Notices by Patrick McLaughlin (mcpatrick@mastodon.social)

Wishing you all a happy—and better—2024.

Except for you, Trump. And Putin.

@feld @kevinrns

And we don't HAVE 50 years to do that.

@feld @kevinrns

Given that solar and wind are both cheaper and clean?

@GreenSkyOverMe

"The International Monetary Fund’s chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, recently admitted that the IMF underestimated the negative effects of austerity on growth.”

No shit.

Any observer — looking at the effects of austerity policy — could have told them that.

Bets that this bad data/cherry-picked data driven result haunts us all anyway?

@heideroosje @doctorcdf

When the Spanish Fascists forbade Pete Seeger from singing multiple songs on his play list at a venue there, he complied.

He went out, told people that he’d been forbidden to sing those songs. So he did not sing them, but *played* them, and observed that the police had not said that the people could sing them. And the audience did.

Same energy.
(Same fascism.)

@timkmak

Escapism in a hellscape.

Hell YES.

And I could make long lists of doctors, clergy, engineers, nurses, teachers, lawyers, etc, etc. who play D&D or some other RPG. Without the need of a war zone to “justify” it.

@SexyCyborg

Well, they have Y chromosomes…