Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

There’s no dignity in Brexit.
It’s an epic tantrum. It’s the foot-stamp of prejudice insisting we all lose our rights and submit to some warped notion of Englishness and patriotism. And now it’s the vindictiveness of failure too. Taking it out on school trips.
How dismally petty.

(Extract from the FT on the Kafkaesque Visa process for EU children to visit the UK)

The bots, which can hit a top speed of 4.5 mph, will patrol a base in Florida. https://trib.al/aMW5FOz

Exxon CO2 Primer

This document describes the state of the science on the greenhouse effect was widely circulated among Exxon management.

12 Nov 1982

https://insideclimatenews.org/documents/1982-exxon-primer-co2-greenhouse-effect/

#Bussiness, #ClimateChange, #FossilFuel, #GlobalWarming, #GreenhauseEffect #Exxon #CO2

as for my own moral stance (and i am clear about this being about my personal morals and feelings)...

the tattoo can probably wait.

gender reassignment question? i don't find that so easy to answer to be honest. there are serious dilemmas.

i've got weird bits about my brain. i know what it's like to be born "the wrong way" even if i'm not transsexual.

Over on the bad site, Twitter has lifted restrictions on Kremlin accounts and is no longer limiting the reach of Kremlin media accounts.

Russian government tweets are appearing in Twitter’s algorithmically-driven “For You” feed for newly created accounts, even when they did not follow them. So Twitter is not just *showing* these Kremlin accounts — it's algorithmically *boosting* them.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2023/04/07/elon-musk-twitter-lifts-restrictions-putin-kremlin-russia/

Verrrrry early morning snuggles on #Caturday
It's nice to have such cuddly company on all the nights when sleep evades me...
#CatsOfMastodon

The J6 terrorists recorded a dopey patriotic song featuring words from Orange Mussolini. It rocketed up the iTunes charts, purchased by thousands of fascists. Now, one of the jailed J6 terrorists (Jon Meliss) is alleging that one of the organizers stole $500,000 of the song’s proceeds. And I just can’t stop laughing.

Somehow I think the antivaxxers will find their beliefs are suddenly dispensable.

"Cancer and heart disease vaccines ‘ready by end of the decade’

Millions of lives could be saved by a groundbreaking set of new vaccines for a range of conditions including cancer, experts have said. A leading pharmaceutical firm said it is confident that jabs for cancer, cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases, and other conditions will be ready by 2030.

Studies into these vaccinations are also showing “tremendous promise”, with some researchers saying 15 years’ worth of progress has been “unspooled” in 12 to 18 months thanks to the success of the Covid jab."

#vaccines #cancer #HeartDisease # #AutoimmuneDisease #science #research

🔗: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/07/cancer-and-heart-disease-vaccines-ready-by-end-of-the-decade

My LOCAL listener supported #radio station @kcrw@tweets.icu @kcrw@bird.makeup just announced that they were going to STOP posting on #Twitter because of #NPR being labeled at #StateAffiliatedMedia . I am hoping listener supported @kpcc @laist does the same. @jeffjarvis

I’ve been reviewing my page proofs this week and am please to report that while I continue to have wild imposter syndrome, the book doesn’t suck.

When Starfleet judge advocate generals take any interstellar voyages on the dime of the Ferengi, they always report them to command.

Just saying.

Thanks to increasingly privatized #healthcare, Ontarians are being gouged twice, as taxpayers and then again as patients. There is a solution (complete nationalization), but our politicians don’t have the balls to do that and put us first.
#ONhealth #ONpoli #CanHealth #CanPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/medical-upselling-private-clinics-patients-1.6797892

Just played Civilization VI for the first time. This is a highly engaging game that is a massive time sink. Nice for quiet nights on shift and it will be nice for on flights.

#VideoGame

Today in 1924, 99 years ago: Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.

#OnThisDay

Corporate profits have accounted for anywhere between 30-50% of inflation but since there’s no ability for the government to restrict such obvious price gouging the only tool to actually curb inflation is raising interest rates, which ends up hurting workers. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/business/economy/wages-prices.html