We genetically engineered mosquitoes to have gender dysmorphia - weird times.

TIL Macguyver is a Ukrainian asset.

From what I see, you’ll get this in the next GOP term. It might take a year, it might take 10, but if you fuckers can’t convince or bully the liberals into recognising and preventing the naked fascists from taking power… well, I hope you’re fighting like your lives depend on it.

Meanwhile, Tom Bombadull has the power to end the whole ordeal without breaking a sweat, and zero fucks to give.

BRB - picking up the law degree and plutonium contamination that would qualify me to do take any action in response to the apocalypse.

Hard work - got it.

…what hard work?

So there’s never been proportionate reporting on the issue.

Yet here we all are - talking about the protest and the apocalypse.

As we know, these protests prompt substantially more visibility and discussion than direct action.

So we rely on isolated groups quietly engaged in direct action at a scale we know for a fact is inadequate to solve the problem while calling for the arrest of people protesting the apocalypse in a manner that can be cleaned up in five minutes?

What’s your solution?

People throwing soup to protest climate change are doing more environmental damage than people burning fossil fuels in the dirtiest way possible because that’s their gender identity or whateverthefuck? You’ll need to explain that one for me, champ.

When has there ever been reporting on the subject proportionate to the threat of the literal apocalypse?

The idiots aren’t the ones throwing the soup - the idiots are the ones more concerned about jailing people for a mess that can be cleaned up with windex, a rag, and 5 minutes rather than jailing the people keeping us all on course for the literal apocalypse.

What are you even trying to say here? That any bastard with a camera and something to show will magically be seen, or that everyone with a smartphone is going to be aware of everything that affects them? Because neither of those things is remotely close to the way the world works.

You were aware of the JSO protesters shutting down the oil pipeline? If and that’s a big “if” so, do you think the average schmuck is? No. But chances are that they’re aware of the stunts like the soup.

You stop the problem from being buried under the fact that everyone is struggling to get by, or distracted by whatever the fuck the likes of the Kardashians are up to. You bring it to the forefront and prompt conversations like these - conversations where someone might realise that to stay the course on this one is to roll down the road to the apocalypse, and maybe they’d like to do something about that.

They’ve done that too, and have encountered media blackouts.

As nice as it would be if they could simply fix the climate problem with the disruption a handful of protests cause, they can’t, and need to draw public attention to the problem.

These demonstrations open up the conversation in threads like this - you agree there’s a problem, you agree these protests don’t fix the problem, so let’s talk about what will.

Fascism is, as much as anything, a process of exterminating those you don’t like until things collapse. Nazism will cover the sin of you not being white - but only for a while - you’ll find yourself back at the front of the queue once those more “undesirable” than you are shuffled off to the camps.

…but Gatsby! and flapper dresses! and wealthy industrialists!

It’s all vibes from people painfully ignorant of the time they yearn for.

Rupert Murdoch.

That monster’s contribution to climate denial borders on apocalyptic - throw in extras like eroding democracy, stoking racial hatred, and contributions to class warfare like fighting off affordable access to to healthcare make him a tough one to beat.

Your boss isn’t your friend

HR isn’t your friend

The objective of both is to extract the most value possible from you while paying you as little as possible. If they can replace you with someone that’ll do more for less, they will.

They might be nice people that say nice things, but the moment you become so much as a mild inconvenience, you’ll feel the weight of the organisation bearing down on you.

Don’t trust them. Ever.

You know what - I’m beginning to wonder if the conspiract cranks might have a point… Have you ever seen them in the same room as reality?

Curious…

What did science and medicine ever do for me?

If you paywall publication and peer-review, you suppress a huge amount of science that doesn’t have the kinds of checks that corporate sponsorship and review introduce. This means studies of things like the dangers of CFCs, smoking, microplastics, thalidomide, and countless other things that’ll kill you will never see the light of day.