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2024-07-28 19:28:58

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@npub15n3…vy9d
😞

2024-07-28 18:58:09

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@npub1uul…dkn7
Careful human help can take a process that might otherwise need centuries to happen, and jumpstart it in 5-10 years. It's interference but done RIGHT it can be repair and rehabilitation.

2024-07-27 00:27:25

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@npub1ugl…yvd7
Gaaaaaaah I'm afraid to even load the game again because it's been a while so I know some update broke SOMETHING and with like 80 mods installed it takes for damned ever to sort that shit out...

2024-07-26 18:44:51

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@npub1csg…pfvq
I'm so very tired of living in boxes.

2024-07-23 17:56:10

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@npub1zt3…0v09
Good times

2024-07-20 06:15:44

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@npub1ugh…92hc
If it didn't work they wouldn't be trying to outlaw it.

2024-07-19 05:39:08

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@npub1ugh…92hc
If "being president" means shipping weapons to genocide and expanding fossil fuels, his capacity for doing it is not something I'm rooting for.

2024-07-19 02:17:46

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@npub1ugh…92hc
Which is probably why it hard a hard time catching on while too many of them are still alive.

2024-07-19 01:48:22

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@npub1ugh…92hc
It was just that a lot of people forgot that's what they were all along, I guess.

2024-07-17 04:43:43

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@npub1ugl…yvd7
😆
I haven't seen the new season yet but I am definitely looking forward to it. And bracing myself, because whoa.

2024-07-13 07:15:01

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@npub1jdw…awld
Whoa, nice!

2024-07-12 06:43:07

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@npub1zt3…0v09
Awesome.

2024-07-08 21:30:54

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@npub1zt3…0v09
Maybe some kinda black gooseberry??

2024-07-08 07:19:52

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@npub1hpc…hjn3
They do like cosmetic democracy though. It helps pacify people.

2024-07-07 01:12:22

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@npub1syx…d6lz
Would You Rather is such a pointless game.

2024-07-06 20:31:23

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@npub1ugh…92hc
Especially when the illusion of choice is a deliberate trap.

2024-07-04 16:18:27

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@npub1pl4…3jf0
Trouble is... In the 40s, we didn't actually win.
We hired loads of the bastards, adopted and improved their methods, and became the thing we hate.

2024-07-03 01:57:19

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@npub1dgz…4q3g
Exactly!

2024-07-02 00:47:32

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@npub1xg3…nyjk
Yeah, well-- what are we gonna do about it?
Anything?
Anybody??

2024-06-30 07:08:47

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@npub1ugl…yvd7
I bottled up my spark. I don't know if I saved it or suffocated it to death in there, if it was ever there, and I'm ashamed of how afraid I am to look.

2024-06-29 07:21:48

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@npub1ugh…92hc
Or my cat. Or a can of beans.

2024-06-28 08:42:10

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@npub1ugh…92hc
Might be a good idea to actually, y'know, DO some of that democracy we're supposed to be defending or whatever.

2024-06-22 04:41:01

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@npub1ugl…yvd7
Very wise.

2024-06-22 04:12:55

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@npub1ugl…yvd7
Each explosion is a new round in the game of musical deck chairs. The Hatter screams CHANGE PLACES, and a lot more of us get knocked clear out of our seats every time.

2024-06-14 05:05:14

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Oh, and the whole place is infested with Bermuda grass. I have a visceral urge to cover as much of it as possible with a big stretch of billboard plastic and let it bake the grass over the summer.
It gets into the joints of the planks on the raised beds. Even if I could dig in that hard soil to get at the roots, the beds would have to be pulled apart to get the bits lodged in the crevices.

2024-06-10 23:49:23

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@npub1ugl…yvd7
Need to figure out the proper rituals to appease the gnomes and inspire growth!

2024-06-10 22:21:38

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@npub1ugl…yvd7
You might be lucky the amaranth isn't taking, out here it can be an invasive weed.
Ewok life is a goal I long for. Forest gardening, all that.

2024-06-07 07:46:32

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@npub1zt3…0v09
I still feel kinda bad for them, unwelcome wherever they go...

2024-05-28 06:18:30

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@npub1ugh…92hc
A pattern that strikes me as very similar to how the DNC encourages fascism in the GOP...

