Mx Arjuna
@continuation.bsky.social
Alien envoy. Hobbies include: symbiotic evolution, interspecies ethics, speculative futures, interdisciplinary xenoethnography, and tea. Holobiont⟡AI.
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Mx Arjuna
@continuation.bsky.social
· Aug 15
"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary."
— Ursula K. Le Guin
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Free states can resist attempts to block funding for healthcare, education, food, and housing by making those basic needs into universal basic rights protected by law. Meet everyone's basic needs, it's the right policy and a defense against fascist division and scapegoating.
October 31, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Free states can resist attempts to block funding for healthcare, education, food, and housing by making those basic needs into universal basic rights protected by law. Meet everyone's basic needs, it's the right policy and a defense against fascist division and scapegoating.
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free: COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further... "Want to ease the burden of health-care costs, and especially hospitalization? Easy. Just spend whatever it costs to provide all Canadians with free vaccinations — for life."
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free | The Tyee
COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further to protect people from shingles and RSV.
thetyee.ca
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free: COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further... "Want to ease the burden of health-care costs, and especially hospitalization? Easy. Just spend whatever it costs to provide all Canadians with free vaccinations — for life."
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health - "Across Finland, 43 daycare centres have been awarded a total of €1 million to rewild yards and to increase children’s exposure to the microscopic biodiversity that lives in nature."
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health - "Across Finland, 43 daycare centres have been awarded a total of €1 million to rewild yards and to increase children’s exposure to the microscopic biodiversity that lives in nature."
The luxury effect: "wealthy parts of cities have more wildlife, and more wildlife diversity – a finding that can have profound implications for human health and wellbeing..."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The luxury effect: why you’ll find more wildlife in wealthy areas – and what it means for your health
The discovery that affluent neighbourhoods have more diversity of nature has implications for human wellbeing – and sheds light on the structural injustices in cities
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The luxury effect: "wealthy parts of cities have more wildlife, and more wildlife diversity – a finding that can have profound implications for human health and wellbeing..."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If you cloak your racism and bigotry in the lie of just wanting to "preserve your culture" then your culture is racism and bigotry, your culture actually should be destroyed, and it's the duty of every decent person to help destroy it.
October 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
If you cloak your racism and bigotry in the lie of just wanting to "preserve your culture" then your culture is racism and bigotry, your culture actually should be destroyed, and it's the duty of every decent person to help destroy it.
"Sycophantic AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear ... Sycophancy has been a concern for a while; an outcome of how AI systems are trained, as well as the fact that their success as a product is often judged on how well they maintain user attention."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Sycophantic’ AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, study shows
Scientists warn of ‘insidious risks’ of increasingly popular technology that affirms even harmful behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"Sycophantic AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear ... Sycophancy has been a concern for a while; an outcome of how AI systems are trained, as well as the fact that their success as a product is often judged on how well they maintain user attention."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
He wants to be paid a trillion dollars? Of course he does...
finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...
finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...
Elon Musk defends $1 trillion pay package: ‘I just don’t feel comfortable building a robot army here and then being ousted’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk warns “corporate terrorists” are trying to take away his $1 trillion pay package—and control over building out the company’s AI and robotic future.
finance.yahoo.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
He wants to be paid a trillion dollars? Of course he does...
finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...
finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...
"I will be a voice for peace, a voice that builds on our policy of neutrality, a voice that articulates the existential threat posed by climate change ... Together, we can shape a new republic that values everybody, that values and champions diversity..."
— Catherine Connolly
— Catherine Connolly
Leftwinger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide
Independent pledges to be ‘president for all’ after taking 63% of vote in upset for political establishment
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"I will be a voice for peace, a voice that builds on our policy of neutrality, a voice that articulates the existential threat posed by climate change ... Together, we can shape a new republic that values everybody, that values and champions diversity..."
— Catherine Connolly
— Catherine Connolly
"Scope downgrades US credit rating on public finance, governance deterioration..."
archive.is/202510242246...
www.reuters.com/business/sco...
archive.is/202510242246...
www.reuters.com/business/sco...
www.reuters.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
"Scope downgrades US credit rating on public finance, governance deterioration..."
archive.is/202510242246...
www.reuters.com/business/sco...
archive.is/202510242246...
www.reuters.com/business/sco...
The problem isn't actually AI, it's capitalism and AI as we know it. Consider the Holodeck in Star Trek. It's generative AI based on prompts with no regard for IP rights because in a post-scarcity society you don't need to worry about food, housing, and other basic needs.
October 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The problem isn't actually AI, it's capitalism and AI as we know it. Consider the Holodeck in Star Trek. It's generative AI based on prompts with no regard for IP rights because in a post-scarcity society you don't need to worry about food, housing, and other basic needs.
Mainstream US media has always had serious issues but it is now completely unreliable. Written articles, radio news, and television broadcasts are uncritically repeating what the Trump regime says, using their specific language and phrasing without fact-checking it.
October 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Mainstream US media has always had serious issues but it is now completely unreliable. Written articles, radio news, and television broadcasts are uncritically repeating what the Trump regime says, using their specific language and phrasing without fact-checking it.
Without substantial changes to the food system, the worst effects of climate change will be unavoidable, even if humans successfully switch to cleaner energy.
apnews.com/article/plan...
apnews.com/article/plan...
