Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

Earth's human population recently reached 8 billion people.

Here's where they live.

Data visualization by Pietro Violo https://pietroviolo.com/

the framing of mastodon having attrition problems bafflingly misses what's interesting here

mastodon's new user retention rate being as high as it is, despite there being no UX team designing shady psychological tricks into the service/apps to keep you coming back, is a pretty big deal

like, let's be honest, there's very little about mastodon that's making us want to return here compulsively or addictively the way so many for-profit services implicitly aim for

it's pretty much just the people

I promise you, this is not a weird little rubber desert island toy for smurfs, complete with coconut trees.

It's a liverwort which I just found growing between some paving stones behind our house. It must be...2cm (3/4") high?

#Macro #MacroPhotography #Liverwort

Y'all need to read this thread.

And the replies.

"One of the cruelest things about Autistic/ADHD masking is that you learn to treat positive emotions as a warning sign that you're about to do something "wrong" and that it is therefore "safest for everyone" if you maintain a constant, low-key negative internal emotional state."

"I have received the message that my joy comes at a cost to everyone else. My happiness is something I do to others.
So I have learned to always keep my emotional barometer just slightly inside of the depressed range."

"Sometimes I say that I am happiest when I am by myself, but I wonder if maybe I am just only actually allowed to feel happy -- like truly happy without that lingering soupçon of impending indecorum and fuckuppery -- when I am by myself."

https://twitter.com/the_tweedy/status/1600287106072735744

#ActuallyAutistic

Can anyone recommend some good pro-transgender charities in the U.K., for donations?

Boosts appreciated.

A young trans girl was murdered over the weekend in the UK. She'd suffered transphobic bullying for years while school and police did nothing. She has been misgendered and deadnamed in at least one newspaper and other papers have removed "girl" from their byline.

I have a trans relative the same age as her, I can't even imagine the pain her parents and family are going through. The UK trans community is in mourning and we are angry at the media and political climate that allows people to view trans lives as nothing.

I'm hurt and tired and so fucking angry. How do I explain to my employer that my brain is taken up by the loss of one of our sisters and that whatever tasks I'm doing here feel pointless in comparison?

Being fuelled by rage isn't sustainable, I know this, but today there is little room for anything else.

Amongst a flurry of questionable bills being introduced in American states recently, a new piece of legislation in Montana would prevent scientific theories from being taught in schools.

I tried to warn you this would be next.

https://www.iflscience.com/new-montana-bill-would-prevent-schools-teaching-scientific-theories-67451

#BBCLauraK asks #AndrewMitchell if, in some way, the government or some its ministers may have been responsible for #Knowsley

"There are accusations though that the government has created an environment where feelings against asylum seekers have been stirred up," she says.

(ahem) 🔽

#WhoMakesTheNazis

I can not stress enough how valuable and important it is to learn how to maintain and repair the things you own.

Not just cars, but washing machines, dryers, air conditioning, boiler, phones, computers, clothing, etc.

Obviously with electrical, gas and plumbing, learn it properly if you can through a course.

Regardless of how you learn, you'll gain the skills to keep things going that bit longer before you need a replacement.

#solarpunk #repair #reduce #reuse #recycle

1/ Follow up to previous post about repairing.

We live in an amazing time of education. Not just academical, but skills.

I'm not just talking about things like Skillshare, that focus predominantly on digital skills, coding, editing, writing, etc. but traditional crafts as well.
Blacksmithing, welding, plumbing, electrical, construction, tailoring, weaving.

Need to repair an adobe wall? There's a youtube channel.

Need to rewire a socket?
There's a well written page.

The idealism of youth is an amazing thing. Google’s founders used to write essays about how immoral search results full of ads were and people used to call Microsoft “evil” because you couldn’t download the source code for Windows or Office.

It all seems so quaint now.

BREAKING NEWS:

Scientist Rebellion Belgium are blocking the private jet terminal of Brussels Airport along with our sibling group XR Belgium.

The emissions of the richest 1% vastly outstrip the emissions of ordinary people. This climate inequality must stop!

#BanPrivateJets

You know who DOESN’T get to decide if the concept of “15-Minute Cities,” which supports MORE CHOICE, LESS CAR DEPENDENCY, and LOWER PUBLIC COSTS & CONSEQUENCES, is good public policy?

The same extreme alt-right conspiracy theorists and cynical political opportunists who brought us truck occupations in Canadian neighbourhoods, the January 6th Insurrection, & Brexit.

I won’t let their unhinged lies work. You shouldn’t either.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g898/walkable-15-minute-cities-con