The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics.
This is an amazing read about resistance.
So many amazing lines in this piece, but one that stands out:
"We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock."
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
This is an amazing read about resistance.
So many amazing lines in this piece, but one that stands out:
"We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock."
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
The best thing you will read today, if not this month.
This is an amazing read about resistance.
So many amazing lines in this piece, but one that stands out:
"We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock."
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
you *must* read the Battle of the Dildo at the Minneapolis Graduate Hotel (where ICE is lodging):
"The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics. It arrived in a cardboard box full of clearance-bin dildos, under purple neon light." 🤣
one of the most beautiful things I've ever read
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
you *must* read the Battle of the Dildo at the Minneapolis Graduate Hotel (where ICE is lodging):
"The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics. It arrived in a cardboard box full of clearance-bin dildos, under purple neon light." 🤣
one of the most beautiful things I've ever read
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
you *must* read the Battle of the Dildo at the Minneapolis Graduate Hotel (where ICE is lodging):
"The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics. It arrived in a cardboard box full of clearance-bin dildos, under purple neon light." 🤣
one of the most beautiful things I've ever read
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
"While we didn’t shut down ICE that night, we did show that their power collapses the moment it’s confronted with absurdity.
We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock.
...
You can’t baton your way out of satire. You can’t gas a punchline. And you absolutely cannot maintain authority while tear-gassing people over a rubber dick."
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
you *must* read the Battle of the Dildo at the Minneapolis Graduate Hotel (where ICE is lodging):
"The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics. It arrived in a cardboard box full of clearance-bin dildos, under purple neon light." 🤣
one of the most beautiful things I've ever read
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
This is an amazing read about resistance.
So many amazing lines in this piece, but one that stands out:
"We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock."
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
The 2025/26 State of Mozilla is an invitation: choose your future.
#Mozilla has published what I can only call as an exercise of violence disguised as a website. What. The fuck. Is this. There is NO ONE at the wheel here. All of this is fucking unserious, ridiculous and in some parts, plain gaslighting. I am sorry, but I'm moving out. What the fuck is this, a brainrot manifesto? Fuck GenAI seriously
“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from incredibly obvious LLM psychosis”
please “enjoy” the State of Mozilla, one of the least hinged things I’ve seen released with apparent pride by an established corporation: https://stateof.mozilla.org/
note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.
Mozilla: "We Choose Humanity."
Also Mozilla: "But let's keep talking about AI until we're blue in the face."
The saddest part is that the smartest marketing minds at Mozilla haven't figured out one simple truth: if Mozilla wants marketshare back, all it has to do at this point is completely REJECT everything AI. It's that simple.
#Mozilla has published what I can only call as an exercise of violence disguised as a website. What. The fuck. Is this. There is NO ONE at the wheel here. All of this is fucking unserious, ridiculous and in some parts, plain gaslighting. I am sorry, but I'm moving out. What the fuck is this, a brainrot manifesto? Fuck GenAI seriously
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
"If even the security services are gagged when they tell the government what it doesn’t want to hear, perhaps our communication style,or our modes of protest...are not, as we keep being told, the problem"
It's not a "comms" problem; it's a morality&power problem.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security
Interesting to see that the UK's National Security Committee (sat by the MI5, MI6 and GCHQ) compiled a giant report on the nat sec risks of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. It was supposed to be released last year but was held back for alteration as considered "too negative" and doomer for the UK public. But even the 'abridged' version will be sobering reading for many.
An emotionally charged Monbiot piece on it today:
The UK government didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’, it is the ultimate vindication
The UK govt didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I’m not surprised - George Monbiot
Don’t panic the Horses
The UK government didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I’m not surprised.
It might make you ask them hard questions about their support and subsidy for fossil fuel companies and chemical manufacturers.
One might almost think they expect to be dead before the rest of us seek to blame them.
#environment #climateChange ##maladminisration #UkPol #Monbiot
This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want ...
This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want ...
Don’t panic the Horses
The UK government didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I’m not surprised.
It might make you ask them hard questions about their support and subsidy for fossil fuel companies and chemical manufacturers.
One might almost think they expect to be dead before the rest of us seek to blame them.
#environment #climateChange ##maladminisration #UkPol #Monbiot
Interesting to see that the UK's National Security Committee (sat by the MI5, MI6 and GCHQ) compiled a giant report on the nat sec risks of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. It was supposed to be released last year but was held back for alteration as considered "too negative" and doomer for the UK public. But even the 'abridged' version will be sobering reading for many.
An emotionally charged Monbiot piece on it today:
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
"Green Bean had told me the same thing—that agents had come to her house, followed her when she left, and then blocked her vehicle and screamed at her to “stop fucking following us. This is your last warning.” Green Bean was able to laugh while retelling this. “I just stared at them until they left,” she said."
"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not."
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not."
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
"Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars"
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
On how books work as social signals.
And a cursed book.
Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
"Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars"
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
On how books work as social signals.
And a cursed book.
