@oleksiireznikov

@oleksiireznikov

Cal Abel

@cal_abel

@DoombergT

What happens when you give a group of Luddites the ability to say “No”? Well, @DoombergT answers.

Q: Why is nuclear energy messed up in the US?
A: The NRC, but if you dig deeper you find their regulatory warrant comes from LNT (no safe dose), the keystone for their bad policy twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The reason why I left the nuclear industry is because I didn’t want to deal with the battered wife syndrome that the nuclear industry has due to the NRC. There is a strong desire to change, but there is a fear of artificial dependence. The best way to deal with it, leave.

Yes, I have PhD in nuclear engineering and in 2018 had just invented what was to become Natrium. I chose not to publish, patent, or promote my creation. This was not a decision I took lightly.

How it began:
www2.me.gatech.edu/theses/summary…
What is now:
natriumpower.com

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Graviola Finland

@GraviolaDOTfi

Millions of workers in #France join third mass #protest against pension cuts #Macron | -28min
- over 400,000 people marched in #Paris and a total of 2 million protested nationwide, while millions more went on #strike and stayed at home.
wsws.org/en/articles/20…

#Macron #pension. #Protesters in #Paris marched peacefully with a very heavy police presence | Feb 7
- Tens of 1000s marched in the cities of #Nice, #Marseille, #Toulouse, #Nantes - against the pension bill that would raise the min retirement from 62 to 64
f24.my/9Ef5.T

#Protests in #France continue against #pension reform | Feb 7
- Public transport, schools and refinery supplies were disrupted in France on Tuesday as trade unions led a third wave of nationwide #strikes a day after pension reform legislation

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Graviola Finland

@GraviolaDOTfi

#Firefighters to go on #strike across the #UK after union members vote for action | 1h ago
- More than 80% of members who voted backed strike action across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when they were balloted last month.
yorkpress.co.uk/news/23287075.…

#UK #Teachers set to #strike after pay #talks with #Tory ministers collapse | Jan 30
- Despite years of falling take-home pay, the government offered most teachers just 5 per cent for 2022-23 — about half the rate of 40-year-high double-digit #inflation.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/teac…

Tiny #Britain is sinking.
Who will be on strike on walkout Wednesday? | Jan 30
- 100s of 1000s of workers will go on #strike on Wednesday in separate disputes over pay, jobs and conditions - the biggest day of industrial action in more than a decade.
kentonline.co.uk/news/national/…

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GET A GRIP

@docrussjackson

#THREAD

A #strike is a withdrawal of labour by a worker, often under the instruction of a trade union.

Strikes have been happening since the workers at the Royal Necropolis at Deir el-Medina in Egypt organised an uprising in 1152 BC over late wages.

worldhistory.org/article/1089/t…

British industrial action has a much shorter, but turbulent, history. There were withdrawals of labour in the medieval & early modern periods, although these were organised by small groups of craft workers in contravention of legislation such as the Statute of Artificers (1563).

Between 1696-1720s, the Journeymen of Feltmakers negotiated with employers & occasionally called strikes. London tailors did much the same from the 1720s, but the Combination Acts prevented workers combining in a trade union, prohibited such action, & wages were fixed by statute.

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Miri🟢

@MiriVoitkevich

מחאת המשאיות 🚛🚚 - מה קורה בממלכת #ירדן? 🇯🇴⛽
מה הסיפור ואיך הכל התחיל?
לאחרונה, עלו מחירי הדלק במדינה.
בשנת 2012 היו שתי העלאות במחירי ה #דלק. ההעלאה השנייה (10%) שהייתה אמורה להעלות את המחיר לליטר לדינר (כ1.4$ בזמנו) הוציאה את הירדנים לרחובות וכמעט והופלה הממשלה. >>

ב2012 ההחלטה הושעתה ע"י המלך והסערה שקטה, לבינתיים.
באמצע דצמבר 2022 שוב התקבלה החלטה להעלאת מחירי הדלק אלא שהפעם מחיר הדלק הוא כבר 5 דינר לליטר מאחר וירדן כבר אינה מסוגלת לסבסד את הדלק. מסיבה זו, המלך #עבדאללה השני לא יכול לעצור את ההעלאה במחי החלטה כמו בפעם הקודמת. >>

עם משכורת ממוצעת של הרבה פחות מ2000 ש''ח העלאה כזאת היא בלתי אפשרית עבור הירדני הפשוט.
נהגי המשאיות, הנפגעים הראשונים מעליית המחירים, לא מסוגלים לעמוד בזה. פשוט לא משתלם להם להיכנס למשאית ולהניע.
כאן חשוב לזכור ולהזכיר ש #ירדן תלויה במשאיות כמו אוויר לנשימה.
רק שני שדות תעופה >>

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Sharron-lee Honey 🐠🐟🐡🇺🇦❤️

@sharron_honey

Let’s talk #strike not one person wants to strike!!! What we want is to do our jobs with fair pay, decent conditions to have enough money to pay the bills and feed our kids!!! We want recognition for the amazing job we do day in day out…. 1/
#EnoughlsEnough

Our jobs aren’t easy, we take them home in our heads and our hearts because it’s what we do!!! WE CARE!!! We just want #FairPay along with hospital staff, firefighters, rail workers, civil servants, postal workers, care workers. All those who keep this country running…,,2/

This government seem to forget that we are the ones who work for the people and those people do appreciate us even if those in power care only about their money. It’s time for action. It’s time!!! #EnoughlsEnough #FairPayOrFireStrike #FairPay4HomeCare #FairPayforNursing

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fun facts with lulu 🌈

@FunFactsLulu

They are indoor cats so they cannot go out to attend a picket.
You will have to share their message to get them out there.

