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Earth is likely to cross a key climate threshold in two years

A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

… irreversible tipping points in the climate system … are closer at hand than scientists previously believed. - Washington Post

TRIPTOE THROUGH THE CLIMATE

The “irreversible tripping point" came

before there were any degrees. 

The “irreversible tripping point" was

when we climbed down from the trees.

Before fire. Tools. Neanderthals.

Before we wore clothes to strip tease.

From the perspective of an ailing planet,

bipedal apes are a fatal disease.

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A CURSERY RHYME
Oh, where, oh, where
has the future gone?
Across the the great ocean
to China?
Our history's short,
theirs is so long.
Compared to theirs,
it's a one-liner.
Our future's crap.

Gonna step on it.*
Jerk in the White House?
Don't help, doggone it.

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* “This world is so full of crap, a man's gonna get into it sooner or later whether he's careful or not." - Paul Newman as Hud

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A MAJOR MISTAKE

This Hegseth affair shows why generally speaking

it is ‘not done’ putting a major in charge.

Notwithstanding his Donald devotion,

his apotheosis is an unearned promotion.

Given his history, there can be no quarrel,

that he trumps Donald in being immoral.

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Well actually

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

Adrienne Matei

Thu 22 May 2025 12.00 EDT

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MARK 14:7 KJV

For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

GOP-AYN RAND-TRUMP-MUCK clarification

What Jesus means —

CLEARLY! — 

is never raise taxes.

Raising taxes can

never be “good”.

We are in agreement
with Milton Friedman:
poverty's positive,
a prod, an incentive
to get loutish layabouts
off their worthless asses,
propelling them into
competitive classes.

A forerunner Capitalist,

Jesus foresaw economics

as he was foreseen

by John the Baptist.

Sadly, the poor will

forever be with us.

A few fit thriving —

WITHOUT HELP! —

on their own.

W(h)ither the weak?

Best left alone

for disease and starvation

to put out of their misery.

Jesus won't care.

He was NEVER here*.

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* ... ye may do them good: but me ye have not. ALWAYS!

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LOVE

Love feeds on frailty

confounding reality,

exploiting foibles

we're all liable to.

We reawaken

broken, forsaken:

case of mistaken

identity.

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DONT TRUMP ON US

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DONALD PHONE CLONE

Even if Elon could somehow clone Donald,

it would be 35 years before clone’d be president.

But if Elon could turn that big brain to AI,

TRUMP could be president until we all die.

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EXITING STRATEGY

GOP prefers The Hunger Games.

Dems PAD in a hospice.

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NUMBERS 4 NUMBSKULLS

2531: nines-complement inverse 8647.

Donnie T’s theory: murder conspiracy.

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GOING BANANAS

Bananas are the world’s most popular fruit – and the fourth most important food crop globally. But now the communities who grow them are facing a growing threat from the climate crisis. - Christian Aid

Someday we won't have bananas

We won't have bananas someday

Though it's annoying

climate's collapsing
disease is destroying

(this isn't perhapsing)

both trees and employment (Oy vey)

Besides which we're swallowing plastic

which GOP thinks is fantastic

And someday there won't be bananas

There won't be bananas someday

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Interview

I was Hitler’s neighbour: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’

Astrid Probst

In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was five years old and living with his family in Munich when Adolf Hitler moved into a flat opposite. At first, his parents thought they were safe hiding in plain sight – until they weren’t

Sat 10 May 2025 01.00 EDT

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EARTH NIGHT

Land under the country’s largest cities is sinking. 

The movement is slow — sinking on the scale of millimeters per year … but the effects accumulate over years. - Washington Post

The Earth's a balloon and Trump's a pinhead.

What on Earth could ever go wrong?

Poke a few holes, extract oil, gas, and water.

We'll be alright, it's just a pinprick.

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FU TO YOUR PERFECTION

When Elon achieves 

    Brave New World II

        for HIMSELF, Alphas, and betas

with remaining gammas

    maintaining automatons

        doing the work of deltas and epsilons,

will Miranda wonder

    at “goodly creatures”

        or read them their rights

            and arrest them?