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David Tennant: “I remember gay rights being weaponised politically. That always felt ugly & nasty… 30 years later & those people are clearly on the wrong side of history. Now there is a similar weaponisation of these topics… to create friction & conflict & division where it needn’t be. It’s just about people being themselves. You don’t need to be bothered about it. F**k off & let people be”
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/07/david-tennant-speaks-out-weaponising-trans-rights/
#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #Transgender #NonBinary #DavidTennant #DoctorWho @lgbtqia
Doctor Who star David Tennant has denounced the 'weaponisation' of trans lives with a stirring riposte to anti-trans haters.Marcus Wratten (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
We get to do a con together tomorrow~ 🧡💙
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OMG, why did none of you tell me a new series of Futurama actually came out last year‽ 😃
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"600,000 is only a little less than the population of Boston within city limits. Imagine Boston as populated only by children. Then imagine them all, every one, as injured by shrapnel, or suffering gastrointestinal and liver diseases, or as wasting away with hunger from lack of food. And imagine the monster that puts this many children in this box deliberately"
Juan Cole
For me, however, not only Netanyahu, but many, many others are culpable.
#Israel #Netanyahu #Gaza
https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/netanyahu-palestinian-children.html
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Catherine Russell, the head of UNICEF, said this week that of the 600,000 children in …Informed Comment
“I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is.”
“I think the right to a healthy environment is actually the foundation that we require to enjoy all other human rights. If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.”
David Boyd, who served as UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment from 2018 to April 2024
‘The right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment was finally recognised as a fundamental human right by the United Nations in 2021-22. Some countries, notably the US, the world’s worst historic polluter, argue that UN resolutions are legally influential but not binding.
The right to a healthy environment is also enshrined into law by 161 countries with the UK, US and Russia among notable exceptions.’
“Powerful interconnected business and political elites – the diesel mafia – are still becoming wealthy from the existing system. Dislodging this requires a huge grassroots movement using tools like human rights and public protest and every other tool in the arsenal of change-makers.”
“I think there’s millions of invisible climate migrants today, and unless we get a handle on this problem and do so quickly, that’s going to look like a trickle before the flood.”
David Boyd
Those people are already wealthy.
Replacing diesel is a lot harder than replacing gasoline in cars. Diesel is what you use for serious energy density.
Do the easy stuff first.
The UK is banning the sale of new diesel cars from 2035. Why wait over ten years and then still have those vehicles spewing their $hit for another decade or more? That’s the power of #BigOil lobbying.
City dwellers are going to start demanding local ULEZ zones, because it’s the out of town folk in their diesel 4x4s that are wrecking our air, health and future.
“It has driven me crazy in the past six years that governments are just oblivious to history. We know that the tobacco industry lied through their teeth for decades. The lead industry did the same. The asbestos industry did the same. The plastics industry has done the same. The pesticide industry has done the same.”
David Boyd
It’s so sad to see yet another outgoing speaker for climate action just despairing at the stranglehold of capitalism and the oil, plastics and pesticide industries that are allowed to ride roughshod over our environment and ultimately kill people in terrifying numbers.
What is the purpose of UN rapporteur, if they have only have the power to report and the big countries just pretend to be deaf?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’Nina Lakhani (The Guardian)
You might as well ask what the purpose of the UN is. It has no actual power.
The alternative, of course, is a world government. Good luck with getting that to happen.
I’m beginning to wonder how many folks have heard of the League of Nations…those sitting around the tables of power no doubt have, but they are assuming we’re all too dumb to realise that if history isn’t repeating itself, it sure as hell seems to be rhyming.
Companies, when you try to unionize: "We are all family here! Don't stab us in the back!"
Companies, when they don't get as much money as they dreamed up, they could get: "Sorry, we have to stab your back and fire you. It's nothing personal, you're simply an employee and we couldn't care less about your well-being."
Professional request:
I'm looking for a kinky cellist/violinist willing to play background music in full fetish gear for 100 people at a corporate event in Berlin on May 30. Paid, naturally.
Pleas share :)
i think the world would be a better place if everyone was educated on the "paradox of tolerance".
that is, tolerant people paradoxically must not allow intolerant people, because otherwise their views would be tolerated and win out, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them
if you didn't know, well now you do! 
New tech came in!
Please excuse the quick selfie. Now to open it and get it set up!
Science finally catching up with what I've been raving about for years.
From the article:
"At $190 a ton, the utility industry averaged damages more than twice its profits. Materials manufacturing, energy and transportation industries all had average damages that exceeded their profits."
There is no profit when we account for negative externalities -- all of capitalism is premised on an accounting lie that doesn't work if, you know, we *actually account* for the pollution. Capitalist economics have always been premised on destroying our biosphere for free.
If you can't destroy the biosphere by using it as your own free cesspool -- you can't profit.
It's fucking physics. Balance the equations.
#climate #ClimateCrisis #Accounting #economics
Economists calculate that the world's corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for what they put out.SETH BORENSTEIN (AP News)
A BILLIONAIRE
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A BILLIONAIRE MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
PSA: check out your local library first before going to one of these. Get yourself a library card. Not every community has the budget for it, but my local library has a whole bunch of things they circulate, not just books: - Fishing Rods - Metal Detectors - Tablets - WiFi Hotspots, with paid-for service
Reminder that community libraries EVERYWHERE use library card-holder numbers (and sometimes active lending statistics) to be able to request access to funds and services.
Simply by GETTING and occasionally USING your library card you can support and help grow your library, meaning they can help you get access to more things!
“Down with fascism, up with CEEFAX” 20,000 votes, beating “Britain First”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lRlKPtJkGPM&si=rci4bjpdrz_oYUnR
They asked me some big questions, and I asked a few back in return.YouTube
Why the fuck is so many "Tech people" (not only Techbros) okay with LLMs eating up the planet while private citizens, as always, are the only one having to mitigate the damage?
"Make gas cars illegal!" - "Double the electricity bill!" - "Everyone has to compost at home!" - "Hey look at this new toy that eats enough drinking water to feed Ireland, let's do more of that!"
In my case, it's because something somewhere in the house, on some circuit we haven't managed to pinpoint yet, trips the RCD approximately 2‒5 times a year. It's really annoying.
🎞️Better go together
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For a minute the last line made me doubt myself. But a quick test and no, I did remember right: at least on ext*, permissions are stored in the inode.
STOP DOING HARDLINKSINODES WERE NOT MEANT TO EXIST IN MULTIPLE DIRECTORIES
YEARS OF FILES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for being in more than one directory
Wanted to reference files from more than one directory anyway? We had a tool for that: it was called "SYMLINKS"
"Yes please give me FIFTEEN paths that this file resolves to" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
"Hello I would like different permissions on this file based on path" They have played us for absolute fools
STOP DOING HARDLINKS
INODES WERE NOT MEANT TO EXIST IN MULTIPLE DIRECTORIES
YEARS OF FILES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for being in more than one directory
Wanted to reference files from more than one directory anyway? We had a tool for that: it was called "SYMLINKS"
"Yes please give me FIFTEEN paths that this file resolves to" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
"Hello I would like different permissions on this file based on path" They have played us for absolute fools
![Tweet by ADHD Jesse: “[when a friend does something well]
"wow, they're so talented!"
[when I do something well]
"wow, that was lucky."”](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/473535 "Tweet by ADHD Jesse: “[when a friend does something well]
\"wow, they're so talented!\"
[when I do something well]
\"wow, that was lucky.\"”")
