The Nation is working to nominate the city of Minneapolis and its people for the Nobel Peace Prize.
#Resist #Minneapolis #NobelPeacePrizehttps://www.thenation.com/article/activism/the-nation-nominates-minneapolis-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/
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@odaraia@mastodon.green
mastodon 4.7.3Visual artist, amateur musician, volunteer naturalist, contemplates biocenosis, cooking and sharing skills, lives and works on Salish Sea shores, unceded community land. Politics is my hobby. Who says you can’t have romance in a revolution? Planet Art is my studio; Thunder & Lightning Press is my printshop. Header image: crows at Carkeek Park, Seattle in winter trees. Once a strange visitor from another social media platform 58k tweets @odaraia@mastodon.green
#OccupyWorkplace #DontMakeMyCityAThemepark
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Art posts of my work and commentary since January 2014:
Weblog: <https://www.planetart.space/>
Studio site, work in progress, a catalogue raisonné of sorts:
Catalogs and commentary from pre 2014, hope to transfer soon:
Live journal <https://odaraia.livejournal.com/2008/03/03/>
Neglected since 2022:
Twitter <odaraia@twitter.com>
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@petergleick@fediscience.org Isn’t Rubio running Venezuela? And planning the invasion of Cuba? Now ICC? What kind of diplomacy is this?
Drizzle on shuttle window from Skidegate ferry dock to Sandspit Airport Haida Gwaii, Canada
#SilentSunday #HaidaGwaii
“Bordeaux has turned a giant exhibition centre into an emergency shelter for evacuees, providing camp beds and food …” sounds like New Orleans circa 2005? Who’s Brownie?
#wildfires #France #Bordeaux
France wildfires creep toward wine city of Bordeaux | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/wildfires-bordeaux-evacuations-9.7284915
One of the more ridiculous attempts to destroy US public health and Americans’ faith in the science of epidemiology is Rand Paul’s continued insistence on the unscientific Wuhan lab theory of Covid origin. It’s rascist, seeks to impede international scientific research, questions airborne transmission of the disease, and reduces obvious public health measures such as increasing ventilation, isolation and mask wearing.
#AnthonyFauci #publichealth #3milliondead #COVID19
https://apnews.com/article/fauci-covid19-pandemic-senate-rand-paul-a774a79e46824ebec9e8e270b9cb9825?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
This site is brilliant, well organized, thorough and engaging. I had thought sticky notes were the Great Leap Forward, but the organization matches the significance of the content. Highly recommended. @sidereal@kolektiva.social
RE: @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green
I don't understand how the debate over Chaco Canyon sovereignty now becomes a justification for releasing the land to the deities of capitalism and industrial resource extraction. I've visited there, and it's clearly an important heritage site.
#ChacoCanyon #NewMexico #OakFlat
RE: @MatWright@mastodon.social
This conversation. Just last week visiting BC we noticed labor shortages in key areas where overworked people had simply walked off the job. Of course we see this because it’s even more obvious here in US, in the post office, grocery stores, government, utilities and especially medical services. Reports have shown the first DT administration hid the loss of 3 million people to COVID, in medicine, food and government. Still faking it.
#labor #medicine #essentialservices
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@xxv@mastodon.social It’s fun that this child likes and is following the
Moon. The moon is an amazing object for earth dwellers to consider its phases, disappearances and fullness. Tidal phenomena are also quite interesting. Do you ilve near a large body of water?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116913074878819665
“That a niche broadband option gets congestion normally wouldn’t be that big of a deal; the problem is Trump Republicans have hijacked and retooled the $42.5 billion infrastructure bill broadband grant program to throw billions of dollars — and millions of new customers — at Musk’s Starlink as a personal favor to one of the U.S. president’s biggest donors.”
#Starlink #congestionpricing #hijack #corruption #infrastructure
Big wet snowflakes in North Beach. Very quiet here. Glad I didn’t go out.
#FirstSnowofSeason #Ballard #Seattle #Snow
RE: @steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co
Well, duh! As I mentioned last week, fearful leader was distracted, busy trying to get into Studio 54 (the nightclub, not the film) during the Iran-Iraq war. One reason he’s so death to drugs is they were the price of admission to the club.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Favorite place for family vacations. We also had a visit, years ago to Drumheller excavation sites. Tyrell is a multi day visit.
War profiteering points to lucrative investment opportunities. Capitalists: adjust your portfolios accordingly.
#warisprofitable #ultimatecapitalism #boeing #RTX #NorthrupGrumman
I’m a fan of our Mayor Katie Wilson, and this sample of her talk to the corporate community is delicious. And Erica Barnett is at her best with some sneaky commentary, as her occupatio review of Abndance. Keynote speaker was coauthor Thompson.
#Seattle #MayorKatieWilson #Abundance
Incredible reporting on Democracy Now today. Lawrence Wilkerson and Kareem Shaheen journalist, plus Antonia Juhasz who reports on fossil fuel industry (I saw her years ago in Tacoma) and discusses the toxic war DT launched on Iran.
