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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
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The two greatest challenges facing humanity right now are reversing climate change & halting the spread of fascism. Wgb-er
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RT: Tim Bouma 🚴🏻‍♂️
@trbouma Feb 18, 2024

"Typical deployment of a Python Docker container"
November 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Awww.
Child putting on one of those sweatshirts that has a photo of his cat printed on it, as the cat watches. "Hold on. Don't look yet"
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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@kim_harding
screenshot from Polanski's Chinatown, a scene near the end of the film. text reads "Forget it Jake, it's the Gorbals"
November 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Two male civil servants walking down the street, one says to the other: “Thank goodness we finally have an Administration that speaks for those of us who don’t care what happens to the planet in a hundred years because we'll be dead.”
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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<screams>
Cartoon by Wayne D Two men in a bathroom, a plumber and the houseowner. Plumber: "There's no handle; you need to download the FlushMe app.
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I'm kind of okay with the ending.
Screenshot End Stage Capitalism The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct. The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice. The satellites still left, their orbits decaying, dutifully relay the message. The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that its owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days. A pack of roombas, the local wind turbines giving out, search for the next functional docking station. A washing machine tweets: "anyone need to do a load?" every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time. The replies are filled with Al thirstposters and their hypebots. In North America, raccoons have entered the bronze age, while babboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia. Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion.
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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It's all an illusion.
"America is a country made possible by hucksterism and carnival buncombe. It's the birthplace of both modern PR and advertising, the first place on earth to apply techniques of commercial marketing fo politics, and a country where, for at least thirty years, the economy has been driven by the engine of finance, that is, by the magical creation of wealth through financial securities and derivatives. When you consider those U.S companies that still produce commodities now devote themselves mainly to developing brands and images, you realize that American capitalism conjures value into being chiefly by convincing everyone it's there." - David Graeber
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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So ashamed of Canada 🥺
Climate Change Performance Index 2026. Canada is near the bottom, under Kazakstan. UK is doing surprisingly well.
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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@leemadgwick Saw this photo taken by a guy in Iceland, thought it was one of yours!
Grey wooden Icelandic church with white trim, against a moody sky with grass in the foreground.
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027
RT @jasonhickel (on X) Striking new paper shows that bringing the entire world population up to decent-living standards would require only about 3% of existing global resource use. Think about the implications of this: Right now, at least 80% of humanity is deprived of decent-living standards. More than 2 billion people do not even have stable access to food. These are massive levels of deprivation. And it is *totally avoidable* We can ensure all 8 billion people have universal healthcare, good housing, education, nutritious food, sanitation systems, transit, clothing, refrigerators, freezers, necessary heating/cooling, mobile phones, internet, computers, etc... ...all of this with only 3% of existing global resource use. Specifically: 7% of existing material use, 1% of existing emissions, 2% of existing land use, and 2% of existing water use.
November 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Parallels
Cartoon with two squares. It's called "Roadkill Bill" (by Avidor) Upper square shows Aztecs sacrificing a child on top of a ziggurat. There are six people commenting. First one says "Why do we have to kill kids?" #2: It's not "killing", it's a "sacrifice" #3 If we don't sacrifice kids, the Rain God will be angry"...#6 "...and we'll all starve to death!" Lower square shows medics loading a small body into an ambulance, with a crushed tricycle in the foreground. Six people commenting: #1 Why do we have to kill kids? #2 It's not "killing", it's a car "accident" #3 If motorists had to drive slower, it would hurt car sales #4 The economy would tank ...#6 And we'd all starve to death!
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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A straw man walking a red herring up a slippery slope on his way to the comment section (this is what the drawing shows)
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Defence ministers today vs a defence ministers a mere nine years ago:
10 guys in suits, one woman. One guy in a suit, and 8 women.
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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@kim_harding I'm old enough to remember when there were a significant number of women in post as defence ministers (less than 10 yrs ago)
screenshot from twitter @jensstoltenberg Historic moment at #NATO #DefMin meeting today. A quarter of the ministers were women. A step in the right direction. 5:55 PM - Feb 15, 2017 - Twitter for iPhone [photo of Jens Stoltenberg and 8 female defence ministers, including von der Leyon in her previous role]
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Thanking everyone for all the useful and interesting discussion about this concept. Here are some excellent links abt studies being done on this from: @mama2manymouths […]

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Graphic from yesterday: Alt text Image of two wind turbines with a large flock of birds in the background, and a Norwegian flag. Text under says: Painting a single wind turbine blade black cut bird deaths by 70% in Norway, showing a simple fix can protect wildlife
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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@phocks Yo! 😁 👍🏽
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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@cemedia
Five US soldiers, heavily armed in a desert milieu. Caption: "American geologists looking for oil"
November 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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RT: Seth Harp @sethharpesq
Nov 1
The biggest capital outlay ever, for a product that no one will pay for.
OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for subprime AI. These absurd data centers will stand sentinel over the […]

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Photo of a New Yorker magazine page (a lot of text, one small image) BRAVE NEW WORLD DEPT INFORMATION OVERLOAD inside the date centers that train AI and drain the electrical grid BY STEPHEN WITT
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I may get one of these
Screenshot of a BlueSky post from Casey Newton. Colour photo of a black baseball cap. Embroidered in white on the top is "Please don't talk to me about AI. I will kill myself."
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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If you've got any wind farms near you, lobby them to do this too!
Image of two wind turbines with a large flock of birds in the background, and a Norwegian flag. Text under says: Painting a single wind turbine blade black cut bird deaths by 70% in Norway, showing a simple fix can protect wildlife
November 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Colour image of five US soldiers, brandishing automatic weapons, in a desert environment. Above the soldiers is the text "American geologists looking for oil"
November 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Hallowe'en, it's such a joyful celebration.
Three very strangely dressed people, all wearing weird hats. They look like either magicians or aliens. They are outside in a natural area. This colour image has been around for quite a number of years, an early type of computer-assisted image by an artist who works consistently with strange, haunting figures, often wearing tribal-like costumes.
October 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Cold War Steve. The Caravaggio of our time.
Photomontage showing Musk, looking over his shoulder at the viewer, and a person strapped into a chair being forced to look at "grok", whilst Hitler, a German shepherd dog and a nazi officer look on.
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Currently having a discussion with this spider about WHY it's a bad idea to make its nest inside my cutlery drawer
Fairly large spider and its web in the corner of one of the compartments of my cutlery drawer.
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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@bruces Monroe was born the same year as Queen Elizabeth II. It's just we never got to watch her grow old.
Imagine the older lady roles she could have aced, had she lived long enough.
QE 2 meeting Marilyn Monroe, 1960s.
October 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM