Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

It's interesting that just three decades after Pripyat was abandoned because of the Chernobyl disaster, the forest has already reclaimed the city.

Don't let anyone convince you that reforestation is difficult. It'll happen all by itself, if people allow it to.

#OpenScience thoughts on an icy morning walk 🌄.

For me, one of the biggest benefits of #OpenScience has been the recognition of #BigTeamScience. I used to think we had to have every skill in the skill book, and this fed massively into my Impostor Syndrome.

Big Team Science allowed me to truly understand that acquiring every skill is impossible. Instead, working collaboratively alongside each other with our unique expertise creates stronger research.

We are human. We can't do it all. 💡

This whole business with trying to migrate my account has got me thinking about place names and our inner geography. I’ve recently moved house, and the hill I live on once gloried in the name of Faerie Knowe. That place is gone now, swallowed up by change; it has a much more prosaic street name today. But I wonder what it was named for? The ancient and fey oak tree in my garden? The whimsy of a Victorian gentleman? The in-jokes of 18th century potters? Here it is on a map #folklore #faeries

RT @RebeccaSear
Why is this story about the effects of austerity on population health not constantly splashed on the front of every newspaper? “Britain is suffering from worsening health, as the NHS and social care system buckles after years of underinvestment” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/05/health-gets-in-the-way-of-work-in-grimsby?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

There's no systemic racism but weirdly every time we train an AI on public data sets it becomes very racist.

Proposal to stop referring to covid in the past tense and climate change in the future tense.

No words are strong enough to criticize the decision to open a new *coal mine* in the middle of a *climate emergency*
Tory claims to global leadership on climate revealed as hypocritical farce
Caroline Lucas is right to call this a crime against humanity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/07/opening-coalmine-cumbria-climate-crime-against-humanity

A young doctor friend of mine said that the starving of the NHS is a deliberate policy to enable privatization

He worked in the very ward where Boris Johnson was in hospital with Covid

Disgraceful betrayal of the very best in our society

RT @paullewismoney@twitter.com

Private health care to expand in effort to clear backlogs https://bit.ly/3VLt1Ab

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/paullewismoney/status/1600743094806192130

Wondering how successful those new Paris bike-lanes have been? New cyclists account for almost 6 in 10 users of new protected lanes. More women are on bikes. And 62% of residents of the Paris Region want the new bike-lanes to be made permanent. Via @roadcc
https://road.cc/content/news/6-10-users-pop-bike-lanes-paris-new-cycling-280681
#cities #urbanism #Paris #BikeLanes

This image shows the ONLY places in all of England and Wales where wild camping is legal, without explicit consent of the landowner.
A hedge fund manager wants to remove that from us. Are you going to let him?
https://www.willcycle.com/2022/12/06/the-threat-to-wild-camping-on-dartmoor/
#Dartmoor
#WildCamping

Do not use candles and terracotta pots to heat your home, it's not safe.

BBC News - TikTok homemade heater trend blamed for Derby flat fire
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-63880157

The most important thing that happened to me was to become, at age 7, an expatriate kid. I was only that for a few years, but the learning stuck. I retain this point of view even decades later. Here’s 5 lessons.

1. I know that the things taken for granted are often arbitrary.

2. I learned to be a minority.

3. I learned to ask questions about the unfamiliar in respectful ways.

4. I learned what class, wealth, and poverty were.

5. There’s very little of the planet untouched by colonialism.

Die Hortensie hatte dieses Jahr nur eine einzige Blüte, aber die trotzt noch dem Winter, während die Blätter schon abgefallen sind. #fotografie #photo #flowers

@rob_yaxley looks just as weird on the inside. #mistletoe #teachingcollection #ucnw #Bangor

Apparently it's super easy to add your own A2 posters to the Liverpool Metro's snap frames. #BoycottQatar2022 #Qatar2022

Hello Fediverse! #introduction

We're a charity that helps people learn how to repair their broken things, and challenges the pattern of consumption of electronics and electricals in the first place.

We support community #repair and #reuse and repair businesses in London and beyond, and are active in pushing for the #RightToRepair in the UK and in Europe.

#RestartParties #RepairCafes #FixingFactories

it has not ALL been just a history of unilinear destruction of nature by humans.

So I will post different examples of this here every day this coming week.

1. Today, it's forest islands in West Africa. These were long thought of as last remnants of forest, surrounded by 'derived savanna', but James Fairhead and Melissa Leach showed that they were growing and created by people through villages, habitation and farming. Watch their film 'Second Nature' here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgsRnGmI3UU

Have you ever wondered how many Mastodon users other people follow?

Most active Mastodon users follow around 150 other people. (That's the median number anyway. So half follow less than 150, and the other half follow more than 150.)

About 10% of active Mastodon users follow more that 600 people.

About 10% of active Mastodon users follow less than 15 people.

The full distribution is based on a large sample of active Mastodon users.

#Mastodon #MastodonTips #MastodonMigration #Follow

Still thinking about this cat #streetart I saw from my work today. #catsofmastodon

"They formed a shield wall, ready to meet their enemy with pears."

It's a bold strategy, but I'm not convinced that it's wise or tactically accurate.

#TypoOfTheDay