Kirt 🦣 @kirt@ all the good instances

@Chnoopsy my 90% #pronouns bio… might put this back later… Western Pacific 🌏 3rd formal = they / them 🏳️‍🌈 2nd formal = you 2nd singular = thou / thee 2nd plural = yous 🦘 1st singular = Lowercase i for the dot ℹ️

@MohsinChargesOn make me go to blusky

open.spotify.com/episode/4Gdm3S… #TWiEvo

some actual scientists found here open.spotify.com/episode/4xkFvR… on Spotify

There are two types of people who think science says there are only two sexs 1. People who haven't studied science since someone forced them to at school 2. Liars But this, like all artificial binaries, probably has some grey areas and exceptions 😉

@JTLonsdale Christmas with Hamas VS Christmas with Israel x.com/evolving_strin… the same place, nearly the same date, 2022 VS 2023.

For the first time in my lifetime, a lot of successful Jewish friends called me worried this week - names we all know - asking what is going to happen as these libels re-enter the mainstream, and are shared by millions. Sadly, Tucker, Rogan, Candace Owens, and others platformed slanderous conspiracies and blood libel to tens of millions of followers - maybe they all know it, maybe one or two of them are just naive and don't get it. Personally, I'm not a victim, I'm a fighter, but we know our family history, and we didn't just die in the Holocaust. Jews as a successful "outsider" minority have been hunted and murdered for centuries based on libelous anti-Semitic tropes that implied that we wanted to hurt Christians or were scheming against them. My great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents and their siblings around eastern Europe each grew up facing commonplace rape and slaughter fueled by similar lies, long before our grandparents' generation was systematically exterminated. Lucky for me, the Jewish branch of my family escaped to the USA by 1920. If you don't believe we're dealing with extreme anti-Semites and insane conspiracy theorists, just look at this quote tweet from an account with more followers than me and the replies - or the replies my post is sure to garner. Or thousands of other accounts this week, innocently asking why Jews don't care about Christian deaths around the world (we do, and Israel has worked to protect Christians, as should the USA). Many accounts are obsessed with Jews being tied to communists. I'm about as strong a fighter against Communism as you can find, not least with my work with the Reagan Library, but it's true, in response to being beat the crap out of by various regimes including the Tsar in Russia (it was once said of him he had no religion, but if he did, it was anti-Semitism) - many Jews ~120 years ago became communists. I don't excuse it - Communism is not just misguided, but applying it is evil and wrong. But it's not some wacky conspiracy, the history makes it obvious what happened and how this reaction occurred. Today, the majority of Jews have learned why that philosophy was evil, as have others: and millions of us fight for liberty and our constitution in the USA as fellow citizens. As did many Jews at the founding of the USA. It's a red herring to say you can't criticize Israel. I criticize them all the time, as do most Jews, in fact; we have a lot of opinions, and it's a horrible, complex situation that Israel as a whole generally faces with dignity and strength. But age-old blood libels of Jews wanting to hurt Christians are false, totally inappropriate, and also weird in the context of the fact that it's Islamists slaughtering hundreds of Christians and forcing them out of many areas as we speak. Jews and Christians are natural allies, and our civilization prospers when we stand up for each other and our shared values. Our enemies hope to drive us apart, but our shared understanding of the radical equal dignity of all human life and associated values led to the enlightenment and to our prosperity in the west. Our alliance is too strong for any of this nonsense to destroy.

I worked on an inpatient AIDS unit in 1994. AZT was all we had. It kept a lot of people alive for a lot longer than they would otherwise have had. Joe Rogan and Woody Harrelson exhibit a willful, belligerent ignorance I find hard to comprehend. It's like they love being stupid. And wrong.

@IntegralAnswers They don't jump. They get pushed. When humans do something stupid like try to kill aquatic mink in a gas box. That method seems designed to spread respiratory virus as much as possible. After keeping them in high density open air cages exposed to bats and other wildlife.

2/ What is a zoonotic spillover? This occurs when a virus jumps from animals to humans. Many pandemics—including SARS (2002), MERS (2012), and influenza strains—originated this way. COVID-19 fits the same pattern.

1/ The origins of COVID-19: What does the evidence say? Scientists overwhelmingly support the conclusion that SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, most likely emerged from a natural zoonotic spillover. Here’s why. 🧵👇

@IntegralAnswers "Natural" vs "LabLeak" is a false dichotomy. The vast majority of pandemics are from human exploitation of animals. COVID was probably a fur farm. They are extremely high risk given density + "humane" gassing. Pig + poultry farming cause flu Hunting got HIV (and maybe COVID)

@IntegralAnswers It's from a bloody fur farm!!! Not bat soup. Not a lab. A goddamn factory farm growing mink coats! Probably in rural China but I've STILL not seen anything that rules out northern Italy. At least that's what it looks MOST like.

As long as Australia refuses to stand up to the US and stop the supply of weapons parts to Israel, the Albanese Government is complicit.

@GeorgeDeek @EylonALevy Aseer أسير means "prisoner of war". It doesn't imply criminality, a criminal prisoner is usually a different word. Hamas use the same word to refer to prisoners from their own side. They respect those prisoners. It's not as negative as the machine translation implies.

I really hope the Bibas family hold Netentahu and the IDF responsible for exacerbating their grief. The fascists shamelessly abused images of the Bibas family in over a year pro-war propaganda, despite KNOWING they were dead, and almost certainly killed by Israel's own military.

The least moral military sbs.com.au/news/article/i…

Meta now has an assortment of ways to make your messages more cleche. But maybe if I'm having one of those "fingers won't fing" I'll use it to fill gaps.

Do you

Shut the ever loving fuck up

Australian student injured in alleged Israeli shooting youtu.be/AxcY9Sxs65o via @SBSNews

Palestinians held: 3,443 Jewish settlers held: 8 Now, ONLY Palestinians will be subject to detention without trial, in their own land, as illegal settlers terrorize them and steal their land. What’s it called when one group is subject to rules to ensure the dominance of another?

City YMCA - Christmas

Gaza City YMCA - Christmas 2022

Palestinians in Gaza City, in the Northern Gaza Strip