> The only reason why people would argue that you have to debate them if you find their declared favoured books distasteful is when they want to cross your boundaries and force something on you. It’s abuser logic. It’s also nonsense logic.
Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
> The only reason why people would argue that you have to debate them if you find their declared favoured books distasteful is when they want to cross your boundaries and force something on you. It’s abuser logic. It’s also nonsense logic.
An amazing coincidence involving five former Conservative MPs who have shambled over to Reform UK. Weird.
One of the problems about to confront ReformUK Ltd is the five senior Tories who have defected to Nigel Farage's corporation masquerading as a political party, is while they may claim they can do a better job for voters than the Tories, actually all five, as the Bear points out were not rebels in the party but part of various Tory cabinets that, if you are making that claim, 'broke Britain'!
Whether the UK's press will remind voters of that is another issue.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/britain-is-broken-no-one-knows-how
One of the problems about to confront ReformUK Ltd is the five senior Tories who have defected to Nigel Farage's corporation masquerading as a political party, is while they may claim they can do a better job for voters than the Tories, actually all five, as the Bear points out were not rebels in the party but part of various Tory cabinets that, if you are making that claim, 'broke Britain'!
Whether the UK's press will remind voters of that is another issue.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/britain-is-broken-no-one-knows-how
One of the problems about to confront ReformUK Ltd is the five senior Tories who have defected to Nigel Farage's corporation masquerading as a political party, is while they may claim they can do a better job for voters than the Tories, actually all five, as the Bear points out were not rebels in the party but part of various Tory cabinets that, if you are making that claim, 'broke Britain'!
Whether the UK's press will remind voters of that is another issue.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/britain-is-broken-no-one-knows-how
One of the problems about to confront ReformUK Ltd is the five senior Tories who have defected to Nigel Farage's corporation masquerading as a political party, is while they may claim they can do a better job for voters than the Tories, actually all five, as the Bear points out were not rebels in the party but part of various Tory cabinets that, if you are making that claim, 'broke Britain'!
Whether the UK's press will remind voters of that is another issue.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/britain-is-broken-no-one-knows-how
One of the problems about to confront ReformUK Ltd is the five senior Tories who have defected to Nigel Farage's corporation masquerading as a political party, is while they may claim they can do a better job for voters than the Tories, actually all five, as the Bear points out were not rebels in the party but part of various Tory cabinets that, if you are making that claim, 'broke Britain'!
Whether the UK's press will remind voters of that is another issue.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/britain-is-broken-no-one-knows-how
One of the problems about to confront ReformUK Ltd is the five senior Tories who have defected to Nigel Farage's corporation masquerading as a political party, is while they may claim they can do a better job for voters than the Tories, actually all five, as the Bear points out were not rebels in the party but part of various Tory cabinets that, if you are making that claim, 'broke Britain'!
Whether the UK's press will remind voters of that is another issue.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/britain-is-broken-no-one-knows-how
One of the problems about to confront ReformUK Ltd is the five senior Tories who have defected to Nigel Farage's corporation masquerading as a political party, is while they may claim they can do a better job for voters than the Tories, actually all five, as the Bear points out were not rebels in the party but part of various Tory cabinets that, if you are making that claim, 'broke Britain'!
Whether the UK's press will remind voters of that is another issue.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/britain-is-broken-no-one-knows-how
One of the problems about to confront ReformUK Ltd is the five senior Tories who have defected to Nigel Farage's corporation masquerading as a political party, is while they may claim they can do a better job for voters than the Tories, actually all five, as the Bear points out were not rebels in the party but part of various Tory cabinets that, if you are making that claim, 'broke Britain'!
Whether the UK's press will remind voters of that is another issue.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/britain-is-broken-no-one-knows-how
One of the problems about to confront ReformUK Ltd is the five senior Tories who have defected to Nigel Farage's corporation masquerading as a political party, is while they may claim they can do a better job for voters than the Tories, actually all five, as the Bear points out were not rebels in the party but part of various Tory cabinets that, if you are making that claim, 'broke Britain'!
Whether the UK's press will remind voters of that is another issue.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/britain-is-broken-no-one-knows-how
"..people who have violently spent years swinging a sledgehammer at a wall don’t usually get credit for accurately identifying the rubble"
The Bear
#ReformUK #ToryDefectors #UKPolitics
Britain Is Broken. No One Knows How. No One Was There.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/britain-is-broken-no-one-knows-how
We spoke to a Minneapolis organizer about the community-organizing infrastructure there in response to ICE, why targeting corporations that profit from ICE is working, and how other cities could do the same in their fight against ICE terror.
We zeroed in on hotels because we wanted to pick something that anyone, anywhere can immediately recognize: “There’s a Hilton near me. I could book a reservation and cancel it. I could leave a bad review on Booking.com.”
#uspol #ice
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/minneapolis-ice-occupation-organizing-resistance
We zeroed in on hotels because we wanted to pick something that anyone, anywhere can immediately recognize: “There’s a Hilton near me. I could book a reservation and cancel it. I could leave a bad review on Booking.com.”
