I have no doubt whatsoever that this bill will pass. The German government is a mixture of incurious intellectual minnows, and hardcore corrupt authoritarians without any digital literacy.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

‘Unimaginable horrors’: more than 50,000 children reportedly killed or injured in the Gaza Strip www.unicef.org/press-releas...

a great demonstration of the total abyss of understanding in online culture of *why* bigotry is bad

This reminds me of “characters in books can’t consent to sex, so you’re actually a bad person for writing sex scenes” that goes around periodically.

Miller and the rest of the right wing propaganda apparatus ensure they remain the constant state of agitation required to ensure fealty. They will remain loyal as long as they remain aggrieved and believe the lie they are the actual victims of social progress.

it is important to avoid this "as a X" thing in part not to tokenize oneself but also bc it's at base totally meaningless. u can find anyone of any background who thinks anything.

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this is in the Prado and it's delightful

it's been unbelievable witnessing, throughout this dystopian nightmare, just how politically naive and downright ignorant Americans are

Just like the Holocaust, and just like then the rest of America is mostly just surviving, going to their jobs because the rent is due and the impotent politicians are either useless or collaborating. The US Nazis are not gassing people yet, but the German Nazis didn't start right away either.

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

The sunflower seed inspector is here.

It's been too late for a very long time. They took the antisemite's position that Israel=Jews a long time ago, and this is the logical endpoint of that, in with the fascists.

translators have been on the receiving end of "technology as wage suppression" for a while now - I quit working for an agency because they'd pay me nothing for 100% matches and next to nothing for "high" matches. which I still went through, obviously, bc translation isn't done in segments

Хората са изкарали някой лев от туристи... в сгради, построени върху коритото на река. Сега ще си поискат и държавна помощ за възстановяване на щетите на тези сгради. И така до следващия път. offnews.bg/obshtestvo/t...

I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it. end/🧵

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵

Най-продаваната (∈ 7 дни) аминокиселина в Озон е против херпес. Ето защо: Age standardised HSV-1 seroprevalence ranged from 52% in Finland, to 57% in the Netherlands, 67% in Belgium, 81% in Czech Republic, and 84% in Bulgaria.

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Ireland’s Occupied Territories Bill being hollowed out at the behest of US and Irish business interests Uninterrupted trade and investment being placed above compliance with international legal obligations and meaningful action to end atrocities in Palestine www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Her husband gets a mention before we learn her name…

literally asking a war ravaged person to bow down to his pet ideology before he's allowed to live

Even when they do everything they can for Israel, if they don't do 101% and salute every demand and every manic whim, then they are Hamas. Fucking idiots will never learn.

welcome to 2025, where even little website quirks are actually a cover up for genocidal war crimes

"don't be misandrist" is well-meaning advice but this is what the world gives me to go on

Investment funds that have expanded into the lending business need to be regulated more tightly before they can cause another financial crisis, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said today.

Going to school, eating chocolate, playing football: among the wishes of children in #Gaza. They should be the everyday reality for all children. Over 1 million children in Gaza are traumatised and in need of mental health and psychosocial support. #CeasefireNow

“You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take.” Don DeLillo, The Body Artist

I am admittedly just going on vibes here but it seems like AI slop is burning out with all but the very dumbest people and even those people still want to see real people doing stuff

"едно от основните дерета не е почистено от потопа отпреди 2 г. и е причина да залее къщите наоколо днес [...] не са взети мерки от предишното наводнение. Този път е много по-страшно"

И не могат да проумеят иронията как съседната им статия им самите те(!) показват защо концесиите са инструмент за ограбване на обществения ресурс и придобиване на Бугатита от нискочели наркотрафиканти с наши пари срещу мизерна услуга Когнитивния дисонанс ги удря по главите, но те са чугунени!

С интерес следим успешното развитие на приватизацията на публични услуги, където пионери бяха Великобритания на оная дясна икона Тачър… Фалит и екологична катастрофа, всичко се притежава от банки, чиито печалби се изплащат от високите цени на основно благо. Тоест - точно както можеше да се очаква.

I live in Gaza, a scary war . My family is going through the hardest times ever, please don't leave us alone. If you are scrolling, comment with "You are not alone " or leave a dot, it's just a dot. chuffed.org/project/1367...

The starting point for all of them is “so we all assume everybody who’s not Judeo-Christian is some kind of rock-eating savage, right?” and then they might get more racist from there depending on their audience

🧵 On a sad night, I think that poetry can help a tiny amount in soothing the mind & sharing the solidarity of grief after events in Manchester. This is a poem written by the great Primo Levi & it talks about our connectedness. When evil men try to divide us, we must hug each other tighter. [1]

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Her mother being conspiranut Kay 'Kate' Shemirani, who was struck off as a nurse in 2021 for spreading Covid-19 misinformation

Награда от СБП за Томосекла и нейните хора 🥳 @vilervale.bsky.social

Only two countries have responded - at a governmental level -to the abduction of the GSF delegates and interdiction of the Global Summed Flotilla. It's a disgrace, where are the international voices? It's not as if they haven't had enough time to prepare responses for this eventuality.

More than a few critics called Mary Lee's It's a Great War! the best American novel of World War One. And yet, you've probably never heard of it. I hadn't until I stumbled across a mention back in 2021. It's a stunning impressionistic account of war from a woman's viewpoint. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Remember quinoa? newleftreview.org/issues/ii85/... "Domestic consumption of the pearly grains declined by a third between 2005 and 2010, as the export price tripled. Malnutrition is up in quinoa-growing regions."

Yep, the people who immediately leap on this to further their own cause, to get 'their take' in first... are sickening. It's like they're pleased to have this to use

The Global Sumud Flotilla is transporting medicine and food to Gaza and consists of more than 40 civilian boats with about 500 parliamentarians, lawyers and activists. Follow Reuters live coverage: reut.rs/4766Cpd

These people show the way. While we click, they make a noise.

Israeli forces stopped 14 boats carrying foreign activists and aid bound for Gaza, flotilla organizers said, but 23 boats are continuing to sail towards the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave, according to the flotilla's tracking system reut.rs/487C9bv