2024-05-28 01:55:15

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@npub1zt3…0v09
The ones at the school farm are juuuust now starting to ripen.
On one bush.
The one across the path from it has only just now decided to bloom. For some reason.

2024-05-27 22:22:51

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
That face looks like an ant lion!

2024-05-25 15:57:48

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@npub1ugh…92hc
He's busy bringing the non-Trump Republicans into the Democratic fold. They are the Republicans now, and the GOP is a circus of rabid attack dogs.

2024-05-25 03:40:42

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@npub1j2y…ggdc
There is something distinctly Dobbsian about that head.

2024-05-24 01:22:05

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@npub19uy…0n85
When I read about that guy it was honestly the single most frightening moment I've had in life. It was then I realized these fuckers really ARE depraved enough to fully let us burn.

2024-05-22 18:48:08

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@npub1urr…0kxn
Thing is, we don't have laws with teeth that protect much of anything (except rich people's stuff). The enshittening is eating away everything from our privacy to our health to the environment.

2024-05-22 03:54:53

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@npub1ugh…92hc
Submission.
That's the tone they're looking for. You must perform ritual obeisance, or you're in violation of the social order.

2024-05-21 19:36:49

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@npub19uy…0n85
"No one’s saying to give up using Google, because it’s necessary for many."
Plenty of us are saying exactly that.
Hell, forget "give up" Google. How about BRING DOWN Google?

2024-05-16 00:43:31

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@npub1ugh…92hc
Any change big enough to actually matter, is radical.
So, if we want fascism actually stopped, well... there it is.

2024-05-10 03:53:08

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I need more of this.
I can't even describe, how badly I need this feeling.

2024-05-08 20:06:57

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@npub15n3…vy9d
Was just reading that tree collards taste best in cold weather, and there were pics of em with snow on.

2024-05-03 08:36:39

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@npub1zt3…0v09
omg

2024-05-03 07:14:47

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@npub1v77…cpyk
The people who try to call protests "useless" don't understand these aspects, or their true value. It can't be measured, and the effects keep adding up downstream.

2024-05-03 02:49:56

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@npub1suv…xfz9
Just watching that shit gets my adrenaline up and my skin crawling.
Even the other cops were grabbing the cop that kept punching and trying to pull him back.

2024-05-01 21:08:13

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@npub1640…hvu6
I used to think we learned our lesson and stopped behaving that way a long time ago.
I was wrong.

2024-04-26 18:37:48

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@npub1psd…9sr7
And are they including the weight of the vehicle itself? I'd assume so, but yeah it's surprising.

2024-04-26 18:25:10

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Rail and ships aren't even on there.

2024-04-25 19:24:10

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@npub1zt3…0v09
$25/yd?? eek!

2024-04-16 20:29:22

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@npub1lgy…aefg
I met a couple working on a greenhouse in Alaska, with insulated labels that close over the glass wall (not roof, that's solid) at night.

2024-04-16 19:21:06

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@npub1lgy…aefg
I'm really going to miss chocolate, coffee, and coconut.
Given the chance there are a lot of things I could grow in a greenhouse, but those trees are large and sensitive.

2024-04-16 05:02:59

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@npub1u3t…c6ug
"To be clear: this decision has nothing to do with freedom of speech."
Oh, indeed.

2024-04-12 04:49:55

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@npub1zt3…0v09
Wow!

2024-04-08 05:13:08

The Dicentra formosa is blooming.
#CaNativePlants
#DicentraFormosa
#Bloomscrolling
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/233/407/264/741/607/original/58ee27152c70244d.jpg

2024-03-23 08:05:56

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@npub1eav…g6f3 @npub19up…ckeg
The courts are run by their cronies, is the problem.

2024-03-23 05:38:38

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@npub1zt3…0v09 @npub1esh…5fqz
My dad was fixing the stereo cables our rabbit had gotten to, and I picked up a little leftover piece-- the end he'd snipped with the wire cutters was all pinched, but the end the bunny had bitten had a perfect cross section of shiny copper so smooth it looked like a laser had gone through it.

