1/ Follow up to previous post about repairing.
We live in an amazing time of education. Not just academical, but skills.
I'm not just talking about things like Skillshare, that focus predominantly on digital skills, coding, editing, writing, etc. but traditional crafts as well.
Blacksmithing, welding, plumbing, electrical, construction, tailoring, weaving.
Need to repair an adobe wall? There's a youtube channel.
Need to rewire a socket?
There's a well written page.
BREAKING NEWS:
Scientist Rebellion Belgium are blocking the private jet terminal of Brussels Airport along with our sibling group XR Belgium.
The emissions of the richest 1% vastly outstrip the emissions of ordinary people. This climate inequality must stop!
You know who DOESN’T get to decide if the concept of “15-Minute Cities,” which supports MORE CHOICE, LESS CAR DEPENDENCY, and LOWER PUBLIC COSTS & CONSEQUENCES, is good public policy?
The same extreme alt-right conspiracy theorists and cynical political opportunists who brought us truck occupations in Canadian neighbourhoods, the January 6th Insurrection, & Brexit.
I won’t let their unhinged lies work. You shouldn’t either.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g898/walkable-15-minute-cities-con
It's getting less attention than the transphobia, but the antisemitism of JK's entire world, and in the game specifically, should also be condemned. https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/hogwarts-legacy-antisemitism-goblins-horn/
An eyewitness account and some context from someone who took part in the #AntiFascist protest defending #Refugees against a mob whipped up by the #FarRight in #Liverpool last night. This is where allowing the government's vile rhetoric and the lies of the rightwing press to flourish unchecked gets us.
#Knowsley #UKRacism #AsylumSeekers "#Grooming" #Misinformation
https://wilkieleaks.substack.com/p/a-bleak-day-for-merseyside?
Until the US is safely walkable or bikeable, people will continue to buy urban tanks in self-defense.
Since my kids were three years old, they've known to raise their hand as high as they can and wave it around whenever they hear a car engine start.
Some strangers smile and wave back when they see my kids do this. They think it's cute! But it's not really that cute.
I don't believe in gatekeeping. I believe that language changes and evolves according to our needs, and the only important thing is to be mutually intelligible, not to follow some arbitrary rules.
That being said I just overheard a student asking her friend if she was coming to something, and her friend replying "Potensh" and now I want to take off and nuke Exeter from orbit.
Absolutely the best Acknowledgments section of a paper I’ve read. From https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03988 #astrodon / h/t @playingwithdust
The sooner we can rejoin the single market & customs union to fix all these problems, the better: "Hundreds of seats left empty on London-Paris Eurostar trains due to Brexit" https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/eurostar-seats-empty-brexit-london-paris-b2268087.html
@XanIndigo you know about palaeoartist C. M. Kosemens sketches of how elephant/zebra/rhino and others look, if restored from found bones similar to how we did dinosaurs?
http://cmkosemen.com/articles.html
Born at 341 ppm (https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon-footprint-calculator/carbon-by-birth-year/)
Apparently a collection of hastags in a trenchcoat. #Botany #Entomology #Ecology #Weeds #PavementPlants #Permaculture #Sustainability #Composting #NoDig #Hiking #Cycling #RightToRoam #SlowTravel #FlightFree #CarFree #Bushcraft #Foraging #WildFood #PlantBased #AncestralSkills #Cordage #FibreCraft #Knitting #OpenSource #OpenAccess #SolarPunk #coops #unions #RightToRepair