Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

#Fracking paused in #Blackpool after biggest #tremor to date | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/11/fracking-blackpool-tremor-cuadrilla

#UK #England

Any advice on dealing with climate despair? 'cause it looks like we're all kinda doomed. I found some articles with headlines about not giving up, but they all end with vague insistences that governments and corporations need to change course and we all know they're not going to.

It’s a sad reality: a troubling trend sees a 97% decline in monarch butterflies. “For every little thing that changes there’s not just one consequence – it’s a whole chain reaction.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/07/its-a-sad-reality-a-troubling-trend-sees-a-97-decline-in-monarch-butterflies?

Property developer 'airbrushes mosque' out of marketing photos, triggers backlash

https://on.rt.com/9jxt https://quitter.im/attachment/1628544

#US and #Russia ally with #SaudiArabia to water down #climate pledge | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/09/us-russia-ally-saudi-arabia-water-down-climate-pledges-un

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

We like to talk about the seedy underbelly of the internet being dark net sales of cheap meth and fake assassination sites, but the real seedy behavior is by large companies that prey on the lives of our children, creating shadow profiles for even the youngest of them. Everything from their apps to photos posted with parental love, data mined by AI for sinister ends -- How to trap our children in the unyielding web of dopamine slavery, clicking links in a proverbial field of advertising.

Or maybe it's just me.

I started Mastodon because I believe in decentralization. The more servers there are, and the more people are spread throughout them, the stronger the network is.

I encourage people to join other servers, or start their own.

However! mastodon.social is the gateway for those who are undecided, or who don't yet know about decentralization. It is also my baby just like the software itself. I do not appreciate hostility towards it when promoting the benefits of other servers. Thanks

Just wanted to say that i'm appreciating the fediverse more and more each day. When i think of the federated model or instances, i see images of neurons, nodes, rhizome, networks.Decentralized yet connected. Amazing.

Facebook employees show up for work.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18128267/facebook-morale-uk-parliament-emails-privacy-competition

The 'great #dying': rapid warming caused largest #extinction event ever, report says | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/06/global-warming-extinction-report-the-great-dying

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Ecology