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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ<p>"Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly"</p><p>&lt;💬&gt;<br>“They put this huge spotlight, with the help of [non-governmental organizations], on these marginally effective practices,” she said. “This is what I call the ‘positive-side-of-the-ledger’ approach, which Big Ag does a lot: Just focus your big spotlight on the positive stuff and completely ignore the overall system and the overall indicators.”<br>&lt;/💬&gt;</p><p><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/06/revealed-how-the-meat-industry-uses-environmental-groups-to-make-beef-seem-climate-friendly/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">desmog.com/2025/08/06/revealed</span><span class="invisible">-how-the-meat-industry-uses-environmental-groups-to-make-beef-seem-climate-friendly/</span></a></p><p>By <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://web.brid.gy/r/https://desmog.com/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>desmog.com</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://veganism.social/tags/meat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meat</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/Bigmeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bigmeat</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/beef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beef</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/industry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>industry</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/protein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protein</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/WWF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WWF</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/NatureConservancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NatureConservancy</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/astroturfing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astroturfing</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/lobbying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lobbying</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/climateRegulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climateRegulations</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/influencePeddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>influencePeddling</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/FAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FAO</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/regenerativeGrazing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regenerativeGrazing</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/grifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grifters</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/soil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soil</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/carbonSequestration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carbonSequestration</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/climateDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climateDenial</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climateChange</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/climateChangeDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climateChangeDenial</span></a></p>
DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic<p>Bondi’s Obama Grand Jury: The Authoritarian Moment We’ve All Feared</p><p>It’s the moment we’ve feared—the moment the Supreme Court invoked in giving Donald Trump immunity, and the moment that marks an authoritarian government at its most vulgar and vicious</p><p>On Monday, Attorney General <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/PamBondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PamBondi</span></a> signed an order directing an as-yet-unidentified federal prosecutor to convene a grand jury to investigate whether prominent officials in Barack <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obama</span></a>’s administration, including Obama himself, purposely manufactured an intelligence assessment in January 2017.</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/198818/pam-bondi-obama-grand-jury-authoritarian" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/198818</span><span class="invisible">/pam-bondi-obama-grand-jury-authoritarian</span></a></p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/grifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grifters</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/bananarepublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bananarepublic</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Rare smart move from the UK if true...</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/04/george-osborne-uk-cryptocurrency-boom-left-behind" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">aug/04/george-osborne-uk-cryptocurrency-boom-left-behind</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeorgeOsborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeOsborne</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cryptocurrency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Grifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grifters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOLITICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOLITICS</span></a></p>
Hyphlosion<p>The doom and gloom surrounding <a href="https://donphan.social/tags/MarioKartWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarioKartWorld</span></a> lately is Grade-S bullshit. No it’s not dead. <a href="https://donphan.social/tags/Grifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grifters</span></a> be spinning narratives because negativity sells and people fall for it.</p><p>Personally, I’m a solo gamer who has put a good bit of time in the game so far and barely touched the online. So even if the online were to go inactive, it wouldn’t affect me any. </p><p>This game is perfect for just vibing and has plenty of challenges I can take on without having to go against real players.</p><p>No <a href="https://donphan.social/tags/copium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copium</span></a> here. I’ve played all the other Mario Karts mostly solo throughout my life, too. So I wouldn’t even notice if the online went bye bye.</p><p><a href="https://donphan.social/tags/Nintendo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nintendo</span></a> <a href="https://donphan.social/tags/Switch2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Switch2</span></a> <a href="https://donphan.social/tags/Grifting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grifting</span></a></p>

Tom's Hardware posted some bullshit about Sam Altman so I had to ditch em from my feed. I noticed they really post too much about AI and other crap I don't care about in general anyway lately, so good riddance. I'm so sick of hearing bullshit about that asshole. And so many of these other assholes.

Do you remember when that obvious nazi and mediocre intellect was going on about his "X: the Everything App" as he acquired Twitter and started sacking off all the workers?

Guess that's something else of his that came to nothing but the Press gave him the benefit of a doubt over....

He's a huckster, a fraud, he's no more going to Mars than Daffy Duck was.

@thomasfuchs that's because those that #profit from the whole "#AI" #scam have already cleaned their house, booked their private jets and laundered funds to GTFO the soon the inveitable #bubble burst happens.

Same with #NFTs and #Shitcoins: They are value removing at hest!

youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

#YouTube #ads are full of #scams and questionable financial advice by preying on #FinancialIlliterates that are #HornyForMoney.

Seriously, with all those "Matrix" refernces I wished the Wachowski Sisters or Village Roadshow Pictures or WB were to sue grifters like that.

Again: #AdBlocker are not just a necessity against #malvertising and #malware but an act of #SelfCare and #MutualDefense against #Disinformation campaigns incl. #hatespeech-based #propaganda.

“She Won” election conspiracy theories defy belief and do not help

Over the past two weeks, I’ve seen a few friends share a post alleging a sweeping conspiracy to steal the presidential election–not the 2020 election, as Donald Trump and his cult followers have been alleging without proof ever since, but the 2024 contest. These friends have not vouched for the theory put forth in that post and a series of others posted at a newsletter site; at most, they’ve said things along the lines of “these raise interesting questions.”

