Police protecting environmental plunder
RCMP has spent nearly $50M on policing pipeline, logging standoffs in B.C.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-cirg-spending-resource-extraction-1.6705076
Puddle
Sometimes the small world at my feet seems fascinating. Something as simple as a puddle
"Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? That's because they know an important truth: Life was meant to be lived; puddles were meant to be experienced. " - Richelle E. Goodrich
Hej ostatnio poważnie wgryzam się w tematykę RUCHÓW NOWOWIEJSKICH (NEORURAL) – kojarzycie taki termin? – Może są wśród Was osoby, które interesują się (agro)ekologią i migracją miasto–>wieś? 15.01 o 19:00 w Solatorium na warszawskim Jazdowie organizuję spotkanie sieciujące pod tytułem "Warszawscy neoruralsi". Zapraszamy!
Cindy Gladue is not to be remembered as a victim, says her family, but as a woman with a “joyful, loving spirit.”
Gladue, 36, a Cree and Métis woman, was killed in an Edmonton hotel room in June 2011.
“As the Supreme Court concluded, ‘the criminal justice system … let her down — indeed, it let us all down,’” read Gladue family friend Julie Kaye on Jan. 5 in a prepared statement from the family.
Welcome to Norway in winter!
This series is inspired by the snow. It embraces those days when the clouds lie low, and the wind pushes snow across the landscape.
This boat-shed was a favie of mine. A simple subject but rich in detail and mood. I have a lot of shots of this shed.
#Norway #Lyngen #Tromsø #HappyPlace #Lumix #LumixS1R #Photography #Photographie #Fotografie
Your parenthetical of the week, from a Philly Inquirer story about a lawsuit against the police over an officer’s tendency to take off his pants in the precinct office:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-pants-disrobing-office-lawsuit-20230106.html
There's more water here than usual. But there are less trees than before. At least #IdąPsięta have a playground. #DogsOfMastodon #wetlands
Poland increasingly turns its back on the Catholic Church.
The disaffection is especially noticeable among the younger generation, who perceive the institution as trampling on the right of women to control their own bodies and denying any sexual orientation other than heterosexuality.
New(ish) paper: #Queen #honeybees adjust their #investment
(and the proteins) in their #eggs depending on the real or perceived size of their #colony: https://elifesciences.org/digests/80499/investing-in-the-next-generation
Queens also partly control which and how may #drones they #mate with. And it seems that they partly control offspring #sex #ratios (older research): https://www.science.org/content/article/queen-bees-control-sex-young-after-all
So much going on, and definitely some #complex #interactions to explore. Gotta love #social #insects!
Just got approached by a local foundation to run a short #solarpunk #writing workshop for #VisuallyImpaired youth!
If it goes through, you have my promise that I'll share all the materials publicly, on open licenses.
Can you recommend any resources? I know that "The Boston Hearth Project" features a wheelchair using activist, https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54768805 focuses on #disabled and #ChronicallyIll characters.
Should we 3D print some illustrations? Any processes that worked for you?
You are an animal with a nervous system embedded in a society in overshoot of ecological limits with governance and economic systems more focused on symptomatic fixes than changing to acknowledge root causes.
Of course you are sad, scared, mad, or numb at least some of the time! Those feelings are sensing mechanisms. They're adaptive. They're part of self-organization in complexity.
What's shocking about this is the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) appears to be working with Meta to protect their illegal, unconsenting use of people's data. Eg refusing to release the regulators' full legal decision text to the plaintiff, let alone the public. Heads need to roll at the DPC and potentially in the institutions where those heads are chosen (the Irish Parliament? Anyone know? @pluralistic?)
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.