Land acknowledgements are like this: Your parents give you $100k, you ask where it came from and they say "we stole it from Larry's parents, but they're dead now" and then, instead of giving the money to Larry, you spend the money on yourself, but every time you buy something you say "I feel bad about screwing Larry" like that makes you a good person. If you really believe you’re on stolen land, then give it back or STFU.

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Man, Synth finds no joy in anything, lmao. I really can't help but disagree with his view of gaming this time, Death Stranding is garbage that's for sure, but I don't believe for one second you're "wasting your time" playing games you enjoy.

Mongabay India podcast ‘Wild Frequencies’ wins audio reporting award


Mongabay India won an excellence in audio reporting award recently from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA). The award was for the limited series podcast Wild Frequencies. SOPA, which promotes best practices and excellence in journalism, announced the winners of its 2025 Awards of Editorial Excellence during a ceremony in Hong Kong on June 26. Wild Frequencies, a three-episode series that follows researchers in India studying animal sounds to better understand wildlife, is hosted by Mongabay India’s Kartik Chandramouli and Mongabay’s Shreya Dasgupta. It features sound design and original music by Abhijit Shylanath. SOPA shared the judges’ comments on the series: “With a rich audio-scape and creative sound design, rigorous reporting and engaging storytelling, these reports from the field (and forests and wetlands) around India offer listeners a deeper understanding of how the sounds [are] made by creatures in the natural world, and what those creatures and their bioacoustics can tell us about whether an ecosystem is healthy or imperiled.” The series also won “Best Science and Medical” podcast at the Publisher Podcast Awards in June and the “Best Produced Show” in the science category for the India Audio Summit & Awards 2025. In 2023, Mongabay won SOPA’s Excellence in Bahasa Indonesian News Reporting Award for the story ‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom, which was a collaboration with The Gecko Project and BBC News. Find the Wild Frequencies episodes here: Episode 1: “Find Them” — introduces the science of…This article was originally published on Mongabay

« … they rejected their parent’s "Israel always and forever no matter what" kind of view, and they are sick to death of what's happening in Gaza… »⁣⁣⁣

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#Palestine #ceasefire #FreePalestine @palestine⁣⁣

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It’s so frustrating that there is this illusion that we are all 49%/49% right now. Us versus them, good versus bad, and it’s all because of the BS that is the electoral system. It’s very likely 70% versus 30% and we’re just not seeing representative government.There’s just no common sense right now

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I agree 100%. It hits harder now with having two young children and seeing what's happening in the world. Just heartbreaking.

But yes I agree. We can either give up or fight back somehow.

And giving up is not an option.

To be honest these interactions with people like your self help. Knowing you're not alone in how you're experiencing it all. 💚

P.s. I've changed accounts yet again to self host. I've prob chatted with you now from about 5 accounts.

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RFK, Jr. clarifies his position on wearables, and it's good stuff:

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Again, learn from Turkey, because Trump sure is. Erdoğan did the same thing, cleaning out the ranks… and he’s managed to cling onto power for decades because of it. infosec.exchange/@Nonya_Bidnis…

Teen Vogue nails it again. The American empire (like all others) is built on hate and cruelty. We are simply watching it decline. Unfortunately, also like all other empires, it is going to kill a bunch of people on the way down. teenvogue.com/story/trump-admi…

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An incredible resource collated by the amazing team at #Israel Exposed. Historians and researches will be trawling through this for decades to come.

And a stark reminder of how craven and complicit #Australia, #UK, #US and other enabling governments are.

Also, imagine how dark and cynical you have to be now, 20 months in to this killing spree, to claim ignorance of these crimes against humanity?

#Gaza #IsraelExposed #Genocide #auspol

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You know what one of the crazies things about the US is?

A cop can pull you over on the side of the road and be like "Please take this breathalyzer test" and you can say "no" because that's your right.

But he can also say "please step out of the car" and if you say "no" then he'll beat your ass and claim you're resisting, because that's not your right.

So the word "please", in US legal parlance, has 2 meanings:
1. Would you please wave your right not to do this?
2. By my authority I am compelling you to do this.

And they won't tell you which one it is, or they may lie about which one it is, and if you do it and you had the right not to then it's assumed you waved that right.

(AFAIK)

« Iran/Occident : une guerre pour rien ? » avec Georges Malbrunot, Sébastien Regnault, Sepideh Farsi et Chirinne Ardakani – QG – Le média libre


#géopolitique #impérialisme #guerre

Audio dans mon partage.

