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here's where to find it on windows 10
Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.
IT GETS WORSE
I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.
LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES
Important.
it takes 10 layers of the water filter to completely drown a tumblr screenshot if anyone was wondering
OP cabellhouse on TikTok
A lot of their fuckery is permanent
See also: Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
While China's push to modernize sparked a surge in burning coal, India is turning to increasingly cheap solar to meet its booming energy nee
Most countries have followed a similar trend in energy usage as they industrialize, dramatically increasing their use of the dirtier fossil fuels, especially coal. Although they are now building out renewables faster than anywhere else on Earth, China is the biggest recent example of this.
However, India seems to be taking a different path--one that has recently become viable with the dramatically dropping prices of solar and battery storage. India's economy is now growing faster than China's and they are fueling this growth mostly with renewables.
This would make India the first major country to power it's industrialization with renewable energy, essentially skipping the step between coal and transitioning to cleaner forms of energy.
World broken, heart broken. I could write essays but I prefer drawing
That bitten apple with THEIR FACES omg op that's amazing
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The Battle of Minneapolis
I have been real busy and very horrified but I want to say one thing about what's going on in Minneapolis right now.
I was talking to a close friend of ours who lives in Minneapolis yesterday. When ICE first arrived in the city, it was shocking and appalling and terrifying for everyone. Renee Good's murder and the federal response to it made that a thousand times worse.
But yesterday he was cheerful. He's hooked up with mutual aid in his neighborhood and is delivering groceries; he's volunteered to foster the pets of people who've been disappeared. He hammered away for many minutes about the ridiculousness of Greg fucking Bovino and all the ways in which people are coming out to do their bit to protect people in their city from these goons and their impact. This is a guy who has always had a close relationship with depression.
And I said that I think what they didn't understand when they started this "surge" to Minneapolis is that for an entire year now, so many people all over this country have been looking for a way to fight all the evil this administration is doing, and most of the constitutional ways we're used to doing that just don't seem to work under these circumstances. Yes, we clobbered them in the most recent election cycle and that has made a big difference. But like...in the face of all this...calling our Congressional representatives has really started to feel pointless.
So by trying to occupy Minneapolis, Steven Miller and Kristi Noem and Bovino and all those other goons made one very stupid mistake. They gave people a place to fight them. They gave people a way to DO something productive, generative, and nonviolent with all of this anger. They created a battlefield; but not the kind they wanted. They gave people a place to take action against what they are doing to our neighbors. A place where care can be raised up against cruelty. Help against oppression. Shaming against shamelessness. There is room for everyone in this kind of fight. You don't want to go outside and scream at ICE goons? You can do the laundry for a family that can't get to the laundromat. Literally anything you know how to do, you can do as part of this fight, and know that it's mattering to someone.
And now on January 23, we have a kind of experiment about whether we can pull off a general strike. I wish it well.
These fuckers only know one way to fight. And if they had any sense of history, they'd know that their way never works in the long run. We spent 10 years trying to occupy Iraq with the entire US military and eventually we had to give up. They're trying to occupy one small US city, and it is not going well for them.
So I just want to clarify that I wrote this on January 23, one day before a group of either ICE or Border Patrol agents executed Alex Pretti on camera in front of witnesses.
All of this is still true but today my friend is a lot less cheerful. I'm sending him chocolate chip cookies. We're donating. It's what we can do from here.
I feel like I should acknowledge, for the sake of the younguns, that this is the most dangerous things have ever gotten in the US in my lifetime. 9/11 was bad but it was not as bad as this. I personally did not trust George W. Bush's government, and I still believe they exploited that tragedy and thereby made life worse for millions of people at home and abroad. But what I thought was the worst thing that would ever happen in my lifetime still did not involve a deliberate attempt to occupy an American city and control its inhabitants through continuous state terror.
Similarly, the destruction of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005--which I thought would be the worst thing I'd see happen to an American city in my lifetime--was certainly exacerbated by the incompetence, indifference, malice, and racism of the Republican Party, George W. Bush's administration, and the idiot asshole in charge of FEMA at the time. All of that was still neither as intentional nor as aggressive as this government's attempted destruction of Minneapolis.
In so many ways what's happening now is just an intensified expression of problems that were visible in George W. Bush's administration. And yet, there are some very important differences. One is certainly the nature of the people put in charge of these federal agencies.
People talk about how disturbing it is to 'watch' the videos of Good's murder and Peretti's murder, but to me what's worst about them is the audio. In both of these incidents--and in some of the videos that circulated during ICE's operations in Chicago--the violence elicits involuntary, instantaneous, and horrifying vocalizations from the witnesses. Some of it is just screaming. In one of the Pretti videos, you can hear someone near the camera yelling over and over, "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
Because for the witnesses, watching another human being's body destroyed by violence is universally and viscerally distressing. But the people doing the violence are not in distress. They will later claim that they were in fear for their lives; but that is certainly not what it looks or sounds like. It looks and sounds as if they are doing this violence because they want to do it, and that they find it immensely satisfying.
