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Andii

@Andii@mas.to

"To imagine that humans can simply stop being a planet-changing force is unrealistic. Thinking that we might find a way to act responsibly may be just as daft. But it seems to me a better foolishness"
Born at 315 ppm CO2
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5114
I often follow back -but maybe not if there's not much info on the bio or the feeds

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LiamOMaraIV, to random
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Take a look at this person's flag choices. Ask yourself what similarity they see that brought them together. Take all the time you need.

Andii,
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@NormanDunbar @WearsHats @LiamOMaraIV
what if we are not all here? What if we've just fogotten the raptured? 🤔😇😬

DrALJONES, (edited ) to random
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In a standard fascist tactic, police enabled pro-israel attack on Gaza Solidarity camp

Report

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UCLA students at a peaceful encampment were pepper sprayed & beaten, while police stood by & watched.

Students blasted university officials & police for failing to intervene & protect them from pro-Israeli attackers.

"Several students said they had to rely on each other, not the police, for protection as they were attacked."

00.35 GMT May 2 AJ updates ...2

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Andii,
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@DrALJONES @toriver
Is there not a route to suing the police for failure to prevent assault, not upholding duty of care or something like that?

Andii, to UKpolitics
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Call on the government not to perform the morally hazardous feat of bailing out Thames Water. Rather to take it into public adminsitration.
https://weownit.org.uk/dont-bailout-thames-shareholders
#ThamesWater #Privatisation #UKpolitics

DrALJONES, to Israel
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    Andii,
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    @DrALJONES
    Quotes from the article worth pressing: "Every military undertaking is supposed to have a diplomatic exit – the military action should lead to a better diplomatic reality. Israel has no diplomatic exit... and other notions that have more to do with Hollywood scripts than life itself. They're not the truth and it relates to something that's uncomfortable. After all, it's uncomfortable telling the public the truth. "

    ChrisMayLA6, to ArtificialIntelligence
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    This week I've been mainly reading, no. 143.

    Becky Chambers, A Closed & Common Orbit (2016), expands a plot element about AI from her first book into the central focus of this sequel. (implicitly?) picking up a plot from McCaffrey's classic The Ship that Sang, this is a compelling story of how an AI achieves it/her independence & their friendships that this entails. Once again Chambers has written an emotionally rich, unusual but highly timely SciFi.


    @bookstodon

    Andii,
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    @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon
    Got to agree: a charming story, I love her writing.

    mcc, to random
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    So you may have heard that a Boeing whistleblower died of what local police described as a "self-inflicted" gunshot wound right in the middle of his depositions, a timing which… well, lots of things happen, but if someone were going to act on suicidal impulses that is not the timing I would expect them to do it with.

    Have you been wondering what exactly it was he was saying in those depositions? Cuz here's an American Prospect article largely based on his testimony:

    https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/

    Andii,
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    @mcc
    Yowch.
    Read this and never fly again...

    susurros, to Palestine
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    Pro-Israel Advocates Are Weaponizing “Safety” on College Campuses

    https://theintercept.com/2024/03/28/safety-college-columbia-stanford-antisemitism-israel-palestine/

    @palestine

    Andii,
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    @susurros @palestine
    From the article:
    “As a Palestinian student, I’ve lost family in Gaza. Frankly, I get uncomfortable when Zionist students are chanting ‘no ceasefire’ on campus. That makes me feel uncomfortable. That makes me feel unsafe. But I know that it is not a physical threat to my safety. That is free speech.”

    Andii,
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    @susurros @palestine
    And this seemed helpful a comment:
    "Howley, who is also Jewish, noted that, by the same logic, we would not want to validate the fear felt by a white student, conditioned under racist assumptions, who called the police because they felt afraid in the presence of a Black student."

    RickiTarr, to random
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    It still gets me the Bible Jesus is a homeless socialist with brown skin, hangs out with 12 dudes and a Prostitute, tells rich people to pay their taxes and give their wealth to the poor, tells the religious leaders that they need to love everyone equally, gets a whip and goes hog on people using religion to sell stuff, and then straight up gets murdered for these beliefs. Yet somehow churches act like he's some kind of Conservative Haircut in khakis and a button up, who would support cutting welfare programs, and would preach Prosperity Gospel.

    Andii,
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    @RickiTarr
    Reminds me of a 1980s(I think it was) TV series for kids in Britain, called 'Knights of God' which portrayed a theocratic coup y'know in UK. Interestingly an opening scene showed them burning Bibles ...

    jane_eyrie, to random
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    There's a lack transparency regarding UK deaths. If you look for the ONS figures — which are squirrelled away in a spreadsheet — you will get this message:

    "Due to the low numbers of COVID-19 deaths (fewer than ‘influenza or pneumonia’), detailed breakdowns (i.e., by age and place of occurrence) are no longer included in the 2024 edition of this dataset."

    "Influenza or pneumonia" are two different things. One is a virus. One is a symptom: lung inflammation, with multiple causes.

    (1)

    Andii,
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    @jmcrookston @jane_eyrie
    That seemed odd to me too.

    Andii,
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    @jane_eyrie @jmcrookston
    So, is it saying the covid figure is smaller than flu and pneumonia combined or smaller than either /each separately?

    Andii,
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    @jane_eyrie @jmcrookston
    Thanks, that's less surprising than I took it to be at first sight.

    chargrille, to random
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    When a Jewish man protests your hijacking his Jewishness & the Holocaust to justify your occupation, & your response is to (loudly, repeatedly & falsely) tell everyone that what he has actually done is renounced his Jewishness, guess what?

