Emily Johnston

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

If we screw up this badly on day one of a war (when there was zero reason to rush in) what happens weeks or months in?

Is every single goddamn grownup in the military gone?

This is an absolute abomination.

The comment process is a little kludgy, but the link below is a great guide. It took me under a half hour to respond to both (hideous) proposals.

If you've ever looked up at the night sky in wonder, do this.

If this is true....it strikes me that it seems like precisely what Trump would do in a fit of pique/bravado, were the situation reversed.

Just. So. Stupid.

Oh, hell no. Lots of good folks across the world are fighting the good fight—and winning, in many cases.

Is it wrong that I want Musk in jail almost as passionately as I want these dystopian installations shut down?

I've never been prone to revenge fantasies before, but the damage these men are inflicting on the living world....

Is it wrong that I want Musk in jail almost as passionately as I want these dystopian installations shut down?

I've never been prone to revenge fantasies before, but the damage these men are inflicting on the living world....

I fear next week you might have to change this to "my former employer"...

that's ONE way AI might bring staffing down!

Honestly, for the higher-up decision-makers on this, trying them at some version of Nuremberg is a generous response. They know exactly what they're doing, and they keep doing it for MONEY, while we all pay the price—but the most vulnerable folks first and most by far.

Some days the chasm between the beauties of this world and the horrors of what we’ve done to it makes the Grand Canyon seem like nothing at all.

Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands

“As worries about the health impacts have grown, so have the number of new youth centers and community projects in the Indigenous communities, each of them branded with an oil company sponsorship.”

What’s happening in the tar sands is an abomination. (Gift link)

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

And the desalination plants...

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

This...puts a fine point on it.

Unbothered is...not what I would call my feelings about that thought. Blasé does not enter into it.

2000-zero-zero...

Honestly, not worth it. But we can dream of him rolling over in his grave!

Um.

Reading this is a good reminder that human intelligence is a wondrous thing, but the system we currently live in incentivizes genocidal plunder.

Whaddaya say @council.seattle.gov and @mayorofseattle.bsky.social? We're not going to let CAMBRIDGE show us up, are we?

I wanna talk to them when it's three months. Or hey, let's all have a jubilee year in which ALL PROFITS go to healing our ecologies.

One year. We could all survive one year, right? Big props to the first company willing to lead the way...

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

Chat with AI? "Date" an AI? "Write" emails to friends with AI?

I mean, they haven't yet said AI will keep us from "having to" listen to our own music or snuggle our kids and animals or watch a beautiful sunrise...but that's where they're going with all of this.

WE FIGHT (EVERY) WHERE WE CAN. If he's got better fights for the folks in those communities against the ecological & political dystopia the tech barons are aiming us at, he should...feel free to organize them.

We WILL find our way to human-centered tech...without "help" from the peanut gallery.

Opinion | Data Centers Are a Distraction. The Real Fight Is Elsewhere.

Sometimes Wallace Wells is just obtuse; years ago, it was "I don't recycle". Now it's this.

The whole country is rising up against data centers & the fights are producing environmental victories & it's changing the electoral landscape—yet it's a distraction? How does that work?

"Learn no unauthorized facts."

Straight outta Orwell, and surely among the most depressingly accurate 4 words about this moment.

and quinoa. and you can toss veggies in there near the end, too, and get them nicely steamed. it's magic.

Worker Groups Representing 700,000 Demand: Amazon, Google, Microsoft Must Reject Pentagon's Demands Reject The Pentagon’s Demands.

Read our full statement with @amzn4climate.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social, Amazon Labor Union, United Video Game Workers, + more: medium.com/@notechforap...

my response was less high-minded!

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."--Thomas Jefferson