Back when Kristi Noem was nominated for head of DHS I reblogged a post about the controversy over her memoir, in which she tells a story about shooting two family pets--a puppy named Cricket and a goat. What I said about this at the time has often come back to me in recent days:
"Noem wants to make it a story about 'making tough choices.' But based on the way she herself tells it, it is actually a story about impulsively murdering a dog who embarrassed her in front of her friends/community. She turns on Cricket because not only did he misbehave in ways that brought disapproval upon her–ruining the hunt, eating a neighbor’s chickens–he enjoyed himself while she was being mortified. She kills him because his behavior made her feel shame.
Again that is not me reading into it; *this is how she herself explains her motivations.* And that is what is so profoundly unsettling to me. Not only did she kill the dog and the goat *to make herself feel better* and *to punish them,* she then told the story clearly thinking everyone who read it would sympathize with her and not with the animals she shot.
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The desire to annihilate anything that makes you feel shame is something that’s obviously animating a lot of right wing 'culture war' politics and this story gives us a really clear view of where that desire can lead. And it also shows us that Noem, at least, sees that desire as normal and expects to be praised for acting on it, even when her victim is a 14 month old terrier."
Or, as the case may be, a mother of three, or a VA nurse. Or a five year old child who's been sent to a detention facility in Texas. Bovino is the same. He went out there on the Sunday shows to tell people that the "real victims" in the Pretti murder are the agents who murdered him. These are people who not only don't consider themselves public servants, not only don't give a shit about the jobs they've been hired to do or the people their agencies 'serve,' but also so fundamentally misunderstand...everything...that they can't even hear how grotesque they sound or how unconvincing their lies are. Pete Hegseth, who has now gratuitously inserted himself into the situation, is the same. His entire career as a pundit before his elevation to defense secretary was based on a single hot take: we should be allowed to commit war crimes. We should in fact be praised for committing war crimes. And sure enough, apart from his personal aggrandizement, the thing he appears to love most about this new job is the opportunity to commit war crimes. If in fact he does get the authorization to send the US military into Minneapolis, they will certainly commit war crimes because that what Pete Hegseth loves most. Atrocity.
So this is terrifying. But again: it doesn't change most of what was in that January 23 post. What they are attempting will eventually fail. I just hope it fails before more people die.
"if you convince people that there's no difference between a blood thirsty dictator and a dedicated leader who is human and thus unable to solve every problem, the dictator wins."
Millions died of covid because Trump dismantled the international disease task force with some of the hardest hit areas being minority communities and Native American reservations.
Hundreds of thousands of people overseas now will die of aids because he dismantled the USAID.
None of that would’ve happened with Clinton or Kamala. Not voting because you think they’re the same or being tired of democrats being uninspiring is the White Person moment. Everyone alive in the US needs to humble themselves that they were privileged and lucky enough to survive Trump’s first term, because a lot of vulnerable people aren’t alive to say the same. Not participating doesn’t make you a sovereign citizen, it’s just avoiding responsibility for our out of control country so you don’t have to get a bad taste in your mouth.
"the US will run Venezuela directly until there's a 'transition'"
there we go.
in the words and candence of Trump:
"WE are going to run the country. (untilthereisasafeandjudicioustransition) ... We are going to run it basically. And as you know the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust for years now... the best oil companies in the United States will invest on its infrastructure."
Just if there is any ambiguity. The oil part was immediately afterwards by the way. I'm almost transcribing it live, you will find the transcript soon. Say what you want about Trump but he is completely transparent.
"we built the Venezuelan oil industry with American money and talent and the socialist regime ROBBED it from us, it was the largest theft of American property in history"
OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDD
IT'S LITERALLY LIKE IF US CAPITALISM AND IMPERIALISM MATERIALIZED INTO A PERSON. IT'S LIKE HISTORY IS SPITTING ON MY FACE. I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING INSANE.
if i had to explain what tumblr is like i’d only show this
No one seems to be acknowledging the far funnier element of this, which is, that when you go to the commenter’s account, you find out they are actually fucking roleplaying as a sexually repressed skeleton and jjst really committed to the bit while everyone in the reblogs is talking about how much they hate minors or whatever. thank you kharak the skeleton servant of the almighty lich king
if i had to explain what tumblr is like i’d only show this
Oh fuck dude, you smoked that weed? That's the forever weed. The weed that makes you high forever. Hope you're having a good time because it's permanent. Also I hope it's okay, but I just invited 100 people over, and if they find out you're high you're FUCKED.
substance abuse is like the most normal response in these conditions
