#EL PETRO

[horsemage]

why do my galaxy masses not match up with my collaborator’s ;-; we’re looking at the same set of galaxies and both getting the values from the nsa 😭

[sintagma11]

Historias de hoy

Contra el gota a gota: Gobierno dispone 1 millón de créditos para informales y microcomercios banda criminal armada irrumpió en oficina de El Herlado exigiendo publicar una entrevista Nuevo banco en Colombia: Superfinanciera avaló creación del Banco Contactar Los mejores colegios de Colombia, según resultados de Pruebas Saber 11 Binance y su CEO demandados por una Comisión de Comercio de los EEUU

[reasonsforhope]

"In response to last year’s record-breaking heat due to El Niño and impacts from climate change, Indigenous Zenù farmers in Colombia are trying to revive the cultivation of traditional climate-resilient seeds and agroecology systems.

One traditional farming system combines farming with fishing: locals fish during the rainy season when water levels are high, and farm during the dry season on the fertile soils left by the receding water.

Locals and ecologists say conflicts over land with surrounding plantation owners, cattle ranchers and mines are also worsening the impacts of the climate crisis.

To protect their land, the Zenù reserve, which is today surrounded by monoculture plantations, was in 2005 declared the first Colombian territory free from GMOs.

...

In the Zenù reserve, issues with the weather, climate or soil are spread by word of mouth between farmers, or on La Positiva 103.0, a community agroecology radio station. And what’s been on every farmer’s mind is last year’s record-breaking heat and droughts. Both of these were charged by the twin impacts of climate change and a newly developing El Niño, a naturally occurring warmer period that last occurred here in 2016, say climate scientists.

Experts from Colombia’s Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies say the impacts of El Niño will be felt in Colombia until April 2024, adding to farmers’ concerns. Other scientists forecast June to August may be even hotter than 2023, and the next five years could be the hottest on record. On Jan. 24, President Gustavo Petro said he will declare wildfires a natural disaster, following an increase in forest fires that scientists attribute to the effects of El Niño.

In the face of these changes, Zenù farmers are trying to revive traditional agricultural practices like ancestral seed conservation and a unique agroecology system.

Pictured: Remberto Gil’s house is surrounded by an agroforestry system where turkeys and other animals graze under fruit trees such as maracuyá (Passiflora edulis), papaya (Carica papaya) and banana (Musa acuminata colla). Medicinal herbs like toronjil (Melissa officinalis) and tres bolas (Leonotis nepetifolia), and bushes like ají (Capsicum baccatum), yam and frijol diablito (beans) are part of the undergrowth. Image by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay.

“Climate change is scary due to the possibility of food scarcity,” says Rodrigo Hernandez, a local authority with the Santa Isabel community. “Our ancestral seeds offer a solution as more resistant to climate change.”

Based on their experience, farmers say their ancestral seed varieties are more resistant to high temperatures compared to the imported varieties and cultivars they currently use. These ancestral varieties have adapted to the region’s ecosystem and require less water, they tell Mongabay. According to a report by local organization Grupo Semillas and development foundation SWISSAID, indigenous corn varieties like blaquito are more resistant to the heat, cariaco tolerates drought easily, and negrito is very resistant to high temperatures.

The Zenù diet still incorporates the traditional diversity of seeds, plant varieties and animals they consume, though they too are threatened by climate change: from fish recipes made from bocachico (Prochilodus magdalenae), and reptiles like the babilla or spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus), to different corn varieties to prepare arepas (cornmeal cakes), liquor, cheeses and soups.

“The most important challenge we have now is to save ancient species and involve new generations in ancestral practice,” says Sonia Rocha Marquez, a professor of social sciences at Sinù University in the city of Montería.

...[Despite] land scarcity, Negrete says communities are developing important projects to protect their traditional food systems. Farmers and seed custodians, like Gil, are working with the Association of Organic Agriculture and Livestock Producers (ASPROAL) and their Communitarian Seed House (Casa Comunitaria de Semillas Criollas y Nativas)...

