 A big part of me wanted to just stay in bed this morning. I forced myself to get up, get dressed, and go out and run errands and be around other people for a bit. It wasn't a magical fix, but it did help. It reminded me that as horribly flawed as things are, there's also a community out there. Well, looks like we're going to need some more leopards to get through all these faces. I think it's going to be more important than ever that #Mastodon and the #fediverse are not centrally operated out of the US unlike almost every other social media platform out there.
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TIL The beautiful sand beaches of the Maldives are made out of up to 85% poo by the Parrot fish. One Parrot fish alone can create up to 500kg of sand per year! https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/the-secret-behind-the-maldives-stunning-white-sand-an-unexpected-sea-creature/articleshow/113894098.cms Sounds about right. Have an #InvasiveSpecies around? Put it on the menu! #Python Meat Could Be a Sustainable, Nutritious Food Source, Scientists Say The snakes may be some of the most resource-efficient animals to farm on the planet, a new study suggests by Sarah Kuta, March 2024
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 @shlee just for once could Technology not be 'Pale, Male and Stale', is that too much to ask from Silicon Valley? Imagine the 100+ deaths in #spain were a terror attack. It would be talk of the day for weeks. Politicians would scream for Swift And Decisive Action. Never Again! Root of the Problem! It's climate change. And yes, We need to Act Swiftly and Decisively. But those yelling it loud enough to be heard, were thrown in jail for "planning to be disruptive". Now we mourn, send thoughts and prayers, and tomorrow we go on making the problem bigger. Because "duh economuh".
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 Not the politicians who were on the same side as the terrorists, and therein lies the problem.  @JorisMeys I find John Ironmonger's idea quite charming, we freeze the politicians and then thaw them out when we can and then put them on trial. The Washington Post's non-endorsement in the U.S. election may have led to a mass exodus of subscribers (250,000 according to @npr), but that's been a boon to many other news organizations. Nieman Lab says The Guardian U.S. broke its single-day fundraising record, twice, while the Philadelphia Inquirer had its best ever week for new subscriptions. The Boston Globe says it also had a subscriber bump. Read more here. @kudra : It's one of Tingle's actual books! You can get it from Amazon, or via Patreon. https://www.amazon.com/Expanded-Important-Solution-Creating-Dependent-ebook/dp/B0D7W1W1X6 Love this. Please tell me who to attribute it to if you know! #parody #chucktingle #BikeTooter #fuckcars #kindofliterally? @kudra : It's one of Tingle's actual books! You can get it from Amazon, or via Patreon. https://www.amazon.com/Expanded-Important-Solution-Creating-Dependent-ebook/dp/B0D7W1W1X6 @kudra this was a very necessary laugh, after seeing a recording of a state rep going on about how my city is full of āwoke bike lanesā which is both untrue (I wish we had more bike lanes!) and a bunch of jumbled nonsense. Maybe heās read this book! (probably a parody but you can never tell with Tingle) Hereās the result of an A/B test. The more expensive Eco-bait from Bunnings catches the flies. If you would like to read the robodebt FOI docs that the government fought me over for almost 8 years, and lost comprehensively in the full bench of the federal court, here they are: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d21K_oEaGbaNNWlfsuY2_t5X8wViG8CD/view?usp=drive_link Shout-out to this guy engraving scenes of modern ecocide onto found ocean plastics, in the style of traditional whalebone scrimshaw. https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/07/15/plastic-scrimshaw-whaling-new-bedford Wealth of Elon Musk Wealth of Jeff Bezos Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg Federal Minimum Wage Three words: tax the rich.
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 @Strandjunker Even the state with the biggest minimum wage increase since 2012 is only a 50% increase. This is very cool - Melbourne photographed from the International SPace Station last night. |
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@mattblaze like I keep saying to myself, I have done all I could do, and am still doing the things I've done to at least make life for those who have to be around me NOT suck.
When all's said and done, I can't put basic living on hold due to the poor copy of the Three Stooges at the federal level.
@mattblaze not me. I do not live a life of illusion. I face the shit each day head on. Keep fighting, fear nothing. I have kids that need a strong leader.
Thanks for sharing your bit of struggle. I can relate very much to "as horribly flawed as things are, there's also a community out there."