Geeta K

Question everything.

I write, sometimes.

[Geeta K @Geeta25]

Was incredibly privileged to attend @JustLikeUsUK Founders Circle dinner on Monday, hearing from incredibly awesome ambassador Sage, student at Brighton uni, & lovely new patron of the charity @jbayleaf_ . I was even lucky enough to get a couple of snaps with them at the end 🌈

[Geeta K @Geeta25]

And it was totally deserved 👏🏽

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🚨🇳🇴 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: Norway are through the quarter-final of the World Cup.

🇲🇽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 They will face Mexico or England.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I get the impression that the 1995 Pride & Prejudice is fading from cultural memory, and that’s a shame because it’s PERFECT. Every character is impeccably cast. The extended length allows for full immersion in the story. Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth are utterly luminous.

[Fiona Small @FionaSmall]

Happy Independence Day, America

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

the only july 4 i’m celebrating

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Swiss farmers planted flowers between their crops and watched pest damage drop by over half. The UK is now running the same trial across 15 farms. The reason this works is embarrassingly simple.

A Swiss study on winter wheat found that fields with wildflower strips had 40 to 53% fewer leaf beetle pests than fields without. Crop damage dropped 61%.

The mechanism is simple. Wildflowers feed hoverflies, lacewings, parasitic wasps, ladybugs, and ground beetles. Those insects eat the aphids, beetle larvae, and caterpillars that farmers would otherwise spray for. A few meters of wildflowers hosts an unpaid pest control crew that would jump at the chance to whoop some aphid ass.

In apple orchards where no insecticides had been used for five years, plots with wildflower alleyways had 9.2% damaged fruit. Control plots without flowers had 32.5%.

The UK is now running a five-year trial across 15 farms placing 6-meter flower strips through the middle of fields, not just at the edges, because the beneficial insects can't reach the center of a large field otherwise.

This works the same way in a backyard vegetable garden as it does on a commercial farm. Plant native flowering species near your tomatoes, beans, and squash. The pests still show up, but the predators show up too.

Study doi: 20151369

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Zeynep Sonmez says tournament organizers ban her from wearing Palestine-supporting pin

“I used to wear a pin. Tournaments no longer allow me to wear it. We had a discussion with the organizers because the Ukrainian flag is allowed but Palestine is not. They ultimately told us they definitely would not allow it ... I can use the vibration dampener and they can't object to that. That's why I put the watermelon symbol on my racket”

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If this was any other country, it would be huge news, and most western governments would be loudly condemning it.

But it’s Israel so…

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to be in spaces with people who seem entirely unmoved by the avalanche of cruelty and brutality we’re currently witnessing in the world.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

As you sit boiling in the heat, never forget that all those people who for decades have deliberately and maliciously disrupted efforts to tackle climate change are probably sitting comfortable in their large air conditioned houses.

Those houses were likely funded on the back of lies and misinformation they helped propagate.

[Geeta K @Geeta25]

@Icelandair my flight back to London Heathrow has just been cancelled from Reykjavik and I absolutely need to get back tomorrow... Can you please help me??? #urgent #flightcancelled #icelandair #london

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

They really want to turn every human interaction, from a private email to where and how you drive your car, into a transaction they can track, predict, and sell.

We're not even living anymore, we're just livestock in their digital farm.

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist.

At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk

[Josie Long @JosieLong]

Everybody was told in 2010-15 that austerity was painful but necessary to improve living standards. And then no improvements came, ever.

[Mercurial ⚡️ @Kingg_mercurial]

Britney Spears, Beyoncé and P!nk in one Pepsi commercial 22 years ago.
They don’t make ads like this anymore. 🎬

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

[LPC @landpalestine]

There are two kinds of people susan sarandon pays the price and was fired from Hollywood for saying stop killing children in Palestine

And the other gwyneth paltrow gets paid to market cities built upon the blood of children and the rubble of what was once their homeland

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

When people of the Jewish faith tell the world that this is not ok...
TO BE GENOCIDAL BASTARDS

Jewish actress Miriam Margolyes Reflects on Her 2012 Visit to Israel and How It Shaped Her Views on Palestine

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

I thought that if Israeli soldiers or settlers attacked Christian villages, the Christian world would unite in their millions in condemnation that their sacred sites were being burnt and erased.