Ern 💉💉 💉 😷🧍🏽⬅️➡️🧍🏽👐🏽🧼🦠

Bibliophile. Photographer. Foodie. Public health. Epidemiologist. PSA—avoid 3Cs & wear a mask. SARS-CoV-2 won’t get fatigued any time soon.

[Ern 💉💉 💉 😷🧍🏽⬅️➡️🧍🏽👐🏽🧼🦠 @LensTalesIam]

Can I keep predictive texting but remove the AI aspect?

Cos there’s nothing more annoying than my phone trying to guess what I want to say and being wrong. And then the whole context changes or insertions that make zero sense….
😫🤬😒
Yeah yeah, hashtag first world problems

[Ottilia Anna MaSibanda @MaS1banda]

This is your regular reminder to boycott aquellé 🤞🏾

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Just a reminder that you are doing your best, and that’s more than enough. It’s okay to take it one day at a time.

[Ern 💉💉 💉 😷🧍🏽⬅️➡️🧍🏽👐🏽🧼🦠 @LensTalesIam]

⁦@vault22_io⁩ (22/7) why don’t you put your old name here? Like what new way of spamming is this?! (Not everyone reads all the emails… and it’s not even in the subject line. )

[Wondermark Comics @wondermarkfeed]

I'm sure I'm the only one this happens to, right?

Wondermark #1552; In which a House is Haunted

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

The tech industry in the last 2 years:

Credit: @tomfishburne

[Ern 💉💉 💉 😷🧍🏽⬅️➡️🧍🏽👐🏽🧼🦠 @LensTalesIam]

Tell me your age without telling me your age…

[Ern 💉💉 💉 😷🧍🏽⬅️➡️🧍🏽👐🏽🧼🦠 @LensTalesIam]

This specific question is important.

As an aside: forecasting and modelling …. needs some thought and insight (not saying this is what was done here, but if models aren’t tracking, something is not right and an update is required)

As you were.

[Alice Evans @_alice_evans]

Birth rates are plummeting,

The UN and other forecasters keep missing the mark

Fertility in Latin America has dropped off a cliff.

Do we need to update our models?

Asks @jburnmurdoch

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

There is a particular cruelty to forcing women to carry doomed pregnancies to term, and this is it right here.

[Joolz Denby @JoolzDenby]

I think the Pelicot case once and for all gives the lie to the old cliche that men only rape pretty young girls in revealing outfits because they can’t control their lust.

Rapists rape anyone they think they can.

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

"I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too. I don't want them to be ashamed any longer."

That shame was never hers to carry.

Gisele Pelicot is so right and so brave to refuse it and to demand that it changes side.

https://t.co/cRRxkLoMHl

[Karyn Maughan @karynmaughan]

The Press Council says it “has expelled the Independent Media group of publications with immediate effect”.
This sharply contradicts with Independent and IOL’s reports that it had withdrawn from the Council.

Full statement:

https://t.co/PcECdojtHv

[David Challen @David_Challen]

A soldier, a nurse, a lorry driver, a builder, a baker… these are just some of the men accused of the rape and assault of Gisèle Pelicot. By labelling rapists as “monsters,” we actively distance them from ordinary men, ignoring the reality that sexual violence against women is a deliberate choice made by countless men who walk all parts of our society.

Such labels prevent us from confronting the truth this trial now holds up to the world: that many men walk freely in our communities, appearing trusted and safe, yet actively choose to commit acts of violence against women and girls…

Many of the men accused in this trial have attempted to normalise their acts of sexual violence by framing their behaviour as a misunderstanding of consent, and even a reaction to personal struggles. These excuses do not mitigate their actions. Some of the men conceded they ‘should have left’ when they saw Gisèle Pelicot was unconscious, whilst others have been more explicit in their views towards women earlier in life, “I had a hatred towards women.”

This normalisation by these men of their violent behaviours creates a disturbing disparity, minimising the seriousness of their crimes and shifting focus away from the harm of the victim. One of the men accused went as far to state he was ‘was simply following her husband’s instructions,’ going as far to directly tell Gisèle Pelicot in court:

“It’s not me you should be angry with, it’s your husband,”

This is an abhorrent case. Yet, it is an incredible survivor, Gisèle Pelicot, who in choosing to waive her anonymity now holds these ‘ordinary’ men up to the world, to show the full extent of the crimes. To stare down that the men who committed these acts were characters who occupied the community in her life, even ones she unwittingly greeted in her everyday life:

“I saw him now and then in the bakery; I would say hello. I never thought he’d come and rape me,”
- Gisèle Pelicot

➡️ https://t.co/bJkQkU1voG

[Karyn Maughan @karynmaughan]

Independent Newspapers and IOL have withdrawn from the Press Council after being ordered to retract, apologise for and delete an opinion piece they published about me, in which they compared me to a Nazi propagandist. 1/2

https://t.co/NmVg2IWTER

[Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs]

When I was young I fixed my parents’ computer and now that I’m older I fix computers for my kids. Are we the only generation that knows how computers work?

[Sibusiso Biyela 🇿🇦 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @AstroSibs]

I interviewed two researchers leading the charge against racist species names for plants. https://t.co/kAWm3s9sJV

[Ern 💉💉 💉 😷🧍🏽⬅️➡️🧍🏽👐🏽🧼🦠 @LensTalesIam]

@urbanjodi Something I’ve wondered about. SARS has everyone’s info,basically. If they can do things like auto assessments, can’t their systems pick up other things too? SARS might be interested in “big monies” but surely can help ID fraud etc for SASSA and even elsewhere? Surely??

[Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford]

Ok, here we go: Much of my work concerns the history and return of scientific racism. I’ve written extensively about attempts to resurrect the shuffling corpse of
race science and eugenics for many years. Bigotry dressed up as biology. 1/n