This has to be the video of the year. Bally Bagayoko who is the mayor of French city Saint-Denis shouts at police to “Stop!” and protects the student protesters.
@Tomarrymstrs Ronmione in the background preventing Harrymort tropes post canon like a fly swatter or whackamole (breaking into the ministry, ruining time travel projects Harry could accidentally wander into, BOOK BURNING anything suspect in Grimmauld with Kreacher when Harry’s out)
@Beebee_Star@couffainecoffin Off topic but in the UK wizarding world is it maybe the reverse from what scenes we were present for or implied (Harry, Hagrid, Kakaroff, off screen Sirius iirc)? Ethically mean spirited and all lol
Están saliendo los políticos franceses (diputados, alcaldes, concejales, etc) a la calle a impedir que la policía ataque a MENORES.
Es alucinante. Van con las bandas de sus cargos para que les identifiquen rápido. Es que es increíble.
“They're abandoning everything related to intellectual development and education. The less educated people are, the easier it is to provide companies with cheap labour.”
French youth continue to blockade hundreds of high schools nationwide. Kais Aittadi, a spokesperson for Syndicat de Combat Universitaire de Montpellier (SCUM) student union slammed the French government for cutting education budgets amid overcrowded classrooms and deteriorating school conditions – while continuing to funnel funding into “the military, the police … to repress people and wage war constantly.”
@blossom_weasley We talk about how nosy Harry is but Ron and Hermione are ALSO bloodhounds when it comes to their hyper interest. Another way Book 6 fell flat to me tbh.
Every time your phone tells you where you are, it is using a mathematical model of the shape of the Earth.
A Black woman from rural Virginia spent decades building that model by hand, and almost nobody knew her name until she was in her eighties.
Gladys West. She grew up in a sharecropping family in Dinwiddie County and understood early that the alternatives were the tobacco fields or the factory. She finished top of her high school class, which came with a scholarship, and took it.
Her work was satellite geodesy: taking the raw data coming down from orbit and using it to compute, correction by correction, the true irregular shape of the Earth. Not a sphere. Not even a neat ellipsoid. A lumpy thing with gravitational highs and lows.
That model is the foundation the Global Positioning System sits on. You cannot locate a point on a surface until you know precisely what the surface is.
She did this for decades, largely unremarked, and retired in 1998.
She was recognised in 2018, when her sorority mentioned her biography at a function and someone realised what was in it.
The Air Force inducted her into its Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. She earned a PhD in her seventies.
The thing is, I don’t care.
I don’t care that a single mom bought her kid a cookie, I don’t care that a person working 40 hours a week bought a Sprite with SNAP, I don’t care that a person less fortunate than me was able to buy beef instead of chicken.
I DO care, that we are supplementing trillion dollar corporations. Why are we funding private businesses? Why can’t they use their own money?
@Bruhhloom@turdducken In his book The War on Warriors, he boasted about telling soldiers under his command to ignore legal advice regarding the rules of engagement and he argues that modern military regulations and the Geneva Conventions place unfair constraints on American troops.
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer.
She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide.
The least we can do is to listen.