A very sad day for UK arts today as our wonderful friends and colleagues at @E_N_O give their final performance before company-wide redundancies take effect tomorrow and cuts to @WelshNatOpera announced too. @ace_national and those responsible should be ashamed of themselves. 1/2
@FranJWilliams @doctor_oxford That is so disingenuous. If people are being pressured by society/politicians/family, and told they have nothing of worth to contribute (utterly untrue), those people are not simply ‘in control’ of their own choices, but being manipulated to make that choice. 100% eugenics.
Yep - this is what happens when exercises in ‘escalation management’ give a warmongering dictator TWO YEARS to recover from the shock of his initial failure, relaunch his war production and economy, find new markets, adapt to international sanctions, and partner with other rogue totalitarian regimes to buy arms and equipment for a total war.
Not that we’ve been saying this out loud all these two years.
BREAKING: A construction crane collapsed in #Rayong province's Pluak Daeng district around 4.30pm killing 6 workers at a construction site and injuring a number of migrant workers. The firm refuses to allow the injured to be taken to hospital & workers are protesting. #Thailand
@dastardlyvillen @alexoxo_01 @DioptaseSystem That is an insult to all the many immigrants and refugees of the world who were even more on the edge and yet managed to quickly succeed and improve their lives. You know nothing of Romani culture if you think they arent making intentional choices about how they interact and live
@DioptaseSystem@NotPotBol They aren’t ‘stuck’. They have access to some of the best public social services and free govt support on this entire planet. You have to be obtuse to not see their intentional choices here. They culturally choose to live in this way, and thats okay. But save your handwringing.
@VivaLaPanda_ @lisatomic5 Dance is not ‘feminine expression.’ Hate to break it to you, but in MOST countries of the world, men dance just as much as women, if not more.
Sharing these videos directly drives Islamic State recruitment as numerous studies and interviews with Islamic State recruits have shown.
Elon Musk’s complete gutting of this platform’s moderation capabilities is enabling this content to spread unhindered again.
@MaeExhausted @aspiringpeasant This isn’t a moment for begging and pleading, it’s the time for reporting to the DMV. You are just as responsible as the spouse.
85% of Ukrainian book printing used to happen in Kharkiv. my own publisher is from there. these bombings are not random. coupled with daily burning of Ukrainian books and attacks on libraries, russians continue their systemic erasure of the Ukrainian knowledge and identity
@laurenancona @RogerSchaeffer5 Many ebikes have a throttle and do not require pedaling around. If one can balance on the bike, then getting groceries by ebike is a possibility. Its not ‘biking around.’
@rianphin It’s also not so serious. I just got another Masters in my 40s and it didn’t seem like a wild, heroic thing. I do wish others felt the same, bc Im laughing at school at 30 seeming worthy of mention😂
@shorebreak415@pschofie79 No, you are not the only one by far. These moaners think in black and white terms, perfectionism, where something is evil and useless unless it solves every broad complex societal problem at hand. This is absolutely a massive improvement
@suboptimalmarx@pschofie79@KohzKah What does ‘just give them homes’ even mean? That cannot possibly be the answer given the scale, the mental illness, and the economic system. This is better than nothing and better than impossible fantasy