"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives." - CLR James, The Black Jacobins
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2d agoFlavio Bolsonaro Reportedly Flees Brazil After Passport Revocation colombiaone.com/2026/10/27/f...
Nature as Praxis
@natureaspraxis.bsky.social
We as nature have a say. Social Ecology. Geopolitics. Hip hop head. Kinda/sorta organizer in DC https://natureaspraxis.com/
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2d ago
Fungi are vital ecosystem engineers, yet historically excluded from global conservation efforts. At #COP17, scientists launched the first global strategy for fungal protection, urging nations to include the fungal kingdom in global biodiversity targets. Read more. 👇️ mongabay.cc/iMDUP2
Fungi now have a global conservation strategy
YEREVAN, Armenia — Like the dark spaces they often prefer, mushrooms, yeasts, and some 160,000 known species of fungi rest in the background of conservation efforts. But their crucial role as…
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Like, what science has RFK produced? What Nobel Prize has he won? What literature award has he been given? And yet he feels like he can put on the Cloak of Good Approval earned by the White Appreciation Society despite his lack of accomplishment because of his group membership.
So I'm not gonna quote that stupid bullshit thing from RFK, but have you noticed that white supremacists insist that white culture is superior because they're individualists and Asians are collectivists and then they pull this shit? White supremacy is a form of collectivism. It's just a shitty one.
I keep looking at these images and am reminded that we live in a literal paradise within the universe. Earth is an incredible place.
American Meteorological Society@ametsoc.org · 5d ago"One of the most mesmerizing moments I have ever had the opportunity to see." 📸✨ How do you capture a Sea Dragon or a Sky Eye? Read the stories of our winning photos from the 2026 AMS Photo Contest: https://bit.ly/4yXdzV5
We literally have western civilization because Arab philosophers and scientists were developing the ideas of Aristotle while "Europeans" were basically shitting in giant holes for two centuries.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2d agoRFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
It's very important for leftists in the U.S. to understand that this woman, Erika Hilton, was key to Lula's success in the second round of Brazil's presidential elections yesterday. Hilton, a Black trans woman who became the most voted for congresswoman in Brazil's history this month, 1/2
"One of the most mesmerizing moments I have ever had the opportunity to see." 📸✨ How do you capture a Sea Dragon or a Sky Eye? Read the stories of our winning photos from the 2026 AMS Photo Contest: https://bit.ly/4yXdzV5
AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"
Humanity is far from progressing into ecological consciousness, or "free nature" as Murray Bookchin put it. Western civilization's embrace of anti ecological primciples like capitalism, individualism, and imperialism serve as the main barriers to evolution.
We can colonise Mars just as soon as we've figured out collective governance of an atmosphere
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last wk.The greatest challenge of our time isn’t to figure out how to get to Mars or become interstellar, but to figure out how to live sustainably on Earth.
The entire argument and image is complete nonsense. That aside, there isn't nearly enough debate, especially when discussing AI, on what exactly is meant by progress, what variables define progress, and how you measure and analyze those variables. It's just...a buzzword.
Erica Windisch@ewindisch.ontological.observer · 2w agoThe red brown alliance will try anything to keep Sissyphus from being happy or advancing progress.
It becomes exponentially more difficult to levy real critiques of Bill Gates (and there are plenty) if they are drowned out by nonsense. This just further illustrates the capacity for epistemic destruction that AI can cause.
News Literacy Project@newslit.org · 2w ago❌ NO: Bill Gates did not say water shortages could cause a billion deaths by 2027. ✔️ This is a doctored video that uses an AI voice clone to make it appear as if Gates made the comments. The original video is Gates talking about AI & its impact on the economy in 2025. 🔗 go.newslit.org/GatesWater
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced a $30 million investment in an NYU quantum lab, and in exchange for the investment from the city the university will give 15% of all profits back to the city. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/n...
Mamdani Enters Deal with N.Y.U. to Share Profits from Quantum Lab
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that in exchange for a $30 million city investment, New York would get 15 percent of proceeds from projects developed in the quantum technology lab.
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Wanna make the United States more equitable? Give every Native Nation two Senators in Congress. There's 575 Federally Recognized Tribes, each with broken treaties. It would add 1,150 seats. If population size doesn't matter for State Senators, then it surely shouldn't matter for us either.
Siraya, an Indigenous language declared extinct in the 19th century, is now being taught in 26 schools in Taiwan. Siraya activist Uma Talavan & her husband Edgar Macapili spent over 20 years reconstructing the language. buff.ly/2roj7FB #ShareGoodNewsToo
Siraya language, deemed ‘extinct’ over a century ago, finds its voice again in Taiwan
TAINAN, Taiwan — Since she was old enough to understand it, Uma Talavan has known she belongs to the Indigenous Siraya people. She knew almost nothing of her ethnicity, however, the identity of…
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This is the second Black Congresswoman to be targeted by the FBI for no reason, Rep. McIver is facing BS charges for defending her constituents against ICE. Keep track of who is being silent in the face of these women being attacked by this fascist, racist administration. Because there are a lot.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2w agoI do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
New study led by @bemiles.bsky.social, reporting the detection of variable water clouds(!) in the cold brown dwarf WISE 0855
Discovery marks the first detection of variable water clouds outside of our solar system
A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex, and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected.
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White supremacists will do anything to deny their connection to the natural world.
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 3w agoA shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.
Me personally, my confidence comes from the fact that the same science that is trying to create artificial consciousness is the same science that has yet to pinpoint the mechanism behind biological consciousness.
John Benoit@johnbenoit.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m writing this in genuine curiosity: why are so many people confident that artificial consciousness is impossible, when science has failed to explain biological consciousness? We don’t know why the human brain produces the sensation of consciousness. How can we rule out that it can be recreated?
As someone who reads all footnotes in books, I welcome this.
Dr Buki Fatona@bukifatona.bsky.social · 3w agoI have just written my longest ever footnote: almost a page long. Feeling like a rebel 😎
I'll take a moment to state my whiteness for the record (though I posted a pic on here once), in case anyone didn't already guess lol.
Tim Zhu@timzhu.io · 3w agoI don't know how else to say it but there's a whole genre of leftist posters who have chosen their profile pics and online persona to try to give the impression that they're not white
Complex magazine just had a fan poll that voted Food & Liquor the best rap album of 2006. My first reaction (jokingly) was "there were other albums that year?". That should tell you how much I listened to that album when it came out 😅🥲.
Jazz.@jl3001.blacksky.app · 3w agoDamn, Food and Liquor just had its 20th, which is absolutely wild to me. Guess I'll put it on today
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities