Sarah Green @fatamorgana@social.cleverlibre.org

Very much a fan of this image from https://www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-by-share-of-earths-surface/ that shows why that recent UN treaty on protecting the ocean beyond national jurisdiction matters - this is a HUGE proportion of Earth's surface. #ocean #BBJN https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21708.doc.htm

🎈🥳🎆 10 MILLION MASTODON ACCOUNTS! 🎆🥳🎈

10,001,119 to be exact!

What a milestone!

Oh, man. This comic — from 1993 — could NOT be more relevant today. As usual, Bill Watterson hits it out of the park.

#Banks #Banking #Bailout #AntiCapitalism

100 years of ship logs mapped, from the Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850.
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-climatological-map-of-worlds-oceans.html

New “good neighbor” rule issued by the EPA will restrict smokestack emissions from power plants & other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution they can’t control. Nearly two dozen states will have to cut harmful IDU emissions of nitrogen oxide & other pollutants to improve air quality for millions of people living in downwind communities -final rule-issued Wed -will save 1,000s of lives, keep 10s of 1,000s of people out of the hospital-: https://apnews.com/article/epa-downwind-pollution-power-plants-neighbor-af561d9120fbd87b0c4e355b1d867ddc

The scientific publisher Elsevier is involved with the fossil fuel industry. As #scientists, we cannot work any longer with publishers promoting a dead world. We ask #Elsevier to stop supporting #fossilfuel. Join us in a fight for a #FossilFree Research.
https://stopelsevier.wordpress.com/

Happy 70th Birthday to Richard Stallman. RMS started GNU, and launched the free software movement with it. He founded the @fsf and has remained a champion for software freedom over these many decades. Thank you for your unwavering dedication to the cause and for inspiring so many of us to fight for a world where users have control over their computing. Please join me in wishing him a very happy birthday! I'm sure you have his email. 🎉🎂 #HappyBirthday #FreeSoftware #GNU #FSF

Both chambers of the Michigan legislature voted to pass a bill repealing the state's right-to-work law.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer plans to sign it, making Michigan the first state in nearly 60 years to ditch one of these anti-union laws.

This is a big deal.

Outrage over the massive oil-drilling #WillowProject in Alaska has focused on the climate impacts and the critical need to stop all new fossil-fuel projects.
But just as relevant: the US doesn't need the oil to be energy "independent." The US is already a net EXPORTER of oil.

European Union 🇪🇺 countries have agreed to promote a global #FossilFuel🛢️phase out 🛑 ahead of the UN🇺🇳 #COP28 climate summit this year, attempting to boost a global deal that failed at last year's summit https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/eu-agrees-push-fossil-fuel-phaseout-ahead-cop28-2023-03-09/

Safety: Yet another reason to move away from #FossilFuel #gas in home heating & cooking 🧨💥https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/13/major-incident-declared-after-suspected-gas-explosion-in-swansea

This regal, daytime #hunter had just left it's perch on a dead tree in the middle of a field in the rural area between Fergus and Arthur Ontario Canada. This female #SnowyOwl is striking in white with bars and spots and golden eyes.
Snowy Owl In Flight here
https://debbie-oppermann.pixels.com/featured/snowy-owl-in-flight-debbie-oppermann.html
#owl #raptor #BirdOfPrey #wildlife #birds #animals #nature #WildlifePhotography #BirdArt #BirdLover #BirdsOfMastodon #MastoBirds #BuyIntoArt #SpringIntoArt #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #MastoArt #artwork

@bethsawin Same with my credit union, the only kind of financial institution I trust. One of them even just distributes money every year for any profit it made.

“I’m going to be late”
– mundane
– overused
– sounds like it’s your fault

“The cold and unfeeling machinations of fate have once more thrown my plans into disarray”
– mysterious
– implies some kind of impending doom
– sounds like the start of a villainous monologue

WARNING: The following decades will contain scenes of graphic violence everyone should find disturbing.

Viewer depression is advised.