MsDWrites

You know, my lesbian mums didn’t want to have to explain vicious homophobia to me when I was a kid. If I had to deal with that, I think bigots’ children can deal with the mere existence of trans kids. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

🇵🇸 Armed settlers destroyed a memorial to Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh near the entrance to the village of Ajja south of Jenin city. The memorial was erected in 2022 to honor the Al Jazeera journalist, who was shot in the head and killed by Israeli forces while covering a...

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

Melania Trump proving to be more useful than POTUS and all his Ukraine negotiating team. Not on my bingo card, but good for her …

In prep for my LoTR reread, I read some of Dr Tom Shippey's work. Here he is talking Beowulf, Tolkien and more. He seems like a lovely fella! youtu.be/WGQe2YeBguE?...

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

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The amazing thing is that he isn't getting Copilot to do it from scratch - it is very much the direct plagiarism thing I have been talking about!!! bsky.app/profile/keta...

Hey, @jimchalmers.bsky.social, #westpac is using the ACCC credit card surcharge changes as an excuse to nearly double my credit card charges and pump an extra 1.25% interest on top. Between this and the raised prices at the shops, I’d like the credit card surcharges back, thanks.

Here’s something I think doesn’t get said enough: It was very popular, after various horrific school massacres, to say “if this doesn’t move us to do gun control, nothing will.” Nobody ever mentions that the reason we won’t is 100% Republicans. 100%.

It’s bird count week, so I’ve been out counting birds. Alas, I’m only good at counting them, not photographing them …

This pattern of exaggerated slights and inability to acknowledge how the environment helped him is a pattern for Andreessen. He shits on his Wisconsin upbringing, but seems to have been well-treated and showered with resources. Says the NSF should be eliminated, even tho if was key to his education.

Late to this Bloomberg piece on Marc Andreessen. This is one of the key things. Andreessen is *angry* about how he has been treated, when any objective observer might note he has benefited enormously from the institutions he now purports to detest. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A study in the South China Sea found that a deep-sea mining trial significantly disrupted the microbial ecosystem, altering nutrient cycling and energy flow. 🌊

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Marisa's entire piece is terrific, but this part has really stuck with me. A group of College Republicans decided that El-Sayed wasn't "welcome" in the Senate and set out to stop him.

The key difference between Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk is that Holmes cost many in the ruling class a lot of money and Musk is making many in the ruling class a lot of money.

When olives are one of your last agricultural resources, how incredibly cruel to have them destroyed by “settlers” for no other reason than to make your life there unliveable. While beating up a foreign photo-journalist. Aided and abetted by Israeli soldiers.

Once is unfortunate, 254 times is impunity. 'BBC Verify has identified 254 incidents in which the IDF has been accused of killing or injuring people in Gaza, Lebanon, the occupied West Bank and Israel, that it said it was investigating but have no public outcome.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still, the first of his penguin photos in the book is enormously entertaining, because it suggests they found Levick—a fellow male, after all—a threat, and had they had the power of flight, perhaps they might have had a go at him the way other sea birds do. (Puffins, for example: little bastards)

A lot of these entries were written in code, using the Greek alphabet, on separate bits of paper which he pasted over his original English, as if to hide them from anyone who might happen upon his observations

Levick’s ‘Zoological notes from Cape Adare’ fill “125 pages of tightly written script ... from the arrival of the first penguin on 13 October to the last entry on 31 December 1911. The notebooks ... are rich in detail.” To put it mildly. His work...

It is, today, 115 years since navy surgeon and Antarctic explorer George Murray Levick saw his first Adélie penguin, after which he wrote several pages of notes about their sexual habits, concluded “there seems to be no crime too low for these penguins”, and saw his findings suppressed for 97 years

The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.

To start with, this is happening because the president has targeted a member of Congress as part of a broader explicitly racist hate campaign against Americans of a particular ethnic origin. There's no other way to put it.

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Oh hurry, please. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

We planned a ferry ride today, but the public transport was borked, so went for a neighbourhood walk instead. Realised we could get another view of the local waterhole, so went to check and found both a striated heron and a turtle!

This is not a good lede, @news.abc.net.au… Can we please normalise highlighting men’s wrongdoings rather than their social shields for same?

This is so sick. So a Russian blood diesel vessel is on its way to NC set to arrive tomorrow. It left St Petersburg on Sept 22nd. This Trump-Putin plan has been in the works for weeks can’t picture what allies America will have left after this

Once again I find myself agreeing with the Pope.

Bernie Sanders: “Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, spent almost $300M to help elect Trump. Now he’s gonna spend $200M to try to keep Republican control over the House and the Senate and other Republican billionaires are coming in. Does anybody in their right mind think that is democracy?

What’s happening to our climate is utterly terrifying. We’re looking at 4 degrees above average this southern summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a stunning Egyptian glass vessel in the shape of a #fish, it was probably used to hold ointments. Found in El-Amarna, #Egypt, 14th century BC. 📷 British Museum

Reminder that "biological sex" is not a thing that exists. It is a legal fiction in every place that refers to it. In the UK, in the equality act, it means "the sex that was written on your original birth certificate." Incidentally, it doesn't matter if that's due to a clerical error.

I once joked that “socialism” is whatever the GOP says it is. I never expected they’d be so obvious about it.

Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.