Ojai's Organic Mayor

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Ojai Shangri La ex-Mayor

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.

Yeah I’m excited for odyssey 2, odyssey two riders emerging from the woods at twilight, their black mounts gaunt as skeletons their eyes blazing with the fires of the damned. Each of them is holding a chain and the chains reach out behind them into the night, dragging something that resists vision

gotta find a way to say Air Quality Index Over 1000 that doesn't make it sound like the greatest air you are ever likely to have an opportunity to breathe. maybe call it the Air Garbage Index. no chance i'm going outside if there's a thousand air garbage. although, one man's trash....

If you are one of the people who supported platner until about 48 hours ago, this might me a good time for some serious introspection What was it about him that made you hang on? Why did you distrust everyone who warned you? How can you prevent this from happening again?

He lied about every single thing. Everyday. He ran knowing full well who he is while presenting himself as someone else (poorly). He wasted everyone’s time & money & shattered people’s credibility. He used the political process as a vanity project to the detriment of the folks he wanted to represent

there's a particularly gross thing happening in this stage of individualistic neoliberal capitalism where we've basically lost the ability to confront social problems collectively and now have to engineer our way around them

Illegal gambling sites. Illegal cab companies. Illegal hotels. Crypto for criminals. “Full Self-Driving.” The wholesale theft of billions of copyrighted works for AI. Surveillance capitalism. Automated price-fixing. Election rigging via media manipulation. Big Tech is organized crime.