of white guy” for this race." https://youtu.be/Ah4KTtOg_28

"A Guardian survey of 100s of the world’s leading climate experts has found that:

77% of respondents believe global temperatures will reach at least 2.5C above preindustrial levels, a devastating degree of heating;
Almost half – 42% – think it will be more than 3C;
Only 6% think the 1.5C limit will be achieved.
The task climate researchers have dedicated themselves to is to paint a picture of the possible worlds ahead. From experts in the atmosphere & oceans, energy & agriculture, economics & politics, the mood of almost all those the Guardian heard from was grim. And the future many painted was harrowing: famines, mass migration, conflict. “I find it infuriating, distressing, overwhelming,” said one expert, who chose not to be named. “I’m relieved that I do not have children, knowing what the future holds,” said another."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair?

@breadandcircuses Another for your #ClassWar collection:

#Permaculture Zone 4/5 Design Strategies
Patchy #SilvoPasture & Increased #Biodiversity Linked....
"Making a forest patchy is easier than making an open grassland patchy, since it’s easier to chop down trees & for open-ground plants to colonize the gaps. Making an open, grassy location patchy means planting trees (& them surviving) in places too dry or cold to support tree growth.
LAND WITHOUT PEOPLE MAY HAVE LESS BIODIVERSITY
"Many people today advocate for enhancing biodiversity by minimizing human influence on landscapes. Often this takes the form of rewilding, which aims to “let nature lead”.
Yet our results suggest that in many places – though not all – minimally human-modified landscapes had fewer different types of plants. Often, human disturbances enhanced rather than eroded biodiversity. Indeed, many of Europe’s most biodiverse places today are traditionally managed, low-intensity farmlands such as Alpine meadows & the dehesas & montados in Spain & Portugal. " https://theconversation.com/the-first-farmers-often-made-landscapes-more-biodiverse-our-research-could-have-lessons-for-rewilding-today-233272

Cat lady.

"I contain multitudes."
A short list.

So, when the grid fails & A/C goes off, remember Europe in the summer of 2003 when 70,000 died from heat. I wonder what the media was focused on instead.🤔
#Vegas saw its fifth day with temperatures of at least 115°F (46°C). During the first nine days of July, ~2.2 billion gallons of water just vaporized from Lake #Shasta. The whole region is at risk of becoming uninhabitable in summer."

"#MAGA vs. Most Americans" or How to Create Your Own Stupid Reality by Believing Lying Greedy Assholes.
A short skit.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/whvwuSGSAI8

"A paper from Cornell by #climate scientists that showed that in 2023 the ability of plants and #soils to absorb #carbon basically dropped to almost nothing. The Tropics were so hot & so dry that they are net emitters & the northern latitudes capacity dropped by *50%*.
The implications are three fold.
1. IPCC models did not predict this until much, much later which means they are assuming that the soil and trees will be absorbing carbon that won't be absorbed. Yet again, the IPCC models are wildly understating the impacts of climate change.
2. In 2022, the oceans absorbed MORE carbon than usual, which may (this is speculative) explain why they are warming so fast - & it is possibly because they also are hitting absorption limits.
3. Unless something changes there is no reason to believe we are not going to experience runaway global warming, & probably are already experiencing it."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12447?

"Everything that’s unpopular about Trump is worse about Vance. He is one of the most poisonously anti-abortion rights Republicans alive. He’s anti-LGBTQ in a way that would impress the Westboro Baptist Church. Everything Trump wants to do to drive up inflation, Vance wants to do that harder. Trump brought neo-Nazis into the GOP; Vance was a founding investor in a company that monetizes neo-Nazi content.

However, JD directly and overwhelmingly appeals to Trump’s two biggest donors, Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin."
https://i-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io/jd-vance-is-donald-trumps-gift-to-putin/

"#Permaculture training, which has taught the community to farm in a sustainable and self-sufficient way, has been a game changer. The training has taught Perez that men and women are equal – a lesson which she has shared with her children. "I now know my boys need to learn to cook, and help in the house," she says. Having access to water to grow crops plays a key role in building gender equality, he says. Enabling women's participation in farming activities makes them financially active and resilient to #ClimateChange." #gardening #water https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240708-the-women-fighting-drought-in-mexico #Oaxaca #Mexico

If only there were a system, a set of plans, ideas, & ethics, that would guide people to care for the earth and their place in it, to love all people and living things as if they were always already only part of a mutually interactive magnificent being that provided all the basic needs of healthy organisms, and that helped people learn the simple joy of sharing the surplus yields from the system. I wonder what we'd call it?

#permaculture

Nobody does hypocrisy better than #MAGA cultists.
#cartoon #trump #gay #LGBTQ

""If Judge Cannon does try to dismiss charges against Donald Trump, she would be appealed to the 11th circuit, would probably be reversed &eventually removed from the case."

"She has got to tread carefully. Delay is her middle name. She will continue to slow walk this case, or continue to err on the side of delay & indulge the former president with every request. Yes, this decision by the Supreme Court on immunity would further delay the documents case, which is the strongest case against Donald Trump."
https://www.rawstory.com/judge-cannon-could-be-removed-aronberg/?

1/ "Supremacists officially made it a criminal offense to become poor while in possession of a living human body. You could say its not so bad, because they made it legal for local governments to criminalize the act of sleeping outside. The reality is that if you are unhoused, you are outside, & if you are outside with a human body, then you have to sleep eventually. The moment you become unhoused in fascist America, your body becomes a crime that can be punished in whatever fashion best suits—but in any case, our for-profit prisons have a new greenfield they can turn into double-digit growth, especially since the same private equity that manages prisons is making sure that housing is less & less affordable. All those that rely upon prison slave labor for their operational models will have a fresh free labor pool from which to draw. The American tradition of cruelty toward those being pushed by fascist greed into poverty will continue & christians & capital will be well pleased." https://www.the-reframe.com/a-fools-hope/

Upon learning that the #Oklahoma Superintendent of Schools intended to put bibles in every classroom to be used as text books, #JimWright quipped:

"Good Morning, Children. Please open your Bibles to Ezekiel 23:19-21.
"Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”
Your assignment is to ask your parents to help you write a 500 word essay on what you think that means. Illustrations optional."

Saline #agroecology. You will need to learn more about this, especially as the sea rises. Here's an introduction from #AndrewMillison
2 BILLION New Acres of Farmland
"Land salinization threatens agriculture worldwide, where rising sea levels, saltwater intrusion into coastal aquifers, & poor farming practices are destroying farmland & people's ability to survive, at an alarming pace.
So is this model perfect? No. This is a work in progress. But these people are not pulling some carbon credit scam. They are using the system to get the hard work done of figuring out how to do agriculture in saltwater using perennial polycultures that require no inputs. From my perspective this is a noble task & their hard work will benefit the people & ecosystems in salt affected lands. This could ultimately have a ripple effect all over, because people will not need to migrate away from salt affected lands when they have the means for productivity & survival in salty environments.
#permaculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4csIdPZxsg

These are the new Draconian laws to enter a #library in #Idaho. Apparently libraries are extremely dangerous to the status quo.