Jay
@xaj3z.bsky.social
ecosocialist, critical realist, neurodivergent being
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In coming years, eco-apartheid will become more prominent worldwide as colonial violence is used to maintain and safeguard Western interests and profits. We are seeing this future in Gaza today.
Palestine against an eco-apartheid world
In coming years, eco-apartheid will become more prominent worldwide as colonial violence is used to maintain and safeguard Western interests and profits. We are seeing this future in Gaza today.
mondoweiss.net
December 3, 2024 at 3:00 AM
In coming years, eco-apartheid will become more prominent worldwide as colonial violence is used to maintain and safeguard Western interests and profits. We are seeing this future in Gaza today.
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This is called Jevon's Paradox in economics.
All these things are true:
Electric vehicles ARE better than ICE vehicles, despite their issues.
When vehicles get “better,” too often people buy BIGGER vehicles & drive even more.
EV’s still pollute, take too much space, lead to too many deaths etc
Fewer cars, less driving is the REAL solution.
Electric vehicles ARE better than ICE vehicles, despite their issues.
When vehicles get “better,” too often people buy BIGGER vehicles & drive even more.
EV’s still pollute, take too much space, lead to too many deaths etc
Fewer cars, less driving is the REAL solution.
December 1, 2024 at 6:19 AM
This is called Jevon's Paradox in economics.
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Amazon will make billions from Black Friday.
Their workers across the country are protesting today, highlighting poor working conditions and Amazon's tax avoidance.
It's time the government stop the tax breaks and #MakeAmazonPay
Their workers across the country are protesting today, highlighting poor working conditions and Amazon's tax avoidance.
It's time the government stop the tax breaks and #MakeAmazonPay
November 29, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Amazon will make billions from Black Friday.
Their workers across the country are protesting today, highlighting poor working conditions and Amazon's tax avoidance.
It's time the government stop the tax breaks and #MakeAmazonPay
Their workers across the country are protesting today, highlighting poor working conditions and Amazon's tax avoidance.
It's time the government stop the tax breaks and #MakeAmazonPay
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I’m fed up of hearing politicians and journalists talking about immigrants as if they’re not people. Repost if you agree!🚨🚨🚨
November 29, 2024 at 10:18 AM
I’m fed up of hearing politicians and journalists talking about immigrants as if they’re not people. Repost if you agree!🚨🚨🚨
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Interested in Critical Realism? Try our new starter pack go.bsky.app/PzrxpVG Let us know if you'd like to be added (or removed!)
November 5, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Interested in Critical Realism? Try our new starter pack go.bsky.app/PzrxpVG Let us know if you'd like to be added (or removed!)
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Palestine Action just scored a hat trick against genocide-complicit UAV Engines
With two visits to UAV Engines already this week, Palestine Action completed the triple today - targeting the factory roof with bricks
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024...
With two visits to UAV Engines already this week, Palestine Action completed the triple today - targeting the factory roof with bricks
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024...
Palestine Action just scored a hat trick against genocide-complicit UAV Engines
With two visits to UAV Engines already this week, Palestine Action went for the hat-trick today - which this time targeted the factory roof
www.thecanary.co
November 28, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Palestine Action just scored a hat trick against genocide-complicit UAV Engines
With two visits to UAV Engines already this week, Palestine Action completed the triple today - targeting the factory roof with bricks
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024...
With two visits to UAV Engines already this week, Palestine Action completed the triple today - targeting the factory roof with bricks
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024...
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Studying social science I was horrified by dominance of rational choice theory, but reluctantly acknowledge it describes an aspect of human behavior (reductively). Seems that many who subscribe to economic policy it informs are contradictory in rejecting how revolutionary 15 minute cities could be.
November 28, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Studying social science I was horrified by dominance of rational choice theory, but reluctantly acknowledge it describes an aspect of human behavior (reductively). Seems that many who subscribe to economic policy it informs are contradictory in rejecting how revolutionary 15 minute cities could be.
