Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

Switching flights to night trains could cut 3% of total EU climate heating emissions, according to @BackOnTrackEU@twitter.com.
👀▶️ https://back-on-track.eu/the-global-warming-reduction-potential-of-night-trains/
#3percentOverNight

One question is: how to detoxify spaces without putting the load on people affected to make it right? We all have a shared responsibility for that -- but it involves letting go of privilege.

I *think* the first steps are listening well, amplifying critiques, looking for practical routes to change. But also, if you're coming at this from an engineering mindset - then chill out with that and defer those with lived and learnt experience of building inclusive social spaces

I've seen a few folks join Mastodon and complain that it's too difficult to follow people on other servers, with the cutting and pasting and whatnot. But @bramus has now created a neat Chrome extension (or bookmarklet, if you prefer to go that route) that let's you avoid all that hassle.

I just tested it out... by following @bramus with it!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-view-profile-on/limifnkopacddgpihodacjeckfkpbfoe

Unlike worker bumblebees, the males don't return to the nest once they've left and often gather together to spend the night on flowers.

This is group of male Buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) on a passion flower 💚

One to watch out for in 2023 bumblebee season!

📷 Gaynor Griffiths

#BeeTheChange #Bumblebee #Wildlife #Nature

The view over the Somerset Levels this morning just before sunrise. Taken from Glastonbury Tor.

Elon's take over of Twitter has set a lot of things into motion in the digital world

Tumblr and now also Flickr are thinking about intergrating ActivityPub so it will be able to connect to the Fediverse!

A lot of lay offs in the mainstream social media but the Fediverse is only growing!

The world is waking up Social media can be fun but also privacy friendly at the same time, you got the proof now!❤️

No billioaires needed ✅

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were really eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual information in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Of course, I'd also love to hear any additional tips y'all might have!

#Accessibility

Imagine if those in a position of power today were to wake up 30 years into the future and find themselves having to answer an international tribunal judging their contribution to climate breakdown that has since developed. Would they claim they had no choice? #COP27 #climate

See in the image how thin the atmosphere is we're polluting. Take a globe, find two cities just 100 km apart on that globe - tilt that distance vertically and that's all there is to space. And that's already generous.

The other thing the "adaptation is more realistic than mitigation" deniers get wrong is ecology. Organisms live in habitats, their ecological niches. Climate is a major determinant. It's a complex web that would be broken. There is no adaptation without huge ecological upheaval.

Solidarity with all the UK #academics on #strike today ✊🏾

There's no high quality public-service education without fair pay, healthy working conditions, dignity and labour rights for all staff. We're with you #UCUrising @ucu!

I'm so old I remember that both the US and the UK used to tax very high incomes at 90%. AFTER you made a bunch of money THE REST was taxed a lot. If you make $1 billion you "only" take home $100 million.

How MANY problems do we have now with billionaires screwing up both countries, and the rest of the people struggling?

So don't tell me about solutions until you raise top tax rates back where they should be in a democracy.

The POINT of top tax rates is redistribution.

#tax #taxtherich

#GreenParty MP Caroline Lucas' #RightToRoam bill calls for access to rivers, woods and green-belt land:
“There is overwhelming evidence that time spent in nature makes a huge contribution to our physical health and mental wellbeing, yet access to nature remains vastly unequal across different parts of the country, and people from ethnic minorities or with low incomes are even less likely to live near accessible green space.”."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/22/national-parks-england-and-wales-off-limits-to-public #UKPolitics

Tiny particles of rum, pineapple and coconut are soon to be beamed around the new 27km tunnel of the Large Piña Collider.

Proud to say that when I tweeted this it was liked by CERN. So don't be surprised if you see them attempt this at some point in the future.

We've had a very mild start to winter, but now it's starting to really show it's here, here are some solid tips for cycling through winter
https://www.willcycle.com/2021/10/04/back-to-basics-winter-cycling/

As a community manager or leader the worst thing you tolerate is what your community becomes.
The worst thing you walk past is who you are. And in open source communities the blast radius of that negligence is enormous; for every person you can see pushing back against toxicity there might be dozens, hundreds or thousands peeking in, seeing that this is how you and your project have decided to live, shaking their heads and silently moving on, knowing they have better options.

"Listening to Black Women: The Innovation Tech Can't Figure Out"
https://www.wired.com/story/listening-to-black-women-the-innovation-tech-cant-figure-out/amp

It seems that the "caffeinate your underwear" thing is going around again. I wrote about that before at WIRED; still doesn't work ☕ 😁 👖 https://www.wired.com/2014/10/caffeinated-underpants-wont-make-your-butt-smaller/

*PRO NERD TIP*

Today I learned about "The Wikipedia Library Card". If you've been a WP editor for >6 months, have made >500 edits, at least 10 edits in the last month, and are not blocked for being a cretin, you can access a *ton* of paywalled content for free.

ScienceDirect, AAAS, The BMJ, both APAs, EBSCO, Springer, Nature, Wiley, and many more.

https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/about/

All those hours in 2005 spent editing sci-fi book articles finally paying off!