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The people going on strike at the moment are not enemies of the general public.

They are the general public, and they deserve to be paid enough to heat their homes as well as to put food on the table.

@nova I've been here about a month and already found two new bands, three podcasts, one SF author, a couple of dozen interesting scientific papers, learned about a voter suppression issue I wasn't aware of and discovered that arrows fired from a longbow can pierce a harddrive so I think I'm doing pretty well at finding new stiff through Mastodon!

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Huh, I wonder what [thing] is. *searches online*

*opens article*

*article is actually a video*

WELP, guess I'll never know! *closes tab*

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LOOK at this incredible willow, not far from my house. I can’t believe I get to be alive at the same time as her.

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It's interesting that just three decades after Pripyat was abandoned because of the Chernobyl disaster, the forest has already reclaimed the city.

Don't let anyone convince you that reforestation is difficult. It'll happen all by itself, if people allow it to.

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#OpenScience thoughts on an icy morning walk 🌄.

For me, one of the biggest benefits of #OpenScience has been the recognition of #BigTeamScience. I used to think we had to have every skill in the skill book, and this fed massively into my Impostor Syndrome.

Big Team Science allowed me to truly understand that acquiring every skill is impossible. Instead, working collaboratively alongside each other with our unique expertise creates stronger research.

We are human. We can't do it all. 💡

@ClnHz@mstdn.social I can see it (using Librem Social), and he's very cute

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This whole business with trying to migrate my account has got me thinking about place names and our inner geography. I’ve recently moved house, and the hill I live on once gloried in the name of Faerie Knowe. That place is gone now, swallowed up by change; it has a much more prosaic street name today. But I wonder what it was named for? The ancient and fey oak tree in my garden? The whimsy of a Victorian gentleman? The in-jokes of 18th century potters? Here it is on a map #folklore #faeries

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RT @RebeccaSear
Why is this story about the effects of austerity on population health not constantly splashed on the front of every newspaper? “Britain is suffering from worsening health, as the NHS and social care system buckles after years of underinvestment” theguardian.com/business/2022/

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There's no systemic racism but weirdly every time we train an AI on public data sets it becomes very racist.

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Proposal to stop referring to covid in the past tense and climate change in the future tense.

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No words are strong enough to criticize the decision to open a new *coal mine* in the middle of a *climate emergency*
Tory claims to global leadership on climate revealed as hypocritical farce
Caroline Lucas is right to call this a crime against humanity
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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A young doctor friend of mine said that the starving of the NHS is a deliberate policy to enable privatization

He worked in the very ward where Boris Johnson was in hospital with Covid

Disgraceful betrayal of the very best in our society

RT @paullewismoney@twitter.com

Private health care to expand in effort to clear backlogs bit.ly/3VLt1Ab

🐦🔗: twitter.com/paullewismoney/sta

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Wondering how successful those new Paris bike-lanes have been? New cyclists account for almost 6 in 10 users of new protected lanes. More women are on bikes. And 62% of residents of the Paris Region want the new bike-lanes to be made permanent. Via @roadcc
road.cc/content/news/6-10-user
#cities #urbanism #Paris #BikeLanes

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This image shows the ONLY places in all of England and Wales where wild camping is legal, without explicit consent of the landowner.
A hedge fund manager wants to remove that from us. Are you going to let him?
willcycle.com/2022/12/06/the-t
#Dartmoor
#WildCamping

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Do not use candles and terracotta pots to heat your home, it's not safe.

BBC News - TikTok homemade heater trend blamed for Derby flat fire
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derb

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The most important thing that happened to me was to become, at age 7, an expatriate kid. I was only that for a few years, but the learning stuck. I retain this point of view even decades later. Here’s 5 lessons.

1. I know that the things taken for granted are often arbitrary.

2. I learned to be a minority.

3. I learned to ask questions about the unfamiliar in respectful ways.

4. I learned what class, wealth, and poverty were.

5. There’s very little of the planet untouched by colonialism.

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Die Hortensie hatte dieses Jahr nur eine einzige Blüte, aber die trotzt noch dem Winter, während die Blätter schon abgefallen sind. #fotografie #photo #flowers

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