#collapse is one thing after another breaking and not getting fixed
From: @shansterable
https://ohai.social/@shansterable/114248242771543445
#collapse is one thing after another breaking and not getting fixed
From: @shansterable
https://ohai.social/@shansterable/114248242771543445
The Unraveling: Zionism, October 7, and the Ongoing Nakba w/ Ilan Pappe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ujQ4xk4clM
The Zionist narrative is collapsing. From Gaza’s destruction to the West’s complicity, Historian Ilan Pappé unpacks the Nakba al-mustamirra (ongoing Nakba), Israeli genocide, and the urgent need for global solidarity to challenge apartheid and safeguard human rights. What does this mean for the future of Palestine—and the world?
Myanmar earthquake death toll could be between 10,000 and 100,000 people: USGS
What a bunch of morons...
#DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA #Codebase in Months, #Risking Benefits and System #Collapse
"Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in #COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
Musk pointed to data he allegedly pulled from the system that showed 150-year-olds in the US were receiving benefits, something that isn’t actually happening..."
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of climate change.
Antonio Turiel (in English) "Abandon All Hope: Dire Times for Europe" https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2025/03/29/abandon-all-hope-dire-times-for-europe/ #MAGA #EU #collapse #RearmEurope #energy #resources
Earth's storage of water in soil, lakes and rivers is dwindling. And it's especially bad for farming
In 2009, I had to cancel a scheduled keynote talk at the European Lisp Symposium (ELS) in Italy because I was due to be in surgery at that exact time for my thyroid cancer. (Surgery went well, and I've seemed thankfully free of it since.) They were kind enough to ask me to speak in Lisbon in 2010 instead. But I didn't at the time, in 2009, speak publicly about the surgery or the cancer. Instead I made a vague excuse about an illness in the family (not technically untrue) being the reason I couldn't do the talk.
On the evening before the surgery, I wrote a somewhat metaphorically cryptic post to my blog that I figured would at least capture my apprehension in case the surgery did not go well, or even if it did, I suppose. It's still interesting to have a window back into my thoughts.
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2009/05/over-edge.html?
Back to modern day, I do have a planned procedure (not tomorrow, not dire and far more routine, so not to worry, but please don't ask for additional details just now) that I've been reflecting about just a bit.
Though in all honesty, I and all of us are probably at more risk just walking around on the streets in our emerging fascism (here in the US, though other places are not exactly immune either), and that's on my mind all the time now as well. Any one of us could become an unperson, certainly anyone with decent ethics anyway, as that seems to almost be the criterion for who they're going after.
The tanka I wrote is not specific to one thing in particular, just the sum total of various such things that point to the ephemeral nature of each of our existences.
It's both frightening and infuriating to live in a society where we are at risk merely because of our very existence or nature being seen as a crime.
There may be some among us that don't feel at risk. I wish I could say that's good. But I worry it's obliviousness/denial, or privilege, or something darker, perhaps even being comforted by being on the winning side of bigotry. Maybe give it some thought, because I don't want people to be disempowered by what's afoot, but neither should they feel it's someone else's problem. We have real problems that need to really be addressed. It's a time to feel uncomfortable because no one should be comfortable with what's happening. It's a time for people to empathize and contribute to getting the world back onto an even keel.
Meanwhile we are all individually fragile, too. I had a philosophy class in which the professor told us we could not say with certainty that we would have lunch with someone tomorrow. The future is intrinsically less than certain, we're just talking degree here. But the things going on now are good cause to appreciate those we love, and make sure that we've got things in order in case things get wonky.
And even beyond the politics of the day, the state of climate is dire. I talk enough of that elsewhere, so won't belabor it, but its spectre is ever-present.
Still, it also makes it a time to live, not to put off living to some mythical future time when things will be better. (I wrote a different haiku about that earlier this evening as part of this same pondering.) Let's work toward creating a bright future, but let's also not fail to appreciate that today is all we know we have for sure. Make the best of it. And be the person you want others to remember fondly.
Quake #deathtoll in #Bangkok, more aftershocks expected
"A powerful #earthquake which struck #Myanmar on Fri afternoon resulted in 10 deaths, 16 injuries & 101 missing at three construction sites in Bangkok, including the #collapse of a 30-storey #government #building, according to Bangkok Deputy Governor Tavida Kamolvej.. #Aftershocks from the 7.7-magnitude earthquake which hit Myanmar on Fri will continue in #Thailand for one to two weeks, according to a seismologist"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2990417/quake-death-toll-in-bangkok-more-aftershocks-expected
Unprepared for disasters
"the "cell broadcast service (CBS) system", which allows #emergency weather & natural #disaster #warnings to be disseminated via mobile phone messages, is not yet active. Since 2004 BoxingDay tsunami, almost every govt has promised to launch a #CBS.. #collapse of e under-construction State Audit Office Building has raised concerns abt how e #public #project, built w tax money, was so easily destroyed.. Most importantly, #government must do more"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2990242/unprepared-for-disasters
time to sing and dance
grim times oft don't invite it
so we must insist
Arctic sea ice sets a historic record low maximum extent in 2025
Another one of those "the US has never ratified the treaty".
"Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed"
Abrupt sea level rise and Earth’s gradual pole shift reveal permanent hydrological regime changes in the 21st century
NYC will eventually have to abandon part of its water supply if it keeps getting saltier
#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingGoingBackToBedNotNews... #IT's #DefinitelyNotNews...
#This #GoingBackToBed #Thing is #Grrrreat; we're going to #TryThat #MoreOften...
In #TheUnlikelyEvent that #YouTube has a #Collapse while we're #InBed; we've #TakenPrecautions...
We #Recommend you #DoTheSame...
#BePrepared and #TryNot to #UpsetTheVolcano...
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South Korea wildfires become biggest on record as disaster chief points to ‘harsh reality’ of climate crisis