Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

The idealism of youth is an amazing thing. Google’s founders used to write essays about how immoral search results full of ads were and people used to call Microsoft “evil” because you couldn’t download the source code for Windows or Office.

It all seems so quaint now.

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!

#BanPrivateJets

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

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- Pet-friendly
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- No strings attached

its very funny to post 'mastodon isnt viable because your admin can just have a meltdown' on elon musk's meltdown website

"Hybrid work makes people better at their jobs, from commuting to ‘deep work.’ But companies aren’t doing it right"

https://fortune.com/2023/02/12/organized-hybrid-benefits-commuting-deep-work/

til that caffeine is a pesticide, and that's its evolutionary function in tea and coffee

humans enjoy eating a lot of different animal poisons don't we. chocolate too.

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/

TIL that minus four degrees looks like a guy taking a shit.

-4°

Toot there it is.

#til #guy #shit

Don't

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.

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

Kinda makes me wonder if we have plesiosaurs all wrong.

Penguins are secretly 50% neck by volume.