Sam
@samuelions.bsky.social
Compost and enhanced weathering 💩🪨🌾
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IUDs, implants, and birth control pills funded by USAID under the Biden administration are being incinerated in France. They were intended for reproductive health programs, particularly in Africa. @lemonde.fr
Valued at $9.7 million. Usable until 2031.
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Valued at $9.7 million. Usable until 2031.
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Contraceptives destroyed in silence: 'Can France accept to become the executor of a senseless policy imposed by the US?'
OP-ED. IUDs, implants, and birth control pills funded by USAID under the Biden administration are being incinerated on French soil. They were intended for reproductive health programs, particularly in...
www.lemonde.fr
August 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
IUDs, implants, and birth control pills funded by USAID under the Biden administration are being incinerated in France. They were intended for reproductive health programs, particularly in Africa. @lemonde.fr
Valued at $9.7 million. Usable until 2031.
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Valued at $9.7 million. Usable until 2031.
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
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BREAKING: Israeli military attacks humanitarian aid vessel Handala in international waters 30 miles from Gaza — in violation of maritime law — and has abducted 21 people on board, including U.S. citizens.
The ship was carrying life-saving aid, which Israel has seized.
The ship was carrying life-saving aid, which Israel has seized.
July 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
BREAKING: Israeli military attacks humanitarian aid vessel Handala in international waters 30 miles from Gaza — in violation of maritime law — and has abducted 21 people on board, including U.S. citizens.
The ship was carrying life-saving aid, which Israel has seized.
The ship was carrying life-saving aid, which Israel has seized.
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Yes, it's called genocide.
Minister says Israel racing ahead to wipe out Gaza, will make it Jewish
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www.timesofisrael.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Yes, it's called genocide.
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JD Vance made his first big speech all about the need for European free speech, and now a Norwegian is banned from America because of this pic.
June 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
JD Vance made his first big speech all about the need for European free speech, and now a Norwegian is banned from America because of this pic.
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No baby formula has entered Gaza for four months because of Israel’s genocidal blockades. There is nothing left to feed babies and their mothers can not produce milk as they themselves are starving. There is no defending what Israel is doing. No justification.
June 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
No baby formula has entered Gaza for four months because of Israel’s genocidal blockades. There is nothing left to feed babies and their mothers can not produce milk as they themselves are starving. There is no defending what Israel is doing. No justification.
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Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
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Funniest detail to me re: Thom Yorke's weird relationship to Israel is that it's the first place Creep really took off so Israel kinda launched Radiohead's career. Israeli music fans could not get enough of a song that asks "what the hell am I doing here" and answers with "I don't belong here."
May 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Funniest detail to me re: Thom Yorke's weird relationship to Israel is that it's the first place Creep really took off so Israel kinda launched Radiohead's career. Israeli music fans could not get enough of a song that asks "what the hell am I doing here" and answers with "I don't belong here."
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Nobel Prize winning science.
Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial
A combination shot would make it easier for people to get vaccinated against Covid and the flu at the same time.
www.nbcnews.com
May 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Nobel Prize winning science.
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35 years after the beginning of HECS, Skye Predavec finds that students are paying much more for much less #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/at-aust...
April 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
35 years after the beginning of HECS, Skye Predavec finds that students are paying much more for much less #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/at-aust...
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I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut."
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan
The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.
www.bloomberg.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut."
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore.
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
April 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore.
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
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It's amazing that 4 congressional Dems voted to make it *illegal for married women to vote*, and the rest of the Dems didn't respond "ok yeah you are not allowed to call yourself a Democrat anymore, we're not going to help fundraise for you, just go fuck yourself"
April 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
It's amazing that 4 congressional Dems voted to make it *illegal for married women to vote*, and the rest of the Dems didn't respond "ok yeah you are not allowed to call yourself a Democrat anymore, we're not going to help fundraise for you, just go fuck yourself"
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An Australian who has been living & working in America for 7yrs took a 2-day trip home to scatter his sister’s ashes. On his return to US, despite holding a valid working visa, he was detained for more than 36hrs, called “retarded”, had his visa cancelled & was then deported www.theguardian.com/...
Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial
Man who says he had previously left and re-entered the country multiple times alleges border officials called him ‘retarded’ and boasted ‘Trump is back in town’
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
An Australian who has been living & working in America for 7yrs took a 2-day trip home to scatter his sister’s ashes. On his return to US, despite holding a valid working visa, he was detained for more than 36hrs, called “retarded”, had his visa cancelled & was then deported www.theguardian.com/...
