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Pinky Jones Mar 2, 2023

kcarruthers Mar 1, 2023

Finland's parliament has overwhelmingly backed its bid to join NATO, the assembly's speaker said. Approval of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's treaties and Finland's accession passed with 184 members of the 200-seat parliament voting in favor, seven against, and one abstaining.
https://www.rferl.org/a/finland-passes-nato-bill-large-majority/32294673.html

Finnish Parliament Passes NATO Bill With Large Majority

Finland's parliament has overwhelmingly backed its bid to join NATO, the assembly's speaker said.

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Pinky Jones Feb 27, 2023

Shoq 🌿Feb 27, 2023

Whenever I see a viral TikTok video, or watch kids fixated on TikTok for hours on end, my head goes right back to this article, and I sweat.

My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it’s not Orwell, he warned, it’s 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱

https://t.co/cINoJ3CqUe

My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it's not Orwell, he warned, it's Brave New World

The ascent of Donald Trump has proved Neil Postman’s argument in Amusing Ourselves to Death was right. Here’s what we can do about it

The Guardian

Pinky Jones Feb 27, 2023

GraceToo Feb 26, 2023

Hi! 🙂 My 11 yr old son has special needs. It's hard connecting, making friends. Minecraft education is his safe space. Looking to connect with other families with special needs kids who would like to connect over Google Meets & play Minecraft. *waves*
#SpecialNeeds #Friends #Minecraft #community

Pinky Jones Feb 27, 2023

Jeff Jarvis Feb 27, 2023

My father got his second breakthrough COVID case in January and the virus is still attacking his body, first with intestinal bleeding, and now with pneumonia brought on by his own immune system. I take the virus seriously, deadly seriously. This pandemic is far from over.
My father is in the hospital, doing as well as a 97-year-old man in this situation can do.

Pinky Jones Feb 27, 2023

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Sheril Kirshenbaum Feb 19, 2023

About 109B people have lived & died. Each grain of sand represents 10M.

Several folks have asked about death rates after the previous post, so I'm resharing this incredible data visualization of human life on Earth by Max Roser from Our World in Data. /2

Pinky Jones Feb 27, 2023

Sheril Kirshenbaum Feb 22, 2023

Food waste is responsible for at least *6%* of global greenhouse gas emissions.

We can change that. Right now.
https://ourworldindata.org/food-waste-emissions #ClimateChange #food

Food waste is responsible for 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions

Food waste accounts for around one-quarter of greenhouse gas emissions from food. That's 6% of total global emissions.

Our World in Data

Pinky Jones Feb 27, 2023

Sheril Kirshenbaum Feb 24, 2023

Youngest child: “Is there a different page for the girl presidents?”

Me: “Hopefully they’ll be all over the next one.”

Pinky Jones Feb 5, 2023

Sheril Kirshenbaum Feb 5, 2023

A look at Earth’s biomass distributed between taxa.

Plants dominate accounting for >82% of biomass, followed by bacteria at 13%. The entire animal kingdom only makes up 0.4% & humans alone are just 0.01%. https://ourworldindata.org/life-on-earth #science #nature

Credit: Our World in Data using research by Bar-On et al. (2018). Biomass is measured in tonnes of carbon.

Humans make up just 0.01% of Earth's life — what's the rest?

How is life on Earth distributed across the taxonomic kingdoms? Humans make up just 0.01% of life: but we've had much larger impacts on shaping the animal kingdom. Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.

Our World in Data

Pinky Jones Feb 5, 2023

Ok so I am finally on aus social but how do I migrate stuff from my old account to here?