Yay, anti science policies!

Next up, passing a law that “the sky is green”.

Russian woman fined for ‘LGBT propaganda’ over 5-year-old rainbow flag post on social media

… The woman, who admitted her guilt, expressed remorse and requested leniency, told the court that she had created the page herself and had not opened it in the last five years. She was ultimately issued with a fine of 1,000 rubles (€10).

Earlier this month, a man from the city of Krasnoyarsk, in western Siberia, was likewise fined 1,000 rubles for posting audio recordings on VK of rap group Tyazhyolaya Atletika, whose album Injection depicts a rainbow in homage to Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, according to human rights NGO OVD-Info.

In May, a court fined an activist from the republic of Bashkortostan, in the Volga region, 2,000 rubles (€20) for an emoji which featured the same Pink Floyd album cover, independent news outlet Mediazona reported …

It’s 2025, but some (most?) governments on the globe try to turn back time: Slovakia, Russia, Hungary, China, now the US, …