The best thing we can do to build resilience and independence from global oil is walkable neighborhoods and cities.

The cheapest energy is the stuff we never have to dig up or burn. Think about it. you do the construction, you put in the passively thermally managed buildings you put in your greenery to eliminate the heat island effect and you have a quiet, safe, healthy inexpensive, and economically vibrant neighborhood. Everyone wins residents, business and municipal finance

Human rights groups are increasingly struggling to verify tolls as Italy, Tunisia and Malta have quietly restricted information on migrant rescues and shipwrecks along the deadliest migration route in the world. The news barely makes headlines, in part because the lack of transparency prevents journalists from confirming reports.

“It’s a strategy of silence,” said Matteo Villa, a researcher focusing on migration and data at the Italian Institute....

nydailynews.com/2026/03/17/mig…

So Canada will not join in Captain Epstein and Netanyahu's war, but we stopped short of saying that Iran has the right to defend itself like Israel does because Iran is a destabilizing force in the region and the people who are ethnically cleansing Gaza are not.

Better than nothing.

apnews.com/article/canada-fore…

Piql is a Norwegian company that takes your data, pictures and other digital artefacts, encodes them in an open binary format and puts them on 35mm black and white film. To retrieve the data, you scan the film, use their open source software and there you go. Very long term storage as a combination of analog and digital. I like! Already used by museums and artists.

piql.com

#DigitalSovereignty #Archive

#MonsterdonAlert

What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?

• The Werewolf (1956) (19%, 30 votes)
• End of the World (1977) (29%, 45 votes)
• Reptilian (1999) (20%, 31 votes)
• Critters 4 (1992) (23%, 36 votes)
• Shock Waves (1977) (24%, 37 votes)
• The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) (41%, 63 votes)

If this happens to you, insist on the return of the ‘broken’ RAM.

abadidea

2025-12-23 11:12:29

I've heard anecdotal reports of computer repair places "accidentally" breaking the ram and refunding the customer the catalogue price from six months ago, presumably to feed it into machines of more important corporate customers... so we're already at the scavenging-to-survive stage of AI economic collapse

It is important to remember regarding States that one mass-murderoulsy oppressive aggressively imperialist reactionary, etc attacking the people living in another mass-murderoulsy oppressive aggressively imperialist reactionary State's claimed area does not change any of the other properties of either, they are both still institutionalized-violence based calamities.

Sometimes the magnitude of devastating outcome of one's acts can make it more immediately urgent than the other, but still can not negate the other's and usually is not for lack of desire to commit as horrendous or preferably worse acts – just difference in capacity at the time.

It's like with the expression "choosing between the plague and cholera" (in German, Scandinavian languages, French, Portuguese and probably more) where my answer is "no, thanks".
The plague does not negate cholera and vice versa.
It's a false choice.

Regarding States just as with the plague and cholera, you can oppose all States in a war, and generally should.
In fact, you can oppose all States, Statehood as a concept, and in many's opinion should.

Expressing opposition to one, does not automatically declare for the other. Only actually declaring for forcing the plague on everyone is being for doing so, while opposing everyone getting cholera doesn't.

Have the major economies in the rest of the world figured out that the structure of the US economy where only 10% of the population is the majority of consumer spending is a gigantic opportunity?

90% of the population has been reduced to a permanent under class, meaning that there are all these people who if they had labor rights and the political power to defend their own interest would become customers?

"America has been pushed into fighting Israel’s war"

Oh, that's funny. I thought the united states was pushed into bombing Iran because the u.s. regime is headed by a malignant piece of shit who enjoys power games and who has a staff full of people who mirror that thinking AND a portion of the u.s. polity has been looking for an excuse to destroy Iran for nearly a half century.

Israel is just the excuse that they stopped on after the first few excuses sounded too incoherent to stick.

Additional note: when foodprices rocket, that is ALMOST ALWAYS the trigger for civil unrest and revolutions. (The other is a fiscal/tax/revenue crisis, caused by government turning into rent-seeking by the rich *and* trying to fund a war simultaneously, as with the French Revolution.)

Does this look familiar to you, too?

Jonathan Schofield

2026-03-15 09:39:29

…For the northern hemisphere, fertiliser for next year’s growing season will be needed towards the end of this year.

We can expect food prices to rocket.

And in the UK, we have only a single fertiliser manufacturing plant left

overcast.fm/+8dw8WNRF4

Iran, Food & Fertiliser — Macrodose — Overcast

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“When Target said they were supporting us, it felt real.
It felt like they saw us. Target, especially in 2020, but for me even before, it kind of felt like Target was like for us.
Now people will often ask me, well, where's the smoke for Walmart?”

“No one forced them to handle business in such a disrespectful, sleazy, dirty way. That was a choice, and I think that communicates a lot about, like that tells me a lot about the people who are leadership at Target.”
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From There Are No Girls on the Internet: Why aren’t people boycotting Amazon like they’re boycotting Target?, Nov 28, 2025
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…
#target #boycott #indivisible

"Last week, actor and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers won the Toronto Film Critics Association award for outstanding supporting performance in a Canadian film, for her role in the drama Sweet Angel Baby.

But, she returned the award shortly after her win once she learned that the acceptance speech she had recorded for the award ceremony had been edited, so that the section where she expressed support for Palestine was removed."

Good for her.

cbc.ca/arts/commotion/whats-ha…

Stop calling it “moving to the center” when Democrats capitulate to the far right.

If Democrats wanted to “move to the center” they would go left