Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

Most of the West have chosen to do virtually nothing about high levels of death & chronic illness, & are locking high risk & vulnerable people out of society.

There’s another way: Layers. Masks PLUS indoor air cleaning PLUS vaccines TOGETHER produce the most equitable outcomes.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

Western leaders want to gaslight you into believing otherwise, but infinite lockdowns and doing virtually nothing about high levels of death and chronic illness are not the only #COVID policy choices available.

#COVID19 #PublicHealth

This is a Garden Tiger moth (Arctia caja). Once rare in the UK, it made a bit of a comeback, but is now in decline. Night flying, so many people haven't seen one. Moths that tend to rest with their wings open like this, are often docile and readily handleable. Wingspan 50-78mm

#Moths #Mothing #BackGardenWildlife #Insect #lepidoptera #ukmoths #sussexwildlife #sussex #brighton #BrightonMoths #MothingMonday

I always follow back, & am grateful for a boost

My nine year old thought these were excellent answers. I had to agree!

The atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements that feed the iconic Keeling's Curve have stopped because of the Mauna Loa volcano. Reporting by @brady_dennis@twitter.com: http://bit.ly/3ip86E5

Because someone was curious: My take on a thematically appropriate gingerbread house this season (specifically the prompt was "A peppermint kaiju in a gingerbread city").

I love it in here. There's currently a hashtag named #thicktrunktuesday that is basically pics of massive, beautiful trees.
I humbly submit El Tule, an incredible ahuehuete from the state I was born, Oaxaca. It's over 2000 years old. "Tule" means "Tree of Enlightment" #Oaxaca #Mexico #ElTule It has the thickest trunk in the world.

You asked to see some Ghibli-ish photos, so here we go

They were taken around my hometown, near the city that inspired Howl's Moving Castle. I edited them with #Lightroom.

I can share some tips to achieve this "anime vibes". Just let me know if you're interested!

🇨🇵 Des fans de #Ghibli par ici ? J'ai édité ces photos pour ressembler à des frames d'anime. J'espère que ça fait à peu près illusion (au moins de loin ) !

#photography #photographie #anime #mastoart #alsace

So for those out there keeping score, those of us who said clearly from the very beginning that Elon Musk’s #BoringCompany, “Tunnels for Teslas” and #Hyperloop were all “dumb distractions” from the well-understood solutions that would actually improve cities and urban mobility, were right of course.

#cities #transportation #urbanism #publictransit #walking #biking #mobility #urbanplanning #teslas #ElonMusk
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-traffic-11669658396

Close up of a Monarch wing.

I managed to get this photo just after a Monarch had freed itself from its chrysalises while its wings were still drying.

It was a shot with the 105mm 2.8 Sigma macro lens.

Repost of a photo while I was #bikepacking in Scotland this year when a Loch Ness duck drank some of my coffee out of my mug! I'd given them some Bombay mix which was quite spicy so I think he needed something to take the edge off. 🌶🦆🌶

I kinda love when non-bird people only use the male coloration of birds in their designs and unknowingly give us decorations featuring gay birds.

whenever people give me shit about my cat owning a busted old ipad carefully firewalled from the Internet, I show them this

Another example of #VimesBoots today.

LastWeekRyn bought potatoes and apples with all the good intentions of using them in meals. LastWeekRyn failed in that pursuit.

So today I made baked oatmeal and salt potatoes knowing that because we bought a chest freezer and a vacuum sealer, I have the means and space to store them for later use. The amount of money and time I will save because of this makes it worth it.

But the initial outlay is pretty big.

Re-posting this 🐤 thread from 2018 which, sadly, is still relevant:

#WomenInSTEM who talk about #harassment and sexual misconduct get a lot of antagonistic & unhelpful replies.
@shrewshrew and I (a woman & a man in science) tried to categorize them. #9ReplyGuys

THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS 🧵

#1: THE LIFE COACH

Another sign Musk is making a Twitter an increasingly unpleasant and less useful forum for scientists: the COVID misinformation policy is gone.

I've been conflicted about Twitter given its important role in sci comm vs the trolling, misinfo, etc. But increasingly hard not to hope the whale fails for good.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/tech/twitter-covid-misinformation-policy/index.html

RT @JolyonMaugham@twitter.com

The poverty premium embedded in pre-payment meters - where the most financially vulnerable pay the highest prices for energy - is wrong in principle.

What's more we think, often, the pre-conditions for installing a PPM are ignored by energy companies. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/good-law-project-simon-francis-ofgem-government-b2234879.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1597496020145172480

"He talked of his dreams in a strangely poetic fashion; making me see with terrible vividness the damp Cyclopean city of slimy green stone—whose geometry, he oddly said, was all wrong" - H.P. Lovecraft

#Cyclopean has two meanings, it is commonly accepted Lovecraft meant "denoting a type of ancient masonry made with massive irregular blocks." Another meaning is "of or resembling a Cyclops"

I present: #Abandoned powerstation control room, in beautiful otherworldly green with Cyclopean skylight🖤

A Home Office report on asylum journeys finds that economic rights and labour market access do not act as a pull factor for asylum seekers.

The ban on asylum seekers working (except after a year where they can find a role on the shortage occupation list) leaves many destitute or reliant on informal work without enforceable rights. It is based on the dogma that changing the policy would act as a 'pull factor.'

#AsylumSeekers #WorkersRights #LiftTheBan

https://freemovement.org.uk/home-office-research-report-on-why-asylum-seekers-come-to-the-uk/