Rowley @Rowley@social.cleverlibre.org

Städte nennen es "Parkdruck", wenn Leute mehr Autos kaufen, als es Platz dafür zum Abstellen auf öffentlicher Straße gibt, und sind stets bereit, weitere öffentliche Flächen für Autos herzugeben.

Städte nennen es "angespannter Wohnungsmarkt", wenn mehr Menschen in einer Stadt leben, als es bezahlbare Wohnungen für sie gibt, und rühren keinen Finger, deren Situation zu verbessern, sondern vertreiben sie auch noch aktiv.

I saw a this screenshot of a sam altman tweet and I had hoped it was a joke but oh god oh no oh fuck it's real oh shit.

Honestly, part of me is still clinging to a bare shred of hope that he's joking, because the idea that someone who misunderstands shit This Badly gets lauded as a genius and invited to the white house and fêted to help craft literal life-altering national policy? Holy SHIT.

I mean just… holy fucking SHIT.

@GottaLaff The problem is that in order to capitalize on these indictments, Trump's opponents would have to denounce sexual violence, corruption, and gross abuse of power, and none of the republican primary contenders might be in a position to criticize someone for conduct they themselves are guilty of.

@GottaLaff On the one hand, it’ll keep Trump crimes fresh in voter minds.

On the other hand we’ll have another election cycle where we talk about a candidate crimes instead of how to address housing and health care costs (among many other issues)

People that will vote for Trump will still vote for him and people that won’t, wont. Independents have made up their minds as have moderates.

The media will broadcast the circus and we kick the “democracy is struggling” can down the road again. 😟

Sometimes I take a step back in daily life and admire how sinister phrases we normalised are.

Human Resources.
Cost of living.

MORE STRIKES I NEED MORE STRIKES I NEED TO SEE MILLIONAIRES CRYING

I think I fell for US propaganda again. People always say "our healthcare system is a ridiculously expensive but at least we don't have long wait times". I just waited 1 month for a doctors appointment to get 3 referrals, which each could only schedule me a month out at the earliest. If I were in UK I'd have had to wait 3 weeks at worst.

@nerdseyeview you're one of those people whose photoshop layers look like this, aren't you?

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In 1950, the annual harvest of seaweed in Orkney and Shetland increased by 400%. Why?

ORCADIAN CHERRIES or CHELLIES were synthetic cocktail cherries made from seaweed and were produced from 1949 onwards. Most went to cocktail bars in the USA.

#OldWeirdScotland

If we are heading toward an ecological collapse sooner than predicted, when are people gonna just rise up and tear down the companies killing us and polluting the earth for short-term profits? Isn't the time now?

Like, we're in for a world of hurt.

Parable of the Sower is becoming our reality and as much as I adore Octavia Butler, this is not the future I wanted.

I wanted a solarpunk future of mutual aid and library economy. Not fucking billionaires killing us all as they fight one another in cage fights for fun. Ugh.

#ClimateChange #RiseUp #AntiCapitalist

Pro tip: if your partner asks what you’d like for your birthday and you say “I’d like a multi-coupler”, be sure to clarify very quickly it’s a radio antenna thing versus any sort of adult situation

The only good capitalism is no capitalism at all.

@mick @vmatinnia @YaRo @cian @breadandcircuses @jackofalltrades

On point.

The cure for petrol-fueled, car-centric development isn’t EVs. It’s to pivot to non-car-centric alternatives. This needs to be shouted from every rooftop, and demanded of every politician.

Cars are the most expensive and wasteful option.

Ever since I started actually reading all the studies right wingers and other fucking imbeciles cough up when pressed (or just voluntarily because they underestimate my willingness to read) I'm just becoming more and more radicalized leftwards
To date, none of these fucking things have held water, and in fact many of them prove *my point* because these motherfuckers don't even bother double checking their source supports what they're saying (they found it on google after I asked for it)

Remember how jaywalking was invented by car companies to avoid having to address their safety problems? Public space was taken away from pedestrians and reserved for corporate interests by the law. There's already talk of how laws that protect pedestrians are inconvenient for self-driving cars.

Recently, gig companies like Uber and Lyft spent tens of millions of dollars to push through laws that allow them to better exploit workers.

What new laws are self-driving car companies going to introduce? What do you take for granted today that will be criminalized tomorrow?

David Tennant wearing a "leave trans kids alone you absolute freaks" t-shirt to the Good Omens 2 premiere. Love this show. Love these guys

*Season 2 coming to Prime July 28th 😇👿🖤🤍

Threads being built to maximize brands and advertisers first, and not even attempting to be optimal for most users, is a real shortening of the enshittification cycle. It skips the first stage entirely.