Natalie B.

yeah. I know it feels like you should just be able to write the perfect words first time. if you go slow enough, you should be able to just find each next perfect word.

but it's not like that. it's like a bicycle. too slow & you fall. it has to be in motion even awkwardly to get where you're going.

Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK’s net emissions Campaign groups write to technology secretary amid concerns that sites could double overall electricity demand

Data centre developers are facing pressure to reveal whether their projects will increase UK greenhouse gas emissions. A letter to the government from campaigners comes amid concerns the sites could double electricity demand & threaten decarbonisation efforts. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

this quote post is part of a vital thread

of all the trans people I have met (bearing in mind we shoal together so that's loads), the one (1) detransitioner detransitioned because their family & friends rejected them, & they held huge sorrow about this. I feel so sad every time I think of them.

The decision to allow UK bases to be used in this escalation raises profound legal & security concerns. Parliament must be consulted before the UK is drawn further in

UK Government must work for de-escalation & uphold international law, not deepen its involvement in conflict 2/2

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.

In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.

This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

I get asked a lot what I'm giving up for Lent, and this year the answer is nothing. this is what I'm doing instead, and I'll tell you why, and you're invited to join in with me however it fits into your own spiritual or contemplative practices.

drive.google.com/file/d/15NhY...

this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

trans guy rescues a baby from Lake Michigan then gets a burger as soon as he’s discharged from the hospital is as Chicago a story as they come

OK which is it:

1) Muslim voters will bring in regressive Sharia and destroy democracy
2) Muslim voters will let in lefty woke Marxists and destroy democracy

I need them to pick ONE 🤣

Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

The sole promise of using LLM's in war is to entirely remove a Stanislaw Petrov from the decision chain.

(Oh, remember how LLM's were found to advocate nuclear strikes in 95% of tested scenarios?)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

Walking doesn't always work. sillylittlewalk.substack.com/p/i-go-on-a-...

for those fixated on congressional authorization, i get it. this is a massive violation of our constitutional order.

even so, congress *cannot* legitimize an illegal war. there is nothing congress can do to make it legal under int'l law.

Air power and elite special forces both make leaders feel like they have costless military options because any consequences are abstracted and delayed.

Those unable to value delayed gratification are equally unable to conceive of any price that's not immediate and obvious.

Absurdly dangerous.

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

HRW closely monitoring initial reporting that Israel and the United States have launched strikes on Iran. Our focus remains civilian protection and carrying out our mandate by monitoring for any violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.

This from a month ago - stuck me at the time as a very positive message.

Good grief

LMAO GET THEM ZACK! The look on their faces

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

"Are our [spiritual] practices ... creating space for diverse ways of being faithful, or do they quietly reinforce a single, idealized model of Christian life?"

- for some Christians – particularly autistic and other neurodivergent people – many commonly assumed rules are simply unattainable.

YouTube video by DRM News FULL VICTORY SPEECH: Hannah Spence Addresses After Historic Green Party Win in Gorton & Denton| AC1Z

Hannah Spencer victory speech
youtu.be/Tf7wVpDEvho?...

"We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other. We can demand better without hating each other"

Beyond exciting: magnificent! Go, Hannah, go!
💚💚💚

@zackpolanski.bsky.social having to explain that yes, its possible to talk about the cost of living crisis as well as opposing genocide.

A comic drawing of the trolley problem meme but a group of people are holding the trolley back while another group unties people from the track. Towards the top of the image are the words, "We can break free"

We can break free

This is very bad. Handing CNN to Bari Weiss/David Ellison is very, very bad.

some benevolent cyberpunk for you

stanley tucci with members of the gold medal winning USA women's hockey team

crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey

An angry pigeon flies into the camera, partially blocking a view of the Columbia University library.

The best photo I've ever taken of a bird in my whole entire life. Columbia University, 2010. #birding