Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

If 2022 taught us anything, it’s that:

1. Denial won't end the pandemic
2. Public healthcare & education are worth saving
3. Workers deserve a decent wage & paid sick days
4. People always matter more than profits!

Let's act on these lessons in 2023.

Happy New Year. 🙏🏽

Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.

I've thought about doing this for a while now.
#AltText is something I advocate for, as well as some other simple ways to make posts more #accessible and #inclusive. Let's make this #interactive.
Reply with a #photo or #image without alt text and I'll tell you what my #ScreenReader thinks it shows, as a practical #demonstration of inaccuracies, limitations and why alt text is better.
I can't promise how many I'll be able to do, but would like to do the first 10 or so.
#accessibility #blind

There's something special about silver birch trees in #winter.

I find them particularly beautiful when there's a hard hoar frost. The delicate branch structures come alive and just look stunning.

Throw in a bit of golden morning light and you have a decent recipe to make a photograph.

This image is titled 'Lemon Sorbet'.

Hope you've had a great week. I always find it hard to get back into the routine in this first week back!

#photography #trees #woodland #landscapephotography #nature

My new band is called "1023 Megabytes"? We are very good.. we just don't have a gig yet

See this @Gargron ? People are telling me they see the Mastodon logo on my cat Bridget. #catsofmastodon

I made the mistake of jokingly pronouncing LGBT as "el jibbity" and I guess that's just how I say it now

Humanity has historically eaten 6,000 plants; now we eat mostly NINE: This is a great (scary) story from Bloomberg on how global diets have converged on a few crops in a few decades – with many alarming implications. Well told (super smart graphics!) #food #climate
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-global-diet-homogeneous-food-security-risk/?cmpid=BBD010523_prognosis&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230105&utm_campaign=prognosis&leadSource=uverify%20wall

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> "You should be able to speak about your identity and other people in your first language," they said. "It's like a little part of you is dying when you have to say it in English."

> Mx Gulliver said Welsh-speakers will understand if terms are explained, but the language barrier stops non-binary people from being confident in talking about their identity.

> "It's like you have to come out twice," they added.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64164011

Scientists left a hamster wheel in the woods, and wild mice, frogs even slugs had a wild time running in it. #Science #Mice #Rodents #Hamster https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2014.0210

‘Andrew Tate’s fans seem to admire and envy his image as a successful, fit, self-made man with an extravagant lifestyle. His crimes demonstrate, yet again, that sexism is not only a cultural issue but an economic one too.’

@paulaerizanu@twitter.com on the blog:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/january/modern-wealth-creation

Just realised how silly addressing the president as “Mr President” is.

Imagine doing it with any other job. You’d sound like a toddler.

“Hello, Mr Taxi Driver”
“Good morning, Mr Milkman”

#Introducing...

There is a new instance in town:

https://climatescienc.es

For climate scientists, scholars & educators as well as climate science projects.

#ClimateJustice #ClimateScience

With Covid cases soaring and the NHS in trouble, here’s how to end the culture war on face masks

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/05/covid-cases-nhs-culture-war-face-masks?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

It's wild how computer programming went from exclusively women's work to "we're not sexist we just don't think women are interested in it" in like 40 years

"This is going to have to be resisted on the streets, through campaigns and through industrial action. We can’t do that alone. We need everyone with us."

RMT unions Mick Lynch on why we must defend the right to strike

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/01/mick-lynch-anti-union-laws-enough-is-enough

The Government’s Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan gives water companies until 2050 to clean up their act. That’s simply not good enough.

Join our campaign to stop sewage dumping here 👇
https://glplive.org/clean-waters-t-261222

OLD THREAD REPOST

Since #OurFlagMeansDeath has come to the UK, who wants to hear about gay marriage in the golden age of piracy? #ofmd

RT @AdamBienkov
A reminder that last year Rishi Sunak's Government actually *reduced* its target for training new maths teachers by 27%.

Meanwhile, the latest stats suggest nearly half of all schools are forced to use non-specialists to teach kids because of a shortage of maths teachers.

Look. I've said it before and I'll say it again. If Harry has a problem with his family then he needs to persuade the French to fund him, raise an army, invade and seize the crown.

What else was Brexit for, if not to restore traditional British approaches and values?