Ah that explains it. Thanks!
I’m new here and don’t know what to put in my profile. She/them, living in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Ah that explains it. Thanks!
I thought they had already done it. I got the notification months ago.
The top result is already out. Obviously the John Oliver fans got their wish and Pūteketeke won. Thousands of them had to be disqualified for cheating, though.
We are all waiting now to see who is in second. Fingers crossed for the Fairy Tern, New Zealand’s most endangered bird!
I’ve never used twitter in my life, still have a vague interest in what Musk is doing to it though.
That tracks.
Pretty sure Elon Musk railed against bots on twitter despite having been proven to have used bots on twitter to manipulate opinion himself.
Apart from my illness support group, I’m only on fediverse social media now, and only via web browser. It’s a breath of fresh air.
I’m realising there are subtle ways that enshittification constrains and shapes actual conversations between us.
I think Medecines Sans Frontiers is good?
Never has the “Just a moment…” snippet view been more apropos.
I agree, it is technically true. Sorry if I sounded too nitpicking, I’ve just come back from a week with no internet access /news so for a moment I thought you were talking about all of them doing it during the events of the last few days!
Germany, France and Spain also have killed and kidnapped citizens.
You may wish to rephrase that…
Oh hell this just gets worse and worse. I’m concerned for the survivors. 30,000 displaced. I really hope the two factions are able to work together:
The enormous task of providing immediate aid and then rebuilding Derna is complicated by the legacies of a decade of civil conflict, which has left two rival governments ruling eastern and western Libya.
Derna is controlled by the Libyan National Army, run by Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter and based in the eastern city of Tobruk. The rest of the country is run by the Government of National Unity based in the capital, Tripoli, in the west.
This split has hampered reconstructions efforts for years — though aid workers say both sides are now talking to each other.
Will look out for it!
Nowadays there are Saints for everything
There have always been local gods for everything.
This is why Catholicism has historically been such a sucessful religion, it’s inherently quite syncretic.
It adapts to local conditions and incorporates aspects, just like capitalism and viruses.
Sounds good! I learned about it from Wikipedia, which is a bit dry.
Yeah the largest biological weapon attack on US soil was a cult.
Yikes. The headline really undersells how bad this was.
Realpolitik in action.
The US was imposing sanctions on Ethiopia for its human rights abuses at the same time. Many of these refugees were fleeing Ethiopia so they are literally the exact same people.
Scary, it’s going to be really hard for people to get away from the ticks in these conditions.
I am so confused.