This piece is about drystone walling, and about belonging. About building something solid before building something beautiful. About making a life, and a place in it, with your own hands.

https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-work-of-belonging

#Scotland #UK #Books #Book #Reading #Writing #WritingCommunity #Women #Land #Nature #Life

I can't stress this point enough: The so-called "international" financial system is a global financial dictatorship controlled by the US.

@politics #palestine #genocide #resistance #law #icc @law #humanrights #fediverse #mastodon #socialmedia #women @womensvoices @democracy #eu #italy #italia #europe #canada #un
@politics @law @womensvoices @democracy
#FrancescaAlbanese

This piece is about drystone walling, and about belonging. About building something solid before building something beautiful. About making a life, and a place in it, with your own hands.

https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-work-of-belonging

#Scotland #UK #Books #Book #Reading #Writing #WritingCommunity #Women #Land #Nature #Life

I can't stress this point enough: The so-called "international" financial system is a global financial dictatorship controlled by the US.

@politics #palestine #genocide #resistance #law #icc @law #humanrights #fediverse #mastodon #socialmedia #women @womensvoices @democracy #eu #italy #italia #europe #canada #un
@politics @law @womensvoices @democracy
#FrancescaAlbanese

The #US has sanctioned U.N. Special Rapporteur #FrancescaAlbanese after she warned tech firms about potential complicity in #Gaza.

Palestinian victims and their families deeply value Francesca Albanese’s exceptional courage—history will remember that she stood on the right side of it

@politics #palestine #genocide #resistance #law #icc @law #humanrights #fediverse #mastodon #socialmedia #women @womensvoices @democracy #eu #italy #italia #europe #canada #un

The #US has sanctioned U.N. Special Rapporteur #FrancescaAlbanese after she warned tech firms about potential complicity in #Gaza.

Palestinian victims and their families deeply value Francesca Albanese’s exceptional courage—history will remember that she stood on the right side of it

@politics #palestine #genocide #resistance #law #icc @law #humanrights #fediverse #mastodon #socialmedia #women @womensvoices @democracy #eu #italy #italia #europe #canada #un

New training from a Texas regulator about when doctors can legally terminate a pregnancy comes nearly five years after the state passed its abortion ban in 2021.

Experts contend the guidance can’t capture all complications that arise in pregnancy.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medical-board-abortion-training-doctors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Abortion #Women #Health #Healthcare #Medicine #Law

I listened to an interview on CBC As It Happens last night of one of the OLAUG members. One comment stuck with me: She said as you get old you lose your memory and some physical strength but you can still find wonder around you. I very much agree with her.

OLAUG stands for Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage. Check out their work here: https://olaug-ma.com/

#women #diving #pollution #environment #CapeCod

I don’t write about being chronically ill very often, mostly because I’m still thinking it through in real time.

This short piece is about effort, belief, and what it’s like to live in a culture that insists improvement is always possible…even when your body says otherwise.

https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/effort-without-improvement

#Health #Scotland #UK #Writing #WritingCommunity #Books #Reading #Women

I listened to an interview on CBC As It Happens last night of one of the OLAUG members. One comment stuck with me: She said as you get old you lose your memory and some physical strength but you can still find wonder around you. I very much agree with her.

OLAUG stands for Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage. Check out their work here: https://olaug-ma.com/

#women #diving #pollution #environment #CapeCod

It took a long time to approve. But finally, after a three-year trial run, women in Japan can now buy the morning-after pill nationwide without a prescription. The move comes after years of opposition - including from men in Japan's medical community.

#japan #unseenjapan #women #sex

https://buff.ly/hikt6QW

It took a long time to approve. But finally, after a three-year trial run, women in Japan can now buy the morning-after pill nationwide without a prescription. The move comes after years of opposition - including from men in Japan's medical community.

#japan #unseenjapan #women #sex

https://buff.ly/hikt6QW

This is gonna sound like a call out post, and... No, it really isn't. I'm not calling out anyone in particular. I've just seen it one too many times. The straw, the camel's back, yadiyada.

