Flo Isaacs
@flisaacs.bsky.social
Ice and climate science, prev at NIWA and @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social, now in bed with long covid 🙃 They/them, pākehā.
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Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!
February 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!
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Last weekend, Destiny Church escalated its attacks against the queer community. Destiny wants to drive queer New Zealanders back into the closet.
PAPA won't let this happen. We stood for queer liberation as No Pride in Prisons and we stand for it now.
PAPA won't let this happen. We stood for queer liberation as No Pride in Prisons and we stand for it now.
February 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Last weekend, Destiny Church escalated its attacks against the queer community. Destiny wants to drive queer New Zealanders back into the closet.
PAPA won't let this happen. We stood for queer liberation as No Pride in Prisons and we stand for it now.
PAPA won't let this happen. We stood for queer liberation as No Pride in Prisons and we stand for it now.
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Really wild how people continue to act like RFK Jr.’s problem is his remote history of heroin addiction in sustained recovery and not the fact that he’s a sociopathic, science denying, con artist, who wants kids to die so he can make a buck, which has nothing to do with him using heroin decades ago.
February 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Really wild how people continue to act like RFK Jr.’s problem is his remote history of heroin addiction in sustained recovery and not the fact that he’s a sociopathic, science denying, con artist, who wants kids to die so he can make a buck, which has nothing to do with him using heroin decades ago.
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Israel's cheerleaders are gratuitously lying about the collapsing ceasefire.
Israel always saw the ceasefire as a temporary ruse, and has systematically violated it.
Ignore the lies. This is the truth 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-is-...
Israel always saw the ceasefire as a temporary ruse, and has systematically violated it.
Ignore the lies. This is the truth 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-is-...
February 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Israel's cheerleaders are gratuitously lying about the collapsing ceasefire.
Israel always saw the ceasefire as a temporary ruse, and has systematically violated it.
Ignore the lies. This is the truth 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-is-...
Israel always saw the ceasefire as a temporary ruse, and has systematically violated it.
Ignore the lies. This is the truth 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-is-...
Really amazing piece on the loss of friendships and communities in the ableism that is the world 'moving on' from covid 🩵
I'll have more to say about this later, but for now I want to share this piece I was honored to write for @thesicktimes.bsky.social about friendship & COVID. I hope ppl will read it if they are the covid-cautious friend or if they are not, and find some clarity here
thesicktimes.org/2025/01/30/t...
thesicktimes.org/2025/01/30/t...
The “pandemic of abandonment”: Navigating friendships five years into COVID-19 - The Sick Times
Over the last five years of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many people have experienced significant changes and ruptures to their personal relationships. People with Long COVID and people taking COVID...
thesicktimes.org
January 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Really amazing piece on the loss of friendships and communities in the ableism that is the world 'moving on' from covid 🩵
Reminder that substack loves nazis ❤️
Substack comes out in favor of Elon. read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...
The fight for free speech in 2025 and beyond
On Substack’s ongoing commitment to freedom of the press
read.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Reminder that substack loves nazis ❤️
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Pro tip: Wearing a mask is a powerful protest tool that visually communicates the reckless denial of anti-vaxxers, fossil fuel shills etc.
Wearing a mask at a protest is also praxis. Not only are you protesting those who will spread harm, you are actively stopping it yourself.
Wearing a mask at a protest is also praxis. Not only are you protesting those who will spread harm, you are actively stopping it yourself.
N95 mask-wearing HEROES protesting the RFK Jr confirmation hearing. THANK YOU!!! ✊
January 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Pro tip: Wearing a mask is a powerful protest tool that visually communicates the reckless denial of anti-vaxxers, fossil fuel shills etc.
Wearing a mask at a protest is also praxis. Not only are you protesting those who will spread harm, you are actively stopping it yourself.
Wearing a mask at a protest is also praxis. Not only are you protesting those who will spread harm, you are actively stopping it yourself.
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Every disaster movie starts with scientists being ignored. Good thing we’re not doing that.
January 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every disaster movie starts with scientists being ignored. Good thing we’re not doing that.
What in the neoliberal hellscape is this
Crown Research Institutes to merge into three mega science groups
NIWA, GNS, ESR and numerous other bodies are set to be pulled together.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
What in the neoliberal hellscape is this
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Israel released 90 hostages in Gaza then took 90 new hostages in the West Bank. This is what Israel does and this is the vile colonial violence it’s founded on, beyond any kind of reform
January 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Israel released 90 hostages in Gaza then took 90 new hostages in the West Bank. This is what Israel does and this is the vile colonial violence it’s founded on, beyond any kind of reform
Keen to get off insta/fb/whatsapp now that meta is extra fucked - where we going for alternatives other than here?
January 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Keen to get off insta/fb/whatsapp now that meta is extra fucked - where we going for alternatives other than here?
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Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
January 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
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You spend years platforming and agreeing with Nazis and the next thing you know people are not charitably interpreting a hand gesture
January 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
You spend years platforming and agreeing with Nazis and the next thing you know people are not charitably interpreting a hand gesture
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You can honor David Lynch by wearing a mask in public.
He had to begin isolating at home because he has emphysema- a COVID infection would likely be fatal- and no one wears masks anymore.
Millions of others like him (including myself) were left behind when COVID measures were abandoned
He had to begin isolating at home because he has emphysema- a COVID infection would likely be fatal- and no one wears masks anymore.
Millions of others like him (including myself) were left behind when COVID measures were abandoned
January 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
You can honor David Lynch by wearing a mask in public.
He had to begin isolating at home because he has emphysema- a COVID infection would likely be fatal- and no one wears masks anymore.
Millions of others like him (including myself) were left behind when COVID measures were abandoned
He had to begin isolating at home because he has emphysema- a COVID infection would likely be fatal- and no one wears masks anymore.
Millions of others like him (including myself) were left behind when COVID measures were abandoned
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It's critical that governments get PERMANENT year-round free N95 mask programs in place. Waiting until a wildfire or an outbreak to distribute free masks is too late. People need to have access to the tools that will protect them in advance of being exposed to the threat.
January 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It's critical that governments get PERMANENT year-round free N95 mask programs in place. Waiting until a wildfire or an outbreak to distribute free masks is too late. People need to have access to the tools that will protect them in advance of being exposed to the threat.
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Now that you’ve seen Meta go full mask-off, lets remember that Substack has the same agenda.
January 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Now that you’ve seen Meta go full mask-off, lets remember that Substack has the same agenda.
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Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.
Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism
forward.com/news/686797/...
forward.com/news/686797/...
Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.
forward.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.
This is a great roundup of all the (nz) govt submissions due in the next week or two! All very important!
Ah yes I was looking for this handy roundup yesterday, oh shit Boot Camps submission due tonight!
OK fine, what submissions do I have to make FFS?!
Don't worry - I got you. Here's everything you need in one place!
emilywrites.substack.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is a great roundup of all the (nz) govt submissions due in the next week or two! All very important!
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Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.
🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.
Wtf
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
January 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Wtf