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junesim63

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Retired researcher living in Nottinghamshire, England.

#Socialist #Politics #Environment #Cats #Gardening #Wildlife #Opera #ClassicalMusic #Refugees #HumanRights #AlcoholFree #WearAMask #NoBridge

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Avatar: Me, a white woman with short, greying brown hair. Wearing a large pair of red spectacles.

Header: Climate Stripes going from blue on the left to terrifying red on the right.

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timnitGebru, to random
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First time since the start of the pandemic where I momentarily stopped following my own protocols & first time I got My symptoms seem to be gone now thankfully, but even after getting the "mild" kind, I don't understand how people can be so nonchalant about this disease.

And this is literally 2 weeks after I got the 4th booster that's available in the US. I can imagine how it damages the organs, so many different things that people can experience.

junesim63,
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@timnitGebru So glad that you feel better, but please keep resting for at least two weeks to avoid any long covid symptoms.

junesim63, to trans
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"We’re not the most well-informed,” says Peter, 57, who wears a small ‘trans ally’ pin on his T-shirt.
“We make mistakes and don’t always use the right words,” adds Caroline, 56.

“But what we hope we can do to help the trans community is humanise the debate. This is just an ordinary family; a coherent, loving family that’s been ripped apart,” Peter continues"

"Not because Alice was transgender,” his wife says, “but because of the reaction to her being trans”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/06/she-just-wanted-to-live-how-she-wanted-to-couple-mourn-their-trans-daughter

junesim63, to UKpolitics
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The Government’s independent advisor to its Rape Review, Emily Hunt, has quit claiming there is a “lack of will” in the police and civil service to change.

She said myths about rape are perpetuated at high levels of the civil service and police. She is returning to the US as she says she does not feel safe in Britain.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/government-channel-4-news-people-ministry-of-justice-b2424944.html

junesim63, to climate
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September 2023 beat the previous record for that month by 0.5C, the largest jump in temperature ever seen. September was about 1.8C warmer than pre-industrial levels.
"September was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist, absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” said Zeke Hausfather, at the Berkeley Earth climate data project.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/05/gobsmackingly-bananas-scientists-stunned-by-planets-record-september-heat?CMP=firstedition_email

junesim63, to environment
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Shares in some of the UK’s biggest housebuilders rose sharply last month, on the news that the government proposed to relax rules that would have hindered them from polluting waterways.

Well, colour me surprised. Some of the biggest donors to Tory party coffers are construction company bosses, and an election is looming.
Meanwhile, their new developments can continue to overload local sewage systems and pollute wetlands with impunity.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/04/uk-housebuilders-save-billions-government-delays-low-carbon-rules?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

ChrisMayLA6, to mentalhealth
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The financial costs of increasingly exact a cost on ...

It is a sobering comparison that rather than having three years of intellectual development & mental growth, students seem more likely to sink into ... no-one would expect university not to be challenging, but this should be empowering not debilitating....

There is something very wrong with how we treat university & we urgently need to fix it!

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/29/university-students-more-at-risk-of-depression-than-non-students-study

junesim63,
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@ChrisMayLA6 There is pressure now on huge numbers of students to aim for university, when many are not actually suited to an academic environment and would do better combining learning with work. We are forcing these young people into a narrow idea of what 'success' is, with the resulting fallout.

junesim63,
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@lauravivanco @ChrisMayLA6 The combination of work/learning I meant is a structured programme, much like the German lehre system, which combines academic and on the job training to attain professional qualifications, for example, in engineering, while earning a living wage. Perhaps I should have made it clearer.
But I take your point that the majority of today's students are forced to work to keep their heads above water, which also plays havoc with mental health. It's a crap system all round.

junesim63, to UKpolitics
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"Political monsters do not arise from nowhere: they are built, brick by brick, in a collective effort. Whether Braverman herself is the next Tory leader or not, Bravermanism is the future of the British right"

Owen Jones on the normalisation of extremism in the Conservative Party.
#ToryBritain #UKPolitics #SuellaBraverman

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/28/bravermanism-future-british-right-extreme-views-mainstream-suella-braverman

wcow, to TheArchers

In Ambridge last week, Ruth is furious when discovers that her best friend is going be her daughter in law. Pip spends all day long, on the chaise longue. On the chaise longue in her underwear, thinking about getting her muffin buttered or assigning someone to worry her mother. Excuse me. I’ll get the crisps.
Congratulations Ruth, your first Worst Character Of the Week Award this year. @thearchers

junesim63,
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@wcow @thearchers You have surpassed yourself this week.

junesim63, to climate
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"This action from Rishi Sunak is a disgusting betrayal of vulnerable people around the world, not to mention economic vandalism upon his own country,”
Mohamed Adow, Director, Power Shift Africa

“I find it shocking and really disappointing … I think he’s done the wrong thing. I’ve heard from many of my friends in the UK including a lot of Conservative party members who have used the phrase, ‘utter disgust’."
Al Gore


