Powerful words in tonight's U24 email from Zelenskyi. I'll copy them here in a thread for those who have not subscribed, but you should:

u24.gov.ua

UNITED24 — The initiative of the President of Ukraine

The official fundraising platform for collecting donations to support Ukraine

#Ukraine

Bonfire Social looks like everything a fediverse platform should be. The values, the features, the plan. Somehow I'm just the 82nd backer of their very modest funding campaign, and that should change. @npub1lmc7...wyqx https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

"Just after Gates published his new missive, Oxfam revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide."

the Guardian

I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot

Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook