Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

RT LIFE Programme
How can we respond to increased river flooding in Europe?💙
Learn about the adaptation measures to reduce #flood risk!
Find out more 👇
https://europa.eu/!NWB9mf
#Flooding
#EUGreenDeal
#ClimateAdaptation

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/LIFEprogramme/status/1689907559447048193

More cars = less friends. 🚙🚕🚓🚗

People living on streets with heavy traffic do have less friends and less acquaintances on average.

It's funny when people tell biologists to get a "real job" in the "real world". The living world *is* the real world. The world of economics and finance, real estate speculators and venture capitalists? *That* is the fake world, operating under the delusion that it isn't embedded in and entirely dependent on the the biosphere and all other aspects of the natural world. The problem is our society, which systematically favors profits in the illusory world over the well being of the real one.

Return of El Niño raises risk of hunger, drought and malaria, scientists warn:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/10/return-of-el-nino-raises-risk-of-hunger-drought-and-malaria-scientists-warn

Absofinglutely...

It’s so important to get involved in local direct action and mutual aid groups, and to build communities that provide for each other. We cannot wait for elected officials to save us, they never will. The Democrats, the SNP, Québec Solidaire, it doesn’t matter. Electoralism is not a viable strategy for dealing with problems that liberal democracy has caused.

Passionate about decarbonization? Knowledgeable about how to get there?

Join me at Columbia Business School to help get our Climate Knowledge Initiative off the ground!

The task: go sector by sector, technology by technology, to help business leaders, policymakers, and the rest of us to zero in on the investable, scalable low-carbon technologies, while unapologetically flagging where business & public interests diverge. Job posting just went up today: https://opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/communications-specialist-climate-knowledge-initiative-in-the-tamer-center-manhattanville-new-york-united-states
#climate #job

Sharing because this is pretty cool and it's making the rounds on several places uncredited, and also because it's spot on and very true and worth remembering.

🎨 Art by Noah Reinoso:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrQov1QuN97/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
https://linktr.ee/reinpress?fbclid=PAAaYyI9HBWXKj-CjusynjorVWj5DysFBbHhQ_Z3B57J9m-MM_Gon5ViX-gis

🖋 Inspired by a poem by:
https://instagram.com/corpseofapoet?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

#art #quote #quotes

one thing I love about fedi (there are many things) is there’s so much less performative nonsense to appease or cater to followers than I’ve experienced elsewhere

just a lot of cool creatures being their weird freaky awesome selves 🖤🖤🖤

@J12t Don't really know what your context is, but I'd call it more like:

Defederation and Self-Ownership is the entire point. If you just want to test and learn without committing then there are public servers, but then you still have someone else holding your data, and you gotta chose who that is. You should probably consider it temporary home, like a fediverse hobo living in a hobo hotel until you set you your proper homestead.

But this is why they don't let me do presentations.

I think my answer would be:

1. the increasing enshittification of the current internet causes individuals and communities to seek out still-less-enshittified alternatives, and preferably alternatives that are less like to do so in the future. ("Use mastodon: no ads!")

2. the growing unease with use of collected personal data for manipulation by the big platforms causes users to seek out places that don't do that. ("Use mastodon: no algorithms!)

3. some organizations are beginning ...

... to recognize that an open social network allows them to innovate in ways that they never could in a closed network, potentially leading to new business opportunities.

Just saw that #Etsy has had three articles about how they mistreat their sellers in as many days. As an independent #artist myself, I've been struggling to find purchase (and purchasers) on the platform, which is why I started building #magpiemarket - a #federated Etsy-alternative. These articles just go to show how much we need a new space that helps #artists rather than uses them. Please #boost this to help us spread the word.

What’s Wrong with Coding?
https://hackscience.education/2017/12/08/whats-wrong-with-coding/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Growing up Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher told us that capitalism went hand in hand with freedom and democracy.

Today we can see that capitalists can quite comfortably walk hand in hand with authoritarianism and fascism to maintain and consolidate their wealth and power.