Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

Wow!

The Tories are so screwed — parents of sick kids are joining picket lines and demos in place of the #NHS nurses treating their kids.

‘Anne Gadsden was at the picket line outside UCL Hospital to show solidarity for a nurse looking after her child.

“I’ve come here to represent the nurses looking after my child. He’s in intensive care… in an induced coma. So I’m here because she’s looking after my son. She can’t come so I’m here.”’

Pity Labour can’t be arsed to support our nurses….

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
— Beyond Vietnam, 1967
#MLKday

On my way to Berlin's criminal court to support - as an expert on the climate crisis - the defense of an activist who disrupted traffic. Whether the judge will allow it remains to be seen. I'd testify why, on a factual basis, the climate problem is now a climate emergency.

The government confirms the #OnlineSatefyBill will class video showing people crossing the Channel in small boats in a 'positive light' as illegal content. Upload filters could restrict or remove lawful posts with serious implications for public discourse.

How will the algorithm know what is encouraging immigration and what is a video clip of a documentary about the issue? #freedomofexpression

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/17/donelan-confirms-stiffer-online-safety-measures-after-backbench-pressure

I can’t get over how utterly relaxed Greta Thunberg looks here. She’s just like “Yeah this is part of the plan. Now I get carried somewhere by cops.” My new life goal is to have that level of confidence and chill about direct action. #GretaThunberg #Luetzerath #climatechange

Big thanks to #ElonMusk honestly. Although he misleadingly frames it as "your" fault, what he is explaining here is that #Twitter's algorithm is designed to pour oil on every fire it sees.

Some of us have been pointing out how dangerous that is for years now.

@afewbugs this. In case we can't find contact details for Mr Darwall himself, it might be worth contacting his company Devon Equity Management each time we feel like camping on his land. Which could reasonably be everyday, I guess.

Right, the easiest way to solve this: NO GENDER FOR ANYONE UNTIL THEY’RE 18

Growing up surrounded by that environment, people internalise the idea that fast, untrammelled, near-consequence-free motoring is normal and, moreover, people conclude that *this must surely be the proper way of things*. In our paper we call this mindset "Motonormativity" 11/14

Is this self-interest? Cognitive dissonance? Most people drive, so it might make sense they'd make excuses.

But no. We separated out the subset of people who didn't themselves drive and they basically responded the same as the drivers, also making special pleading for cars 8/

Here's the full set of answers. As you can see, responses could change dramatically when driving was mentioned. All except Question 2 were hugely statistically different.

This doesn't make sense! The principle is the same in both forms of each question; only context changes 6/14

For example, half were asked if they agreed:

"People shouldn't drive in highly populated areas where other people have to breathe the car fumes"

and half got:

"People shouldn't smoke in highly populated areas where other people have to breathe the cigarette fumes"

4/14

Randomly, people either got questions about driving or they got the same set of questions with a couple of words changed so that they asked exactly the same things, but not about driving 3/14

We have a new study out!

The short version is this: "Car Brain" - the cultural blind spot that makes people apply double standards when they think about driving - is real, measurable and pervasive.

Read on for more details... 1/14 @SwanseaUni@twitter.com @UWEBristol@twitter.com @EdNapierTRI@twitter.com

And even to this day, in some locations, and at certain times when other toilet facilities are closed, there is the urinary leash for anyone who cannot use a urinal. For example, in many cities, late at night there will be public urinals available, but no sit-down toilets.

Many trans people face a urinary leash effect in public following moral panics surrounding trans people using the toilet affecting safety. This has had a knock-on effect for cisgender, but gender non-conforming people too.

Access to toilet facilities for disabled people is uneven at best. Many public spaces offer few, if any, toilet facilities which are wheelchair accessible and have adequate mobility aids such as grab rails, flat access, and space to turn.

It has been repeated many times, but the idea that cis het men would go to any bother whatsoever pretending to be trans women in order to sexually assault someone when they do so all the time already and are rarely and barely punished for it is patently absurd, and yet we are constantly forced to address this nonexistent, made-up problem by people who just want trans people to disappear and die.

Another scandal is gathering pace:

the 'self-disconnection' of those people already transferred to #prepaymeters due to problems paying their #energy bills.

Therefore not only do vulnerable people pay higher tariffs & have difficulty accessing Govt. #energycrisis support, the energy firms have found a way round their statuary obligations limiting the ability to cut-off people in financial trouble from life-sustaining energy supplies!

#Ofgem must act, fast!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2023/jan/16/has-ofgem-grasped-the-scale-of-disconnection-of-people-on-prepayment-energy-meters

The urinary leash is a constraint on participating in society. People can go out in public, but only for so long as they can hold their bladder.

Although the concept applied historically to Victorian women, there are still, to this day, several groups who are affected by the urinary leash.