My cis dudes. I love you. I really do. But I'm tired of you going under women's post expressing their grievances about men, to explain how ashamed you are of other men. It's... It's tiring. Like, it's really fucking tiring. Because you don't realize that every time we make such a post there is at least one or two of you. Every time.

We don't care about you being not like the other guys. Yes, sure, are one of the good ones, whatever. Good boy and all that. But when you do this, not only do you not contribute anything to the discussion, you're actually adding to the problem. It's adding emotional labour to the women trying to explain themselves when really you should just stay quiet and listen.

Give a like. Boost the post, even. But you don't need to say anything, not to us. Call out other men in the responses that are probably trying to argue and ending up exactly proving her point. Do better, instead of saying that you already are.

#fedi #men #women

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs #UN #OCHA periodical update on #Gaza:

• At least 71,667 Palestinians #killed by now, including¹ at least 20,179 #children (of which 931 younger than 1 year; 356 killed immediately after birth), and 10,427 #women.

• More than 1,700 health workers killed.²

• Since the ceasefire came into effect, 492 Palestinians were killed (including at least 100 children), 1,356 were injured.

• Currently no comprehensive data on aid delivery. As of January 14th 2025, three crossings into Gaza were operational.

• Currently no concise data on levels of food insecurity. In January 2025, for the first time since October 2023, stocks are sufficient to provide monthly food rations covering the minimum caloric needs of a household.

• At 970 displacement sites, an estimated 1.3 million people are living; 795,000 of them live in in flood-prone areas.

• The Israeli military remains deployed within more than 50% of the Gaza stripe (Yellow Line). Access to humanitarian facilities and assets, public infrastructure and agricultural land remain severely restricted or prohibited there, and detonations of residential buildings are reported.

• About 92% of all #housing units either destroyed (160,000) or damaged (276,000)³

¹numbers in brackets last updated May 28th, 2025; other breakdown numbers last updated on October 7th, 2025
²updated on October 7th, 2025
³no data given since October 15th, 2025

Sources:

• Humanitarian Situation Update | Gaza Strip / OCHA

Further statistics:

• United Health Dashboard / WHO & Health Cluster for the Occupied Palestinian Territory

• UN2720 Monitoring & Tracking Dashboard – UN-Manifested Humanitarian Aid Movements / UNOPS

• Unified Disease Surveillance Dashboard / Gaza Ministry of Health & Partnering organizations

#Palestine

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs #UN #OCHA periodical update on #Gaza:

• At least 71,667 Palestinians #killed by now, including¹ at least 20,179 #children (of which 931 younger than 1 year; 356 killed immediately after birth), and 10,427 #women.

• More than 1,700 health workers killed.²

• Since the ceasefire came into effect, 492 Palestinians were killed (including at least 100 children), 1,356 were injured.

• Currently no comprehensive data on aid delivery. As of January 14th 2025, three crossings into Gaza were operational.

• Currently no concise data on levels of food insecurity. In January 2025, for the first time since October 2023, stocks are sufficient to provide monthly food rations covering the minimum caloric needs of a household.

• At 970 displacement sites, an estimated 1.3 million people are living; 795,000 of them live in in flood-prone areas.

• The Israeli military remains deployed within more than 50% of the Gaza stripe (Yellow Line). Access to humanitarian facilities and assets, public infrastructure and agricultural land remain severely restricted or prohibited there, and detonations of residential buildings are reported.

• About 92% of all #housing units either destroyed (160,000) or damaged (276,000)³

¹numbers in brackets last updated May 28th, 2025; other breakdown numbers last updated on October 7th, 2025
²updated on October 7th, 2025
³no data given since October 15th, 2025

Sources:

• Humanitarian Situation Update | Gaza Strip / OCHA

Further statistics:

• United Health Dashboard / WHO & Health Cluster for the Occupied Palestinian Territory

• UN2720 Monitoring & Tracking Dashboard – UN-Manifested Humanitarian Aid Movements / UNOPS

• Unified Disease Surveillance Dashboard / Gaza Ministry of Health & Partnering organizations

#Palestine