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Please, tell me again how anarchism is chaos.

If this whole sorry episode of human history shows us one thing, it’s not that “we don’t need leaders” but that the very concept of “leaders” is incompatible with the future of our species. Advanced civilisation cannot survive under these primitive hierarchies that concentrate inordinate amounts of power in the hands of a relative handful of individuals. Look at the sorry state of these danger clowns.

Either we find ways to devolve power, divorce primitive ideals of strong(wo)man leaders, and embrace government as service among peers or I see a very short adolescence stage for humanity that falls shy of reaching adulthood. Our bullshit isn’t new by any means but it wasn’t terminal for the species when we were toddlers. Today, with our level of technology, it very much is.

We could be tending our planet while exploring the stars for a second home to halve our risk of extinction. Instead, we’re navel gazing at its precipice. It’s obscene. masto.ai/@rbreich/114635480242…


Robert Reich (@rbreich@masto.ai)

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Jo-chin up, elbows up.

I am fond of a modified sortition model. mastodon.social/@JoBlakely/110…

Jo-chin up, elbows up. (@JoBlakely@mastodon.social)

🧵 Democracy was never meant to be run by #election bc it is too easily corrupted by oligarchs. It was always meant to be by sortition & there is a longer history to that & it's success, than this version of 'democratic' elections which is failing us…
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Es wird Zeit.

Abschied von drei Lebenslügen:


#Corona #Ukraine #Klima

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#Klimawandel #Klimalüge #CO2 #CO2Lüge


Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains

Trees dating back almost 6000 years have come to scientists' attention due to ice melting in the Rocky mountains, offering a "time capsule" into the past
Taylor Mitchell Brown (New Scientist)

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Hat Frau #Buyx oder der #ethikrat denn eigentlich jemals zum damaligen Strategiepapier der BMI „Wie wir Corona unter Kontrolle bekommen“ Stellung bezogen?

Wie bekommen wir #Corona in den Griff?

Internes Papier aus Innenministerium empfahl, den Deutschen Corona-Angst zu machen


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Ist das #Patriarchat durch den #ethikrat eine #Tyrannis?

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Traditional street lighting systems often rely on outdated technologies

Street lighting like led warehouse lighting high bay is one of the most essential services provided by municipalities, yet it can also be one of the most energy-intensive. Managing street lighting effectively not only improves public safety and livability but also plays a key role in reducing energy consumption and lowering operational costs. With thoughtful planning and modern technology, cities and towns can achieve both safety and sustainability.

Traditional street lighting systems often rely on outdated technologies that consume large amounts of electricity and require frequent maintenance. In contrast, modern systems using LED fixtures offer greater efficiency, longer service life, and better quality of light. Transitioning to LED lighting can significantly reduce a city's energy footprint while maintaining or even enhancing illumination standards.

A smart energy management strategy starts with an assessment of the existing street lighting infrastructure. Municipalities should consider the age, condition, and energy use of current fixtures. This helps identify opportunities for upgrades, retrofitting, or complete replacement. Many cities begin with pilot projects in selected areas to evaluate performance and build community support.

Lighting control systems are another important part of modern energy management. These systems allow cities to adjust lighting levels based on real-time conditions such as traffic flow, pedestrian presence, or time of night. Dimming lights during low-traffic hours or using motion sensors in less active areas can lead to substantial energy savings. Moreover, these systems offer remote monitoring, which simplifies maintenance and reduces response time to outages.

Energy-efficient lighting also contributes to broader environmental goals. Reducing electricity usage helps lower greenhouse gas emissions and supports climate action initiatives. Additionally, thoughtful lighting design can minimize light pollution, protecting natural habitats and improving nighttime quality of life for residents.

Financing these upgrades may seem daunting, but various funding models are available. Energy savings performance contracts, government grants, and public-private partnerships can ease the financial burden. In many cases, the long-term energy savings and reduced maintenance costs can offset the initial investment.

Public engagement is also important. When residents understand the benefits of energy-efficient street lighting — including cost savings, environmental impact, and improved safety — they are more likely to support new initiatives. Transparency in planning and implementation helps build trust and ensures that changes reflect the needs of the community.