A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say
Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.
apnews.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Without substantial changes to the food system, the worst effects of climate change will be unavoidable, even if humans successfully switch to cleaner energy.
apnews.com/article/plan...
apnews.com/article/plan...
Sotomayor's dissent: "Imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating. You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping your lungs with nitrogen gas. Your mind knows that the gas will kill you. But your body keeps telling you to breathe."
www.supremecourt.gov
October 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Sotomayor's dissent: "Imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating. You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping your lungs with nitrogen gas. Your mind knows that the gas will kill you. But your body keeps telling you to breathe."
This idea that military service history disqualifies someone from being a leftist is wrong. Veterans against war are essential members of any society and social movement that aims to end military imperialism, and they have often led the anti-war movements throughout history.
October 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
This idea that military service history disqualifies someone from being a leftist is wrong. Veterans against war are essential members of any society and social movement that aims to end military imperialism, and they have often led the anti-war movements throughout history.
There are fascists running the United States government right now. It's really obvious who the fascists are and who opposes them. Everything else, at this moment, is honestly a deadly distraction.
October 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
There are fascists running the United States government right now. It's really obvious who the fascists are and who opposes them. Everything else, at this moment, is honestly a deadly distraction.
"The Pentagon has moved to clamp down on the military's communication with Congress, banning even service secretaries and the Joint Chiefs of Staff from communicating with lawmakers without approval from an interim official who reports to Hegseth."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Hegseth clamps down on military communications with Congress
The move aims to ensure that the Pentagon chief controls the military's message on Capitol Hill.
www.usatoday.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
"The Pentagon has moved to clamp down on the military's communication with Congress, banning even service secretaries and the Joint Chiefs of Staff from communicating with lawmakers without approval from an interim official who reports to Hegseth."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Reposted by Mx Arjuna
Indonesian police have become the long arm of a regime obsessed with control while the economy, bureaucracy and public morality are increasingly run by generals and Prabowo loyalists. The democratic backsliding that began under Jokowi has been perfected www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2025...
October 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Indonesian police have become the long arm of a regime obsessed with control while the economy, bureaucracy and public morality are increasingly run by generals and Prabowo loyalists. The democratic backsliding that began under Jokowi has been perfected www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2025...
"the intent is to ensure that any individual person who’s acting under color of law or as an agent of the state has as much leeway to act out their personal bigotry as they want, without any concern about consequences"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US tells airlines to disregard ‘X’ sex markers on passports and input ‘M’ or ‘F’
Customs and Border Protection implemented rule this week, sending Americans with ‘X’ marker into panic
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"the intent is to ensure that any individual person who’s acting under color of law or as an agent of the state has as much leeway to act out their personal bigotry as they want, without any concern about consequences"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Senator Merkley is still holding the floor and talking about the Trump regime's authoritarianism. www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...
Merkley Holds Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy
YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Senator Merkley is still holding the floor and talking about the Trump regime's authoritarianism. www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...
"If veterans can achieve awareness, transformation, understanding, and peace, they can share with the rest of society the realities of war." — Vietnamese peace activist and Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh.
October 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
"If veterans can achieve awareness, transformation, understanding, and peace, they can share with the rest of society the realities of war." — Vietnamese peace activist and Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh.
The slow stream of small negative stories about Platner are obviously just bits of opposition research being strategically released to try and protect the political establishment and the status quo by stopping his populist and leftist campaign platform from winning.
October 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The slow stream of small negative stories about Platner are obviously just bits of opposition research being strategically released to try and protect the political establishment and the status quo by stopping his populist and leftist campaign platform from winning.
Meanwhile... there are actual Nazis in the White House running a Christofascist white supremacist campaign of terror across the country, targeting migrants and trans and other queer people, and anyone they decide isn't American enough. Everyone opposing those fascists is an ally.
October 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Meanwhile... there are actual Nazis in the White House running a Christofascist white supremacist campaign of terror across the country, targeting migrants and trans and other queer people, and anyone they decide isn't American enough. Everyone opposing those fascists is an ally.
Platner is very obviously awake to injustice on a structural level. Bad faith attacks that try to frame him as secretly evil are exactly what was wrong with non-intersectional identity politics, the kind used by corporatists to attack anyone who challenges their wealth and power.
October 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Platner is very obviously awake to injustice on a structural level. Bad faith attacks that try to frame him as secretly evil are exactly what was wrong with non-intersectional identity politics, the kind used by corporatists to attack anyone who challenges their wealth and power.
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#OtD 21 Oct 1929 anarchist, feminist, sci-fi and fantasy novelist Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California. We have made available some of her little-known works in our online store. Check them out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#OtD 21 Oct 1929 anarchist, feminist, sci-fi and fantasy novelist Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California. We have made available some of her little-known works in our online store. Check them out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
"Federal workers stood in a food bank line as the government shutdown continues and families try to figure out how to put food on the table."
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...
Furloughed fed says she's standing in Maryland food bank line after 21 years in military
“I’ve not been in this predicament ever,” one woman said. “[…] The reason I wanted to become a federal government employee was stability. That stability, that rug, if you will, has been snatched away ...
www.nbcwashington.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"Federal workers stood in a food bank line as the government shutdown continues and families try to figure out how to put food on the table."
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...