As Frodo said: “I needed to save the Shire, and it has been saved; but not for me.” – An online fanfic by Softy8088: Complicated Relations, set within the My Little Pony universe. I’m making an attempt to cease the world from altering me.” I used to attribute the quote to Thoreau, however evidently was mistaken: it is actually from Ammon Hennacy. I have succeeded in changing the world to some extent, and I’m still trying to attain extra. At the identical time, I see how the use of nonfree software program, and digital dis-services, has modified others for the worse. Millions surrender their freedom and privateness without moving a muscle to guard it. They run freedom-denying software that snoops on them always. They let Facebook use them. They play nonfree video video games for hours, killing time which they might have used for one thing meaningful, and studying nothing except the best way to retreat from society. Even when they’d discover it hard work to resist these evils 100%, there are certainly elements they may simply resist. It positive seems like malicious expertise has changed them for the worse. Please do not let it change you! 27 September 2018 (Lists of supposed non-residents) Right-wingers are posting long lists of supposed non-residents who’re voting, introduced as proof there’s a giant downside of invalid voters. They are being sued by US residents whose names they falsely posted. 27 September 2018 (Land-based mostly birds susceptible to extinction) “Land-primarily based hen populations are becoming confined to nature reserves in some components of the world-raising the chance of global extinction-because of the lack of appropriate habitat.” 27 September 2018 (Prosecution for photographing a rally) Cambodia has pardoned Australia documentalist Ricketson on the recommendation of the tyrant that had him prosecuted, calling making images of a rally “spying”. This is a common ploy for governments enforcing unjust laws: prosecute someone, who’s in fact convicted, then pardon the victim. It serves to scare people into obeying the unjust legislation, while avoiding the odium that would comply with from keeping journalists in prison. 27 September 2018 (Prof. Blasey Ford to testify) Prof. Blasey Ford agreed to testify to the Senate on Thursday, however other details have not been agreed on. This consists of resembling whether or not they will call in some lawyer to speak with her (being too cowardly to take action themselves). 27 September 2018 (Cuts to Head Start and most cancers analysis) The bully’s saboteurs are going to chop Head Start and most cancers research to fund their prisons for immigrant minors. The article says “children”, however I’m fairly positive the prisoners range up by means of age 17. Some are kids, and some are teenagers. 25 September 2018 (Urgent: Fight towards voter-purging) Citizens of North Carolina: struggle towards Republican voter-purging. I am unable to check this, since I’m not from North Carolina and shouldn’t signal. If you discover that this petition cannot be signed with Javascript disabled fully, and can’t be signed with LibreJS lively, please email me (rms on the GNU project site) so I can delete it. When you signal, please unfold the word! 25 September 2018 (Bully-appointed federal choose) One of many bully’s appointed federal decide disregarded the info to make a partisan resolution in favor of right-wing counterprotestors. 25 September 2018 (Bully’s arrest coverage) The bully’s policy of arresting unauthorized immigrants if they go to court docket succeeds in scaring lots of them away from in search of safety in opposition to home violence. 25 September 2018 (Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline) It took the US State Department just one week to publish a sham environmental review of the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline. 25 September 2018 (Protests planned at Salesforce event) Protests are deliberate at the Salesforce annual occasion, demanding that the company stop serving the US border thugs. 25 September 2018 (Bully’s hush money) (satire) Trump Asks Why Kavanaugh Accuser Didn’t Just Immediately Request Hush Money. 25 September 2018 (Palestinian house life) Israelis Experience Palestinian Home Life in Virtual Reality. They see the house of a specific Palestinian household that volunteered for this. 25 September 2018 (Immigration judges ordered to be merciless) Sessions has ordered immigration judges to be merciless, strict, callous and merciless. 25 September 2018 (Kavanaugh’s Republican votes) The explanation Republicans intend to vote for Kavanaugh irrespective of what is that he’s a part of the same plutocratist group as four other proper-wing justices. They may turn the US into hell for all except the favored courses. 25 September 2018 (Uighurs in brainwashing camps) Pompeo condemned China for placing round 1,000,000 Uighurs in brainwashing camps. Another person called this “The pot calling the kettle black”, however that is not right. What Chine has finished is comparable to placing one million folks in Guantanamo. The US put solely a thousand people, total, in Guantanamo. Even right now it is possible to be worse than the US. When Pompeo talks about “stealing intellectual property”, he spreads confusion. That term invariably has that effect because it does not match reality. 25 September 2018 (Mainstream media coverage of hurricane) US mainstream media covered Hurricane Florence, however very hardly ever connected it to its human trigger. 25 September 2018 (Judge frees migrant-rescuing fishermen) An Italian decide freed the Tunisian fishermen, victims of the appropriate-wing try to criminalize the act of rescuing migrants from drowning. This may not finish the risk. Right-wingers trying to pervert justice never give up. 25 September 2018 (SCROTUS delay last Kavanaugh listening to) SCROTUS have delayed the final Kavanaugh hearing moderately than tell Ford “Too late!
There are places where it is acceptable to discover and to develop oil and gas assets, and there are places that are not appropriate. We’ll harm people, increase labor costs improperly, create disillusion and resentment, and destroy legitimate job standards by setting requirements that are not truly wanted for a given job.” –James R. Bright, Harvard Business School “Unsanctioned human experimentation is completely cyberpunk.” –Seele “Amongst folks who have totally given up on the longer term, political movements do not want to vow any desirable and real looking change.” –William Gibson “Take care, look after each other, and all the time be cautious of old males in a hurry, because they’ll sell out your future without thinking twice.” –Warren Ellis “The factor I like about it probably the most is, it means the system is beginning to collapse, and all the things is slowly breaking down. Think about what you’ve carried out.” –Warren Ellis, on the San Diego Comicon “Sometimes, the elegant implementation is a perform. I remember not having a very high opinion of it, but I believe that I should reread it earlier than I make any additional feedback about it. Proms labored their manner down incrementally from school gatherings to high school extravaganzas.
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Green – Color of democratic energy. When you get too comfy in wealthy-individuals land, in New York or Dubai, you might keep right here and belong to them.” –Molly Crabapple “When the world ends, I need my last aware thought to be, ”..the hell is that noise? The South Dakota Task Force to review Abortion was commissioned final 12 months by the state legislature to look at what has been realized about the observe of abortion because it was legalized by judicial fiat of the U.S. DNC employees are simply folks doing a job, not minions of Cobra Commander. A planet full of individuals have uttered exactly those words many times in the past.” –Anonymous Cow-orker and Bryce “Punk had a objective. I didn’t convey. But one of the issues, so we have two issues which can be coming up, Basically properly, here is the box. You’ll be reminded – by the media, even in case you are part of it, and by the people who make laws for you – that your physique constitutes the limits of your contributions.” –Melissa Gira Grant “You might be agender, bi-gender, cisgender, demigender, graygender, intergender, genderless, genderqueer or third gender – however by God, you’ll accept a label.” –Jemima Lewis (No, I will not.) “Expect the perfect, plan for the worst, fuck what others assume, and do your personal factor.” –Kavinsky “The Internet is for something you and, like, twenty different persons are keen about.