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“I don't wanna go far for stuff"
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
November 13, 2024 at 8:39 PM
“I don't wanna go far for stuff"
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
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Men skeet their own history, but they do not skeet it as they please; they do not skeet it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
November 27, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Men skeet their own history, but they do not skeet it as they please; they do not skeet it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
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Great quotes throughout out history replacing a word with skeet.
You must skeet the thing you think you cannot skeet. - Eleanor Roosevelt.
Your turn.
You must skeet the thing you think you cannot skeet. - Eleanor Roosevelt.
Your turn.
November 27, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Great quotes throughout out history replacing a word with skeet.
You must skeet the thing you think you cannot skeet. - Eleanor Roosevelt.
Your turn.
You must skeet the thing you think you cannot skeet. - Eleanor Roosevelt.
Your turn.
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"With 240,000 children in poverty, and public services stretched to the breaking point, the need for action is clear.
That's why Tax Justice Scotland, a new campaign launched today."
#TaxJusticeScotland
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2474...
That's why Tax Justice Scotland, a new campaign launched today."
#TaxJusticeScotland
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2474...
We need fairer tax to build a fairer country
Few people in Scotland will relish the prospect of paying tax. But imagine a country where every child grows up free from poverty. One…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:41 AM
"With 240,000 children in poverty, and public services stretched to the breaking point, the need for action is clear.
That's why Tax Justice Scotland, a new campaign launched today."
#TaxJusticeScotland
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2474...
That's why Tax Justice Scotland, a new campaign launched today."
#TaxJusticeScotland
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2474...
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The vote at the UN on Adoption of the #UNTaxConvention Terms of Reference is today. This is potentially transformative for the world and likely won't be covered by journalists. Watch @taxjusticenet.bsky.social for comment. Eurodad press release is here: www.eurodad.org/un_vote_on_w...
UN vote on whether to adopt the Terms of Reference for a new global UN Convention on Tax
European Network on Debt and Development
www.eurodad.org
November 27, 2024 at 11:11 AM
The vote at the UN on Adoption of the #UNTaxConvention Terms of Reference is today. This is potentially transformative for the world and likely won't be covered by journalists. Watch @taxjusticenet.bsky.social for comment. Eurodad press release is here: www.eurodad.org/un_vote_on_w...
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The OECD claims to have ended bank secrecy by adopting one of our longstanding transparency proposals. Our new infographic puts the claim to the test.
taxjustice.net/2024/11/20/d...
taxjustice.net/2024/11/20/d...
Did we really end offshore tax evasion? | Tax Justice Network
The OECD claims to have ended bank secrecy by adopting a longstanding Tax Justice Network transparency proposal (known as automatic exchange of information) that exposes these hidden offshore accounts...
taxjustice.net
November 27, 2024 at 11:23 AM
The OECD claims to have ended bank secrecy by adopting one of our longstanding transparency proposals. Our new infographic puts the claim to the test.
taxjustice.net/2024/11/20/d...
taxjustice.net/2024/11/20/d...
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For me, Lillian Cicerchia explores this question brilliantly in 'Why Does Class Matter?'
youtu.be/EBki4rwgDsA?...
youtu.be/EBki4rwgDsA?...
7 | Why Does Class Matter?
YouTube video by What's Left of Philosophy
youtu.be
November 26, 2024 at 9:26 PM
For me, Lillian Cicerchia explores this question brilliantly in 'Why Does Class Matter?'
youtu.be/EBki4rwgDsA?...
youtu.be/EBki4rwgDsA?...
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What is the working class? Many invoke it in this election, but no one defines it. How much is it economic, when a plumber can make 10x as much as adjunct professor? How much is it cultural/an identity, or the kind of labor? Why so many 1930s white-guy versions when so many are women and BIPOC?
November 26, 2024 at 7:13 PM
What is the working class? Many invoke it in this election, but no one defines it. How much is it economic, when a plumber can make 10x as much as adjunct professor? How much is it cultural/an identity, or the kind of labor? Why so many 1930s white-guy versions when so many are women and BIPOC?
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Back in 2014, David Graeber wrote the piece: Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts.
It provides a focus of Finance Capitailsm from the inside!
davidgraeber.org/interviews/f...