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99 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Zincite:
- The rare crystal form of zinc oxide (ZnO)
- Its colour varies, red colouring is caused by iron and manganese
- Can be grown artificially
- Was originally called "red oxide of zinc"
- Was once used as a crystal detector in crystal radios #minerals
Zincite:
- The rare crystal form of zinc oxide (ZnO)
- Its colour varies, red colouring is caused by iron and manganese
- Can be grown artificially
- Was originally called "red oxide of zinc"
- Was once used as a crystal detector in crystal radios #minerals
April 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
99 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Zincite:
- The rare crystal form of zinc oxide (ZnO)
- Its colour varies, red colouring is caused by iron and manganese
- Can be grown artificially
- Was originally called "red oxide of zinc"
- Was once used as a crystal detector in crystal radios #minerals
Zincite:
- The rare crystal form of zinc oxide (ZnO)
- Its colour varies, red colouring is caused by iron and manganese
- Can be grown artificially
- Was originally called "red oxide of zinc"
- Was once used as a crystal detector in crystal radios #minerals
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everywhere Elon Musk companies go, they are among the top polluters... Tesla Fremont is the second biggest polluter in all of California!
www.jalopnik.com/tesla-factor...
www.jalopnik.com/tesla-factor...
Tesla Factory In California Pollutes So Much It Is Second Only To An Oil Refining Company
For years, Elon Musk’s defenders pointed to his mission to save the planet with electric vehicles as a reason to dismiss all criticism. Even if Musk messed up, it was supposedly all with the goal of p...
www.jalopnik.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
everywhere Elon Musk companies go, they are among the top polluters... Tesla Fremont is the second biggest polluter in all of California!
www.jalopnik.com/tesla-factor...
www.jalopnik.com/tesla-factor...
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Elon Musk’s xAI powering its facility in Memphis with ‘illegal’ generators
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Elon Musk’s xAI powering its facility in Memphis with ‘illegal’ generators
Advocacy group contends the firm is using 35 methane gas burning turbines, but has permission for only 15
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Elon Musk’s xAI powering its facility in Memphis with ‘illegal’ generators
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I cannot believe we have to suffer through all the nonsense of Trump for a SECOND TIME just because America still isn't ready to vote for a smart, qualified WOMAN who loves GENOCIDE!
April 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I cannot believe we have to suffer through all the nonsense of Trump for a SECOND TIME just because America still isn't ready to vote for a smart, qualified WOMAN who loves GENOCIDE!
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New from me: I've spent the last 6 months compiling a map of data centres, whose locations are generally secret, operated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
Cross-referencing that map with areas of water scarcity shows many are in the world's driest areas.
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Cross-referencing that map with areas of water scarcity shows many are in the world's driest areas.
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Big Tech's data centres will take water from world's driest areas
Amazon, Microsoft and Google's data centres use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and they are building more.
www.source-material.org
April 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
New from me: I've spent the last 6 months compiling a map of data centres, whose locations are generally secret, operated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
Cross-referencing that map with areas of water scarcity shows many are in the world's driest areas.
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
Cross-referencing that map with areas of water scarcity shows many are in the world's driest areas.
www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...
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'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
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Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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I don’t know that it’ll ever fully crater because it’s propped up by an actual cult but at some point it would behoove investors to realize that Elon has reduced Tesla’s prospective customer base to about 40% of America and then made sure that most of them don’t have any money
As bad as rest of the market is doing, Tesla is crashing twice as fast.
April 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I don’t know that it’ll ever fully crater because it’s propped up by an actual cult but at some point it would behoove investors to realize that Elon has reduced Tesla’s prospective customer base to about 40% of America and then made sure that most of them don’t have any money
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The US tariffs were designed by dipshit sex pest failsons asking chatgpt to regurgitate a trade policy for them, it's literally a chatgpt tax on Americans.
Calling it the chatgpt tax on American consumers kills two fucked up birds with one stone
Calling it the chatgpt tax on American consumers kills two fucked up birds with one stone
April 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The US tariffs were designed by dipshit sex pest failsons asking chatgpt to regurgitate a trade policy for them, it's literally a chatgpt tax on Americans.
Calling it the chatgpt tax on American consumers kills two fucked up birds with one stone
Calling it the chatgpt tax on American consumers kills two fucked up birds with one stone
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This is a good, clear summary of a horrific story. It is intolerable and there must be consequences. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline
A week after contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza, their bodies were found in a mass grave
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This is a good, clear summary of a horrific story. It is intolerable and there must be consequences. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...