Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

So. Much. FacePalm. Conspiracy theories and insects collide: "a cabal of shadowy elites are trying to force the population to eat insects as part of a sinister totalitarian plot" 🤦‍♀️ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-ontario-cricket-factory-1.6562083

Plenty of people have mental disorders and don’t praise Hitler or spread hate.

Subjective impression: seems like big BirdSite accounts are not as happy with a perceived lower level of engagement here, while smaller ones find a lot more engagement.

I bring this up, as I feel like I'm in a bit of a sweet spot (30K twitter followers, 2K here) where the engagement is more or less equivalent. It seems like the same community in a slightly different-shaped bowl.

Book Review: An Unflinching Critique of the Eugenics Movement. In “Control,” geneticist Adam Rutherford grapples with the millennia-long history of engineered attempts to perfect humanity — and how that checkered past ought to shape current science. “Eugenics is a busted flush, a pseudoscience that cannot deliver on its promise,” https://undark.org/2022/12/02/book-review-an-unflinching-critique-of-the-eugenics-movement/

Trans rights, women’s rights, human rights: beyond the vitriol

How did the small and vulnerable transgender community become so vilified in the UK?

Via @YorkshireBylines

#Bylines
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/trans-rights-womens-rights-human-rights-beyond-the-vitriol/

A 1937 poster demonizing jaywalking. In the early 20th century, it became clear that the proliferation of cars was dangerous for pedestrians. In order to make city streets easier for drivers to navigate, auto companies invented the crime of "jaywalking" ("jay was slang for "fool") in order to get pedestrians out of the streets. It was successful. Soon, after streets went from being places of commerce and communication to the domain of automobiles.

#history #histodon #histodons @histodons

💡 Idea: we need a privilege similar to attorney-client privilege, but between techies and people they support.

Journalists, refugees, people at-risk and from marginalized groups, and we all, really, need to *know* that tech people supporting them cannot be legally forced to disclose the (often very personal or sensitive) data they gain access to while providing tech support.

Data that is shared with them in confidence, and which is often necessary to render tech help at all.

#InfoSec #Legal

The trouble with allowing Sunak to bring the term ‘illegal protests’ into the jargon without challenge is that it will lead to a mindset where all protests are seen as illegal. A bit like ‘illegal immigrants’. Journalists have a duty not to let this happen.

have a fabulous Friday its been a frosty one here

@jrosen707
I had this beautiful Eyed Hawkmoth visit earlier this year.

Important tip: #counsellor and #psychotherapist are NOT protected titles in the #UK

If you're looking for a #therapist, you should ensure that they are on a PSA register.

Example registers:
NCS https://nationalcounsellingsociety.org/counselling-directory
BACP https://www.bacp.co.uk/search/Therapists#0
UKCP
https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/

A full list of registers: https://www.professionalstandards.org.uk/check-practitioners/practitioner/counselor

A qualified therapist will never mind you asking about their qualifications and/or their professional membership details!

You can’t spell fediverse without diverse.

A lot of Mastodon instance admins are either getting their first hosting bill or getting a very increased bill from extreme growth and usage. Some may be experiencing bill shock.

Please make sure your paying/supporting them!

Twitter was free because you were the product. Mastodon doesn't work this way.

Many instances list a patreon or donation links on their about page.

Oh the mind boggles about those cat-related lawsuits #cats

I’m reading Jennifer Higgie’s The Mirror and the Palette, and it’s not only a history of some astonishingly strong-willed and open-minded women who could conceive themselves as artists. You also get to know some very fine gentlemen, whose ability to see & support their daughters, sisters an above all wives as primarily a working artist, sometimes seems even more extraordinary and revolutionary. Charles Beale, Mary Beale’s Husband, for example, really is an ornament to his sex.

Mondrian Crescent

I love it when train doors align at the end of a tunnel. The red tiles at Green Park station make this the ideal location to capture this moment.

It wasn't luck though, instead I froze the moving train with a fast shutter. It took ages to get it centred.

This final image resembles an abstract art painting by Piet Mondrian.

#art #mastoart #abstract #architecture #photography #potd #symmetry #london #underground #londonunderground #railway #mondrian #tiles #photo

Oh, so you want to be a gatekeeper? Name five different gates!

Moss with water drops - after yesterday's frost today we have a heavy dew/frost melt.

#mosstodon #moss