It provides a focus of Finance Capitailsm from the inside!
davidgraeber.org/interviews/f...
!["What financialization actually means is they collude with the
government through various elaborate forms of bribery to
change the law so as to put everyone deeper and deeper in debt,
directly turning their income over to the FIRE [finance, insurance,
and real estate] sector.
I don’t know the exact numbers though it’s telling that you can’t
get these numbers but something around 15% to 25%, at least,
of average American household income is directly removed in
the form of interest, penalties, fees, insurance and so on."
- David Graeber](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6druhi7f7xq6ggam4hrcsmyx/bafkreift2b5fr3uveabbk57pbthwyt7jy4w6pc2lxo7qzp5jftbmhov7i4@jpeg)
November 26, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Back in 2014, David Graeber wrote the piece: Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts.
It provides a focus of Finance Capitailsm from the inside!
davidgraeber.org/interviews/f...
It provides a focus of Finance Capitailsm from the inside!
davidgraeber.org/interviews/f...
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I have tried endlessly to point out to white environmentalists that social justice and environmentalism cannot be separated - but for the past year it feels like it has fallen on mostly deaf ears.
The silence on Gaza from ‘educated’ white privilege has been baffling, frustrating & devastating.
The silence on Gaza from ‘educated’ white privilege has been baffling, frustrating & devastating.
THREAD ECO-APARTHEID Gaza is currently experiencing the largest slaughter of men, women and children in decades and a destruction rate that has produced over 40 million tonnes of rubble that will take over a decade to clear.👇
November 19, 2024 at 8:29 PM
I have tried endlessly to point out to white environmentalists that social justice and environmentalism cannot be separated - but for the past year it feels like it has fallen on mostly deaf ears.
The silence on Gaza from ‘educated’ white privilege has been baffling, frustrating & devastating.
The silence on Gaza from ‘educated’ white privilege has been baffling, frustrating & devastating.
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Labour's latest attack on welfare is a disgraceful assault on the dignity of the sick and disabled.
If the government really wanted to crack down on people "gaming the system", they would go after tax dodgers hoarding our country's wealth.
If the government really wanted to crack down on people "gaming the system", they would go after tax dodgers hoarding our country's wealth.
November 26, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Labour's latest attack on welfare is a disgraceful assault on the dignity of the sick and disabled.
If the government really wanted to crack down on people "gaming the system", they would go after tax dodgers hoarding our country's wealth.
If the government really wanted to crack down on people "gaming the system", they would go after tax dodgers hoarding our country's wealth.
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Poverty & inequality are rampant, public services are badly stretched, and the climate crisis is escalating.
⏰ for change
Today along with 50+ orgs, we’re launching #TaxJusticeScotland
Fair taxes can help build a more equal/greener Scotland. How? ➡️ taxjustice.scot
⏰ for change
Today along with 50+ orgs, we’re launching #TaxJusticeScotland
Fair taxes can help build a more equal/greener Scotland. How? ➡️ taxjustice.scot
Home - Tax Justice Scotland
We are campaigning for the Scottish Parliament to use its tax powers to help deliver a greener, fairer, more equal Scotland.
taxjustice.scot
November 26, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Poverty & inequality are rampant, public services are badly stretched, and the climate crisis is escalating.
⏰ for change
Today along with 50+ orgs, we’re launching #TaxJusticeScotland
Fair taxes can help build a more equal/greener Scotland. How? ➡️ taxjustice.scot
⏰ for change
Today along with 50+ orgs, we’re launching #TaxJusticeScotland
Fair taxes can help build a more equal/greener Scotland. How? ➡️ taxjustice.scot
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Can you all do me a favour and report this account that’s impersonating me and apparently reaching out to people pretending to be me? I have but mods haven’t taken action.
Here: @parizmarx.bsky.social
Here: @parizmarx.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Can you all do me a favour and report this account that’s impersonating me and apparently reaching out to people pretending to be me? I have but mods haven’t taken action.
Here: @parizmarx.bsky.social
Here: @parizmarx.bsky.social
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Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...
November 25, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...