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grumpycarpenter.bsky.social
Worker of wood, Cat dad, Socialist, Stoner grandpa, Black-pilled optimist. I'm already doing what I would do "after the revolution".
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My favorite joke is about sisyphus. I tell that joke over, and over, and over, and...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The caption writes itself.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Good ref. for folks on the front lines. Stay safe folks!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Removing pepperball residue from clothing and other items. This is based on my (unfortunately extensive) personal experience and experimentiation. Pepperballs contain powdered PAVA, an oily, synthetic capsaicin analog. The only reliable way to remove it is with a good surfactant soap and water. 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

Avoid the violence/nonviolence debate. It’s a trap. The only thing that matters is what actions lead to more justice and less harm. Inaction and complicity in the face of brutal oppression is the worst form of violence. Never forget it.

submitted 4 days ago • 138 comments

[Congressman with an Israeli flag pin] it’s bad optics to fly the flag of another country

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Easiest way to declare a state of emergency is to create the emergency.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

This warms my heart

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

People all enraged about foreign flags at a march are strangely silent on St. Patrick's or Columbus day.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Every lib poster who reports Gazan accounts as spam spends 6hrs a day cutting and pasting transphobic memes from Facebook to skeet raw, untouched. The entire internet runs on spam but when it might save lives? Brown lives?? That’s a TOS violation

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Again, it matters less that most of the last of the last half billion years of earth's history were warmer than today, sometimes significantly, than the fact that the majority of the plants and animals we eat evolved to live in this colder environment at the end.../1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

BTW - how were so many people surprised by the actions of Universities with respect to the Gaza protests? These are the literal gatekeepers to power and the hope for a middle class/professional future. Of course they're quisling bootlicks with a clear ruling class allegiance, what did you expect?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

So, I take it that thunderstorms don't happen much in LA, no?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I think it's easier to understand the current media environment once you understand that a whole bunch of ambitious people are looking at our descent into authoritarian oligarchy and thinking it's a great opportunity to audition as a courtier.

submitted 12 days ago • 75 comments

I do not want Gazans to be burned alive. I do not want Jewish people to be set on fire. I do not want these things for any human being. This is not a difficult position to hold or believe.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

We don't deserve her

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

Justice and due-process being the latest element of society to fall victim to the enclosure of the commons.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

She persists. 24 years old.

submitted 16 days ago • 89 comments

The problem of development is that the so-called developed world is itself a hellhole of alienation and social dysfunction. Yes yes, basic needs have to be met (food/shelter/edu/etc.), but automatically assuming the Western model of development is best, or even applicable, is bereft of imagination.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The true reason for the headlong rush into AI, robotics, and generally automating every action to a fare-thee-well is that once you've removed humans from all levels of decision making, no one can be held accountable for the devastating consequences in our uncomfortablly near future.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I'll do you one better - you really don't need electricity to make coffee.

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