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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

I found this truly remarkable graph in the Wikipedia article on "Cost of electricity by source", in the process of researching possible addition of #solar panels to our recently purchased house. I hadn't realized just HOW quickly #solar had transformed itself from […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

TRENDS IN COST OF ENERGY (2010–2019)

X-Y plot of the cost of various energy sources against their installed capacity over the time period 2010–2019. Each energy source is represented by an arrow. The tail of the arrow represents the energy source's cost and installed capacity in 2010; the head of the arrow represents its cost and installed capacity in 2019.

The vertical (Y) axis is cost in USA dollars per megawatt-hour, on a linear scale from $50 to $300.

The horizontal (X) axis is cumulative installed capacity in gigawatts, on a logarithmic scale from zero to 1000.

The types of energy are:

* Offshore wind: from (0, $165) slightly down to (45, $120).

* Onshore wind: from (180, $85) sharply down to (700, $50).

* Coal: from (1500, $110) horizontally to (2500, $110).

* Nuclear: from (300, $100) sharply UP to (400, $160).

* Solar: from (40, $350) very sharply down to (600, $70).

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

Please block and REPORT this account. It's fascist apologism thinly disguised as both-sidesism, calls for "dialogue" with fascists, and blaming "the people" as whole for fascist vileness. Anything we don't like is a misunderstanding, or our own fault, or both […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

PSA: not only do I personally have a very low tolerance for #WHATABOUTISM — when someone responds in that way to posts about an issue of vital and immediate importance, it raises reasonable suspicion as to their good faith. That kind of behavior is straight out of […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

Photo of football referee Ed Hochuli in his uniform. Caption:

WHATABOUTISM ON THE PLAY

ATTEMPTING TO DEFLECT BY CLAIMING SOMETHING ELSE IS WORSE WITHOUT ADDRESSING THE INITIAL CLAIM

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

@servelan Replacement of workers by automation is only one of MANY reasons we need #UBI, ANY ONE of which would be adequate BY ITSELF to make the case for #UBI. The most important reason of all is that as long as unemployment can threaten us with destitution, we […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

[black-and-white photograph of a stern-faced Frederick Douglass]

"experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other"
— Frederick Douglass

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

@valkyrie.hacker.gf Congratulations, you've just scored the upper right corner!

EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION BINGO

3 × 3 bingo card with characteristic scenarios of executive dysfunction:

UPPER LEFT:

There are two things
That need doing,
can't pick,
thus doing neither

UPPER MIDDLE:

Need to do one thing
but it requires doing
three other things first,
so not even starting

UPPER RIGHT:

Could do the thing but
stuck under a soft
pet or human,
so not doing it yet

MIDDLE LEFT:

"This would be so much
easier if I wasn't this
hungry, but then I'd
have to stop to eat..."

CENTER:

"Uhh, what was I doing?"

MIDDLE RIGHT:

Wanting to do that thing
you really enjoy and
have been meaning to,
but then not doing it

LOWER LEFT:

That one thing that
would take five minutes
to do - better put it
off and stress
out about it for a while

LOWER MIDDLE:

Could do that one simple
household task, could get
stuck reading about
weird oceanic life
or bizarre history or bugs
instead

LOWER RIGHT:

"This should be so easy,
how is everyone else
just doing it??
Welp, guilt time"

(I should really have been doing something else and not making this - @sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

I'm seeing some concern that #Europe is not prepared for a full-on confrontation with the #USA. True enough, but not as important as one might think. On December 7th, 1941, #Japan was ready for war; the #USA was not. They caught us flatfooted and asleep at the […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

And a periodic reminder from Inspirational Skeletor (@skeletor):

From the "Inspirational Skeletor" account: image of Skeletor stating:

"IF YOU WOULDN'T GO TO SOMEONE FOR ADVICE,

DON'T TAKE THEIR CRITICISM EITHER."

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

@kissane.myatproto.social I'm afraid those links both just get me Bluesky's "Not available in Mississippi" page. Screenshot:

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

Incidentally, can someone clue me in as to the meaning of the hand gesture being made by the two young women in the foreground of this photo of #Bolsonaro opponents celebrating his sentencing? Some may think it should be obvious; but, being #autistic AND an […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

Bolsonaro opponents celebrate his sentencing, 2025-09-11

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

The only three of these boxes we haven't fully checked yet here in the #USA are: (1) Supremacy of the military (2) Controlled mass media (3) Fraudulent elections. But we're well advanced along the way to (1) and (2), and I have a feeling we'll have checked off (3) before long.

FASCISM

POWERFUL AND CONTINUOUS DISDAIN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

IDENTIFICATION OF ENEMIES AS A UNIFYING CAUSE

SUPREMACY OF THE MILITARY

RAMPANT SEXISM

CONTROLLED MASS MEDIA

OBSESSION WITH NATIONAL SECURITY

RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT
INTERTWINED

CORPORATE POWER PROTECTED

LABOR POWER SUPPRESSED

DISDAIN FOR INTELLECTUALS & THE ARTS

OBSESSION WITH CRIME & PUNISHMENT

RAMPANT CRONYISM & CORRUPTION

FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2025

[Extreme body weight prejudice] They ought to rename this generative AI program: ABE = Automated Bigotry Engine Given the single word "HEALTHY", ABE cane up with THIS:

AI-generated image of a skeletally thin model

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025

The latest calumny against critics of the #JackassParty leadership is that we're Russian propagandists trying to sow despair — that we're trying make people think there's no alternative to the "Republican" Nazis. That's a hell of an irony, coming from supporters of […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

Graph: "Share of National Income (%)". Shares of the top 1% (rising) and the bottom 50% (falling) are graphed against calendar years from 1980 to 2017. Lines cross in 1996.

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

Photo of a somber Frank Zappa with handlebar mustache and partial goatee (between chin and lower lip only). Caption:

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."

Frank Zappa

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

@VeroniqueB99 Dogs are for people who need to be worshipped as gods. Cats are for people who are strong enough to have a god stand on their chest at 5 AM demanding a sacrifice.

Dogs are for people who need to be worshipped as gods. Cats are for people who are strong enough to have a god stand on their chest at 5 AM demanding a sacrifice.

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2025

@MamasPinkyToe Recall my comment vis-a-vis Nancy Mace, that sexual bigotry campaigns by female celebrities are thinly disguised exhibitionism? Nancy just posted this. Looks like she's seriously leaning into it.

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025

@futurebird You just landed on the bottom row, middle column of Executive Dysfunction Bingo:

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025

@alexisbushnell Stories of personal experience with #LongCOVID, like yours, are so horrifying. Yet those who aren't (yet?) personally affected — or think they aren't! — STILL repeat the #ItsMild nonsense.

Cartoon of a running woman, wearing a respiratory mask, pursued by green-skinned, hideously mutilated zombies. The zombies are yelling at her:

"COVID IS MILD!"

"TAKE OFF YOUR MASK!"

"LET'S SEE YOUR SMILE!"

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2025

80 years ago, the USA helped rescue #Europe from fascism. My father fought in that war, as a gunner and radio operator on a B-17 in the European theater, dropping bombs on the #Nazis. (In case you're thinking the chronology doesn't add up: I'm 67, and when I was […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

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