RE: https://mastodon.social/@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon/116160846653201140

It would be nice if the West had a free press, but mostly what we have is propaganda.

Microsoft silently updates TextEdit to read markdown without html safe feature, turning it into a spoofing exploit paradise.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVlfkY4jVVX/?igsh=MW9oeTVtcDVqbXM2bg==

"Israeli crews have started bulldozing the Jerusalem headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Jerusalem and fired teargas at a UN vocational school in Qalandia, in the West Bank."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/20/israel-bulldozes-unrwa-headquarters-in-east-jerusalem

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Jerusalem

One of the most fun things about riding a bike is trying to figure out if a motorists that ran in to you was at fault or not and which road rules apply in that situation and which weird bicycle specific road rule might mean that you're actually at fault even though there was no action you could have taken to avoid it.

It's usually some weird combination of a bunch of different rules that are all vague.

This rider was hit by a car that overtook them in a roundabout and then hit them when exiting the roundabout and is asking who was at fault.

It's a multi-lane roundabout because there is a very faded painted bicycle lane. The rider is required to ride in the bicycle lane and thus is always in the left most lane and so is required to give-way to vehicles exiting the roundabout.

This is unclear and very impractical in this roundabout as the rider would need to give-way immediately upon entering the roundabout to any cars turning left behind them but those cars would also need to illegally overtake as it doesn't look like there is enough space for a motorist to give the 1m required when overtaking.

I would always ignore the bike lane at this roundabout and take the traffic lane to prevent motorists from illegally overtaking and to avoid the issue of vehicles exiting across me.

This is an example of how painted bike lanes are used to improve car throughput while making riding a bicycle more dangerous. There is no safe and legal way for a bike rider to approach this roundabout.

#melbourne #bicycles

https://www.reddit.com/r/melbournecycling/comments/1qhqqdl/giving_way_in_a_roundabout/

"..many of the women he has treated – more than 3,000 to date – are able to come off medication they have previously been prescribed for anxiety and depression as a direct result of their iron infusion. It makes me wonder how many women with poor mental health are simply in need of some iron"

#Ferritin #IronDeficiency #WomensHealth #Healthcare

Tired all the time? There may be a simple reason for that | Women's health | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/02/why-do-i-feel-tired-iron-deficiency-symptoms-anaemia-fatique-exhaustion

"In Auschwitz, the victims were labeled with numbers. In Gaza, they are buried without names."
For many of Gaza's dead, there's nobody left alive who remembers them. Zionists have destroyed the records, so it's as if they never existed. At least the Nazis kept records.
https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/never-again-for-everyone
@[email protected]
@palestine

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#Gaza
#genocide

In 2020, much of Scots Wikipedia was ripped out after editors found over 20,000 articles had been written by an American teen who did not speak the language, but instead wrote what some characterized as "English written in a Scottish accent": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipedia. (As I recall, much has since been rebuilt more carefully by Scots speakers.)

Jacob Judah reports multiple minority-language Wikipedias are now similarly ruined by non-speakers pasting from Google Translate: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral

Against “Ecological Consciousness”: Why We Need Ecological Literacy, Not Mystified Unity

https://slrpnk.net/post/29201349