It’s just war crimes all the way down at this point.
The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 10h agoIsraeli forces used small aircraft to cross the border and spray high concentrations of the herbicide glyphosate over farmland in southern Syria and Lebanon, a new report has revealed. According to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the spraying halted the growth of several crops
Grateful for the questions and insights from Griffith University students at the economics and public policy roundtable hosted by the business school this week.
I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
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Feels suboptimal to be using the same word to describe the targeted murder of unarmed citizens / endeavours to stop the targeted murder of unarmed citizens - entering contronym territory
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayArson attack on Victorian defence manufacturer Lovitt Technologies investigated as ‘far-left terror’
#OtD 5 Aug 1939 56 socialists, including 13 women and girls, known as the 13 Roses, were executed en masse by the right-wing regime of general Francisco Franco. Commemorated here by a shirt made by a workers' co-op supporting grassroots unions in Asia: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...
Bluesky: no one interacts with my posts Also Bluesky: how dare you interact with my post
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #RedOrDead a photo of a bird on bare winter branches. Tricky, as we don't really have winter where I live. Check out this pair of angry birds though. #whitebreastedwoodswallow QLD, Australia
An outstanding river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) currently* growing in the east parklands of Adelaide, South Australia. It is 6.60 metres in trunk girth at chest height, 27 m tall, and having an average canopy spread of 27.5 m. I'd estimate it to be between 150 and 300 years old.
"I remember the dotcom era, when the business press was full of articles about the conflict between CEOs and a new workforce that demanded the right to use the web...Today, the business press is full of articles about the conflict between the workforce and CEOs who demand that they use AI." #1003GIR
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2d agoIf you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/08/03/a... 2/
LEFT TO RIGHT: Defeated the British, freed the slaves, raped the children.
A regular argument for the continuation of fossil fuels is the need for their continuing alternative uses apart from heating and transportation. Petrochemical feedstock is 6% Coking coal 5% Steel production still coal based for coking and heating. #1003GIR #renewables #energy
(I get that Bluesky is very obviously the Wow We Loved Lockdowns website but I think it's absolutely fine, five years after the fact, to wonder if we got the balance right between "protecting older people" and "making sure younger people weren't getting entirely shafted", arguments are allowed)
All due respect, if you didn’t look like this in the spring of 2020, I don’t really care about your opinion of Dr Fauci
I lost my job, my kids have measles, my electric bill has doubled, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now Black kids won't be getting free breakfasts from Head Start anymore.
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr.“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” — New: @katemac.bsky.social & I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
