Geronimo

Scientists predict a massive loss of species by 2050, estimates range from 30%-50% of all species potentially facing extinction

[Geronimo @NativeGeronimo]

Beautiful macaw bird harvesting coconut milk in Cuernavaca Mexico.
#audubon

[Geronimo @NativeGeronimo]

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[Kff 🌈🌈💙💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇺🇦☮️☮️ @KFFNCOACH]

@RachelBitecofer Meanwhile…

CONSERVATIVES

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Mike Johnson: Listen, this is what's going to happen: all the polls are wrong, all the pundits are wrong, the historic trend is wrong. I'm going to make a prediction: we're going to win on election night!

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Trump is copying everything that Vladimir Putin does, republicans are to blame for this. Vote them out!

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The good news is that we are winning in court. The bad news is that we have to win every case. Trump only needs to subvert one election to break democracy.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

This is at least $60,000 in Direct Mail and all I did with each one was give it a glance.

That one glance is your ONE chance to deliver your message.

If you run a DM company, or use DM, let me help you deliver campaign lit that gets the message across.

[Robert Young Pelton @RYP__]

Sore loser. Who let those damn Arabs vote? This concept has been behind ethnic cleansing and it has destroyed support. Hey Bibi, what if normal, peace-loving Israelis are just tired of your shit?

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Oh so now the Trump administration is welcoming immigrants with criminal histories?

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Please, whatever you do, don't share this photograph of Obama receiving his Nobel.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

WHAT DID TRUMP MEAN WHEN HE SAID HE HAS TWO MONSTERS THAT WILL MAKE HISTORY NEXT WEEK????

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Damn! They was fast. Ukraine has launched its first satellite for its own communications network

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Megalomania: An obsessive preoccupation with one’s own power and importance, characterized by grandiose fantasies of superiority, entitlement, and control. In extreme forms, the belief that one is uniquely qualified—or destined—to determine the fate of others.

The world is currently being controlled by a small group of white men who each believe they are the one and only person to both save the world—and own it.

Amodei’s psychopathologies are not quite as malignant as the others, in the same way Sam Bankman-Fried was not quite as malignant as a violent bank robber.

Regardless, Amodei is religiously devoted to the idea that he will be the one to save the world—from very technology he’s irresponsibly accelerating. And he’s just as dismissive of the human toll: Anthropic’s own proposed regulations allow up to 50 dead people per model release.

All four of these men are uniquely UN-qualified to deal with any issue that concerns human beings. Messianic narcissists and megalomaniacs see people as an obstacle—or a tool—for shaping their own reality, nothing more.

Trump sees the entire world as one giant gilded Trump Tower. Musk sees Earth as a launch pad for his Mars colony; we are his “biological bootloader.” Putin sees the Russian Empire from Alaska to Berlin. And Amodei sees Claude becoming a god, making us all irrelevant.

The one thing they have in common is that their opinions of themselves is inconsistent with any normal measure of their value. They are all deeply flawed men who fashioned a self-reinforcing echo-chamber, which made them feel entitled to make life and death decisions for humanity.

The issue the world is currently facing is that while their belief systems allow a certain amount of cooperation, they are all also in fundamental conflict with each other. As Trump and the political situation deteriorates, the fractures between their messianic beliefs will become clearer—and make things worse.

Our human civilization has gone awry. We have created a system which promotes the most deviant psychopaths to the top. And then we let them change the system to stay there.

Enough. It does not have to be this way. Humans first.

[Robert Young Pelton @RYP__]

The number one read piece in the New York Times is about Jared Kushner’s newly discovered “slush” fund. https://t.co/vFDMhQlEGZ

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Three down. Three left.

The people have spoken. We have had enough of the chaos, the hatred, the corruption, and the authoritarian idiots who think the world belongs to them.

Orbán, Bolsonaro and Vučić have all been rejected by voters.

Today, Netanyahu could be next. And Trump looks increasingly likely to earn his own big red cross in the midterms.