#39kIsNotEnough #EducationWorkers #strike

Fitz especially is a fan of multiple education workers in particular. He is familiar with how rowdy kids can be, and gets that his worker friends need to be supported in order to do their jobs well and thrive.
They need support in this strike! #39kIsNotEnough

Revan is equally strong in his love for kids! He's showing solidarity for his fave 5 year old, who needs EAs, ECEs, caretakers, and secretaries to keep his school running safely!
#EducationWorkers 💜

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TheCivilWarDoc

@TheCivilWarDoc1

Allan Pinkerton was born #OTD in 1819 in Glasgow, Scotland. He headed the Union Intelligence Service during the Civil War and helped lay the foundation for the U.S. Secret Service, FBI, and CIA. He also founded the famed Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which still exists.

Pinkerton emigrated to United States 1842 and founded a cooperage in Dundee, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. He became an abolitionist and operated a safe house for fugitive enslaved people on the Underground Railroad.

Pinkerton was appointed as the first Chicago police detective in 1849 after uncovering a counterfeit scheme. He founded what would become the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850. The Pinkerton Agency specialized in investigating train robberies.

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Megaphone

@megaphone_news

For the first time, the National News Agency (NNA) will not be publishing any news other than a single article published early Thursday morning, as its employees go on #strike to pressure for their demands.
./1

In an interview with Megaphone, NNA journalist Huda Zbeeb said that the employees are demanding an improvement of their salaries and the approval of the tenure file.
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She added they decided to go on #strike because "salaries are very low, and we have not received transportation allowance for 4 months," let alone the poor working conditions and equipment.
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LawBeat

@LawBeatInd

#SupremeCourt to continue hearing plea challenging 27% reservation for OBCs and 10% reservation for EWS in All India Quota (AIQ) for NEET PG Medical courses.

#NEETPG
#neetpg2021counselling
#NEETPG2021

The matter will be taken up immediately after the fresh matter.
Court to commence at 10:30 AM.

#neetpg2021counselling
#NEETPG
#NEETPG2021

Yesterday, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had submitted that, "Let us go ahead with the counseling, then we can decide. The Court can then hear the matter and we'll continue."

#neetpg2021counselling
#NEETPG
#NEETPG2021

lawbeat.in/top-stories/ne…

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GAVNet

@GAValueNetwork

Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 11/17/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/dai…

Rarest mammal in North America found in Colorado garage, ‘looking for a new home’

usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

#EndangeredSpecies #BlackFootedFerrets #restoration

Santa Fe Institute receives $50 million from Bill Miller

santafe.edu/news-center/ne…

#SantaFeInstitute #donations #ComplexityScience #ResearchCapacity #FacilityExpansion

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Nathaniel A. Gregory 🌺💐🌸🌷🌻🌹🌼🏵

@Faithslayer202

https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1449253776372781057

We stand in #Solidarity with our Workers in the #Unions & this is the only way to have a say in our Working Environment by #WorkingTogether & doing a #Strike!
People like us, who've been arguing against the broken Gears & For-profit exploitation of #Capitalism, comes in to help.

https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1449253776372781057

We're in a #SocietalCollapse as the Full Stop & Endgame of #Capitalism's Growth has begun! We need Calls & Movements for a "Great Transition" from this broken #Dystopia where we have a #ClimateCrisis, #HousingCrisis, #Pandemic, #EvictionCrisis, #HealthcareCrisis,...

#BiodiversityCrisis, etc.
As the system focuses on #Economic Growth, #Corporate Interest & Businesses First while exploiting the #Labor who are treated like hell & not paid a #LivingWage nor anything while everything to basically live is practically an Expense under #Capitalism.

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T🍊ri the Dumb Lefty Canadian Radical

@RodneyTori

As someone who opposes Islamophobia, why should I vote strategically for a party that drafted a dog-whistle bill around it or that voted for it, over the NDP who didn't?

#Islamophobia #Elxn44 #cdnpoli

As someone who supports labour organizing, why would I vote strategically for a party who doesn't want to strengthen labour laws to support workers during strikes and lockouts, when the NDP does?

#canlab #strike #Elxn44

As someone who wants trade deals that are good for Canada and Canadian workers and don't contain harmful ISDs and respect our sovereignty, why would I vote strategically for any party who undermines that? #trade #cdnecon #Elxn2021

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Dr. Hanin Hannouch

@Kinofrau1

@AKellerGEW

Tweeting live from the #ichbinhanna conference organized by @AKellerGEW !
Warming up!

