Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦

ok ok i wrote about it
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Mind-Blowing Discovery: Peacocks Have Lasers In Their Tails Sharks with frickin' lasers are tired news.

“In a mind-blowing first for the animal kingdom, they discovered the eyespots on the fowl's fabulous feathers have unique properties that align light waves by bouncing them back and forth, effectively turning them into yellow-green lasers.”

#scicomm

www.sciencealert.com/mind-blowing...
🧪 🦚 🐤

Thank you, Sen. Schiff, for staying focused and seeking always to hold him accountable.

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Rewriting history: Smithsonian removes Trump, the only president impeached twice, from its exhibit about impeachment. "Only three presidents have seriously faced removal," the exhibit now says referring to Johnson, Nixon and Clinton @janaykingsberry.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Gerard Howlin: The EU status quo Ireland prospered in for 50 years is over Being at the centre in Brussels requires new credentials we have yet to acquire.

“In a country that succeeded in sensitising the EU to the intricacies of the Irish border, we seem tone deaf to the concerns of states in the east about Russia”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Trump Administration Cuts UCLA Funding Over Claims of Antisemitism, Chancellor Says The university is the latest to be targeted by the federal government over accusations that it has not done enough to fight antisemitism on campus.

The federal government is cutting research funds for the University of California, Los Angeles, over claims of antisemitism and bias at the institution, according to its chancellor.

SVT-journalister kan stoppas från att bevaka Gaza I går meddelade Sveriges Radio att de anställda som skrivit på det så kallade Gad-uppropet kan stoppas från att bevaka Gaza. SVT överväger att följa samma linje

”– Medarbetare på Ekot har yttrandefrihet som alla andra, men tar man ställning offentligt i kontroversiella frågor kan det påverka vilka frågor man kan bevaka, säger presschefen Claes Bertilsson till Dagens Media.”
Vilken är den kontroversiella frågan i uppropet?

Trump's mental decline is on vivid display as he rages about Epstein, windmills | Opinion It was nice of Donald Trump to travel to Scotland and show our European allies firsthand that the United States is led by a self-absorbed and deeply…

When Trump came to his mother Mary Anne MacLeod’s
homeland and raged about immigrants, “windmills”, Beyoncé and Jeffrey Epstein, the 79-year-old’s cognitive decline was plain to see.

@rexhuppke.bsky.social in @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Resolving Simpson’s paradox using poststratification
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We finally solved the mystery of how potatoes evolved | Natural History Museum Crisps and mash owe their existence to a series of precise events that took place nine million years ago.

What is the best way to eat potatoes?

Our scientists have been involved in working out exactly how the delicious vegetables evolved, discovering that they are actually a hybrid species.

Find out what this means 👇🏻
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Jews Like Mamdani Polls show that Hakeem Jeffries and Jonathan Chait are ignorant buttheads.

we finally have polling on how Jewish ppl in NY feel about Mamdani...and he's winning by 17 points.

this is why polls are useful. they give you a sense of what ppl think, and let you know when leaders and pundits are full of shit. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/jews-like-...

"Putin has a very thin skin..." An interview with George Robertson on the defence review, Ukraine and what he discussed with Putin when NATO Secretary General

“I think the European Union posed a bigger threat to Russia and to Putin than did NATO, because the European Union changes countries fundamentally while NATO is a defence arrangement. The European Union was a real challenge to the Putin model”
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DN Debatt. ”Nya trygghetslagar för Sverige mot en dystopi – vem vågar protestera?” DN Debatt. Advokat: När rättigheterna väl har inskränkts kommer det vara så gott som omöjligt att backa tillbaka.

Skriver idag på DN Debatt om ett samhälle där trygghet ständigt används som argument för nya lagar som inskränker fri- och rättigheter.

När rättigheterna väl har inskränkts kommer det vara så gott som omöjligt att backa tillbaka till ett friare samhälle.

Läs gärna.

www.dn.se/debatt/vem-v...

