Also I’m not gonna let the linguistic point go: the BBC, the courts, and now the NHS all refer to trans people using slurs as a matter of official policy. That’s where Britain is at now.
Pleased to announce my new paper: Herbarium specimens spanning nearly two centuries revealed striking ecological & geographical differences between two ploidy-defined subspecies of Eleocharis palustris in Britain. Ploidy & genome size could help explain them. doi.org/10.33928/bib...
Until very recently, the word “woke” conveyed something beautiful: political awakening in the context of the African-American liberation struggle. The way it has been forcibly stripped from that context and transformed into a ubiquitous term of derision is shockingly cruel & inherently anti-black 1/
Against that background, it is utterly obtuse for anyone who considers themselves even vaguely progressive to continue spending their time dwelling on “woke excesses” in the year of our lord twenty twenty six. This is facile, unserious behaviour, betraying deep naivety, at best 5/
I don’t care what he did or didn’t do; he was a human and deserved dignity and humane treatment and not to be sacrificed on the altar of culture wars and I’m so angry and sad for him.
Lots of people talking about how Arday needed to be held accountable, but you better believe not one single person will be held accountable for the way he was treated in the days leading up to this.
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The more they truly become pervert glasses the more there’s unfortunately gonna be a line out the door for them. And the people who are the implied object(s) will be people whom society has already agreed to largely not listen to, or care about their privacy & bodily autonomy😕
"what if anyone could go anywhere they wanted, can you imagine!" yeah it would be fucking class lmao
When Blair and his tech billionaires come with demands to pay workers less, the Labour government caves in 48 hours Workers rights are not rights at all unless applied to one and all. Pay all workers the same rate for the same job. Now.
this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for
Karina Lunai@karinalunai.bsky.social · 5mo agoWell said. It's also worth pointing out that even if we do miss the 2c target, hitting 2.1 is still better than 2.3. Climate tipping points are not all or nothing, there are multiple tipping points at different temperatures.
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This is all to quietly strip anonymity from the internet to have a chilling effect on politically inconvenient speech and to crack down on marginalized people by enabling potential "off the record" retaliation and to build the Thielian panopticon.
Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · 7mo agoMONTREAL – Federal Liberals have agreed to set 16 as the age of majority for Canadians to be able to use social media accounts.
While killing dozens of people in Lebanon (MOPH says 112, civil defense counts 250+, until now), Israel still found time to kill another one of our colleagues in Gaza.
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 7mo agoThis is a breaking news story.
the fantasy that people will rise to the moment, the fantasy that people will change on their deathbeds, the fantasy that people secretly want to do good and are working on themselves when all evidence points otherwise, the fantasy that the state is anything other than this
The United States is behaving in a way that is indistinguishable from how an advanced Third Reich would had it emerged victorious from World War 2, and nearly every leader in the developed world is now abandoning their duty to confront it, having acclaimed and legitimated it every step of the way.
My statement on what happened at Green conference. ✊✊ Justice for Palestine
If it’s not a regime change operation; if there is no intention to advance to a ground invasion; if the strategy is to provoke inter-ethnic uprisings and conflicts; if the plan is to smart bomb until there is none left, then switch to dumb bombs, then the practical objective is tacit: Genocide.
The Israeli and US attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth. We must build the grassroots capacity to interrupt the war machine or things will only get darker.
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The job of white nationalist ideology is twofold: - destroying or subjugating those deemed to be outside whiteness - eliminating any memory of or loyalty to any cultural value among those within the circle of whiteness that isn't white identitarianism.
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Microbial communities in semi-mature oak trees are resilient to drought, nutrient limitation, and pathogen challenge
Global forest biomes face increasing stressors and disease outbreaks that threaten ecosystem health. Tree-associated microbiota are vital for tree res…
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land mines should be illegal worldwide forever. this is shameful
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 9mo agoFinland’s military will initiate the acquisition of anti-personnel land mines and start training staff, conscripts and reservists to use them later this year, it says.
Like, I'm sorry the fascists are giving you difficult choices. But that's what fascists fucking do. The only legit answer is "fuck you make me". The only answer that shows you have actual fucking principles not preferences is "fuck you make me". And that sucks. But here we are.
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
Maia@maiamindel.bsky.social · 11mo agoso this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
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