Hashtags are: #hannabeidergew, #ichbinhanna & #dauerstellen!

@AKellerGEW

1/ All tweets about the GEW conference today will be here in this thread.
We're starting NOW with @AKellerGEW saying the opening remarks!

#hannabeidergew, #ichbinhanna & #dauerstellen!

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Jollene 🍞🌹

@jollenelevid

Some farmworker movement history for #CesarChavezDay: In 1955 Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee went on strike. 8 days later, the Latino National Farmworkers Association voted to join the strike (led to UFW)

The UFW strike was broad, not simply about 1 leader 🧵

Unionists like Larry Itliong & Philip Vera Cruz were socialists. They knew in order to win the strike, they had to break the bosses’ division of workers across racial groups - unite around class. Their leadership w/Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez broke decades of boss tactics #UFW

The solidarity clap that many of us use in movements today was created by the farmworkers, who spoke different languages, as a signal to stop working, walk off the fields, and STRIKE. It starts slow, then gets louder, faster, like their heartbeats, into a universal rally cry #UFW

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Ali Javanmardi

@Javanmardi75

🇮🇱Israeli Strikes Target #Iranian Oil Bound for Syria
Campaign against ships, using mines, shows an expansion of hostilities in the Mideast.
wsj.com/articles/israe…

#Israel has targeted at least a dozen vessels bound for Syria and mostly carrying #Iranian oil out of concern that petroleum profits are funding extremism in the Middle East, 🇺🇸U.S. and regional officials say, in a new front in the conflict between Israel and Iran.

Since late 2019, Israel has used weaponry including water mines to #strike Iranian #vessels or those carrying Iranian cargo as they navigate toward Syria in the Red Sea and in other areas of the region.

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Socialist Appeal

@socialist_app

#RedArchives - To kick off this week's theme of 'revolutionary women', we re-publish this article from 2018 on the Dagenham machinists' strike of 1968, an event which became a turning point in the fight for equality. #IWD2021 #IWD #Marxism #Socialism

socialist.net/the-dagenham-m…

The Dagenham strike was not the first such strike, and it would certainly not be the last. However, by standing up against bosses, union officials, and even other workers, they would send a message that has stood the test of time and inspires still. #IWD2021 #IWD #Strike

Correction: this month's* theme.

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爱搞搞

@aigaogaoUSA

按照 #比特币目前价格超过3.3万美元计算
总市值已突破6200亿美元
公开资料里中国政府是第二大持有者（各权贵家族手上只多不少）
每天挖到的比特币超50%在中国矿主手上

搞评：只要比特币存在于世，定价权在中国（政府+权贵+矿主）手上

#比特币 #Bitcoin 去年3月最低跌破5千，美国总统选举11月3日1.4万，大选争议中却暴涨，21年1月3日最高价达3.4万，2个月翻一倍还多，只要告知买入，即能合法赚大钱且匿名隐蔽，是最佳跨国行贿手段
1月6日前更是决定美国总统胜负关键，若没结果，还有1月20，结果若定，疯牛行情就没必要了

任何价格走势接近45度角倾斜时，背后一定事出有因，只在于你知不知道而已。
经历过2015及2020年，如果你还不明白“政治才是一切的主宰”，那么也没必要再琢磨了。

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JIF Luxembourg

@JifLuxembourg

[EN] 2020, a feminist year in photos 🥳

[FR] 2020, une année féministe en photos 📸

January- February
[EN] Open meeting in preparation of the first Women*'s #Strike 2020.

Janvier- Février
[FR] Rencontre ouverte en préparation à la première #Grève des femmes 2020. 👇

[EN] Chgph "un violador en tu camino" by the Chilean feminist group Las Tesis. The JIF deplored the lack of #feminicide data in Lux.

[FR] Choré "un violador en tu camino" du groupe féministe chiléen Las Tesis. Le JIF a déploré le manque de données sur les #féminicides au Lux.👇

#EqualCareDay

[EN] Conference on the working conditions in the cleaning sector with testimonials and the presentation of figures.

[FR] Conférence sur les conditions de travail dans le secteur du nettoyage avec des témoignages et la présentation de chiffres.👇

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Harriet Carroll has only gone and written a book

@angryhacademic

when it comes to engaging #STEM #academics (an essential task in order to gain max momentum to tackle problems like #casualisation), i think 1 difficulty is that #activism uses a lot of logical fallacies. this makes taking action appear irrational 1/15

#AcademicChatter #ucu

examples:
people going on #strike = potential bandwagon fallacy

stories of injustice = anecdote, appeal to emotion

statistics = potentially cherry picked

calling out management = potential ad hominem

quoting/critiquing management = potential strawman
2/15

identifying an issue (e.g. casualisation) and claiming it impacts other issues (e.g. mental health problems) = potential false cause, and/or hasty generalisation fallacy

making broad statements (e.g. gender pay gap is a real problem) = ambiguity fallacy
3/15

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Voices from Belarus⚪️🔴⚪️

@VoicesBelarus