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<p>Social oncologist. </p><p>I make small things.</p><p>Unapologetically anti-genocide.</p><p>Warning: May not fit your taxonomy.</p><p>From Gaza? If you need to get verified, please go here: <a href="https://gaza-verified.org/join/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">gaza-verified.org/join/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Want to donate to people in Gaza? Please see <a href="https://gaza-verified.org/donate/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">gaza-verified.org/donate/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (<a href="https://creativecommo

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    Enforcing artificial scarcity when we finally have the technological capability to become post-scarcity is what’s leading us into a future of true scarcity. And if you think artificial scarcity is bad; wait till you experience true scarcity. It’s not going to be fun. You think the petrol wars are bad? Wait till the water wars. All easily avoidable. But we’d clearly rather have billionaires than a sustainable future.

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    Tech bros are like “I built this!” Dude, you didn’t build diddly. The labour your capital captured built it; you just took credit and made sure the resulting work was kept out of the commons. The only thing you did was enclose human potential to benefit the few instead of the many. This is what capitalists do: they reduce human potential into a resource to be farmed within a zero-sum game, thus stealing from all the possible other futures of humanity.

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    Oh for fuck’s sake, people! Capitalism is an extinction threat. Corporations are an extinction threat. Militarism and religious lunacy are existential threats. Tech in the hands of, created for the purposes of, and being employed for the benefit of these institutions is an existential threat. No, the fancy autocomplete built on stolen labour isn’t going to bring about the end of the human race. But while your attention is being misdirected there, all those other things just might. Both directl...

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    We’re at the “evil is good, actually” stage of capitalism. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/rakVcO7hfT #capitalism #fascism #BigTech

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    RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/117347554230524111 It’s genocide complicity all the way down.

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    ‘Irish team entered the pitch wearing black armbands in recognition of &quot;all lives lost in the conflict’.” What do you call 11 Ed Sheerans chasing a ball? The Irish football team. https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2026/0927/1593093-first-half-goals-see-ireland-past-israel-in-debrecen/ #israel #ireland #football #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

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    I hope you never have to suffer from genocide while some toffs on the other side of the planet debate whether we should call it a genocide or not.

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@ron_swanson/117245613984042495 Ah, Germany… once a nation of genocide, always a nation of genocide, apparently. #germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #ICJ #Palestine #Gaza #FuckGermany #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

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    German “antifascism” #germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #ICJ #Palestine #Gaza #FuckGermany #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

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    Ireland: We support Palestine. World: Enough to forego a football match? Ireland: Now let’s not go crazy here. All words. No action. Sounds about right.

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    “In ‘The Last of Us’ universe, rising temperatures cause Cordyceps to evolve and adapt to human body temperatures. Concerningly, this somewhat parallels real life. Climate change is another risk factor for fungal diseases that has given rise to a worrisome pathogen. ‘What does concern me as an infectious disease physician is a relatively new fungus called Candida auris,’ says Roberts. ‘This fungus spreads person-to-person, which hasn’t really been reported before.’ First identified in 2009, the...

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    “As Benjamin Netanyahu boomed his tirade to the United Nations General Assembly, there were many things you could hear. Lies, obviously. Hatred, as you’d expect. But something else: the fall of the West. As an Israeli prime minister evading an arrest warrant took to the podium, a walkout organised by the Palestinian delegation began. Every country involved belonged to the Global South.” https://archive.is/20260926051556/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/26583834.benjamin-netanyahus-un-spee...

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    Without privacy, we are property. #privacy #humanRights

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    Ireland = Big Tech’s bitch EU = ? “AI: EU Member States plan ‘digital expropriation’ of Europeans in the interest of AI companies In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection. Use of personal data ‘in the context of AI’ should automatically be lawful. There seems to be wide informal agreement by many Member States. In pa...

