Scientists devise a new, relatable measure of climate change: "outdoor days”
Sarah DeWeerdt on "outdoor days" as a new type of climate forecast.
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Report: Plastics, Oil Industry Deceived Public on Recycling Use for More Than 50 Years
“Plastics manufacturers and industry groups, including some of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, have spent more than 50 years funding and pushing plastics recycling in order to stave off regulatory action – all while knowing that only a small fraction of plastic waste could ever be recycled.”
Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
Anti-colonial raced capitalism in Malaysia: Contested logics, gendered repertoires | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Josie Fanon and her fidelity to Palestinian liberation
Loukanikos, the Greek anarchist dog, photo gallery
A Year of War Without End
Intimate Authoritarianism
Successful indigenous Christian anarchism in Taiwan
There’s an indigenous group in Taiwan that adapted Christianity and became anarchists as a result because the New Testament made anarchism seem pretty cool
On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk
Arundhati Roy: The dismantling of democracy in India will affect the whole world
The pandemic isn’t over—and queer people shouldn’t be acting like it is
FYMA: A Lesser Key by Ezra Rose
after half a year of work, my academic zine on the history of antisemitism & appropriation in western occult movements is done 🖤 a 22-page PDF full of citations, illustrated with historic & public domain images, pay-what-you-want (or FREE!)
Regenerative agriculture needs a reckoning
Skin in the Game
German memory culture, anti-Semitic Zionists and Palestinian liberation
The Debt We Owe Edward Said
Finding Revolutionary Love in a World of Profound Alienation
Unionized Auto Workers Are Taking on a Three-Headed Behemoth of Big Capital
Mistranslating the movement: Language is being weaponized to malign the Palestinian liberation movement and justify an ongoing genocide. — Respond Crisis Translation
Against Grief as Political Currency
"Under ordinary circumstances, we consider grief a personal and private response to loss, an inherent fact of life. When loss happens at a sociopolitical level, however, we feel compelled to politicize grief."
Influencer Parents and The Kids Who Had Their Childhood Made Into Content
A YouTube star who went viral as a toddler talks about the resentment she feels toward her parents, who told her she had to keep making videos so they could maintain their lifestyle. Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content.
Claire, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, has never known a life that doesn’t include a camera being pointed in her direction. The first time she went viral, she was a toddler. When the family’s channel started to rake in the views, Claire says both her parents left their jobs because the revenue from the YouTube channel was enough to support the family and to land them a nicer house and new car. “That’s not fair that I have to support everyone,” she said. “I try not to be resentful but I kind of [am].” Once, she told her dad she didn’t want to do YouTube videos anymore and he told her they would have to move out of their house and her parents would have to go back to work, leaving no money for “nice things.”
When the family is together, the YouTube channel is what they talk about. Claire says her father has told her he may be her father, but he’s also her boss. “It’s a lot of pressure,” she said. When Claire turns 18 and can move out on her own, she’s considering going no-contact with her parents. Once she doesn’t live with them anymore, she plans to speak out publicly about being the star of a YouTube channel. She’ll even use her real name. Claire wants people to know how her childhood was overshadowed by social media stardom that she didn’t choose. And she wants her parents to know: “nothing they do now is going to take back the years of work I had to put in.”
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Moving Towards Life | Los Angeles Review of Books
The land fights, too
A poem on steadfastness written amid the Gaza genocide by Nour Khalil Abu Shammala
The earth yields its fruit,
Defying siege and hunger,
Defying the occupation.
Tomatoes sprout,
Peppers and eggplants,
Despite cut-off water,
Despite forbidden shells.
Mint and basil’s fragrance wafts,
The scent of homeland
In the land of peace.
Despite the tents’ heat,
Children’s displacement,
And loss of dreams,
The earth yields its fruits,
Feeding its children,
North and south,
Refusing starvation.
The earth brings forth vegetables,
And fruits,
Watered by martyrs’ blood.
It fights with its soil,
Holding warriors’ remnants,
Steadfast in death,
Defying weapons,
Defying steel.
Our people plant,
And eat from our land’s soil.
The earth fights side by side,
With its sea, with its brave resisters.
It grows patience,
Quelling children’s hunger,
Silencing mothers’ tears,
Easing men’s burdens.
Only in Gaza,
The earth fights alongside its people.
Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work
“Despite this stark failure, the plastics industry has waged a decades-long campaign to perpetuate the myth that the material is recyclable.”
American Nepo Babies Have Nothing on the British
Nepotism in the UK differs to nepotism in the US in the same way that Ricky Gervais’ The Office differs to Steve Carrell’s: It’s subtler, nastier, and arguably more effective in achieving its aims
Say Your Prayers, Conservatives! Prison Abolitionists Are Reclaiming Faith.
Perspectives of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish organisers working to dismantle the US prison industrial complex, 2021
Bigotry and Nationalism Launched Nazi Book Burning - EveryLibrary Action
Being Radical is a Skill
An Ethiopian Anarchist Perspective on the War in Tigray