Notices by GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ (grrlscientist@mastodon.social)

“Canada to send $5 billion in aid to Ukraine using funds seized from Russian assets.”

“This is not a conflict Ukraine wanted, provoked or asked for in ANY WAY.”

— PM Justin Trudeau —

#politics #Ukraine #Russia #Canada #PMJustinTrudeau #RussianAssets #RussiaIsATerroristState #PutinIsaWarCriminal

in recognition that TODAY is ECONOMIC BLACKOUT DAY, i ask us all: "When did firing park rangers, scientists and air traffic controllers become a better idea than simply TAXING BILLIONAIRES?"

#billionaires #GreedyBastards #EatTheRich #Plutocrats #RobberBarons #politics #EconomicPolicy #taxes

Journalist: "Of the 35,000 lies you've told the American Public Mr President, which is your favorite?"

AgentOrange: "I don't lie."

Journalist: "Yeah, that's my favorite, too."

#lies #politics #FascistAmeriKKKa #POTUS #LyingLiars

TODAY is ECONOMIC BLACKOUT DAY

Don’t buy anything today

No Amazon, Target, Walmart, Fast food, gas

Small businesses okay

USE CASH

#politics #Boycott #EconomicBlackoutDay #resist #WeHaveThePower #FascistAmeriKKKa

Why Do Some Female Hummingbirds Crossdress?

"Some female #hummingbirds mimic the plumage colors & patterns of males to avoid harassment from aggressive males without becoming bullies themselves"

by @grrlscientist via #Substack

#ornithology #evolution #ecology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/why-do-some-female-hummingbirds-crossdress

Fifty Shades of Black: These Bird Feathers Are The Darkest Never Seen

"Scientists studying the many shades of black have discovered how birds create one of the blackest blacks known: super-black feathers."

by @grrlscientist via #Medium

#UltraBlack #SuperBlack #birds #ornithology #colors #feathers #SciComm https://medium.com/grrlscientist/fifty-shades-of-black-these-bird-feathers-are-the-darkest-never-seen-5a2f96e37371

“Something you will NEVER see:

ICE rounding up CEOs who illegally exploited undocumented workers.”

#politics #ICE #UndocumentedWorkers #GreedyBastards #CEOs #exploitation

The desensitization of U.S. citizens to acts of brutal violence—an ongoing process by which Americans become increasingly inured to savagery and mayhem—is nearly complete, sociologists at Harvard’s Media Research Laboratory reported Monday

#politics #brutality #violence https://theonion.com/brutality-desensitization-process-nearly-complete-1819565152/

"Is your dinner on antibiotics?
Farmed salmon are too sick to survive without drugs.
JUST SAY NO."

#FarmedFish #Salmon #antibiotics #AnimalWelfare #AnimalAbuse #AnimalRights #FishAreWildlife #FishAreNOTFood #GoVegan #VeganFood

#France recently passed new laws on foreign #ElectionInterference & lays out the possibility of freezing the financial assets of people, firms or entities found to have engaged in foreign interference

#ElonMusk #fElon #GreedyBastard #FascistAmeriKKKa https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/03/27/france-s-assemblee-passes-bill-against-foreign-interference_6660175_8.html

Economic Blackout on 28 February 2025: Take part & share the news

Do not buy ANYTHING on 28 Feb 2025, especially from big box stores!

#EconomicBlackout #Resist #Protest #politics

we are more than 300 million strong, so let’s make these greedy fascists aware of OUR power

scheduled NATIONWIDE protests

#politics #FascistAmeriKKKa #strike #protests #oligarchy #plutocracy #boycott #ProtestMarch #NationalProtests

not everyone has cancelled Black History Month

#politics #BlackHistoryMonth #ameriKKKa #fascism #nazi

#ElonMusk: “Defund NPR. It should survive on its own.”

Alexander Vindman: “Defund Musk. He should survive on his own without massive government contracts.”

#politics #defundMusk

"BUT HER EMAILS!"

A 19yo intern fresh out of high school who goes by the nickname "big balls", was hired by #ElonMusk to illegally review millions of Americans' taxpayer data using a personal Gmail account to decide who should face #DOGE scrutiny. do you find this threatening?

#politics #coup

#Hitler blamed everything wrong in German society on Jewish people. It was meant to desensitize the majority to the persecution of minorities. He was inspired by AmeriKKKa’s #JimCrow system of #segregation & #discrimination

#Racism #fascism #Nazi #politics https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler

“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.”

~ Luther Standing Bear, Sicangu / Oglala Lakota (1868-1939)

#philosophy #oglala #lakota #sicangu #IndigenousWisdom

"We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature."

-- Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)

#hunting #shooting #StopTheCull #wildlife #birds #AnimalRights #ecocide #BiodiversityLoss #GoVegan #VeganForTheAnimals

soooo ... even super-rich bastards have taken note of the nazi salute and ... disapprove?

#NaziSalute #ElonMusk #Tesla #fascism #MuskIsANazi #oligarchy #politics

All 3 #insulin makers have announced price increases ranging from 2000-3000% after the orange jesus rescinded Biden’s Executive Order 14087 curbing #DrugPrices.

“Sick people need to pay their own way, I mean what’s wrong with them anyway?” he said.

um ... they're SICK??

#BigPharma #politics