Richard Delevan

On days like today I like to recall some wise advice: hope is not a fleeting emotion, it is a discipline.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

The US #military appears to be weaponising #ClimateChange impacts, in this case increased flooding associated with the greatly amplified #ElNiño, to 'cleanse' areas of #Somalia held by the al-Shabaab jihadist quasi-state. This is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

I think it doesn't reflect well on the BBC that one its leading presenters is allowed to write an 'analysis' for a highly partisan newspaper which includes lines like "Racial minorities, worshipped by white Democrats" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

“Let the market sort it though the people of the metropole starve” is a great policy. Worked in 43 BCE, 1847 CE and I’m sure it’ll work in Year Zero of whatever the fuck this is about to be.

*BOLSONARO: FEDERAL POLICE REQUESTED I GIVE THEM MY PASSPORT

“Neurodivergents are too early with their warnings and that’s the problem” is often portrayed as the intellectual interpretation of why normies go into overshoot and mass collapse. “Normies are too slow and too dumb to realise what’s happening” is never portrayed as the problem. Chop chop normies.

100% And a bunch of crap is coming from Bibi right now & France needs to figure out the Far Right w/Putin's & trump's backing is who's responsible for the riots there. @mark-carney.bsky.social please pass this on to Macron it needs to be blasted on every SM site & news orgs in France.

Turns out the torrid Hedy Lamarr dreams this week weren't just about CDMA. Welcome @hedylamarr1987.bsky.social

Kremlin and Zelenskyy find common ground in hating Bolsonaro (and by implication Trump) #thegreatfuckoffening

It's not even my birthday

kkkkkk isso seria hilário!

There was just something about Our Lady of Apariceda that the Bolsonaro and MAGA folks didn't like. Hard to say what... #thegreatfuckoffening

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

It is ok to decide that—in the middle of constitutional crisis—that the job of social media is not persuasion, but organization and organization. It is also ok to decide that listening and persuasion does not have to involve violence and abuse. You know why trolls hide under bridges, right?

Find someone who looks at you like Mike Rogers looks at Donald Trump.

Thus began The Great Fuckoffening ™️

Today Plaid Cymru MP, Ben Lake, will lead a Backbench Business debate in the House of Commons on the emerging risks of advanced AI Plaid Cymru says it's the first debate on the regulation of advanced AI systems in the House of Commons chamber

Add Zuck and Justin Webb to the list #thegreatfuckoffening

Oh my god @nytpitchbot.bsky.social he did the thing. "Republicans are about to lose the midterms by 12 points. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats."

Guess the polymarket Invisible Hand just fisted Peter Thiel's courtier fool

Growth that kills its host isn’t growth. It’s cancer with good PR.

“Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” 💯

Heart-rending. Give Akshat some much-needed love.

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Well I see corporate HQ us messaging their Washington branch to stand down and retreat tactically as they assess #thegreatfuckoffening www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Don't call it a comeback. open.spotify.com/track/6C7ZgT...

I will give serious coin to anybody who persuades @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu to consider #thegreatfuckoffening as a title for her next Atlantic piece or book. Or just a mention. ;-)

[cough] bsky.app/profile/rich...

#thegreatfuckoffening

At one point he had a Whatsapp group with 10 million people in it, coordinating action. Which I didn't even think whatsapp was infrastructurally designed to support. And yes, whatsapp is of course a meta network, but the strategy was to be everywhere, to act redundantly, to be unbannable.

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

What is true is that this was a conflict—and make no mistake, this was a conflict; this was a protracted battle in a hybrid war, more than anything—that was largely fought by large numbers of people laboriously working to unfuck the nation's informational environment.

The UK gov was able to approve #Jackdaw because UK targets are woefully outdated. The current ‘Carbon Budget’ was set 15 years ago back when 2°C of warming was considered ‘safe’. It wasn’t tightened as the threat picture worsened due to concerns about public acceptance.