tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
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“Sverige har för många personer som inte är en del av den etniska svenska befolkningen”
säger SD:s migrationspolitiska talesperson, och markerar därmed en vändpunkt: Nu är det så normalt att vara rasist att de inte behöver dölja det längre
www.etc.se/ledare/sd-sa...
Nu säger SD öppet att de vill ...
tobychev
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Two thoughts:
1. Focusing on punishment over repair — hurting those causing the harm instead of helping those who are harmed — is a hallmark of carceral thinking.
2. Dividing people into pure vs. impure, upright vs. sinful, is a hallmark of reactionary religious fundamentalism.
If your reaction to Bandcamp going corporate is “How soon should I judge artists who remain there to be Bad People so I can start shaming them?,” well, just please notice the cultural origins of such a thought.
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D.O.J. loses its first case! Former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn charged with vandalizing the reflecting pool is free of charges!
Hearn’s attorneys said, “Every American should be alarmed about this prosecution. It is not a crime to touch the Reflecting Pool.”
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NEW: Trump Administration Launches Crackdown on Teacher Sexual Misconduct
A ProPublica, KQED investigation found that California has not revoked the credentials of at least 67 educators who school districts determined had sexually harassed students or committed other types of sexual misconduct.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-teacher-sexual-misconduct-crackdown-linda-mcmahon
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My students are doing a mock trial of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and it is going so off the rails I am D Y I N G XDDDDD
tobychev
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Seemingly every government story is awful, so I want you to pay some attention to elected officials who are actually trying to make government function.
A puzzle about Mamdani why is he investing so much capital in the details of governing, like potholes or 311 calls. bsky.app/profile/mayo...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nx7znvoex7ev3wcxn3tipovm/post/3mitrgour722p
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Second time in just about a week when a man not targeted by ICE was killed by them
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/post/3mqkmteocjk2t
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Had to explain the owner of a bakery I once worked at. Couldn't remember the word "Francophile"
so what came out of my mouth was "She's like a weeb but for France.... a oui-ouiaboo"
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Japanese researchers linked Long COVID to a dormant herpes virus reactivated by SARS-CoV-2 infection. This process triggers production of the SITH-1 protein, which was identified in about 70% of patients. The SITH-1 protein may contribute directly to brain dysfunction, fatigue, and depression.
Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260714_03/
Study: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2026.1807203/full
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tobychev
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I once found a dead person sitting on a disabled hospital toilet. I really needed a piss though so I quickly pissed in the sink before I called for help. I'm sure they wouldn't have minded.
@michaelzemmour
Tu places un objet contre quelque chose de chaud, puis tu le places contre quelque chose de froid. Répète l'opération. (Des détails importants ont été omis)
@didierchatenay
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Between 2020 and 2023, Germany spent €860m subsidising the purchase of Teslas — a scheme that helped unlock Berlin's share of the EU's Covid recovery fund, according to internal documents obtained by EUobserver. Now, Elon Musk's Berlin gigafactory is also receiving more than €71m in state aid.
tobychev
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SD:s gruppledare i Stockholm, lite av en Einstein, drömmer sig tillbaka till när Sverige var som bäst och allt var tryggt, säkert och vackert, vilket råkar vara när han själv tultade runt i blöja.
www.dn.se/sverige/sa-v...
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The "termination shock" risk is particularly problematic because implementing Marine Cloud Brightening would be a huge logistical challenge (i.e. expensive) and it becomes less effective with time, so you get less "bang for your buck" with time, but if you ever decide to stop things revert to where they would be if you never implemented the regime to begin with.
So you wind up with it being an expensive recurring sunk cost that's less effective the longer it's used, but you're effectively "addicted" by the worry of termination shock.
Sounds a lot like a narcotic.
@kevinrothrock
When you say "never swung to a net positive for Ukraine", you mean that it didn't happen recently? Because the grey dotted line clearly crosses to the Ukrainian side occasionally?
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Unions in Europe press for new worker protections to counter heat stress
Climate crisis prompts calls for workplace temperature limits and rights to heat breaks and adjusted working hours
#ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #ClimateReversal #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
> How much a participant’s brain activation resembled the average male or average female activation pattern changed depending on the task, the study also found. And whether a participant’s brain had typical male or female activation for one task could not predict whether their brain structure or performance on the task was more typical of one sex over another, which “goes against the thought that a person’s brain is always more male- or female-like,” Kuceyeski says.
I love living in the "Gender... MAYBE NOT" era of science https://www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differences/brains-sex-differences-are-subtle-and-cont...
@grimalkina
It's just a bunch of ants up there, pulling at strings to make our limbs flap according to anthill logic. It's a miracle that what other anthills do looks coherent to us (though frequently it doesn't).
That is to say, cool result! Maybe not surprising if you had the correct model of what a brain is, which in hindsight I can now say I didn't. But it's ok, I made up a new one, much more fun than the previous one.
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Japan's Hayabusa 2 was sent on a mission to collect samples from the asteroid Ryugu. Mission accomplished. But it's still in space, and there are plenty of asteroids left to visit, so the journey continues. Now, Hayabusa 2 is on its way to visit 1998 KY26, a near-Earth object only 11 meters in diameter, but on its way, it flew past the 450-meter-diameter object 98943 Torifune. This week we got the first close-up pictures, taken when Hayabusa 2 was only 800 meters away from its surface.
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
