Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

RT @HetanShah
I’m not that shockable these days but seriously @ukhomeoffice?

This international student was held in a detention centre for TEN DAYS after his uni confirmed he had a place & had paid his fees?

He’s missed his enrolment & has to fly home out of pocket https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/26/treated-like-a-criminal-nepali-student-wrongly-detained-at-uk-border-loses-uni-place?CMP=share_btn_tw

I couldn't find anything about this in English.

But summarizing it, the article says that during the pandemic lockdowns in Santiago de Compostela, there was a chance to study pavement temperature. It was discovered that in places where the grass and moss was not removed, the temperature was up to 20 degrees lower than in places where it was.

More moss and grass make our physical spaces more liveable in these times of #ClimateCrisis.

#SaveTheMossSaveTheWorld #Mosstodon

Empty Kherson art museum in despair after entire collection stolen by Russia

Housed in a grand imperial building with a view out onto the Dnipro River, the Kherson Fine Arts Museum once hosted one of the richest collections in all of Ukraine

Of the over 14,000 works in its collection, barely anything remains. Russia’s looted anything deemed to be of financial or cultural value.

Article 🔗 https://kyivindependent.com/national/empty-kherson-art-museum-in-despair-after-entire-collection-stolen-by-russia

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine

When she was 10 years old, Amariyanna Copeny, former Little Miss Flint Michigan, wrote a letter to Barack Obama about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Her letter and her subsequent fund raising effort lead to Obama authorizing $100 million to fix the crisis.

Here, then, is a problem: insofar as this is a general attitude among members of the fediverse, it is predictable that folks are quick to say "build your own instance" as a solution BECAUSE it is an engineering solution presenting within the context of a "builder's world," but this ignores the fact that people have to LIVE in the world built by... uh... builders?

Elder Scrolls

is there a greek instance called the fetaverse or are they all just sleeping on this pile of gold

I really like that adding .rss to the end of a Mastodon user's profile URL gives you an RSS feed of their posts😁

Dentist: So, do you floss?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?

Since Mastodon saw its initial popularity circa 2017, I've noticed that most users and those reporting on it either don't think about the Fediverse as anything more than Mastodon, or treat its history as beginning with Eugen Rochko and the beginning of Mastodon. In fact, Mastodon is the latest in a long line of federated social networks going at least back to Identi.ca, and though I wasn't around for all of it, I find this history pretty interesting. (Thread; boosts welcome!)

So sick of the ‘anti foreign’ rhetoric. #Refugees. #International #Students. #NHS staff. Every vote they think they’re winning by this is a vote based on lies and won’t last. They can’t turn back time. The #UK is stronger for its #diversity and weaker for its prejudice. Division is cheap and dirty politics. Always has been, always will be.