Elizabeth Liddle

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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.

Yes.

this is a good gauge for the key question of "is your leftism about solidarity and working with your fellows to build a better world, or is it fundamentally inward-looking and narcissistic"

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Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a useful tool to help human societies transition from a climate destructive economy to a green economy in a just way. @farhana.bsky.social @francescoppola.bsky.social @t0nyyates.bsky.social @columnist.bsky.social

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Like, I really don't think enough folks appreciate that the second term with that man would not look like the first four, or by just quite what distance it would be worse.

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Against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Against Assad’s war on his own people. Against Hamas’s terrorism on October 7. Against Netanyahu’s war crimes in Gaza. Against aggression - whoever does it and wherever it occurs.

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QOTD re: generative text AI: "I don't see why I should be bothered to read what nobody bothered to write"

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The city of #Karlsruhe uses light-rail vehicles and "tram-trains" to carry consumer goods between city-center hubs, which are then delivered by electric cargo bikes.

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Apropos of nothing, your regular reminder that Alcuin of York who came up with “vox populi, vox dei” in 798CE, delivered it as a warning that you should not listen to those who say the voice of the people is the voice of God because “the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.”

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And it's not like the data isn't there. I mean the IEA recently estimated that 1/3 of the global workforce can work from anywhere and that if they did work from home 3 days/week we would prevent 500k barrels of oil from being burnt *every* day.

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Dendrochronology xkcd.com/2847

Exactly.

I cannot stress enough how every single aspect of the Israeli response ignores every single lesson we've learned from the 9/11 wars. Broad military action against the entire nation is the single *worst* thing you can do morally AND strategically.

This is good on the mechanism of disinformation as a strategy generally

The upshot of the Jenna Ellis plea deal? An admission that the fraud claims were bullshit all the way down.

Analysis | The layers of falsehoods that led to Jenna Ellis’s plea dealwww.washingtonpost.com Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election was built on a foundation of confirmation bias and ignorance. His allies, most recently Jenna Ellis, are paying the price.

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It was a bright cold day in October, and the rejected-speaker-candidates counter was striking thirteen.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Republican party no longer in possession of a its senses or values, must be in want of a speaker.

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This quote has kind of rewired the way I see stuff happening

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Terrorism and war impact the innocent most greatly. Children do not have power, so we must exercise it with restraint when we know it will harm them.

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“I am calling for immediate de-escalation and ceasefire to save countless civilian lives, no matter their faith or ethnicity. Our government must lead with compassion for all civilians. War crimes cannot be answered with war crimes.” - Rep. Rashida Tlaib. tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-...

Tlaib Calls on Biden Administration to Do More to Save Civilian Lives - Rashida Tlaibtlaib.house.gov WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, Representative Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) released the following statement: “I am calling for immediate de-escalation and ceasefire to save countless civilian lives, no matter ...

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