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Alexander I. Stingl. Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of PhD Studies (Soc&Pol) @ UoGalway. Fellow & Program Director @ Global Research Network. Plays TFT & chess. @TenderEmpirics on Insta and all other !socials. -All Posts Personal-

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is Tearing Up a Texas Town’s Bird Communitywww.thedailybeast.com The company’s HQ expansion—and the rocket debris that followed—has left bird nests destroyed, eggs missing, and federal officials angry.

"Ants amputate injured legs of nestmates to improve their survival[...]Ants are capable of differentiating wound type and adapt their treatment accordingly." www.cell.com/current-biol...

Wound-dependent leg amputations to combat infections in an ant societywww.cell.com Frank et al. provide the first example of the use of amputations to treat infected leg wounds in a non-human animal. The findings demonstrate that ants can adapt their treatment modality depending on ...

While working on one of my (too many) book manuscripts, I once again have to say: "If you don't like reading many long-ass footnotes, don't complain and just don't read my stuff."

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‘An explosion of talent’: Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory at 40www.theguardian.com As a new anniversary edition of the late author’s landmark debut is published, high profile fans reflect on an extraordinary career

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Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (Glastonbury 2024)www.youtube.com Cyndi Lauper performs Time After Time at Glastonbury 2024. Watch more highlights on BBC iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b007r6vx/glastonburyL...

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Das Bildungsministerium antwortete auf unsere IFG-Anfrage zur Fördermittelaffäre zu spät. Grund: Es konnte uns das 33 MB große PDF nicht per Mail zuschicken. Im Bundestag behauptete Ministerin Stark-Watzinger gestern, das habe an unserem Server gelegen. Das ist falsch. 3 Digital-Tipps im Thread:

FragDenStaat (@[email protected])chaos.social Attached: 1 video Das Bildungsministerium antwortete auf unsere IFG-Anfrage zur Fördermittelaffäre zu spät. Grund: Es konnte uns das 33 MB große PDF nicht per Mail zuschicken. Im Bundestag behaupte...

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Dr Disrespect Knowingly Sent Explicit Messages to a Minor, Former Twitch Employee Sayswww.rollingstone.com Streamer Dr Disrespect was banned from Twitch in 2020 over inappropriate texts he sent to a girl even after learning she was underage

some recent advancements in AI music technology and what its implications are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbo6...

I Told You This Was Going To Happenwww.youtube.com In today's episode I talk about some recent advancements in AI music technology and what its implications are.SALE:🎂 The Channel Anniversary Bundle — $89 FO...

Klaus Töpfer (1938 – 2024) www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

UNEP mourns loss of former Executive Director Klaus Töpferwww.unep.org The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) joins family and friends in mourning the loss of former UNEP Executive Director, Dr. Klaus Töpfer.

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Reading another Boomer narrative about how school shooter drills are like the nuclear bomb drills they endured as children and how it's the same trauma and I am always frustrated by this because nuclear war was not something that ever happened. But school shootings happen ALL THE TIME.

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Obscure court system doles out billions in public money to private interestswww.motherjones.com It largely evolved to constrain national pushes for social and environmental regulation.

well, well, well..... new Michael Reeves video!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkHC...

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Not really one who's into pushing into drama, but, honestly, Ding Liren should seriously consider not playing the World Championship. The place he seems to be in, Gukesh would just crush him.

This is not surprising but still horrifying. www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-...

Texas GOP Appears To Put Death Penalty For Abortion Patients On 2024 Wish Listwww.huffpost.com The Republican Party of Texas is considering a platform this week that would define abortion as homicide.

"The farmers are urging voters....."????????

"Kickl, who was interior minister at the time of the BVT raid, now leads the FPÖ; with a national election due before the end of the year, the party has a comfortable lead in the polls." www.politico.eu/article/vlad...

Putin hijacked Austria’s spy service. Now he’s going after its governmentwww.politico.eu Intelligence officials suspect Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek of colluding with the far-right Freedom Party on Moscow’s behalf.

Paulin J. Hountondji (1942 – 2024)

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Aimer「Ref:rain -3 nuits ver.-」Music Videowww.youtube.com 2024年6月5日発売のAimer New E.P.「遥か / 800 / End of All / Ref:rain -3 nuits ver.-」より「Ref:rain -3 nuits ver.-」を公開！「Ref:rain -3 nuits ver.-」6月よりスタートする海外ワンマンライブツアー「Aim...

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In "Visual Disobedience," Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous feminist resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America. Read the introduction for free now. www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...

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FDP will zurück zu 6 Jahren Postdoc-Befristung 🤯 SPD & Grüne, nun ist es an Euch, Eure Zusagen zu Eindämmung von Befristung durchzusetzen. FDP nach jahrelanger Debatte mit Rückkehr zu Status quo durchkommen lassen hieße, Ihr würdet wissenschaftspolitisch jede Glaubwürdigkeit verlieren. #IchBinHanna

Nach Länder-Stellungnahme: Bundestags-#FDP will bei sechs Jahren Höchstbefristung für Postdocs bleiben Was der #Bundesrat zur geplanten #WissZeitVG-Novelle sagt und wie Ampelfraktionen darauf reagieren. Im Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/2024/05/19/n...

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Im Anschluss an Hans Jonas, Derrida, Haraway, Garces (was für ne Komposition!) habe ich über Verantwortung im Anthropozän nachgedacht. Mein Plädoyer: Postapokalyptisches Antworten statt apokalyptische Responsibilisierung: rdcu.be/dIbm2 Open Access

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Wichtig 👇 Das Entziehen der Gemeinnützigkeit für Organisationen wie den Volksverpetzer ist Teil eines breiteren Trends zur Verringerung von Handlungsspielräumen für zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure. Diesen Trend beschreiben wir auch im eben veröffentlichen Klimawende Ausblick: uhh.de/wiso-klimawende

Alle Infos: www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/vo...

Volksverpetzer wurde die Gemeinnützigkeit entzogen.www.volksverpetzer.de Uns hat ein Brief vom Finanzamt erreicht: Volksverpetzer ist nicht mehr gemeinnützig. Wir müssen einen hohen fünfstelligen Betrag nachzahlen. Hier erklären wir, was das für uns bedeutet und wie du uns...

To say "climate scientists shouldn't look as though they were climate activists" is like saying "cancer researchers should not look as though they try to cure cancer".

My recent obsession, of course, Sleep Token and its amazing drummer "Two". www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiDd...

Sleep Token II Plays "Dark Signs"www.youtube.com Watch Sleep Token’s II perform “Dark Signs” from their first studio album “Sundowning”. This track demonstrates II’s seamless integration of electronics into...

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Angola - The Modern Day Slave Plantationwww.youtube.com Thank you for watching the video! Please check out the links below for everyone involved in the project, non-profit orgs and cited sources.----Follow Gremloe...

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Germany: SPD's EU election candidate attacked in Dresdenwww.dw.com A German politician suffered broken bones after being attacked by several people while trying to put up campaign posters in the eastern state of Saxony.

US's theocratic fascism includes food fascism? www.huffpost.com/entry/florid...

Florida Bans Sale Of Lab-Grown Meat Citing ‘Global Elite’ Concernswww.huffpost.com Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said his statewide ban is "fighting back" against a plan "to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs."

Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) dailynous.com/2024/04/19/d...?