Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

A follow up 🧵 on some of the most useful and powerful new features of Palestine Open Maps #PalOpenMaps relevant to #NakbaDay #Nakba #Nakba75

My previous thread can be found here https://vis.social/@bothness/110356522129732527
(Also, read on for a little treat at the end of the thread!)
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Try to make sense of this. Try! 🤣 It's not possible...

It is surreal but clarifying. This is how colonialism works.

The fiscal "oversight" board has by default absolute powers. How so? Because it is for some purposes "sovereign" 😂 as part of Puerto Rico. But c'mon now...We all know that Puerto Rico is not sovereign. So the board is in reality accountable to the US Congress alone.

https://www.jurist.org/news/2023/05/us-supreme-court-rules-against-puerto-rico-journalists-seeking-documents-from-financial-oversight-board/

Today is #MEAwarenessDay - the public needs to learn about the millions of people missing from society, unable to work and life their lives due to this often debilitating illness. For me, Covid triggered ME, in addition to other conditions.

Places I am often or always missing from: community and cultural events, volunteering in the community, restaurants and bars, 20 hours of my working life, parties, travel, the allotment, the outdoors.

With this illness there is a spectrum. I have mild ME, as I am still able to leave the house and do some activity if I pace myself. For example, I worked and had to travel yesterday and today and tomorrow I am on the sofa at home.

But people with severe ME are bedbound and cannot tolerate any stimulus at all (light, sound, touch) and many are fed through tubes. We need help and treatments for them urgently. For decades not enough money was invested in research. This is starting to change but we need to pressure governments for more.

#MissingMillions #MECFS

I saw a mysterious fiducial marker in the sidewalk near a ridge top in North Seattle and I immediately thought of @ingrid and the visible marks of mostly invisible systems of civic technology.

I think it says "terrane control" and is perhaps about surveying hillslope slippage.

Just reminding you from Nottingham that Robin Hood was madey uppey but the Luddites were real 🔨💥

And it wasn’t the Sheriff of Nottingham who tried to stop them. They sent army units (failure), then hired spy cops and made smashing a frame punishable by death. Lord Byron made his maiden speech in Parliament in opposition to the death penalty for Luddites. You can still see the hole where they installed the gallows to hang Luddites here.

We’re trying to get to $1000 donated on Bluesky and we’re at $510. Can the Mastodon community beat them? Let me know what you send and I’ll keep track!

with my start - $50/1000

Donate: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/freeblackmamas

Universal Serial Bussy

Listening to Trevor Bedford has thus far always been the right move, and I don’t see that changing. (I don’t expect much/any help from e.g. mask orders in a big new wave, and the datasets no longer very useful, so we’re pretty much going to be going by wastewater and/or vibes until hospitalizations increase.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/05/covid-forecast-next-two-years/