Ben Harris-Roxas 🌊 @ben_hr@social.coop

Fascism is a term that gets bandied around a lot so it warrants some thought. There’s been a lot written but I often come back to Umberto Eco’s fourteen indicia that was first published in the New York Review of Books in the ‘90s http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

Link to the original Ur-Fasciam article, needs an NYRB account https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

This piece on Bolsonaro’s conflagration alludes to the deep interconnections between unfettered capitalism, increasing inequality/austerity, and the broader rise of fascism that are collectively causing our climate emergency http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/23/amazon-rainforest-fires-deforestation-jair-bolsonaro

Chips with Everything podcast episode on the rise of stalkerware and the increasing role of technology in intimate partner abuse, and how Apple and Google aren’t doing enough to stop it http://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2019/aug/19/domestic-abuse-meets-big-tech-chips-with-everything-podcast

Lemon tree has no idea what it’s doing this year

https://flic.kr/p/2h4rQ3G

Robodebt could target pensioners and 'sensitive' groups http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/23/robodebt-target-pensioners-sensitive-groups-leaked-documents

https://flic.kr/p/2h3yz9V

A Fireball to the Skull: a love story about mental illness and RPGs. https://robotgoblin.com/2019/06/14/a-fireball-to-the-skull-a-love-story-about-mental-illness-and-rpgs/

Brazil reports record forest fires https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-environment-wildfires-idUSKCN1VA1UK

This makes me want to try cross stitch https://shitpostsampler.tumblr.com/?og=1

Oyster farmers

https://flic.kr/p/2h3eeop

For just one dollar a month you can sponsor an Australian idiot online https://www.patreon.com/shleeau/posts Money we’ll spent in my opinion.

“Welcome to the age of non-event TV,” I’ve been here for some time already http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/aug/21/the-age-of-comfort-tv-why-people-are-secretly-watching-friends-and-the-office-on-a-loop

Galah #birds #iphonography

https://flic.kr/p/2h2A2Nz

Grey #photography #blackandwhite #dogs

https://flic.kr/p/2h2beim

#photography #macro #dragonflies