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Wait until you hear about these things called forests.
Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields – new research
reneweconomy.com.au/solar-farms-...
reneweconomy.com.au/solar-farms-...
Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields – new research
New research finds solar farms managed with biodiversity in mind contain a greater number of bird species, and more birds overall, than surrounding cropland.
reneweconomy.com.au
March 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Wait until you hear about these things called forests.
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GOP wants to remove women's right to vote. One bill requires citizens to have passport or birth certificate matching their name to vote. This would be a back-door ban on voting for any woman who took her husband's name & doesn't have a passport, an estimated 69m women.
www.salon.com/2025/02/26/a...
www.salon.com/2025/02/26/a...
"A woman is like a child": MAGA turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power
Conservative women believe complicity will save them, but an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rights
www.salon.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
GOP wants to remove women's right to vote. One bill requires citizens to have passport or birth certificate matching their name to vote. This would be a back-door ban on voting for any woman who took her husband's name & doesn't have a passport, an estimated 69m women.
www.salon.com/2025/02/26/a...
www.salon.com/2025/02/26/a...
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New legal guide about UK law re changing rooms and toilets at work by us at Legal Feminist www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2025/02/26/s...
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE -
A GUIDE TO NAVIGATING UK LAW ON SINGLE-SEX TOILET, WASHING & CHANGING FACILITIES IN WORKPLACES & IN SERVICES PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC
www.legalfeminist.org.uk
February 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
New legal guide about UK law re changing rooms and toilets at work by us at Legal Feminist www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2025/02/26/s...
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"The war against the imagination is the only one the capitalists have actually managed to win."
From; Revolutions In Reverse by David Graeber
From; Revolutions In Reverse by David Graeber
February 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"The war against the imagination is the only one the capitalists have actually managed to win."
From; Revolutions In Reverse by David Graeber
From; Revolutions In Reverse by David Graeber
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Trump on immigrants: Put them in camps at Gitmo!
Trump on crime: Put them in camps in El Salvador!
Trump on the homeless: Put them in camps outside the cities!
Trump on Gaza: Put them in camps in foreign countries!
I don't dunno, but there seems to be a common theme to all these final solutions.
Trump on crime: Put them in camps in El Salvador!
Trump on the homeless: Put them in camps outside the cities!
Trump on Gaza: Put them in camps in foreign countries!
I don't dunno, but there seems to be a common theme to all these final solutions.
February 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Trump on immigrants: Put them in camps at Gitmo!
Trump on crime: Put them in camps in El Salvador!
Trump on the homeless: Put them in camps outside the cities!
Trump on Gaza: Put them in camps in foreign countries!
I don't dunno, but there seems to be a common theme to all these final solutions.
Trump on crime: Put them in camps in El Salvador!
Trump on the homeless: Put them in camps outside the cities!
Trump on Gaza: Put them in camps in foreign countries!
I don't dunno, but there seems to be a common theme to all these final solutions.
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Fact-checking the Trumplandic bombast:
February 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Fact-checking the Trumplandic bombast:
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"Do so, and try to get your head around the scale of what was allowed to happen, not for morbid indulgence, but because in the justification for what has been done to Gaza’s children hides the most extreme form of dehumanisation from which all Palestinians suffer".
‘We owe it to the thousands of children who have been killed to pause and open ourselves up to the fullness of the little lives that were snatched away.’
Goodbye to the slain children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Goodbye to the slain children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"Do so, and try to get your head around the scale of what was allowed to happen, not for morbid indulgence, but because in the justification for what has been done to Gaza’s children hides the most extreme form of dehumanisation from which all Palestinians suffer".
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People don't listen.
They seem so damn confident - and complacent - about the fact that 'that could never happen.'
Which is *exactly how it happens.*
They seem so damn confident - and complacent - about the fact that 'that could never happen.'
Which is *exactly how it happens.*
Almost every pundit in Germany said that Germany’s conservatives would never work with the far-right AfD. And yet here we are. I remember when many of us warned about Farage getting a standing ovation in Berlin as the AfD’s honoured guest. And yet here we are. I just wish more people had listened.
January 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
People don't listen.
They seem so damn confident - and complacent - about the fact that 'that could never happen.'
Which is *exactly how it happens.*
They seem so damn confident - and complacent - about the fact that 'that could never happen.'
Which is *exactly how it happens.*
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hammered tech billionaire Elon Musk tonight over controversial remarks he made about Germans needing to get over their “past guilt” for horrific crimes carried out by the Nazis.
Germany’s Scholz lashes out at Musk’s ‘disgusting’ interventions in Europe
German chancellor has finally had enough of the tech billionaire and Donald Trump adviser.
www.politico.eu
January 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hammered tech billionaire Elon Musk tonight over controversial remarks he made about Germans needing to get over their “past guilt” for horrific crimes carried out by the Nazis.
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Elon Musk has seized control of the American civil service.
January 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Elon Musk has seized control of the American civil service.
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If we define "Nazi" as an early 20th Century political/social movement then nobody is a Nazi. They're all dead.
But if you promote devout neo-Nazis, make Nazi salutes and espouse theories of ethnic purity and segregation, then you are whatever a Nazi would be called today.
But if you promote devout neo-Nazis, make Nazi salutes and espouse theories of ethnic purity and segregation, then you are whatever a Nazi would be called today.
January 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If we define "Nazi" as an early 20th Century political/social movement then nobody is a Nazi. They're all dead.
But if you promote devout neo-Nazis, make Nazi salutes and espouse theories of ethnic purity and segregation, then you are whatever a Nazi would be called today.
