"...each fish can experience up to 22 minutes of intense pain..."

Do you assume agony isn't significant just because YOU aren't the one feeling it?
That's societal psychopathic indifference and it perpetuates cruelty for profit and habit.

Animals are not about quotas, stock, flavour or profit. That is the vocabulary of an entrenched war machine against animals living their natural lives.

If you link fishing to relaxation or sport, how will you feel when you realise the misery you caused?

We can thrive AND not ever inflict harm on animals.
Think. Observe. Empathise.
Enjoy exploring the alternatives, being the difference.

In many instances it isn't the animal flesh you are addicted to. It is the preparation/social ritual or the flavours you enjoy with it.
So move the flavours and rituals to non-harming alternatives.

https://www.sciencealert.com/fish-suffer-up-to-22-minutes-of-intense-pain-when-taken-out-of-water

#Fish #Fishing #meat #recipes #harm #socialpsychopathy #animals #habit #ritual #mindlessharm #dobetter #bethedifference #science

IMPACT: 170 patients harmed as a result of Qilin’s ransomware attack on NHS vendor Synnovis:

https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/national/25248263.170-patients-harmed-result-cyber-attack/

This updates numbers reported in January. HSJ article is behind paywall though.

#HealthSec #ransomware #databreach #harm #cybersecurity

@brett

On my blog: Go Nowhere Fast https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/15/go-nowhere-fast.html
Thinking about the use of certain bring-your-own-interpretation key phrases in technology, political, and other spaces.
#harm #rant #politics #harm

When #Heaven Justifies #Harm - Why #Belief in the #Afterlife Makes #BadPolicy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPmtovLUtls
#atheist #religious #politics #iowa

On my blog: Generative AI Wish List https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/08/ai-wish-list.html
Thinking about the things that large language models could plausibly do, if companies cared.
#artificialintelligence #harm #rant

Mining the ocean for fish n chips
"Humans have done "unspeakably awful" damage to the planet's oceans."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/david-attenborough-prince-william-oceans-/105390896
#ocean #Biodiversity #harm #fishing #FishnChips #extractivism

On my blog: One Fight https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/01/one-fight.html
Looking at attacks on sex work as an attack on everyone.
#harm #rant

Can you live without a car in the mountains? Yes, with planning and a few different bikes
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2025/may/30/can-you-live-without-a-car-in-the-mountains-yes-with-planning-and-a-few-different-bikes
#climate #FossilFuels #pollution #RoadTrauma #harm #MobilityDesign #cycling #carfree

Tik Tok - a shite mine

Who would have though it - but no one will be held responsible for the harm it causes.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/31/more-than-half-of-top-100-mental-health-tiktoks-contain-misinformation-study-finds

#TikTok #MentalHealth #Harm #Shite

“Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.”

T.S. Eliot

#quoteoftheday #Harm #Fitsthetimes #BeingHuman

The Devastating Harms of House Republicans’ Big, ‘Beautiful’ Bill by State and Congressional District – Center for American Progress

May 21, 2025
The Devastating Harms of House Republicans’ Big, ‘Beautiful’ Bill by State and Congressional District

Estimates for the increase in number of uninsured people by 2034; how many people could lose some or all SNAP benefits; and the number of jobs at risk due to elimination of clean energy tax credits under the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) arrives to a House Rules Committee meeting on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the U.S. Capitol, May 2025. (Getty / Kevin Dietsch)

Authors Colin Seeberger, Andrea Ducas, Lily Roberts, and +3 More

Last week, House Republicans released long-awaited tax and budget proposals that would provide the top 5 percent of taxpayers with about $1.5 trillion in tax breaks. This windfall for the ultrawealthy would be paid for by gutting programs that create American jobs and help Americans afford the cost of basic needs, such as health care and groceries. If enacted, the bill would amount to the largest cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in history; kill jobs; and jack up the cost of living in every region of the country. It’s no wonder a new analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds that the bill reduces resources for the poorest households while increasing them for the highest earners.

Read more: The Devastating Harms of House Republicans’ Big, ‘Beautiful’ Bill by State and Congressional District – Center for American ProgressSource Links: The Devastating Harms of House Republicans’ Big, ‘Beautiful’ Bill by State and Congressional District – Center for American Progress

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-devastating-harms-of-house-republicans-big-beautiful-bill-by-state-and-congressional-district/

#CenterForAmericanProgress #Harm #HarmByCongressionalDistrict #HarmByState #HouseGOP #HouseRepublicans #MikeJohnson #MillionsHarmed #Trump

"Bigger cars
mean bigger costs for everyone else. Larger vehicles – no matter how they are powered – generally impose bigger costs on society than smaller cars."

