The Observer view on Afghanistan: Britain and the US are complicit in the Taliban’s oppression of women https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/08/the-observer-view-on-afghanistan-britain-and-the-us-are-complicit-in-the-talibans-oppression-of-women?CMP=share_btn_url
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Canadian migrant at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. #CulturalStudies, #CriticalHeritage, #DecoloniseResearch.
Ian RoseOne of my favorite things to see come across my screens each year: the US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that Wisdom has returned to her mating grounds on Midway Atoll.
Wisdom is at least 71 years old, the oldest verified wild bird of any species. She has raised more than 30 chicks. She has flown the circumference of the Earth over 120 times. She is the closest the seabird world gets to a celebrity, and the only royalty I recognize. Long live the Queen.
Good journalism is always needed: https://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-fernie-greenbelt-development/
@windowseat @neilhimself My kids bought me this for my birthday and now it is, what, 15 years later? Can't wait to reread.
Laurel KrahnOMG! OMG! OMG! I just held this book in my hands!
I showed it to my husband: “that is not a little book, it is big.”
Indeed.
(There is a story behind this . . . ) 🧵 (1/x)
Good Law ProjectYou can only sell off the family silver once.
The temporary windfall from selling public assets comes at the expense of a community permanently losing parks, housing, libraries, sports facilities and much more.
Future generations deserve better.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.The week before Thanksgiving Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, Facebook fires 11K workers, and Disney plans thousands of layoffs—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳
A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers.
Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.
Andrew (Television Executive)Here's your irregular reminder that:
Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.
Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers
The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.
Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.
And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.
We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.