Magda

born at 315 ppm / But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. E Gaskell, North & South / *have you joined your union?*

[Magda @MagdaRaysdottir]

@1goodtern Recently went to California (visit home) and was blown away that there is small minority masking - like someone on most buses, staff in museums, etc. Made it feel so much easier. ( some were surgical but many looked N95/N99.

[Magda @MagdaRaysdottir]

@1goodtern When my mother died, I had a week off. I was far from family, it was 2020 so we did not have a funeral. I spent most of the week in bed. I really needed time to just stop, adjust, accept.

[Magda @MagdaRaysdottir]

@luxemiaa This reminds me of the mysterious dog who helps Fanny Robbin on her journey to the workhouse. She is in labour. The workhouse officers shoo the dog away when she arrives. *Far from the Madding Crowd* by Thomas Hardy

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

The universe has served up more justice to Apartheid Israel than all international legal institutions combined.

5 out of 6 desalination plants in Israel have been shut down due to a sudden, massive algal bloom in the Mediterranean Sea.

It was brought on by the large amounts of raw sewage being discharged into the Mediterranean from Gaza, the result of Apartheid Israel's military's destruction of sewage treatment plants and sewage pipes in the Strip during the war. https://t.co/Q8NwjYWkvp

[Scott Squires @scottsquires.bsky.social @scott_squires]

@GavinNewsom Did you know Long Covid is now #1 chronic illness in children, surpassing asthma. Now can we get proper ventilation & clean air in schools that match clean air standards? co2 levels are over 1700. 70% of covid spread comes from children, along with flu, RSV, and others.

[Daniel Park @Daniel_E_Park]

This is because COVID-19 sickens people throughout the year and has two peaks (late summer and winter). So while COVID's winter peak may appear lower than flu, its constant spread pushes the full-year burden into the same range. Clean air and vaccines help prevent illness

[Robin Boardman @RobinBoardmanUK]

Ten days of water. That is what is left in northern Italy. Salt from the Adriatic pushing upstream into soil that fed generations.

Emergency meetings next week. Crops already turning.

We bear witness to a land dying on a timeline measured in days, not decades.
https://t.co/MSjq6YjZMh

[Magda @MagdaRaysdottir]

@jasonhickel just been rereading The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and it delineates how the working class were trapped in poverty by the capitalist law of value at the start of the 20th century. Plus ca change, etc.

[Magda @MagdaRaysdottir]

@GreatBooksComp @barelytolerabIe I recently read Hester by Margaret Oliphant - The Odd Women by George Gissing - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell - and Esther Waters by George Moore. Tressell well known in some circles, others all rather obscure but so interesting.

[Magda @MagdaRaysdottir]

@ragefighthouse white person who has lived in the UK for 50 years with my North American accent. Plenty of people have asked me why I live here and wouldn't I prefer to go back home. Agree about the racism, but there is a dollop of xenophobia in there too.

[JewishVoiceForLiberation @JVoiceLiberatio]

Talia speaking on behalf of the #JewishBloc at the #Nakba78 commemoration today

[Magda @MagdaRaysdottir]

@JamesEFoster @AaronBastani @WilsonCodling @RachelReevesMP she definitely did not get the memo about the dress code

[Magda @MagdaRaysdottir]

@helensclegel my MP in a northern town where Reform won a lot of seats has this absolutely clear and effective message for Starmer: 🙄

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

David Attenborough: We need to focus on surviving

Yes, it is that serious

[Magda @MagdaRaysdottir]

@barelytolerabIe I just finished listening to it! Some interesting aspects to the novel....

[Magda @MagdaRaysdottir]

@tii_bag @Juliadoe51 I hope that Gen Z worker is going on to unionize the workplace!

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: Three thousand ships are anchored in and around the Strait of Hormuz. Twenty thousand seafarers are aboard them. Fresh food ran out two weeks ago. Perishables are rotting in refrigerated holds whose generators are burning through the last reserves of diesel. Water is rationed. Mental health is deteriorating. No mass evacuation plan exists. No humanitarian corridor has been negotiated. No international body has the authority or the means to move twenty thousand people off three thousand ships through a five-nautical-mile channel controlled by the IRGC.

These are the people who move the global economy. Every barrel of oil that reaches a refinery was carried by a seafarer. Every container of goods that stocks a shelf was loaded by one. Every tonne of fertiliser that feeds a field was shipped by one. The war has trapped the invisible workforce that makes globalisation function, and the world has not noticed because the world never notices seafarers until the shelves are empty.

The ships themselves are worth tens of billions. The cargo aboard them is worth more. Crude oil, liquefied natural gas, urea, ammonia, consumer electronics, automotive parts, and 200 cryogenic containers of helium that are boiling off at a rate that no engineer can reverse. The stranded fleet is a floating warehouse of every molecule the global economy needs, and the molecules are degrading while the crews ration drinking water. The cargo is valued higher than the people guarding it, and neither can move.

The IRGC’s Larak corridor clearance system does not only control entry. It controls exit. A vessel that wants to leave the anchorage zone must obtain the same clearance code, submit the same documentation, and receive the same pilot escort as a vessel seeking to transit. The customs border works in both directions. These crews are not stranded by geography alone. They are stranded by bureaucracy, the same bureaucracy Iran wrapped in the language of sovereign maritime governance when the parliamentary committee approved the Hormuz Management Plan. The toll booth charges for passage through. It also charges for passage out.

No centralised evacuation exists because evacuation at this scale would require IRGC approval, and requesting approval would legitimise the system the United States refuses to recognise. So the crews wait. The International Transport Workers Federation issues statements. P&I clubs cover individual medical evacuations by helicopter. Flag states, predominantly Panama, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands, register ships but do not operate navies. The system that made global shipping cheap by divorcing flag from nationality has left twenty thousand people without a government willing to retrieve them.

The seafarers are from the Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia. Countries whose workers crew the world’s merchant fleet because the monthly pay of $1,500 to $3,000 exceeds anything available at home. They signed contracts to deliver cargo across oceans. They did not sign contracts to become indefinite residents of a war zone, rationing water on a ship whose cargo of ammonia could feed a million people if it could reach a port that is 40 nautical miles and one IRGC clearance code away.

The helium boils off. The fertiliser waits. The crude oil sits. And the people who carry it all drink less water today than yesterday.

The supply chain has a human body at the very bottom of it. The body is thirsty.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Magda @MagdaRaysdottir]

@theepicmap Paula Modersohn Becker, Kathe Kollewitz, Clara Zetkin

[Ava Grace @AvaGrace9211]

Reporter asked him send one message 50 years later! The young soldier spot on!