Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

What a surprise…
Listening to the people who have lived here continuously for at least 65,000 years grants you knowledge you didn’t have before.

#FirstNations
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/04/mystery-of-australian-desert-fairy-circles-may-be-solved-thanks-to-indigenous-knowledge

Just found out that one of the girls who outed me in school and bullied me RELENTLESSLY for several years is now in a loving relationship with another woman.

And honestly? Good for her! They look super cute and happy together. Glad she finally ditched the demons who convinced her to hate herself and others for so long.

but also it is a trope in knitting and spinning (and I think also weaving) that women* do fiber arts and their husbands* create boutique business to make tools for knitters etc to buy

(* people are not binary genders but the roles we are put in are extremely binary and I am speaking of roles here, not identities)

I have been doing this fiber arts thing for a minute (20 years) and that trope is _extremely true_. In going over all the small tool brands I could think of, I found one (Signature Needle Arts) that appeared to be founded by someone who isn't a man

these tools are named things like Lendrum and Bosworth because they are named after the one guy who makes them and when that one guy retires or dies there aren't any more that are made

brand after brand has an "about us" story that goes "$brand is a husband and wife team that started when $wife had a specific issue with her tools and $husband got obsessed with trying to solve it"

today Judith said "if only, if only ONCE a woman would make a spinning wheel because then we could have a conversation. Men who make wheels, they do things and they pat you on the head and say that you don’t understand how things work”

let me begin by saying that the idea of anyone patting Judith Fucking MacKenzie on the head about her life's work is COSMICALLY ENRAGING

okay I'm at a knitting retreat and I'm Mad so let's talk about gender and fiber arts

today I had a spinning class with Judith MacKenzie, one of the foremost living spinning and dyeing teachers

this Judith Mackenzie: https://www.amazon.com/Intentional-Spinner-Judith-MacKenzie-McCuin/dp/B008SM1HYK

She's the sort of person who, when I showed her a yarn I bought that didn't satisfy me, noticed that not only was it spun too loosely (which I was pretty sure was the case), it was also spun backward. She was able to explain to me why that's a problem (the yarn comes untwisted as you knit with it) and ALSO she knows the mill owner and the person who runs the equipment and the HANGUPS of the person who runs the equipment (hangups resulting in yarn spun backward)

Judith is a treasure, the sort of person who can reduce the better part of a classroom of adult students to tears by passing around her collection of stone-age spindle whorls and telling us all to touch them with our bare hands because they are OUR history, and they belong in our hands because they are the tools of our passion and tools should be touched

As a CIA assassin recovering from amnesia

He has come to realize that not only can he literally kill

If you give him a wig and some make-up

He can also ... slay

Matt Damon stars in:

Bourne This Way

(It's a drag show)

"The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created...a triangle-framed bike can easily carry 10x its own weight—capacity no automobile, airplane or bridge can match.”

—Bill Strickland

A striking visualisation of #climatechange: the date of Kyoto cherry blossoms' reaching full bloom, plotted over the past 1000 years.

Thanks to the cultural significance of cherry blossoms in Japan, we have data on the specific day of the year when a very particular species of cherry blossom (P. jamasakura) reached "full-flowering" (満開) in a specific area on the outskirts of Kyoto (Arashiyama), all the way back to 800 AD.

The trend of the past 50 years is hard to miss…

Happy #ZeroWasteDay!

We need to substantially slow down our consumption of resources.

Let's learn to #repair, #reuse and #share as much as possible, and fight to put an end to the throw-away economy.

"We must massively invest in (...) policies that encourage people to re-use and recycle everything from plastic bottles to ageing electronics." said António Guterres.

#Repair is essential to unlock reuse & zero-waste, this is why we need a #RightToRepair.

Seeing all those complain about how late trains are posts

and wondering why there is not a similar amount about cars.

On Monday we rented a car because on google maps the 60min metro travel was only 30min by car.

In reality it took us over an hour because the in car navigation systems took us to the wrong street first.

Never have I had that problem in a train!

#ClimateDiary #Autokorrektur

Today's ruling that the immigration exception is unlawful is a victory for migrants’ data rights in an increasingly hostile environment in the UK that treats migrants as second class citizens. It's another instance of this government trying to chip away at the human rights framework post-Brexit.

This action wouldn't have been possible without the generosity of people who donated to the legal fund and who support our work.

#ukpolitics #dataprotection #immigration #gdpr

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/victory-for-migrants-as-judge-rules-immigration-exemption-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/

“A lucky French citizen who won $217 million in the EuroMillions lottery has used almost the entire sum of cash to start an environmental charity.“

#ClimateChange

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/euromillions-lottery-winner-charity-environmental/

It’s just more badass when you call it Lion’s Tooth. Dandelion. Dent de lion. tooth from lion. Lion’s Tooth. #garden #gardening #permaculture

RT @KetanJ0
Noticed that pro-climate-action accounts were stagnating or shrinking, and that denier accounts seemed to be ballooning. So - I checked, with some help, and....yep.

Elon Musk has made Twitter into a safe space for pro-fossil fuel disinformation. A 🧵

https://ketanjoshi.co/2023/03/28/musk-is-remaking-twitter-into-a-climate-denier-sanctuary/

I don't think it can be overstated just how HUGE an impact Paul O'Grady had on people like my parents.

As the press, police and politicians waged a war on the LGBTQ+ community and stoked AIDS fear, Lily Savage was on TV making them laugh, and showing them that these were real people. People they didn't need to fear. /4

"...good to think that feelings towards the river can be stronger than politics,”

#LandRights #PersonHood #Rivers #Water #Biodiversity #RiversRights

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/01/sussex-river-ouse-first-in-england-legal-rights-aoe

https://www.gofundme.com/f/funeral-expenses-for-coralina-tina-cattrell

If you are able to donate, maybe to give a little bit back to a woman who gave her everything, it would bring a lot of ease to me and mine.

#GNUCoralinaCattrell #Funeral #Donations

@velobetty wait does the article kind of just...end? on the observation that some people who use cargo bikes look rich, and some people who use them look poor? is that his big takeaway? "wow bikes are expensive i guess"?

how did this get published