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election cycle

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*spends all of my time alone* perfect! but why am i crazy

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Ecosia, a search engine similar to Google, has committed to planting 1 million additional trees - in Brazil.

As a response to Bolsonaro’s policies, Ecosia, which plants trees with every internet search, has announced its commitment to plant more trees than it usually does over the next six months in Brazil. 

According to this article by the Ecosia blog, since Bolsonaro’s rise to power six months ago, deforestation in Brazil has increased by a staggering 84%. Supporting the country’s ruralistas, Brazil’s current government is strengthening the agricultural sector, even in legally protected areas. 

“With these additional one million trees in Brazil, we are setting a sign: another world is possible and we will not back down in our efforts to make it a reality”, says Ecosia CEO, Christian Kroll.

Ecosia are expanding an “already successful” partnership with PACTO Mata Atlântica for this project. 

“The Atlantic Forest is a unique biodiversity hotspot that Ecosia wants to protect and help regenerate”, says Pieter van Midwoud, Tree-Planting Officer at Ecosia.

“I trust PACTO and all the organizations therein to continue doing great work”, says Pieter. More than 10 separate groups will come together to plant the million additional trees.

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People who are old enough to remember ad free YouTube, FB, Twitter and Instagram believing that capitalism drives innovation are fucking hilarious.

Like, all of those platforms were still profitable...massively profitable before they had targeted ads on your feed and unskippable ads before videos. They didn’t need to bring them in. They weren’t going to go under, their CEOs weren’t living in the backseats of their cars, they were living in mansions already. They just wanted more money.

Greed was the only reason. Capitalism is the reason they made their platforms and the user experience worse. That’s it.

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if a building has been left vacant for a year it should be seized via a council of local people and put to a use of their choosing

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TIL that sarper duman, aka the piano cat guy, is an enthusiastic cat dad who rescues and cares for injured stray cats in istanbul. 

“i always play piano at my home almost every night and whenever i sit to play, all my cats come around, they hang out with me and they love to sleep around the piano.”

“they are peaceful, i am more at peace thanks to them”

one of his cats is blind. "his happiest moment is at the window. listening to the birds, getting fresh air is our favorite activity. i hang out an hour every day at the window with my angel.“

there are currently 19 cats living in his home and he started a fundraiser to help cover their medical costs. 

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ha! he fell for gender

oldest trick in the book

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How anarchist organizers in rural Puerto Rico rebooted their power grid after the privatized power company abandoned them

After being hammered by hurricane Maria, the residents of the rural Puerto Rican mountain town of Mariana got tired of waiting for the bumbling, privatized, cash-starved power authority to reconnect them to the grid, so the anarchist organizer Christine Nieves founded Proyecto de Apoyo Mutuo, one of a dozen-odd cooperatives across the island to create their own solar grid; by the time the The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority finally put in appearance, Mariana had had power for two whole months.

After Maria, Puerto Rico suffered the second-longest blackout in world history, ignored by both the federal government and the gutted, heavily privatized local government. So community organizers like Nieves took matters into their own hands.

Nieves’s group formed an alliance with the Katrina-inspired Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, which fundraised to send gear to Puerto Rico.

The island-wide efforts are rare bright spots in a year-long crisis with no end in sight. Naturally, they’ve faced police harassment and raids looking for “antifa.”

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/13/better-than-bounty.html