A. Lizard

@alizardx
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independent electronics - computer R&D. ex-tech journo. read SF, music-industrial (Angelspit,Experiment Haywire,HelalynFlowers,FrontLineAssembly) #AllCatPack

RT @un
The UN's largest annual gathering of gender equality champions kicks off on Monday.

Follow @UN_CSW for more on this year's Commission on the Status of Women. https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/in-focus/2023/02/in-focus-un-commission-on-the-status-of-women-csw67 #CSW67

In focus: UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) | UN Women – Headquarters

The 67th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67), the UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment, will take place this year from 6 – 17 March under the theme, “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls”. 

UN Women – Headquarters
RT @edwardcholmes
In July 2022 163 bat CoV sequences from the WIV appeared on GenBank, including from bat virus RaTG13 (originally called Ra4991). https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/MH615898.1. These relate to this paper from *2018* led by my former postdoc Jie Cui.
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Bat SARS-like coronavirus strain RaTG13_Yunnan RNA-dependent RNA polym - Nucleotide - NCBI

RT @ashoswai
Massive fire in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh- Rohingya is probably the worst suffering ethnic group in the world and no one seems to care!
RT @yanisvaroufakis
Police attacking a group of prominent lawyers that were peacefully demonstrating against the Greek government's attempts to cover-up the real causes of our railway tragedy. Democracy at gunpoint.
RT @1goodtern
Another massive holy cow huge piece of news, so this will probably get about ten likes and disappear into the twitterhole:
CDC say this:
"the virus that causes COVID-19,
can have lasting effects on nearly every organ and organ system
of the body weeks, months, and potentially… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1632488855646490626
tern on X

Another massive holy cow huge piece of news, so this will probably get about ten likes and disappear into the twitterhole: CDC say this: "the virus that causes COVID-19, can have lasting effects on nearly every organ and organ system of the body weeks, months, and potentially…

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RT @RobertSkvarla
RT @AriDrennen
Just like @RollingStone, the @thedailybeast bowed to right wing pressure to change their headline. This is more than mere cowardice. This is joining in the campaign to reduce the very existence of trans people to a matter of ideological disagreement.

RT @CZEdwards
Re: Target kids’ clothes.

Nobody show anyone the shirts Sears sold retail in the 1950s, okay?

(You, too, can see the eye-watering assortment of shirts that survived into the modern world’s vintage resale market with this image search: Sears 1950s Hawaiian shirts )

RT @ParkerMolloy
And this is, again, why people pushed back on @michelleinbklyn's anti-trans piece(s) in 2014: promoting the idea that being trans is an "ideology" was dangerous and false. But she repeatedly used "transgenderism" throughout, like it was value-neutral. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/woman-2
The Dispute Between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism

Michelle Goldberg on the dispute over what it means to be a woman. The transgender-rights movement has forced a rethinking of what sex and gender mean, and radical feminists now find themselves shunned as reactionaries on the wrong side of a sexual-rights issue.

The New Yorker