Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Climate scientists hail 2023 as ‘beginning of the end’ for fossil fuel era | Climate crisis | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/30/climate-scientists-hail-2023-as-beginning-of-the-end-for-fossil-fuel-era

https://www.europesays.com/978898/ 39-Year-Old Russian Blogger Aims To Beat Putin in Presidential Candidacy #ConflictInUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict

Did you know that the FSF now has a Friends membership tier? It doesn't have all the benefits of the standard or student associate membership tiers, but it does include the option to receive a USB membership card with Trisquel GNU/Linux, an FSF membership badge, access to the member forum, and some other perks, all while supporting software freedom. Read more about the Friends tier: https://u.fsf.org/1m6 #FreeSoftware #LearnLibre

It is really depressing that we are not getting much news about the horrible situation in Gaza.

Isrsel is killing every reporter who dares to expose their crimes, including their families, in surgical attacks blowing up their houses.

One by one, they are getting killed.

The internet is at less than 10% of it's previous speed.

Mobile network is cut off to non existence.

In the mean time, people dying, by the 100s, not just by bombings, but lack of medicine, lack of proper care, lack of clean water, lack of food.

Everything you can imagine, is happening in Gaza today and some more.

But we can't see it.

We can't feel their despair.

Their helplessness.

Their disappointment.

All while the whole "civilized west" is sending arms and money to help this outrageous atrocities to go on uninterrupted.
@palestine
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow

A low carbon abundance in planetary atmospheres, detectable with #JWST, could be a signature of #habitability.

If a terrestrial #planet has substantially less carbon dioxide in its atmosphere compared to other #planets in the same system, it could be a sign of liquid water — and possibly #life — on that planet’s surface.

This signature of depleted carbon dioxide is the only sign of habitability that is detectable with current instruments.

#astronomy #astrobiology
https://news.mit.edu/2023/carbon-lite-atmosphere-life-terrestrial-planets-mit-study-1228

I have enjoyed this last year of photographing Glastonbury Tor in all weathers. I think to sum it up for me, it is a passion and I truly feel a connection with this magical place like I know many others do. These are a few of my favourites. Have a fab New Years Eve.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher, essayist, transcendentalist (1803–1882)

Ever wonder why when you were a kid in Oregon, you learned about the Iroquois and Cherokee tribes of the Eastern USA but nothing about local Native Americans? Why you learned about the pioneers crossing the plains on the Oregon Trail, but nothing about what they did once they arrived?
...Or maybe you didn't even notice how much was left out until this very moment, reading my words?
Here is the missing piece.
"Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley" by David G. Lewis.
Fair warning, this book made me so upset that I cried. Not at the author, he's done an excellent job. At the astonishing cruelty, violence, and dishonesty shown to native people by (many) white settlers. At how little they asked for, and still didn't get. At how little is left of the ecosystems that sustained people and wildlife and were carefully maintained by native people. At how much astonishing wealth has accrued to those who stole from natives, even to the modern day.
Land acknowledgement statements are not enough! If you are a white person in Oregon, you need to read this.

#Oregon #WillametteValley #SalemOregon #Salem #Portland #PDX #PNW #books #historybooks #bookreview

https://www.europesays.com/978480/ How women are defying barriers and making a mark on Africa | DW News #AktuelleNachrichten #AktuelleNachrichtenAusDeutschland #Analysen #DW #DWNews #DWNewsEnglish #GermanNews #germany #GermanyNews #Nachrichten #Nachrichten&Analysen #NachrichtenDeutschland #News

The only thing that will stop Bibi Netanyahu's Isreal from killing Palestinians is if Israelis start refusing in large numbers to serve in the military or to bomb civilians. Hundreds are already doing that and more will join. Netanyahu survived months of enormous demonstrations against his takeover of the judiciary and he is still trying to take it over in order to conceal his own corruption and avoid prison under the cover of war.

Once you start thinking in terms of ecology, the co-existence of life, you know that the economy is the enemy. The economy brutally turns nature into money and the more it grows, the less nature remains. This is not new, but it shows how few in the EU still understand this after 5 years.

Scientists' Warning at Foresight Group, EU Commission
presentation from November 5, 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMbeYJgH_6g

This is how fascist and authoritarianism starts this is neither funny nor sad but it's scary and dangerous which is why we must reelect President Biden and Democrats.2024

PASS IT ON.👇

If like me, you were a child of the '90s, you might remember "ReBoot" – a pioneering 3D animated kids series created by Vancouver's own Mainframe Entertainment.

These documentarians have gotten a hold of the original, uncompressed digital masters. The problem is, they're in the D-1 format.

If anyone in the #retrotech community has access to a Bosch BTS D1, or a comparable D1 player/decoder, I urge you to reach out to @ReBootReWind (on Twitter) to help preserve #ReBoot!

https://globalnews.ca/news/10194517/reboot-documentary-digital-master/

Link Post: For 25 years Western children died of meningitis because the only vaccine was made in Cuba, and US sanctions wouldn't let anyone import it https://donotpanic.substack.com/p/cuba-the-west-and-an-elusive-vaccine

“7,000 children and minors have died in Gaza, which the UN secretary general has styled ‘a graveyard for children’. Nothing can justify this massacre of the innocents. No politics. No grievance. No strategy. No history. No revenge. Every day that it continues, our collective humanity dies a little bit more. To accept that this massacre is justifiable self-defence by Israel is to abdicate all conscience.”

https://12ft.io/https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/12/15/justine-mccarthy-nothing-can-justify-this-massacre-of-the-innocents-no-politics-no-history-no-revenge/

#israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #ethnicCleansing #ceasefireNow

In retrospect, it was a mistake to teach an entire generation to "do your own research" without additionally teaching them how to, you know, do research

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/25/how-syrian-refugee-standing-up-brutal-croatian-pushbacks-in-court

A Syrian refugee who secretly filmed Croatian border guards beating his travel companions is to take Croatia to the European court of human rights.

Recycling: Plans for electrical goods to be included in UK collections

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67830798

#Recycling #Electricals

#mastodon #fediverse #sflorg
Heads up. On Jan. 2 we won't be in due to Chimmi (little doggie) having to go to Tulsa, OK (about 110 miles away) for an echocardiogram.

Then sadly enough my wife had just found out she too has a heart murmur and has an echocardiogram on the 11th.

So, a couple stressful weeks are coming up. We'll do what we can.
Thanks for your understanding.
Heidi-Ann