AI datacentres deserve scrutiny. But if we are serious about water scarcity and climate damage, we cannot keep ignoring the cow in the room.

Veronika did not prove cows are intelligent. She proved we have been wilfully blind.

“The water footprint of any animal product is larger than the water footprint of crop products with equivalent nutritional value.” (Mekonnen and Hoekstra, “A Global Assessment of the Water Footprint of Farm Animal Products”, Ecosystems 15, 2012)

Data center emissions are increasingly going to be a problem, but I think it's important to actually understand the numbers involved here. AI data centers emitted an estimated 32.6-79.7 million tons of CO2 in 2025 (de Vries-Gao, Patterns 2026). (1/4)

To celebrate the birth of a saviour by dining down on the flesh of cruelly massacred individuals; to wish for peace on earth whilst waging eternal violence upon sentient fellow beings, exemplifies an exceptional level of hypocrisy & gross sanctimonious ignorance.

We are #OneBillionScreams

"They were throwing people’s medicine in the bin in front of them and laughing in their faces."

In a world where my industry wasn't so fucked this might win a Pulitzer. As is, I doubt it will. Please listen to these brave doctors and this phenomenal piece of journalism. revealnews.org/podcast/gaza...

zero prevent surprised to read they are roundly abusing greta thunberg while she’s in detention but making her kiss the israeli flag is just sick. what sick people.

“Where in the world is this allowed to happen?”

From on the ground in Gaza, UNICEF Spokesman James Elder tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the worst things he’s seen — including children targeted by quadcopters and shot at American aid sites.

Watch: zeteo.com/p/unicef-gaz...

The Global Sumud Flotilla is currently some 150 nautical miles from Gaza.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

"We are not here to drop the aid and go home and pat ourselves on the back. We are here to establish a humanitarian corridor for states themselves to assume their responsibilities."

it's good that people stood up for press freedom here, unquestionably. But I fear that the attention span is limited only to when celebrities and white dudes are impacted. Trump has been censoring nonprofits from mentioning trans people illegally all year, but no one cares when it's trans people.

“Little Red Barns”: Author Will Potter on How Industrial Animal Agriculture Breeds Authoritarianism
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/little_red_barns_author_will_potter

They’re talking about trans people just like the Nazi party did about Jews (and trans people for that matter). They also talk about democrats the same way the Nazis talked about alleged communists.

At a certain point mainstream democrats need to realize that compromise is no longer possible

Global Sumud Flotilla Vows to Keep Sailing to Gaza; Israeli Drones Accused of Striking Two Boats https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/11/global_sumud_flotilla_breaking_gaza_siege

People are scared, they're grabbing on to Newsom, and frankly it's pathetic.

Stand up. Have literally any beliefs or values. Meet the moment.

Over the past 16 months, @thenation.com has published regular dispatches from Lujayn, a teenager in the Gaza Strip. Lujayn has endured huge loss and trauma. Now she, along with the rest of Gaza, is starving. But she is still writing.

This is her latest. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces.
Pressure their foreign ministries and help us keep them safe!
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