Nita Noor

I just got my electricity bill.

It's up 125%.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with the fact that Indiana is becoming the data center nucleus of the midwest.

Gerhard Marcks. Vampire (1948)

UN accuses US of violating human rights laws in Caribbean and Pacific airstrikes In a statement Friday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said there was “no justification in international law” for the missile strikes that have killed over 60 people.

UN accuses US of violating human rights laws in Caribbean and Pacific airstrikes

For the last two months, the US government has been conducting an illegal murder spree in international waters under the pretext of combating “narco-terrorists.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

a post in heart evangelista's instagram, a poem titled "vincent please don't gogh" Please do not be Vincent; don't Gogh because you've not been loved. Since the Starry Night I met you, my smile's beamed brighter than the heavens above.

been crying at this for the past hour

Trump administration revokes visa of Wole Soyinka, first African writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature Soyinka, 91, has repeatedly criticized the Trump administration over its inhumane treatment of immigrants.

Trump administration revokes visa of Wole Soyinka, first African writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

“Human beings deserve to be treated decently wherever they are”

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

the alt text kills it! 🤣

US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for nonviolent art museum protester ‘It’s hard to fathom how a peaceful protester can receive more prison time than many of the insurrectionists,’ said one researcher, of Timothy Martin’s sentence

It's not that I want art museums to become a site of flung paint; it's that I don't want us to all die on a burning planet.

It's washable paint. It's on a glass vitrine. There was no damage to art whatsoever. Epstein rapists go free and climate activists sit in jail. What a world.

A bit belated, but happy to have our preprint, “An Ecological Theory of Democracy,” out.

We consider political party competition in light of classic ecological theory. Led by a talented former undergrad, Riley Fotis, in collaboration with Brendan O’Leary (neither on bluesky).

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A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Following the recent ominous Bluesky controversies got me thinking about how a Bluesky exodus would play out. So I dug into the studies of the 2022 Mastodon migration from Twitter: I found 14 studies.

Here's my new post @plos.org

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/30/a...

#Mastodon #Fediverse

‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health? Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis

‘Not only is it non-invasive and easy to obtain but, most importantly, menstrual blood is unique in that it contains cells and molecules that reflect the state of a uterus. It can deliver messages to doctors that other bodily fluids may not. It is just “so different” from blood drawn from a vein...’

Awumbuk Awumbuk: There is an emptiness after visitors depart. The walls echo. The space which felt so cramped while they were here now seems weirdly large. Sometimes everything seems a bit pointless. The indi...

Awumbuk: There is an emptiness after visitors depart. The walls echo. The space which felt so cramped while they were here now seems weirdly large. Sometimes everything seems a bit pointless. The indigenous Baining people who live in the mountains of Papua New Guinea.. gsashowcase.net/work/awumbuk/

*stares at the Doomsday clock as its hand slowly edges closer to midnight* 🫨

IIRC it's only been North Korea that has tested nukes since the year 2000, so testing weapons in this century is indeed a statement being made on the global scale.

In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

good idea.

Bloody sunset from the French Alps, in the Chamonix valley…

#photography #nature #art #sunset

YouTube video by Open to Debate Should the U.S. Be Ruled by a CEO Dictator? Curtis Yarvin debates E. Glen Weyl

The rivals' positions barely differ: both chase "maximum efficiency" for society and maximum "output" from individual people.

Who needs all their efficiency, which in the end has nothing to do with being human?
youtu.be/irc6creOFGs?...

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'

We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.

Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.

Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

Larissa MacFarquhar has an excellent piece on the mind's eye today: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... She mentioned my 2010 piece in Discover and my 2015 Times story. Links here. Glad to have helped my readers with aphantasia! www.discovermagazine.com/the-brain-lo... & nyti.ms/3J1OkMY

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT from Morocco to Japan

Record heat everywhere:
43C in North Africa,40C Middle East,35C Central Asia (former USSR),
MINIMUMS >27C in Southern Japan (Chichijma)
+record heat in Southern Africa,Australia and Caribbean
>150 countries are breaking record.Insane

A Kernel of Truth A haunting modern parable about truth, distortion, and destruction—how one kernel of truth can grow into a fire that burns the world.

It begins with a kernel of truth—real, small, just.
Then we feed it, twist it, and burn for it
…until truth itself is consumed.

A story as old as fire.
Lived again.

Read my latest poetic reflection: A Kernel of Truth

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#Philosophy #Futurism #Storytelling

Woven woollen shoes with rainbow colours, from tomb no. 5, Niya, Xinjiang, ca. 2-3rd century AD.

[Photo via Museum of Kyoto twitter]

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Close-up photo of a large flower with pale blue petals, those near the center are yellow and stamen-like. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.

Nymphaea ‘Pamela’ is a Tropical Day-Blooming waterlily. Tropical waterlilies tend to be larger and more fragrant than their Hardy cousins, and they tend to bear their flowers well above the surface of the water (Hardy waterlilies usually sit right on the surface). #Nymphaeaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

It’s Pleiades season again! 🎉

Fun fact, the Pleiades isn’t an emission nebula, but a reflection nebula, meaning all of the light seen here is being reflected from the enormous blue stars within!

Time: 6.5hrs
Scope: Carbonstar 150p
Mount: Eq6-R Pro
Camera: ZWO ASI533mc Pro

#astrophotography

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel The Rise of the Thielverse & the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) | The Chris Hedges Report

Whitney Webb traces the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Hands up if you will not be using the new Atlas browser …. ever?!

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Why food prices are still rising: butter, beef and milk to blame Household staples including butter, coffee, milk and chocolate are driving food price inflation, with extreme weather playing a part in pushing up the cost of living.

It's now getting serious:

"Prices for these five foods – butter, beef, milk, coffee and chocolate – have risen by an average of 15.6% over the past year, compared with just 2.8% for other food and drink [1]."

Largely driven by extreme weather

Further developments will not be linear...

#climate

Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans: lies, smears - and the truth Tel Aviv's police ban the city's derby after Maccabi hooligans rioted. You cannot make this sh*t up.

Those backing the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans visiting Birmingham were smeared as antisemites.

Then Tel Aviv police banned the city's derby after riots.

This whole saga is defined by lies and smears.

Here's the truth 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/maccabi-te...