Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

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

Just like to point out that it was -7 this morning and ts a week and a bit before Christmas.

Does any one really think that people would to take time unpaid to stand around outside freezing their butts off if there was another option?

What would have happened at your work for you to take a day off to stand in front of it protesting? How much would you have to love your job to do that rather than changing careers?

Dandelion parachutes with morning dew. Still one of my favored macro photograph of dandelions.#2023AYearForArt
#Art #Artist #IrisRichardsonArtist #ArtCollector #ArtMatters #mastoart #GiftIdeas #FediArt #FediGiftShop https://iris-richardson.pixels.com/featured/dandelion-with-morning-dew-iris-richardson.html

I used to have this pinned on my (defunct) twitter account, so will repeat it here:

Don't think about climate change as something we succeed or fail at. It's not binary. Every tonne of carbon emissions makes the problem worse, so everything we do to avoid those emissions helps. Never stop trying!

Fediverse, let's have some fun:

What is the most trivial life lesson you would like to impart to your younger self?

It's #chilly out. Buxton Weather Watch (one of the only reasons I keep dipping back into the birdsite) say we might have #snow next week. Will I get views like this? Unlikely but I can dream 😉❄
#LeaveOnlyFootprints #Flagg
#MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon #landscape #fineartinstitch
#textileart #textileartist #contemporarytextileartist #contemporarytextileart  #artetextil #textilelandscape #snowscene #winter #wintertrees #winterlandscape #snowylandscape #snowscape
@fibrearts
https://cognissart.co.uk/leave-only-footprints/

It's beautiful watching the firehose of the #federated feed just constantly scrolling past, seeing the images, the languages, the mix of everything.
As I'm watching it:
Meme, anime, ukraine, snow, garden, painting, poll, christmas tree, red door, pride & prejudice, canyon in Iraq, tarot, food, Die Hard (it's an xmas movie, shush), cats, cats, toys, cats, fountain, lab.

The languages too, english, japanese, korean, german, polish, french, so many.

It's beautiful.

Imagine being the person who says to Rishi Sunak:

"I think we can spin this and get people to back you, not the nurses."

With a straight face.

Tories keep trying at attack strikers by saying it's not fair on 'hard working people'

Nurses, who ARE hard worker ng people only got half an hour with a lazy minister

Nurses literally died working their guts out to save ives after the Tories let Covid run out of control

Tories broke the NHS - deliberately. It is managed decline to then asset strip

https://willblack-53220.medium.com/choose-one-sadistic-greedy-scamming-tories-or-the-nhs-542a1360a472

One thing I wish my more fragile fellow white people in the fediverse would at least try to understand is that Black people aren't calling out racism for fun. They call it out because it hurts them, but also because they think it might change something. It's literally an act of trust and vulnerability.

When someone asks you to be better, it's because they think you have it in you to be better. Try to live up to that.

Thinking about how a single french fry pretty much perfectly encapsulates everything wolves domesticated themselves to access.

Inaccessible vegetable made edible by cultivation and fire, plus grease and salt.

When our doggos eyes bulge out and they tremble with barely controlled hunger for our french fries they're participants in a grand heist going back forty thousand years.

"A university has been found to have discriminated against an Indian lecturer on the grounds of race after it failed to reappoint her for a job she had been doing for five years, replacing her with a white candidate with no experience of the role.

Dr Kajal Sharma was 1 of only 2 senior lecturers at the University of Portsmouth who were not reappointed to their jobs when their contract came to an end, while 11 of 12 white colleagues were successful".

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/dec/12/portsmouth-university-loses-discrimination-case-against-indian-lecturer-kajal-sharma

In today's New York Times a Homeowner Association tried to force a Maryland couple with a native garden to change to a tidy lawn. The complaint was that their garden was "attracting rodents, deer, snakes and bats, and that they were planting shrubs and bushes in no particular order." Yes, in no particular order!

Legal proceedings ensued and there's now a state law forbidding homeowner associations from banning eco-friendly gardens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/climate/native-plants-lawns-homeowners.html

#biodiversity #gardens #urban #nature

When they ask "why so much focus on air travel" this is a *big* part of the answer

RT @CarbonBrief@twitter.com

NEW – Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall | @Josh_Gabbatiss@twitter.com w/ comment from @baltrusz@twitter.com @martiskainen@twitter.com

Read here: https://bit.ly/3Wj49zD

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CarbonBrief/status/1603077570160885761