Pictured: Remberto Gil is a seed guardian and farmer who works at the Communitarian Seed House, where the ASPROL association stores 32 seeds of rare or almost extinct species. Image by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay.

Located near Gil’s house, the seed bank hosts a rainbow of 12 corn varieties, from glistening black to blue to light pink to purple and even white. There are also jars of seeds for local varieties of beans, eggplants, pumpkins and aromatic herbs, some stored in refrigerators. All are ancient varieties shared between local families.

Outside the seed bank is a terrace where chickens and turkeys graze under an agroforestry system for farmers to emulate: local varieties of passion fruit, papaya and banana trees grow above bushes of ají peppers and beans. Traditional medicinal herbs like toronjil or lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) form part of the undergrowth.

Today, 25 families are involved in sharing, storing and commercializing the seeds of 32 rare or almost-extinct varieties.

“When I was a kid, my father brought me to the farm to participate in recovering the land,” says Nilvadys Arrieta, 56, a farmer member of ASPROAL. “Now, I still act with the same collective thinking that moves what we are doing.”

“Working together helps us to save, share more seeds, and sell at fair price [while] avoiding intermediaries and increasing families’ incomes,” Gil says. “Last year, we sold 8 million seeds to organic restaurants in Bogotà and Medellín.”

So far, the 80% of the farmers families living in the Zenù reserve participate in both the agroecology and seed revival projects, he adds."

-via Mongabay, February 6, 2024

[mimosita]

Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, condemned Isr*el for the genocide they are committing and Isr*el government got angry and stopped "security exports to Colombia" (weapons and what not. mind that Isr*eli soldiers trained far-right paramilitaries here to commit massacres, etc).

I guess they thought they'll make him retract himself but he answered "If foreign relations with Isr*el have to be suspended, we suspend them. We do not support genocide."

[latinotiktok]

hola, aquí le dejo una preguntita a mi gente colombiana si alguien me hace el favor de responderme:

yo soy colombiane, pero hace 11 años ya no vivo allá y la verdad es que me ha ido mal para mantenerme actualizade con la política. y con toda la plática de presidentes, me gustaría saber cómo es Petro realmente como presidente. Mis papás no han hecho sino hablar mierda de el desde que se enfrentó a Duque en las votaciones antepasadas, diciendo que es asesino, exguerrillero, violador y hasta gay (no como cumplido). También han dicho que desde que se volvió presidente el país se ha vuelto un desmadre y que quiere quitar el seguro médico que tenemos. Pero ya me he dado cuenta que mis papás son derechistas aunque no lo admitan así que no confío.

Por otro lado, si he visto mucho en las noticias que Petro denunció a Israel por sus crímenes contra Palestina y que ya Colombia cortó relaciones con Israel, lo cual se me hace excelente de su parte. Pero igual quiero saber toda la verdad y la quisiera saber de la gente que vive allá actualmente porque hasta las noticias se compran. Perdonen la ignorancia y ojalá me puedan ayudar con esto 🙏🏼

!!! @ gente de Colombia!!!!

[workersolidarity]

🇨🇴🇮🇱🇵🇸 PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA CALLS OUT ZIONIST VIOLENCE ON PALESTINIANS AS NO DIFFERENT FROM THE NAZIS

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, today on the social media platform X, compared Zionist violence on Palestinians in Gaza to the Nazis, and said the murder of more than 5'300 Palestinian children since October 7th is no different from the Nazis.

"Dicen que esto no es de Nazis. Asi no le guste a la conciencia occidental estos hechos, el exterminio de 5.300 niños y niñas pañestinos es de Nazis, repito de NAZIS."

"They say this is not Nazis. Even if the Western conscience does not like these facts, the extermination of 5,300 Palestinian boys and girls is Nazis, I repeat NAZIS."

