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Having this printed out on the wall behind where I normally join calls, and being able to point to it when its bingo square comes up in discussion, continues to pay dividends, @mcc
hands down best model on printables. you don't even need a 3d printer for it!
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They were poorly thought out to begin with, but it might be a good time for Canada to put a moratorium on data centers, to stop American tech bros using up our electricity and polluting our water.
#ElbowsUp
Omg everyone: treat the US like a pariah.
You know what we are, right now. We cannot be trusted while this family, these people, Vought and Miller, are in the White House and MAGA has compromised the judiciary and legislative.
I see all these countries pretending like the US is sane right now and having 'talks.'
WTF.
Whyyyy are you talking to an insane country run by a demented poopy diaper wearing nazi and his balding nazi sphincter mouthpiece, Stephen Miller?!?
Why?
Protect yourself and make alliances with other countries.
Sorry, global relationships.
Make us hurt.
Make the US feel the consequences.
Create pressure.
Sanction us FFS.
"That said, there would also be some wealthy winners from any tax reforms based on an LVT. The researcher/academic Dr Harpreet Singh has recently argued that some of Opportunity’s donors would see their wealth remain relatively untouched by any directional shift in the tax burden based on an LVT."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/08/gordon-campbell-on-opportunitys-turn-in-the-political-spotlight/
Now this is a much stronger argument, although as Campbell admits a few paragraphs back ...
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"Using land value as a basis for taxation has the distinct advantage of being (a) easy to calculate and collect and (b) difficult to avoid."
...and ...
"As a measure for generating revenue on a scale sufficient to pay for quality public services, the LVT would be superior to Labour’s anaemic capital gains tax, which has missed the house price boom by the best part of a decade."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/08/gordon-campbell-on-opportunitys-turn-in-the-political-spotlight/
And as Campbell goes on to acknowledge later ...
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Tens of thousands of people in Indiana still without electricity 11 days after storm. https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2026/08/22/gary-blackout-hits-11th-day-braun-tells-nipsco-to-speed-up-repairs/91422531007/
Gentle reminder, when someone is sharing some small piece of resistance they have done, DO NOT SHIT ON IT. Do not tell them it isn't enough or it's still bad because blah blah other stuff...
Everyone is tired and overwhelmed and trying to find some accessible way they can push back. Cheer that!
Celebrate the small; celebrate the imperfect.
No single action is gonna solve everything, but a whole bunch of small actions start the sea change.
Don't punch down when we all need lifting up.
NO AUTOGRAPHS!
Question, would an activity pub implementation specifically designed to support community/charity organisations be a good idea?
@liaizon yea, you could select the posts in the timeline using `.status__wrapper:has(.status__display-name[href$="@liaizon")` to select popsts for different accounts. but where to get the actual css from is a good question. do you want people to set it themselves, like in the better years of myspace?
@computersandblues I want to set it myself but it would be nice to store it somewhere so I could see it in different apps
Libcom: **Ideology as Material Power - Wilhelm Reich**
https://libcom.org/article/ideology-material-power-wilhelm-reich
When America crashes…increasingly likely that it’s when, barring a sudden change of course…it’ll be down to one man.
@randyweinstein @pluralistic don't forget the copyright extension that was for CUSMA.
It's really quite amazing the intellectual knots some people manage to tie themselves in, trying to explain why Labour under Hipkins is "centre-left", while Opportunity are "centre-right ". Campbell is more skilled than most, and the economic contortionist act he pulls off is truly impressive.
But like this one, most of these arguments don't survive the most basic fact-check. Some do, as I've noted, such as their willingness to fire public servants to balance the books. Focus on those!
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"That said, there would also be some wealthy winners from any tax reforms based on an LVT. The researcher/academic Dr Harpreet Singh has recently argued that some of Opportunity’s donors would see their wealth remain relatively untouched by any directional shift in the tax burden based on an LVT."
#GordonCampbell, 2026
https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/08/gordon-campbell-on-opportunitys-turn-in-the-political-spotlight/
Now this is a much stronger argument, although as Campbell admits a few paragraphs back ...
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Doubling down on AI to overcome its increasingly obvious limitations is like doubling down on building post-war suburbs to fix today's housing market.”
Made all the worse by suburbs being largely creating a problem at the behest of the car industry (and a few bigots scared of living near whatever minority they hate), rather than solving anything.
@floatybirb Napoleon was a reactionary jerk. His anti-feminist "reforms" rolled back most of the remaining progress women made during the French Revolution, he reintroduced slavery in Haiti, planted nepo baby relatives on all the thrones he could reach, ruled as a despot, and so on. Not as bad as Stalin or Hitler but nobody's idea of a good guy: annoyingly, his enemies were almost equally bad.
@cstross @floatybirb @floatybirb
Beethoven dedicated his 3rd symphony to Napoleon and then took it back after he named himself Emperor.
I’m still trying to process how the president of the United States somehow talks tougher about Canada than North Korea.
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