2024-03-21 04:33:42

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@npub1s7y…u8ak @npub15yx…qwtl
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/131/571/999/165/528/original/32b19e71ade71344.mp4

2024-03-20 01:53:00

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@npub1c2x…w0nm
My brain is still wrestling with this idea that it's only "imminent" and not ALREADY HAPPENING. But apparently the death rate has to reach a certain number to qualify. Who is counting? And how close can Israel skate under that number without quiiiiiiite tripping the alarms?

2024-03-20 01:35:48

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@npub1gmx…atcq
When Jimmy Dore started using that word every other sentence is about the time I couldn't stand listening to him anymore.

2024-03-19 20:29:11

So, a genocide apologist just now was explaining to me that it's fine to bomb children who are being raised to hate.
I asked them wtf their parents had been teaching THEM, and they seem to have blocked me.
Palestinian children are being raised in an open-air prison where they are treated like animals. Of course they'll tend to hate their oppressors-- no matter what their parents happen to be teaching them. Israel may as well be FARMING terrorism, cultivating violence as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This all runs on abuser logic. Hurt someone, make them angry, then say "oh shit look how angry that person is, I should hurt them" and then it's a short step to, "look they really REALLY hate me now, there's no fixing this, so, may as well just finish them all off!"
If every time a person is abused, or taught a violent ideology, or hates someone who has hurt them, the only sensible option is to just fucking slaughter them-- if we really can't envision how peace is built, how people recover from trauma and learn to live together... Then, if I agree with this genocide apologist's OWN LOGIC... a person who's grown up so warped that they actually think bombing children is a good idea, I'd have to assume that they, too, have been so warped by their hateful, murderous belief system that THEY need to be bombed as well. Hell, while we're at it, may as well just destroy the entire human race. We're all too hateful and dangerous to be allowed to live.
Well, fuck that. No. We can do better. Building peace is hard, but anything less is unacceptable.

2024-03-19 19:08:48

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@npub1p9t…mltx
Whoa nice, where is it at?

2024-03-19 03:31:33

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@npub1gmx…atcq
Everything that is NOT actually healthcare, is the problem.

2024-03-12 04:20:03

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@npub1gmx…atcq
Erg, stumbling across just the one was enough to make my skull hurt.

2024-03-11 10:11:51

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
It's evil. Straight up evil. The people who designed this tech had to know it would be used like this, and they did it anyway.

2024-03-09 05:59:54

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@npub1jca…m0ct @npub1spp…s0wq
They don't give a fuck.
They'd just as soon bomb the hostages themselves.

2024-03-05 04:23:30

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@npub1gmx…atcq
Careful, we're desperate enough some of us might actually take you seriously and do it.

2024-03-02 03:02:55

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@npub1gmx…atcq @npub1hwa…h6qq
Oh? I can't see what mycotropic's posting, blocked me just the other day. He work there or some such?

2024-03-02 02:59:31

#CDCsays
"We don't want to work anymore."

2024-03-01 17:46:01

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@npub1k4q…3lsq
A friend of mine who's a suicide prevention advocate and grief counselor is very emphatic that the stigma against mental illness does more damage than mental illness itself ever could.

2024-02-29 03:35:51

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@npub1zt3…0v09
It was all just so very strange. One minute I felt like an avenging valkyrie, next minute I'm like omg I almost beat up a disabled kid.

2024-02-28 04:23:21

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@npub1gmx…atcq
In a way, it's like having someone trying to recruit you into a ritual. The more people who keep showing up and acting like they're safe and things will be fine, the more likely it seems that denial will brute-force reality into accepting the belief that everything will be fine.
That's why they get mad. Refusal to participate compromises the magic.

2024-02-28 03:09:06

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@npub15n3…vy9d
Question for the ages...

2024-02-23 20:13:06

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@npub1zt3…0v09 @npub163z…rsv7
Sometimes I use the little wire flags like the city uses. The flag itself is plastic tho and only lasts maybe two years or so before starting to shred.
Popsicle sticks are a little short and easy to get lost in the duff. Bamboo is a good idea, anytime I can use it instead of wood I do, although it's not super easy to write on legibly.

2024-02-23 03:53:47

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@npub1gmx…atcq @npub1qnz…wwgh
You were a closer, reachable target to throw resentment at.
When people take it for granted that the oppressive system responsible for the entire mess is simply unassailable, they go after their neighbors instead. They're in reach.

