Rebecca Solnit’s book “A Paradise Built In Hell” should be required reading for everyone. Basically: people are generally good & in disaster situations self-organize effectively & often joyfully. It’s when authority tries to “restore order,” that shit goes off the rails.
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We're watching the attempted extermination of the Palestinian people, one refugee camp at a time. It's horrific that the world is doing nothing to stop this.
lucky break for danny elfman to be named danny elfman, the exact perfect name for danny elfman
i love that i only know i can order more free covid tests when someone i follow on social media is like "heads up! go to the usps website today!" a robust public health infrastructure modelled on "McRib Is Back"
people (on here) yelled at me about this when i said it before but a) you need traffic enforcement and b) speed cameras are vastly preferable to cops.
“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”
‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
In this article, @tomphillips.bsky.social mentioned that “Scientists attributed a 2023 drought that punished the Amazon to the natural climate phenomenon El Niño.” We did an attribution study (WWA) that shows climate change, not El Niño, main driver of the Amazon drought in 2023. Link below
Along the Madeira river basin, in the Amazon, locals blame climate change and human greed for the wildfires
How many open fronts is that, now
