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Full Marx for this.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

submitted 2 days ago • 661 comments

Reading about the Rupert Murdoch family trust mess. My favorite anecdote is when Rupert’s lawyer cross-examined his son James, trying to get him to admit that his plans to make Fox News more honest would hurt its value because it’s business model was to just tell viewers what they wanted to hear. 👀

submitted 5 days ago • 193 comments

Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli jails released in Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement once again showed signs of emaciation and abuse. Read here: aje.io/y4xup8

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Calling @racsurgeons.bsky.social global surgeons! Do you know a HCW (doctor, nurse, other health worker) based in the Indo-Pacific who would benefit from a 4-6 week visit to Australia or Aotearoa NZ? Grants up to AUD$12K available, closing 31st March. Details here:- www.surgeons.org/Resources/Me...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

submitted 5 days ago • 601 comments

At todays cabinet meeting RfkJr lied abt his role in Samoa deaths, lied that this happens every year, lied that hospitalized kids are only “under under observation”.He did not mention that for first time in 10 yrs, a CHILD has DIED of measles. And he failed to advise ppl to get kids vaccinated

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 5 days ago • 481 comments

I probably would have been writing a ton about Project 2025 in 2024 if it were not for the genocide. I'm sure that's true about a ton of the best policy researchers out there. The impact of Democratic Party-backed genocide comes through in a thousand different ways that are largely not measurable

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Yikes. thebulletin.org/2025/02/trum...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

If you go back and read the country’s original user manual it lists factors that help you identify monarchical malware and suggests solutions.

submitted 9 days ago • 85 comments

"The silence with which many of us and our institutions are meeting this moment must be challenged" Thank you @jama.com for stating this. The earlier (and some ongoing) silence from academic organizations & institutions prior to the NIH cuts was deafening and disheartening. #standupforscience

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network. All 2469 miles of it. Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

submitted 15 days ago • 89 comments

Need some good news today? Authors Against Book Bans fought one conservative school district in FL and won! lithub.com/authors-agai...

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Great story on the new PAX / ICAN Don’t Bank on the Bomb report out today, showing the impact the #TPNW is having on divestment from nuclear weapons: www.reuters.com/business/fin... Check out the full report here: www.dontbankonthebomb.com/at-great-cost/ #nuclearban

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

New: “At Great Cost: The companies building nuclear weapons and their financiers”, a publication of @paxforpeace.nl and @nuclearban.bsky.social -> 260 financial institutions have significant financing or investment relations with nuclear weapon producers. www.dontbankonthebomb.com/at-great-cost/

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The deals brokered with Google were bad enough, but at least the snippets Google News reproduced were verbatim. OpenAI's systems will take the trust the Guardian has earned over decades, and just cram it head first, hard into a its brute force text garbling woodchipper lie machine. What a disaster.

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

We normally do fingerprint paintings for our @3wishesprogram.bsky.social patients. We just got a request from the #pedsICU for a painting that incorporates these tiny toeprints for the family. Sigh, I have a weird lump in my throat... 😞😢😓

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

News Corp in Australia are running campaigns to try and incite violence towards Jewish people, and film / report on the incidents - this attempt was botched and now the internal documents planning the provocation in News Corp's system are leaked @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/14/n...

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

haha, the additions are still live

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Ok but why does Ursula VdL and the Baltic states leaders activating the Baltic synchronisation to the European power grid look like they're entering Eurovision

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

$17.5M is more than enough to provide housing for 100 people

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

Really don’t think people understand how much of this backlash is fueled by professors jealous of other academics for getting funding, attention, etc ditto with writers looking for fame, assignments, etc. they didn’t think they were advancing racism per se they just wanted to take down their “rival”

submitted 22 days ago • 25 comments

Everything is awful and vile and egregious but on the other hand my cousin’s son just got into Berghain because he is multilingual and fabulous and I just want to say that the kids are ok and I am so much proud.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Like an acolyte, Australia lays a $500 million dollar offering down at the feet of the new US administration ahead of an audience on AUKUS This extreme misadventure takes new meaning amidst the current chaos #StopAUKUS www.reuters.com/world/austra...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

I went to the same high school as Sam Kerr. So did two of the girls who were murdered by the Claremont serial killer. For decades, a taxi driver was the suspect. I cannot over emphasise the impact these murders had for girls who went to my school. The fear was drillled into us from 12 years old.

