Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

This is just perfect!

About GRETA – the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

GRETA is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings by the Parties.

https://www.coe.int/en/web/anti-human-trafficking/greta

As acronyms go that's unexpectedly but delightfully on the nose. (Ahem.)

@afewbugs Totally agree.
I quit smoking early this year, replacing it in favour of vaping. It's honestly so much cheaper, and healthier (degree of health is variable), but these things have sprung up everywhere.

I will always prefer using my own vape, because it's reusable, refillable, reconfigurable, and I like the style. Once it dies, it goes in the tech box to recycle.

These just seem horribly inefficient and like you say, wasteful beyond belief.

We’ve got a plastic bag charge, and there are plenty of cotton tote shopping bags around, but I think we’re only really going to be winning when there are *returnable* robust shopping bags. There will always be times when someone has more shopping then expected, or needs to shop when they hadn’t planned. Bags with a deposit would be ace.

Alle Jahre wieder kommen meine Geschenkbeutel, Furoshiki-Tücher und meine Stoffsammlung heraus.

Auch wenn wir auf dem Weg zur Müllvermeidung seit der Geburt des Kleenen zu viele Rückschritte gemacht haben, diese Tradition bleibt.

#Furoshiki #geschenkverpackung #wastefreeworld #zerowaste

In this era of government-enforced cost-of-living crisis, have you considered cooking with a haybox?
@afewbugs explains it FAR better than I can, so go read her rather excellent post now (and share it widely, so others can also benefit)
https://tangledbankblog.wordpress.com/2022/09/28/economy-gastronomy-hay-boxes-wonderbags-and-insulation-cookery/

This is the route guide for the Exe Estuary trail to Exmouth.
It's a stunning, mostly traffic-free 13-mile route, complete with route grading, travel info, refreshment stops, bike hire info & more.
Please share widely (and not just on here, either)?
https://www.willcycle.com/2022/12/30/the-exe-estuary-cycle-route-to-exmouth/
#TrafficFree #Cycling #WillCycle

In all seriousness, the beauty of what happened to The Alpha Male was the humiliation.

It's the one thing men like that can't stand. He'd already shown that by creating the video & now he's been arrested - thanks to a pizza box!

I hope they throw everything at him - if you didn't know who he was, or if you have kids, please go & find out about him & ask your kids if they know of him - find out about others like him.

Because he isn't the only one & they're talking to our kids.

#AndrewTate

Tonight I decided to add candy eyes to our chocolate-dipped strawberries, only to learn that when it comes to desserts there is a very, very fine line between “whimsical” and “cursed”

Let's talk about something that played out today with #gretathunberg and a raging narcissist.

Mental health rule number one regarding narcissists: We never play the game with narcissists. In other words, if we take their bait, and engage in their arguments, they have won already. We never try to appease them. We never try to concede enough. We absolutely never try to win their favor. We never, ever play their game.

But Greta engaged today, and won. And we need to talk about how she won. Because "not playing" is not the same as "not engaging."

She won because she wasn't playing his game. She was playing hers.

There's a whisper of a movement in progressive culture to hold men responsible for shutting down their misogynistic peers, by directly confronting them in front of the women they're abusing. By refusing to invite them to the bar. By calling out their sexism publicly. That's great stuff. We absolutely need to teach our boys to do that so they will become allies as men.

All of those behaviors are *BOUNDARIES.* Boundaries are often misunderstood, even in the mental health field. A lot of people think boundaries are what we tell other people they have to do if they want to be around us, and that's the exact opposite of what they are. Boundaries are how *I* behave when other people treat me in certain ways.

One form of boundary is disengagement. When my date starts saying abusive things, I end the date. Another form of boundary is direct sanction. When someone harasses me in the workplace, I go to HR.

Okay. So Greta did not "play his game." She wasn't interested in appeasing him, negotiating with him, or trying to come to an agreement with him. She was trying to destroy him. And she had an army. Dude came at her. She was minding her business, and he picked a fight, and she dismissed him rather than fight with him. She dismissed him with disdain. She ignored everything he said.

And as we saw, dismissal... being ignored by a target... is the worst thing for a narcissist. Their power relies on their victims caring. And she did not care one bit.

And again... she had an army.

This brings me to the main point of this post. And that's really what's been missing for women. If there was an army of men who would actively sanction peers who abused women, it would be much easier for women to clap back. To ignore. To dismiss. If, in the US, the majority of white women didn't vote every single election for Republicans, but supported women with their votes and their voices and their checkbooks, this would be easier.

We talk about the Culture Wars a lot, but we miss maybe the most important point when we're at war. We need armies. Armies who actively participate.

I hope we're seeing the beginning of the turning of the tide.

#GretaThunberg vs #AndrewTate aka AlphaTurd. Knock-out round one! 💪

Grown ass men keep attacking a teenage girl concerned about the state of the planet she lives on. This is what the discussion should be centered on.

Holy shit