But if you promote devout neo-Nazis, make Nazi salutes and espouse theories of ethnic purity and segregation, then you are whatever a Nazi would be called today.
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the flaw in all this is that we are *not transparent even to ourselves* - is the guy who tells himself he's not a Nazi while throwing the Hitlergruß not the a Nazi!? We don't have time to waste investigating his ineffable self. Just go by what he does. It's much simpler
January 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
the flaw in all this is that we are *not transparent even to ourselves* - is the guy who tells himself he's not a Nazi while throwing the Hitlergruß not the a Nazi!? We don't have time to waste investigating his ineffable self. Just go by what he does. It's much simpler
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'Most scientists now reject the idea that sex is strictly binary'.
In reality:
'The classical biological definition of the 2 sexes is that females have ovaries and make larger female gametes (eggs), whereas males have testes and make smaller male gametes (sperm)'.
academic.oup.com/edrv/article...
In reality:
'The classical biological definition of the 2 sexes is that females have ovaries and make larger female gametes (eggs), whereas males have testes and make smaller male gametes (sperm)'.
academic.oup.com/edrv/article...
Considering Sex as a Biological Variable in Basic and Clinical Studies: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement
Abstract. In May 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stated its intent to “require applicants to consider sex as a biological variable (SABV) in
academic.oup.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
'Most scientists now reject the idea that sex is strictly binary'.
In reality:
'The classical biological definition of the 2 sexes is that females have ovaries and make larger female gametes (eggs), whereas males have testes and make smaller male gametes (sperm)'.
academic.oup.com/edrv/article...
In reality:
'The classical biological definition of the 2 sexes is that females have ovaries and make larger female gametes (eggs), whereas males have testes and make smaller male gametes (sperm)'.
academic.oup.com/edrv/article...
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Oh please.
'Because the undifferentiated genitalia that males and females share very early in fetal development are “phenotypically female”, you could argue he just made everyone legally female.'
Just no.
Phenotype = interaction of genotype with environment.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'Because the undifferentiated genitalia that males and females share very early in fetal development are “phenotypically female”, you could argue he just made everyone legally female.'
Just no.
Phenotype = interaction of genotype with environment.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president?
The confusing and vague executive order underscores how complex sex is and why it’s hard to reduce it into a neat binary
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Oh please.
'Because the undifferentiated genitalia that males and females share very early in fetal development are “phenotypically female”, you could argue he just made everyone legally female.'
Just no.
Phenotype = interaction of genotype with environment.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'Because the undifferentiated genitalia that males and females share very early in fetal development are “phenotypically female”, you could argue he just made everyone legally female.'
Just no.
Phenotype = interaction of genotype with environment.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We have another 4 years of this pig-ignorant bullsh*t to endure.
Trump: "The trees are loaded with water. They suck that water out of the ground ... it's called management of the floor."
January 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We have another 4 years of this pig-ignorant bullsh*t to endure.
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This. Exactly. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
January 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This. Exactly. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Beauty of a day on the Mersey Riviera
January 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Beauty of a day on the Mersey Riviera
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This is probably what’s going to drive me insane in the weeks and months ahead.
Trump’s fascism is going to be presented alongside sports news and wordplay about new animals at the zoo, like all of this is normal.
Trump’s fascism is going to be presented alongside sports news and wordplay about new animals at the zoo, like all of this is normal.
January 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is probably what’s going to drive me insane in the weeks and months ahead.
Trump’s fascism is going to be presented alongside sports news and wordplay about new animals at the zoo, like all of this is normal.
Trump’s fascism is going to be presented alongside sports news and wordplay about new animals at the zoo, like all of this is normal.
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I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.
January 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.
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What took him so long?
NO NO NO NO NO.
Act leader David Seymour expected to blow open privatisation debate
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Act leader David Seymour expected to blow open privatisation debate
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Seymour expected to blow open controversial privatisation debate in State of the Nation speech
The Act leader will speak in Auckland on Friday.
www.nzherald.co.nz
January 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
What took him so long?
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We don’t choose which public services we fund, for good reason. Otherwise everyone pre-retirement could avoid paying for Super, able bodied people could keep their share of disability funding & so on. The “self fund or die” model might be Seymour’s utopia but it’s not mine.
January 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
We don’t choose which public services we fund, for good reason. Otherwise everyone pre-retirement could avoid paying for Super, able bodied people could keep their share of disability funding & so on. The “self fund or die” model might be Seymour’s utopia but it’s not mine.
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Oh ffs. If anyone thinks the private health system provides all the services that the public system does, or that having to negotiate with your insurance company to get ANY service is a better alternative, I have a bridge to sell you.
January 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Oh ffs. If anyone thinks the private health system provides all the services that the public system does, or that having to negotiate with your insurance company to get ANY service is a better alternative, I have a bridge to sell you.
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The 'many people' who like license are basically the bullies.
Commentators like Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social and Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social have recently noted how much abuse they now get on X when posting critical comments.
This, apparently, is what 'free speech' now means.
Commentators like Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social and Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social have recently noted how much abuse they now get on X when posting critical comments.
This, apparently, is what 'free speech' now means.
These were the weeks in 1649 when John Milton was writing “The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates”, pointing out that many people love a tyrant because they love “not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope, or more indulgence than under tyrants”
#milton
#milton
January 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The 'many people' who like license are basically the bullies.
Commentators like Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social and Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social have recently noted how much abuse they now get on X when posting critical comments.
This, apparently, is what 'free speech' now means.
Commentators like Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social and Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social have recently noted how much abuse they now get on X when posting critical comments.
This, apparently, is what 'free speech' now means.