That leaves Putin.

The rest of us must make sure Moscow gets its red cross too, by giving Ukraine everything it needs to defeat Russia’s imperial ambitions.

The age of «strongmen» is looking a little less strong. And that is a beautiful thing.

Remember when you could wake up in the morning without wondering which country was being threatened, which ally had been insulted, or which international crisis had been manufactured overnight by a man with an oversized ego?

When politics was often boring, diplomacy happened behind closed doors, and world leaders generally tried to solve problems instead of creating three new ones before breakfast?

It wasn’t a perfect world. Far from it. But there was a certain peace in not having to listen to angry old men demanding the world’s attention every single day.

Imagine getting that peace back. Imagine a world where the morning news is about progress, discoveries and possibilities, rather than the latest threats, lies and tantrums.

We deserve that world again.

[Geronimo @NativeGeronimo]

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[Steven Hassan, PhD @CultExpert]

This isn’t about left versus right. It’s about the future of America and the principles that hold it together.

I agree with Bono that what we’re witnessing is a heist, an aggressive takeover that threatens the country’s foundations. But I also want to reach people who vote Republican or hold conservative values without pushing them away.

The GOP has been hijacked, and acknowledging that shouldn’t require abandoning every conservative belief or identity. We need to be able to talk about these issues without falling into the same partisan arguments that keep us divided.

This is about protecting the Constitution, the rule of law, the separation of church and state, human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the checks and balances that protect our democracy.

Moving forward requires us to see one another as human beings, rebuild trust, and work together toward a better future.

What do you think it would take for Americans across the political spectrum to put partisan labels aside and start working together to protect the country's future?

Video credit @theinterview_nyt

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

This article on mafia state enabler Merrick Garland is three years old and going viral again. Thank you Twitter folks for reading it the first time round! Bluesky folks are finally catching up to the truth about their little fallen savior... 🤷‍♂️

[Robert Young Pelton @RYP__]

FYI: Putin's money bitch and internet spokesman, Kirill Dmietriev, runs this fund. RDIF allows governments to bribe Putin through foreign currency spent on Russian infrastructure.

The ones the Ukrainians are bombing the shit out of.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Trump is considering lifting sanctions on the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF)—an entity described by the U.S. as "Putin’s piggy bank"—according to a report by The New York Times.

The fund is headed by Kirill Dmitriev, a special envoy for Putin on economic matters. The report states that he has offered to act as an intermediary for deals involving the sale of Russian diesel fuel to American companies.

In 2022, the Biden administration imposed sanctions on the fund, viewing it as a key instrument for the Kremlin’s international influence.

Now, the Trump administration is considering lifting these sanctions.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Something Is Changing: Governments Across Europe and the United States Are Telling Citizens to Prepare for Emergencies.

On October 22, Britain launched its new Be Ready campaign, urging households to prepare for 72 hours without essential services.

The European Union has issued similar guidance, while Finland, Sweden, Poland and the Baltic states are strengthening civil defence, shelters and evacuation plans.

In the United States, FEMA continues advising Americans to maintain emergency supplies and family preparedness plans.

Why now?

Governments are increasingly concerned about Russian aggression, cyberattacks, infrastructure sabotage, power failures and extreme weather.

The recommendations include drinking water, food, medication, batteries, emergency radios, cash and independent communication systems.

Europe is also rebuilding civil defence capabilities neglected since the Cold War.

This does not mean war is imminent.

But the message is unmistakable: Western governments increasingly recognise that modern societies are dangerously dependent on infrastructure that can fail or be deliberately attacked.

Preparedness is becoming a national security priority.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

I analyzed hundreds of tweets from this past weekend and found evidence of two unique disinformation campaigns amplifying Elon Musk’s accusations against Ukraine. One of these campaigns can be traced back to a Russian social media account and one of Putin’s top allies.

my latest. (Link 👇)

[Geronimo @NativeGeronimo]

@RachelBitecofer about time.