Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ☮ Ph.D. | Truth network • YES! Universal social justice, human rights | environmentalism | unions | democratic socialism • NO! Capitalism | billionaires | inequality | oligarchy | authoritarianism | theocracy • https://Persagen.org/wpi/ • Transgenocide: https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf • About: https://persagen.org/html/about.html • Me: https://persagen.org/about/victoria/victoria-bio-mastodon.html #NoBots

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2 years ago

Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Local News Site Out of Business https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/business/media/antigay-slur-wausau-pilot-review.html * recycling company owner Cory Tomczyk called 13-yo boy “fag” * Republican state senator:

Cory Tomczyk - Wikipedia

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SLAPP:

Strategic lawsuit against public participation - Wikipedia

* lawsuit to censor, intimidate, silence critics by burdening them w. cost of legal defense until they abandon their opposition #CoryTomczyk #GOP #SLAPP #homophobia #censorship #hate #lgbt

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2 years ago

Source of hidden consciousness in 'comatose' brain injury patients found

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Source of hidden consciousness in 'comatose' brain injury patients found

Researchers have identified brain circuits that, when injured, make conscious patients with acute brain injury appear unresponsive, a phenomenon kn...

* patients w. hidden consciousness hear/comprehend verbal commands, but cannot carry out those commands because of injuries in brain circuits that relay instructions f. brain to muscles Injury patterns associated with cognitive motor dissociation Get access Arrow https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/brain/awad197/7236061 #consciousness #HiddenConsciousness #BrainInjury #neuroscience

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2 years ago

DoE announces $1.2 Billion to Advance Controversial Climate Technology ‘Direct air capture’ of carbon pollution experimental; fossil fuel company embracing it to keep drilling https://www.desmog.com/2023/08/11/energy-dept-announces-1-2-billion-to-advance-controversial-climate-technology/ * subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum to dev. commercial-scale direct air capture facility in Texas Direct air capture:

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* use of chemical/physical processes to extract CO2 f. air * sequestered in long-term storage #DACCS #CO2emissions #DirectAirCapture #FossilFuels #DAC

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2 years ago

Deluge Facing Africa’s Leaders Going to Get Worse https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/opinion/niger-sahel-military-rule.html * swath of African countries under military rule: Mali, Guinea, Chad, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Niger * How can poor and insecure countries forge political order and give their citizens the confidence that democratic government can deliver what they need? * Democracy can’t survive if it can’t deliver results Military dictatorship:

Military dictatorship - Wikipedia

#Africa #democracy #juntas #MilitaryDictatorship #dictatorship

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2 years ago

🎵 Morning ☮-in The Fall ~ Two Librans Lyrics:

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The Fall – Two Librans Lyrics | Genius Lyrics

The Fall:

The Fall (band) - Wikipedia

* English post-punk group, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester * underwent many line-up changes; vocalist/founder Mark E. Smith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_E._Smith) the only constant member The Unutterable:

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* 21st album by English rock band the Fall, released in 2000 Namaste 🙏 🕊 #MorningPeaceIn #TheFall #Two Librans

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