Dani S.

Your favorite autistic bi-oriented aroace genderqueer. Naturalist Aldo Leopold once called the chickadee a small bundle of large enthusiasms. SAME.

[tern @1goodtern]

You may not realise it, but the way your country is dealing with Covid is not the way the other countries are dealing with Covid.

I'd like to write a thread on it, but may I crowdsource some information?

Can you answer these questions for your country?

[Alden Jones @aldenejones]

Yes, college students have lost their ability to read. I have taught lit for 24 years; the threshold started to decline in the late aughts and nosedived during Covid. A thread with observations + how I get my students to read ALL (or at least most) of the reading I assign: 🧵

[Dani S. @danican]

This is why people should be fact-checking everything they read, ESPECIALLY about the war. Everything is absolutely riddled with misinformation. And people feel totally justified in lying about any and all of it.

I don't even speak Hebrew. I just asked r/Hebrew to translate.

[Dani S. @danican]

Bro has almost 12k retweets on this boldfaced lie.

The original IG post says the kids asked what the signs said, and she told them "Proud of you."

The signs are Israeli slang for "fuck 'em UP," as in, "Give 'em hell, honey." She's telling her husband to fuck HAMAS up.

[Dan Cohen @dancohen3000]

The wife of an Israeli soldier slaughtering in Gaza dressed their children up with military berets and signs written with the words "Fuck them".

Zionists inculcate genocidal ideology into their children from the earliest ages. The sickness is the system.

[Dani S. @danican]

@dancohen3000 But also: as the only person who posted this to Twitter, you probably grabbed it from the Instagram source.

If so, you're lying and you know it. The caption on the original specifically says the kids asked what the signs said, and their mom told them "Proud of you."

[Dani S. @danican]

@dancohen3000 Bro, you're translating this too literally. In Israel, this means "fuck 'em up," the same way Americans say "give 'em hell." She's telling her husband to give Hamas hell.

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

Adding to this, the surge in respiratory illnesses in kids started in farther north of #China, but latest record-breaking is in Beijing. And it's unprecedented in scale.
@mvankerkhove @MarionKoopmans @edwardcholmes
@PaulHBeckwith @kavitapmd

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

Northern China is seeing record levels of pediatric hospitalizations, as a mix of respiratory diseases sends 10s of 1000s of kids to ERs. Experts insist that no COVID or new pathogen are involved. Still, 13,000 children admitted in a single day is serious. https://t.co/YgyWSwZFhR

[Dani S. @danican]

@nirushika OP is wrong. In Israel, this is slang for "fuck 'em up," as in the way Americans say "give 'em hell." She's telling her husband to give Hamas hell.

[Dani S. @danican]

@probsnotspam @itsmejusm @Neuro_Pirate @dancohen3000 The report is kind of a one-sided mess in a lot of places, granted, and its numbers and arguments tend to be inconsistent. But that's going to be a factor in most reports or articles on any side of any issue. That's why questioning everything is so important.

[Dani S. @danican]

@probsnotspam @itsmejusm @Neuro_Pirate @dancohen3000 Whether or not they're "activist groups" should be immaterial if the report is accurate and supports these points. But there's nothing in the report about pogroms, and I can't find anything about prison camps either. Prisons yes, prison camps no.

[Dani S. @danican]

@BrooksGoodman81 @ChalmersConor @dancohen3000 If Gaza is a prison, why has the Palestinian president consistently supported Egypt's very strict border closure?

If Hamas' tunnels are the Palestinian equivalent of the Warsaw Ghetto's, why would he encourage and help Egypt to destroy them?

[Dani S. @danican]

@BrooksGoodman81 @ChalmersConor @dancohen3000 More to the point, Egypt has kept its border with Palestine fully closed most of the time, and never lets food, water, or fuel through. But Abbas has praised Egypt's defense of its border. And helped it destroy Hamas' tunnels.
https://t.co/4hyh0RksdB

[Dani S. @danican]

@Miss_Mausie Canadians love unicorns!

[Dani S. @danican]

@MinorityView @ShadurE @RageSheen On the other hand, Roald Dahl's daughter died from it.

https://t.co/f4buMIp9vW

[Henry Madison @RageSheen]

I believe Covid is the first disease in recorded human history that humans have deliberately chosen to ‘live with’. Because that’s an empty slogan, it deliberately disguises two fundamentally different meanings. /1

[Dani S. @danican]

@jordansm2021 @HASEULWlFE I haven't.

I'm well aware that there are terrible humans in every country, though.

None of them deserve to represent their people.

[Dani S. @danican]

@njaysilver @HASEULWlFE Reality check: The 10k number is from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, not from Israel.

Nobody has claimed the hospital wasn't blown up.

https://t.co/pro60nQKcp

[Dani S. @danican]

@Stand1776 @HASEULWlFE reality check: "Yahweh" is a Christian term; the prime directive in Judaism is protection of human life (pikuach nefesh); the Israeli government is secular; and Israel is < 75% Jewish, 20% Muslim, 5% others.