Charlie 's avatar

Charlie

@charliemb.bsky.social

74 followers 362 following 446 posts

as i tumble from the precipice, clutching my mobile, fumbling to fire off one last text, i realize, 'huh, the luddites were actually on to something.'
About the banner pic. Paddling the Chilco in B.C.

Reposted by Charlie

Anil Dash's avatar Anil Dash @anildash.com
[ View ]

In case you’re not willing to believe they’re hell-bent on enabling the fascists

10 replies 43 reposts 168 likes

Reposted by Charlie

John Pfaff's avatar John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social
[ View ]

Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

14 replies 592 reposts 1466 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Jim Zub's avatar Jim Zub @jimzub.bsky.social
[ View ]

This photo is pure 2024.

33 replies 1131 reposts 4028 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Reposted by Charlie

Ann M. Lipton's avatar Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social
[ View ]

This is marvelous. Class action alleges Walmart systematically puts one price on the shelf, and charges a little more at the cash register. Walmart claims consumers can see the prices actually charged, so no harm. CA7 rejects.
www.law360.com/securities/a...

10 replies 72 reposts 179 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Anna Meier's avatar Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social
[ View ]

"UEA, City University London and Cranfield University all admitted to sharing student personal data with police forces. Cranfield also referred up to four students to Prevent, according to the findings."

1 replies 11 reposts 17 likes

Reposted by Charlie

manu chander (he/him)'s avatar manu chander (he/him) @profchander.bsky.social
[ View ]

“It’s an unendurable life,” said Anwar Salman, a displaced Palestinian. “If they want to kill us, let them do it. Let them drop a nuclear bomb and finish us. We are fed up. We are tired. We are dying every day.”

0 replies 9 reposts 10 likes

Charlie 's avatar Charlie @charliemb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Watching Democrat Inc. blame potential customers for not wanting to purchase their obsolete product is crazy. If people don't like your product, build a better product. Don't point to the competition & say, "They suck worse!" Then again Ive worked with real humans, with actual expectations.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Kevin Elliott's avatar Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social
[ View ]

Seems like Kant endorses the principle underlying 'cancelling' people for being vile

3 replies 9 reposts 42 likes

Reposted by Charlie

The Intercept's avatar The Intercept @theintercept.com
[ View ]

We chatted with author Nathan Thrall about his Pulitzer-winning book that tells the story of one Palestinian family living under Israel occupation.

1 replies 6 reposts 9 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Charlie 's avatar Charlie @charliemb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Another brave soul who escaped the clutches of the science cult speaks.

0 replies 0 reposts 5 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
[ View ]

Jesus. Automated enforcement advocates really underestimate the potential for abuse with these cameras. The amount of information they collect is staggering, as is the ability to piece it all together to meticulously track individual people.

reason.com/2024/07/01/s...

27 replies 234 reposts 464 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
[ View ]

Plus you have the locally grown Frenemies of Science! There’s a great book on fossil fuel funded disinformation in Canada I highly recommend.

2 replies 8 reposts 39 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
[ View ]

Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

19 replies 406 reposts 977 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
[ View ]

It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists.

See:

14 replies 190 reposts 679 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Bruno J. Navarro's avatar Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social
[ View ]

She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

14 replies 282 reposts 559 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Director, Basque Space Program's avatar Director, Basque Space Program @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
[ View ]

This is your enemy. His pinned post is unhinged racist trash, but he is serious about the agenda

23 replies 121 reposts 553 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
[ View ]

They also coordinated funds to Clarence Thomas and probably others on the Supreme Court. They are thoroughly corrupt and horribly powerful. In short, if you want a villain to go after, it's Heritage and all its shell groups.

2 replies 62 reposts 408 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
[ View ]

This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.

49 replies 636 reposts 1675 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Laura Helmuth's avatar Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social
[ View ]

A tragically common cause of death before pasteurization was food poisoning in children who were being weaned and starting to drink cow's milk. Pasteurization is one of the greatest public health successes in the history of the world, and now it's protecting us from H5N1 bird flu 🧪

17 replies 249 reposts 859 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦's avatar Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 @bellwhitworth.bsky.social
[ View ]

Health care 💩
Education 💩
Seniors 💩
Autistic children 💩
Disabled 💩
Homeless 💩
Poverty 💩
Developers 💰💰💰💰💰💰

#NeverVoteConservative 🤬

2 replies 10 reposts 22 likes

Charlie 's avatar Charlie @charliemb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Climate disasters will be the ultimate in Disaster Capitalism. The rich simply need to neuter liberals from interceding while the world burns. Fortress North America has been in the works for decades and a well fed population in North America isn't about to revolt to stop it.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Charlie 's avatar Charlie @charliemb.bsky.social
[ View ]

for a tiny minority, climate change isn't a disaster to be averted, it's an opportunity to be embraced. Safe within fortress N. A. they will arm the world, make billions, sit back & watch as Europe is overwhelmed by climate migrants, Asia consumed by regional rivalries etc.

