Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

NHS-owned PPE worth £225 million burned in China pumping out 6,000 tonnes of CO2 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nhs-owned-ppe-worth-225-30584523

So. I have just been made aware that square melons are a thing.

This isn't a climate solution. We can't "you do you" ourselves out of the climate crisis.

We need federal standards that protect workers from the heat, and to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

I hope that Mastodon folks who like to scold newcomers will realize how off-putting -- and damaging -- that behavior is.

Please be helpful, not scornful. Let's reduce the genuine risk of poisoning fediverse growth, and thereby giving social-media oligarchs indefinite control over online discourse.

Read this essential post from @kissane to understand more. https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

Almost like Angel wings on Glastonbury Tor, this morning at sunrise.
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #tower #sunrise #sunrisephotography #golden #goldenhour #goldenhourphotography

“If we walked past a neighbor’s house and saw it on fire, we would run to assist those inside. But when we see the world in flames, we shrug and say, ‘Oh well. What can be done?’

“The answer is that quite a lot can be done, and we better get busy doing it—while there is still time.”

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/07/20/we-are-damned-fools-james-hansen/

NATO may not have a 'position' on cluster bombs, but I do. they are inhuman, as are the assholes that make, sell, buy, and use them

To observe anthropologist David Graber's recent death, I decided to read his book _Bullshit_Jobs_. To my delight, it turned out to be a rather concise description of why I had not been able to hold on to almost any job I have ever had before now: Either they were entirely bullshit jobs, or they became bullshit jobs after a reorganization.

I work for myself because I cannot tolerate the bullshit. I could probably be making a lot more money taking on bullshit jobs from people or incorporating some bullshit makework into my work, but I would rather have the self-respect to decline that.

I do seek clients who can appreciate this, though: only real problems solved, only meaningful billed hours.

OK but what if instead of travelling all the way to London and having to stay the weekend to stay in a hotel for a 5k… what if I trained for the local 10k in April 2024? That would give me 8.5 months to train. Or is that crazy talk?

@restartproject

Done:) However your submit button on my browser Firefox on Debian 11, is barely visible.

So... in the US we now have an "anti-library" party. It's remarkable how many ways republicans keep coming for libraries and librarians. From the stuff in Houston where they are turning libraries into "discipline centers" and firing librarians. To the books bans and empty shelves in Florida.

Libraries are powerful and important, and if this doesn't make that clear? I don't know what will.

Drinking alcohol is an expectation in many male-normed workplace cultures. Yet alcohol has greater neg health impacts on women. One pancreatitis patient asked her dr when she could drink again. "She said it wasn’t acceptable to not drink with clients."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/women-us-are-drinking-death-research-finds-rcna96848

"The biggest danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening, when in fact almost nothing is being done — apart from clever accounting and creative PR." - Greta Thunberg at #COP25, 2019