Notices by Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) (susankayequinn@wandering.shop)

This moment in a nutshell.

@climatebrad.hillheat.com

https://hillheat.news/p/the-data-center-bubble-is-filled-with-methane-and-the-senate-is-going-nuclear

"This is one of the core reasons that corporate America seems blasé about Trump even as he blows up the human economy. Their leadership believes in a future economy that is no longer built on human well-being, but one in which, as Scott Kupor said, AI eats the world."

I get more radical every day, simply by holding tight to my values.

@inthehands I haven't — I've really only seen a couple and it was a while ago. I need to fix that.

@inthehands he does mention it, and I'm glad you're confirming — I really do need to see the film now

I need to watch more Studio Ghibli
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/one-of-the-best-studio-ghibli-films
I don't expect film/TV reviews from @bcmerchant.bsky.social but I love it. Fiction is culture: it's one of the ways we express our values. It's one of the reasons AI is such a soulless affront,why it's theft at every level.

As I just told a friend, this is intentional assault.

AI corpos:"you can't stop us from stealing your hero's work and debasing him"

You're right: I can't stop you from being trash humans but no one will ever love you like we love him, you're pathetic.

https://bsky.app/profile/aftermath.site/post/3llfgwyxmrd2u

education is the first step of resistance 💯

this Tiktok is *so good*

it is your hope lift for today, promise

it is also reminding me I need to go to all the indie bookstores with my #Solarpunk Starter Pack

*adds to her recs to my TBR*
#bookstadon #climatechange #resist #books #fascism #resistance

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2WFJmon/

Two things occupying my mind today (beyond generalized terror and "I need to rest"):

1) Tim Walz and @opinionatedogre.bsky.social are right that we need to envision what comes after the defeat of the fascists and work towards that, and...

https://opinionatedogre.substack.com/p/tim-walz-is-right-we-can-fix-it-and

1/n

2) ParkrosePerma (can't find the video rn) is right that our primary levers right now are as consumers (the various boycotts) and as labor (resistance at points of power within your circles).

And I view both of those expansively...
2/n

...not just boycotting Tesla and Target but supporting Costco & food co-ops&credit unions; not just refusing to comply(or overcomplying JFC) &throwing sand in the gears where you're able, not just labor unions & other associations banding together to fight (incl class action suits against AI)...
3/n

...but also continuing to do good work in the arts and sciences, education and healthcare, anything they're trying to kill keep doing that shit.

The real ground truth is that they can't do anything without our compliance. Whereas we can do all kinds of things without their permission.

4/n

100% this
Be on Team Fight at every day but also keep working toward the world we want when we defeat the fascists.

Those work inextricably together: the fascists are a death cult where "powerful white men get to decide who dies" & working for a better world is a direct rebuttal to that cruelty.

relevant: https://opinionatedogre.substack.com/p/tim-walz-is-right-we-can-fix-it-and @opinionatedogre.bsky.social

This is so catastrophically bad.

I wrote a #solarpunk story warning about deep sea mining:

"A trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn’t be possible."

FREE: https://susankayequinn.com/books/slimy-things-did-crawl

#ClimateChange

babe wake up they're criminalizing ATM withdrawals

(the fash love "law for thee but not for me" esp capricious laws that make anyone a "criminal" for ordinary things so when you speak out against the gov they can put you away for taking $ out the ATM)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/think-your-atm-withdrawals-are-private-taking-out-200-could-now-put-you-on-the-federal-financial-surveillance-radar-in-these-american-counties/articleshow/119167566.cms

@pascaline @Remittancegirl

The erasure is a massive crime

Upgraded my signs this week. Easily 2x the protestors today. At least one reporter. Rain is getting intense but we’re here. Got cursed out.
#TeslaTakedown

These are the owls you need today 🦉

https://owlsintowels.org/

@oinak thanks for the tag!

@DavidMadeThis the game looks so cool! And such a great fit with my power grid mystery series/hopeful climate fiction! You might like it :)

Maybe we could do something fun with cross-promo... I'm not a gamer but I'd love to play around with this. I'm a huge fan of microgrids for sustainability reasons and I'm putting one in the novel I'm writing right now. Is the game available to play (it says it released last month but I'm not savvy about "early access" and such)?