AlJazeera: IDF deployed Quadcopters in Gaza that emit sounds of babies & of screaming women to lure Palestinians out of their homes & shoot them.

CNN: Since the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire started IDF has broken ceasefire 100 times

Imagine still claiming this is "self-defense" and not intentional genocide

This week's comic: Makeover for a Takeover

#media #fascism #racism #journalism

Be ungovernable, like birds who make nests OUT OF ANTI-BIRD SPIKES. A new study describes resourceful Dutch & Belgian corvids besting evil architecture by stealing metal anti-bird strips and using them like thorny twigs, to construct their homes.

Like thorns, the spikes may protect their nests from predators.

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra wrote an epic 🧵 about his research that's worth a read: https://twitter.com/AukeFlorian/status/1678703433900064773

Paper: https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/organisatie/publicaties/deinsea/deinsea-21/

#science #SciComm #birds #netherlands

Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).

In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.

The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.

...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.

https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/

Fascist, pro-Putin, corrupt politician who had an involvement in the mafia murders of the 1990s, and who often engaged in sex parties with minors—Silvio Berlusconi dead at 86

Would someone please tell me why I’m supposed to talk kindly about someone just because they died ?