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[saderafah]

El mundo te recordará, Colombia. La humanidad recordará a Gustavo Petro. 🇵🇸����🇸🍉🍉

[desarrollo-politica-colombia]

Actividad 8-Video Petro

Los estudiantes de grado 10, grupos A y B, observarán el video llamado Análisis de la política fiscal planteada por el equipo económico del gobierno de Gustavo Petro (Canal Capital, 2022)  y con éste resolverán las siguientes preguntas:

De acuerdo con lo presentado em el plan de gobierno del presidente Petro, ¿considera que son suficientes las estrategias propuestas para el cuidado del medio ambiente con las energías limpias?

Considera que la propuesta de la política económica relacionada con el agro, en la que indica que Colombia debe dejar de importar alimentos e insumos, ¿se está ejecutando de forma apropiada?

[vermilionzines]

CONTRIBUTORS LIST: Il Mostro

Hello everyone! Here is the list of the artists and writers contained in the zine.

Aimee @the9mm / INS aimeecozza Ajax @namelessmap Alina @nowheregril / INS nowhregirl Amanda INS ladyjaneillustrations Base @dovenart Carter @cartyrs Chap @chaparral-crown / AO3 chaparral_crown Dakota @occultiisms / AO3 occultiism DL TWT lts_DL Dom @lectercunt / AO3 lectercunt Drago @dragomircho El @willgrahambf / AO3 h0neybeebear Elle TWT slasherstash Elliott @caainhurst / INS caainhurst Emmanuel @borealopelta / AO3 zargothraxcore Flora @myfriendfaust Germanfix @germanfix Gloomy @gloomyinks / INS gloomy.inks Guts TWT lucidteeth / INS lucid.teeth Hunter @zipegs / AO3 zipegs J Yang @nim-lock Jack TWT the_coffeerain Jesse @luxuryghouls Kairisk @kairisk / INS artbykairisk Katrina @arasart / INS kfae_illustrates Kian @cannibalpup / INS softos Lev @saintlethanavir / TWT saintmalev LR @lrmeland / INS foetida_art Naomi @dirigibleplumbing / AO3 dirigibleplumbing Niko TWT tarantulacage / INS tarantulacage Nunar @insideapollo / INS nunarxart OnchyArt TWT onchyart / INS onchyart Petro @petrowriting / AO3 petrodactyl352 Polyhymnia @thence-we-came-forth Quimvaa @stab-of-hunger / TWT willisafishslut Red King @kingofreddragons TWT kingofreddragon Royal @royalphantom Sanpape @when-sanpape-arts ScarletMothlet @scarletmothlet / TWT scarletmothlet TheSeaVoices @theseavoices / INS theseavoices Tatchiana @tatchianamichaela / INS tatchianamichaela Val TWT aquatard_ / INS valea.arts Waldos @waldos-art / INS waldosakimbo_ WhiteCat TWT whitecatarts / ART whitecatarts

[feckcops]

The road to freedom runs through Palestine

“The road to Jerusalem, it has so often been said, runs through Cairo. Writing from a regime prison cell in the months after Palestine’s ‘unity intifada’ of 2021, the Egyptian revolutionary Alaa Abd El-Fattah modified this historic injunction: ‘The road to Jerusalem looked like it ran through Cairo — but what is certain is that it must pass through Gaza. Jerusalem is not too proud to ask for Gaza’s help. Maybe Cairo should now show a little humility and do the same.’  

“Here we have a lyrical articulation of a simple political truth: that the freedom struggle of the Palestinian people and the wider fight for democracy in the Arab world are one and the same. Only through the violent suppression of popular sovereignty across the region have the military dictatorships, the petro-monarchs, and the settler-colonial project in Palestine survived.

“As Alaa’s mediation suggests, this interconnected struggle is not one-way traffic, a matter of the Palestinians waiting for the Arab peoples to triumph over their autocratic rulers (American clients, more often than not). On the contrary, the Palestinian people often lead the way, generating space for struggle beyond the borders of their historic homeland, in places where the conditions of possibility for mass politics seem to have been crushed. Two weeks ago, it was a march in solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza that saw Egyptian democrats surge back into Tahrir Square for the first time since the revolution ...