You won’t see this on MSM
#Iran #USA #Tehran #Bahrain #oil #war #warcrimes #Netanyahu #insidertrading #US #USArmy #nuclearweapons
https://www.democracynow.org/
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@TarkabarkaHolgy Thanks for the advice. Mutual aid and clever humorous projects help with pacing. Liberation is a process of multiple approaches. Despite sadistic pleasures of the oppressors, they wouldn’t be trying so hard if #BLM hadn’t been so in their faces. Remember, plumbing and sewers require maintenance.
#avoidburnout
Mystal: I feel like Anthropic just trying to keep plausible deniability for when, inevitably, its system is used in the most obviously egregious way. When Claude kills the “wrong” person (or, more likely, village full of people) the lawsuit [not only] at the US government; it will be company-wrecking litigation against Anthropic as well. I bet all of Claude’s venture capital funding the government will blame violent mishaps on Anthropic; not guys drunkenly running DOD.”
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And I wonder whether the promise of a luxury resort in Albania is cover for another industrial mining exploit there in Albania.
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@ytscorp@mstdn.social @petergleick@fediscience.org Rubio is in over his head: #incompetantdiplomacy He’s not adequately experienced as a bully, nor charming enough to pull off this whimsical approach.
#campaignbypressrelease
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @Blashkch@mastodon.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social this “locked shopping” experience and store staff bearing the brunt of income equality was actually addressed by our newly elected mayor in an interview discussing quality of life. Recently a large grocery chain store pulled out of a large working class neighborhood because “too much shoplifting.” I’ll edit in the interview link.
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@josephcox@infosec.exchange Kim Stanley Robinson featured the speculative gaming on wars in his “Mars” series (Red, Green and Blue)
This outcome is the most fair resolution to combine both plans for universal school meals and food assistance when school is out. Thanks to the mayor and council for prioritizing compassion and respect: as seen in some comments, this model of governance will stay with all our SPS students.
#universalschoolmeals #school #foodassistance #Seattle #SeattleCouncil #MayorKatieWilson
https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/seattle-city-council-oks-nearly-5m-for-free-school-meals/#comments
Arresting animal rights protestors and prosecuting them as “eco-terrorists” is one of the more sickening aspects of capitalism. In Wisconsin, Ridgland Farms beagle puppy mills are cruel: workers pull out their vocal chords because the dogs are caged, frightened and barking. They are likely to be culled since no labs want to purchase them. Local activists want to place the beagles in adoption.
#Wisconsin #animalrights #notestingonanimals
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/21/ridglan_farms_animal_rescue_robinson_dane4dogs
Thoughtful. The insistence of western powers on an eastern Mediterranean colony ruled by Likkud and the right appears to reflect early 20th C imperial fantasies and disrespect for human rights of the people living there, even including Immigrants lured from difficult and discouraging western countries. It’s time to revive the priorities of human rights protections in world diplomacy.
#Lebanon #Shia #Israel #Palestine #USA #BritishEmpire
https://open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/israel-latest-genocide-shia-lebanon?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios
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@MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk My father usually incorporated some what we would now call “hacks”into playing Monopoly with us as children. One was a periodic issue of “bonuses” of $500 bills when someone playing was losing and would be forced out. He had others less dramatic. For him the object was to keep playing the game.
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@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social And yet again use your own population, from whom you just removed EV system incentives and forced to pay tariff tax, as a cash stash to finance the cost of oil increases (“we’ll make lots of money!” says Greedy Nutkins) and your drunken, bloated war budget. Not to speak of war crimes and carbon burning climate chaos.
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@kevinrns@mstdn.social Check out my blog. It’s been powered by Ghost since the platform began: https://www.planetart.space/
My interest in Substack is as a subscriber. I don’t generate content there but read favorite journalists and political writers. It’s part of my alternatives to MSM, and I try to curate carefully.
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@david_megginson@mstdn.ca Not coming from a place of complete sarcasm, is this not paralleled in the destruction of numerous public monuments in Washington DC, including a public golf course park now covered by toxic debris from the demolition at the White House and the expanding algae in the Reflecting Pool? Had it not been for the resistance in Minneapolis, Chicago, New Jersey and Los Angeles, I dare say more arrests and abductions would have impacted US workers. #IndependenceDay2026
The death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo breaks my heart.
#ICE=slavepatrols #ICE=KKK #MeltICE#LorenzoSalgadoAraujohttps://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/doj-not-doing-justice?r=ct3l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Attended a very entertaining concert of Seattle Symphony this evening. The orchestra played with thoughtful energy and humor under the baton of Kevin John Edusei who returned to conduct a program celebrating the flamboyance and wit of two great Hungarian composers Kodaly and Liszt. Guest soloist Haochen Zhang performed Liszt’s high-spirited First Piano Concerto.
Program completed with Richard Strauss, Til Eulenspiegel. Recommended.
https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2025-2026/25sub13
Fascinating. Urban raccoons’ downside and kid friendly solution to flea infestation promoted. Especially responsible is the pesticide free regulation.
#Fairfax #park #barrierstrategies
RE: @AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social
Great #BackwardsCity nomination.