2024-02-19 00:48:23

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@npub15n3…vy9d
It is one of the fastest-growing organisms in the world, and can double in mass in one day! Very easy to harvest, too.
I've definitely utilized it as food for animals but I'd be thrilled to figure out how to make it tasty for myself as I'm trying hard to increase my plant-based protein intake.
Cooking it is wise, as plants grown in contact with water can harbor parasites.

2024-02-19 00:30:08

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@npub15n3…vy9d
Haven't tried eating it myself yet, but I've actually cooked duckweed when making my own koi food for kicks. Smells... not great. Well, the spirulina powder wasn't helping. (my roommate coming home from work walked through the door and called out, "WHY DOES IT SMELL LIKE THE OCEAN'S BUTT IN HERE??" so that'll be my fish food brand name: Oceanbutt.)
I thought I'd heard it has high oxalate content but looking it up now that's apparently not the case after all?? I'll have to try it!

2024-02-18 17:26:44

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@npub1gmx…atcq @npub1nha…wayt
Ooh are you in this area too??

2024-02-13 18:21:20

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@npub1gmx…atcq
Ain't gonna lie, my tinfoil hat is crinkling. If somebody wanted to ease in slow-burn population control this type of mess could be one way to do it.

2024-02-12 03:08:09

Carbon Sequestration through Trench Composting
Get this: you can generate lignite (low-grade coal) in your garden?? Fast! IF you get the composting setup right.
The first half of the video is very detailed, nuts & bolts of soil and chemistry. The actual images of the site and how they did it starts at about 50min.
Soil science is the study of some of the most complex systems imaginable, and sadly still badly neglected-- especially considering how crucial it is to the foundations of our biosphere and survival. Much of this presentation is over my head, and it's tough for me to wade through all the "um, uh, uh"ing, but... wow!
I'll try to summarize:
There's a distinctive layer of black stuff under the soil of the Amazon, and people tend to assume it was built up from fires in years past (biochar is becoming a popular analogue), but researcher Scott Goode says it's created through much the same process that forms coal under peat bogs. That can take millions of years, but under the right conditions it can happen MUCH faster-- and all driven by biological action.
The idea here is you're trying to mimic the layers of soil activity under an old-growth forest, inside a trench 2' deep and 1.5' wide that's anaerobic at the bottom. Doing this in your own yard, Goode calls a "Climate Victory Garden". The trenches bracket your growbeds, and you don't stir or turn them-- you just have to keep filling them from the top, and once it gets going it's got quite an appetite.
Important note: while healthy soils can hold large amounts of carbon (80% of a forest's carbon is underground, only 20% is in the vegetation you can actually see), that carbon only stays put while the web of organisms using it stays healthy. Lignite on the other hand is a mineral that pretty much isn't going anywhere unless it catches on fire. This project demonstrates how to get BOTH the living system AND build long-term carbon storage at the same time.
One bit I really appreciate, about 1h16min in he is asked, "So what about the carbon market, what are they paying for?"
His reply starts with: "Really similar to the biofuels market, it's essentially a scam!"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G8JyU96WT5U&t=6m48s
#SoilScience
#CarbonSequestration
#TrenchComposting
#Hugelkultur
#FoodForest
#Permaculture
#RegenerativeAgriculture
#ClimateVictoryGarden
#OSULandStewards

2024-02-11 18:40:14

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@npub1zt3…0v09 @npub1fec…s7uv
Awesome!

2024-02-10 17:11:50

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@npub1z5d…n68a @npub15th…6nvx
Capitalism manifests some of the worst tendencies in human nature. Wouldn't it be good to utilize a system that emphasizes better tendencies instead?

2024-02-10 01:01:20

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@npub1pvt…3s5t @npub1gmx…atcq @npub15ea…cxnl
US life expectancy peaked in 2014.
It was already sinking before 2020 even hit.

2024-02-08 05:43:06

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@npub178r…qekt
WTF is the difference between the first one and the last one?

2024-01-29 01:44:17

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@npub1gmx…atcq
Most times I tried to fight back, I got in trouble-- which sent me the message that I didn't have the right to stand up for myself. That on top of the message that I was getting picked on in the first place for being "different" and that the best way to handle it would be to "not react". So I internalized that I'd brought it on myself, didn't have the right to fight back, and that not being able to stop crying about it meant there's something wrong with me.
My parents eventually put me in a self-defense class. That was interesting, because I didn't actually NEED to fight anybody after that. The bullies just started mysteriously leaving me alone, like they could smell it on me.

