Cal

Proud cat dad. Lead Game Programmer @SocialAnecdote.
(Prev. 2UP Games, @Amplitude/@SEGA, @GodsUnchained, @CardboardKeep)

[Robin Seemangal @nova_road]

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn.

There are two auroras (top right and bottom left), and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.

This and another photo of Earth are the first downlinked images from the Artemis II astronauts.

Courtesy of NASA

[Cal @Talsidor]

@rfleury Imagine a hypothetical Steam competitor suddenly appeared that provided even more services at even higher quality; all players and all devs prefer it to Steam in every way. Do you believe the likelihood that this platform could ever overcome Steam's inertia would be "reasonable"?

[🔻 @uncle_authority]

in a real society this would be a cause for celebration that human beings don't have to waste their lives in Amazon warehouses, but since we live in a labor camp with a big screen TV for a fence it just means hunger and eviction notices.

[P.E. Moskowitz @_pem_pem]

all other problems are this problem. all other discourse is a distraction from this

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

Standing in front of nuclear waste at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, which was shut down in 2021.

127 of these casks hold ~all the waste~ from almost sixty years of making 25% of NYC’s electricity.

Now show me the waste from the fossil fuels plants that replaced Indian Point.

[Alexander C. Kaufman @AlexCKaufman]

When someone parrots the oft-repeated line that nuclear isn’t zero carbon because of emissions from mining uranium, show them this.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

If you stole $5000 from your employer, you’d be fired, and possibly sent to prison.

When companies steal $50 billion in wages from workers each year… nothing. They just get more tax breaks.

This is what people mean when they say crime is a social construct.

[Cal @Talsidor]

@taipan168 Was curious about this so I checked - Wiki only has data up to 2022, but puts Aus as #5 (which is still v good & higher than I would've guessed!) https://t.co/EwPkH5wAA0

[taipan168 @taipan168]

If Australia had a developed world population density, we’d have around 300m people, not 27.5m.

Even exclude 80% of our land and apply the OECD average population density and we’d have around 60m people.

But nah, “f#%k off, we’re full”. 🙄

[Rational Aussie @rationalaussie]

If you can't access the internet without needing to verify your age, you do not live in a free country.

I can't believe this even needs to be said.

Censorship of information is the mandate of totalitarian regimes across history.

[kyle @Caol_MacCormaic]

I mean this is it exactly. This country isn’t right-wing—it just knows that something is fucked up, something is rigged. A right-wing party that confirms these suspicions but misdiagnoses the problem is going to triumph over a liberal party that tells them they’re wrong and dumb

[prance @bocxtop]

nyc swung right in the presidential election but just nominated a Muslim socialist for mayor. this country isn't getting more rightwing, people are just fed up with cowards who don't stand for anything or care about making anyone's life better

[Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers]

Labor keeps telling us there’s no money for housing, healthcare, or education.

And yet:
– $368 billion for AUKUS submarines
– $14.6 billion in fossil fuel subsidies
– $1 trillion in untaxed corporate profits hidden offshore

This country isn’t broke. It’s being robbed by the rich.
The landlords in the Liberal and Labor parties let it keep happening.

[Cal @Talsidor]

@Rainmaker1973

[taipan168 @taipan168]

This is simply insane tax policy that advantages people buying dual-cab utes in place of regular passenger cars as everyday vehicles. Totally nuts.
https://t.co/Prjh5gTzmO

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

the way we're socialized to see violence only as interpersonal—not see state violence (policies that create poverty/kill), structural violence, institutional violence—is very deliberate. same w/ panics about ~shoplifting~ vs how much corporations steal from every single one of us

[Wheel reinventor @wheelreinvent]

People will still insist an 11 yr old being killed by a car is a “freak accident” when it’s the leading cause of death for this age group.

A piano falling out of a plane and landing on somebody is a freak accident. But children being killed by cars regularly is very predictable.

[Jay Tilley @jj_tilley]

BHP is decarbonising in Chile, but not in Australia because...