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/21/al-gore-rishi-sunak-climate-crisis?CMP=GTUK_email

curiousordinary, to folklore

In Japanese folklore Tesso is a yokai that takes the form of a gigantic rat and is the vengeful spirit of a monk named Raido who was betrayed by the emperor. Tesso gathered an army of rats that wreaked havoc on the places and people associated with Raido's betrayal.
@folklore
🎨Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1891.

junesim63,
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@curiousordinary @folklore A lesson for all those in power.

junesim63, to india
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"Whenever he’s found himself on the back foot during his nine-year tenure as India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi has tended to hunker down in that last refuge of scoundrel leaders everywhere: nationalism"

Siddharth Varadarajan on the latest skirmish in Modi's culture wars.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/india-name-change-bharat-pm-modi-b2408954.html

junesim63, to india
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As Rishi Sunak tries desperately to crowbar himself into relevance at the G20 summit in India, a timely article on how his role model Modi is turning India into an authoritarian surveillance state.

https://www.justsecurity.org/88061/indias-digital-governance-model-fails-on-rights/

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junesim63,
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@wcow @thearchers ooh matron...

junesim63, to wildlife
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This is an absolute disgrace. Not content with having slaughtered 50% of English badgers, the government is yet again bowing to the UK dairy lobby (which won't rest until it has totally eradicated English badgers).

I agree with Peter Hambly, executive director of the Badger Trust, who said they're using badgers as a scapegoat for not taking “more decisive” cattle-based action on bTB.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/badger-cull-end-tb-cattle-vaccine-b2401940.html

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junesim63,
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@wibble @thearchers I warn you, it's addictive.

junesim63, to Bloomscrolling
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The first Japanese anemone of the season.

junesim63, to climate
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Electric heating systems such as heat pumps “exist now” and need to be installed rather than waiting for other solutions like burning hydrogen, which are unproven, the new boss of E.On has said.

"Is the electrification of heating the right thing to do? Both in terms of the ability to decarbonise heating, does it make energy more affordable for customers, and does it create good jobs? It does all of those things"
Chris Norbury, CEO E.On UK

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/britons-e-on-b2395233.html

junesim63,
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@adnan It shouldn't be left to individuals. This is a huge job that should be led and funded by government.

junesim63, to random
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"Covid and long Covid vulnerability has been massively skewed to the most socioeconomically deprived – for example, those in jobs least compatible with working from home or taking time off when infected. By outsourcing vaccines to private medicine, we exacerbate this divide.”
Prof Danny Altmann

He's right. But this proposal is consistent with ideological Tory health privatisation and with making individuals responsible for their health, not the state.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/17/covid-booster-jabs-approved-for-sale-to-uk-public?CMP=GTUK_email

junesim63, to Futurology
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Carolyn Roberts is a water and environment consultant and emeritus professor at Gresham College, London. She writes today on why she is taking the six biggest English water companies to court on behalf of 20 million customers.

"People have had enough. Our historic class action could be the start of desperately needed change in the water industry"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/15/class-action-lawsuit-england-water-companies

ProjectFearlessness, to random

"We will shift heaven and earth to help people to get out of Afghanistan. We will do everything we can"

Boris Johnson, 2021.

"All 6 men who drowned in the Channel were Afghan. Afghans are running from Afghanistan because of the Taliban
They are on small boats because the U.K. government won’t open safe & legal routes for Afghans like they have for Ukrainians.
Don’t even know what to say anymore"

Peymana Assad, 2023.

junesim63,
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@ProjectFearlessness @simon_lucy the judge in the article is eligible and has finally been accepted onto the ACRS scheme. As Simon said, ARAP is for those who worked for the military and allied organisations.

mhoye, to random
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Re-upping this again: I wish more lefties could internalize the idea that hypocrisy is not a meaningful accusation to the right. Of course they're being hypocrites. That you are bound, by rules, standards, logic, human decency, some fundamental moral consistency, anything at all, and they are not? That is their conception of what power is, and why they seek it. So they can exercise power, without constraint, and you cannot.

That's the whole point.

Hypocrisy is the virtue-signaling of fascism.

junesim63,
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@mhoye
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time"
Frank Wilhoit

junesim63, to india
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"India matters. Our 1.3 billion people are on track to overtake China as the world’s most populous nation, and will leverage all the financial and strategic influence that position entails. India’s loss of tolerance is thus a global loss. Our country is a new superpower acting to destroy basic freedoms. Our government is defined by its authoritarian tendencies, paranoia and desperation for control"
#Manipur #India #Modi #Fascism #BJP #Hindutva

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/09/narendra-modi-bjp-india-manipur-violence?CMP=GTUK_email

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    @NatureMC
    Alles gut zum Jahrestag!
    Happy anniversary!
    Bon anniversaire!

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