Are you aware of this data source and org? Real time tracking
acleddata.com/iran-crisis-...
07.03.2026 07:01
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Are you aware of this data source and org? Real time tracking
acleddata.com/iran-crisis-...
Principles. Thankful that some like Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers lead the way by taking a stand behind them.
May be trying to impress the International Democracy Union - an international alliance of centre-right to right-wing political parties?
Headquarters Munich, Germany with 84 full and associate members from 65 countries. Chaired by Stephen Harper, former prime minister of Canada.
Oof. Saying this, I am guilty of being unkind and shallow but ...
Convincing Berlin with a silver-tongued and flowing, natural, and easy command of language.
Topline questionnaire www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/u...
The title of the report is deceiving. Look at the whole article for a global snap shot of a broad range of what specifically is believed to be moral vs immoral.
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
Opinions abound as to political responsibility and intention but no matter what, the end result is the same.
More dead children.
www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...
The Genetic Choir is not a group you would expect to weigh in on quitting use of services of big invasive U.S. tech companies, but they are.👍
This Dutch nonprofit ensemble of contemporary vocal improvisers creates projects & can be approached for collaborations & giving concerts.
Have a look.
Graph of results Pew Researh Survey. “In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad,” explores how adults in 25 countries rate the morality of others in their nation. U.S. most likely 53%, Canada least likely 7%
Canadians - Congratulations on taking last place.
Stay the course. 🙏
.
March 2026 Pew report, “In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad,” adults in 25 countries rate the morality of others in their country. Credit: Courtesy of Pew Research Center.
Worse - Ontario Lottery & Gaming proceeds go to the Min. of Tourism, Culture & Gaming. $$$ from there go to the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Charities providing vital services MAY get to compete for that money from gambling to run their services. Often, it is 'make or break' funding.
Join in. Tell people in your circle why.
Another reason to boycott ChatGPT as Rutger Bregman recommends. Tumbler Ridge could have been warned. And who knows how even using ChatGPT influenced the shooter over time.
I thought I found a small doable role in my rural Ontario town where winter is formidable. Many here are chronically unhoused. Shelter is needed 24 hours/day to keep them alive.
Made progress providing more time indoors but the larger community isn't putting skin in the game with me.
Pep talk needed
More on Maryam Ishani. You can find her on Facebook as well. Hope she moves to Bluesky.
Thoughts shared by an Hong Kong based Agence France-Presse Reporter/Editor covering the Middle East, North Africa and Afgh - Maryam Ishani.
I understand fully that my safe life with many freedoms is an accident of geography, having been born in Canada and lived there all my life.
Free to use open source. Busts some myths and is predictive.
acleddata.com
Just learned about ACLED - Armed Conflict Location & Event Data - independent, impartial NFP global monitor that collects, analyses, & maps data on conflict & protest...detailed current info on world-wide conflict and crisis.
Solid credentials, sources & 20 year history. Granular & aggregate data.
It seems like only 10 years ago that the first drone appeared in my rural area. Now look!
It is almost laughable that a huge stock of $20K drones in Iran could outlast multimillion dollars worth of U.S. stocks of interceptors or cruise missiles to end war.
Watch for ads for U. S. drone builders...
How low can they go? I shouldn't dare to ask, I suppose.
Truly Orwellian. Do you know much about the history of this product? Are the traditional big shammers involved?
Some history to heed for the sake of #Peace.
Take in the words of Dwight D. Eisenhower in his speech, 'The Chance for Peace' April 16, 1953 Washington, D.C. just after he became president & Stalin had recently died. Context is largely the threat of nuclear war but it applies to all war.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (G. Santayana)
A cartoon morphed it to say:
"Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it."
But historians CAN call it instead.
Oh well. Reportedly the first time consequences of geopolitical conflict caught up to a U.S. big data corporation. Not good if it affects connectivity for ordinary people in the Middle East and does not mitigate the tragedy of the school being hit where children died.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
My initial take on this Heather Cox Richardson opinion...
1) The problems for Iranians are complex & have a long tangled history.
2) The current self-serving 'solutions' from the U.S. president are "as shallow as pee on a plate".
3) I am no further ahead on how to support Iranians here or in Iran.
Graphic of ‘Don’t Mention the Children’ was written in 2014 by the children’s author, poet & activist Michael Rosen following a Guardian report that the Israeli government had banned a radio advert naming children killed in Gaza.
‘Don’t Mention the Children’ was written in 2014 by the children’s author, poet & activist Michael Rosen following a Guardian report that the Israeli government had banned a radio advert naming children killed in Gaza.
Revisting the #poem for the dead children in Iran or anywhere else needed.
😜
That's odd. Why don't the puppet strings show up in this photo???
Looks like Gull Is. Were you out on a tour boat from Bay Bulls?
The whole coast is magical.😊
night of Mar. 1 map of the continental U.S. showing density of birds in spring migration as detected by radar via Birdcast from Cornell.
Today on Planet Earth.
Humans are decidely not making good choices but #birds are carrying on.
Spring Migration is under way. Get an idea of the action nightly here over the next three months via Birdcast from Cornell.
birdcast.org/migration-to...
From last night-
Biosecurity experts are raising concerns re: the convergence of AI with the life sciences. Risks include large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s various GPTs, Anthropic’s Claude, or Gemini enabling a broader range of people to pursue potential bioweapons.
OpenAI just sold out to Trump. Ugh.