    You are hijacking his Jewishness to suit your occupation.

    https://www.thenation.com/article/world/jonathan-glazer-oscar-speech-gaza-israel-judaism/

    #Oscars #Gaza #Starvation #Genocide

    Andii,
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    @chargrille
    If that headline puzzles, maybe this quote will help:
    "rather than reckon with Glazer’s argument that his “Jewishness and the Holocaust [are] being hijacked by an occupation,” they only—and shamelessly—use part of the quote as a way to make it sound like Glazer is rejecting his religion and culture, when the opposite is obviously the case. He is actually reclaiming his culture from the pampered pro-Israel media prizefighters who argue that Judaism and Zionism are one and the same"

    ChrisMayLA6, to random
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    A widespread truth of the new millennium...

    Andii,
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    @ChrisMayLA6
    And the fact that "he" doesn't retire, perhaps tells us something. Maybe he loves the power ? Or....?

    DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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    By tern @1goodtern

    I said two months ago that a vicious and large scale assault on the truth was about to hit, and now it's here.

    You've seen it, haven't you?

    I said two months ago that a vicious and large scale assault on the truth was about to hit, and now it's here. You've seen it, haven't you?

    The main messages are those old chestnuts:

    That the mitigations were worse for us than the disease (🚨 false)

    That the ongoing ill health problems are caused by the mitigations (🚨 false)

    That Covid is over (🚨 false)

    All three are important, but the first one is the most important right now. And I say 'right now' deliberately.

    Full thread here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1759868713522647359.html

    Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/1goodtern/status/1759868713522647359

    @auscovid19

    Andii,
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    @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19
    Why worry? Well...
    "There are government planning groups in the UK right now shitting themselves about measles.
    I know it may not seem like a big deal right now, because you're not paying full attention to it, but behind closed doors, there are civil servants who are genuinely squirming.
    They're caught between a pressing public health issue and political masters who have doubled down on vax and relax as the solution for an increasing number of issues."

    Andii, to random
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    The picture shows that 87 billion pounds was gained by two oil companies last year. While the Labour party pledge was (now dropped) 28billion to invest in a greener future.
    https://dbqvwi2zcv14h.cloudfront.net/images/UK_28bn_climate_pledge_announcement_square.jpg

    Companies like BP and Shell caused the climate crisis, and in the last two years they’ve made a combined £87 billions in profit. How about we tax them properly to pay for our transition to just, green, cheaper energy for all?

    dcjohnson, to random
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    People in the UK are frogs in water getting ever hotter. I moved here last year - I see the water boiling.

    NHS, BBC, trains, etc - collapsing from years of "conservative" anti-government cuts, a strategy to privatize so only wealthy get the gains.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/01/royal-mail-killed-lying-politicians-lousy-managers-ruthless-moneymen

    Andii,
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    @dcjohnson
    "Since privatisation, Royal Mail has been slowly bleeding cash to shareholders, while service quality has palpably deteriorated. Shareholders had never been necessary to Royal Mail’s viability prior to privatisation and have been jeopardising it since.”

    Andii, to uk
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    "... in Scotland - where there is no cull, and the government has taken other measures - bovine tuberculosis has been eradicated altogether ...the [] government already ignored the experts when they introduced the cull in the first place, and they’re set to ignore them again. We need to send them a message, from hundreds of thousands of members of the public..."
    If that's you, then:
    https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stop_the_cull_loc/

    GottaLaff, to iowa
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    Via Angry Staffer:

    Sounds like someone’s internal polls aren’t looking great 😉

    Ron Filipkowski:

    says his opponents in the upcoming Iowa caucus are going to try and cheat.

    Andii,
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    @GottaLaff
    If that is so, what's happening to erode Dumpf's support?

    ArtBear, (edited ) to random

    fun with SO,

    Grifting Bells,
    Gifting Smells,
    Shopping all the way!
    Oh what fun,
    It is to run,
    To the mall all holiday! Yay!

    Andii,
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    @ArtBear
    *Griftmas ?

    Andii,
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    @ArtBear
    I thought as much: I like it.
    You'd put "giftmas" and I thought there perhaps could be an 'r' to insert...

    DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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    🇫🇮 Finland: Air purifiers use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third

    "It would be a big savings if we could get rid of 30% of sick days spread by children, as well as the illnesses that go home to parents"

    #COVID19 #Finalnd #AirPurifiers #CleanAir @auscovid19

    Source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381

    Andii,
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    @Schouten_B @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19
    So, sanitation and immunisation are good things. Glad to know we agree.
    Now, what's wrong with applying the lessons of clean water to air indoors?
    If it really turned out that we need frequent challenges to the body's immune systems, then let's work out a safe way to do that. Let's not make it easier for new, potentially lethal, pathogens to run riot.

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    @Schouten_B @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19
    But mothers' milk and public health measures probably would help quite a lot. Finding ways to limit exposure to mutating viruses especially in seasons when we know they flourish (because we spend way more time indoors in conditions clearly very unlike our ancestral savannah, living in groups way bigger than the bands of hunter gatherers we started out with).

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    @Schouten_B @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19
    I'm very happy to eliminate colds if it were possible (I'm also happy to let children play in the garden, dig around there, occasionally eat stuff from there that hasn't been washed I'm not a coddler either). Meantime, limiting the spread of colds, 'flu, SarsCov19 is no bad thing. Seriously.
    Happy to consider further if /when your "may" becomes "almost certainly". Public health is a numbers game -the greatest good to the greatest number.

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    @Schouten_B @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19
    I saw this and thought of our earlier exchange. Enjoy! -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
    First moiety is the most pertinent. Please note the mortality figures.

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