Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

You know the academic publishing model is fucked up when you use #SciHub to access your own paper. @academicchatter #academia #openaccess

Very disappointed to hear the high court #Rwanda judgement. We must keep on highlighting the gross unfairness of this approach. Not everything legal is moral. The human struggle has always been to make the immoral illegal. That can never achieve via silence.
#Refugees
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/19/asylum-seekers-rwanda-uk-plan-legal-high-court

Also why would deportation to #Rwanda deter the smugglers? This widely promoted logic defeats me. Smugglers take money from very desperate people who may not necessarily have all the facts, and don’t give a monkey’s whether these people end up in the UK, Rwanda or Mars!

How to have a "beach body":

1) You're already 70% water, which is a good start

2) Replace the other 30% with sand

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone.

Thinking back to the summer heatwave in the UK when everyone was “Our houses aren’t built for the heat, they’re designed to keep warm in winter”, and now everyone is “Our houses aren’t built for this cold”. Maybe time to admit that the UK has just been building homes for 100 years that are shit at *everything* aside from extracting rent from the poor.

The problem with working full time is by the time you get to Christmas you are exhausted. instead of ice skating while making delicious home made gifts by an enormous real fire, before wrapping all your presents in hand stamped eco wrapping you just want to sleep and watch crap on TV.

She peeked over the edge of the bed.
"Are you still there?" she whispered.
The monsters under the bed did not reply.
"There is an elf on my shelf."
Silence.
"It watches me, and reports to Santa."
A hoarse growl came under the bed:
"Turn the light off."
She smiled.
"Thank you."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Since "John Mastodon" has gone so viral here following Mediaite's confusion, I think, in the future, for those folks left on Twitter who want to secretly refer to Mastodon after Elon bans all mentions of it, just talk about "friends of John" as the code...

I'm evangelizing for Mastodon because Twitter is likely toast, but I also want to be very clear that Black and disabled folks have built community infrastructure on Twitter that is real and meaningful.

We all need to be mindful of what Elon is destroying, and who it harms most.

You can only sell off the family silver once.

The temporary windfall from selling public assets comes at the expense of a community permanently losing parks, housing, libraries, sports facilities and much more.

Future generations deserve better.

If it reads like I’m advocating for violence against a specific billionaire, please understand I’m not. I want violence to happen to all of them

‘Not What You’d Expect in a Democracy.’ How Britain Is Waging War Against Climate Protesters
https://time.com/6241372/uk-public-order-bill-climate-protests/
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Protest #JustStopOil #InsulateBritain

Scrolling through memory lane, and an art exhibit at LACMA visited last year. Artist Mickalene Thomas, a piece called "The Inversion of Raquel"
#Art #blackmastodon

Silent moment #drop #dewdrop #nasturtium #garden #nature #photography_

There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests