Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

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

Imagine if we relied on “personal responsibility” instead of the law to combat other public health issues like drunk driving. No rules--just “you do you”. If you're comfortable driving drunk and wish to take the risk, go ahead and do it--why worry yourself with harming anyone else?

Wait, that doesn't work? Then why do maskless conferences, flights, and events work at a time when we know #COVID19 risks are rising. Don't take personal responsibility; take public responsibility. #WearAMask

It's normal to have a favorite index entry, right? #index

Instead of saying "come to mastodon" link the person to a thread here where they would totally want to jump in and join the conversation.

"we were just talking about this here: ***link*** -- could really. use a perspective like yours."

It gives people a starting point and some people who are active and who they'd want to follow.

Turns out the key to solving the mystery of why Roman cement lasts longer than modern cement... was to stop underestimating ancient people.

"...samples of Roman concrete contain small lumps known as lime clasts that are not found in modern structures.

While these have previously been explained as arising from poor mixing of the mortar or other errors, the team suspected there could be other reasons."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/06/self-healing-roman-concrete-could-aid-modern-construction-study-suggests

A conversation with my #son this morning —

George: I’m Alfred the Bloomin’ Marvellous
Me: Who is that?
George: He’s like Alfred the Great but better
Me: How?
George: He doesn’t burn his cakes!

#parenting #ParentingJoy