Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

It's so rich to be so scared of possible variants from [enter non-white dominant] country (over last 3 yrs to present day), but not fear at all the variants that North America and Europe have facilitated the development of through its "let it rip" policies for #COVID19. #Racism

The Cities Keeping Their Car-Free Spaces:
“The open streets of the pandemic reclaimed public space for pedestrians and bicyclists. From Bogotá to New York to Stockholm, some of those changes [but to be blunt, not neary enough] have become permanent.” Via Linda Poon in CityLab.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-12-29/permanent-car-free-streets-for-bikes-and-pedestrians

#cities #car #streets #OpenStreets #urbanism #CarFree #transportation #PublicPlaces #cars

The more damaging the commercial enterprise, the more money it must spend on politics to ensure it’s not regulated out of existence. As a result, politics comes to be dominated by the most damaging commercial enterprises.

Earth systems, by contrast, are treated as an afterthought, an ornament: nice to have, but dispensable when their protection conflicts with the necessity of extraction. In reality, the irreducible essential is a habitable planet.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/30/amazon-public-money-earth-destruction-fossil-fuels-subsidies

Despite the lack of direct evidence, I remain a Romanian pizza truther

Is everything right in terms of inclusivity, useability, moderation, accessibility, functionality on Mastodon?

Hell no

But it’s *our responsibility* as users here to work on these points

If there’s a problem we can work on it by helping others, setting up instances, coding new things. Again it might not always work, but we can try. We can hope

On Twitter we can’t. Musk can just out of the blue unban Trump or tweet “kek”

2023 is not going to be better just because the number at the end of the date has changed.

Things are only going to get better when we take action to actually change and improve them.
Unfortunately we're not doing that yet.

So instead of empty wishes (thoughts and prayers) for a magically better #NewYear, let's make 2023 the year where we take action.

Let's brace for things to get worse first and fight together for them to get better afterwards.
#HappyNewYear #BalancedRealism

Stolen from reddit. The kids are alright.

"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."

~Wendle Berry

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #Gardening

Australians may be known for a laconic, easygoing, laidback attitude; but then we also have Australian Standard AS/NZS 2007.1-2005, which prescribes how we should stack our dishwashers

Ok, follow-up poll. If not dressing a disabled person or child, have you ever seen somebody's penis or vulva when in a shop's changing room?

Without social #equality you won’t achieve #netzero. Just why are rich white men allowed to burn up the planet, whilst the poor suffer their pollution, droughts, floods & rising seas.

“Car journeys and flights taken by the richest British people – especially “white, wealthy middle-aged men” – used more #energy that year than 60% of the population got through in total.” #Climate #ClimateAction

https://www.carbonbrief.org/richest-people-in-uk-use-more-energy-flying-than-poorest-do-overall

Keeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀

RT @lindaholmes@twitter.com

I’m not sure why “I may wear masks in some situations forever” is weird and “thousands of people are going to die every week from this forever, oh well” is normal and cool.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lindaholmes/status/1608497099007754247

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/