Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

Universal healthcare and childcare are climate policies that allow the economy to shift faster and more nimbly.

A lot of people need to shift sectors, learn new things, go back to school, etc for the scale and pace of change we need.

Healthcare that's not tied to a job and reliable affordable childcare are change accelerators (among many other things).

Rhianna Gunn Wright said this so clearly in her many #GreenNewDeal articles and talks.

I learnt a few years ago that in Iran, the winter solstice is celebrated with a festival called Shab-e Chelleh"Shab-e Chelleh ("night of forty") or Shab-e Yaldā ("Yalda night). It's marked by staying up late, reading poems and stories, eating red fruit and dancing.

I'm not Iranian and I'm useless at staying up late. I will share this track from a compilation of Iranian psychedelic funk, which happily is called Pomegranates. It's close enough.
https://youtu.be/RMRV4aLuz_M

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish he'll be buried in student loan debt and can't get a job with his fishing degree

I don't know why I am incredulous that the website to apply for #VoterID will not be ready in time to support the publicity campaign! #GTTO https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/21/fears-voter-id-card-delay-could-disfranchise-many-in-england?fbclid=IwAR268NLVUetKTIkhQK5IyATbEqtjB0zui4XX6gnjm1uXL26Kovk98Am-YSQ

This year, scientists at RBG Kew described a new species of flower, Victoria boliviana, or the giant Bolivian water lily. Its leaves can grow to a staggering length of 3.3 meters across (over 10 feet). Kew researchers observed it in the wild & confirmed its status with DNA. But a dried specimen turned up in Kew's collection, where it had been sitting over 170 years. More here: https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/top-10-species-2022

Photo: RBG KEW

Eine Postkarte für #Mosstodon.

Can we also take a moment to note that "woke", as used here, was originally a Black American term for being aware of systemic racism, and in just a few years, the US right turned it into a totally content-free sneer? And the entire English-speaking media basically just ran with it, to the extent that you now hear it used in _Finnish_?

Because that's white supremacy for you. Criticism, even awareness, of the racist power structure will not be tolerated.

I can get as excited as the next person at cutting edge clean technologies. But I also love the simple solutions, the folk wisdom, the public domain knowledge that we can apply to live well and equitably within planetary limits. Here are a few of my favorites - what are yours?

- the bicycle
- the cover crop
- the compost pile
- the hand-me-down chain
- the mending circle
- the live music evening
- the repair cafe
- the library
- the shade tree
- the rain garden
- the sidewalk

Thesis: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a Hellraiser film.

Willy Wonka is a cenobite. The factory itself is a strange dimension of supersaturated sensation, accessed by way of a rare gilded artifact. Most of those who enter: consumed by ironic amplifications of their own desires and obsessions. Charlie: a potential acolyte, his own obsession with the possibilities of experience carrying him through until he is offered induction into the higher offices of the realm.

We need to understand the stakes of social media not just for the Internet but Planet Earth.

Meta already tried to sell Internet Basics to developing countries. This was a naked attempt to lock underprivileged people into their walled gardens.

"But so what?" apologists might say, "They got free Internet."

Except Internet Basics wasn't so free -- it ended up hurting people instead of helping them. https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/25/22900924/facebooks-free-internet-less-developed-costing-users-wsj

Let's get #SciArt flowing into Mastodon!
What are some of your #SciArt (science-themed art) works you want to highlight? I will boost.

After trying many different media over the years (including drawing, embroidery etc) I found love in pottery. Now I make pottery pieces that highlight underappreciated organisms. Here are some examples of #worms, #jellyfish, #insects, #spiders etc. These are all boxes with lids!
#pottery #ceramics #HandBuiltPottery

This feels appropriate for the second thing I've ever posted to mastodon.

someone once asked me why i was so worried about the environment

i just said "i live there"

and they looked at me as if that fact had never once occurred to them

I gave it a sniff. It smells like bullshit

I'm sick of people saying it's easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of #capitalism. I think about the end of capitalism every day. Today I imagined what it would be like to live in a community that valued me for being present rather than "useful" or "productive." In that world, I think I would spend a lot more time taking care of plants. I would tell stories when I felt like it, instead of on deadline. What do you imagine? #imaginetheendofcapitalism

2022 favourite photo roundup - Over the summer there were a few days when the beaches were awash with these beautiful gems. These are sea gooseberries (Pleurobrachia pileus). They may look like jellyfish (phylum Cnidaria) but they are in fact Ctenophores. These are gelatinous like jellyfish, but do not sting. Instead, the sea gooseberry uses sticky tentacles to capture prey.

#marinebiology #sea #ocean #biology #wildlife #nature #intertidal #seagooseberry #norfolk