“From the West, action against the complicity of our governments has an indispensable role to play in the struggle to liberate Palestine. That is the most important thing, and the first purpose of an emerging mass movement. In Cairo two weeks ago, the chants quickly turned from Palestine to calls for ‘bread, freedom, and social justice.’ There are no such revolutionary horizons in Britain, but the significance of it being Palestine that offers us a glimpse of mass politics again cannot be overstated.

Not only the Egyptians: we, too, should be grateful to the Palestinian people. We stand with them, but it is the steadfastness of their popular struggle for universal freedom and dignity that shows the way.”

[skippyv20]

Hi skippy, I hope this found you well. These days I’ve been reading a lot of opinions from Colombians about this faux-royal tour. I notice there’s great discontent with the actual government of President Petro and VP Francia Marquez, It’s a government with many corruption scandals and also supports the Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela. Honestly, Colombia has more serious problems for its vice-president to be busy working as a tour guide for H&M, just to mention, I was reading that The Colombian guerrilla has around 50.000 people confined in El Chocó (a region located in the northwest of the country) and these people have been suffering from lack of food and other shortages for several days. So It’s normal that people are not at all happy with this visit which does not generate anything positive for the country. On the contrary, this visit only generates more expenses financed by the Colombian people. I now understand why the VP is a fan of Meghan, it turns out the woman is the first black vice president of Colombia so you cannot criticize her work because if You do that you’re a racist, she’s also anti-colonialism, and anti-imperialism, which is why she’s being branded as a hypocrite. This faux-royal tour is just disgusting and is going to backfire (as usual) and I’ve no doubt Francia Marquez is gonna be markled very soon. I feel that the BRF must act and do something it’s not possible that these two are allowed to visit countries and interact with politicians because they want to cosplay the royals. It’s dangerous. And by the way, as a Spanish speaker, I’m still waiting to hear Meghan speak her fluent Spanish, as she stated in her CV. Meghan eres una mentirosa.

Thank you! Great post! Fluent in Spanish, fluent in French…sure Jan!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[peterpvn]

𝑃𝐸𝑇𝐸𝑅 𝑷𝑨𝑵 o nome "Peter" é de origem grega , enraizado na palavra "petros" , que significa "pedra” , o que é bastante apropriado , considerando seu coração de pedra .

𝒐𝒄𝒄𝒖𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: líder dos Garotos Perdidos, rei da Terra do Nunca (situada à segunda estrela à direita e depois em frente até o amanhecer), ladrão de relíquias, contrabandista, malandro

𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔: imortalidade virtual, envelhecimento lento, fato de cura acelerado, magia, teletransporte, roubo de sombras, imobilização mágica, voo usando pó de fada, inteligência acima da média, habilidade espadachim, mímica (é capaz de imitar perfeitamente as mais diversas vozes, como a de Gancho e do crocodilo Tic Tac)

𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒔:

preguiçoso, imaturo, impressionável, irresponsável, hedonista, sádico, egocêntrico, arrogante, dissimulado, distorcido, traiçoeiro, manipulador, desinteressado, travesso, desonesto, sem remorso, demônio (de acordo com Gancho). Além disso, é gratuitamente cruel, como quando cortou a mão direita de Gancho e entregou para o crocodilo comer.

formidável, estrategista, inteligente, divertido, aventureiro, ousado, imprevisível, criativo, charmoso

𝒉𝒐𝒃𝒃𝒊𝒆𝒔: lutar com piratas, tocar flauta, ouvir as histórias da Wendy, roubar, chantagear, vencer jogos mentais

Pan não só não tem mãe, segundo alardeia aos Garotos Perdidos, como também não tem a menor vontade de ter – ele as considera “pessoas muito exageradas”

Se assemelha a um elfo da floresta em poderes, forma de se vestir e aparência, embora tenha sido, um dia, um garoto comum que escolheu fugir de casa e viver com as fadas

Está ligado em espírito à Terra do Nunca, por isso, se padecer, a ilha e as criaturas que nela vivem, como um todo, padecem. O contrário também é verídico: se a Terra do Nunca é atacada, Peter é capaz de sentir e saber exatamente em que ponto ela está sendo devastada e adoecer por conta disso

Ainda que tenha raptado todas as crianças que vieram a se tornar os Garotos Perdidos, ele demonstra pouco cuidado para com eles, deixando que vivam à própria sorte na Terra do Nunca, exceto quando estes desrespeitam as regras por ele impostas ou se cogitam deixar o Nunca. Nesse caso, são punidos cruelmente, com remoção de suas sombras ou lançados ao mar

A Casa da Árvore na Terra do Nunca se trata de uma construção complexa construída em torno de uma árvore centenária. Existem cômodos para abrigar todos os Garotos Perdidos existentes na ilha, embora haja certa hierarquia e os melhores quartos pertençam àqueles que estão há mais tempo com Peter: Slightly, Tootles, Vane e Kas. Sua nova sede está localizada na Floresta das Fadas do Reino dos Perdidos, tratando-se de uma espécie de bunker subterrâneo. É por isso que você não o encontrará na cidade, a menos que Peter queira

O número de garotos na ilha varia, claro, quando alguns morrem; e então quando eles parecem estar começando a crescer, o que é contra as regras, Peter desaparece com eles

Antes dos perdidos, as visitas noturnas de Peter Pan à dimensão humana eram frequentes, tendo se aperfeiçoado no rapto de crianças, atraindo-os com música, pó de fada ou doces

Aprecia jogos mentais com suas vítimas, daí o motivo para que esteja constantemente brincando com as palavras

Seu ponto fraco é sua Sombra, que tem vida e personalidade próprias. Se capturada, Peter pode ver-se enfraquecido e até morrer a depender do tempo que permanecer afastado dela

[worsethankonstantinlevin]

Full article under the cut:

President Gustavo Petro is coming good on his election promise to cut tree felling.

Deforestation in Colombia fell by 36% in a year, marking a new record low.

It's especially good news the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon, one-third of which is in Colombia. The Amazon is a crucial carbon sink meaning it sucks up carbon emissions that would otherwise contribute to global warming.

The drop happened between 2022 and 2023 and comes off the back of years of campaigning by Indigenous activists who depend on the Amazon for their homes and livelihood.

The decrease “means that 44,262 hectares of forest stopped being cut down,” Colombian Environment Minister Susana Muhamad told journalists. “It is very good news, but we definitely cannot say that the battle is won. We continue to confront illicit economies."

The data was released as Colombia ramps up to host the COP16 United Nations biodiversity summit in the southwestern city of Cali in October.

How did Colombia achieve record low deforestation?

When elected in 2022, President Gustavo Petro vowed to halt record high rates of deforestation in the Amazon by limiting agribusiness expansion into the forest and creating reserves where Indigenous communities and others are allowed to harvest rubber, acai and other non-timber forest products.

Advancing peace talks between the government and guerrilla groups in the area, along with financial incentives for farmers in the Amazon to help with conservation, drove the drop. It came after deforestation had fallen about 29% in 2022.

Environmental experts over past years have said the decrease in deforestation was also likely tied to orders from dissident groups of FARC guerrillas forbidding deforestation.

What does Colombia need to do to keep deforestation down?

Minister Muhamad said the strong presence of government armed forces in guerrilla-controlled areas, as well as progress made with peace talks, will be key to maintaining a downward trend.

But next year's figures don't look as promising. A significant rise in deforestation has already been recorded due to the effects of dry weather caused by El Niño, Muhamad said, a weather phenomenon that warms the central Pacific.

Mass cattle ranching, drug crops and illegal mining and logging continue to drive deforestation in the Andean nation, Muhamad said.

[hyperions-fate]

Instead of wasting their time with letters written by the porn-collecting scion of Saudi petro-aristocrats, millennials should read about the true voices of Middle Eastern liberation. People like Ahmed Urabi, Abd el-Krim, and that Palestinian woman who kept smoking her shisha while the IDF raided her house.

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 12, 2024

Neural representation of goal direction in the monarch butterfly brain. Beetz, M. J., Kraus, C., & el Jundi, B. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 5859.

