Cathal Garvey @cathal@octodon.social

"Reminder: Lowe’s just donated 25 million to help minority owned businesses reopen. Home Depot founder donated 7 mil to Trump. Go to Lowe’s."

https://twitter.com/Lucaskavner/status/1268942315705360388

thinking about how the LAPD has a bigger annual budget than the north korean military

when the spectres hornt
on their main accounts
who 'ya gonna call?
ghost lusters

Here's a fun fact. The "op-ed" is not an ancient, venerable print tradition.

The modern "op-ed" was invented in the 1970s by the New York Times to stir up drama and get back the readers they had lost to TV news.

Traditionally, newspapers only printed editorials that the owners and/or staff were willing to stand behind.

Here's the update with the details of the release, fresh off the press:

"Hours before openDemocracy was due to sue, government releases massive data-sharing contracts with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Faculty and Palantir"
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/under-pressure-uk-government-releases-nhs-covid-data-deals-big-tech/

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/maps/britain
This is neat. A #map of where British slaveowners lived, based on the compensation payments they claimed.
Especially interesting if you live in a city with history like #Edinburgh , #Glasgow or #Liverpool.

The Church of England has ruled that an Irish-language inscription on a Coventry gravestone must have a translation with it to ensure the phrase is not mistaken as being a political statement.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/church-of-england-rules-irish-inscription-on-grave-stone-must-have-translation-1.4269053

This itself is a horrifyingly political statement! It says "through centuries of political turmoil and suffering that we inflicted on you, English people removed so many uses of your language that the only ones left are, we must assume, hostile to us."

really makes you think

I'm 37 and my wife just turned 41

so

we're in our primes

Bolsonarista representative Douglas Garcia is circulating a PDF doxing about a thousand ‘antifa terrorists’ – anything from teachers and musicians to teenagers and social workers, anybody who follow an antifascist account on instagram or added a slogan to their facebook photo.

The list reveals personal information including address, place of work etc. and appears to have been compiled with state resources. Violent repression by bolsonaristas is likely.

#Brazil

'Critical Bard Presents BlackAF Roundtable: A genuine chat between black creators about the realities of racism in the TTRPG community'

Today at 11am PST / 2PM EST

https://twitter.com/CriticalBard/status/1268531843315441664?s=20

#anarchy
#capitalistpropaganda

Just learned that George Floyd was a part of the legendary group Screwed Up Click back in the 90s. Billboard’s got a good summary of his career and links to several of his songs. https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/9391100/george-floyd-screwed-up-click-rapper

While we protest his horrific death at the hands of police brutality, I also want to learn about his life and celebrate it. Black lives matter, and his black life matters.

Dil Green: "money is currently issued as debt, so more has to be paid back than was issued – therefore ordinary people has to pay back more than they receive, due to interest. Ultimately, this is borne by the natural world. An ever-expanding money system requires ever-expanding extraction from the biosphere."
https://www.lowimpact.org/alternative-money-system-tim-jenkin-matthew-slater-dil-green/

Everyone is outraged that Zoom's coming end-to-end encryption tech is only for paid users, but nobody seems to care that they claimed they already _had_ end-to-end encryption all along until someone checked.