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sustainablesong.bsky.social
Biodiversity, community & kindness are real wealth. Economic growth is a suicide pact. Seeking humour while forever opposing disinformation, hate & ecocide.
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submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

"Freedom," the way the political right offers it, always means more "freedom" to be exploited, exposed, infected, or endangered, and never means being free from unnecessary dangers or harms.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Getting account holders’ permission to steal their money would kill the bank robber industry.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Perfect. No notes.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Danielle Smith's base loves attacks on the LGBTQ. It explains a huge focus on some books they dislike. But they hate hearing that vaccines & public health are how you deal with risks like measles, which explains the lack of focus on protecting Albertans from one of the most contagious viruses.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever a big sports thing fills up the feed, I struggle to wrap my head around people being super invested in a group of overpaid hired hands who temporarily wear the same colour shirt as they do moving a ball around but totally blasé about destroying the ecosystem they require for their survival.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Housing experts tell us that simply increasing housing supply can't fix the housing crisis, because the primary problem is hoarding and dominance by wealthy speculators and REITs, but the strategy that most profits developers & speculators is the LPC's first/only choice. www.tvo.org/article/simp...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Canada's grocery stores have more than doubled their profit margins since Covid arrived, and absolutely no one in power seems remotely interested in stopping them from doubling them again, no matter how many poor families they have to starve to do it. centreforfuturework.ca/2023/12/10/n...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

submitted 24 days ago • 52 comments

There is absolutely nothing currently preventing Bluesky from becoming the exact same sort of hellhole Twitter has become other than lip service promises from the current owners. This right here 👇 is a giant fucking red flag. doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

There has always been this fallacy that Putin steals from the people. That this is how he got so wealthy. The truth is very different and it is exactly what Trump and Elon are doing. With Putin it was always a quid pro quo with the wealthy oligarchs. “Give me money in return for what you want.”

submitted 40 days ago • 6 comments

Really crucial analysis of the Trump-Bukele prison deal. Seems like there’s a lot of dangerous corruption lurking just under the surface.

submitted 43 days ago • 25 comments