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Mallory's Musings & Mischief

I'm so sick of everything being framed as a "cost". What about the *benefits* of doing a thing? Like, what are economic benefits of having extensive and healthy rainforests?

If some fucking economist is like, "we can't calculate that, it's literally incalculable," I'm going to fucking strangle him. Just because something doesn't fit nicely into your spreadsheets, it doesn't mean it lacks value.

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NPR (bot)

NPR: U.S. employers added 187,000 jobs in July, still marking a steady pace of growth. The unemployment rate edged down to 3.5%.#news #NPR npr.org/2023/08/04/1191884937/

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flexghost.

Trump is in big trouble

So the news is focusing on Hunter Biden “scandals”

Good.

Because we need to remember that this, too, is another Trump scandal

Trump blackmailed Zelenskyy and Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden

There was an impeachment over it

Trump personnel like Manafort were exposed over it

Lt Col Alexander Vindman went through hell over it

Time to tell the Hunter Biden story the way it was meant to be told

Another Trump crime

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Barbara Dees

washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Climate change slowing down key ocean “conveyor belt”
Could collapse completely by 2060
grist.org/climate/a-vital-atla
@grist

Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
nature.com/articles/s41467-023
We est. collapse of AMOC around mid-century

AMOC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic
global oceanic thermohaline circulation; zonally integrated component of surface/deep currents in Atlantic Ocean

#GlobalWarming #oceanography #AMOC #IPCC #ClimateChange #EcologicalDestruction

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Addendae

Why it's so important to figure out when vital Atlantic Ocean current might collapse
npr.org/2023/07/27/1190519762/

Deep in the Atlantic Ocean there's a massive current the size of 8,000 Mississippi Rivers.
Its role in the Earth's climate is so powerful that it determines weather f. the equator to Europe, crop production in Africa & sea level rise on the East Coast.

Scientists say there's a risk this vital current could shut down as the climate gets hotter, with dire consequences worldwide

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Technodad

Adoption >> buying a pet. #petrescue #massachusetts mastodon.boston/@MSPCAAngell/1

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Tim Mak

Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
Due to the increased #Wagner presence, #Poland will deploy more troops to its border with #Belarus after two #Belarusian helicopters entered #Polish airspace at low altitudes, hampering radar detection.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/08/02/eur

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Tim Mak

#Ammunition, or lack thereof, has been a focal point in the conflict so far. To combat this #Ukraine has ramped up local ammunition manufacturing. The country produced twice as many #mortar and #artillery rounds last month as it did in all of 2022.
nytimes.com/live/2023/08/02/wo

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fantasizes about “slitting throats on day one”. Welcome to Nazi America 2023.😬 And this sad excuse for a human being is running for President or to be ’s No.2…🤬 This is something that America at large ignores at our peril. However, if we live in a sane country, it should put the final nails n the GOP coffin, but I’m not holding my breath.🤔

huffpost.com/entry/ron-desanti

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@Huntn00 @LauraJMG
As #ClimateAction started to become more and more likely, the #FossilFools started to throw tons of money into the GOP and the Political Action Committees in order to wage their successful (so far) #WarOnScience

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@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social Leaving the USN and being hired by a large corporation, I quickly learned about management vs labor (me) food chains. They will always have excuses why they can’t pay you adequately and it’s only though the power of numbers that you remind them of your value to the bottom line, especially when skilled work is involved. And Union representation is invaluable in a dispute involving an asshole supervisor. 🤔

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Americanist4U

@TheUSASingers
A class action suit on behalf of the citizens of America should be brought forth to Faux News for defrauding us of the truth necessary to elect officials and to be able to sustain our democratic form of government.

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Dan Neuman

I don’t think any Canadian political family has endured the type of bullying for so long as have the Trudeaus. Do you think the kids are immune at school from verbal abuse? What has changed in Canada is that bigots now think violence is patriotic.

#CanPoli #cdnpoli

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Low Quality Facts

I wrote a comic about haggling.

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Its Not A Hoax 🤞

Link:
acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?

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U.S. Politics in Real Time

82% of Voters Oppose GOP Push to Cut Social Security for Americans Under 50: Poll — “Voters would rather see taxes on wealthy Americans to ensure Social Security remains a guarantee for all,” said the head of Data for Progress.

commondreams.org/news/republic

#SocialSecurity #GOP #Cut #Voters #Taxes #WealthyAmericans #Politics #News

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@alteropen @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social unions are the only representation rank and file workers get, otherwise it’s you against “The Man” as the phrase goes. Yes, unions must be reasonable, responsible, have perspective, and the interests of their workers as the prime motivation. Imo, they’re better when they're locally controlled not National.

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TheAnymouseProphet

One thing I really like about #Mastodon - on #Birdsite, extremist right-wing posts kept showing up on my timeline and if I blocked them, others would just replace them.

This started after Elon took over and got worse after he started selling blue check-marks.

My mental health really is a lot better without an algorithm.

Back when I called the suicide hotline (a mistake, I got charged a ton of money for the "help") it was suggested that I don't watch the news because the news was +

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@LauraJMG @GreenFire The Conservatives movement in the USA used to value the environment. It makes perfect sense, protect our home and keep it relatively clean. In addition a Republican named Mitt Romney sponsored basic universal health care. Somewhere along the line, infiltrated by various nefarious elements like TeaParty, QAnon and others, the GOP has lost their way and my trust.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachu

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