The road ahead is long. It may take years but victory ✌️ is coming to #Ukraine from the sky. It's gonna suck to be an orc 🇷🇺 for eons to come . #SlavaUkraine 💪🇺🇦
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Incoming gifts 🎁 for #Muscovy
It's probably a case of confirmation bias, but I had to impulse-buy this (comic) book on how the many ways in which the vision of space colonization makes no practical sense. After reading @pluralistic 's review:
This is very good, as usual, by @pluralistic and his review for Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's "A City On Mars" weaves together some important conversations about space travel, AI, and more generally the domination of tech billionaires over our societies and the popular imagination. Well worth the read!:
In A City On Mars, biologist #KellyWeinersmith and cartoonist @ZachWeinersmith set out to investigate the governance challenges of the impending space settlements they were told were just over the horizon. Instead, they discovered that humans aren't going to be settling space for a very long time, and so they wrote a book about that instead:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
We know there is a crisis in #localgovernment funding, we can see it across a range of services, but perhaps the most heartbreaking is the crisis in Special Educational Needs & Disability (SEND) support... that the unavailability of funding is nothing to do with over-stated need is reflected in the fact that when #SEND claims end up in court, around 96% are found to be legitimate, despite Councils often fighting the claim.
The #Tories wrecking of local Govt. harms the weak & vulnerable!
I had to remove the captcha from my newsletter to get it to work (aka, spam soon), support doesn't answer, and they haven't fixed accessibility issues I reported a year ago. I'm growing slowly annoyed. I might have to change my newsletter tool.
Any tool that is not too expensive for 2K+ subscribers?
“Revealed: covert deal to cut help for pupils in England with special needs. Government contract aims to reduce the number of specialist care plans by a fifth”
This is the same as what the #Tories do to the benefits system: pay private contractors to supposedly reduce need by victimising, gaslighting and ultimately denying vulnerable people the assistance to which they are entitled.
It is cruel, arbitrary, illegal and frankly, downright evil.
#Reuters 📆 May 31, 2023 #SETI : The #scientists in the various monitoring efforts passively #scan 📡 for signals of #alien 👽 beings and do not actively #send their own signals advertising our presence on #Earth.