Ken McCann

Lover of all things Science, Public Planning Nerd, Cloud Security Architect at #AquaSecurity, Proud Supporter of Ukraine 🇺🇦

Amsterdam, NL 🇳🇱


Ken McCann boosted:
2025-06-07

If I could, I would scream it into the world — but instead, I write it with shaking hands: RUSSIA STRUCK KHARKIV with 53 DRONES, 4 BOMBS & a MISSILE. It was the LARGEST & MOST RUTHLESS attack on the city since the war began. Three people were killed, 21 injured. THIS IS TERROR.

2025-06-07

@KimPerales It's time to sue the living shit out of ICE.

Ken McCann boosted:
Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com
2025-06-02

I am so glad to hear that the far-right PVV have finally fallen in the polls, and the left-wing GroenLinks/PvdA are now the highest-polling party in the Netherlands.

I really hope this trend can continue into the next election.

If there's one thing far-right parties are good at, it's screwing thing up when they're actually in power.

Hopefully the majority of Dutch voters can realise this before the PVV can do too much damage.

nebula.tv/videos/tldrnewseu-wh

2025-05-23

The New York Times has done a really nice analysis on the outcomes of the new congestion pricing fees in Manhattan. There are some surprising (actually rather unsurprising) findings of what happens when we remove cars from the places we want to be as @notjustbikes says

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0

Ken McCann boosted:
2025-04-21

I’m back baby!

2025-04-20

@KissAnne It’s also a symbol regularly seen in Hindu and Buddhist cultures symbolizing divinity and spirituality

Ken McCann boosted:
2025-04-07

For a concise explanation, read this clear thread on Bluesky by Senator Chris Murphy:
bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct

That thread on one page.
Ken McCann boosted:
2025-03-20

dammit. another one.

Politico: Masked agents arrested Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and postdoctoral fellow, outside his home in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, on Monday night, his lawyer said in a lawsuit fighting for his immediate release. The agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security and told him the government had revoked his visa, the lawsuit says.

According to Suri’s petition for release, he was put in deportation proceedings under the same rarely used provision of immigration law that the government has invoked to try to deport Mahmoud Khalil

Suri has no criminal record and has not been charged with a crime, his petition says. His detention and petition have not been previously reported.

Suri’s lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, argued in his petition that Suri is being punished because of the Palestinian heritage of his wife — who is a U.S. citizen — and because the government suspects that he and his wife oppose U.S. foreign policy toward Israel.

Ken McCann boosted:
2025-03-20

🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?

From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian @brewsterkahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.

🎧 Listen now: kqed.org/news/12031980/what-ha

2025-03-20

@GottaLaff The work of the @internetarchive is more important now than ever.

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Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com
2025-03-13

OK, so I knew that the bicycle tunnel in Bergen, Norway, was going to be good, but this was WAY better than I expected it to be!

My video about it is now available on Patreon and Nebula:

nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-

Colourful sculpture in the Fyllingsdalen bicycle tunnel
Ken McCann boosted:
Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com
2025-03-02

Goddamnit they even translated it to Dutch.

At least it's the secondary name in (brackets) but 🤦‍♂️

Google Maps screenshot with the label of "Golf van Mexico (Golf van Amerika)" over The Gulf of Mexico.

In the top-left is a yellow star corresponding to the location of the Hampton Inn Houston-Willowbrook Mall, where I stayed during my infamous 800 metre walk to buy a new suitcase in Houston.

Fuck Houston. I hope it sinks into the Gulf of America.
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AkaSci 🛰️AkaSci@fosstodon.org
2025-03-01

More from Bret Stephens -

"If there’s one silver lining to this fiasco, it’s that Zelensky did not sign the agreement on Ukrainian minerals that was forced on him this month by Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary who’s the Tom Hagen character in this protection-racket administration.

But if it’s a financial payback that the Trump administration seeks, the best place to get it is to seize, in collaboration with our European partners, Russia’s frozen assets ..."

nytimes.com/2025/02/28/opinion
2/n

Ken McCann boosted:
AkaSci 🛰️AkaSci@fosstodon.org
2025-03-01

Bret Stephens concludes with -
"Still, there’s no getting around the fact that Friday was a dreadful day — dreadful for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.

Roosevelt and Reagan must be spinning in their graves, as are Churchill and Thatcher. It’s up to the rest of us to reclaim America’s honor from the gangsters who besmirched it in the White House."
😲

nytimes.com/2025/02/28/opinion
#Politics
3/n

Ken McCann boosted:
Pomarančpomaranc
2025-02-15

Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest mountain in the Solar System, towering at 25 km high—nearly three times the height of Mount Everest, which stands at 8.8 km. This massive shield volcano is so wide that if you stood on its summit, you wouldn’t even see its base due to the planet’s curvature!

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Randahl Finkrandahl
2025-02-15

On January 28, Elon Musk was the source of the false information that the USAID had transferred 50 million dollars to fund condoms for Gaza, something which Musk suspected was funding HAMAS.

This claim was used by the Trump administration to justify their freeze on foreign aid.

But it was not true. The USAID had spent 50 million dollars on delivering condoms for Mozambique to combat the spread of AIDS.

Mozambique is a southern African country, some 6,000 kilometers from Gaza.

Ken McCann boosted:
Autonomie und Solidaritätautonomysolidarity@todon.eu
2025-02-15
Bild eines Pfostens auf welchen ein weißer Sticker auf welchem in schwarz „the only dangerous minority is the Rich“ steht 

Source: https://streetartutopia.com/2025/02/10/street-protest/
Ken McCann boosted:
2025-02-15

The view from Europe: still Gulf of Mexico.

Though Google also tries to please its neo-colonial Overlord... who took lessons from Master Putin.

"Don't obey in advance." Timothy Snyder

@DefendDemocracy

Ken McCann boosted:
2025-02-15

A closer look at the extent of sea ice globally that just set a new all-time record minimum, which is due to unusually low sea ice conditions in both the #Arctic & #Antarctic right now.

Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_index

Line graph time series of 2025's daily global sea ice extent in red shading compared to each year from 1979 to 2024 using shades of purple to white for each line for between the months of January and April. The year 2023 is also highlighted in yellow, which was the current absolute record low previously. There is substantial interannual and daily variability.

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