#uspol #ice
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/minneapolis-ice-occupation-organizing-resistance
Another good read about the #Minnesota resistance, this one points to the #SunriseMovement
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/minneapolis-ice-occupation-organizing-resistance
"Starting in late November and early December, we decided to go in on a hotel campaign. We built extensive infrastructure to identify where ICE was staying, then started showing up in the middle of the night and making noise outside.
"The logic is simple: if you make noise outside hotels, ICE agents won’t want to stay there, and hotels won’t want to house them. If enough hotels don’t want to house ICE, then they don’t have somewhere to stay. It’s both about actual logistics and also socializing the idea that ordinary people are running institutions that support ICE to operate.
"I’m excited to do this for hotels but also to have people understand the logic enough that they start thinking about it everywhere ICE interacts: rental car companies, restaurants. It’s been working really well with hotels in general, and Hilton in particular."
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/minneapolis-ice-occupation-organizing-resistance
"Starting in late November and early December, we decided to go in on a hotel campaign. We built extensive infrastructure to identify where ICE was staying, then started showing up in the middle of the night and making noise outside.
"The logic is simple: if you make noise outside hotels, ICE agents won’t want to stay there, and hotels won’t want to house them. If enough hotels don’t want to house ICE, then they don’t have somewhere to stay. It’s both about actual logistics and also socializing the idea that ordinary people are running institutions that support ICE to operate.
"I’m excited to do this for hotels but also to have people understand the logic enough that they start thinking about it everywhere ICE interacts: rental car companies, restaurants. It’s been working really well with hotels in general, and Hilton in particular."
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/minneapolis-ice-occupation-organizing-resistance
Analysis: "Minneapolis Is Going on Offense Against ICE"
"The Twin Cities Sunrise Movement has pushed the resistance onto offense, targeting the Hilton hotels that quietly house ICE agents."
This campaign got "a local Hilton to refuse service to ICE" (temporarily).
"ICE’s opponents can go on the offensive nationwide by pressuring companies like Hilton, Enterprise, & Home Depot to stop collaborating with the agency."
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/minneapolis-ice-occupation-organizing-resistance
"Starting in late November and early December, we decided to go in on a hotel campaign. We built extensive infrastructure to identify where ICE was staying, then started showing up in the middle of the night and making noise outside.
"The logic is simple: if you make noise outside hotels, ICE agents won’t want to stay there, and hotels won’t want to house them. If enough hotels don’t want to house ICE, then they don’t have somewhere to stay. It’s both about actual logistics and also socializing the idea that ordinary people are running institutions that support ICE to operate.
"I’m excited to do this for hotels but also to have people understand the logic enough that they start thinking about it everywhere ICE interacts: rental car companies, restaurants. It’s been working really well with hotels in general, and Hilton in particular."
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/minneapolis-ice-occupation-organizing-resistance
"Starting in late November and early December, we decided to go in on a hotel campaign. We built extensive infrastructure to identify where ICE was staying, then started showing up in the middle of the night and making noise outside.
"The logic is simple: if you make noise outside hotels, ICE agents won’t want to stay there, and hotels won’t want to house them. If enough hotels don’t want to house ICE, then they don’t have somewhere to stay. It’s both about actual logistics and also socializing the idea that ordinary people are running institutions that support ICE to operate.
"I’m excited to do this for hotels but also to have people understand the logic enough that they start thinking about it everywhere ICE interacts: rental car companies, restaurants. It’s been working really well with hotels in general, and Hilton in particular."
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/minneapolis-ice-occupation-organizing-resistance
Analysis: "Minneapolis Is Going on Offense Against ICE"
"The Twin Cities Sunrise Movement has pushed the resistance onto offense, targeting the Hilton hotels that quietly house ICE agents."
This campaign got "a local Hilton to refuse service to ICE" (temporarily).
"ICE’s opponents can go on the offensive nationwide by pressuring companies like Hilton, Enterprise, & Home Depot to stop collaborating with the agency."
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/minneapolis-ice-occupation-organizing-resistance
Analysis: "Minneapolis Is Going on Offense Against ICE"
"The Twin Cities Sunrise Movement has pushed the resistance onto offense, targeting the Hilton hotels that quietly house ICE agents."
This campaign got "a local Hilton to refuse service to ICE" (temporarily).
"ICE’s opponents can go on the offensive nationwide by pressuring companies like Hilton, Enterprise, & Home Depot to stop collaborating with the agency."
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/minneapolis-ice-occupation-organizing-resistance
#USPol #Europol #ICE #Minneapolis #fascism #racism .
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Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources. Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00246-z
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00246-z
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00246-z
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy:
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must r...
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00246-z
#ClimateDiary
Nah. Canada's economy* needs our Prime Minister to sell more fossil fuels.
(* Fossil fuel corporation profits)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must r...
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy:
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must r...
"We argue that the main focus of climate action in 2026 and beyond should be on accelerating the clean-energy revolution. And the rate at which clean energy displaces fossil fuels in the global economy should become the key measure of climate progress."
I have mixed feelings about this.
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must r...
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00246-z
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00246-z
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