Matt Cooper 🍉

InfiniteGrowth+FinitePlanet=INSANITY | Anti-fascism | Anti-racism | Anti-growthism | Pro-habitable-planet-for-my-kids+all-living-things-present+future | He/him

[Matt Cooper 🍉 @MJC00per]

Just found my new pinned tweet! I agree 💯% with everything in Prof Juju's thread, she puts it perfectly imho.

Time to pick a side: collapse or transformation.

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

I wish *you* personally understood that we are on the brink of civilizational destruction, and that *you* have to choose a side: collapse, or transformation. There are no more bystanders, just those trying to save lives, and those complicit with mass death.
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[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.

https://t.co/G1E5zXdyid

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

There have been videos circulating online for hours of Palestinians burning to death after another Israeli attack in Gaza.

Palestinians are so dehumanized that Israel can kill them in the most horrific ways without even generating headlines or outrage.

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

URGENT UPDATE: Illegally detained Sumud volunteers are now on their 4th day of a dry hunger strike (no food, no water) and their condition is critical.

Since Monday, ten people detained in Benghazi have been refusing food, with many also refusing water, in protest of prolonged illegal detention, mistreatment, and being denied legal counsel. Some have been forced to break the strike, but many continue as their health deteriorates.

Their lives are at risk. They’ve received no medical care and are being held in “black sites" (unknown areas).
We demand their immediate release and we need you to act now.

Call. Post. Pressure the authorities. Share this update widely.

Email the foreign ministries of those detained at https://t.co/jixZ6iF35U

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

A Welsh bloke has turned up in our garden. He says the garden is his because he’s a descendant of an Ancient British tribe who lived there. Fair enough.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

“Ceasefire”

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

New Scientist on our latest study.
See the link to the paper in my comment. https://t.co/N950KGekwY

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Israeli forces have detained a player on the Palestinian national women’s football team, along with a former national player, sparking renewed anger at Fifa for its failure to ban the apartheid state’s football association.

Rand Halawani, 20, was taken on Tuesday night in Jerusalem and a court extended her detention until Friday, amid reports that her family did not know where she was being held.

Ex-national player Natalie Abu Diyeh, was also detained in the illegally occupied West Bank alongside three other young Palestinian women, AFP reported. Israel’s military claimed, without offering evidence, that the women were suspected of “terrorist-related” activity.

Palestinians detained by Israel are at serious risk of abuse. Israeli rights group B’Tselem has found that Israel runs a “network of torture camps” where Palestinians are subjected to beatings, starvation, sleep deprivation and sexual violence.

The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) said the players’ detention was part of a “pattern of systematic targeting of Palestinian athletes, which continues without accountability”.

Palestinian footballers are “denied freedom of movement, safety and the basic right to participate in sport under equal conditions, rights that Fifa explicitly guarantees,” it added.

Fifa has not commented on the players’ detention, even though the PFA is a member.

“The continued silence and inaction of the international football community… enables these illegal practices to continue with impunity,” the PFA said.

As the federation gears up to host the World Cup in North America next week, it is under renewed scrutiny for continuing to allow the Israel Football Association (IFA) to be a member despite Israel’s long history of suppressing Palestinian sports.

In 2014, Israeli soldiers repeatedly shot two Palestinian footballers in the feet as they returned from a training session in the West Bank, ending their careers.

In March, Fifa’s disciplinary committee said Israel had brought “football into disrepute” and was practising a “de facto system of segregation” by excluding Palestinians from the sport and failing to take action against rampant anti-Arab racism in many clubs.

But it stopped short of banning or suspending the country’s football association, as it did with Russia shortly after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

Marvellous piece by @medialens about media coverage of last week's record breaking heat, and the pure gibberish of the right-wing, climate denial press

https://t.co/UYfWY5X3ha

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

Gaie was forced to spend Christmas and her 79th birthday in prison, just because the government couldn't find an electronic tag that fitted 🙃

We helped Gaie get released from prison, and now we're helping her sue the Ministry of Justice 💪 Take action: https://t.co/YtZx2lRYNs

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ BREAKING: At least the 5th paramedic killed in Lebanon today.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry: One paramedic was killed and another wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Zebdine, in the Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

In the latest episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang Munchau and I talk AI - except not the usual bad-good manner.

Wolfgang kicks off by sharing his astonishment at AI's recent success in proving a mathematical theorem that had hitherto defeated the brightest mathematicians - and explores what this might mean for the labour market. My contribution to Wolfgang's take is a soliloquy on how AI disrupts our very concept of labour time (which lies at the heart of our labour time-based theories of wages and salaries).

In the second section, I claim that just as the 'liberation' of financiers from all political controls (resulting in the financial meltdown of 2008 and our current, continuing, economic crisis) required neoliberalism as an ideological cover, a new misanthropic ideology is now needed by our cloudalist techlords who also want to be 'emancipated' from all political controls. Such an ideology has now emerged - I call it techlordism.

Just as neoliberalism treated markets as divine (not merely as useful tools), techlordism projects a certain divinity to the AI algo. Thus the transhumanist delusions of Techlord Silicon Valley moguls like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, who view Homo sapiens as mere primitive hardware to be replaced by cyborgs.

https://t.co/ff63WF8JxK

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Why did the BBC describe rioters in Southampton last night as ‘protestors’. They weren’t protestors, they were rioters. Where has the BBC's objectivity gone? Why can't they tell the truth?

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Just watch this…

And for the love of God, please see Farage for what he is.

His response to Sarah Everard Vs his response to Henry Nowak

Jaw dropping.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢🇱🇧 Israeli Strikes Kill 4 Paramedics on Wednesday:

◽️An Israeli strike directly hit an ambulance belonging to the Al-Risala Association in the southern town of Shahour on Wednesday, killing 2 paramedics and seriously injuring a third, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.

◽️ Another paramedic from the Al-Risala Scouts was killed in a drone strike on the al-Ain neighborhood in Arab Salim.

◽️A Civil Defense team from the Islamic Health Authority was also struck Wednesday by an Israeli drone while responding to a previous strike in Zebdine, with one paramedic killed and another injured. Two wounded civilians
being transferred by the ambulance were also killed in the attack. (🎥 Video)

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Israel has arrested two Palestinian women’s national team players, Natalie Abu Dayyeh & Rand Al Halawini. The Palestine FA described it as part of the systematic targeting of their athletes.

Will the same media who were concerned about Iran’s women footballers say anything now?

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

“We do not load death.”

Dockworkers’ unions from more than 35 ports sign joint declaration calling for an end to Israel’s genocide and apartheid against Palestinians and for a day of international struggle of dockworkers in October.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ An entire family was burned to death after an Israeli airstrike hit a residential apartment west of Gaza City overnight.

The five victims were:

▪️ Manar Ibrahim Labed
▪️ Hassan Rabah Labed
▪️ Mohammed Hassan Labed
▪️ Rafah Hassan Labed
▪️ Tamim Hassan Labed

Local journalists say the family was asleep inside the apartment when it was struck.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

I’m thoroughly enjoying the white supremacists telling me I’m not British.

They just can’t bear that I am.

Rule Britannia, baby! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[Middle East Monitor @MiddleEastMnt]

A campaign calling on the UK government to investigate and monitor British nationals who served in the Israeli army during the Gaza genocide has gained public support, with Green Party leader Zack Polanski among more than 60 signatories to an open letter published by Declassified UK and the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP).

Read: https://t.co/KVsZkZmbLY

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

The historic May #Europe #heatwave has propelled Mediterranean temperatures into record territory with spots up to 6°C/ 11°F above normal with an ongoing Marine heatwave underway… 1/