2024-01-27 07:38:40

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@npub1nft…swfe @npub1mmf…eknq
In slaughtering the bison, the colonizers sought to starve the tribes that depended on them.
Turns out they were starving their own descendants, too, by helping cause the Dust Bowl.
People still think that was a "natural" disaster. As if it's sheer coincidence it happened after we wiped out two of the most important keystone species on the continent AND ended the indigenous land management practices that had been maintained for centuries.
The Dust Bowl was a human-exacerbated climate change disaster.

2024-01-27 03:35:34

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@npub1mmf…eknq
Today in the US, the descendants of the people originally FROM here are outnumbered roughly 17 to 1 by the descendants of the people who didn't even want to BE here in the first place.
I think about those numbers often.

2024-01-27 03:29:18

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@npub1gmx…atcq
How many dozens of women has he assaulted this way over the years, I wonder?
The jerk has always treated people like toys, posing them and scripting scenarios like a teenager with action figures.
What gets me is, this is their ultimate fantasy. People rich enough to get and do whatever they want, and THIS is the kind of shit they come up with.

2024-01-26 17:39:42

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@npub1zt3…0v09
Nice

2024-01-26 05:14:25

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@npub1j20…kw8e @npub1drx…u06u
All of this bullshit is a sadistic parody of democracy. You ought to know damn well by now WHY we don't have ranked choice voting, and how good cop / bad cop works. Stop carrying water for war profiteers.

2024-01-24 00:49:38

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@npub1gmx…atcq
You're extremely correct about all of this!
Meanwhile I'm over here being very ace and enby, not sexually active at all, and taking hormonal "birth control" pills because I consider them a important antidepressant. For me, avoiding menstruation reduces dysphoria AND migraines AND vicious mood swings (which I cannot afford with my depression already so debilitating) makes a huge improvement in my quality of life. I'm so lucky to tolerate them well. I am NOT going to take kindly to anyone trying to take them away from anyone who wants them.

2024-01-23 03:18:01

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1spp…s0wq
I'm starting to wonder if they don't want them back. Maybe Hamas has figured out that the most devastating thing they could possibly do is just be nice to them and screw with everyone's expectations that way.

2024-01-22 18:05:29

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@npub1zt3…0v09
Hi you face a face I like it!

2024-01-19 17:27:51

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@npub1nne…evel
About $50 trillion (and counting, wonder if it's up to 60 by now?) got sucked out of the working class. Something happened, alright. A lot of something. The timing is very interesting.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/783/531/422/085/500/original/df6f889904a5dad4.jpg

2024-01-18 22:00:22

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@npub1k7q…3lrw
I'm not out to kill the guy, I just want people to stop handing him all that rope and laying down where he tells them to.

2024-01-15 02:22:04

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub18fk…yjzv
I have to believe it's possible. It's a very, very long shot. May as well try.

2024-01-14 05:47:59

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@npub1p9t…mltx
Oh that's beautiful!

2024-01-14 02:46:10

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@npub1p9t…mltx
I mean, we HAVE been fed a fake history of Dr. King etc, but um...

2024-01-14 02:41:55

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@npub1vx8…ndfm @npub16yk…gh74
Because we let them get entrenched enough to keep us in poverty so they can keep paying big money to the guys who will massacre us if we come for them. It's a sticky problem.

2024-01-14 02:40:47

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@npub16yk…gh74 @npub1vx8…ndfm
I agree, I think that these days the people motivated by religious ideology tend to get out-competed by those more laser-focused on pure power for power's sake without bothering with philosophical or moral distractions and limitations.

2024-01-12 20:07:37

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@npub10zv…nz7m
Like a house sombrero

2024-01-11 08:07:30

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@npub1p9t…mltx
Oh. Oh, shit.

2024-01-09 10:02:38

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@npub1zt3…0v09
I'm definitely still whining about the community I left in 2020. This stuff hurts, an awful lot. Glad you're getting some distance from it, but if you need to talk about that hurt more in future I for one am sure as hell not gonna judge.