Notices by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)

Happening now:

#NJ #Democrat #CoryBooker is delivering a #filibuster in the #Senate

For nonAmericans, it simply means you block all business as long as you can speak

He started at 7 PM Monday, and spoke through the night, and is still going as of 1 PM today

We need *a lot* more than that but it's a start

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech

livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE

edit: it's not even a filler filibuster, where you read the dictionary or something empty, he's still on point the whole speech

@emma

take your purity olympics and shove it up your ass

every fucker in this world is impure, including you

what Cory is doing is helpful

if you cared about changing the world for better support him now

or sit in your ivory tower of fake perfection and masturbate your fucking ego about how people are imperfect- you serve no one but yourself

morality is action

judging everyone achieves nothing but fake high holy indignation. it's not morality

support #CoryBooker here or shut the fuck up

So yesterday in #Chicago was terrible weather, pouring rain

Despite that 1,000 people showed up for #TransVisibility #TransRights

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/trans-rights-protest-downtown-chicago/

#trans #transdayofvisibility

"#China, #Japan, #SouthKorea will jointly respond to #USA tariffs, Chinese state media says"

hey #Trump, #MAGA:

you succeeded in uniting south korea, china, and japan against the #us

not that you have enough braincells to understand how extraordinary that is

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-japan-south-korea-will-jointly-respond-us-tariffs-chinese-state-media-says-2025-03-31/?utm_source=reddit.com

#Ivermectin was found to help #COVID patients...

patients with parasites

#Ignorance spread "the cure" without the whole picture

Likewise, #VitaminA was found to help #Measles patients...

patients with vitamin A deficiency

And so, ignorance once again:

"West #Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as #medical #disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak"

People think they know better than #scientists and #doctors, and harm themselves and their children

https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-27/west-texas-children-treated-for-vitamin-a-toxicity-as-medical-disinformation-spreads-alongside-measles-outbreak

Hey #Brazil:

You have this random #American's great respect

Not only do you handle your #Bolsonaro better than we handle our #Trump

You're also master level trolls

🤣 🤣 🤣

It's not big, but it's a start

"#Illinois returns stolen land to Prairie Band #Potawatomi Nation

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe's leader 175 years ago but stolen by the federal government 20 years later.

A law signed by Gov. JB #Pritzker last week transferred Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area, 1,500 acres (607 hectares) in north-central Illinois."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/illinois-returns-stolen-land-prairie-band-potawatomi-nation-120144789

#NativeAmerican #LandBack

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis, but it has no power of anticipating any … relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with."

an interesting connection:

it was #LordByron who proposed the #ghostStory #writingContest that led to #MaryShelley writing "#Frankenstein", and he was the father of another #womensHistoryMonth notable: #AdaLovelace

her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted #AI

she rejected it

her rejection was not without teeth, because a later champion of AI you might have heard of, #AlanTuring, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/ada-lovelace-worlds-first-computer-programmer-who-predicted-artificial

footnote:

that summer, 1816, wasn't just unnaturally cold and rainy in Switzerland, the whole world felt it. It was called "the year without a summer." There was famine from crop failures all over the world

this was all due to the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia

so we can say, via the creativity of one bored cold teenager cooped up with nothing better to do except write, that we owe "Frankenstein" partly to massive climate disruption from a volcano

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora

#womensHistoryMonth

What do many consider the first #scienceFiction?

One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?

#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"

Written as a *teenager*

A teenager who had recently lost a baby

I think that's key

Horror not from taking life

But creating life

She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain

The summer was cold and rainy so Lord Byron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest

I think she won

“They want 1939 Germany but they're going to get 1789 France if they keep fucking around.”

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@GreenSkyOverMe @selzero

that just makes me nauseous

fucking 4chan sadists

@GreenSkyOverMe @selzero

oh that makes it so much worse

that it's real person

so they're basically harvesting hate for an innocent bystander

The future of the #USA:

#AOC with the #BernieSanders assist

15,000 just showed up at a rally in Tempe Arizona, where this picture was taken

#MAGA: eat shit and die

#nonvoters: show the fuck up you entitled privileged fuckwits

#centrist spineless #Democrats: shut the fuck up and fall in line

centrist #GOP archeological artifacts: what even the fuck are you, follow the centrist dems and keep your fucking mouth shut

@RegGuy

why don't you trust them

if in terms of "i don't trust any politician", ok

but in terms of "who is the most sincere on the stage of politicians in front of me" you have to admit, AOC and Bernie are the most trustworthy on those terms

centrist dems are impotent pisswater

centrist GOP are an extinct species

and MAGA is radioactive evil

so there's your choice

@RobotDiver @RegGuy

i don't really give a shit about these "they're not perfect" takes

you can find dirt on anyone

overall, #aoc and #bernieSanders are way better than any other credible challenge, and that's what matters

#toxicIdealism is a problem in this world

do not fall for it

and plenty of it is just a #socialMedia #psyop by #maga and #geopolitical #trollfarm to incapacitate your #vote

do not fall for it!

"#AntiVaxx Mom Whose Daughter Died From #Measles Says Disease 'Wasn't That Bad'"

This is the weight of prideful #ignorance

People for whom the death of their child is not as painful as saying "I was wrong" or "I didn't know" or "I'm sorry"

It is weighing on society as well

This will be the death of us

From #climateChange to #bigotry to #cult obedience leading to #fascism

https://www.latintimes.com/anti-vaxx-mom-whose-daughter-died-measles-says-disease-wasnt-that-bad-578871

#Georgia #Serbia #Hungary

now #Turkey

Our turn #USA

#Istanbul's mayor #EkremImamoglu was detained. #socialMedia was blocked

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-seizes-detained-istanbul-mayors-construction-company-2025-03-20/

"#Netherlands launches fund to lure top #scientists, like those fleeing the #US"

Smart

A term the #USA has lost familiarity with, and will lose a lot more of

https://nltimes.nl/2025/03/20/netherlands-launches-fund-lure-top-scientists-like-fleeing-us

#science #europe