jay 🌺 @j12i@weirder.earth

Octopus water bottle

This Guardian article <https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/09/from-north-sea-revival-to-renewables-aberdeen-sees-corporate-interests-triumph > doesn't quite capture how violent and corrupt it is, nor how brutal is the entrenched opposition to ending fossil fuels, here in bitter #Aberdeen. In the past month as a cyclist I've been assaulted by motorcyclists freeriding across the park and my young kids have been abused by car drivers who nearly ran them down right under a "watch out for children" sign; my neighbours firmly believe climate change is a conspiracy to attack decent working people.

It's a bizarre nightmare out of Mad Max, and if the culture of worshipping cars and oil can change here there might be hope elsewhere. And there are otters breeding in the rivers. Maybe this is where we lose the struggle, maybe not, but it's definitely a conflict zone.

Okay folks, what have I found here? It's not a caterpillar, unless its legs are completely hidden and it never moves; if it's an animal at all, it's some kind of protective case for incubation, but I think it might be a fungus? Baffled. On a nettle in Aberdeen, Scotland. #NaturalHistory #mystery #pleaseHelpIdentify

If your boss forced you into a cloud of toxic air today, unionizing can help win workplace protections immediately and tip the balance of power toward a green future.

Here's how. 🧵

defeatist motherfuckers out here, you might have given up but stop trying to get me to give up too

i think we could organise and fight, we’ll probably lose but it will make our lives feel worth living

“i think we should organise”

some seppo: “what about the disabled?!”

i am disabled you ignorant fucking loser, fuck off

oh no i’m arguing with strangers i’m a fucking idiot i’m so sorry everyone i’m going to get high and wash the dishes as atonement sorry sorry sorry

M104 is a lenticular galaxy located about 31 Mly away in the constellation of Virgo.

As we view it nearly edge on, we can see a prominent dust lane that circles the galaxy.

You have not even had your first cup of coffee and you are already caught up in the grim daily news.

Horrified by the EU's plans for inhumane changes to the asylum law - and their support by the German government. A Fortress Europe is not what we need in response to people needing to flee their countries.

#Asylum #EU

one of youse need this as an avatar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Huntress_by_Ann_Macbeth_Studio_Magazine_vol_27_(1903).jpg

Lima, one of the two creators of www.namesakecomic.com/ , a great webcomic I used to have time to follow, made a comic strip based on the prompt:

secondlina.tumblr.com/post/641…

She was planning to make a whole comic "Nope" based on it, but for now those plans are on hold.

Hi. Most annoying person you've ever encountered here. I noticed this post you wrote in 3 seconds doesn't line up with every experience I've ever had. This is extremely harmful to me, the main character of the universe.

Normalize chosen names outside the trans community.

same RAW, camera JPEG vs. my take on darktable. I think I'm starting to get the hang of this.

I need somewhere to stay. Anyone have a spare room? #Melbourne #Australia possibly elsewhere. Need carer too can pay #Carer #Pension (up to 500$wk).

#accommodation #Housing

@disabilityjustice
@disability
@chronicillness
@neisvoid

mark my words

in a few weeks, the fediverse as we know it will probably no longer exist

if project 92 is really launching this month...

remember to cherish the memories of the wonderful things this place has done for so many people

HEY. important!

if you've seen and considered buying OTC Estrogen alternatives from QueerQuirk on Twitter, PLEASE be aware that they are fash. they changed their handle and unfollowed their transphobic accounts. the pills they advertise even has a main active ingredient that increases testosterone.

the whole thing is a scam to get the personal info of trans women, and ship them, if anything, something that reverses any gains made by their meds so far. do NOT engage.

Bro sent me a facebook link to a track by vocal ensemble Windborne of The Diggers' Song. I couldn't get sound to play, but just found a rendition of it on Bandcamp:

https://windborne.bandcamp.com/track/the-diggers-song

According to commentary on the video I couldn't fully access, the Diggers were a 17th century English sect that actively cultivated common land and believed in freedom and equality. The song itself includes the lyrics:

"Against the hate and fear, stand up now, stand up now,
Against the hate and fear, stand up now.
The press have closed their eyes, they spread the tyrants’ lies
They’ll tell you with their cries, who to love and to despise
Stand up now, Diggers all."

Solidarity is centuries old. Now more than ever we need to keep up the good fight and work toward our own liberation from the powers that would subdue us, just as people did in the 17th century.

Enjoy, rejoice, and unite! 💪

As a reader who really delights in connecting with people over books they love, it's a big loss to me that book-tracking sites and apps don't let you visibly mark the number of times you've read a title. I love rereading books, I find it so comforting. And it would be so cool to read some profile on a book site and realize we not only love the same book, but we reread it every year or two, too.

#books #reading @bookstodon #bookstodon