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

That Trump is normalising the notion of a forcible eviction of an entire people from a patch of Middle Eastern land does not seem to bother Netanyahu. Caught up in his genocidal mania, he cannot even discern what a lethal notion this is for Israeli Jews. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

submitted 27 days ago • 19 comments

An absolute disgrace. www.smh.com.au/sport/cricke...

submitted 28 days ago • 25 comments

I admittedly gasped regarding the truth behind this. 😢

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 33 days ago • 3790 comments

She isn't wrong: “It is outdated that we have legislative scrutiny carried out by representatives of one Christian denomination. The only other legislature that has religious theocrats as members by right is Iran” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Well this is absolutely chilling. I'm so over the broligarchs, and they've only just begun to show just how much their slimy hands have grabbed hold of. As for 'culture', Carole sums it up neatly with this:

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

More medical inspired art: coronary arteries as subway map.

submitted 97 days ago • 5 comments

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

submitted 38 days ago • 206 comments

@drruthmitchell.bsky.social Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and insights in “Autonomous Armageddon: Nuclear Weapon’s and AI”. I so appreciate all you do! We all have a role in protecting our future and abolishing these weapons.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

@drruthmitchell.bsky.social Thank you for your participation in the webinar, “Autonomous Armageddon: Nuclear Weapons and AI"…thank you for all you do to save humanity.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

submitted 40 days ago • 78 comments

@mcuban.bsky.social had asked what he could do in the era of the convicted felon Donald Trump. Here's an example. "Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy and other U.S. funders said on Thursday they will cover U.S. financial obligations to the UN climate framework…"

submitted 40 days ago • 44 comments

Small rituals can help to keep us strong.

submitted 41 days ago • 12 comments

She is braver than seemingly anyone left in MSM. Now watch him have her audited now. He’s vindictive like that

submitted 41 days ago • 536 comments

Victim-in-Chief On this episode of After America, Allan Behm and Dr Emma Shortis discuss Trump’s inauguration, his radical agenda to reshape American life and the United States’ role in the world, and how Australia can respond. #auspol #Shitler

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Showing more courage than the entire media in the US, and 99% of Democrats

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

Instead of letting AI rip and seeing what happens, Australians for the Arts wants to see Australian govt protect and advance our arts and culture #FundTheArts www.saveourarts.com.au

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

This is an excellent story. More stories please @actinosproject.bsky.social

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

The amount of Luigi art on Xiaohongshu is unreal. Like if you thought he was a folk hero in America, I've never seen so much content about him. There's 'how to look like him' clothing tutorials. There's songs and skits about how he wants to give the freezing firewood. Had no idea this was going on.

submitted 47 days ago • 39 comments

I want to be ‘Megafauna of the Abyss’ and revel in my amble body size! #LifeGoals

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

This is a brilliant and badly needed initiative. As good as Bluesky as a platform is, we can't spend our lives constantly hopping like frogs from one compromised lilypad to another That is a shitty way to live and I am happy these folks are trying to address the root cause -->>>

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

"A record-breaking 10,000 scientific papers were retracted in 2023 because of scientific misconduct, and academic journals are overwhelmed by AI-generated images, data, and texts." Read more: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-...

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

This op-ed in @nytimes.com by @pauloffit.bsky.social is an absolute must-read. In it, Dr. Offit writes, "I’m an actual vaccine skeptic. In fact, everyone who serves with me on the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee is a vaccine skeptic." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments