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I cackled for several seconds when I saw who #1 is. If you have followed me for some time, you’ll know why.
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#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia
See how leading men from 'Pride and Prejudice,' 'Bridget Jones's Diary,' 'Twilight,' and more stack up.Swooon
A dire report from Environmental Health News...
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🟫 Human-caused global warming has intensified dry conditions across every continent in recent decades.
🟫 Nearly 30% of the global population now lives in moisture-deprived areas, up from 20% in 1990.
🟫 More land could degrade into barren wastelands, threatening food production and increasing water scarcity.
Drying trends affect food supplies, water availability and ecosystem health, posing risks to global stability. Countries reliant on agriculture are vulnerable to crop failures and economic hardship. Addressing emissions and water use is essential to mitigate desertification.
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LEARN MORE -- dailyclimate.org/earths-lands-…
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Three-quarters of the world’s land has become significantly drier due to human-driven global warming, according to a U.N. report released during desertification talks in Saudi Arabia.Raymond Zhong reports for The New York Times.EHN Curators (The Daily Climate)
🇩🇪#Chatkontrolle-Unterstützer wollen die Kritiker morgen offenbar öffentlich an den Pranger stellen digitalcourage.social/@ella@eu…
In Wahrheit sind die Überwachungsextremisten dafür verantwortlich, dass seit Jahren kein besserer, gerichtsfester Schutz von Kindern erreicht wird!
🇬🇧Seems #ChatControl supporters want to publicly scathe the critics tomorrow digitalcourage.social/@ella@eu…
Truth is: It is because of these surveillance extremists that no stronger and court-proof protection of children online has been achieved for years!
⚠️ 🇪🇺 Tomorrow, something unprecedented (and IMO completely unhinged) will be happening on the EU's draft CSA Regulation (#ChatControl).Here's my take on what's happening & what you can do to help as someone that cares about digital rights:
- The law has been stalled for years because the EU Council (reps of all the member states) cannot agree to a position;
- On the one hand, you have governments like Spain who have admitted that they want to put a stop to encryption;
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s Idealism: Is Our World Just a Dream?
Schopenhauer argued that the world is but an intricate dream, and what he suggested lies beyond it may shock you.
By Maysara Kamal
thecollector.com/arthur-schope…
Books by Arthur Schopenhauer at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/36…
#books #literature #philosophy
We spoke to journalist Anand Gopal about why the Assad dictatorship was one of the most brutal regimes of the 21st century and what is likely to come next in Syria.jacobin.com
There we go! If anyone wanted the world to hate the LGB, this is the recipe.
Infiltrate the movement by claiming that trans weirdos are more oppressed and need a safe space and protection against violence. Never mind that you (gender/stereotype oriented and in denial that biological sex exists) are the complete antithesis of LGB (same-sex oriented). Then you take over the movement with enormous financial means, violence against those who are opposed, and jam pack said movement with all the sexual perversions you can find: paedophilia, bestiality, fetishes galore.
Once your empire topples, once people see what you really are, we, the LGB, will be left with the hate. People will overlook that we never wanted this to begin with.
Zwischen Dissertation und Mental Load: Warum Mutterschaft ein Karrierenachteil für Wissenschaftler*innen ist und was dagegen helfen könnte.Patricia Hecht (taz)
Sorry, techies, there is no techie solution to environmental collapse--except maybe that we should use vastly less technology.
"No absolute “decoupling” of resource and energy use from GDP growth is occurring, and is not remotely likely to be achieved. If you increase GDP, you will be using more resources to do it. Yet we are so far beyond sustainable levels of resource use and ecological impact that resource use must be reduced to a small fraction of current levels."
resilience.org/stories/2024-12…
Few in recent years have made a more significant contribution to our ecological salvation than Richard, and in my dogmatic opinion his most recent essay is stating many of the lessons we need to learn fast if we are going to get through to a satisfac…Resilience (Resilience.org)
Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible.
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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #MastoArt
Sometimes it's all about timing. A simple moment that feels like a quiet story playing out in the sky. A fleeting scene, but capturing it makes it last, perhaps forever.
#photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #squared
seasonal greetings. again. here‘s my recent blog post with some more images all about the same theme. i try to give you some insights of how this series came to be and wanted to thank you all for still reading my recently very unsteady blog posts. have a few nice last weeks in 2024!
aboutgrau.com/seasonalgreeting…
#blog #writing #art #mastoart #winter #autumn #christmas #mist
As often as you can, try to build habits to at least temporarily escape these stressful and hectic moments towards the end of the yearaboutgrau
Common sense about American health care mismanagement.
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A doctor explains how he feels about the killing of a CEO. I agree with him — you can simultaneously believe that killing is bad and that a corporation and its executives are bad. You can hav…Pharyngula
I recently found a very overpowered for the price mini-PC and I plan to use it to replace my Android TV box that is really starting to show its age.
I think I want something bazzite-like and probably immutable but more media focused than gaming, with already working and set up waydroid and remote control support.
Thanks in advance
Strong unions, a labyrinthine state, and political deadlock prevented Belgian neoliberals from implementing reforms in the 1970s. But as the economy spun into crisis, the Catholic Party convinced its labor union to accept austerity and wage cuts.jacobin.com
The skeptics are going to disown me, because I don't think tagging logical fallacies is an argument.
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I’m going to be a bit contrarian. Years ago, one phenomenon that was horribly popular among skeptics was the identification and labeling of logical fallacies — it sill is, as far as I k…Pharyngula
I don't check these to disprove them. I check them to basically say, "This is clear example of X and I am no longer going to discuss it any further. Take that as a win if you want, I no longer care."
For some discussions (people I know personally), I do consider that they don't realize they have fallen into the fallacy and yeah, I'll nudge them a bit on it.
But for the total stranger who is wrong on the internet? Not worth the time, and this is my way of saying *to others* why it isn't worth any more time.
UN GANG DE POLICIERS COMMET DES AGRESSIONS RACISTES EN SÉRIE, LA JUSTICE REGARDE AILLEURS
Trois hommes maghrébins, un homme péruvien et une femme noire ont été passé-es à tabac ou violenté-es en 2 ans par des policiers parisiens. Pourtant la justice refuse la qualification de crime raciste.
Chronique de l'impunité policière d'agresseurs multirécidivistes : contre-attaque.net/2024/12/11/…