In summary, effective energy management in street lighting is a vital responsibility for municipalities seeking to modernize their infrastructure and improve quality of life. By embracing energy-efficient technologies and smart lighting controls, cities can create safer, more sustainable, and economically resilient urban environments.


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A fundamental guideline for spacing is that the height of the LED fixtures should equal the distance between them. For example, if lights are mounted at a height of 20 feet, they should also be spaced 20 feet apart.
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Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 06/06/25: Israel Arming ISIS-Affiliated Militia in Gaza, Israel Hospital Strike Kills 4 Journalists, and More youtube.com/watch?v=9z_E1wi_gE…

Israel Arming ISIS-Affiliated Militia in Gaza, Israel Hospital Strike Kills 4 Journalists, and More

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David Gornoski: The Gaza Crisis and the Repeal of Christianity’s Personhood Revolution original.antiwar.com/David_Gor…

The Gaza Crisis and the Repeal of Christianity's Personhood Revolution - Antiwar.com

The relentless bombing of Gaza, with its gut-wrenching toll on civilian lives – children buried under rubble, families torn apart, entire neighborhoods reduced to ash – has become a grotesque spectacle on the global stage.
Antiwar.com

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Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies: Is There a Crack in Western Support for Genocide? original.antiwar.com/mbenjamin…

Is There a Crack in Western Support for Genocide? - Antiwar.com

After twenty months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western countries is finally starting to shift – but will words translate into action? And what exactly can other countries do when the United States still shields Israel from efforts to en…
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“We’re at a new point in human history,” Wagner says. Up until the last decade, “the major drivers of biodiversity losses around the planet were really land degradation and land loss, habitat loss. But I think now that climate change is by far exceeding that.”

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#biodiversity #biodiversityloss #massextinction #artenvielfalt #artenschwund #biodiversitätskrise


‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
Tess McClure (The Guardian)

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Edward Curtin -- The Lesser of Two Evils: The Burning of Children Instead of Paper antiwar.com/blog/2025/06/05/th…

The Lesser of Two Evils: The Burning of Children Instead of Paper - Antiwar.com Blog

Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.
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Yves Engler: Cynics Doubt Canada’s RCMP Investigation Into Israel War Crimes antiwar.com/blog/2025/06/05/cy…

Cynics Doubt Canada's RCMP Investigation Into Israel War Crimes - Antiwar.com Blog

Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. Does it represent a blow to the legal exceptionalism granted Israel in Canada? Or is it Kabuki theater? Yesterday the Toronto Star reported that the RCMP opened a Gaza related investigation under its Crimes Again…
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Die #Geburten haben eine starke Saisonalität: Mai bis Oktober gibt es viele, November bis April wenige.

Wenn man die Daten sainsonbereinigt, ist der Effekt noch viel auffälliger, Absturz Anfang 2022:


Ging es darum bei der sogenannten #Impfung? #Bevölkerungsreduktion wie ihn der Club of Rome immer bewirbt?
Die Genbrühe macht unfruchtbar. Wer das angesichts der Zahlen leugnet ist dumm oder ein Verbrecher. Wir müssen die Täter zur Verantwortung ziehen.

#corona #covid #BigPharma #Lauterbach #Spahn

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„Der deutschen Regierung liegen aus Geheimdienstkreisen plausible Indizien vor, dass das Coronavirus aus dem Labor in Wuhan kommt"

Wieviel steht es jetzt eigentlich? 10:0 für die Schwurbler?


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#Corona #Covid #Gesundheitsdiktatur #WHO


Deutscher Regierung liegen Indizien vor, dass Coronavirus aus Labor stammt

Eine vom Bundeskanzleramt initiierte Gruppe spezialisierter Forscher traf sich mehrfach beim Bundesnachrichtendienst. Nach ausgiebigen Untersuchungen liegen zahlreiche Indizien für eine Laborherkunft vor.
Johannes Boie (bj) (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)

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#DNA-Skandal in #COVID- #Impfstoffen! Slowakischer #Regierungsbeamter schreibt Brief an #Kennedy: Die tödliche DNA wurde ABSICHTLICH hinzugefügt


