Cope on Russian social media 😎 While the Kremlin's monster dreams of selling diesel to Donald Trump, in Krasnodar, locals have been engaging in chaotic brawls since early morning to get their hands on the last remaining supplies of diesel fuel at gas stations.

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

I think there's a lot of climate and energy people in Australia who'll laugh this off as impossible but the tech economy is not logical and renewables being cheap does not shave a single joule of enthusiasm for tech's seething desperation for fossil fuels right now.

tfw someone rocks up with an SLR and a bunch of other kit and is all like "let me handle the photos" so you don't bother with the phone but then it turns out they are a terrible photographer and don't know how to use their camera so you have no pictures 😡

«Understanding these aligned rationales helps us better understand our enemies as they cohere across divergent goals and worldviews, all nonetheless opposed to left imaginings of the future. Many of them are indeed assholes, but their efficacy comes less from certainty in their own rotten […]

“Billionaires, “ the teacher said “were a cognitohazard of the late dirt ages. In that time it was normal to force humans to perform labour for four to five decades before being permitted a period of limited rest known as retirement. The billionaire class found ways to steal even the limited […]

Cursed off-brand card game

Corollary: These effects hit *a fortiori* for families either in negative equity, or aware the chance of finding themselves in negative equity is non-trivial.

Houses being less "home, place to raise a family" & more "asset class, massive leveraged investment" has broad toxic effects across economic and cultural life. A relatively minor, but still pernicious one is; the prudent/frugal mantras of "don't overcapitalise" & "don't do anything that might […]

The banning of Handmaid's Tale is deplorable, but predictable. Of course the fascists are going to try to ban it, because it is a tale of resisting and fighting fascism. They're afraid of people opposing them. But why is Ryan North getting banned? How thin-skinned do you have to be to ban an […]

The US, Israel and Russia don't just fund and amplify the right wing. They also infiltrate and weaponise leftist movements, particularly fringe pro-Palestinian & anti-war groups, using fake radicals to sow division, provoke violence and turn activists into unwitting assets of the states they oppose.

Now we pop them in the fridge and wait for two weeks.