Lauralee Dukeshire (she/her) @LauraleeDukeshire@qoto.org

Starts next Wednesday:

MMTed invites you to enrol for the edX MOOC - Modern Monetary Theory: Economics for the 21st Century - is now open for enrolments.

It’s a free 4-week course and the course starts on February 15, 2023.

Further Details: https://edx.org/course/modern-monetary-theory-economics-for-the-21st-century

If the US is really worried about variants and the spread of COVID through travel, it should require negative tests for all travelers, no matter where they come from, and require masks. Targeting single countries with bans and requirements is ineffective and racist.

#StopAsianHate #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

The Biden White House requiring negative tests for only China is a move that puts politics over public health, and increases the likelihood of xenophobia and attacks on Asian people in the US.

#StopAsianHate #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

Requiring negative tests for flights from a single country is ineffective because the US is already letting it rip and generating variants, and also because people travel everywhere, so variants that may become dominant in China will still reach the US via other countries.

#StopAsianHate #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

It is a confusing moment
in which we find ourselves
wherein those
still taking precautions
are derided as holdouts
even as new travel restrictions
are put in place.

almost every hypothermic arrest is a policy failure

Parent rejection of a child’s gender identity is one of the greatest predictors of depression and suicidality for #trans people.

An Amur tiger of the Russian Far East, caught on camera trap. Sent to me by my friend and hero, conservationist Victor Lukarevski, who continues to fight tirelessly for nature as we go about our daily lives.
Wishing you all a peaceful and restful festive season tweeps.
💛🌟💛

Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became artificial intelligence.

Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.

The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science

Who's got a feeling of déjà-vu?

#StarTrek #TNG just casually talking about how arbitrary #gender is, as a minor plot point during an episode that aired in 1990. It still blows my mind that some people still can't grasp this stuff...