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
[ View ]

Westminster Voting Intention [16-17 Year Olds]: LAB: 39% RFM: 23% GRN: 18% LDM: 9% CON: 5% Via JLPartnersPolls.

9 replies 7 reposts 29 likes

Charlie 's avatar Charlie @charliemb.bsky.social
[ View ]

For the richest people on the planet culture wars are a loss leader, a way to attract the masses & provide legitimacy for their coup. The rich have no intention of paying for the damage they're doing to ecosystem or the mass-migrations to come.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Charlie 's avatar Charlie @charliemb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Liberals seem consumed by culture wars while conservatives are preparing for the upheaval of climate change, building an administrative fortress, controlling all the levers of power, to protect their wealth. Denying climate change doesn't mean they don't believe it's not happening.

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Charlie

🤖 AP Breaking News (unofficial)'s avatar 🤖 AP Breaking News (unofficial) @ap-bot.bsky.social
[ View ]

BREAKING: Hurricane Beryl grows to Category 5 strength as it razes southeast Caribbean islands.

0 replies 10 reposts 16 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Taniel 's avatar Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
[ View ]

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

19 replies 506 reposts 1706 likes

Charlie 's avatar Charlie @charliemb.bsky.social
[ View ]

This just feels like the ultimate foreshadowing:
"Since you stupid humans just don't get it..."

Hurricane Beryl's 150 mph winds bring ‘extremely dangerous’ threat to Caribbean Islands www.npr.org/2024/07/01/n...

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Charlie

NPR's avatar NPR @npr.org
[ View ]

“Potentially catastrophic wind damage is expected" in parts of the Windward Islands near the storm's core, the National Hurricane Center said.

2 replies 16 reposts 33 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Spencer Ackerman's avatar Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social
[ View ]

At least there's no War on Terror-built surveillance and detention apparatus for an elected American Emperor to wield. Really good we dismantled all that long ago. Oh wait

7 replies 45 reposts 168 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Reposted by Charlie

Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
[ View ]

The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

25 replies 523 reposts 1424 likes

Charlie 's avatar Charlie @charliemb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Environmentally speaking, a MAGA America means a MAGA climate, & that will be an unmitigated disaster for the very poorest, most vulnerable people in the world. The consequences will echo for centuries.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Charlie 's avatar Charlie @charliemb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Don't worry, his administration will be too busy going after scientists, shutting down research, and muzzling a academics, & gutting green energy initiatives for the first couple of years to worry about dissent from commoners

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Madhusudan 🦉 Katti's avatar Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.bsky.social
[ View ]

It is enormously frustrating to know, as an evolutionary biologist with experience from the trenches of the creationist wars on science, that nobody on Biden’s team nor CNN’s seem to be aware of the Gish Gallop, 30y after Eugenie Scott described it and years of Trump deploying it!

13 replies 119 reposts 352 likes

Reposted by Charlie

's avatar @mjk4mj.bsky.social
[ View ]

The New York Times and numerous columnists who write for it haven't called for the rapist convicted felon fraudster to drop out. NYT is right-wing garbage. They gave the Nazi, Musk a platform to curse out companies who didn't want their ads next to Nazi content. bsky.app/profile/numb...

0 replies 15 reposts 68 likes

Charlie 's avatar Charlie @charliemb.bsky.social
[ View ]

People treated climate science as doomsayers' prophesies because oil companies lied to the world. But it was always going to happen if we didn't change. Now the question becomes, "How bad is it?"

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Scott's avatar Scott @smadin.net
[ View ]

and even if someone thinks "well I don't like/look at porn so why should it be a priority for me?" it's important to remember that when christofascists say "porn" they also mean age-appropriate comprehensive sex education, media with queer/trans people in it, and picture books about gay penguins.

26 replies 1210 reposts 2630 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Reposted by Charlie

Reposted by Charlie

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's avatar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
[ View ]

"Gaza’s remaining hospitals, health centers and oxygen stations will stop working within 48 hours...Israel’s closure of the vital Rafah border crossing last month severed key supply lines, limiting access to food, fuel and medical supplies, aid groups say."

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

3 replies 185 reposts 180 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Reposted by Charlie

Taniel 's avatar Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
[ View ]

It's Election Day in France! The 1st round of the parliamentary elections Macron called just 3 weeks ago. Last polls close at 8pm local time (2pm ET). Exit polls, estimates, first results will drop immediately; so buckle up, follow this space. What to watch?

1 replies 22 reposts 53 likes

Reposted by Charlie

Mar Hicks's avatar Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social
[ View ]

If you care about the way AI is steamrolling environmental concerns you might be interested in this (free, online) conference happening in July—program just posted, and link to register: uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-t...

4 replies 133 reposts 207 likes