kcarruthers

kcarruthers, 8 months ago to random

Measles, mumps, rubella making a comeback thanks to #AntiVax movement and #VaccineHesitancy: Cases of deadly disease double in England as parents avoid jabs

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/cases-deadly-disease-double-england-27803614

kcarruthers, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

I’ve been re-reading all my history books about the Nazis. One thing that strikes me is how hard it was to fight back against Nazism from inside. The normative culture is so strong and everybody is just going along. Ordinary folks, with denouncing their neighbours to the Gestapo. The Gestapo was tiny only 32k. It was the ordinary people that were informing on their neighbours. Ordinary people enabled Nazism.

kcarruthers, 6 months ago to random

I do hope everyone is Europe is war gaming what NATO without the US looks like.

kcarruthers, 5 months ago to random

lol in today’s #Brexit means brexit news

kcarruthers, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?
If a single role is as expensive as thousands of workers, it is surely the prime candidate for robot-induced redundancy.

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/companies/2023/05/ceos-salaries-expensive-automate-robots

https://archive.is/FDPly

kcarruthers, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Ok I’m going to my first ever Zumba class this evening. It will either kill me or make me stronger

kcarruthers, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Oh and my lovely NBN technician is here (again) trying to fix the rubbish FTTN connection that I have. But he can’t fix the mess that is the copper in the pits. Thanks Malcolm Turnbull.

kcarruthers, 8 months ago to random

Oh really? “BREAKING — Egyptian Intelligence Minister called Netanyahu ten days before Hamas attack and warned him of "something unusual, a terrible operation" that was about to take place from Gaza.

Egyptians were "surprised by the indifference shown by Netanyahu".

— Yedioth Ahranoth”

https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1711394276687388687

kcarruthers, 5 months ago to random

I somehow got on the timeline of the folks who believe there are multiple timelines that are splitting now on TikTok. It is a very strange #ConspiracyTheory

kcarruthers, 3 months ago to random

I caught measles at kindy when I was about 3. It was a full on dose, & I had spots in my ears & mouth. The acute phase was over in a couple of weeks.

But it nuked my immune system & I spent the better part of the next five years in & out of the children’s hospital, a lot of that time in an oxygen tent.

kcarruthers, 3 months ago to random

Note to self avoid Florida: In Florida measles outbreak, officials tell parents it’s fine to send unvaccinated kids to school

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2024/02/23/florida-measles-outbreak-officials-tell-parents-its-fine-send-unvaccinated-kids-school/

kcarruthers, 4 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Folks should really pay attention to this Trump project 2025 stuff. They are literally planning to get rid of government & experts & replace them with Trump loyalists.

They’re planning to sack 50k public servants as soon as they win.

It will break the US as we have known it.

This is literally the same thing that Hitler did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

kcarruthers, 2 months ago to random

They came for Florida’s sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war.

“One of the first signs Barb Carter’s move to Florida wasn’t the postcard life she’d envisioned was the armadillo infestation in her home that caused $9,000 in damages. Then came a hurricane, ever present feuding over politics, and an inability to find a doctor to remove a tumor from her liver. “
https://www.yahoo.com/news/came-florida-sun-sand-got-130000443.html

kcarruthers, 5 months ago to random

Oh dear. Apparently I have inadvertently purchased a bag of blood and bone.

What am I supposed to do with this?

#GardenToots

Zero Gravity Reaction GIF

kcarruthers, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Who here actually sets their oven clock to the correct time?

kcarruthers, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Blur tools for Signal: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data.

You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly.

More on this feature here:

https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/ ht @Mer__edith

kcarruthers, 7 months ago to random

What motherfucking website does not take input from a password manager in this year of our lord Cthulu?

kcarruthers, 5 months ago to random

PSA from the other place. Grapes 🍇 are poisonous for dogs🐶

https://x.com/mcb72706194/status/1743815356794450320?s=61

kcarruthers, 4 months ago to random

Yes it’s time we had a dedicated and paid disaster relief force: Defence disaster relief ‘shadow workforce’ role puts national security at risk

It would be much more useful given our disasters seem to multiply.

https://www.themandarin.com.au/230276-defence-disaster-relief-shadow-workforce-role-puts-national-security-at-risk/

kcarruthers, 2 months ago to random

Ouchy! UK would run out of ammunition within two months in war against Russia Defence Chief admits

Tory defence committee member Mark Francois states that the UK would not be able to fight an enduring war past a few months. The deputy chief of defence staff, Lt Gen Sir Rob Macgowan confirms that this is true.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/uk-would-run-out-of-ammunition-within-two-months-in-war-against-russia-defence-chief-admits/vi-BB1kCbhi?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W099&cvid=a74cb7dd378d45b58d279b0d8c93a9b5&ei=66

kcarruthers, 4 months ago to random

Don’t Nespresso know how to internet? Why is their website so rubbishy?

kcarruthers, 7 months ago to random

On the other place: Doctors Without Borders say they have lost contact with colleagues inside Gaza
#GazaGenocide #MSF

kcarruthers, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

My adorable cat nephew Oscar (he is an ancient)

#CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfMastodon

kcarruthers, 3 months ago to random

I bloody hate google meet - it is ridiculous!

kcarruthers, 11 months ago to random

Well that explains so much: Ex-Twitter leader Jack Dorsey endorses RFK Jr. for president

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4034584-ex-twitter-leader-jack-dorsey-endorses-rfk-jr-for-president/