Notices by sport of sacred spherical cows (beadsland@hcommons.social)

@skinnylatte

Myself almost never pay attention to mirrors, as find them disorienting.

As in, find it easier to do facial shaving in the dark, judging what's happening by sound, than to try to reconcile the visual image in a mirror with motor movements.

This is probably my aphantasia (and prosopagnosia) interacting with dyspraxia in interesting ways.

It's not a ceasefire if the ones who were doing all the firing are still firing.

Am terrified by whiteness.

Am terrified by white people thinking they're doing revolution from their day planners.

Am terrified by those who believe they are radicalizing anyone with institutionalized parades.

Am terrified by those who insist that a holiday festival will lead to change in day-to-day behavior.

Am terrified by whiteness.

"I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: “All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth.” Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will."

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will"

"Airports across North America experienced an unexpected disruption this week after hackers blasted pro-Palestine and anti-Trump messages.

"On Tuesday, the public address system at Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania, as well as three across Canada (Kelowna International Airport, Victoria International Airport, and Windsor International Airport), were co-opted by the hackers, according to CNN.

"The messages they played included “f**k Netanyahu and Trump” and “free, free Palestine,” as heard via a recording made at Harrisburg International."

https://www.dailydot.com/viral-politics/anti-trump-airport-hack/

Razorcake Webcomic #480 by Silas Haglund

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Spied recently in a ward in a major New York City hospital.

Please make sure you raw huff your colleagues' exhalations when not attending to patients.

So, this'll be the third ceasefire in two years.

Three ceasefires.

In two years.

"Collapse" is whitespeak for "we'll experience what everyone else already is, always have been, experiencing".

Not a falling down but coming in of the tide, inundating those who thought themselves on high ground.

Not a breakdown but an intensification.

Telling people you're intentionally starving to death that they are terrorists for starving to death in place rather that starving to death on forced march is...

There is no word adequate for this.

@Daojoan

Hydroinfamy.

An ableist Left is a conservative Left.

@PhotographyElf

The patriarchal posture implicit to the term "techbro" already suggests an overlapping circles Venn diagram with ableism.

If it walks like a bro, and talks like a bro, it's toxic like a bro.

"The Norwegian central bank said on Monday that it had decided to exclude Caterpillar from the fund, which it manages, 'due to an unacceptable risk that the companies contribute to serious violations of the rights of individuals in situations of war and conflict'.

"In a statement, the ethics council said that 'bulldozers manufactured by Caterpillar are being used by Israeli authorities in the widespread unlawful destruction of Palestinian property'.

"'There is no doubt that Caterpillar’s products are being used to commit extensive and systematic violations of international humanitarian law,' the council said.

"It added that Caterpillar had 'not implemented any measures to prevent such use' by Israeli authorities."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/26/norway-fund-divests-from-us-firm-caterpillar-over-gaza-west-bank-abuses

"Spain has deployed a further 500 soldiers from the military emergency unit to support firefighting operations as it battles 20 major wildfires across the country during a heatwave that began last week....

"Wildfires sweep Spain, Portugal and Greece during unremitting heatwave.

"[Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez] announced an increase in military reinforcements, bringing the total number of soldiers deployed across Spain to 1,900.

"Firefighters are tackling 12 major wildfires in the northwestern region of Galicia alone, all of them near the city of Ourense, the head of the Galician regional government Alfonso Rueda also said during the news conference.

"'Homes are still under threat, so we have lockdowns in place and are carrying out evacuations,' Rueda said.

"The announcements came as authorities awaited the arrival of promised aircraft reinforcements from other European countries."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/17/spain-battles-20-big-wildfires-deploys-500-more-soldiers-in-searing-heat

"Israeli protesters holding pictures of starving Palestinian children and calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza [were assaulted by] police on Thursday in Tel Aviv."

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/8/1/israeli-protesters-clash-with-police-over-gaza-genocide#flips-6376430053112:0

"The arms embargo was announced by Prime Minister Robert Golob after a government session on Thursday.

"'Slovenia is the first European country to ban the import, export and transit of weapons to and from Israel,” the government said in a statement.

"It said it was moving ahead 'independently' because the EU was 'unable to adopt concrete measures … due to internal disagreements and disunity'."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/1/slovenia-becomes-first-eu-country-to-impose-arms-embargo-on-israel

Reminder not to cross the 🍌 picket line:

"Updated 9:37 PM EDT, May 22, 2025

"PANAMA CITY (AP) — Banana giant Chiquita Brands has fired its workers in Panama who have been out on strike for more than three weeks as part of nationwide protests against reforms to the social security system, the company said Thursday."

https://apnews.com/article/panama-protests-chiquita-bananas-0c95a19e3186caeb8fa617be999ca485

NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey.

HTOPS has yet to publish data, despite having avowedly collected data Oct & Dec:

https://hcommons.social/@beadsland/113728679706939484

Hospital capacity data was ended under prior administration. Only Federal Reserve disability data continues to update.

#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent

[This is first toot of periodically refreshed thread, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]

Last period:
https://hcommons.social/@beadsland/113870662111085905

A FLuQE wavelet opened September, cresting as KP.3.1.1 / MC wave into November. FDA's second-guess vaccine target, KP.2, dropped out in December. Updated #CDC estimates indicate we've been in a JN.1.11 soup pretty much since then.

No new variants broken out by CDC, as KP.1.1.3 / LP descendant LP.8.1 approaches majority.

No recent GISAID data—as Raj's dashboard hasn't updated in near a month.

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