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Capitalism is a death cult. It's capitalists vs everyone and everything else. There's no compromise. It cannot be reformed. The possibilities for "what do we do instead???!?!?!!???" are endless.

I'm going for a walk.

#capitalism

Adding to this 6 weeks later.

Quakers aren't allowing anti-trans orgs to hire their venues, refused permission to anti-trans entryists who tried to start a "GC Quakers" group, no longer stocking a book by a Quaker author because they are anti-trans on social media and they're actively blocking anti-trans people from their social media sites.

#Trans #Quakers

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I updated Mastodon a while back but I'm running it on an old Linux and the version of the graphics processor ImageMagik was too old, so I installed it from source to get it working.

But it wasn't.

It also needs libraries for PNG and JPEG to be installed to work.

I need to migrate it to a new Linux but also have a life

But if you were wondering that's why my profile picture wasn't working for a while.

More #political #hypocrisy:

So, the #WorldBank has been happily supporting #fossilfuel business via trade financing even as it claims it is pushing for a #greentransition.

Somehow, the #energy firms keep getting their fingers into the pot of state (and global) economic support... its almost like they had good connections & were effective lobbyists.

Anyone who thinks shifting to alternate #energy sources will be easy might want to look back to #tobacco for the fossil fuel playbook!

It's hilarious that some folks think a secret group of rich people control everything instead of the widely known group of rich people that control everything.
#classwar

Fascists tell lies to pull at the heart's strings, then they stab you in the back and pull out your heart.

:mastodon:

Anyone who tells you that the rich are not getting richer at the expense of the poor and middle class is lying or uninformed. Anyone who seeks to lower taxes for the rich is on the take of the rich.
Anyone who tells you that the rich are not the biggest polluters hastens the destruction of life on earth.

:mastodon:

The ugliness of UK political decision making taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/0. Ministers are proposing cuts to the benefits of a million vulnerable people currently considered unable to work. They want to force them into work. This week I have shown how to raise more than £35 billion of additional tax in the UK, all from wealthier people. There is more to come. So we don't need to penalise people unable to work, at all. That is being done by choice. This is the ugly side of UK political decision-making.

Hi folks

I want to create a publicly visible calendar for activists in my area

Can't find something lightweight and suitable because there's a whole pile of solutions.

Has anyone got something to recommend? I'm happy installing software and running stuff on a server. Just too many choices and a lack of bandwidth to go through them.

Thanks

• Spending £10bn on making schools not terrifying death traps: nah.
• Spending £22bn on restoring the Palace of Westminster: sure!

They’ve lost the plot.
Send them a signal they’ll never forget.
#VoteBinface

This rebuilding falling down schools and hospitals. It's a few tens of millions? 50? Sound like a lot.

But then 32bn on track and trace?
The millions that was wasted on PPE that ended up buying yachts and planes?
The billion they found to bribe the DUP?

It's peanuts, in fact.

Same with the strikes, paying people properly etc. etc. far more has been spent thwarting unions than it would have cost to meet their demands in full.

What's bankrupt is the right wing ideology.

And Laura Ann Carleton doesn’t get to be friends with anybody anymore, or attend church functions or backyard barbecues, because she was murdered.

She was murdered over *political views.*

Just some things I noticed.

armoxon.substack.com/p/if-you-

And this is why child rights are human rights.

"Call me old-fashioned, but if I were a parent, I'd quite like to know whether my son, Sam, was showing up at school as Samantha."

"If you don't already know, there's a reason she's not telling you.
It's you. You're the problem."

People in the UK may be left in the wilderness without secure messaging services, if the #OnlineSafetyBill retains its encryption busting clause.

Forcing platforms to comply with client-side scanning is state-mandated private surveillance of the kind that we see in authoritarian regimes. Platforms will leave rather than compromise #security and #privacy.

It'll particularly harm journalists, campaigners and activists who rely on #e2ee to communicate safely. #ukpolitics

techmonitor.ai/policy/privacy-

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