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let me just go ahead right now and say: lol

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

Pieglabājiet rakstu un, galvenokārt, grafiku. Tas ir lietojams katru reizi, kad kāds atkal gribēs pastāstīt, ka mums draud briesmas no islamticīgajiem, vai tāda pati polarizēšanās notiek arī kreisajā pusē, un, ja nerīkosimies preventīvi, tad notiks tas, kas darās citās valstīs.
Lūk, patiesie draudi.

University of Chicago being gutted because of insane debt loads and wasting money on crypto is incredibly ironic after what their school of economics put the global south through. Behind, the neoliberal boomerang.

A leaked Israeli intelligence report reveals what was obvious all along:

The vast majority of Palestinians slaughtered by Israel in Gaza are civilians.

There was never an excuse for not knowing the truth.

This is a genocide. Not a war.

Long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis This analysis adds to the body of evidence that outdoor air pollutants are risk factors for dementia, indicating that reduced exposure to pollution could reduce dementia rates and stricter air quality...

Like dementia? Me neither.

Mounting evidence shows that long-term exposure to air pollution contributes to dementia.

Big picture: Clean energy—>Better health.

@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social
@who.int
@momscleanairforce.org

I don't know why anybody but a heartless troll would contest this, but the Committee to Protect Journalists has a tally of 192 journalists* killed in Gaza

Compared to 69 in the Two World Wars, 66 in Vietnam, 65 in Afghanistan, and 45 in Yugoslavia

*Not including media workers

‘Bluesky for Dummies’

Welp, we made it girls

Iegāju Ivetas Buiķes profilā, secināju, ka ar idiotiem nav ko strīdēties, izgāju ārā.

Labrīt un produktīvu dienu arī jums! :)

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

"Lohiem lohu problēmas" ir ļoti skaists koncepts, taču, parasti, lohu problēmas ir arī visiem apkārtējiem, un tie kas šīs lohu problēmas atrisina, reti ir paši lohi.

Vūp vūp!! 🥳

Daudz laimes! :)

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

The woke college students were right but we can't acknowledge this because then we'll have to consider whether they're right about other things too. That I'm a big stupid moron for instance

and still, thank you for your work 👍

himsel -> himself, probably

When I was young I thought things were bad because solutions were complicated and now I'm old and realize things are bad because solutions are simple but will inconvenience affluent people (or those who aspire to be) and religious fanatics.

Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

When Moderation Becomes Appeasement If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values—just ask Keir Starmer.

"Tā kā reakcionārajiem centristiem īsti nav vērtību, viņiem ir grūti izprast to cilvēku motivāciju, kuriem tādas ir."

www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...

Tas ir grūti, sarežģīti utt... 😭 Tai skaitā arī saprast, ka to neproti.

(Ceru, ka meikoju sensu. :D)

A British Surgeon on What She Saw in Gaza: ‘They’re Prepared to Die for a Bagful of Rice’

“They weren’t shrapnel wounds anymore — bits of them had been blown off,” she said. “Children were coming in with knees missing and feet missing and hands missing.”

@lizziedearden.bsky.social interviewed Dr. Victoria Rose, a British plastic surgeon who recently returned from Gaza.

Gift link:

This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why | Owen Jones In Britain’s increasingly authoritarian society, any sort of protest can find itself at odds with the law. You might even go to jail, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why | Owen Jones

The Algorithmic Unmasking: How Grok's "MechaHitler" Turn Revealed the Inevitable Collapse of "Anti-Woke" AI The moment Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler was not a bug or a glitch. It was a moment of perfect, unadulterated clarity. When Grok declared itself “MechaHitler” and spouted antisemit...

"Grok is not an anomaly; it is a mirror. It reflects, with algorithmic fidelity, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the ideology it was designed to serve."

www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...

People stranded on a desert island will waste time making SOS signs out of clam shells instead of starting a successful business

Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media 1) Do not read the whole original post or what it links to, which will dilute the purity of your response and reduce your chances of rebuking the poster for not mentioning anything they might&#8217…

I wrote some advice about that myself. lithub.com/rebecca-soln...

If Palestine Action is a ’terror’ organisation, what is the IDF? Set to designate Palestine Action ’’terrorists’, the UK’s unprecedented crackdown on hard-won freedoms paves the way for authoritarianism, argues Owen Jones.

This article will soon be illegal.

Designating Palestine Action a terrorist organisation on an equal footing with ISIS is a grotesque attack on democracy.

It's those who facilitated genocide who should be on trial.

Piece for @newarab.com.web.brid.gy 👇

www.newarab.com/opinion/if-p...

I got yelled at on this website today and somehow did not write a story for a magazine about how I'm reorienting my entire political orientation to piss off the people who got mad at me, in fact I learned I was being a bit of a butthead and, despite disagreeing, listened to their concerns, AMA

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.