sweetsunray.bsky.social
Asoiaf blogger, math physics teacher, master industrial design, left/social/lib, woke, inclusive, gen x, Belgium, European, crone, ovarian survivor, cat mom, she (non conformist)
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Heck in two weeks my country will have one of its biggest summer festivals (rock), which is a meadow for 65k crowd (and our population is less than 11.5 million).
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WTAF 😳
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I admit that’s merely a side point to the objective point on who’s committing violence against whom. But at a moment where MAGA narrative manipulation is trying to push for “it’s in response to violence” it’s a side point to keep in the back of your mind
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I agree that’s what we’re seeing. But I am pointing out how the memory is being manipulated by MAGA to push their narrative and why that even works on enough people. It’s like that actor stealing a professor’s wallet in front of a filled aula. The shocked witnesses’ recollection gets altered after
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Even when people objectively know and recognise who was violent to whom, the primal emotional response is “red alert 🚨 violence! Get away!” and in this way the victim being assaulted becomes an inherent part of the memory of the violence and so seen as aggressor.
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Yes. But they use the visual of their violence to create a false narrative of violence. Why did they argue that Senator Padilla “lunged” at Bondi? Because the first video released showed pulling and pushing, not by the senator but the FBi goons. People later remember this as “violent” in general.
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Maybe weather predictions were lies in the hope to dissuade no king ralliers of going and to have an excuse about disappointing dc numbers?
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George Soros must be the richest man in the world if he can pay so many actors keep showing up to rallies /s 😉
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The fascists are competing one another with “who gets to be the most monstrous”. Very very bad sign of what stage the US is in.
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Trump’s regime is pushing for dictatorship yes: federalising NG, detaining a US senator, threats to arrest governors, claiming liberating from dem governors, Trump’s speech about Russia and Putin, Rubin’s department webpage celebrating Russia Day, ice can arrest without warrants, Brag fort, …
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It’s a derivative of “to answer for xyz” in committee hearings I guess. But “to answer for misdeeds” should mean actual consequences, in this case
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We have a fairly recently new inheritance law in Belgium now that is getting more popular: if you inherit you can pass it on tax-exempt if you gift it to your kids within 1 year of inheriting. It’s becoming quite popular with people in their 70s
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The Netflix documentary about the Titan diveboat, its crooked CEO wannabe Musk of the deep ocean, and Musk being mentioned a few times by an autocratic CEO who hires freshly graduated and fires the experienced engineers is so much perfect timing of an indirect hit. Each a grifter
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I saw them live 2 weeks ago! They’re still awesome! And it’s now so self evident where RHC Peppers and Faith No More got their inspiration.
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He suffocated them with a bag taped over their heads! 😳
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… joined or helped resistance.
Belgium overall had a high number of collaborators (more than the Netherlands), but many were double agents also aiding resistance and Jews. A lot were saved (more than in the Netherlands). readysteadycut.com/2024/02/01/w...
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It’s not naive. Last year a Flemish movie of Belgian police during Nazi occupation in Antwerp (with a large Jewish quarter) came out: Will. You can see it on Netflix. Though a fiction story it is based on historical events. Police did collaborate with Nazis in rounding up Jews, but a year later …
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1. Biologist observing wolves in the wild (my mom’s claim for the past 25 years)
2. Paleonthologist dusting brushes while knee deep in a dig.
But my mom asked me in ‘90 if there was nothing else I wanted to study but biology. 🤷♀️
I can still see myself doing the above when retired 😈
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Mike Johnson promising better times 😈
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When my best friend (marketing and PR) was introduced to ChatGPT for work and what it could whip as text, he suggested to me to use it for my essays of my blog on GRRM’s asoiaf. But the fun is the discovery while searching, reading and analysing the quotes myself! A year later he understands it more
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aka: “Why do people die of old age at a higher rate than poorer countries?” And the “solution” is … ?!?!
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Is that based on the online orders of the free tickets?
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They should ask what they’re gonna do about rapist felon who’s a gangster and cancer in the WH
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I’m sorry. That was horrible for both of you.
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Understandable first response, but hungry and tired NG maybe is what Trump and hegseth desire? Either one can make a person cranky and ultimately may make bad decisions under stress and pressure because of it.
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It’s part of the plot of Upton Sinclair’s The jungle. 😔
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I also tend to pick a song to go with a conceptual painting. For this it’s Moody Blues - The Best Way to Travel youtu.be/8Ma1bmBv_nc?...
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Thank you for the repost and appreciation 🥰
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Ze “grijpen in” door met opzet en bewust naar journalisten te schieten, naar het hoofd van vreedzame protesteerder, of met paard een burger te omsingelen, met hoeven te slaan naar hoofd en met matrak.
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De federale overheid escaleert: eerst ICE, en nu ook de politie.
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And the practice of defenestration of oligarchs
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They used to be curious when I informed them that Mars has no magnetic field to speak off. They cheer when I now link it to Musk posting about colonising Mars and how absurd this is. And they smirk when I incorporate this into a test question.
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If it’s repeated regularly over time, it acts like a booster against disinformation.
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They are fixed, even short term. Education in how fake news and propaganda is created has shown to work like a vaccination against disinformation. When people experienced the creation of a lie (doctor a picture/movie/voice/with lie) they detect it more easily in the wild. /1
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(Almost) free general education ain’t enough. Teachers must have the courage to use current examples. Overall the response to this approach in my classroom has been positive. My students are engaged into the principles of math and physics when I deploy it real time as a skeptic tool against pseudo
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I used to generally refer to pseudoscience and put physics and math against that. But since November I’m selecting specific disinformation and name the disinforming face, introduce them to laws and phenomena and their explanations and add it to my questions in tests and research tasks.
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I teach adults that try to get their HS diploma. When a colleague told me the day after the November election that a Ukrainian refugee (who is pro Ukraine) believed Kamala was Pro-Putin so it was good that Trump had won, because of TikTok, I’ve amped up my game to point out BS. /1
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I think they can, because it echoes the birth of the economical union that grew into the EU: Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg formed a no tariff steel trade union, to which France and Germany soon joined.