Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

(Cross-boosted from: @emollick@🐦.com)

Humans are pattern-finding machines & some patterns call to us more.

This neat paper finds that, across 27 cultures, we tend to name the same patterns of stars, mostly because the perceptual systems of humans are all drawn to the same types of patterns.

Paper: http://www.charleskemp.com/papers/kemphlc_perceptualgroupingexplainssimilaritiesinconstellationsacrosscultures.pdf

I still get shocked surprise when I tell people that H G Wells wrote War of the Worlds after learning about the genocide inflicted by British colonists on the Aboriginal Tasmanians. It's right there in the foreword of the book.

#HGWells #WarOfTheWorlds #Indigenous #FirstNations #Aboriginal #lutruwita

So all this talk about thunderstorms last couple days reminds me of the Supercell storm that blew through Christchurch in September 2012, I'd been out chasing this storm front everywhere got hammered by hail and rain, didnt really get a shot

Went home, setup the camera on tripod on the deck, locked the cable release on auto and went inside to sort out washing

This is the result

#aotearoa #nztwits #nz #newzealand #photography #nature #landscapephotography #longexposure #NewZealand

To introduce ourselves... The Isle of Eigg was one of Scotland's first community buyouts when in June 1997 its 65 inhabitants raised £1.5m to buy the island. Since then the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust has owned and managed Eigg on behalf of its residents and the world! Eigg's population is now around 115. We generate our electricity from renewable sources, have our own broadband company, and many thriving community and private businesses. Find out more from our website http://isleofeigg.org

Eigg isn't connected to the UK national grid. Instead we generate 90% to 95% of our electricity from wind, sun, & water (hydro). Community-owned Eigg Electric was switched on in 2008. Islanders are trained and employed to manage it. Electricity costs 28p per unit/kWh. Before 2008 each property had its own diesel generator. Now we have 24kW of wind, 110kW of hydro, 170kW of solar PV, storage batteries, and a back up generator. Next challenge is #netzero #renewables #eigg http://isleofeigg.org/eigg-electric/

they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough

There's A LOT of discussion about content moderation right now and very little of it touches on the fact that we've all lived on the big social sites for the last decade-plus thanks to the massively exploitated labor of mostly-invisible moderation workers. The social web at scale wouldn't have happened without these laborers, who in addition to shit wages, have been exposed to literally every imaginable horror.

If we're remaking this world, let's do better on that front.

But we're most concerned about how the voter ID rules in the Act could specifically disenfranchise young people.

Approved voter IDs:
✔️Older Person’s Bus Pass
✔️60+ Oyster Card
❌18+ Oyster Card
❌16-25 Railcard

Generational gerrymandering?

RT @Right_2Roam: Join Right to Roam for a rally outside the High Court to defend the right to wild camp in Dartmoor - the only place in England where it is currently legal! ⛺️

Now that right is under threat from a major landowner. 😡

The stars are for everyone! 🌙

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rally-to-oppose-the-dartmoor-camping-ban-tickets-472576487997?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CarolineLuca

If any UK folks are looking to get their #FluVaccine I walked into Boots today and was given it for free after I explained I've been eligible in the past but not heard anything this year. No proof asked for, just an explanation of my eligibility, and no wait or appointment needed (altho that would depend on the branch/availability I assume). #FreeFluVaccination #NHS #ThanksNHS #ProtectOurNHS

Hey look, it's me!

https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/

For the last 12 years the Jåhkågaska Sami community has been defending its grazing lands by resisting this iron-ore mine. By doing so they have been safeguarding what keeps us all safe: biodiverse forests, intact carbon stock, clean water and air.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/22/greta-thunbergs-charity-donates-to-sami-campaign?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

Last week @Alternantiba@twitter.com @gignv44@twitter.com & residents stormed #Nantes airport in pyjamas💤.

Their demands:
🕰️ Night 🛫curfew to be extended to 8hrs (@WHO@twitter.com-recommendation) & actually be respected by airlines
🚧 Stop the #AirportExpansion

Watch their intervention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYN0DqGTMO0

The greatest power an uncle has

Is to say to your niece

"Oh yeah I like that pop star too"

And ruin it forever for them

My latest Guardian story - a think tank which gets tax breaks as a charity, but has been spreading unscientific climate scepticism, is being probed by the Charity Commission https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/21/charity-commission-reviews-complaint-against-climate-sceptic-thinktank