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Angus Calder@mastodon.scot retweeted
New lifeform identified in the human gut. Function and symbiosis unknown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelis…
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Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Private School Education $19,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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Absolutely, a poster in Manchester today. Worth a read.
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There's a direct relationship between mediocrity and authoritarianism. Authoritarians value loyalty over competence, and so attract those who know they can never accomplish success based on their competence, but have a chance through groveling subservience to the authoritarian.
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Angus Calder@mastodon.scot retweeted
The #PedestrianPound launches in Edinburgh today - follow @LStreetsScot for the day's action. The report makes the economic case for walkable streets, showing that pedestrians spend more and that pedestrianised high streets see bigger sales. livingstreets.org.uk/Pedestr…
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14 Nov 2024
Here's a better angle that shows the @Maori_Party performing the haka right up in David Seymour's face. He looks shit scared.
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Angus Calder@mastodon.scot retweeted
Let it become a tale. Never forget the victims of a genocide.
11 Nov 2024
When I used to work at the Indonesian hospital, I would pass a tent that seemed out of place. One day, I asked about it and learned a story that broke my heart: the tent stood where a family home once was, destroyed in a bombing that killed everyone inside except one son. With no way to retrieve his family’s bodies from the rubble, he built the tent over the remains, over his family. Every time I passed by, I was reminded of the resilience of the human spirit, our will to adapt and survive even in unimaginable circumstances. It gave me hope that we could rebuild, that we could endure, but only if this war ends. Just days ago, that tent and the entire area in Jabalia camp were burned and destroyed. End the war. #SaveNorthernGaza #GazaGenocide
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Angus Calder@mastodon.scot retweeted
This is why it’s so important young people learn how to riot at an early age. Violent retribution and barricade building is great exercise and engages many of the children other sports find ‘hard to reach.’
"The deprivation gap is stark, with children living in the ‘most deprived fifth’ postcode areas in Wales significantly more likely to be overweight or obese compared to the least deprived," ✍️ Rocio Cifuentes, Children's Commissioner for Wales buff.ly/40GP0xm
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12 Nov 2024
i treat well the people still in my life as a tribute to the love i have, and also a promise to myself to honor the love no longer with me...to make those losses not be in vain
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Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
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10 Nov 2024
Israeli victimhood kinda reminds me of male victimhood. In both cases, the beneficiaries of long-term oppression frame the responses to it as oppressive.
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Angus Calder@mastodon.scot retweeted
Attention urban decision-makers: I’m hoping to see city halls, mayors, city councillors and chief planners create & use accounts on Blu#sky. Media too. They were all on Twitter when it was THE place to be, but many have left X. I think @Bluesky is the new place we need.
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"This is PRECISELY the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write... That is how civilizations heal." In these wordless hours, a lifeline from Toni Morrison worded 20 years ago: themarginalian.org/2016/11/1…
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Angus Calder@mastodon.scot retweeted
“ When a Clown moves into the Palace, he doesn’t become a King, The Palace becomes a Circus” is a Turkish proverb which is worth heeding in the coming days.
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Angus Calder@mastodon.scot retweeted
The Netherlands’ systematic approach to road safety—especially on walking and cycling—is a textbook application of the Hierarchy of Controls: an industrial method which identifies a preferred order of actions to best reduce hazard exposure based on their general effectiveness…🧵
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Angus Calder@mastodon.scot retweeted
TODAY'S THE DAY! Through-traffic no longer allowed in "hypercentre" of #Paris, including the Louvre and Le Marais. (No fines until April 2025.) This is historic—a bold move by Mayor @Anne_Hidalgo to lower emissions, improve quality of life. Meanwhile, in #Toronto
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Removing heavy through traffic from Cowgate & other key cross city-centre streets (Bridges, George IV & the Royal Mile) is the key move in Edinburgh's city centre Circulation Plan Saturday's horrific events underline how urgent it is the CP is implemented ASAP 💔 @cllr_jenkinson
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Other cities are cracking on with removing through traffic from their city centres. Giving a HUGE boost to public transport, active travel, economic vitality & liveability. Time to implement Edinburgh's city centre Circulation Plan @cllr_jenkinson @DAstonSNP @KayleighFONeill
THIS IS HUGE. Paris City Hall has announced that starting on Monday, Paris will limit (not ban) car traffic in the city centre, as cities like Ghent have done. They’re creating a limited traffic zone (ZTL) about 2 sq miles in size, to clean the air & create more space for people.
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Sent before hearing the unbelieveably awful news from the Cowgate 💔💔💔 Events like this & ALL of those below are NOT 'accidents' they are policy CHOICES @KatrinaFaccenda @DAstonSNP @EuanHyslop @GlasgowFiona @SanneDD @kevin_lang @CllrChasBooth @KayleighFONeill @CouncillorCowdy
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