Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

What might it look like if we permit a mutating virus that degrades our immune systems to spread widely and reinfect people often? I don't know, it's a complete mystery. #COVID19

These sewage discharges in the UK are the result of increased extreme storm flows and decades of underinvestment by the water agencies Margaret Thatcher privatized in the late 1980s. Instead of reinvesting revenues in maintaining and upgrading infrastructure, they paid out billions to their shareholders while increasing their debt.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/23/raw-sewage-discharged-chichester-harbour-over-1200-hours-month?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco&s=09

Dismayed to notice that in 2003 I published an article containing a sentence with an unmatched left parenthesis so that everything I’ve published in the last twenty years has been part of one extremely long parenthetical remark.

There's a maxim in medicine: When you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not zebras. That's useful to remember as we wait for more info on childhood illnesses in #China. This sounds more like the legacy of its zero Covid policy than a new disease threat. https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/23/surge-of-respiratory-disease-in-china-triggers-anxiety-but-experts-see-likely-explanation/

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And this is why I will continue to say that the Republicans would wrestle to be the one to take-away Tiny Tim’s crutch and deny Oliver Twist a second bowl of gruel.

Cruelty is the point.

/3 and /fin

ROFL @ John Roberts trying to get ahead of Congress so that Congress can’t remind Sammy A that the necessary and proper clause exists.

"Her focus is expected to be combating ‘wokery’ and ‘standing up for working people.’"

We live in the dumbest timeline.

Rishi Sunak brings in Esther McVey as ‘minister for common sense’ - LBC https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/rishi-sunak-brings-in-esther-mcvey-as-minister-for-common-sense/

Over late October and early November, military cargo flights in and out of Kaliningrad were at an uncharacteristic high. Bellingcat went to investigate what these flights could be moving using SAR imagery… https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/11/13/as-cargo-flights-leave-kaliningrad-air-defence-systems-disappear/?utm_source=mastodon

@randahl @iuculano

Today marks the 86th anniversary of the #Sandarmokh massacre, a tragic event where over a thousand people, including prominent Ukrainian writers, poets, artists, scientists, and others, were ruthlessly executed by Soviet authorities in the pine forest in northern russia (karelia) on an autumn day.

Known as the “Executed Renaissance” in #Ukraine,

For decades, the Soviet Union concealed this crime, only revealing the truth in 1997

Read more here🔗 https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/11/04/ukraine-commemorates-sandarmokhs-victims-a-thousand-intellectuals-slain-by-soviet-authoritis/

#SlavaUkraine

The overwhelming majority of the resources approved as security assistance for #Ukraine has... gone directly to #American #manufacturers, supporting American #jobs, expanding the American industrial base, and producing new weapons for America’s military — Sen Mitch McConnell #quote #quotes #SupportUkraine

There is a real Catch-22 at work in the tech media rhetoric I’m seeing around ‘incumbent’ responses to new AI regulation: If you are an incumbent that resists new regulation, you’re arrogantly setting yourself above sovereigns. If you are an incumbent who accepts new regulation, you’re trying to entrench your power and block new entrants.