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Lisa A

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“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars.” - Salman Rushdie #collapse #metacrisis #smashcapitalistpatriarchy #bigwitchenergy #sobriété

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Lisa A @lisaallan.bsky.social · 14d

#hungry #getit #smash 🖤

Graffiti depicting a rat holding a fork , with Eat the Rich written beside its tail.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 1d

This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

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Lisa A @lisaallan.bsky.social · 13h

a box of donuts with different flavors and toppings is sitting on a table .

ALT: a box of donuts with different flavors and toppings is sitting on a table .

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 15h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Lisa A @lisaallan.bsky.social · 14h

#collapse #justcollapse

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'Died of a delusion' – the fate of modern civilisation?

The collapse of modern human civilisation is inevitable. Anyone who doesn’t accept that knows no history.

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Ian@collapseaphorisms @collapseaphorisms.bsky.social · 14h

Oh look, it's that awkward part of collapse where the tide is still obviously not ours to turn.

#collapse

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Lisa A @lisaallan.bsky.social · 2d

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Triassic by The Ocean on Apple Music

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 3d

About *a third* of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions emitted during the Industrial age have occurred in roughly the last 17 years. The previous third was emitted over a period of roughly 26 years. The first third was emitted over a period of about 131 years.

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

Time for multimillionaire Carney to tax his fellow multimillionaires

“Income gap is at ‘record high’ amid weakening economy, StatCan say”

The wealthiest households continue to hold the vast majority of all wealth in Canada, and that trend continues to grow.

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Income gap is at ‘record high’ amid weakening economy, StatCan says - National | Globalnews.ca

Canada's income divide remains at record high levels, according to Statistics Canada, which adds that the top 20 per cent hold the majority of household net worth in Canada.

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Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 3d

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Lisa A @lisaallan.bsky.social · 4d

I love how so many of us went with the shitty diaper.

Appropriate for a total shitbag.

Lisa A @lisaallan.bsky.social · 4d

I love the way your diapers smell, sir.

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 4d

Attended two excellent conference presentations today about health misinformation, while also noticing about 5 other masks and lots of past tensing the pandemic while coughing, because 2025.

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Lisa A @lisaallan.bsky.social · 4d

#substack #firstpost

Leaving the Liminal
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Leaving the Liminal

Join me on a journey to name and face the polycrisis in my day-to-day life, in my work and in my community.

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Lisa A @lisaallan.bsky.social · 4d

#smash

Ars Politico - 🎨✍️🏳️‍🌈🌊 @arspolitico.bsky.social · 18d

STOP calling it "CANCEL CULTURE"! #FASCISM

Lisa A @lisaallan.bsky.social · 4d

A cautionary tale: youtu.be/RxuSvyOwVCI?...

PS I don't share the commenter's enthusiasm for AI, but it is a detailed and thorough breakdown of the last nail in industrial society's coffin IMO. #ComputingOurWayToDoom

The New World’s Largest AI Supercluster — What No One’s Telling You

YouTube video by Anastasi In Tech

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Spiritual Awake People Quit These 7 Things Slowly | Alan Watts

YouTube video by Alan Watts Teaches

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

“Advocates are particularly concerned over the facilities’ use of Pfas gas, or f-gas, which can be potent greenhouse gases, and may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought. Other f-gases turn into a type of dangerous compound that is rapidly accumulating across the globe.”

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

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Feral Maui Hermit @mauigreg.bsky.social · 9d

I'm not a biblical scholar, but I think "Don't take the Lord's name in vain" is less about yelling "Jesus effing Christ!" when you stub your toe, and more about calling yourself a "Christian" while starving the hungry, denying medicine to the sick, and being violently hostile to immigrants.

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Lisa A @lisaallan.bsky.social · 8d

When reality is doom, doomers gonna doom.

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 8d

Funny how she’s a nationalist when it’s someone else’s province. #cdnpoli #ableg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 9d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Peter Garbutt @petergarbutt.bsky.social · 10d

Every country infected by the virus you describe needs this
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/sor...

Sortition revolution: a bold plan to avert civilisation’s collapse

Can we save the planet and rebuild democracy? A radical proposal to replace political parties with citizens' assemblies might be the answer

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10d

The main reason climate policy has failed is that it's opposed by an international coalition of fossil fuel incumbents, authoritarian governments, & oligarch-owned media.

That's it. It's the people who killed it who are responsible for killing it! Not the people who supported it! FFS.

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