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    “Israel is facing weeks of water shortages after an exceptional algae bloom crippled much of its desalination capacity, in a crisis scientists say was triggered when Israeli attacks destroyed much of Gaza’s wastewater infrastructure, causing a massive discharge of untreated sewage.” I’m gonna need a smaller fucking violin. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/24/israel-water-shortages-destruction-gaza-treatment-plants-pollution-sanitation-crisis #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apart...

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    Quoting a billionaire on social issues is like quoting a malignant tumour on cancer.

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    “Irish singer-songwriter Aaron Rowe has said the members of the Ireland men’s international football squad who play against Israel ‘will be remembered’ for their actions.” https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/you-will-be-remembered-singer-songwriter-aaron-rowe-sends-message-to-irish-footballers-ahead-of-israel-fixtures/a/161661780.html We’re about to find out who the Ed Sheerans of football are. #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #edSheeran #football #Ireland #...

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    RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/117292076738613718 Baron Watson of Wyre Forest joining Palantir, you say? To think, this cunt was fashioning himself as a defender of human rights in technology.

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    “I’m apolitical” = “I’m a privileged little asshole who doesn’t give a shit about anyone less fortunate than me because fuck you, I got mine.”

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117286578085548271 But don’t worry, they’re not religious fundamentalists or anything, no sir.

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    iPhone Duo: Because capitalism has officially run out of ideas.

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    RE: https://front-end.social/@hdv/117285970784191758 An idea to kick things off: Expel all surveillance capitalists from the W3C. Here are some off the top of my head that are actively working with authoritarian regimes to destroy human rights and democracy to start you off with: • Amazon • Oracle • Meta • Google • Microsoft • IBM • Softbank Thoughts? #W3C #humanRights

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    iPhone Duo: It’s twice the phone, for twice the price, in half the number of phones, or something, whatever, we really don’t care anymore, just give us your money so we can afford our Prozac.

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    And this is apparently what passes for journalism today. No, the raging Zionist Robert Kraft who rounded up a posse of stadium owners to cancel Macklemore for supporting Gaza during his set is *NOT* doubling Macklemore’s $1M donation to Gaza. Ed both-sides-on-genocide Sheeran asked Kraft “to match a $2m (£1.5m) donation to ‘aid in the region’” (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmp3073x6464o) “The region” is weaselspeak for Israel. If he does anything, he’s going to give more money to Israe...

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    “A group of pro-Israel lawyers is urging the UK government to label Doctors Without Borders a terrorist organisation over its work in Gaza.” https://novaramedia.com/2026/09/16/uk-lawyers-for-israel-want-doctors-without-borders-branded-a-terror-group/ Zionists are evil. It’s just that simple. There’s no nuance to this. And there’s no nuance to genocide. You either oppose these evil fuckers or you’re one of them. There is no middle ground. Pick your side and accept the consequences (and yes, no...

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    I don’t know who needs to hear this but you don’t have to be a saint to oppose injustice. You can be a regular, everyday person – flaws and all – and still oppose genocide. It’s amazing to me that a rapist, war criminal paedophile is president of the US and we’re ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths and yet anyone who opposes fascism has to have never made a mistake their entire lives or it’s a gotcha moment. You can fuck right off with that bullshit.

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    A man is repeatedly kicking a small child in the street. Fascist: urges the man on; maybe lands a few kicks themself. Apolitical/centrist: is neutral, watches; doesn’t take sides. Antifascist: punches the man in the face until he stops kicking the child. Just so you understand the differences.

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    Fuck Ed Sheeran, fuck Pink, fuck Robert Kraft/Kraft Group – #BDS. Thank you, Macklemore, and Free Palestine! *** “Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what...

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    “The El Nino has blossomed. It is off the charts. Usual measures of El Nino have blown past prior record levels in the period with good data, even though maximum effects are still several months in the future” https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2026/The.Bigger.Problem.2026.08.21.pdf You’ve heard of slowly boiling frogs? We’re doing the boiling. And we’re the frogs.

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    RE: https://universeodon.com/@digyoursoul/117073990500421116 The only entity you can trust with your own data is you.