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sps, 2 days ago to Cat

Dozer sums up my position on adulting today.

#cat

sps, 4 days ago to Cat

#Cat in basket update:

The cat is not in the basket.

sps, 7 days ago to Cat

#Cat in basket update:

The cat is in the basket.

sps, 11 days ago to random

It's May, and thousands of Canadians are already evacuating / under evac warnings for wildfires.

The likely next PM of Canada plans to take the price off of carbon consumption, and his provincial peers have done things like banning renewable energy development.

Our window for engagement with the climate crisis is closing.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/12/us/wildfire-smoke-from-british-columbia-causing-dangerous-air-quality/index.html

sps, 20 days ago to random

Canadian city politics work so well without political parties.

Let's move that up a few levels.

Ban political parties.

Legislate by consensus.

sps, 21 days ago to random

I will make what are apparently very controversial statements:

Genocide is bad.

Please stop.

tkinias, 23 days ago to random

Keeping your “ooh, I need to get this book” list in the form of open browser tabs is great and all—right up to the point where you inadvertently close the wrong browser tab.

purplepadma, 23 days ago to random

I think I’m going to have a smoothie. So there

sps, 28 days ago to Cat

#Cat in basket update:

The cat is in the basket.

purplepadma, 29 days ago to random

Back from the cafe. I have achieved my main goal for the day, which was to post a 50th birthday card to my best friend from school. Second goal I will need Tom’s help, it’s to tidy the bedroom enough so it can be cleaned tomorrow. I just can’t do it alone.

sps, 1 month ago to random

Ok, so now we've got reports of mass graves in #Gaza, reliable enough that the senior responsible UN official is calling it out...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/23/as-more-bodies-found-un-human-rights-chief-horrified-by-gaza-mass-graves

I know the history of the Einsatzgruppen...

sps, 1 month ago to Cat

#Cat in basket update:

The cat is in the basket.

sps, 1 month ago to random

A few things, since I post about my horror of the genocide in #Gaza regularly:

1. It is a genocide;
2. The Oct 7 raid was an act of terror;
3. Israel has the right to proportionate self-defense;
4. Sexual violence, kidnapping, illegal detention, torture, and murder are all heinous;
5. While structural forces build and propel this violence, most individual Palestinians and Jews are innocent;
6. Human rights are universal; and
7. Opposing a government based on its policies is not bigotry.

sps, 1 month ago to random

Dr Cass (of the damaged and damaging #CassReview) is walking back her own conclusions - if anyone is paying attention.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dr-cass-backpedals-from-review-hrt

(Source: https://thekitetrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Cass-Review-Mythbusting-Q-and-A.pdf )

#TransRights #MedicalWrongs

tkinias, 1 month ago to random

I just read that a single Bitcoin transaction requires upwards of 1,000 kW-hr of electricity.

That’s like running a small air conditioner 24/7 for a month and a half.

sps, 1 month ago to random

Most emergency surgical interventions are not aligned with science because trauma surgeons aren't letting patients die to establish appropriate control group

• Retired paediatric allergist

#CassReview

StillIRise1963, 1 month ago to random

In 2024, librarians are freedom fighters.

GrimmReality, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

I saw this segment on Times (UK) Radio where an older going-way-back feminist campaigner was telling a somewhat younger feminist and boisterous pal-of-Joanne-Rowling that she, the older lady, had fought every iteration of conservative bigotry going back to when they actually arrested and beat up and tortured gay people for being gay and the language of the anti-trans people sounds exactly the same as it did back then because the language of the in-group trying the beat the out-group into line is ALWAYS the same. The younger feminist snapped back that, well, you see, that's how WE (Joanne and her, I guess) are different, we're NOT the conservative Ancien Regime shitheads, we are proud liberals, so that tells you our particular notion of whom to unperson is just and correct, and, man . . .

I don't know how to fucking tell you this in a nice way because there really isn't a nice way but when you agree with Tories and Republicans and actual fucking neo-Nazis full-throatedly and out loud, specifically in support of a newly minted public Holocaust-denier, to insist your pet bigotry is the ONE bigotry in the entirety of a history of Proper Society stomping on the faces of marginalized people that is THE smart and well-meant bigotry, you've turned in your Decent Human Being Card. You are as right-wing as the shit you do and, TERFS, you are right-wing as every last fuck because - and I cannot yell this loudly enough - you agree with literally the shittiest people in the fucking world. And I know that won't move you to fuck off, as you should, or at least try to be a better person, but, in any rational timeline, it fucking well would.

sps, 1 month ago to politics

Vote Hermes!

• Universal Basic Catnip
• Defund the water sprayers
• Single-payer universal vet care
• Federal catio strategy
• Hybrid nap and scritch environments

Hermes:
A Better #Caturday. Every Day.

#politics

sps, 1 month ago to Cat

#Cat in the basket update:

The cat is in the basket.

sps, 1 month ago to Parenting

4yo teacup human, out of the blue:

"Don't let books feel your blood. They'll want more."

returns to playing

#parenting #books

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