Aesir / Disir
@nousathanatos.bsky.social
Educator, TTRPG OG, metalhead, environmentalist
Another case of the selling out of digital community commons. We need non-commercial alternatives with robust protections.
When We Get Komooted
Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities...
bikepacking.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Another case of the selling out of digital community commons. We need non-commercial alternatives with robust protections.
I think we should all stop calling them "fashion influencers" and start calling them "frocktologists" instead.
April 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I think we should all stop calling them "fashion influencers" and start calling them "frocktologists" instead.
This is cathartic:
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Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector
The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’...
defector.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is cathartic:
defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
It's like carbon emissions were their kink:
Trump halts historic orphaned well-plugging program - High Country News
Western states were using funds from the Infrastructure Act to clean up pollution left behind by industry. Now, the Trump administration has canceled them.
www.hcn.org
March 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It's like carbon emissions were their kink:
How had I never heard this? This is amazing. Rusty Schweickart speaking extemporaneously about his Apollo 9 mission and how it changed us. It's like the opposite of the Tower of Babel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvcH...
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No Frames, No Boundaries
YouTube video by MLSpeakersGroup
www.youtube.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
How had I never heard this? This is amazing. Rusty Schweickart speaking extemporaneously about his Apollo 9 mission and how it changed us. It's like the opposite of the Tower of Babel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvcH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvcH...
T'Rump's simplistic understanding of deals:
Distributive Bargaining in an Integrative World
I’m going to get a little wonky and write about Donald Trump and negotiations. For those who don’t know, I’m an adjunct professor at…
medium.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
T'Rump's simplistic understanding of deals:
What an absolute fucking shitshow our foreign policy has become in just a few short weeks. Forget great, we are making ourselves mistrusted, unwanted, and loathed.
February 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
What an absolute fucking shitshow our foreign policy has become in just a few short weeks. Forget great, we are making ourselves mistrusted, unwanted, and loathed.
An alternate way to say "Make America Great Again" is "Re-Birth of a Nation." As a movement, it really does have a written-by-Thomas-Dixon feel to it.
February 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
An alternate way to say "Make America Great Again" is "Re-Birth of a Nation." As a movement, it really does have a written-by-Thomas-Dixon feel to it.
For Elon, and his chainsaw:
‘Out, Out—’
The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it. And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rat...
www.poetryfoundation.org
February 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
For Elon, and his chainsaw:
The infographic grouping the EOs is especially informative:
"So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks
Where I categorise 76 Trump administration actions from the last 3 weeks and show how they align with the authoritarian playbook
christinapagel.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The infographic grouping the EOs is especially informative:
The tech oligarchs are not dismantling the administrative state, they're strip mining the American Dream.
February 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The tech oligarchs are not dismantling the administrative state, they're strip mining the American Dream.
We're face to face with the men who trolled the world:
Musk claims DOGE is saving taxpayers billions, but the data is unclear
President Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have touted billions in terminated contracts deemed wasteful, but there's little transparency about how savings are tracked.
www.npr.org
February 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We're face to face with the men who trolled the world:
We need to start referring to all this anti-diversity legislation and presidential vandalism of longstanding civil rights protections as Dim Crow laws.
February 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We need to start referring to all this anti-diversity legislation and presidential vandalism of longstanding civil rights protections as Dim Crow laws.
That which does not kill you makes you take a lot of ibuprofen in your 50s.
February 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
That which does not kill you makes you take a lot of ibuprofen in your 50s.
Climate driven paradigm shift imminent:
How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream
Americans have long accumulated wealth by owning their homes, but a new study predicts that spiking insurance rates and climate disasters now herald an era of widespread losses.
www.propublica.org
February 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Climate driven paradigm shift imminent:
Sounds right as an exercise in anti-exceptionalism:
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Sounds right as an exercise in anti-exceptionalism:
Forget 'Gulf of America' or 'Gulf of Mexico' - I dub thee The Crater of Saurian Doom.
January 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Forget 'Gulf of America' or 'Gulf of Mexico' - I dub thee The Crater of Saurian Doom.
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the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”
January 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”
I wonder how many letters have been written over the years on behalf of this act? Long time coming.
Biden commutes sentence for indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of 2 FBI agents
Biden commutes sentence for indigenous activist Leonard Peltier
www.pbs.org
January 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I wonder how many letters have been written over the years on behalf of this act? Long time coming.
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If you’re good at internet sleuthing and want to put your skills to work to help wildfire victims you can check for LA county rentals that have suddenly doubled in price, publicly name and shame the agents doing this, and report them to the government because it’s illegal: oag.ca.gov/contact/cons...
Consumer Complaint Against A Business/Company
oag.ca.gov
January 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If you’re good at internet sleuthing and want to put your skills to work to help wildfire victims you can check for LA county rentals that have suddenly doubled in price, publicly name and shame the agents doing this, and report them to the government because it’s illegal: oag.ca.gov/contact/cons...
Seeds for change:
How to Plant the Forests of the Future
In the past, forest restoration could be informed by what once was. Now we have to make hard decisions about what we’re working toward.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
December 17, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Seeds for change:
Aren't these some seriously fucked up sentencing guidelines:
Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag
Gaie Delap was sent to prison in August for her part in disruptive protests on M25 in November
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Aren't these some seriously fucked up sentencing guidelines:
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California voters may not have made the connection between “involuntary servitude” and “slavery” and elected to keep involuntary servitude in the constitution.
Why did Nevada vote to ban slavery, when California didn’t? - High Country News
Both states require incarcerated people to work — often for critical and dangerous jobs.
buff.ly
December 6, 2024 at 3:00 PM
California voters may not have made the connection between “involuntary servitude” and “slavery” and elected to keep involuntary servitude in the constitution.
Good, concise, accessible comparison of the carbon cost of renewable energy vs fossil fuels:
Does the road to clean energy run through dirty mines?
You can’t scale green power without scaling gray industry.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
December 3, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Good, concise, accessible comparison of the carbon cost of renewable energy vs fossil fuels: