🦕 Kimbo 🍍🍕💛 @bykimbo@social.cleverlibre.org

As I attempt to go back off grid for the first time in decades, this time with a family in tow, I'm struck by just how much the solar, and by extension renewable energy, industry has changed.

What once was geared towards people living an alternative lifestyle is now centered around making yuppies in the suburbs believe that they're saving the world if they grid-tie some solar panels on their roof and charge their Tesla at home. It's populated by "business managers" who are only interested is seeing how many shoddily done jobs they can slap up in a short amount of time who mask that fact by pretending to care about the environment to their customers.

I have yet to have a positive interaction with anyone in the industry about actual self-sustainability. They just don't care. It's all so....corporate and phony now.

This is a real disappointment in my current life. Can't even drop out of society effectively anymore.

Today's Flickr picture is one of the many interesting things to be seen when walking by the river Thames in London. My partner and I have walked both banks in stages over a period of a few years. This lifting (or bascule) bridge carries Rotherhithe Street over the entrance to Surrey Water.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_easterbrook/16434131804/
#Photography #Flickr #bridge #bascule #London #Thames

Socks the cat on the podium in White House briefing room Saturday, March 19, 1994

The German word "verbessern" means "to make better".

The word "verschlimmern" means "to worsen".

The word "verschlimmbessern" means "to make worse by trying to make better".

Anyone ever trying to fix something and fucking it up badly will feel this one.

Enjoy our language!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvaG0pEuIuk

I don't know if anyone else gets anxious about phone calls but a little tip I've learned is: if there is a phone call that I don't want to make, before I start dialing the number, I carefully hold the phone in my hand & toss it gently into a lake. I hope this advice helps others.

Was a bit surprised to hear Hunt say that he was puzzled about why so many more people are long-term sick and economically inactive.

As a recent former chair of the health select committee, you'd have hoped he might have been aware that there has been quite a big thing going on in the last couple of years affecting health.

#Covid19 #LongCovid

https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60167283?hl=en&lang=en We have a VACANCY for a 4-year PhD position within the Horizon Europe project OSIRIS - Open Science to Increase Reproducibility in Science. This large-scale international project aims to investigate and deliver guidance about evidence-based interventions to improve the reproducibility of scientific findings, with particular attention for Open Science research practices. Applications are open or contact us by direct message if you want more information!

Turing test.

"Those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil."
- Hannah Arendt

I just presented Art Spiegelman with the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, on the same day that PENAmerica put out a letter signed by Art and Margaret Atwood and me, among others, protesting the latest round of book bannings.
https://pen.org/spiegelman-atwood-sign-pen-america-letter-against-missouri-book-bans/

Back in one of my favourite places.

#Castlemaine
#CastlemaineCommunityKitchenGarden
#JaaraCountry
#DjaDjaWurringCountry
#EdibleGardens
#permaculture

Garfield phones have been washing on the shore of the Finistère coasts of France for almost four decades. There's a shipping container wedged in the rocks that has been slowly releasing them all these years. Photo by Fred Tanneau. Source: https://bit.ly/3iH3K9u

I feel very attacked. 😂

If you burn the candle at both ends, stop! That is wrong. You are bad at candles

Spanish woman fighting for the Republican Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War.

So, I'd like to thank all the sighted people here on mastidon who take the time to describe pictures to us blindies. Most people on other social media sites wouldn't do that. I appreciate it so much #ThankYouForHavingPatience #ThisIsSoAwesome