It's interesting to me that Mastodon has been quite widely taken up as (to most people) "hey it's an alternative Twitter, also something something decentralised something something bit complex innit".
What that ignores is the deeply embedded leftist culture of it (maybe not everyone involved sees it as leftist exactly...), ie. hate gets you banned/defederated, corporate shilling is highly discouraged and – as we've just seen – shouting "woo yay cops" is... not popular.
This...this is precisely the opposite of what we need.
Government to weaken water pollution goals in ‘attack on nature’
#WaterPollution #SewagePollution #AttackOnNature #WhyIsEverythingInTheUKSoShit
#QuiteLiterallyInThisCase
The scale of ongoing biodiversity loss is tremendous.
(graphic from a quote of mine a few years ago) #Biodiversity #Extinction
When will *your* business make the switch to cargo bikes?
It makes more sense than you realise!
https://www.willcycle.com/2022/12/09/dirty-diesel-versus-clean-cargo-bikes/
#CargoBikes
"Use AI to streamline art production! Increase productivity! More output! Progress! Move forward!" I just want to sit down and draw my little drawings with my little hands because they make me happy leave us alone with your joyless hyper-productivity fetish
Stunning set of maps depicting the changing course of the Mississippi River over millennia, created by US Army engineer Harold Fisk in 1944: https://buff.ly/3eIVrr3
Prints available here: https://buff.ly/3eHkvyR
#maps #art #rivers #mississippi #cartography #design #dataviz #time
When I was in college i got into flight simulators for a minute, and discovered there was a whole community of people who roleplay as air traffic controllers on a multiplayer version of MS flight simulator. There was specialized radar and comms software and you could sign up for classes where you learned real-world lingo and techniques for directing air traffic. I tried it for a couple weeks and realized it was basically "having a stressful job" as a hobby
anyway now I'm a moderator on mastodon
Feel like I have to post this on this platform, for obvious reasons...
"Oldest-ever DNA shows mastodons roamed Greenland 2 million years ago"
Post financial crisis banks were required to separate risky investment banking from banking services we all use
This safeguard now being scrapped creating moral hazard and huge financial risks we will be responsible for
More Tory gambling with our money
https://www.ft.com/content/7fd1b000-774a-45a2-bf89-611fde48f7ba
The Government want you to believe the people who
Gave you a safe birth
Kept you healthy
Managed your diseases
Saved your life
Did the same for your children
And will hold your hand so you don't die alone
Are your enemies
#NursesStrike #nurses #righttostrike
@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!
#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. 💡
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
Born at 341 ppm (https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon-footprint-calculator/carbon-by-birth-year/)
Apparently a collection of hastags in a trenchcoat. #Botany #Entomology #Ecology #Weeds #PavementPlants #Permaculture #Sustainability #Composting #NoDig #Hiking #Cycling #RightToRoam #SlowTravel #FlightFree #CarFree #Bushcraft #Foraging #WildFood #PlantBased #AncestralSkills #Cordage #FibreCraft #Knitting #OpenSource #OpenAccess #SolarPunk #coops #unions #RightToRepair