mika harris

just a guy • 35 • data analyst by day, writer by night • be kind to one another • liberation for all 🍉 / 🐢🏝️

[DaHalalCockney 🍉🔻⚒️ @RizDaBiz1]

Beloved Palestinian academic, teacher & poet Refaat Alareer's (@GazaWritesBack) last poem before he was murdered by Israel was about the kids in Gaza playing with Kites.

Today Israel killed a 4 y.o kid for doing just that!

Brian Cox reads below Refaat's poem," If I Must Die"

[Status Coup News @StatusCoup]

Status Coup's Jordan Chariton breaks down the toxic chemical COVER UP in East Palestine, Ohio. He examines how corporate greed triggered a disaster that upended thousands of lives, and how the details of the land being a danger to the public was swept under the rug.

Video by Phillip Hawkins

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Solidarity - well said.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Juries now have refused to send Palestine Action astivists to jail as well as Tony Greenstein. His speech to the Jury that refused to send him to jail for ‘terrorism’ worth reading in whole, but here is an excerpt:
‘In the second world war, the Nazis walled the Jews of Warsaw, half a million of them into a ghetto — a sealed district, starved and diseased, from which the trains left for the Treblinka death camp. And in 1943 the young Jews who remained did something nobody expected. With a handful of smuggled pistols, against tanks and the SS, they rose. They knew they could not win. They rose because it was better to die resisting than to be led away quietly. It is one of the proudest moments in Jewish history.
The last surviving commander of that uprising was a man named Marek Edelman. And in his old age, Edelman wrote to the Palestinian resistance and addressed them as fellow fighters — much to Israel’s annoyance. When he died, Poland gave him a state funeral, a fifteen-gun salute, the President gave the oration. Israel did not send the lowliest clerk at the Israeli Embassy. Edelman wasn’t a Zionist.
Edelman, who led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis, described Gaza as a ghetto. I have used his comparison for years before October 2023. Two million people, most of them refugees or the children of refugees, sealed into a strip of land under blockade for 16 years, where the majority are children who have never once been allowed out. When I wrote “ghetto,” I meant a ghetto. My blog supported the Uprising just as I would have supported the slave uprisings of the 19th century. That is a political opinion. It was a political opinion on 7 October 2023, and it is a political opinion now.
And here is the crazy thing. Read section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and ask what it would have made of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters. If this Act had existed in 1944, they could have been classified as terrorists. So could the French Resistance.’

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[Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer]

Wizards of the Coast should make a nature documentary based on the dnd monster manual and have Werner Herzog narrate the whole thing as if it’s all real

[Ali A Olomi @aaolomi]

in Islamic and Middle Eastern lore sleep paralysis and night terrors are caused by the winged jinn, Kabus. here he is swooping down on his victim to perch on their chest

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

Crazy day.

[Undergotten @Undergotten]

If you're a new follower, you should know: I coded this bot called "@WeatherWarDaily" because no one else shows you a daily 24hr time-lapse of satellite/radar overlay and I wanted to see what was happening every day, without having to render a time-lapse myself. I wake up, check it out, and post a little comment about it every morning. Tell yo frens.

[Casper 🌷🌈 COMMS OPEN @Sillysnufkin]

This is so crazy to me LOL

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

John Thompson has been studying the guqin—a silk string zither—and classical Chinese music since 1974.

Here he is with Hong Kong filmmaker Lau Shing Hon performing a drinking song first published 1589 and attributed to third-century poet Ruan Ji: Jiu Kuang (Wine Mad)

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Unknown, Photograph of Northern Lights over Roald Amundsen’s ship Maud, 1918–1925

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @officeanomaly]

being a friend is a full-time job

[enemycharlie @enemycharlie]

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was not an exaggeration. This is what happens when we privatize and deregulate.

[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

From Archbald to Montgomery County to all across Pennsylvania, to your comments, texts, calls, and letters to my office, I’ve heard you loud and clear: Pennsylvanians do not want AI data centers in their communities that would raise their utility costs and pollute their resources.

It’s my responsibility as your Governor to listen and take action accordingly.

With today’s Executive Order, we’re doing just that — implementing strict requirements that hold AI data center developers accountable and giving Pennsylvanians the opportunity to make decisions about these projects in their own communities.

[mika harris @nosupremacies]

@GovernorShapiro Thank you for listening to your constituents, Gov Shapiro!!

[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

BREAKING: I just signed an Executive Order implementing the strictest standards in the nation for AI data centers — because I will not allow Pennsylvanians to be bullied by greedy developers and bulldozed by the lawyers working for these big tech companies.

Effective immediately, we’re requiring AI data centers to commit to strict environmental and transparency requirements AND receive approval from the local community if they want to build here.

That’s not all: We’re also removing ALL data centers from our Fast Track permit program and stopping any office or agency under my jurisdiction from signing an NDA with AI data center developers. 

I’m putting these developers on notice and letting them know that we will not let them bully Pennsylvanians, disregard our constitutional right to clean air and pure water, and drive up our utility bills.

I’m using the full weight of my executive authority to block the objectionable, unwarranted projects and put the nation’s strictest set of protections in place.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This. ⬇️

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

My latest books cartoon for the @guardian

[Greg Girard @gregforaday]

One place I used to frequent was a fast food place called Steams. I’d buy a coffee and sit there and watch people, and eventually get up the courage to ask someone if I could take their picture. This was 1975 and early 1976. When people asked what’s it for I’d say “it’s just for me. I’m a photographer”. Which seemed to satisfy them, and we’d get on with it.

Some of these are in “Under Vancouver 1972-1982”. Link to books in bio.

https://t.co/fcCHtVXXRf

1. Jukebox and Umbrella. 1975.
2. Woman with rose. 1976.
3. Heinz soup (you choose a can, the restaurant heats it up and serves it to you).
4. Woman smoking.

[This is Yemen @its_yemen]

Traditional coffee-bean drying on rooftops in Yemen