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#RFK #RFKennedy #Corona #Impfung #Impfzwang


DNA-Skandal in COVID-Impfstoffen! Slowakischer Regierungsbeamter schreibt Brief an Kennedy: Sie wurden ABSICHTLICH hinzugefügt

Die Kontroverse um die COVID-19-Impfstoffe nimmt eine neue, beunruhigende Wendung. In einem explosiven Brief an den US-Gesundheitsminister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warnt der slowakische Regierungsbeau…
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Wer Impfzwang und Lockdowns kritisierte, ist im Exil (#Brandenburg, #Hockertz, #Schiffmann), im Knast (#Füllmich) oder hat mit #Strafverfahren, #Entlassung oder #Kontokündigung zu kämpfen. #Corona war auch in dieser Hinsicht eine Blaupause für das, was noch kommt.


Hintergrund: Die typische Reaktion im #Vakzinismus ist leider dieselbe wie im #Faschismus: Die meisten schweigen, nur wenige leisten #Widerstand.

Neulich fragten mich Unternehmer, ob sie Nachteile zu befürchten hätten, wenn sie ab und zu an alternative Medien spenden. Noch nicht, aber vor allem die #Grünen wollen bei #Geheimdiensten, #NGOs und #DSA groß aufrüsten, außerhalb der #Schuldenbremse natürlich.

Das gestern beschlossene Schulden- und #Kriegspaket macht das möglich. Die #Politik weiß nur zu gut: Je weiter sie sich von den Wünschen der #Bevölkerung entfernt, desto mehr #innere #Repression braucht sie.

Wir leben in einer #Diktatur.

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No one talks about extreme centrists. They should, because they're the people who want to maintain the status quo when it's glaringly obvious that we need change.

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Extreme centrists dominate politics, demanding we maintain the status quo when we need change

No one talks about extreme centrists. They should, because they're the people who want to maintain the status quo when it's glaringly obvious that we need ch...
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Caitlin #Johnstone

This is #Israel. This is what the Zionist project looks like. The dead kids. The blown-out hospitals. The desperate, starving civilians. This is it.

There is no alternate version of Israel where these things are not happening. The liberal Zionist vision of a two-state solution and a just and peaceful Israel exists solely in the imaginations of the people who envision it. Nothing like it has ever existed. Everything about the modern state of Israel is unyieldingly hostile to that vision.

You either support the existence of the Israel you see before you, or you support the end of the apartheid Zionist entity. There is no hidden third option. There are no other positions on the menu. To pretend otherwise is to live in a fantasy land.

You either want to burn children alive, or you don’t. You either want to deliberately starve civilians, or you don’t. You either want to bomb hospitals, or you don’t. You either want to deliberately assassinate Palestinian journalists while forbidding foreign journalists entry into Gaza, or you don’t.
You either want to deliberately #massacre civilians and systematically destroy civilian infrastructure in order to force the removal of Palestinians from a Palestinian territory, or you don’t.

And if you don’t, you must oppose the state of Israel.
That’s Israel, the state. Not just Netanyahu. Not just extremist settlers. Not just “far right elements within the Israeli government”. Israel itself. Because everything we are seeing Israel do is the result of everything Israel is as a state.

Everything Israel is doing is the result of everything it has always been. As soon as the west decided to drop a settler-colonialist state on top of a pre-existing civilization wherein the new immigrants would receive preferential treatment over the indigenous inhabitants who were already living there, it became inevitable that Israel would wind up in the condition it’s in today.

Because there was no way to uphold that status quo without mass displacement and nonstop tyranny, violence and abuse. There was no way to set up a tiered society where one tier is placed above the other without indoctrinating the public to accept that apartheid system by systematically dehumanizing the members of the disempowered group.

Set up a status quo of dehumanizing a group of people and manufacturing consent for violence and abuse against them, and you will inevitably wind up with a far right #apartheid state which is committing #genocide, as surely as dropping a stone off a building will result in a stone falling to the ground.


What we are seeing in #Gaza today was baked into the state of Israel ever since its inception.

