Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

Fellow librarians -- please pass around word about @libraryland.social - a Mastodon instance set up for public library workers to share ideas, inspirations, questions, announcements and the like. If you're looking for a new home to move to after landing at mastodon.social -- that might be your new home.

A not transphobic piece that deals with the complex issues of pronouns, without being transphobic, from the guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/26/pronouns-gendered-language-revolution-britain?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

Yes we do support safe separated cycling infrastructure, why do you ask? #AKLBikeLife #paihikara #BikeTooter #NoCarNoProblem

It was completely appropriate and admirable for the former #Twitter management to block and/or not amplify tweets/accounts spouting COVID disinformation or other harmful lies, irrespective of the political affiliations of the senders. The fact that by far most of this disinformation came (and still comes) from right-wing accounts does not indicate a bias against the right, but a healthy bias against disinformation. While the process wasn't perfect, it probably saved many innocent lives.

This is one of the first times such a 'left' space has broken through into the mainstream in such a way, I think.

The only precedent I can think of with a similar sort of feeling, at least in its early days, is free software and especially Linux, back when its culture was more openly antagonistic to corporate OSes.

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.

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

You can go “goblin mode,” but I’m going to go “hobbit mode”: walking around barefoot in a comfortable home, eating more than three meals a day, splitting my time between tending my garden and writing, and occasionally getting pulled into an adventure by an old wizard.

#MeanwhileInCanada
This is what happens when you bounce on a frozen trampoline:

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"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04377-x

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

The people going on strike at the moment are not enemies of the general public.

They are the general public, and they deserve to be paid enough to heat their homes as well as to put food on the table.

Huh, I wonder what [thing] is. *searches online*

*opens article*

*article is actually a video*

WELP, guess I'll never know! *closes tab*

LOOK at this incredible willow, not far from my house. I can’t believe I get to be alive at the same time as her.