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Ruth Glendinning retweeted
The censorship algorithm has reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife advocacy group ?
You can help by retweeting, liking and following. If we're going to preserve what few wild places remain, we need you to get involved.
Ruth Glendinning retweeted
we don’t own the earth
don’t own the earth
we killing each other
over some lines in the dirt
we bleed the same blood
feel the same hurt
Palestinian life
does it have the same worth?
Ruth Glendinning retweeted
The most important reason for UBI, in my opinion, is to shift power dynamics in favor of the every day citizen.
We humans are at our best when we aren't dominatable, underleveraged, or desperate, and when we can express autonomy and agency in the pursuit our higher purpose and potential.
Automation is more importantly understood, in this context, as an accelerant to the disempowerment of people. It's less the impending loss of jobs that implies UBI, but rather the existing lack of power, felt by many millions, that demands it, and has done so for generations.
It's not a jobs thing; it's a wage slavery thing. It's not a robots thing, it's a human potential thing.
Automation only exacerbates the existing problem. There is no good reason to wait before implementing UBI.
My criticism of the automation-argument for Basic Income, "Why wait until the robots take our jobs? We need a basic income now" is out on OpenDemocracy, 23 September 2024
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@scottsantens @MichaelALewis10 @theUBIguy @MaxGhenis @azelleke @BasicIncomeOrg
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opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-…
Ruth Glendinning retweeted
Allred ads hit Cruz on the Border, Cancun, trying to gut Social Security/Medicare, and 30 other things and Cruz fights back with *checks notes* trans athletes
Ruth Glendinning retweeted
Unhoused people aren’t addicts and drunks. No, they are God’s children. They are human beings, like every one of us here. And my faith tradition is clear: it says they are precious in the sight of God.
Ruth Glendinning retweeted
Overrated things for happiness:
-Make of your car
-Brand of your watch
-Brand of your bag
-How many followers you have
-Your income
-Job title
Underrated things for happiness:
-Self respect
-Self awareness
-Positive attitude
-Purpose
-Fulfilment
-True friends
-Optimal health
Ruth Glendinning retweeted
BOOM: A Federal judge orders the release of who owns Twitter, and they're fronts for the dictatorships of Russia, China, Saudi, and others. Let's explore.🧵
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Ruth Glendinning retweeted
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong is such a good dude. The fact that he loathes Trump and MAGA fascism is just icing on the cake. 🙌👏👊🙏😊
Ruth Glendinning retweeted
Yes, @MichelleObama:
“She and my father didn’t aspire to be wealthy. In fact, they were suspicious of those who took more than they needed.
They understood that it wasn’t enough for their kids to thrive if everyone else around us was drowning.”
Ruth Glendinning retweeted
Just a reminder that if we had not let inequality grow since the 1970s to where it is now, right now the bottom 90% would be getting an additional $2.5 trillion a year share of our GDP, which is about 10% of our GDP. Instead, we let $50 trillion of GDP growth go to mostly the 1%.
Ruth Glendinning retweeted
'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like – such as reading to your little boy... keeps the Devil down in the hole.'
Nick Cave.
Ruth Glendinning retweeted
Unfuckingbelievable. The Heritage Foundation was hacked. What was discovered was that Trump's Nazification of America, Project 2025, is being sponsored by China. Now if Trump is in cahoots w/China to turn America into a fascist hellhole, what's he doing behind the scenes w/Putin?
