"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart."
Jerome K. Jerome died #OTD in 1927. He is best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel; and several other novels. @Wikipedia
Books by Jerome K. Jerome at PG:
Public to lose access to footpaths after landowner lobbying https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/public-access-paths-lost-landowners-lobby-government-therese-coffey-england/
W przygotowaniu dzisiejszej kolacji nie brały udziału paliwa kopalne ;)
Przy okazji #DIY: zamiast kuchenki na drewno zwykły ociekacz z nierdzewki za 6 złotych. Zobaczyłem gdzieś ten pomysł i chciałem sprawdzić, czy to działa. No działa i to nieźle :)
PSA: when I’m unanimously elected Grand Pooh-Bah and Emperor - it’s only a matter of time, since the current political model certainly isn’t working - the whole “Sunday is the first day of the week” nonsense in the US calendars will go away.
Just so you know.
Yeah, I can deal with it by just setting my locale to be UK instead of US, and since I’m ok with 24-hour time anyway, that works well for me.
I just want to save everybody else from this insanity. Who is with me?
So to prepare for that inevitable day, I would strongly suggest that any calendaring app writer already make “Monday is the first day of the week” an option. You know it’s what most people think anyway.
Kudos to Google Calendar for getting this right when so few others do (eg the “snooze until” calendar in gmail does not 😒).
Kilka dni temu quad szalał po naszej okolicy, po parku narodowym. Zgłoszone, straż parkowa nic nie może zrobić – słaby monitoring, brak tablic rejestracyjnych. Ale jak sobie kupił, to uważa, że ma prawo. https://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/quady-crossy-i-terenowki-niszcza-przyrode/
Ecosystem restoration
Consuming less
Sharing more
Heat pumps
Protecting voting rights
Electrification
Insulation
Densification
Walkability
Fixing things
Urban trees
Climate advocates in local offices
Four day work weeks
Public transit
More bikes
Flying less
Fixing things
PV
Wind
In case you are wondering if there's anything we can do.
@rose_alibi I'm on my second Dell ex-uni-library computer. The last one got an additional 7 years with me. And I have one extra one more plus some peripherals in store to spruce up for future use (my library contact retired 😢) . The "capital expenditure" tab in my business accounts is very empty. You only get tax-relief for buying new stuff instead of re-purposing the old. I guess that falls under the label of "perverse incentives", no?
@Lazarou
There is an unbelievable number of cis het men who are #Christian pastors who have been indicted for child molestation or sexual assault. And that's not including priests of the Catholic church.
It is dumbfounding to me that the American public is unable to see this very stark, clear pattern.
I warned people years ago in my Tedx talk. There will be climate-change related FAMINES in places that never knew them before.
"After the news of historic anticipated wheat failures in Kansas, farmers in Alberta, Canada, are now warning of "zero wheat production." Soil moisture is so low, crops are dying in the ground. "It’s something that we’ve never experienced before."" https://globalnews.ca/news/9761043/dry-spring-southern-albertan-farmers-zero-production/
I often wish our children could vote bc today’s policies define their future health, safety & well-being in a rapidly changing world.
And most of the folks with power to make decisions at the national level won’t be part of that future, so for them, short-term choices are more personal than long-term hypotheticals.
But our kids can’t vote. So it’s on us to be their voice in the years to come.
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.