"Now, SUVs and light commercial vehicles comprise almost 80% of the market. Four in five new vehicles sold in Australia today are an SUV, ute, van or light truck. Drivers of SUVs and pick-ups should pay more to be on our roads. Here’s how to make the system fairer."
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https://theconversation.com/drivers-of-suvs-and-pick-ups-should-pay-more-to-be-on-our-roads-heres-how-to-make-the-system-fairer-252381
#cars #SUVs #roads #RoadDamage #harm #TrafficJams #congestion #Bellingen #SpacialJustice #pedestrians

A quotation from Chamfort

To enjoy and to give joy, without harming either oneself or anyone else, that, I think, is all of morality.
 
[Jouis et fair jouir, sans faire mal ni à toi ni à personne, voilà, je crois, toute la morale.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 5, ¶ 319 (1795) [tr. Siniscalchi (1994)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/159…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #consideration #enjoyment #ethics #happiness #harm #harmlessness #hedonism #joy #morality #pleasure

"Don't Forget the Teachers" - an insightful study presented at #chi2025

“#Edtech providers are spending a lot of time on reducing the chance of #LLM #hallucinations,... Our findings suggest they could also design tools so that #educators can intervene when hallucinations happen to correct students’ #misconceptions through their #teaching practices. This can free up time to focus on mitigating other types of #harm.”

https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3706598.3713210

Wood for the trees, Jonathan Green, November 2023
https://www.themonthly.com.au/november-2023/essays/wood-trees
#biodiversity #ecosystems #NativeForests #IndigenousPeoples #wildlife #EPBCAct #SamuelReview #extractivism #degradation #LoggingIndustry #mining #harm

I think this is an testament to the kind of mind it takes to follow the Donald Trump MAGA cult. Trauma victims that never sought help and never found peace. #MAGA #Hate #Harm #Anger #Rage #Fear #Wrath www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Suspected serial killer shouts...

National Environmental Standards

Create new, legally enforceable national environmental standards to deliver better environmental protection or continue with the big quarry model this term?

"Nature doesn’t negotiate. Nature is a system of systems, and if we take too much from it those systems begin to break down – usually irreversibly."
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https://theconversation.com/its-a-hard-job-being-environment-minister-heres-an-insiders-view-of-the-key-challenges-facing-murray-watt-256465

Samuel Review
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/epbc-act-reform/standards
#EPBCAct #BiodiversityCrisis #Biodiversity #Ecosystems #FirstNations #restoration #nature #extractivism #harm #LoggingImpacts #mining #water #extraction #FossilFuels #ClimateDisruption #destruction #governance

@cdarwin and yes, with #BuyBorrowDie the ultra-wealthy can basically skirt any #taxation as #Musk and #Bezos merely take their #shares as #collateral and by the time they're due to pay their #loans they've already gotten new shares and they just get the taxes on selling off shares written up against the "debt" incured.

• Just like their corporations legally avoid any #CorporateTaxes by pulling accounting tricks to claim they ain't profitable, they too avoid #IncomeTax or anything else that would offset the #harm they cause to society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6V9i8fFADI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pBPZMUcsh0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XinWJC9C06E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPdMvreKMTM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH-xzo5hZfY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5d9K579d6A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHCwDcbUmgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2M4QTHSKDU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkRpwGpY1C8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR565U9BYA8

NSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argue

"Professor David Heilpern, a former court magistrate, claims the NSW Forestry Corporation is no longer fit for purpose and should be disbanded. A former magistrate and one of Australia’s most experienced scientists have launched an extraordinary attack on the New South Wales government’s logging agency, describing it as effectively a “criminal organisation” that should be shut down after a string of court convictions."

"The corporation has been convicted of more than a dozen environmental offences, including a judgment in the land and environment court last year that found the agency was likely to reoffend and had poor prospects of rehabilitation.They get caught, investigated, prosecuted, a criminal conviction, a fine – which the public pays – and they carry on and do it all again."

“There is just no integrity, accountability or justice in this model of operation.”

“For the Forestry Corporation, breaking the law and harming the environment and wildlife has become like a game of charades played under the protection of the state."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/11/nsw-forestry-agency-called-criminal-organisation-by-critics
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #crime #harm #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #governance #accountability #extractivism

Koalas face death, attacks and mass starvation from monoculture plantations
Cost-effective management techniques for Australian wildlife

"...Displaced animals were sometimes still up in trees that were felled and ended up with broken bones, or were orphaned babies left behind. Others were attacked by cows or dogs."

"A 2023 study of reported wild koala deaths in south-east Queensland found vehicles were responsible for about half (1,431) of all fatalities."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/11/koalas-face-death-attacks-and-starvation-as-blue-gums-chopped-down-in-victoria
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #harm #pets #Livestock #roads #vehicles #RoadTrauma #KillingZones #plantations #monoculture #extractivism #governance #Australia #extinction