lobster @Lobster@social.cleverlibre.org

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/03/us-town-public-art-ban/

"A town in the US is genuinely considering a ban on all public art because some of the art might be gay or promote LGBTQ+ ideals."

@Lobster
It has an equally strange history, one that was picked up by Bowie whilst in Berlin.

When sung by itself, t's out of context. The context is a stage production (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, a German opera of the late 1920s set in the post WWI era.) all of which was quite dark in nature, but this one piece was sung in English tho the rest of the opera is in German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_and_Fall_of_the_City_of_Mahagonny

Hais (Desert Energy Balls)
(Makes 10-15 balls)

150 grams (50 ounces) dates, roughly chopped
50 grams (2 ounces) almonds
50 grams (2 ounces) pistachios
1 tablespoon vegetable oil, plus extra to bind
Handful toasted sesame seeds, dried shredded/desiccated coconut or chopped pistachios

Biking to work this week was awesome.

Successfully installed Ubuntu on my Microsoft Surface Tablet!

#ubuntu #linux

As someone else is talking about them, I'll also talk about them.

ECPAT (short for "Every Child Protected Against Trafficking") isn't really a "child rights" group. It seems to be one of those "anti trafficking" groups. According to one activist, their founding seems to have included a merger of religiously motivated groups, this should come as a shock to precisely no one.

The so-called "anti-trafficking sector" tends to be extremely conservative (think of how they fundraise), criminal justice focused, relies on misleading (or outright false) data, tends to be religious, and doesn't take accountability for the "collateral damage" they dole out.

One of their advisers (a quite annoying person who has occasion argued with privacy activists) appears to be married to a politician from the British Conservative Party. He frequently makes incoherent (and paranoid) rants about the tech sector for not implementing whatever crazy rights violating idea that has been cooked up by someone. It's unclear whether he has any actual expertise in anything, none appears to be listed.

They have strong criminal justice associations (and they naturally advocate for maximum power, no safeguards, and no accountability for cops), and seem to also have strong associations with religiously motivated groups. I haven't seen them advocate *against* any sort of collateral damage, in any capacity, including to minors (remember, they don't actually care about their rights, only their screwed up ideology), which comes of their advocacy.

#Ozempic is a #climate story
If corporations' claims about #weightloss impacting consumption are true, then weight loss is a #degrowth story--and not just waistlines.
Witness these reports:
#Walmart did datamining and determined customers who are taking one of these #weight-loss #drugs are actually buying less food
#United #Airlines reported, because of popularity of these drugs, that if everyone who flew lost 10mb, it could start saving as much as $80M/yr on jet fuel.
https://www.mollywood.co/p/ozempic-is-a-climate-story

Fox News told lies about the 2020 election that caused Americans to storm the Capitol in nothing less than a deadly coup attempt. Billionaires who lie for profit don't deserve broadcast licenses. We're doing something about it. You can help by signing on. http://tiny.cc/fccfox

#FoxLies @TruthOverFox
#FCC

Didn't believe this was a thing until I actually saw it myself.

I bank at a small, local credit union. I recently cleared my autocomplete settings so plugged their name into #Google to get back to their homepage.

The Sponsored result IS NOT my bank's website. But is skinned the same. 100% a #phishing site served as a Google ad above the legitimate business website.

This is a major problem, my friends.

A Zimbabwe Permaculture Project Full Doco on Vimeo

https://vimeo.com/376455835

Himalayan Permaculture Centre on Vimeo

https://vimeo.com/825822148

Oh yes. The SST graph.
For today,
Mean is 20.0 C
2 sigma is 20.3 C
Now 20.8 C

How well would you function if your blood pressure was 4 standard deviation points over the average? Death limits finding out.

#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateChange
#RandomCurseWord

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

Norwegian Cities Favour Transit, Walking Despite Generous National EV Subsidies

https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/11/09/norwegian-cities-favour-transit-walking-despite-generous-national-ev-subsidies/

#Inflation

A brand new episode of the Radical Simple Living Podcast is up for listening in any podcast place, or here;

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/raylovegrove/episodes/2023-11-06T00_15_08-08_00

We don't have any idea of what the future holds! That doesn't mean that we don't need to be ready for whatever events come our way. In this episode we explore strength, security, being calm and steady, being prepared and keeping aware.

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #WhatHappensNext #Podcast