@lizcrosbie
Interested in global politics & environment, plus gardening, travel, art, photography and life. Ex UK Green Party, then 30+ years as a sustainability professional. Now, UK politics focused on AllianceNow UK, working together for a new democracy. No DMs
Rhiannon Giddens is actually heading out on tour this summer! It isn’t a large tour but has stops planned for Seattle WA, Bend OR, Bentonville AR, Asheville NC, and Pelham TN
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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇦🇿 As the United States focuses on its conflict with Iran, Ukraine could face a critical shortage of Patriot air defense missiles at a time when Russia shows no signs of easing its campaign of strikes on Ukrainian cities, — Reuters.
By stealth, but also very deliberately.
I'm someone who spends a lot of time thinking about LLMs, and I have no idea how they would improve the selection of targets in a war. Except for one obvious affordance - they offload accountability.
The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.
The world needs more people like Dolly 😍
Big money has bought British politics
75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
This image depicts a manuscript page from the "Guildbook of the Barber Surgeons of York" dated 1486. It illustrates the theory of the Four Humours, a medieval medical belief that temperament and health were dictated by the balance of bodily fluids: blood (sanguine), yellow bile (choleric), phlegm (phlegmatic), and black bile (melancholic). In the centre is a depiction of Christ, surrounded by figures representing these four temperaments. The manuscript is currently held at the British Library in London. Barber-surgeons used such manuscripts as part of their training for tasks ranging from bloodletting to surgery. Guildbook of the Barber-Surgeons of York (British Library Egerton MS 2572, folio 51v).
🧵The illustration “Personifications of the Four Humours” is a coloured image in the Guildbook of the Barber-Surgeons of York. Produced there, around 1486 with later additions, the the manuscript shows the 'Four Humours' bodily fluids which affected a person's health and
The extract of the article reads: "A senior NHS official privately urged colleagues to add more patient data into a Palantir-built platform at the same time as he was being paid to advise the US technology company. Matthew Swindells has been joint chair of four major hospital trusts in north-west London since April 2022 and has also since then acted as an adviser to Palantir through the now-defunct lobbying firm Global Counsel, which was co-founded by Lord Peter Mandelson."
It's just cartoon villainy now
We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
The painting "Night in the Steppe" shows a vast plain under a bright full moon, the light being distributed over the landscape and the water in an almost magical way.
This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.
Good morning my friends, Happy Thursday!!!
Sometimes the joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be from your joy.
I hope you all have a beautiful day and just remember we are almost to the weekend. Be kind, your kindness could be what saved someone!!💙💙💙
Once again, a regulator showing it has teeth
South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak.
Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill.
SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers.
Privatisation is a scam.
BREAKING: VoteVets is reminding the American people by highlighting Trump’s own quotes on the RNC tonight. Spread this everywhere so all Americans see it.
In coming supply chain challenges 👇
In the Pokrovs'k direction, in Donetsk region, the russian fascist invaders launched 15 attacks on the positions of Ukrainian defenders in the areas of Zapovidne, Rodyns'ke, Hryshyne, Udachne, Molodets'ke and Muravka as well as towards Krasnyi Lyman.
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Well if l am a mistake, happy to greet you 🙂
About 60% of Americans disapproved of the attacks, according to a CNN poll conducted immediately after the strikes. Two other polls, by Reuters/Ipsos and The Washington Post, had similar results. The polls also show Americans viewing Trump as a warmonger.
Funeral procession for the 165 to 175 little school girls murdered by the US and Israel in Minab, Iran.
U.S. and Israel Attack Iran Updates What to Know Photos Here's the latest. The U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran expanded into a wider international crisis on Wednesday after NATO air defenses shot down an Iranian ballistic missile headed toward Turkey, the United States sank an aman navy smp in international waters and several European nations deployed military assets to the region to protect their
“The U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran expanded into a wider international crisis on Wednesday after NATO air defenses shot down an Iranian ballistic missile headed toward Turkey”
Today on Volts: for the next few decades, we'll be in the "mid-transition," with clean energy systems growing as FF systems decline. Those FF systems will not decline smoothly -- there will be thresholds, "cliffs," where they suddenly crumble -- so maybe we should, I dunno, plan for it?
NEW: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the United States has asked Ukraine for help intercepting Iranian-made Shahed drones, citing Ukraine’s battlefield expertise. Zelenskyy said any assistance will come only if it does not weaken Ukraine’s own defenses.
NATO should not be American led. The attacks on Iran were not in self defence. Justifying this war as degrading Iranian drone capacity while not having the capability to neutralise drones is beyond stupid.
BBC to call for permanent charter and end of political appointments to board
James Webb just revealed Jupiter’s auroras glowing electric turquoise at both poles — hundreds of times more powerful than Earth’s. Explore now → https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com/discoveries/james-webb-telescope-jupiter-images
#Galaxies #JWST #Exoplanets
A Carolina wren perches in profile on a branch in a rhododendron bush, facing right with its head and beak pointing upward.
Happy #WrensDay! Hoping things are looking up for you! #birds #wrens #nature #backyardbirds #birdphotography #EastCoastKin 🪶
