Volo Brainrot

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

so i haven't seen much about this on here but in the past week there have been massive protests in albania due to jared kushner and ivanka trump planning to build a luxury resort on an island in the mediterranean sea which is actually a protected habitat for migratory birds and more endemic species living in that area

they claimed to have "discovered" it while yachting like the filthy colonizers they are, and the albanian govt is happily letting them go along with this because they obvi stand to make shitloads of money with this project.

you can read more about the details of the whole situation in the link above which i think gives a decent overview but the gist of it is: tourism, capitalism, and corruption are threatening a very delicate ecosystem in the balkans which we as a species cannot afford

unfortunately there is not much to do from afar as this is all dirty work that has to be protested with boots on the ground but for now please reblog this & take 2 seconds out of your day to sign this petition that calls for stopping the construction and destruction of the region which has already started:

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!