Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Scientists without coffee are responsible for 90% of all accidents (this fact may not be right as it was made up before I had coffee)

Great White Egret

"The elegant Great Egret is a dazzling sight in many a North American wetland. Slightly smaller and more svelte than a Great Blue Heron, these are still large birds with impressive wingspans. They hunt in classic heron fashion, standing immobile or wading through wetlands to capture fish with a deadly jab of their yellow bill." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #birds #GreatEgret

Tennis: Coco Gauff to test 16-match win streak vs. Iga Swiatek in China Open semis https://www.upi.com/Sports_News/2023/10/06/Iga-Swiatek-Coco-Gauff-China-Open-semis/7571696598059/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@breadandcircuses

Reagan and Thatcher hatched the plan and it's poisened the English-speaking world. We once had great public services and now they're all falling apart.

So we are paying double the price with polluters and fossil fuel companies having less regulation so they do more damage, and this also means we have less capacity to deal with climate disasters.

The wealthy are laughing all the way to the bank, until their ranch goes up in flames and the condo gets washed away.

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6 October 1908 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Marguerite Kohn, was born in Budapest. She emigrated to France.

In December 1943 she was deported to Auschwitz. She did not survive.

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The US is probably just one bad election away from becoming an autocratic dictatorship. Russia and China are already police states with one-party rule. India seems to be leaning hard in that direction. We're looking at the possibility of an imminent future where all the world's major economies are authoritarian states.

Imagine explaining to someone from the 1940s that our last best hopes for heading off planet-wide fascism are Germany and Japan.

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Above average temperatures continued across the entire northern half of the Atlantic Ocean during September 2023. Temperatures were also anomalously warm over much of North and South America. The El Niño is of course striking too.

Data from ERA5 reanalysis at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels-monthly-means?tab=overview.

I don't know what it says about me, but when I read wild anti-vax claims like "It makes you into a cyborg!" "Your feet are gonna fall off!" "It's full of werewolf DNA!" it just makes me want to get vaccinated again. Really, anything to put more ideological distance between me and those people.

Interesting new research finds long-term symptoms are pretty common following *any* respiratory infections, not just covid, and it happens at roughly the same incidence https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/06/people-may-suffer-long-colds-more-than-four-weeks-after-infection-study-shows

Very happy our paper “No Research on a Dead Planet” is out today (free access). Aaron Thierry is very much the lead author, but it’s been great to work together on this and tackle the question: Why do #Universities, with many having declared a #ClimateEmergency, still largely continue with #BusinessAsUsual? For us it’s about #CognitiveDissonance as well as the structures of neoliberal #HE. We need to change & lead on true #ClimateAction. @ScientistRebellion

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1237076

Our capitalist rulers, and the politicians they own, are playing the long game. Since the 1950s they have been working steadily to shift the Overton window, to reduce the influence of labor unions, to boost consumerism, and to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few.

A large part of that strategy involves privatizing services that used to be (and should be) public.

They're playing the long game, and they are winning — much to the detriment of you and me and the environment we live in.

#Politics #Capitalism #Environment

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Polls are showing Biden and Trump about even and this is telling us something troubling about our fellow citizens.
It is showing that a person's exposure, good or bad, in the news is a major factor in how that person is perceived.
We are so constantly being brainwashed with advertising and fake news that some of us have lost the ability to think clearly. Couple that with an undereducated, illiterate population of voters and you can see the result: Trump.
Biden is not a fool, and he has an expert election team going into the campaign. The brilliant tactics used to win in 2020 were the result of competent management of the campaign.
Pray that happens in 2024.

Shoplifting is causing the closure of three Target stores in the Bay Area. People lose jobs and retail service is lost.
Are we so mentally bankrupt that a solution to this cannot be found?

While we wait for more testimony:

"America needs to talk about the right's 'Red Caesar' plan for dictatorship

Step 1: Foment utter chaos, like the McCarthy ouster. Step 2: Tell voters the only way to fix the chaos is dictatorship

Why 'Red Caesar' is Code Red for democracy"

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/red-caesar-right-american-dictatorship-20231005.html