You're not apolitical; you choose to live a life wherein the suffering of other human beings is beneath your concern. You choose not to do something or say anything in order to privilege your individual comfort at all costs. To be "apolitical" is really a politics of selfishness.

Physical oceanographers make beautiful section plots that slice the ocean like a cake and show how temperature, salinity, oxygen, and many other variables change across an ocean basin. My reaction to this was, could we make a map like this of microbes? And if we did, would

The concern with #seaLevelRise as a result of #climateChange goes beyond the seas rising by 20 - 50 cm. #SaltwaterIntrusion into coastal aquifers threatens #drinkingwater resources for billions living near coasts and #agriculture on fertile coastal lands https://t.co/DvMtkcohSe

This year, @ProPublica has been looking into the impacts of cities increasingly removing or “sweeping” encampments. We spoke with 135 people who had experienced sweeps. We also distributed notecards so people could write about it in their own words. 🧵

read our paper on why the very idea of “AI welfare” is metaphysically and ethically hollow and it legally benefits powerful bodies that develop and deploy AI while further dehumanising people at the receiving end of algorithmic injustice https://t.co/vvqdHwPrKj

Images like this make sending people to prison for splashing some soup on glass look completely ridiculous.

and it’s not even close

my god how are we supposed to live with the knowledge that this is happening.

Roll, roll, contemplate nature, roll

My politics are where I don’t like to see the governor of California steal someone’s tent or wheelchair. What’s that political party

"What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping?" Interviews from the clearing of homeless encampments in Albuquerque

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Fireworks should be banned. It’s absurd that people can just buy little toxic bombs at the grocery store. Hate that shit

https://t.co/CO5MTXeh2r

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled today that cities can punish unhoused people for sleeping in public, even if they have nowhere else to go.  We cannot arrest our way out of homelessness.

One year on, the CIA is still deeply hurt and angry that the Taliban uprooted all their opium poppies and burned all their heroin labs, as is evident from this bitter screed from the "United States Institute of Peace" condemning Afghanistan's drug ban https://t.co/BrsBRI2l1y

Really interested in this "Target" guy, does he have a campaign I can donate to