Chris Mack

Guns don't kill people, people do, oh wait...

Where is the Gaza ‘peace process’ really going? | Ahmad Ibsais Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ‘ceasefire’

Where is the Gaza ‘peace process’ really going? | Ahmad Ibsais www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What we misunderstand in the debate over free speech | Avram Alpert Freedom of speech requires freedom of thought – and the American political climate poses a serious threat to it

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Heat map of travel efficiency, updated

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

British.

The green plate effect: Systematic review and meta-analyses of vegan diets and metabolic health in adults- findings from randomized controlled trials The increasing global interest in consuming plant-based diets, especially the vegan diet, is fuelled by ethical, health, and environmental concerns. A…

🥗 Vegan diets and health

A new study reviewing trials found vegan diets help people lose weight and lower cholesterol and blood sugar, especially in those with type 2 diabetes.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#SciComm #Nutrition 🧪

The Misleading Panic over Misinformation People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...

#England #StGeorgesCross #Intersectional #Migrants #Refugees #Welcome

@852dude.bsky.social Any chance of removing all the FPL posts from the NUFC group?

The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists The media are legitimising the murder of journalists by Israel – and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of western colonial control in the Middle East

The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists.

Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-bbc-he...

Statement from NUFC fans against sportswashing on club chairman facing lawsuit NUFC Fans against Sportswashing is calling on Yasir al-Rumayyan to resign as Chairman of Newcastle United Football club

Statement from NUFC fans against sportswashing on club chairman facing lawsuit northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

Congratulations England women! Absolute legends.

An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

1. One thing you need to realise about the British Establishment is that it uses clowns to express its deepest desires. People like Rod Liddle offer a kind of deniability - "lighten up, he's just having a laugh". But they deliver a closer representation of its truths than any sober editorial.

Three Years Since Ethical Veganism Became Protected in Great Britain I could see the row of cameras outside. I had just dictated my statement to Megan, the press office of the legal firm representing me (Slater and Gordon) had assigned me for the case.

Whilst I 100% endorse where you're coming from the Equality Act offers protection for religion or belief, and it's under belief that being an ethical vegan became protected in 2020. Article below, see Grainger's Test. Anything anti-trans would surely fail criteria 5? veganfta.com/blog/2023/01...

I'm sure they'll be deploying Agent Tonali to maximum effect!

Well played though to A+M. Instead of building a squad for the long term they went for it, bought world class players and got that trophy. Even if PSR issues meant they had to go it's changed everything for club

Totally, he was such a huge loss. He would have fit in perfectly when Joelinton got injured. It's going to take me a while to get over. Suspect there was a lot more than meets the eye with that swap move!

Can we include Odysseas Vlachodimos as part of the deal? Particularly if we're getting Trafford in. £20m I hear is his value...

Am impasse I guess. But would still be good to understand why increasing the population locally or globally would be a good thing. Will take your suggestion and try to find someone who knows about it. And a good night to you too!

Easy tiger! So you think the number of people on the planet currently is below where it needs to be?

I'm talking on a planetary scale. One tiny corner has a TFR<1.5 and the instant response is to have more children. Similar argument to saying our emissions aren't significant so why should we bother reducing. It's contributing to the problem

Why is the number of births increasing a good thing exactly? The planet can't sustain constant growth of people

This BBC statement defames Bobby Vylan.

"Death to the IDF" is not antisemitic.

Declaring this to be so is antisemitic, because it conflates Jewish people as a whole with a genocidal army.

People's fury is directed at heinous crimes, not the ethnicity of the perpetrators.

interesting to see how much more coverage here we're getting of a chant at a music festival than the IDF being ordered to shoot and murder people in Gaza who are seeking aid!

An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's not town vs country, whatever the culture warriors might tell you. It's money and power vs people.
This week's column.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

EHRC formally abandons single-sex toilet stipulation | Good Law Project The EHRC’s rushed guidance caused harm from the moment it was released. But now they’re u-turning.

BREAKING: the EHRC has formally abandoned its contention that employers need to provide single sex toilets. goodlaw.social/4npg

Trump, Netanyahu and Khamenei – three angry old men who could get us all killed | Simon Tisdall Whether inept, driven by survival or corrupt, they are unfit to lead their countries, let alone make decisions that imperil the whole world, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don't let all the news distract you from the ongoing starvation and killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

The Israeli govt is deliberately trying to prevent news getting out . It dismisses what news there is as Hamas propaganda while refusing to let international journalists in. An information war too.

Just two? Syria might suggest otherwise!