Notices by Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green), page 3

It's worth saying that, even with the ongoing precipitous fall in its stock value, Tesla is so far no lower than its median value over the last five years. However, if the share price loses another 100 points or so then that would wipe out every gain made since the company was a precarious junk stock.

@GreenSkyOverMe There was certainly a lot of hope around after 1990.

A lot of news outlets exhibit this pathology. For most of the last 9-10 years they have used trans people as culture war clickbait, constantly problematising our existence. Then, when it suits, they pivot to arguing that we are too small in number to matter policy wise. None of it is genuine. It's all exploitation of people deemed inhuman so that it doesn't matter.

It strikes me as an academic question whether Trump is or isn't formally a Russian asset. The important thing is that he ACTS as though he is. And, as Trump's actions increasingly benefit America's long term foe, you've got to ask when the country will wake up and defend what's left from the recently installed enemy within. Right now Putin is winning the eighty year conflict.

Any fool can achieve 'peace' by surrendering.

88% of the electricity in the South West of England is currently coming from solar! Source : NESO app.

Annelise Dodds has quit her job as International Development Minister over the foreign aid cuts.

@scaramanga @dominic Musk ought to be worried about some of the people who've invested in his schemes. I mean, you've got the type who cut people into pieces for far less. Not to mention the kind who obligingly open windows.

@StillIRise1963 Is that the Peter Navarro heavily implicated in the Jan 6th plot? The one who incriminated himself live on TV? The one who did time for contempt of congress? That one?

The "slowly at first" slide was the last 35-40 years in the US -- possibly even longer. But, as the fascists now feel empowered to run around in public and drag away dissenters at their rallies, the "all at once" stage is definitely now in full swing. Don't make the mistake of relying on the old order -- liberal laws and politicians and the fourth estate -- to put the genie back in the bottle. There will be no term limits. There will be no free elections. No 'checks and balances'.

Honestly EU, it's long overdue for states to block and thus shut down X. The US is actively interfering in elections in plain sight. Shut the offending platform(s) down whilst you still can.

Well this is bizarre. 134 pages of unauthorised biography for thirty dollars and a blurb that smells like it comes from a large language model that ingested a wikipedia page and got carried away. I can only suggest treading with caution.

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Gendered Intelligence, a longstanding charity that supports trans and non-binary youngsters, is recruiting for a Director of Services. Please share the attached description around your networks.

Until the last few days six precious recordings of the First International Symposium on Gender Identity, held in London in July 1969, were archived and made available by USC dot EDU. The URL now returns a 404 error because of the purge. Fortunately I downloaded and kept copies when researching Trans Britain in 2017. Now seeing if a UK archive will take them.

@Lazarou It was all smoke and mirrors, aided immeasurably by Hollywood creating myths. Turns out Russia's supposed military might was a myth too. If you believed the stories crack teams of government assassins would have seen off the jokers threatening to take over America before they'd even got close. Every film portraying the US president as smart and wise: make believe. Mission Impossible: pretend. Jack Ryan: pretend. Name your hero: pretend. All bumbling amateurs.

With one of a new wave of budget-priced EVs just launched in Ireland it's interesting to see how this Irish correspondents takes to it. At around €19k the Hyundai Inster isn't the cheapest EV (that crown is currently held by the Dacia Spring) but it looks like people may well take to it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gKoGiLoedm0&si=1qBEmH618JSASqYd

@quixoticgeek @drewbob @eedly Gee thanks! I've been hunting for that for years. ° !

In 1933 Hitler's forces invaded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (the leading centre of research on trans and gay people at that time) and burned all of the books and records (after taking care to note down the details of all the patients to round up later). Philosophically this is what the US CDC is now doing by purging everything to do with trans people.

It amazes me how so many supposedly expert political commentators act surprised that Trump's first ten days have panned out like this. It doesn't say much for their expertise.

@ChrisMayLA6 What the fancy schools teach, above all, is how to sound right and perform a simulation of authority. And, unfortunately, a lot of people fall for it, especially when peppered with a bit of Latin.