Evening, folks! I'm currently attending a council meeting in the city of Santa Clara, the Bay Area suburb home to the 49ers.
The topic? A 100% low-income housing project replacing a parking lot.
Tensions are high, and opposition is out in force. 🧵
The Islamic Republic is killing prisoners in #EvinPrison where it keeps many protesters and activists.
In order to eliminate the people opposing its rule, the regime is burning down the prison, and shooting at unarmed prisoners.
#MahsaAmini
“It’s like a horror film, you know that people have died nearby but can’t do anything,” says Kyiv resident Tetiana who witnessed Russia's missile strike on the capital on the morning of Oct. 10.
https://t.co/EttI8Pc2Tl
😤🇺🇦"The coalition that opposes the Russian invasion cannot stay united without increased fossil-fuel production to offset prospects for a recession prompted by the removal of Russian fossil fuels from the market."
My team at Apple is looking for a frontend Ember programmer. The opportunity is open-ended contract, but may convert FT.
We are working on applications that will be used towards our goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030. (https://t.co/L8uj1cYzzG)
DM if interested! #emberjs
My new piece on Ukraine. I try to make sense of how the present and future look like in Europe after a week where we walked to the abyss. Take a look, wrote it with more passion than usual…
https://t.co/AojNb6JsUN
Greetings from a Finnish leftist! The international situation has apparently left many people in the English-speaking countries confused. I write this thread in the hopes of sharing a perspective I believe is widely if not unilaterally shared in Finland, most leftists included.
@angry_rican@pirateship Same, sorry. I have only negative experiences with @UPS Gothenburg. I was recently asked to pay $150 in "customs fees" for a $200 package. Other friends here also have horror stories about unexpectedly high fees. And they struggle to deliver to apartments. No transparency.
My favourite slide of today: @FlorAvelino on the three main components of transformative power (with illustrations by @fraaije), as input to our discussions in @SONNET_energy's TRANSFORMATIVE POWER LAB organised by @Tessa_DG & team @drifteur, with partners @FraunhoferISI@SPRU +
Gorgeous dive by my colleague, Julia Ravanis, into how aesthetic sensibility colors theory development, even within the cloister of theoretical physics