This happens in every country. Domestic violence calls increase by ~36% (if they lose) or ~25% (if they WIN), about 10 hours after a match. Women should know that they are in greater danger during the FIFA World Cup. by @monaeltahawy.bsky.social www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-when...
Essay: When Football Goes Home
"If England gets beaten, so will she."
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Well-worn wins! Wild capuchin monkeys prefer stones w/ a proven track record of cracking nuts. Study @royalsociety.org #ProcB led by J. Henke-von der Malsburg & L. Luncz. @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @fbndummerstorf.bsky.social See: tinyurl.com/3xt67uap & royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Well-worn wins: Wild capuchin monkeys prefer stones with a proven track record of cracking nuts
New study reveals that visible traces of past tool use can outweigh material properties when primates select tools
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Text of the EU Commission decision refusing to register a European citizens' initiative calling for a racist immigration policy eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Talented staff of Belfast City Council singing today at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in the city. 👏🏼 🎥 Paul McFarland • Picturskew Photography
Almost a century later and guess what
Lawdy Gaga@litigaytor.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Eleventh Circuit once again proving that, despite the self-righteous language of the Supreme Court, this is not a country that takes seriously freedom of speech. (Florida drag ban held constitutional). media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
Wrong -We trade unions did -repeatedly -during the boom! Today elite Europeans are demanding less regulation eg CEO of Siemens in yesterday s FT! Will they ever learn?
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 24h agoThe Irish Times view on Michael Fingleton: nobody shouted stop
Beautiful everyday Ladybird things The bookshop Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)
#OtD 4 Aug 1990 the term "Two-Spirit", for Indigenous people "who embody diverse (or non-normative) sexualities, genders, gender roles, and/or gender expressions", was adopted at the 3rd Annual Gathering of Native American Gays and Lesbians stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1040...
A form of touch-screen interface. In a Ladybird book. In 1971 How it Works: The Computer, (1971) Artist: BH Robinson
A German court acquitted a woman who had been convicted for comparing Israel's actions in Gaza to Nazi Germany. Judge found she has the right to criticise Israel's actions, was not supporting Nazism and was not trivialising the holocaust. First bit of sense to come out of Germany in years.
The school shop ‘Going to School’ 1959 Artist: Harry Wingfield
It has been a dry & difficult summer for growing. But it is amazing - in Dublin - to walk out into the back garden & pick a fig for after lunch.
German court rules comparing Israel to Nazi Germany constitutes 'protected speech' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/german-court-rules-comparing-israel-nazi-germany-protected-speech
German court rules comparing Israel to Nazi Germany constitutes 'protected speech'
The court also rejected the suggestion that comparing Israel’s conduct with Nazi Germany automatically trivialised the Holocaust or incited hatred
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A reminder that this legislation was passed at Final Stage by 129 votes to 10, with every political party bar Ind. Ireland supporting. This headline shows: > Enormous over-reach by officialdom on an unequivocal democratic mandate, > The craven backtracking of FFG in this gvt on climate action.
What developed capitalist states often deride as *rampant corruption* in the more peripheral economies is merely a historical gap; the latter have simply not yet legitimised such practices as *lobbying*. Brilliant investigation at the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Economist (not derogatory) Michael Taft warns about history repeating… Great new #TortoiseShack pod out now👇 www.patreon.com/tortoiseshac...
Someone told me to stop complaining. This is the view from our house last night towards several villages on fire. Never stop complaining! This is not normal.
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
We have a new episode of the #HEASPodcast on our YouTube and Spotify 👇 Jane Kershaw @jk-viking.bsky.social is interviewed on 'The Vikings' www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yg2...
Episode 11: The Vikings
YouTube video by HEAS
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Monument to the Conquerors of Space, (1977), Dzhezkazgan, Kazakh SSR. Artist: L. Pak, Architect: K. Turlybaev, Sculptor: N. Andreev
People who deny climate change should be jailed. We have had fires here in the Var for ten days now. 35 houses lost in our village alone. Denial is the worst possible response.
Wild that people are trying to retroactively pretend covid wasn't a big deal. Someone I work with came down with it last November & is still unable to work the following August, suffering complete viral exhaustion. There's a reason we locked down.
The framing by the Sunday Independent excludes introducing a wealth tax. The framing by the Sunday Independent leaves out increasing income tax for very high incomes. The framing by the Sunday Independent doesn't mention a real leaving wage. Dud poll, dud findings.
Saltmarsh Tapestry - cluster of Golden #Samphire #Limbarda crithmoides, with Sea Lavender, Limonium vulgare & Sea Milkwort, Lysimachia maritima #wildflowerhour #ByTheSea #Rhosneigr #Anglesey #YnysMôn #Wales #Cymru #botany #bluesky #nature #conservation
My walks #ByTheSea revealed many beautiful plants, but this wind-sculpted Hawthorn was especially remarkable: shaped over time by the power of the coastal winds #WildflowerHour
I keep noticing plants #ByTheSea have fleshy, waxy, rolled or reduced leaves, I guess to protect against water loss. Here's some from strandline/saltmarsh in Co Sligo: Sea Aster, Frosted Orache, Sea Sandwort, Sea Milkwort (+ some sneaky red fescue + marram) @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
