Mastodawn

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jul 26, 2022

I'd have no issue with the English "Lionesses" national football team of it wasn't for the fucking media banging on about them like it's the second coming of Christ.
This is the reason "Anyone But England" trends across the rest of the UK.

LearnTribe

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jul 25, 2022

May have put myself in a difficult position at work. Had been approached to be department lead rep on a joint project run centrally that has cost 2 years and a lot of money so far without a usable end product. I told project sponsor I can't recommend our staff burn more time piloting the tool until we're satisfied they've addressed the existing software bugs and given a clear roadmap of when essential features we said were needed will be introduced. Not what they wanted to hear.

Invite you're friends over for a goblin field trip. Go to the local woods and admire moss, spot the mushroom, eat some trail mix, talk sass back at the birds.

LearnTribe

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jul 25, 2022

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Nate Cull (.social)Jul 25, 2022

Superman is a particularly challenging franchise to make anything from these days, because it's based on such a fundamentally unbelievable series of premises:

that a farm owned by non-millionaires can exist

that a boy could grow up in Kansas and become a liberal Democrat

that someone trying to create positive change in the world would pick, out of all possible professions, "journalist"

and that a newspaper actually hires any reporters

LearnTribe

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jul 25, 2022

Joene 🏴Jul 25, 2022

🔥 ANGER IS A GIFT 🔥

🧵 https://tweets.todon.eu/BueRubner/status/1551287467298496515

#ClimateAction #ClimateActionNOW #DirectAction #ANGER #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #xp
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RT @BueRubner
How to cope with climate anxiety?

The advice from psychologists: Get angry
https://twitter.com/BueRubner/status/1551287467298496515

bue rübner (@BueRubner)

How to cope with climate anxiety? The advice from psychologists: Get angry

Nitter

hi friends! anyone have any good resources they know of on having both adhd & autism? a friend asked me and i thought i’d ask around here!

Take note of when media very frequently uses certain words together, like 'gay' and 'promiscuity' or 'AIDS' or 'monkeypox', or 'Islam' and 'terrorism' or 'extremism'. This leads to what Sara Ahmed refers to as “words becoming sticky”, whereupon you only need to say one of the words to get the other meaning to appear in the population's minds. The media is well aware of this phenomenon, and that is PRECISELY WHY they do it.

👾 people will see cops and their violence as an inevitable and amoral force of nature only acting to enforce "the law," and then they will see a striking worker and blame that person in particular for whatever minor inconvenience the strike is causing them

Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/22/2111914/-Two-decades-of-Alzheimer-s-research-may-be-based-on-deliberate-fraud-that-has-cost-millions-of-lives

I remember seeing an item on the TV not long ago where the presenter was puzzling over why drugs that successfully targeted amyloid plaques did not seem to have any effect slowing or stopping the development of Alzheimer's. I guess now we know 😕

Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives

Last month, drug company Genentech reported on the first clinical trials of the drug crenezumab, a drug targeting amyloid proteins that form sticky plaques in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients. The drug had been particularly effective in...

Daily Kos

LearnTribe

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jul 23, 2022

Interesting article by a UK barrister (lawyer) discussing the impact of neoliberal ideology on the legal framework, the smoke and mirrors of government pushing for a "free market" not restricted by the state, while simultaneously introducing a bewildering minefield of legislation to prevent people from challenging the negative impacts of capitalism.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/why-the-law-alone-wont-save-us-or-the-planet/

Why the law alone won’t save us – or the planet

Power has been snatched from ordinary people by an ever-growing tangle of rules. We need to reclaim it

openDemocracy

Class:	Playmaker / Change Agent
Align:	Eco-Socialist / Anti-capitalist
Persona:	Stressed chameleon on disco dancefloor.