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[🏺Ian I 🌹 @socialismfrog]

@livelaughlmao I generally agree but my little sister did genuinely just make up that people hit her, and used to say that teachers at her pre-school put her in the fireplace or that our grandmother burned her. So yes trust children, but not unconditionally.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Any data center that a forces rate increase should have to cover every penny of it. Why are ratepayers picking up the energy tab for major corporations?

[𝐥𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 🇵🇸 @muselola_]

La culpa siempre es del aire acondicionado, de las duchas de más de 5’, del coche a gasolina del pobre… pero curiosamente nunca lo es de los jets privados, los campos de golf, la industria fast fashion, los centros de datos, de las toneladas de residuos y gases de las fabricas..

[classy @beautyartistik]

C’est vraiment "eat the rich" même ceux que j’aime bien. Envoyé un jet privé pour une robe et pendant ce temps là on doit boire avec un goût de papier dans la bouche et se laisser crever de chaud en allumant pas de clim

[sean illing @seanilling]

The fact that we just spent maybe close to $200 billion on an utterly stupid and pointless war and a certain species of American still finds the idea of the govt subsidizing youth soccer unthinkable is basically the insoluble problem here

[Pizza @number_pizza111]

Hard to escape the feeling that it’s all a little over.

You cannot fund anything worthwhile if your tax base is reduced to unsympathetic white collar professionals and billionaires.

[🏺Ian I 🌹 @socialismfrog]

@najithetankie @sahrawismus @Zakaisback @bot6296293293 Ok so I would invite you to reread the tweet

[🏺Ian I 🌹 @socialismfrog]

@sahrawismus @Zakaisback @bot6296293293 Not the first responder but I’d love anything you recommend to get a quick understanding about the country in English or French

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The greatest trick coffee pod companies ever pulled was convincing people to pay more for cheap coffee wrapped in trash.

Tens of billions of single-use coffee pods and capsules are used every year. Many are made from mixed plastic, foil, aluminum, filters, lids, and wet coffee grounds, which makes them annoying or impossible to recycle through normal curbside systems. Even the 'recyclable' ones often require special collection programs most people don't have easy access to.

The pod gives you one cup of coffee, then leaves behind a tiny piece of manufactured garbage that may outlive you.

A French press, drip maker, moka pot, pour-over, percolator, or reusable pod can make coffee every morning without throwing away a plastic capsule every time you wake up. The grounds can go in your compost.

This is one of those environmental swaps that is not complicated. You don't need a lifestyle overhaul. You don't need to become a coffee snob. You just need to make the switch.

[Winter @lm0y]

My whole life has been defined by climate anxiety. From childhood to today there hasn't been a single day where it hasn't at least been at the back of my mind, weighing on me ever heavier with every passing year.

[🏺Ian I 🌹 @socialismfrog]

@ParapastaCD Oooh what’s the source?

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

In America, carrying a first aid kit near a protest is an act of terrorism but carrying a gun across state lines to a protest is not.

[Ramit Sethi @ramit]

Abigail Disney famously shared what happened to her dad when he began flying private:

"So all of the sudden, we went from being comfortable, upper-middle-class people to suddenly my dad had a private jet. That's when I feel that my dad really lost his way in life..."

"If I were queen of the world, I would pass a law against private jets, because they enable you to get around a certain reality. You don't have to go through an airport terminal, you don't have to interact, you don't have to be patient, you don't have to be uncomfortable. These are the things that remind us we're human"

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I find it deeply depressing how schools are gutting their humanities programs to become glorified tech labs. In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began when colleges stopped teaching the liberal arts. Without history, literature, music, we have no culture and no future.

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

The fact opening a little shop is prohibitively expensive in the United States is an abject policy failure. In Japan, there are thousands of amazing, highly rated four seat restaurants, tailors, quirky little stationary stores etc.

Our zoning is killing joy and dreams.

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

I sometimes feel we've REALLY lost our perspective lately because $112 billion in net profit in a year is an INSANE amount of money, yet Apple is saying it's forced to increase prices on consumers. We should just be so much angrier about all of this.

[bONGO 🌹 @wariocolosseum]

it’s so cool how rich ppl make our lives so much worse by making us deal with massive problems they caused

[Ⓐ🌲Robynette🌲Ⓥ @tinybird420]

Okay but actually don't though. Because it can spread to non data center areas and can be very hard to get rid of. Find a very aggressive and hard to kill plant native to your area and plant those near the data centers instead.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

THE INSANELY RIGGED ECONOMY

Yesterday, while tens of millions of families were struggling to pay for rent, food, healthcare, childcare and gas, seven of Trump's oligarchic friends became $210 billion richer. Not last week. Not over the past decade. In less than 24 hours, these 7 men, the wealthiest people on earth, became $210 billion richer.

Incredibly, since Trump was elected on November 5, 2024, these 7 men, all Big Tech Oligarchs, have become more than $1.5 trillion richer and are now collectively worth over $2.8 trillion. Meanwhile, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any other wealthy nation, young adults have a lower standard of living than their parents and over 20% of our seniors are trying to survive on an annual income of $15,000 a year or less.

Yes. We are living in an oligarchy.

A Good Day for Trump’s Friends:

Yesterday, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, got $164.8 billion richer and is now worth $1.4 trillion. He’s worth $1.1 trillion more than on Election Day.

Yesterday, Larry Page, the second wealthiest man in the world, gained $7.61 billion in wealth and is now worth $314 billion. He’s worth $161 billion more than on Election Day.

Yesterday, Sergey Brin, the third richest man in the world, got $7.01 billion richer and is now worth $292 billion. He’s worth $148 billion more than on Election Day.

Yesterday, Jeff Bezos, the fourth richest man in the world, gained $6.96 billion in wealth and is now worth $267 billion. He’s worth $46 billion more than on Election Day.

Yesterday, Larry Ellison, the fifth wealthiest man in the world, gained $8.92 billion in wealth and is now worth $247 billion. He’s worth $63 billion more than on Election Day.

Yesterday, Michael Dell, the sixth richest man in the world, got $5.86 billion richer and is now worth $218 billion. He’s worth $101 billion more than on Election Day.

Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg, the seventh richest man in the world, gained $9.16 billion in wealth and is now worth $211 billion. He’s worth $8 billion more than on Election Day.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said it best: “Call it democracy or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God’s children.”

[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program

> screwworm outbreak almost immediately

> $1B to combat it

Government efficiency