Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@social.cleverlibre.org

https://www.europesays.com/987219/ “The whole world is watching what we do. You know who else is watching, is Vladimir Putin and President Xi in Bejing! They’re watching too, whether the United States really will prove to be a reliable partner” John Kirby, from the White house news briefing about the halted support to Ukraine #ConflictInUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict

Notice how the right wingers who banned Black people from schools, jobs, military, & public spaces, banned Latino & Asian immigration, locked up Japanese Americans, broke hundreds of treaties with Native Americans—& are now banning teaching that history—want you to stop making everything about race.😐

🤯 Breaking news! After his wife Neri Oxman admitted to "cited but unquoted sources" in her academic work (gasp! The same thing Claudine Gay did!), Bill Ackman is calling for his wife to be fired immediately!

Just kidding. You already know that he's not.

The same dudes that attacked Claudine for saying, "My bad. Will add the quotes. But I stand by my work. I didn't take ideas." are calling Neri "brave" and "setting a good example" for doing the exact same thing🙂🙃

But you already knew that too.

So good (and a free link)

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/claudine-gay-chris-rufo-war-on-higher-education

The diminutive Karoo dwarf tortoise may play a key role in seed dispersal of plant species in its semidesert habitat in South Africa, a new study finds.

A germination trial showed the tortoises transport seeds to microsites suitable for germination, a potentially vital means for plants to survive drought in the arid Karoo region.

by Sean Mowbray
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/study-tiny-tortoise-may-play-large-role-in-south-africas-karoo-landscape/

#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Animals #Africa

Variations in solar activity are an important and well-studied source of natural climate variability, contributing to a variety of past climate fluctuations.

However, recent changes are too small (and in the wrong direction) to explain recent global warming.

#Sunspots #SolarCycle

Lawmakers and green advocates fear northern Colorado utility is falling behind on climate targets
https://coloradosun.com/2024/01/04/platte-river-power-authority-greenhouse-gas-reductions/?utm_content=buffer8e0c4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

Envomask is running a 20%-off promotion until midnight tonight. https://envomask.com/

"As pundits and politicos spar over whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign will factor into the outcome of the 2024 election, one thing is clear: Kennedy’s political following is built on a movement that seeks to legitimize conspiracy theories."

~ Madison Czopek and Katie Sanders

#RFKJr #RobertFKennedy #ConspiracyTheories
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/30/2214415/-RFK-Jr-s-campaign-of-conspiracy-theories-is-PolitiFact-s-2023-Lie-of-the-Year

When someone says, “I can’t manage my team effectively if we’re all remote,” they’re right—and also, they can leave off the “if we’re all remote” and still be right.

#RemoteWork #ReturnToOffice #management

@w7voa
Yes, Nikki it’s definitely the questioner’s fault that you delivered pre-rehearsed Daughters of the Confederacy nonsense to the simplest question in US history.

Welp, so. I guess I'm here now and it's #introduction / #introductions time? I'm a #science writer, #journalist, #podcast host & video maker with a special fondness for weird/gross biology. I'm also a #DnD GM and a huge nerd for #books (especially #scifi) and #comics.

This week, I wrote about a type of lemur that picks its nose with an incredibly spindly finger that's so long it can reach up through its nasal cavity and touch its pharynx.

Nice to meet you, too!

https://www.livescience.com/aye-ayes-primates-nosepickers

@futurebird In my Ed Psych class that all future educators had to take, I was literally *told* that knowledge of subject matter was completely irrelevant to effective teaching; I refused to believe it, because elementary and middle school teachers can encourage their students to explore/experiment/discover mathematical meaning if the teachers themselves understand connections between the physical world and the mathematical objects that we use to make sense of reality around us

#Oulu, #Finland, one of the northernmost cities in the world, has become one of the biggest biking cities in the world as well. It has come to the point that during snowstorms, the city clears bike paths before it clears roads for cars. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231220-why-oulu-finland-is-the-winter-cycling-capital-of-the-world

Walmart reports their customers on ozempic buy less food and Junk food stocks get hit. Nobodys asking why it's ok a grocery store knows what drugs their customers are on. #privacy

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/glp1-weight-loss-drugs-ozempic-walmart-stock-costco-cocacola-pepsico-2023-10

So, after an an uneventful and healthy pregnancy, I still almost bled out and died in labor with an undiagnosed placenta accreta.

Eternal reminder that pregnancy and birth can be disabling and even deadly (in my case, even with the best care, it came very close).

For all the rosy pictures our culture presents of pregnancy and birth as wholly safe and sweet, the risks are real.

Forced birth can mean forced death, and we can never forget that.