So I read those “This Will Hold” posts and a separate report posted by a group called the Common Coalition. To summarize thousands of words of copy: They allege that surprising results in swing states and even individual counties–notably, voters choosing Democrats downballot and then picking Trump or not voting for any presidential candidate–are too statistically unlikely to be the result of voters making their own choices and instead are the result of an elaborate plot involving compromised Tripp Lite uninterruptible power supplies that were remotely reprogrammed on Elon Musk’s orders via SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to change vote totals on Dominion and ES&S voting systems.

No, really. Speaking as a tech journalist who has written a fair amount about SpaceX and as a poll worker who has put in 15-plus hour days helping people to vote in nine elections: I’m sorry, but I can only regard them as engagingly-written claptrap. 

Here’s why I think that:

  • If so many UPSes were shipped with hidden cellular modems and antennas to election offices in counties, cities and states run by Democratic administrations, how have none of them surfaced? (Bear in mind, election offices don’t have huge budgets to buy high-end hardware. I have never seen anything but generic power strips in my own polling places.)
  • At the end of 2024 and still today, Starlink’s only widely-available service to phones is text messaging. SpaceX has done limited tests of data, but Elon Musk was willing to roll the dice on that working clandestinely in dozens or hundreds of devices across the U.S.? 
  • Trump or Musk tweeting out absurd claims or preditions is no kind of proof or confession, because they both shitpost all the time while rarely intersecting with reality.
  • No part of this extensive conspiracy inside SpaceX has leaked at any point, even as SpaceX employees have come forward to accuse Musk of sexual harassment and indifference to workplace safety at considerable risk to themselves. 
  • This Will Hold’s posts don’t mention the “risk-limiting audits” that a growing number of states conduct to check for exactly this kind of post-election ballot tampering. Nevada’s, for example, found “no variations” from the reported results. Ignoring risk-limiting audits in a theory of election fraud is an enormous tell, because election-integrity experts will tell you they’re as essential as hand-marked paper ballots scanned by machines (which is why every state should adopt them). See, for example, the National Academies’ 2018 report Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy.
  • If people really had cast votes for Harris that somehow vanished, why have we not seen that variance in post-election polling and surveys of voters? See, for example, the data-science firm Catalist’s “What Happened in 2024” analysis and the Pew Research Center’s just-published report on 2024 turnout.
  • Many voters really did leave the presidential part of their ballot blank. In Virginia (where the first warnings of a Kamala Harris loss were returns from Loudoun County showing her underperforming Biden’s 2020 numbers), the former vice president got 2,335,395 votes while Sen. Tim Kaine (D) got 2,417,115 votes. In my state and, it seems, others, her problem was Trump getting more turnout from 2020 voters and from new voters than she did.
  • Musk spending $250 million and change to persuade those people to vote probably did shape the outcome. So did Trump lying about his opponent and a great many other things while presenting himself as an icon of never-surrender success, with Fox News amplifying all that. But the die may have been cast when Joe Biden decided to run for reelection despite evident trouble selling his message and then not dropping out until July of 2024—leaving Harris to answer the hardest call to the bullpen in American presidential-election history. 

The unfortunate and ugly reality is that American voters showed awful judgment last November, and we are now all paying the price for that. There’s just a meanness in this world, as Springsteen sings, and our country is not and has never been exempt from it. Conspiracy theories might help people think otherwise, but this kind of self-delusional behavior will not help write a different script for 2026 and 2028.

“The man arrested, Vance Luther Boelter, 57, held deeply religious and politically conservative views.”


look it’s a big tangent from the main thrust of the article, but I’m not sure “deeply religious” is a good descriptor here, at least as it’s colloquially understood — which is in reference to the Christian religion.

The beliefs & views of MAGA “conservatives” bear almost no similarity to the longer tradition of Christianity - it’s an idolatrous (& frankly heretical) sect that’s been cultivated for decades to bolster a far-right authoritarian fascist movement.

The “Jesus” depicted in the Bible would almost definitely be repulsed by & condemn its adherents.

Republican claims about “Obamaphones” proved baseless, but 13 years later, Trump phones will apparently be a real thing.

Trump Organization eyes a new Trump-branded wireless service, complete with gold phones
msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m

MSNBC · Trump Org eyes new Trump-branded mobile phone service, complete with gold phonesAv Steve Benen

Random observation. I heard Sam Altmans voice on a video recently for the first time, the one about driving to the library. His rapid fire monotone affectation of 'I'm a weird nerdy boy genius' was a mixture of sideshow act and Hollywood b movie scientist. Clearly he's watched a lot of computing historical videos and mixed them together with Beautiful Mind and The Imitation Game.

“David Richardson, [of Australian Institute,] calculated that in 2004 the combined wealth of the AFR richest 200 was equivalent to 8% of Australia’s annual GDP. Now they are worth 24.5% of our annual GDP.”

Take your time… think about this for a while. A quarter of Australia’s GDP… let it sink in. The ‘lucky country’?