Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

What's a climate policy or investment that most people don't think of as a climate policy or investment?

For example voting rights, since the same communities tend to face barriers to voting and the impacts of fossil fuel pollution. For example polling consistently shows people of color are more supportive of climate action than white people).

What's your favorite not obvious climate policy?

Dutch PM apologises for the Netherlands’ role in the slave trade, noting the state ‘enabled, encouraged and profited from slavery’ for centuries, perpetrating a crime against humanity. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/19/dutch-pm-apologises-for-netherlands-role-in-slave-trade

Christmas decorations are going up! You’ve got the tree, lights, asbestos… Wait, what?

For decades, asbestos was sold as artificial snow. It could be bought in boxes to be sprinkled onto trees, ornaments, nativity scenes, etc. It was so popular, many older ornaments still have traces of asbestos.

It was also used in film. The most famous scene with asbestos snow is in Wizard of Oz (1939), when snow falls on Dorothy and her friends, waking them up.

#histodons @histodons #christmas

Another night in a crumbling empire, waiting for the oceans to rise, doing our little skin care routines

There may be no clearer materialization of the idea that globalization facilitates the flow of goods while limiting the flow of people than a (illegal) border wall constructed out of shipping containers.

reposting this, with original author sign.

I actually remembered to get my holiday supply of meds the other day.
If you take medication on a daily basis this is a nudge to make sure you've got enough for over the short holiday period you may not be able to get your script filled

Masks: Hi! Hi there everyone! We are here, we are cheap, we can help prevent death, disability, and general misery.

Society and media:

Bikes: Hello world. We are so happy to be here, fighting climate change, helping people stay healthy, making cities less congested.

Society and media:

Fusion experiment: Hello. For a split second we had a sort of breakthrough that will take decades to grow to enough scale to displace fossil fuels.

Society and media:🎉 🎆 👏 🎉 🎆 👏🎉 🎆 👏

I mean sure, it looks like paint, but I think this is a purple lichen? Found under a railway arch on the Pennine Way in Northumberland. Felt to the touch a bit like modelling clay and smelt ‘fresh’, if anything. Any ideas? #IDHelp #NatureSpot #lichen #LichenSubscribe #nature #NatureID

Where do dictators get personal music?

Despotify.

You know the academic publishing model is fucked up when you use #SciHub to access your own paper. @academicchatter #academia #openaccess

Very disappointed to hear the high court #Rwanda judgement. We must keep on highlighting the gross unfairness of this approach. Not everything legal is moral. The human struggle has always been to make the immoral illegal. That can never achieve via silence.
#Refugees
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/19/asylum-seekers-rwanda-uk-plan-legal-high-court

Also why would deportation to #Rwanda deter the smugglers? This widely promoted logic defeats me. Smugglers take money from very desperate people who may not necessarily have all the facts, and don’t give a monkey’s whether these people end up in the UK, Rwanda or Mars!

How to have a "beach body":

1) You're already 70% water, which is a good start

2) Replace the other 30% with sand

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone.

Thinking back to the summer heatwave in the UK when everyone was “Our houses aren’t built for the heat, they’re designed to keep warm in winter”, and now everyone is “Our houses aren’t built for this cold”. Maybe time to admit that the UK has just been building homes for 100 years that are shit at *everything* aside from extracting rent from the poor.

The problem with working full time is by the time you get to Christmas you are exhausted. instead of ice skating while making delicious home made gifts by an enormous real fire, before wrapping all your presents in hand stamped eco wrapping you just want to sleep and watch crap on TV.

She peeked over the edge of the bed.
"Are you still there?" she whispered.
The monsters under the bed did not reply.
"There is an elf on my shelf."
Silence.
"It watches me, and reports to Santa."
A hoarse growl came under the bed:
"Turn the light off."
She smiled.
"Thank you."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Since "John Mastodon" has gone so viral here following Mediaite's confusion, I think, in the future, for those folks left on Twitter who want to secretly refer to Mastodon after Elon bans all mentions of it, just talk about "friends of John" as the code...