herid @herid@qoto.org

Mozart - Symphony No. 40 (Molto Allegro)

https://youtu.be/Q4sJuUPv7Uw

#FavoriteMusic 65/

Finland is to deliver its 12th package of matériel "to increase our support of the just cause of Ukraine." That cause is to defeat the Russian invaders.

The cost to replace the weapons and ammunition being sent would be €400 million.

https://www.defmin.fi/en/topical/press_releases_and_news/finland_to_deliver_more_defence_materiel_to_ukraine.13357.news#2b9117c0

About 1 in every 39 people in Canada is currently infected with Covid.

💔​ Please remember how brave a masked seven-year old must be to sit all day in a classroom of unmasked classmates and facing an unmasked teacher.

#WearAMaskTeachers
#CovidInSchool
#KidsNeed RoleModels
#KidsAreBraverThanAdults
#OntEd
#ImmuneCompromised

January 15, 2023
https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index/

An absolute kick in the teeth to all the indie devs who worked so hard to make Twitter a better experience for so many. Twitterrific was officially discontinued today and pulled off the App Store after 16 years of development. Among other firsts, they first used "tweet" to describe an update, first used a bird icon, and were the first native client on iPhone and Mac. https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/

Search for the word “climate” on #twitter and the first automatic recommendation isn’t “climate crisis” or “climate jobs” or even “climate change” but instead “climate scam.”

Clicking on the recommendation yields dozens of posts denying the reality of #climatechange and making misleading claims about efforts to mitigate it.

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-science-social-media-a7e2e3214abb4470dcb6e2837aa39c2e

This is exactly why Musk bought Twitter and why he has the financial backers that he has. I understand that creators who use Twitter as their marketplace have a hard time leaving.

Please know this though. If you stay, you are complicit in the genocide of the planet earth.
#ClimateChange #TwitterExit

RE: https://kolektiva.social/users/daveid/statuses/109717719889375901

Jill Barber - Oh My My

https://youtu.be/7Inw1xYN05g

#SongOfTheDay
#FavoriteMusic 64/

Separately, today's US announcement on additional aid, with full list
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3272866/biden-administration-announces-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

Joint statement announcing additional lethal aid and other support to #Ukraine by the defence ministers of Estonia, the United Kingdom, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania; and the representatives of Denmark, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Slovakia
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-the-tallinn-pledge

Finally some clarity we apparently broke the long standing rule of "use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications”.

I guess I didn't realize long standing actually means a couple hours ago, once again I'm deeply sorry.

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-new-developer-terms-ban-third-party-clients-211247096.html

@paul My mama always said politeness was a virtue but ya know what? Fuck Elon Musk. Just straight up. Can’t believe I used to like the dude until like 2019 when the cracks started appearing

https://t.me/United24media/3498 ‼️🇵🇱"Either we will immediately receive Germany's consent, or we will do it ourselves," said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki about the delivery of Leopard tanks to Ukraine. "Poland will do the right thing and deliver Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine even without Germany's consent. Consent is secondary here. We will either get this consent immediately, or we will do it (more) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

https://youtube.com/watch?v=y37woMqeXFs&feature=share ⚡️🇩🇪Why has Germany still not decided on Leopard 2 tank supplies to Ukraine? (DW - German News in English VIDEO) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

Pregnant?
#WearAMask

Alive?
#WearAMask

#GetVaccinated
#COVID19
#CovidIsNotOver

https://fortune.com/well/2023/01/19/pregnant-women-covid-more-likely-to-die-pneumonia-ventilation-prematurity/

Your occasional reminder that Stalin was, in fact, a super bad guy and you wouldn’t have liked life under him.

For fuck’s sake people! Why are 2-3 million people missing from the US workforce? Well, hundreds of thousands of working adults died of COVID, millions developed long-term disabling health problems, and someone has to care for those folks. Remember — over 150,000 kids lost their primary caregiver in the first year of COVID alone. Someone has to leave the general workforce to care for those kids. COVID. The answer is COVID.

How antivaxxers monetize misinformation.

Some of these grifters are making tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per MONTH on substack.

https://derekberes.substack.com/p/how-anti-vaxxers-monetize-misinformation

Very telling that the world's richest investors, business leaders, political leaders, economists attending the World Economic summit this week in #Davos will be protected with stringent #Covid controls including onsite PCR testing.
A positive test result automatically deactivates their entry badge. Masks are freely available and being worn in very well-ventilated venues.

👉​ But we send millions of children to school every single day with zero Covid mitigations.

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/AM23_Health_and_Safety_Measures.pdf