Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

Summer's not far off, and every summer millions of people come and holiday in Devon - and for good reason!
Bring your bike, as Devon has plenty of stunning traffic-free cycle routes.
Don't believe me? Have a look:
https://www.willcycle.com/category/devon/
#Cycling #FamilyCycling #TrafficFree #Devon #WillCycle

SAVE THE DATE! 🚲❣️👠👗💃💫🚲
2023 Fancy Women Bike Ride will be on September 17.
Rendezvous point & route suggestions welcome!
Eventbrite invitation pending.
FB Event invitation here: https://m.facebook.com/events/654869306438676?view=permalink&id=654869323105341&sfnsn=mo&mibextid=MjTp8q

Please boost!🚴‍♂️

#FWBR2023

Mastodon fam, I could use your help! I'm looking for uplifting/inspiring books for trans youth that I could give my son. Fiction would be great too, anything fun to read that a 14 year old would enjoy and where he can see himself represented. Would appreciate boosts to get more suggestions!

#books #LGBTQ+ #bookstodon #reading

It’s well established that open offices are really bad for productivity
It was extremely popular among companies to switch to open offices in spite of this.

So, it shouldn’t have come as a suprise to see productivity deteriorate when people are forced to return to the office

Ummm...baby snails look like butterflies?!

Some marine snails have wings when young & float through the ocean before finding a permanent home. They also use their wings, called velar lobes, to catch food. Stylish AND functional! Go baby go!
📸Alicia Choo http://bit.ly/3IrK46g

💵 $1,000,000,000,000 💵

If only we could spend a *trillion* dollars every year to fight global heating and promote climate justice. But where would we get that kind of money??

Oh...

Governments Spent Record $1 Trillion Last Year Subsidizing Fossil Fuels

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-16/fossil-fuel-subsidies-hit-record-1-trillion-in-2022-iea-says

Any #Octopus / #Cephalopod #Sculpture fans here? 😃

Trans men's agency is very openly under attack. The believe that women and girls don't know their own minds and need others to step in and protect them from the consequences of their decisions IS patriarchy.

We're years behind in understanding the way transphobia specifically targets trans men and boys by infantalizing us and casting transphobia as necessary to stop us from making choices and living our lives as we see fit.

Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House roof. Reagan took them down.

I went to the Canterbury Vigil for #BriannaGhey yesterday night and I’ve not written about it yet because I don’t know how to fully express my feelings about the experience. But I’m gonna try. (Pictured: the sign I took)

I belong to a support group for other parents of #trans kids. One of the parents just posted the obituary for their 16 year old on our group page.

This isn’t a game. It’s not idle or trendy. And it’s not up for debate. WE ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR CHILDREN’S LIVES. And we are fighting against an unending tidal wave of discrimination, misinformation, apathy, and bad faith punditry.

**LAUNCH** of #ClimateDiary
Hashtag

I've been thinking for a while that it would be good to have a collective Climate Diary (along the lines of the Sussex Mass Observation project): people from across the world recording and sharing everyday observations, experiences, thoughts, feelings relating to the #ClimateCrisis

I would like to try out simply using a #Hashtag - #ClimateDiary - here on #Mastodon to create this and I would like to invite you all to join in and share widely! 1/2

"Fuck their borders."

Via the Sea Urchins (a France-based collective of 'anti-fascist pirates').

https://seaurchins161.wixsite.com/collective/

I would like to note that most anti-trans rhetoric is something along the lines of:

"Trans people can't have rights because cis people might abuse those rights."

I deal with a lot of late identified people in my work.

The thing that is hard to process a lot for me is how brilliant people have had their lives wasted by late identification.

The stories/recoveries are near uniform - gettng diagnosed changes their lives completely (usually for the better) and most start to thrive post diagnosis (although it can take a few years).

But the wreckage, the shame, the lost decades - the personal conflicts, the breakdowns, the burnouts...

It's near uniform... lives that have been excruciatingly hard due to circumstances outside their control, which they have internalised as personal or moral failings.

I know there's no easy fix, and I don't really have anything extra to add except that it's so frustrating... and heartbreaking...

I hate hearing this song... and it's going to keep playing on loop.

also journos stop calling trans people "trans activists". people aren't activists by virtue of existing, or if they are, then something's seriously wrong with the system in place

The names of the Finnish months also seem pretty lush. Starting in January:

Tammikuu ("oak moon")
Helmikuu ("pearl moon")
Maaliskuu ("earth moon")
Huhtikuu ("cleared woods moon")
Toukokuu ("spring moon")
Kesäkuu ("summer moon")
Heinäkuu ("hay moon")
Elokuu ("crops moon")
Syyskuu ("autumn moon")
Lokakuu ("MUD MOON")
Marraskuu ("dying moon")
Joulukuu ("Yuletide moon")

https://uusikielemme.fi/finnish-vocabulary/interesting-words/the-meaning-of-the-finnish-months