Slightly Amusing

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[Rogue @RogueCIAsurveil]

This is it! The moment has arrived where we decide whether to allow @elonmusk to stay on Twitter. The people decide. Retweet after vote please. No loonies

[Slightly Amusing @JD_Sek]

“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.” – Miyamoto Musashi

[Plaid "Two Masks" Kimono @gederer]

@DrMRFrancis @GreatDismal Jimmy Wales, creator of Wikipedia, has created https://t.co/86YBSSjT9K. There'll be an entirely new version of WT in a couple of months. But, it's usable now. Please stop by and have a cuppa.

[professional hog groomer @bidetmarxman]

It is impossible to understand the current existential threat the US feels from China without first understanding what happened to Japan 37 years ago.

This is the story of the Plaza Accord 🧵

[Georgie Dent @georgiedent]

"Forcing women to give birth against their will is cruel. It is nothing less than a form of mass coercive control perpetrated by the state against half of its citizens," @JaneCaro at her blistering best regarding the unfathomable worst of the worst.

https://t.co/2q5Vmi2XRm

[Slightly Amusing @JD_Sek]

@patrickkeneally Economy overheating? Remove those excess $ from the economy by increasing taxes on the wealthiest ~50%, (with the extra tax rate rising and falling as inflation rises and falls). No need to screw-over the poor ffs.

[Slightly Amusing @JD_Sek]

@bitsofsaturn https://t.co/iDL2Wc1mvW

[The Nib ✒️ @thenib]

Structural damage: https://t.co/cvejwbcLtt

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

Remember what Republican leaders said before amnesia set in. I took notes that night:
Mitch McConnell (Jan6): "The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people...They tried to disrupt our democracy, they failed…This failed insurrection.” THREAD

[Andrew P Street, The @AndrewPStreet]

So Australia's new official position on COVID mitigation strategies and taking health advice is now "shut up, we're bored with this", pretty much?

[Slightly Amusing @JD_Sek]

Presumably to ban it from our schools...

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Opinion: Glenn Youngkin must move boldly and swiftly on education https://t.co/IOiOnx2hpQ

[Adam Bandt @AdamBandt]

The government’s climate ‘plan’ is based on exporting ‘coal and gas … through to 2050 and beyond’.

What an absolute fraud.

No more coal and gas.

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

The world has administered 6 billion doses of COVID vaccines to 3.4 Billion people

For people waiting for more data before getting the shot

The data is in

We've vaccinated nearly half of all humanity

The vaccines are safe

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: people worry when they hear "40% of hospitalisations are fully vaxxed", but this chart shows that's actually good news.

The more people you vaccinate, the higher their share of hospitalisations, but the *total* number in hospital is a fraction of what it would otherwise be

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

"Britain just became the first country in the world to surrender to Covid."

This article will rob you of sleep. Yet it rings so true. You just know it does...
https://t.co/EVGNYq7XwX

[Dr Karl @DoctorKarl]

Get infected with COVID-19?
10,000-20,000 deaths/million
50,000-150,000 long COVID/million
(For comparison, Travel on Australian roads? 40 deaths/million)
AstraZeneca? 1 death/million.
By being alive, I am in the lottery.
So, which are the best odds for surviving the lottery?

[Slightly Amusing @JD_Sek]

https://t.co/rtinnyPHVm

[Slightly Amusing @JD_Sek]

https://t.co/Osyq9SH7eo
In the UK, blood clots have occurred in people taking the AstraZeneca vaccine at a rate of roughly one in every 250,000, whereas blood clots caused by The (contraceptive) Pill are estimated to affect one in every 1,000 women each year.