All those dead kids on your social media feed are the fruit of a tree whose seed was planted after the second world war. That tree has been bearing more and more fruit, and it will continue to for as long as it remains standing. Because that’s just the kind of tree it is. The only kind of tree it ever could have been.

Saying “I support Israel but I don’t support the actions of #Netanyahu in Gaza” is like saying “I like this apple tree but only when it sprouts coconuts instead of apples.” That is not the kind of tree it is. The apple tree will only produce apples, and the genocide tree will only produce genocide.
Israel’s supporters avoid confronting obvious truths like these. Support for Israel depends on mass-scale psychological compartmentalization. Everything about it revolves around avoiding unpleasant truths instead of deeply and viscerally reckoning with them.

Averting the eyes from the video footage of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. Averting the eyes from the contradictions between the values they purport to hold and everything Israel is as a state. Averting the eyes from the mountains upon mountains of evidence staring us all in the face. That’s the only way support for Israel is able to continue.

In order to become a truth-driven species, we need to stop hiding from uncomfortable truths. And one of our favorite hiding places for uncomfortable truths at this point in #history is the modern state of Israel, and the western empire’s support for it.

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Les bénévoles de l’association seront à Rodez les 5 et 7 juin pour lancer leur tournée citoyenne de sensibilisation aux enjeux de la corruption ! Un voyage en camionnette de 4 mois qui passera par 45 départements.
#AnticorPropose ladepeche.fr/2025/06/03/rodez-…

Rodez, point de départ du tour de France d’Anticor

Les bénévoles de l’association Anticor seront à Rodez les 5 et 7 juin pour lancer leur Tour de France citoyen de sensibilisation aux enjeux de la corruption. Un périple en camionnette de 4 mois qui passera par 45 départements.
La Dépêche du Midi (ladepeche.fr)

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Deutschland hat ein massives #Justizproblem.

In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt

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woodland creature

was it worth 2 days of suffering and about $300 in parts and tools? absolutely cause the other day i realized how scorching hot the all black interior of that thing is going to get after parking it outside in the sun for a short time.

as a bonus i ended up with some new sets of snap ring pliers, and a dedicated serpentine belt tensioner tool and some stubby sockets. also fixed that last ugly little bumper sag in the front, cleaned some gunk off the alternator and the engine block, and mitigated a bit of rust in the frame while i was in there.

all in all not a bad result. just really glad i didn't screw something up and have to take stuff apart again which has definitely happened before

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Bernard Manin : Les ambiguïtés du gouvernement représentatif

🗳️ Bernard #Manin analyse le #GouvernementReprésentatif : plasticité, biais aristocratique de l’ #élection, absence de #MandatImpératif. Un système qui n’est ni #DémocratieDirecte, ni #autogouvernement du peuple. #politique #démocratie #représentation Dans Principes du gouvernement représentatif, Bernard Manin propose une analyse lucide et nuancée des fondements et des limites du régime représentatif, en…

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Bernard Manin : Les ambiguïtés du gouvernement représentatif

🗳️ Bernard #Manin analyse le #GouvernementReprésentatif : plasticité, biais aristocratique de l’ #élection, absence de #MandatImpératif. Un système qui n’est ni #DémocratieDirecte, ni #autogouverne…
Homo Hortus

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Après avoir réalisé un excellent film sur Edmond Goupil, notre ami Jean-Pierre Gaché nous parle, dans sa nouvelle vidéo, de son frère Léon, François Goupy qui est aussi engagé politiquement que son cadet.

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#CommuneDeParis1871
#ViveLaCommune
#AmiesetAmisdelaCommunedeParis
#Lacommunenestpasmorte
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Léon GOUPY Les transportés du 2 décembre 1851

Républicain radical de Mayenne, Léon Goupy s’opposera à la politique du « juste milieu » du président de la 2ème république, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte et à so...
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There is a judicial coup underway in this country. The presidency cannot remain functional — and the Republic cannot remain sovereign — if its core powers are subject to the whims of rogue, lawless judges.
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How Long Will Trump Let Rogue Judges Help Gangsters And Terrorists?

There is a judicial coup underway in this country. The presidency cannot remain functional if it is subject to the whims of rogue judges.
Brianna Lyman (The Federalist)
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