Ian Watkinson
@ianwatkinson.bsky.social
Jack of all trades, master of none. Revolting peasant. Citizen of a broken, corrupt state. Traveller, photographer, ageing dissenter, dismayed radical and passionate Deadhead
"The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday."
-- Erwin Schrödinger
-- Erwin Schrödinger
January 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday."
-- Erwin Schrödinger
-- Erwin Schrödinger
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
— John Steinbeck
— John Steinbeck
December 16, 2024 at 11:50 AM
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
— John Steinbeck
— John Steinbeck
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“It turns out that the anatomical connections we make with certain emotions and feelings… may be more universal than you’d think. In fact, people have been making very similar statements about their bodies for about 3,000 years.”
#scicomm
www.sciencenews.org/article/link...
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#scicomm
www.sciencenews.org/article/link...
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Humans have linked emotions to the same body parts for 3,000 years
3,000-year-old clay tablets show that some associations between emotion and parts of the body have remained the same for millennia.
www.sciencenews.org
December 16, 2024 at 1:00 AM
“It turns out that the anatomical connections we make with certain emotions and feelings… may be more universal than you’d think. In fact, people have been making very similar statements about their bodies for about 3,000 years.”
#scicomm
www.sciencenews.org/article/link...
🧪
#scicomm
www.sciencenews.org/article/link...
🧪
Reposted by Ian Watkinson
Seems to be the only 'business' left that's profitable for the current industrial-
military-complex.
Capitalism is totally sick and deranged.
military-complex.
Capitalism is totally sick and deranged.
Have European arms companies increased their profits due to wars?
The world's top 100 arms-producing companies recorded profits of almost 600 billion last year, amid wars in Gaza and Ukraine and a generally tense geopolitical situation. #EuropeInMotion
www.euronews.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Seems to be the only 'business' left that's profitable for the current industrial-
military-complex.
Capitalism is totally sick and deranged.
military-complex.
Capitalism is totally sick and deranged.
"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.’
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
November 24, 2024 at 8:55 AM
"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.’
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.”
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
November 23, 2024 at 7:47 PM
“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.”
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
November 23, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Bluesky .... endless cat and dog twaddle photos. Jesus ...
November 23, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Bluesky .... endless cat and dog twaddle photos. Jesus ...
Great analysis, spot on
How America Is Comprehensively Fucking Itself
Sinking in the historical quicksand, and making it worse by struggling
indi.ca
November 22, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Great analysis, spot on
We are governed by madmen. Utter ship of fools
Ukraine reportedly fires UK Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time
The essential response of the major European powers to Trump’s election has been to plan to step up their own military aggression against Russia and to consider what it will take to make this a Europe...
www.wsws.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:45 AM
We are governed by madmen. Utter ship of fools
Reposted by Ian Watkinson
We need to get our heads out of the sand. Maybe we haven't learned enough about dealing with pandemics. Seemingly human transmitted cases in US being under-reported.
"Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans"
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans
Scientists are racing to understand what a hospitalized teen’s case of bird flu may mean for future outbreaks
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:55 AM
We need to get our heads out of the sand. Maybe we haven't learned enough about dealing with pandemics. Seemingly human transmitted cases in US being under-reported.
"Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans"
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
The blizzards, chaos and 10 feet of snow that pearl-clutching lip-tutting flag-shagging rags like the Daily Express have been predicting for days is an absolute anti climax - here at least in NE UK.
November 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM
The blizzards, chaos and 10 feet of snow that pearl-clutching lip-tutting flag-shagging rags like the Daily Express have been predicting for days is an absolute anti climax - here at least in NE UK.
Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky
It’s not just an Alf pics repository.
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:51 PM
"If we could take profit out of war, there wouldn't be any.
I'd like to see every single soldier on every side, just take off your helmet, lay down your rifle and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns."
~ Woodie Guthrie
I'd like to see every single soldier on every side, just take off your helmet, lay down your rifle and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns."
~ Woodie Guthrie
November 17, 2024 at 6:42 PM
"If we could take profit out of war, there wouldn't be any.
I'd like to see every single soldier on every side, just take off your helmet, lay down your rifle and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns."
~ Woodie Guthrie
I'd like to see every single soldier on every side, just take off your helmet, lay down your rifle and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns."
~ Woodie Guthrie
Interesting read. Wondering if this will just decimate cod stocks again
theconversation.com/why-canadas-...
theconversation.com/why-canadas-...
Why Canada’s decision to lift a ban on cod fishing in Newfoundland after 32 years is so controversial – podcast
Fisheries scientist Tyler Eddy explains the history of the North Atlantic cod moratorium, and why it was lifted in 2024. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
theconversation.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Interesting read. Wondering if this will just decimate cod stocks again
theconversation.com/why-canadas-...
theconversation.com/why-canadas-...
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
— Aldous Huxley
— Aldous Huxley
November 15, 2024 at 12:18 PM
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
— Aldous Huxley
— Aldous Huxley
Reposted by Ian Watkinson
The Face At The Front Desk Changes, The Corporation Remains The Same
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-face-a...
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-face-a...
The Face At The Front Desk Changes, The Corporation Remains The Same
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
www.caitlinjohnst.one
November 15, 2024 at 2:05 AM
The Face At The Front Desk Changes, The Corporation Remains The Same
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-face-a...
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-face-a...