Keir Starmer's Government Still Hasn't Reviewed Use of Musk's X Despite Platform 'Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation' Downing Street continues to refuse to explore communicating through alternative platforms, like Bluesky, despite the role of X in last summer's violent disorder

🔴 Keir Starmer’s Government Still Hasn’t Reviewed Use of Musk’s X Despite Platform ‘Amplifying Hate Speech and Misinformation’

Downing Street continues to refuse to explore communicating through alternative platforms, like Bluesky, despite the role of X in last summer’s violent disorder

“It is frankly terrifying to see how easily and shamelessly Columbia has thrown its international students, its students of color and its transgender students under the bus."

COMMENT | The search engine once offered easy access to all the world’s knowledge. Increasingly, it just offers the ability to feel like you know something, writes Andrew Griffin

Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban Huda Ammori argued that home secretary’s decision to proscribe group under terrorism laws was ‘abuse of power’

Good news

On Saturday the largest ever trans march, in the world, took place in London. Over 100,000 marched on Westminster in a peaceful & righteous display. The BBC didn’t cover it. After all, it more than any other medium has normalised transphobia in the UK by inviting far right lobbyists to demonise them

Svenska läkaren: Regeringen medskyldig till Gazas kris Arbetade i Gaza i fem veckor • Ministern: ”Rätt bakbunden”

"Bland annat vill man införa sanktioner mot israeliska extrema ministrar."
Detta är alltså den SD-styrda regeringens plan. En icke-handling som inte kommer påverka någonting överhuvudtaget. Samtidigt är man fortfarande - som få andra - medskyldig till dagens katastrof.
www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...

Polisens övervakningsiver är i förlängningen samhällsskadlig. Dessutom är det knappast proportionerligt att använda drönare för massövervakning på det sätt som nu sker, till synes slentrianmässigt. Läs om varför t ex här: www.altinget.se/rikspolitik/...

Labour party member here. There's a bland offensiveness in this announcement coming from a government that's just spent months ignoring, and ultimately rejecting, the process and outcome of its own consultation with creators/our professional organisations on the subject of AI and copyright.

Så finansierar Ikea israelisk propagandakanal Dagens ETC kartlägger de internationella företag som sänder reklam på den ultranationalistiska Kanal 14.

Och:

I went out to challenge the law used to ban Palestine Action. Would I be arrested too? | George Monbiot Around the country, peaceful protesters see their actions as the legitimate exercise of free speech. The police often disagree – and that’s a problem for our democracy, says Guardian columnist George ...

“When people who oppose all forms of violence, who are trying to stop war and terrorism, are arrested on terrorism charges, nothing makes sense any more” - spot on from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Japan releases guidelines for IT giants regarding smartphone apps The guidelines prohibit companies like Google and Apple from using data obtained through their operating systems to develop products with competitive advantages.

Japan Fair Trade Commission guidelines set to take effect in December will prohibit companies like Google and Apple from excluding other companies' app stores from the platforms.

Palestinian activist and participant in the Oscar-winning film, No Other Land, Odeh Hadalin was shot in the chest and killed by an Israeli settler in the Occupied West Bank.

The shooter, Yinon Levi, has been under sanctions by both the EU and the US.

where is the palestinian gandhi oh they shot him

Man är vad man äter, eller hur nu talesättet går. Dvs det tar inte lång tid för en normalbegåvad person att se igenom div. partiers charmiga yttre, om det skiljer sig avsevärt från handling.

Jag vill passa på här att påminna om att Sveriges regering stoppat stödet till Unrwa, vägrat att ta emot skadade barn från Gaza och vägrat att kräva att avtalet med Israel ska upphävas.

Det är alltså Pontus Lundkvist

Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason.

Tae Heung Kim, 40:
- Lived in US since he was 5
- Has green card
- Getting PhD at Texas A&M
- Researching vaccine for Lyme disease
- Has 1 minor pot charge from 2011, since sealed

Also: Detained incommunicado by DHS after returning from wedding in Korea

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...