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Today in Labor History July 4, 1910: African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocked out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round, leading to race riots throughout the U.S. 11 separate riots occurred in NYC, alone. There were riots in 50 cities, including New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, and St. Louis. At least 20 people died in these riots. Johnson, who was also known as the Galveston Giant, became the first black World Heavyweight champion in 1908, which made him unpopular with the predominantly white audience of boxing. He held that title from 1908-1915 and quickly became the most famous black man of the era. The racism against him was so intense that many, including socialist writer Jack London, called for a Great White Hope to fight him and take away his title. Jeffries, a former heavyweight world champ, came out of retirement specifically to prove “that a white man is better than a Negro.” Johnson’s victory in this fight earned him $65,000 ($2.1 million in today’s dollars).

With his winnings, Johnson opened a multi-racial restaurant and nightclub, Club Deluxe, which he ran with his white wife. Because of this, the authorities arrested him for violating the Mann act (transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes). President Trump pardoned him in 2018, something Reagan, both Bushes and even Obama refused to do. Johnson fled the country to avoid arrest, but continued boxing abroad. Eventually he turned himself in and served time at Leavenworth Prison.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #boxing #jackjohnson #racism #trump #obama #reagan #riots #prison #socialism #jacklondon #jimcrow #BlackMastadon

"The rich and powerful don’t care if you dye your hair or pierce your nose or kiss a member of the same sex or say Hail Satan. They don’t care if you support one mainstream political faction over the other, or if you yell empty words about anarchy and revolution that aren’t pointed toward any real material goals. They care very much, however, if you are undermining public consent for military and geopolitical agendas they’ve worked very hard to propagandize the public into accepting.

The establishment never dropped the hammer on Marilyn Manson. Lady Gaga never ran into trouble with the state for singing that gay people are Born This Way. Ozzy Osbourne is living in the lap of luxury with an estimated net worth of $220 million. But groups like Kneecap and Bob Vylan are being subjected to police investigations and visa revocations for taking a stand on Palestine.

Which, of course, is only going to make their position more popular among young people with a defiant streak in them."

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#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #BobVylan #Kneecap #CounterCulture

Today in Labor History July 4, 1977: The George Jackson Brigade planted a bomb at a power station in Olympia, Washington, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary. They were a revolutionary group founded in the mid-1970s, based in Seattle, named after George Jackson, a prisoner and Black Panther who was shot and killed during an alleged escape attempt at San Quentin Prison in 1971. The Brigade was composed of both communist and anarchist veterans of the women's liberation, LGBTQ and Black Nationalist movements.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #racism #liberation #nationalism #georgejackson #lgbtq #anarchism #communism #feminism #prison #incarceration #strike #blackpanther #bomb #solidarity #BlackMastadon

"It just increasingly affirms your bullshit and blows smoke up your ass so that it can get you f*cking hooked on wanting to engage with it"

😂

OpenAI Says It's Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises
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Speaking for myself I want a very progressive tax rate. More graduations on the tax table reaching as high as 99%. And I want that money to go into public works and welfare.
I want this not only for humane reasons. bot more importantly I want it in order to preserve democracy! In other words, I would want those tax rates even if the collected taxes were not used for anything!

Microsoft Lays Off “Hundreds” Of Gaming Division Employees, Cancels Multiple Projects Including ‘Perfect Dark’ And ‘Everwild’

"Microsoft previously cut six-thousand jobs in May this year, hitting product and engineering-focused positions. Employees in the gaming division had been expecting layoffs ever since. Some outlets and social media posts have claimed Microsoft is attempting to re-open these positions later, and offer them to H-1B workers for cheaper pay.

Another case is the Perfect Dark reboot, which was already had troubled development and little progress. Not only is it cancelled, but one of its development studios, The Initiative, has shut down."

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:keku: hope Fable gets canceled too

🇩🇪 Germany is considering the purchase of up to 2,500 GTK Boxer armored vehicles and 1,000 Leopard 2 tanks, following NATO’s request for Berlin to form seven new combat brigades over the next decade amid growing threats from Russia, Bloomberg reports.

The estimated cost of the program could reach €25 billion, making it one of the largest defense contracts in modern German history

#ParkrosePermaculrure

🚨🚨#ALERT 🚨🚨 #FIGHTBACK

#US Deports son of US soldier - born on US base in #Germany - to #Jamaica. - YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=hCb9g3y6… o

#RacistUSA #FascistUSA

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USA has been a shithole country for a LONG time. This is fucking ghastly. Now the killings will begin in earnest. I'll be quite surprised if I see another spring on this planet.

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