Virginia Fisher

climate emergency, statistics, genetics, cancer; data scientist @FoundationATCG; outreach @XRBoston; opinions my own; no relation to Sir Ronald; 🏳️‍🌈

[Evan MacKay @Evan4Cambridge]

Massachusetts is the last blue state with a voluntary 287(g) agreement with ICE.

The PROTECT Act was an important victory, won by immigrants and advocates who pressured Beacon Hill for years. But the work isn’t finished. The law leaves a massive loophole & the collab continues.

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

Israel, after destroying homes and forcing families into fragile tents, has now begun burning the shelters of displaced people with incendiary bombs dropped by drones in Gaza City.

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

Anthropic's new terms & conditions are a list of reasons not to use Claude.
In trying to cover themselves legally they've given away that they don't trust their chatbot either.
May contain material inaccuracies. May not operate as intended. May not reflect correct information.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The monstrosity of our time.
We know and pretend not to know.
We give it other names, we make up excuses.
Israel is erasing Palestinians from Palestine - starving, torturing to death, pulverising homes, schools, churches, trees, human bodies, burning them in tents - and we call is "self-defense".
Israel's self-defense is the defense of ideological hatred turned political doctrine. And genocide.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

There are many ways in which Israel is destroying the Palestinians in Gaza. Creating unsustainable and inhumane conditions of life is the most complex and cruel.

Do not call it "war". It is a genocide. The motives are irrelevant. The intent (ie the determination) to destroy is evident and unequivocal. As unequivocal is the complicity of others states.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

Shortly after the @WHO-led mission to Kamal Adwan Hospital yesterday, the facility's third floor was reportedly hit again, injuring six children who are patients there. One child sustained a critical injury. Water tanks were damaged. Heavy bombardment persisted very close to the hospital, including when WHO was delivering aid.

It is appalling that hospitals in #Gaza continue to be attacked, patients continue to be harmed, and health workers and humanitarians continue to work under life-threatening conditions.

[ᴊᴏᴀɴɪᴇ ʟᴇᴍᴇʀᴄɪᴇʀ @JoanieLemercier]

<< Climate activists shouldn't block the roads. >>

[Virginia Fisher @VAFisherPhD]

@xriskology Thank you for saying this so honestly. It's a total nightmare, and so tempting to buy into normalizing what we don't want to face

[Jon Owen @anotherJon]

I *love* this quote from Pontevedra's mayor, Miguel Anxo Fernandez Lores:

"It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me, it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them."

[Peter Cheung-bostonaruban.bsky.social @bostonaruban]

Boston Critical Mass this Friday! Leaving Copley Sq. at 6:00pm.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Gaza: In the largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st century, Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one 'safe zone' at the time. With US and European weapons. And amid the indifference of all "civilised nations".

May the Palestinians forgive us for our collective inability to protect them, honoring the most basic meaning of intl law.

[Virginia Fisher @VAFisherPhD]

@surliertexan Direction?

[Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade1]

Another collision, this one in Union Square.

The cyclist was very fortunate and suffered only minor injuries. They are being taken to the hospital for further checks.

1/3

[sharon zhang @zhang_sharon]

I have not seen anyone else noting this: The weapons Biden paused (aircraft delivered bombs) are not ones used by a ground invasion, while the ones he's now approving (tank ammo, vehicles) are.

He doesn't oppose a Rafah ground invasion. He's supplying it.
https://t.co/OtwWGqYJNx

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

Still not over this matter of fact pronouncement in yesterday’s @FT

[Virginia Fisher @VAFisherPhD]

Scientists and allies shut down the Mass legislature today. Continuing to allow new fossil fuel projects is incompatible with targets in the state's 2022 climate law. @RonMariano #DoYourJob

[Extinction Rebellion Boston 🐝⌛🦋 @XRBoston]

ARRESTS HAPPENING. 9 climate activists from XR and @ScientistRebel1 arrested in the Massachusetts House chambers, after disrupting a joint legislative session and occupying for 6 hours, demanding Speaker @RonMariano and Senate President Spilka ban new fossil fuel infrastructure.

[Virginia Fisher @VAFisherPhD]

@Siochain6 @XRBoston XR Boston hadn't formed yet at the time, but many of us were involved in opposition to the West Roxbury Lateral with other groups.

[Extinction Rebellion Boston 🐝⌛🦋 @XRBoston]

Occupying Rebels are preparing to face arrest at @AtlanticFBO offices in Concord Mass, after already disrupting business as usual for 3 full hours. #StopPrivateFlightsNow #TaxFrequentFliers #BanPrivateJets #MakePollutersPay

[Sean J. Taylor @seanjtaylor]

I can’t understand how this can sound so ridiculous and yet be totally reasonable advice

Credit: https://t.co/I9bRJacEWe