Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

I’m learning to knit lace. Why do I do this to myself?

I mean… I know why, it’s about learning the crafts of my foremothers that have been mechanised and dismissed as useless or frivolous. Lace (in its many forms of crafting) was a ‘breadwinning’ industry for many women who did not get to enjoy the lace, they made it and they sold it. We are told women didn’t work, they were ‘only mothers and wives’ but they did. Women had many jobs, the writers of history just didn’t value it.

My favourite "fuck around and find out" is probably Victoria Gillick who tried to prevent her daughter getting access to contraception and ended up becoming the definition of women's bodily autonomy in the UK for the last 36 years. She's still alive and angry, ha ha ha.

Every year of my entire life has been one of the 10 warmest years recorded up to that point.

The last time that a global annual average temperature was not in the top ten at the time it occurred was 1976.

Given the slow rate of progress in fighting global warming, there is a strong chance that every year during rest of my career will also be a top ten year. ☹️

@cdarwin I have been interested in #Longtermism for a while, but hadn’t fully picked up on the central role of #Oxford #Philosophy in it. Just adding here an article referred to in the one you posted. Seems to me there should be far more knowledge and condemnation of all this.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmanv/ok-wtf-is-longtermism-the-tech-elite-ideology-that-led-to-the-ftx-collapse

Teach your sons to take meeting minutes

We just lost the right to wild camp on Dartmoor - the last place in all of England & Wales where it was legal. What happens now?
https://www.willcycle.com/2023/01/13/know-your-place/
#WillCamping #Dartmoor #WillCycle

These scenes of destruction are not from Ukraine.

This is happening in Germany.
For coal mining.
In 2023.

#Lützerath.

A sneeze in the CT scanner 😱

https://mastodontech.de/@blacksheep/109679177235209039

I’d been hearing about the coal-mine protests in Germany, but this photo by Sean Gallup is the first that gave me a real sense of the titanic size of the thing and what’s being protested. Just… unreal.

Dartmoor ruling marks one landowner's naked attempt to roll back access to natural parks. We have legal access to just 8% of English land, 3% of rivers & no wild camping at all - yet Scotland's had wild camping & roaming successfully for years. We need #RightToRoam @guyshrubsole

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1613914195761975296

This pandemic will forever reshape our society. From remote work & school, to logistics resiliency to indoor air quality to how we travel & use leisure time & what people look for in housing. Our job is to make sure that people who are marginalised today come out from the shadows and the people who are affected by the pandemic are not forgotten or left behind as we find our footing.

@MarkHoltom @Lazarou The Overton window has been dragged so far to the right that "centrist" means right wing by any objective analysis. The centrists, by definition, are the ones moving the window.

Ukrainian girl dances in front of a Banksy original in Bucha.

Photo: Stephan Goss
#PhotographyOnMastodon #beautifull #UkrainewarRussia #Bucha #Banksy

In these past 3 years, I've been been able to watch with my own eyes as more and more satellites appear in my night sky. I actually published a scientific paper on satellite pollution: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac341b

The predictions useful for everybody in the world, but if I'm being honest, my initial motivation was actually to find out how bad it's going to get in my sky. (Turns out I'm at just about the worst latitude in the world for satellite light pollution and re-entry risk. Great.)

A clip from an interview with one of the original SimCity designers, on how the game would have fallen apart if parking lots in the game were their actual sizes in modern cities.

RT @OxfordDiplomat@twitter.com

One to watch.

Extremely interesting case study.

Finland is testing new ways to teach students about fake news. Media literacy is part of the national core curriculum starting in preschool. Here’s what other countries can learn from its success. https://nyti.ms/3IAqRzJ

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/OxfordDiplomat/status/1612909050764689409

I would also like to see minimum service levels for health, transport and other public services

The reason we don’t have them is 12 years of Tory austerity cuts and political chaos

And their refusal to introduce a fair and progressive tax system to fund our public services