szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Oh gawd this feels too real.

#satire #funny #starwars

We went to see the nearby tufa channels for this #SilentSunday.

These channels are caused by a karst spring whose water has a particularly high lime content.

The carbon dioxide in the water is partially released by the warming water, as well as consumed by algae and moss.

This causes the lime to precipitate and gradually form these structures, a few millimetres every year.

Sadly the water chose a different route halfway down, causing the moss (and channel) to dry up.

#Mosstodon #Photography

OnlyBans: a website where librarians and drag queens read books that are illegal in Florida schools.

A telling graph
US life expectancy by state vs countries https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/opinion/health-care-life-expectancy-poverty.html?searchResultPosition=1

Sceptics & deniers. You’ll know the climate crisis is real when no insurance company will protect you against it, or will charge you more than you can pay.

This is already happening to businesses, farms, construction projects & home owners the world over.

They know. Wake up.

my feelings on the third day of clearing these invasive vines.

@saltphoenix says goats love this stuff. but i don't have goats & this is what happens when you don't have large herbivores in your garden ecosystem: YOU become the large herbivore having to remove & stomp down the stuff you don't want.

at least they don't have thorns!

#gardening #homesteading #CleanUp #garden #ecology #environment #InvasiveSpecies #farm #garden #plants #TropicalAg #FoodForest

Interesting article:

There are 2.2 million human beings confined in prison and jail cells in the United States tonight. About 500,000 of them are presumptively innocent and awaiting trial, the vast majority are confined by the government solely because they can't pay enough money to buy their release. This country has 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s prisoners—the highest rate of human caging of any society in recorded history of the modern world. At least another 4.5 million people are under government control through probation and parole “supervision.”

Between 80% and 90% of people charged with crimes are so poor that they can't afford a lawyer. Twenty-five years into America’s incarceration boom, black people were incarcerated at a rate 6 times that of South Africa during apartheid. The incarceration rate for black people in the nation’s capital, where I live, is 19 times that of white people.

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-punishment-bureaucracy

#massincarceration

Very annoyed at organisations who post to Twitter only now. I came across a closed road on my journey home just now. Previously I would have asked wifeface to look at the local police road units twitter. Except now if you look at it, it's in some weird order with posts from several years ago at the top and no sign of anything new. Then if you click something it requires an account. I've lost visibility into important information. If only they posted to their own website as well as bird.

I have that book for my daughter. It’s fantastic. If anything, the book teaches children to be unashamedly themselves.

Telling someone they can't be who they are is wrong. The fact that we are in such shortage of teachers and she was fired for it is ridiculously short sighted.

Being open to acceptance, understanding, empathy, and inclusion benefits everyone.

A Georgia school board fires a teacher for reading a book to students about gender identity |
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-teacher-fired-reading-book-gender-identity-64f8428af86ed47bea093fba5167506a

Takie tam…

https://www.chip.pl/2023/08/dronradar-nie-dziala-tworcy-rozkladaja-rece-chcesz-latac-dronem-wyslij-maila

https://www.swiatdronow.pl/droneradar-sp-z-o-o-wstrzymuje-rozwoj-i-utrzymanie-aplikacji

How does a librarian access remote computers securely?

ssh!

@bethsawin

I see a lot of change in Germany.

After experimenting with cheap public transport last year (a monthly ticket for ALL local transport in Germany was only €9 for 3 months, yes, subsidized) we now have the DE-ticket, which covers ALL local traffic for €49 in subscriptions.

Many people are using it to shift from cars to buses or trains.

My town has started using E-buses and has shifted the local small ferries to E-Boats (and the fare is included in the DE-Ticket).

#ClimateHope

Signs of collapse and signs of an ecological society emerging coexist right now, in my opinion. The news covers the scary parts, and we need to know, and not look away. But lets not miss the little shoots of a saner more connected ecological-social-economic system either. What's a hint of a life-sustaining society emerging you've seen of late?

#kubaZgłasza

Była dziura w chodniku - nie ma dziury w chodniku