Planet in Crisis

Dystopian The wording of her final interview "they're going to euthanise me", as if it is something being done to her.

In an attempt to explain just why it is that some 77 million Americans voted for the dumbest man alive to be their president for a second time, I’m absolutely delighted to present you with the expanded list of US food that you cannot legally sell in Europe!🧵

Reform UK wants to allow US chlorine washed chicken in to the UK. This will drive down quality and prices. It will destroy British chicken farming.

@creaturaotium @whtwldbabsdo @naomicfisher Respectfully, this is not true. Most people do not 'sail through life', even successful people. Life is filled with suffering as pointed out by Buddhist philosophy. People should not self diagnose others or attempt to diagnose themselves just because they do not sail through.

@whtwldbabsdo @naomicfisher respectfully, autism is genetic, so you are more than likely also autistic and this is why that behavior bothers you. You felt accused as a non autistic person but you don't feel that you've sailed through life because you are autistic. That's why you're compelled to talk over us

Masking has no scientific validity, says Uta Frith, after sixty years of autism research. Yet masking resonates with so many autistic people. It feels true and it feels like an explanation. Both of those things can be true at the same time. Masking does resonate with many people. It describes something important about their experience. In fact, in my clinical experience masking resonates far beyond autism. It resonates for those who are socially anxious, those with OCD and those with depression. It resonates for people living in cultures they were not born into. It resonates for people going into unfamiliar or challenging environments. It resonates for many women in male-dominated workplaces. Whether or not they are autistic. And this is one of the problems. Masking is talked about as if it’s specific to autism, but the research hasn’t been done to demonstrate that. To draw that sort of conclusion, you need large scale quantitative research on representative samples. You need a carefully chosen comparison group. Online survey studies are unlikely to fulfil these criteria. Lived experience isn’t enough - no one can conclude from their lived experience whether something is autism-specific or not. There are other scientific problems with the idea of masking. It means different things to different people, and it is highly expansive. It is used to explain many different experiences - and researchers have found that there is no agreed upon definition. A third scientific problem with the concept of masking is that the evidence base is unrepresentative. Most of the research has been done on late-diagnosed females without intellectual disability - but it’s been assumed that this generalises to all autistic people. We simply don’t know if this is the case. There are other problems with the concept of masking, but these are three key issues identified in a recent review of the literature on masking/camouflaging. They looked at 389 studies. Number of papers published isn’t enough to make a concept scientifically valid. Other things matter too. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

@SamaHoole @LLBiggers "Leather" is dead calves, transported by ship for >24 hours "Fur" is factory farmed minks Stop lying. Vegan leather and fur can literally be made from Biodegradable materials.

"Vegan leather" is plastic. "Vegan wool" is plastic. "Vegan fur" is plastic. Every wash cycle releases microplastics into the water. Every year it degrades slightly and releases more. At end of life it will sit in landfill for four hundred years or end up in the ocean. The sheep, meanwhile, grows a new coat every year, requires it removed, and produces a fibre that has been biodegradable since the Neolithic. But yes. The sheep is the environmental problem. The sheep, standing in the Lake District in the rain, growing renewable fibre from grass. The sheep.

@WSJ Nobody is talking about the Westminster child sex abuse scandal in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s. latimes.com/world/europe/l…

A look at how Jeffrey Epstein’s network reached from Silicon Valley to the halls of Harvard and Buckingham Palace. on.wsj.com/4ss4RKQ

Poland to probe possible links between Epstein and Russia, PM Tusk says reut.rs/4kebnC9 reut.rs/4kebnC9

🔴 Poland to examine ‘increasingly likely possibility that paedophilia scandal was co-organised by intelligence services’ in Moscow Read the full story below 🖇️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

2. It is irreversible. After houses are built on the green belt, they can rarely ever be returned to green space in future. 🧱🏠 @CPRE @WildlifeTrusts @CraigBennett3

@jk_rowling @UKLabour Your arguments are literally based on a logical fallacy called the "slippery slope" fallacy. Look it up. Trans people are a tiny minority and there is not going to be a massive onslaught on your daughter's bathrooms. @acgrayling

As you’re fighting to remove our daughters’ rights to the privacy and safety of single-sex bathrooms and changing rooms, while poised to allow the unethical puberty blockers trial, perhaps children should be protected from @UKLabour.

@JamesOzden @Lewis_Bollard This venn diagram I think also applies to action on climate change but also some other important systemic issues such as plastic pollution that are getting worse but on which we have made real progress #hope #Resilience @CFigueres @jrockstrom @drvolts @KHayhoe @ClimateOutreach

@Lewis_Bollard Happy birthday Lewis! Hope you have a great day - you deserve it. (Funnily enough, I included some similar thoughts on a presentation I gave 2 weeks ago. The left Venn diagram is the classic one and the RHS includes animals!

I turn 39 today. In my lifetime, the world's relationship with animals has changed in two contradictory ways. 1. We have become more compassionate: - In 1986, no US state treated animal cruelty as a felony. Today all 50 do. - Back then only 20-40 countries had any animal welfare laws. Today 150-180 do. - Animal circuses, fur, and veal were normal and in high demand. Today they're stigmatized and in decline. 2. We have become crueler: - In 1986, we raised and killed ~25B land animals/year. Today, we raise and kill ~85B/year (and ~130B more farmed fish). - In 1986, a large share of those animals were still raised outdoors in decent conditions. Today, almost all are raised in hellish factory farms. I like the positive take on human progress that "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better." If you care about animals, the second claim is sadly not true. But the third claim still is. And I'd add a fourth: "We can make the world much better." On my birthday, I feel deep gratitude for everyone working to make the world much better for animals. Thanks to you, we've made more progress for animals in the last decade than in all prior decades combined. We're still far from peak cruelty. And I don't know when we'll get there -- why the chart lacks any years on the x axis :). But, thanks to you, I believe we will.

No one should be forced to flee, nor exploited or mistreated because of their situation as foreigners or people in need! Human dignity must always come first!

People of all ages hate JK Rowling because she became one of the world's foremost hate-mongers, spreading outrageous, hypocritical bigotry. We're ashamed of ever having been Harry Potter fans because of her modern campaign of hate; she should be ashamed of herself for doing it.

@Uriel16549924 @WFP Another fake account with numbers next to the name posting to release hostages. Don't you release it is in everyone's interest including Israeli's interest to call for peace? Nobody wins in the current scenario.

Over half a million people in #Gaza are already enduring famine-like conditions. WFP is doing everything possible to distribute vital food assistance to families. To safely and consistently reach ALL those at risk of starvation, we need a ceasefire - NOW.

@David84158810 @WFP Another fake account with numbers next to the name posting to release hostages.

@WFP After the publication of the torture of Jewish hostages, the leaders of many countries expressed hypocritical outrage but did not help Israel free them and destroy the terrorists in Gaza. On the contrary, they decided to flood the terrorists with products.

@mrp1001 @WFP Another fake account with numbers next to the name posting to release hostages.

@WFP Free the hostages

@BOKIE66 @WFP Another fake account with numbers next to the name

@WFP Tell your Hamas friends !

@PDF53 @WFP @UNWRA @UN Another fake account with numbers next to the name posting to release hostages.

@WFP Then tell your friends Hamas, @UNWRA & the @UN to release the hostages & agree to one. Simple.

@MDLZ Such a shame your brand is now calling for a delay to the EU Deforestation law. We are in an ecological crisis, this is irresponsible. Deeply disappointed in your company, not sure why anyone would want to work there. reuters.com/sustainability…

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