Which Side Are You On?

🚨🚨🚨Time is running out, my friends! We only need $50 to make this dream a reality tomorrow. Please help me! 🥺🙏🏻x.com/i/status/20777…

@RobertLaurie @Darth_Pingu Nah. Fuck you, USA.

@Darth_Pingu Nah. Fuck you, Canada.

Seriously, if this is your response to a very dangerous wildfire situation where people's homes are being lost, you need your head examined. Also, fuck you.

@AnitaAnandMP @r_velascoa While you're meeting with them, you might ask for tips on how to actually care about the people you serve. Also, you need some guidance on Palestine, Venezuela, and Cuba. Mexico's foreign policy in that regard is something you could definitely learn from. Twat.

Canada and Mexico are strengthening a partnership rooted in trade, investment and shared priorities across North America. Tomorrow, I will welcome Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs, @r_velascoa, to Ottawa to advance that work. With more than $62 billion in bilateral merchandise trade last year and over 80 years of diplomatic relations, our partnership continues to create new opportunities for businesses and workers in both countries.

@arcticfireteam @fordnation 😅

@fordnation There is an army of wildfire contractors in Alberta able and willing to deploy. We have reached out to EMO and MNR.

I can’t thank the incredible firefighting personnel in northern Ontario enough for their heroic work protecting people and communities impacted by the wildfires. We’re making every resource available to support their efforts and keep people safe. Since 2018, we’ve invested $1.5 billion to fight wildfires and hire more personnel, with another $650 million to expand Ontario’s fleet of firefighting aircraft.

The empire does not need your enthusiasm. It was very clear about this, very early. It does not require your flag-waving or your belief or your conscious endorsement of its methods. It needs only your silence. Your silence at the dinner table when the conversation turns to sanctions on a country whose name your relatives mispronounce. Your silence in the meeting when someone makes the joke. Your silence online, where you have an account and an audience and a platform that did not exist for any previous generation of bystanders, and you use it to post about your breakfast. Your silence is not neutral. In a structure built on the production of silence, choosing silence is choosing the structure. The empire has enough soldiers. What it has always needed, in far greater numbers, is witnesses who decide not to witness. You are more useful to it than any soldier. You are educated. You are articulate. You have access. And you have decided that the maintenance of your own comfort is worth more than the use of what you have. That is not a passive position. That is the infrastructure of every atrocity that required a civilian population to look away while it happened. You are that population. You are looking away right now.

⚡️BREAKING: A Children's Cancer Hospital has been Damaged in U.S. strikes in Southern Iran, and an Evacuation is now underway

The NATO-financed recruitment of cannon fodder is fuelling anger in Ukraine.

@SturgeonRocket Beautiful boy. I am so sorry for your loss. ❤️ Thank you for sharing that gorgeous picture of him.

The internet is a big place and I don't have anywhere near the reach to do him justice, but today was the last day for the very best dog in the world. I wish you could have met Moose, he would have loved you all.

Dear Friends: I am happy to share a quick update! I have purchased cat food for both the family and the camp cats - 9 cans at 5 shekels each and 8 kilograms of dry food at 40 shekels per kilogram. The total cost is $110 approximately and this supply will only last a few days as the number of cats we care for is growing. At this point, we are encouraging the growth of the camp's cat population because their presence is having a significant impact in protecting residents and property from the rat invasion. It is difficult to express the magnitude or horror of the rat presence or the danger to life that they pose. We ask you to support us financially to keep the cats fed and healthy! Our lives depend on it. With gratitude, Mohammed gofund.me/795a026d

@OlPejeta Amazing work! 😍

Visit the link to donate 👉 donate.olpejetaconservancy.org Photos: Kevin Kipruto / Ol Pejeta

On the night of 7th July, our ranger team came across a tiny southern white rhino calf, abandoned and alone in the bush. They stayed by her side through the night, keeping watch until morning. Thread 👇

The NATO-backed coup in Ukraine was on February 22, 2014. In the article below, the New York Times confirms that two days later, on February 24, the new Ukrainian intelligence chief of the government that the US had handpicked, called the CIA and MI6 to establish a partnership against Russia. Only a few days earlier, Russia had been the main security partner of Ukraine - after the coup, it would become NATO's frontline state against Russia. The CIA operation against Russia developed from 2014-2022: - "12 newly-built, forward operating bases constructed along the Russian border. From each base, General Kondratiuk said, the Ukrainian officers ran networks of agents who gathered intelligence inside Russia. C.I.A. officers installed equipment at the bases to help gather intelligence and also identified some of the most skilled Ukrainian graduates of the Operation Goldfish program, working with them to approach potential Russian sources." - "The listening post in the Ukrainian forest is part of a C.I.A.-supported network of spy bases constructed in the past eight years that includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border... Around 2016, the C.I.A. began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that C.I.A. technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems. The CIA/MI6 presence in Ukraine became a key motivation for the Russian invasion: - "Toward the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Mr. Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the C.I.A., together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow." *** The war in Ukraine was clearly provoked (and even started) by NATO. The amount of evidence makes this undeniable. However, the political-media establishment defends the "unprovoked invasion" narrative by dismissing and criminalising all explanations of NATO's involvement as efforts to "legitimise" the Russian invasion. Why is NATO's contribution to starting this war important? If we recognise NATO's contribution and the legitimate Russian security concerns, then it opens up an opportunity for compromise and peace. By clinging to the "unprovoked invasion" narrative, weapons are the path to peace, and NATO gets to continue its war against Russia to the last Ukrainian. nytimes.com/2024/02/25/wor…

@NiallHarbison 🥰🥰🥰

Birdie is our oldest resident and against all the odds she has been with us for one full year now. The kitchen team threw her a little party! We so many tough situations for dogs that it's nice to celebrate the little wins. Birdie is a little angel of a dog

I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence. Here's what happened. 🧵

This is absolutely fascinating. That's the salary level for entry-level workers in Xinjiang right now. We just saw this hiring ad 👇 in front of an ice cream shop in Yining: - 5k to 10k monthly salary ($750 to $1,500) - Free accommodation - Free food Not a bad package, even better than France! The so-called "SMIC" (base salary) in France is roughly $1,500 a month but you obviously don't get free accommodation or food with that, and it's the bunch of people's monthly expenses. And, of course, everything is much cheaper in China than in France. So we're literally at a stage where an entry-level ice cream shop worker in Xinjiang has better purchasing power than a minimum wage worker in France.

Hello my friends ❤️ Today is Tuesday, and I am starting a new and important goal for my family. I want to raise $100 so that I can provide a Friday meal for my family — a meal with meat — so we can sit together, eat like other families, and feel a small moment of joy and warmth during these very difficult times. I kindly ask you, my friends, to help me reach this goal. Any contribution, no matter how small, can make a big difference for us. I also ask you to share this message with anyone who may be able to help. Together, let’s achieve this goal and give my family a simple moment of happiness this Friday. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who stands with us and supports us. ❤️🙏🥺👇🏻chuffed.org/project/180455…

The cure for cancer isn’t in the AI data center, it was in the forest cut down to build the AI center

@josbjohnson Why does it require that effort? That's ridiculous.

you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.

@DylanoA4 Yea, that's cool. Unless you're dealing with actual trauma. But do go on. 🙄

I'd put this single paragraph from G. K. Chesterton up against any self-help book out there