Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

You should always flock to federated social media, but you should do it especially on July 8 at 16:00 EDT, when we'll be hosting a Q&A session over Mastodon! https://u.fsf.org/3mb #UserFreedom

Diwedd y tywydd poeth?
End of the hot weather?

Archaeologists Uncover Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery (Buckinghamshire, UK)

The team found 138 graves and a large assortment of artifacts and personal objects

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncover-early-medieval-cemetery-england-180980278/

#LochArkaig #OspreyCam: Live #Webcam - #WoodlandTrust

Wow, those two surviving #osprey #chicks are getting big. They’ve probably got a decent chance of reaching maturity, I reckon.

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/osprey-cam/

#UK #Scotland

I know it's a matter of respect to call everyone by their chosen name, but I"ll never respect Facebook enough to call them "Meta". That just covers up their evil history. They'll forever be Facebook, just like Google isn't "Alphabet".

Teachers to be given more resources to teach Welsh history 'in all its diversity and complexity' https://nation.cymru/news/wales-welsh-new-curriculum-bame-history-black-asian-minority-ethnic/

Steve Wilson from Dwr Cymru says “green infrastructure” is key to managing surface water as removing the network of storm overflow pipes in Wales is not economically feasible https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-water-director-says-reducing-surface-flooding-is-its-biggest-challenge/

Question, please boost: I am looking for accounts to follow which focus on African affairs from an African perspective, whether personal accounts by journalist, activists etc., or news portals, independent news outlets as well as sciency ones, political science ones, think tanks etc.

RT @GeraintDaviesMP@twitter.com

Govt plans to make certain human rights abuses in Europe permissible in UK giving legitimacy to countries like Russia to do so too.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GeraintDaviesMP/status/1539642969086693376

'Putinesque' Johnson using Northern Ireland to start fight with EU says former Welsh Secretary https://nation.cymru/news/putinesque-johnson-using-northern-ireland-to-start-fight-with-eu-says-former-welsh-secretary/

Take a look at this world map of encryption. What are your thoughts? For Germany, we can say for sure that end-to-end encryption is safe. But we need to fight for #privacy as pressure to backdoor encryption is increasing around the world. Take action now: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/csam-apple-eu-surveillance
https://www.gp-digital.org/world-map-of-encryption/

Folks in #Wales / #Cymru, if you use buses, there is currently a Welsh government consultation on plans to create a national and unified bus service: https://gov.wales/one-network-one-timetable-one-ticket-planning-buses-public-service-wales It closes on 24th June.

Farhad A wrote the following post Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:35:46 +0200 1982 - “Tell them.”
- “I did. They laughed.”

1992 - Tell them again."
- “I did. They laughed.”

2002 - You must keep telling them."
- “I do tell them, everyday I tell them few will listen”

“They must listen or it will be too late”

- “It is too late.”

2022 - “Is it really still too late?”
- “It’s way past too late. Fewer people are laughing.”

2033 “Why did no one tell us?”
- “Oh we did, many times, many ways. But we have made progress. No one is laughing anymore.”

#GlobalWarming #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #Environment

People who caught Covid in first wave get ‘no immune boost’ from Omicron
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/14/people-who-caught-covid-in-first-wave-get-no-immune-boost-from-omicron?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

"Arron Banks almost crushed me in court. Instead, my quest for the facts was vindicated" - Carole Cadwalladr https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/commentisfree/2022/jun/19/arron-banks-set-out-to-crush-me-in-court-instead-my-quest-for-the-facts-was-vindicated

A group of people in a room staring at their phones. Every half hour or so a different one looks up and complains about how everyone else does nothing but look at their phones.

#FossilFuel firms ‘have humanity by the throat’, says #UN head in blistering attack | #ClimateCrisis | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/17/fossil-fuel-firms-un-head-antonio-guterres-blistering-attack

#Environment #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

I was really depressed for the last two days because I left my ring on the lawn and the crows stole it BC shiny. It's irreplaceable and Akkas gave it to me two years ago so I was devastated. I dredged the pond and used a metal detector all over the lawn but it was gone. But today I cooked the crows bacon in the morning and this afternoon it was returned RIGHT WHERE I LEFT THE BACON!!!!!