Apocalypse IsNow

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

At the G7, the CEOs of the big AI companies sat at the table like heads of state, alongside presidents and prime ministers.

This is the nightmare scene.

Governments need to have a response to the state-like power of these companies, whether it’s by taking ownership shares, breaking them up into smaller entities, or imposing a regulatory structure that controls their power over citizens.

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

So many people going ballistic at climate change deniers (rightly so), but then do exactly the same thing when it comes to COVID.

If you can’t accept the science, or the facts, when it comes to the pandemic, how can you criticise others who don’t accept them with climate change?

[DPAC @Dis_PPL_Protest]

#DWP
#BenefitDeaths

Labour ministers have refused to release a “briefing pack” which would reveal the thoughts of civil servants on repeated calls for an inquiry into hundreds, and probably thousands, of benefit-related deaths.

https://t.co/WXgkQ1oqGa

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

A Connecticut mother is suing the federal government after masked, armed ICE agents surrounded her vehicle while she was taking her children to school, removed and handcuffed her without displaying a warrant, and abducted her without properly confirming that the children had a caretaker.

Nancy Martinez was deported to Mexico and her children (American citizens, ages 8 and 13) remained in New Haven without their mother.

According to the complaint, her daughter has assumed substantial responsibility for her younger brother, who has developmental disabilities, and both children have experienced continuing psychological and educational harm.

The allegations in this lawsuit are appalling.

None of us are safer because of this cruelty.

Separating families and traumatizing children is disgusting. I'm glad she's suing and standing up for her family because if these fascists get away with doing this to immigrants, you better believe they're gonna come for US citizens next.

These fascist experiments brutalizing immigrants are meant to test the waters of what they can get away with. If Americans don't stand up against this, it'll be the Japanese internment camps all over again, but for suspected political dissidents, and for anyone who dares to criticize the rich and powerful.

Supporting this behavior while pretending you're a "patriot" or that you're "protecting kids" are characteristics of a very violent and manipulative psychopathy that should never be normalized.

How can any true, God-fearing, Christian conservatives ever support something that is so incongruent to their faith? It's so messed up.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

I genuinely think if we all adopted a 4 day work week with 5-6 hour days, it would change the course of society. People would be happier, healthier, less angry, and more present. Social bonds would be stronger. It could literally change the entire world.

[Bill @BillWiIdin]

Credit scores are a completely made-up system designed to keep people in a cycle of debt. The fact that your score goes down when you pay off a loan completely proves it’s a scam to reward permanent borrowing.

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

I saw a reel where a woman said "where are the trad wives who are 40, 50 years old? Why aren't they making these barefoot in the kitchen videos? Why is it always a 20 something year old?" Every woman knows the answer.

[Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit]

‘She worked for four different healthcare companies" and "an adviser to some 12 other private healthcare providers"’. The Permanent Secretary to the Department of Health!? Paid 200k, more than Starmer. She should be fired immediately, + banned from future health consultancy.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The UK is increasing the Pension age to 68.

Poland has lowered theirs to 60.

Their pension is higher as well.

[zayden @pemilo123]

When an adult realises they're autistic and/ or ADHD, they also have to process the fact that they are disabled - they've been disabled their WHOLE LIFE - and they have most likely never had *any* support
Understanding.
They didn't even realise they needed any. That’s a *lot*

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Nothing prepares you for the loneliness that comes with being chronically ill

The grief of realizing the medical system won’t help you

The pain of being abandoned by family & friends

The isolation of knowing we’re in a eugenics nightmare that most don’t see until it’s too late

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

Did you guys know that the judges that issued international arrest warrants for Netanyahu were sanctioned by the United States and as a result are completely unable to access their bank accounts or do any banking?

But don’t you dare bring it up you raging antisemite.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Across Britain right now, farmers are shearing their sheep, bagging up the wool, and burning it. Some bury it. Some leave it to rot in a corner of the field. The wool-burning has made the odd headline as a protest, but the truth is duller and sadder. The fleece is worth less than the diesel it would take to haul it to the depot.

The numbers are grim. In recent years a kilo of British wool has fetched somewhere between twenty and sixty pence, and hill breeds like Swaledale and Welsh Mountain sank as low as ten. A whole fleece off a mountain ewe might bring thirty pence. Shearing that same ewe costs the farmer around two pounds. One Lincolnshire farmer added it up out loud: over three pounds to shear and cart a single fleece to the depot, and twenty-six pence back. So she burns them. A great many do.

Here is the part that stings. The shearing still has to happen, every year, whatever the wool will fetch. A sheep left in full fleece overheats, struggles to move, and gets eaten alive by maggots. So the job carries on purely as welfare, a cost the farmer simply eats to spare the animal, with the wool itself going on the fire straight after.

And think about what this fibre once was. For centuries wool was the engine of the English economy, the country's greatest export and the crown's main source of tax. It raised the soaring wool churches of the Cotswolds. It turned merchants into princes. To this day, whoever presides over the House of Lords sits on the Woolsack, a literal cushion of wool, put there in the fourteenth century so nobody would forget where the nation's wealth began.

Prices have lifted off the floor this past year, the first real relief in a long while. It still does not cover the shears for a hill farmer. The fibre that built England now smoulders in a heap behind the barn, and almost nobody notices the smoke.

[Amanda @Idontgive2u]

Pour celles et ceux qui disent encore que “les femmes exagèrent”…
voici un rappel qui fait froid dans le dos.

Pas il y a mille ans.
Pas dans un autre pays.
Chez nous. En France.

1938
Une femme n’est plus légalement tenue d’obéir à son mari.

1944
Les femmes obtiennent enfin le droit de vote.

1965
Une femme peut travailler et ouvrir un compte bancaire sans autorisation.

1975
La loi Veil légalise l’avortement.
Le corps des femmes cesse (un peu) d’appartenir aux autres.

1980
Le viol est reconnu comme un crime.

1993
L’autorité parentale devient réellement partagée.

1996
La notion de “chef de famille” disparaît.

2000
L’égalité femmes-hommes entre enfin dans la loi… sur le papier.

Tout ça est récent.
Très récent.

Alors non, les droits des femmes ne sont pas “acquis depuis toujours”.
Ils ont été arrachés.
Et rien ne garantit qu’ils le resteront.

La suite… à vous.

[Dr. Jen Wolkin | ADHD + Trauma Therapist @drjenwolkin]

Most Suicide is Not Selfish. Full stop.

Most people don’t want to leave and hurt people. They want to end the pain. They don’t think they matter to those they’re leaving behind not do they think that they’ll he mourned.

If we want to prevent suicide, we need a new narrative around it, including ways to help mitigate people’s pain well before a crisis is imminent. XO, Dr. Jen

https://t.co/cdyYF2Tx2h

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

If you're against a wealth tax on multimillionaires but favour means testing for the disabled, check the internal coherence of your thought process

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Former CEO of Pennon, owner of South West Water, got £270,000 bonus after parasite outbreak that contaminated drinking water.

SWW dumps sewage in rivers, fleeces customers, neglects investment.

OFWAT didn't stop the bonus.

Let customers vote on exec pay
https://t.co/odlPmzeQ93

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The UK is only in debt because it Privatised everything.

If Margaret Thatcher had never existed and we never privatised Oil, Gas, Electricity, Airports, Water, Mail, Rail, Rolls Royce, British Airways...

We would have Trillions of Pounds and own everything, just like Norway.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

In 1987 the Government owned Heathrow.

It was sold for about £2bn in today's money.

A ripoff as it now makes £1bn a year profit.

But they still expect YOU to pay to build THEIR runway because they are 'too poor'.

We should renationalise this theft.

No compensation.