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I see you posted something online that didn’t also include the entire canon of collective human knowledge, so now I’m going to angrily reply
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mastodon 4.7.3Ecologist & Geographer @ Penn State University | Founding Editor of @briefecology@climatejustice.social | Featured in Nature, Clarkesworld Magazine, Area, Literary Geographies, and elsewhere
Interests include: #ecology #geography #forests #biodiversity #carbon #theory #rstats #writing #photography #socialism #anarchism #ecofiction #FOSS #unions #cycling #basketball
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This is the future the Tech CEOs want
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It’s time
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Call me paranoid but the main lackey of an authoritarian regime purging one fifth of military leadership ahead of a nationwide election seems not great
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The insidious thing about capitalist realism is that it instills in people this belief that our exploitative, unequal, unjust, competitive, and antagonistic society is the best we can get. That this is the only “real” option and anything else would be worse. But this is a deterministic cynicism that actually creates the conditions it claims are innate.
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You are not overreacting to the climate crisis. Your exhaustion from capitalist exploitation is not a personal failure. Your inability to meet society’s standards of perfection does not reflect your value. These are lies meant to keep us complacent so that the system’s machinery can continue.
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Guilty
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The Cop City struggle over the South River Forest in Atlanta should serve as a constant reminder that surveillance capitalism relies on ecological destruction. The growing network of Flock cameras and AI-powered monitoring lives on the back of data centers that heat the environment, waste water, spew emissions, pollute the soundscape, and worsen climate change. Destruction with one hand, criminalization with the other.
American capitalism is essentially pure grift at this point. Nearly every ad is either for sports gambling or AI, with a few weight loss drugs sprinkled in for good measure.
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RE: https://climatejustice.social/@briefecology/117337605876345514
This was a fascinating issue to put together. Waste is so ever-present in capitalist society that we rarely stop to think about what it actually is, or what it could be instead.
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Our latest issue is here! Life After Waste is a collection of essays, interview, fiction, and poetry, all exploring the concept of ecological waste from different perspectives.
Pick up a copy here
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https://www.briefecology.com/store/p/life-after-waste-brief-ecology-32
#Ecology #Sustainability #SolarPunk #Biodiversity #Conservation #Fiction #Poetry
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RE: https://climatejustice.social/@briefecology/117337605876345514
More scientific research is published now than at any previous point in history, and yet the majority of it never makes its way to the general public. This is only getting worse now that the billionaires have completely taken over legacy media. @briefecology@climatejustice.social is an attempt to improve this situation, by focusing on recent ecological research and exploring how to improve nature-society relations.
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Our latest issue is here! Life After Waste is a collection of essays, interview, fiction, and poetry, all exploring the concept of ecological waste from different perspectives.
Pick up a copy here
🌎 🚮 ♻️ 👇
https://www.briefecology.com/store/p/life-after-waste-brief-ecology-32
#Ecology #Sustainability #SolarPunk #Biodiversity #Conservation #Fiction #Poetry
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It would be pretty cool to have a fediverse version of ResearchGate. Someone should look into that. Someone with a lot more free time than me.
#fediverse #AcademicChatter #academia
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Can’t say this loud enough: Environmental issues are working class issues
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I think when the maga era is finally over and we’re able to fully quantify its effects, we’ll see it as one of the largest transfers of wealth from the working class to the wealthy in American history
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A better film would have axed the whole Christmas subplot, but it would’ve been a mistake
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Say what you will about this family but they all have a mean right jab
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Look all I’m saying is if you have a toxic manager you’ve got some options on how to deal with it
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Ok but this is sick actually
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The rest of the movie is actually just one long 80s montage of every square inch of this city
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Business idea: An arcade but it’s all just animal crossing
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Philosophical debate between not crazy and not giving a fuck I suppose
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“Error” - very helpful computer
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Damn all the telecommunications? Sounds bad
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Lmao blasted that radio
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Seriously whoever did the video effect coloring had a Vision™️
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So you guys are just normal, everyday criminals right?
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I too enjoy being a secret of time and space
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Normal family dynamics here
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If I know anything it’s that you can always trust a think tank in the desert
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Badass blazing out in LA on your bike with killer lighting
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Who sits at that computer behind her? Like why would that be there lol
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Wait but if the dog was inside...
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Yeah I always hate starting my day with the post apocalypse
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RE: https://retro.pizza/@CactuarJoe/117282512803721109
On one hand, I am far too busy to do a pre-watch of this and write up a spoiler-free, eco-horror analysis–treating the film far more seriously than it was ever intended–as a treat for the #Monsterdon community.
But on the other hand, I really want to.
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THIS SUNDAY at 9pm Eastern (that's 1am Monday UTC) it's #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party! Come watch a goofy monster movie with the nerds of the Fediverse!
This week we're watching STING OF DEATH (1965), an *extremely* goofy monster movie about a mutated jellyfish-man! Imagine if The Blood Waters of Doctor Z had no dignity and you'll have a decent feel for this movie.
The flick's available free with ads over on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/610699/sting-of-death
Or you can download form Archive.org over here: https://archive.org/details/sting-of-death-1080p
See you this Sunday!
#Movies #Cinema #Cinemastodon #Horror #scifi
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Goes Hard Shot Alert: Uzi with high heels
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*time for my interview sunglasses*
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How long has this guy just been sitting there watching security cameras?
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Cameraman went so hard on these LA skyline shots
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This is what I assume all radio stations look like everywhere
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Weirdest death scene tone ever
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If academia doesn’t workout I think I might give slimy 80s crime boss a try as a career path
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Ok but do we really care about that guy though?
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Fuck that car in particular
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This guy is not gonna let zombies, the apocalypse, or street clothes get in the way of his workout
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See they had a plan for that superman bit
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