The scope and role of deduction in infant cognition. Bohus, K. A., Cesana-Arlotti, N., Martín-Salguero, A., & Bonatti, L. L. (2023). Current Biology, 33(18), 4014-4020.e5.

Increasing associative plasticity in temporo-occipital back-projections improves visual perception of emotions. Borgomaneri, S., Zanon, M., Di Luzio, P., Cataneo, A., Arcara, G., Romei, V., … Avenanti, A. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 5720.

Dopamine and glutamate regulate striatal acetylcholine in decision-making. Chantranupong, L., Beron, C. C., Zimmer, J. A., Wen, M. J., Wang, W., & Sabatini, B. L. (2023). Nature, 621(7979), 577–585.

Perturbed Information Processing Complexity in Experimental Epilepsy. Clawson, W., Waked, B., Madec, T., Ghestem, A., Quilichini, P. P., Battaglia, D., & Bernard, C. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(38), 6573–6587.

Common population codes produce extremely nonlinear neural manifolds. De, A., & Chaudhuri, R. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(39), e2305853120.

Dimensionality reduction reveals separate translation and rotation populations in the zebrafish hindbrain. Feierstein, C. E., de Goeij, M. H. M., Ostrovsky, A. D., Laborde, A., Portugues, R., Orger, M. B., & Machens, C. K. (2023). Current Biology, 33(18), 3911-3925.e6.

Information-theoretic principles in incremental language production. Futrell, R. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(39), e2220593120.

Echoes from Intrinsic Connectivity Networks in the Subcortex. Groot, J. M., Miletic, S., Isherwood, S. J. S., Tse, D. H. Y., Habli, S., Håberg, A. K., … Mittner, M. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(39), 6609–6618.

Intrinsic dopamine and acetylcholine dynamics in the striatum of mice. Krok, A. C., Maltese, M., Mistry, P., Miao, X., Li, Y., & Tritsch, N. X. (2023). Nature, 621(7979), 543–549.

Multiple dynamic interactions from basal ganglia direct and indirect pathways mediate action selection. Li, H., & Jin, X. (2023). eLife, 12, e87644.3.

Internal feedback in the cortical perception–action loop enables fast and accurate behavior. Li, J. S., Sarma, A. A., Sejnowski, T. J., & Doyle, J. C. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(39), e2300445120.

A role for ocular dominance in binocular integration. Mitchell, B. A., Carlson, B. M., Westerberg, J. A., Cox, M. A., & Maier, A. (2023). Current Biology, 33(18), 3884-3895.e5.

The representation of occluded image regions in area V1 of monkeys and humans. Papale, P., Wang, F., Morgan, A. T., Chen, X., Gilhuis, A., Petro, L. S., … Self, M. W. (2023). Current Biology, 33(18), 3865-3871.e3.

Switching between External and Internal Attention in Hippocampal Networks. Poskanzer, C., & Aly, M. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(38), 6538–6552.

Reward expectations direct learning and drive operant matching in Drosophila. Rajagopalan, A. E., Darshan, R., Hibbard, K. L., Fitzgerald, J. E., & Turner, G. C. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(39), e2221415120.

Engram stability and maturation during systems consolidation. Refaeli, R., Kreisel, T., Groysman, M., Adamsky, A., & Goshen, I. (2023). Current Biology, 33(18), 3942-3950.e3.

Different rules for binocular combination of luminance flicker in cortical and subcortical pathways. Segala, F. G., Bruno, A., Martin, J. T., Aung, M. T., Wade, A. R., & Baker, D. H. (2023). eLife, 12, e87048.3.

Anatomical restructuring of a lateralized neural circuit during associative learning by asymmetric insulin signaling. Tang, L. T. H., Lee, G. A., Cook, S. J., Ho, J., Potter, C. C., & Bülow, H. E. (2023). Current Biology, 33(18), 3835-3850.e6.

Robust multisensory deviance detection in the mouse parietal associative area. Van Derveer, A. B., Ross, J. M., & Hamm, J. P. (2023). Current Biology, 33(18), 3969-3976.e4.