Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

"Like many forms of pseudo archaeology, these claims act to reinforce white supremacist ideas, stripping Indigenous people of their rich heritage and instead giving credit to aliens or white people"

https://theconversation.com/with-netflixs-ancient-apocalypse-graham-hancock-has-declared-war-on-archaeologists-194881

Me: So you have to somehow pick a server?
Yep
Me:Then choose some software application to use it?
Yes
Me: Will I be able to contact people on other servers?
Probably
Me: How do I find them? And how do they find me?
Not quite sure.
Me: Will I lose everything if they stop supporting the server?
Errrr...probably not?

Me: Sorry, but this electronic mail thing is never gonna work.

@linuxfiend after watching him, no one should ever suffer from imposter syndrome again.

Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”

Did you know about the Global South Climate Database? It's a free searchable database of climate experts from the Global South to help elevate under-represented voices on #ClimateChange. Check it out!

https://www.carbonbrief.org/global-south-climate-database/

Lack of language-specific moderation has literally facilitated genocide.

The only responsible action would be to disable Twitter in these regions. If Twitter doesn’t do that, governments may.

Note too that it appears that the copyright strike system is down. People are posting (in 2-3min segments 😂) commercial movies to twitter.

https://twitter.com/aaschapiro/status/1594015149311946752?s=12&t=Lzhqzc_-SzMRovspN64tgA

Possibly the easiest leaf mine to identify in the #UK, the Holly Leaf Miner (Phytomyza ilicis). These mines are caused by the larvae of a small fly that tunnels through the inside of the leaf. Very obvious at this time of year, I seldom encounter #Holly without at least a couple of mines. In #Bath, #Somerset. #Nature #Wildlife #Flies #Entomology #BritishWildlife

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions about how to set up Mastodon.

1. You do not have to sacrifice a duck. Any waterfowl will do.
2. The bit about dancing around naked in a forest glade? While dancing is fun, you may just walk.
3. When the demon appears, you needn’t chant in Latin. It is fluent in all languages.

The rest of the guide is correct.

Thinking about the adaptability of #trees today. How ancient junipers like these have flowed so differently in their centuries of growth because of pressures faced long ago, from lightning strikes and buckling winds to storms lifting them partially out of the earth. The resilience needed to remake the arrangement, counterbalancing a suddenly altered centre of gravity or reshooting from a shattered, fire-scorched crown. The stories of endurance held by the heartwood.

As a blind individual, I have to say that #Caturday on #Mastodon is far far more enjoyable then at #Twitter, where the vast majority of cat photos are not described.

It is also been fascinating for me to hear descriptions written by those who sent the image, immediately followed by Apple image recognition’s attempts to describe the same image. Only rarely does that add anything to the ALT, & often directly contradicts it.

There is no auto magical solution to image description. It is something best done by a human, for only that human can explain the “why” of the image: the reason that image was chosen to speak so eloquently without words for those who can see it. ALT allows you to provide those words.

Casa Pueblo, out of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, is so much more than the solar-#microgrid power project or #resilience scheme you might be tempted to take it for. It’s a comprehensive “proyecto de #autogestión comunitaria,” or initiative in community #selfmanagement, developed under the dual pressures of acute vulnerability to Atlantic hurricanes and the malign neglect of the US federal government – and it’s one of the most inspiring things I’ve come across in my research. https://casapueblo.org/

"Girlfriends" by Gustave Klimt, circa 1916-1917. This painting was displayed at Galerie Welz, Salzburg, Austria, but was destroyed in 1945 by retreating Nazi forces. This painting was intended to be a display of love between women, and not just gals being pals.

RT @greenbenali@twitter.com

The Qatar World Cup has killed thousand of migrant workers

FIFA is complicit. Football fans and workers deserve root and branch reform https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/17/qatar-facing-renewed-calls-to-compensate-migrant-workers-over-uninvestigated-deaths?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/greenbenali/status/1593905794101157888

Now that we're learning this lesson that centralized silos are brittle and operate in the interest of the owners not the users...

...please note the move toward centralizing podcasts into apps from Amazon/Audible, Spotify, iHeart, YouTube, TikTok etc.

If you like podcasts, use an RSS-based podcast player. Support the open ecosystem. We can only survive if you clearly see the threat and act supportively.

Portugal's infrastructure minister gets it:

“If we simply replace all combustion cars with electric cars, we will end up with the same kind of congestion, the same huge amount of lost time in traffic, the same unsustainable levels of road accidents, and the same struggle for public space."

“The car overwhelmed city life and it is something that must change.”

https://www.euractiv.com/section/electric-cars/news/shift-to-electric-vehicles-will-not-solve-urban-transport-woes-says-portuguese-minister/

Councils often use barriers like these on traffic-free walking & cycling routes.

They say that they're to stop illegitimate users, like off-road motorcyclists, but in reality they fail to stop these.

But they do stop disabled people like me who use adapted cycles & other types of mobility aids. And we'd really like to access these safe and quiet routes too.

#CyclingDisabled