Good luck to everyone at the protests today that are taking place. Stay safe.
📍Glasgow 11am
📍London 1pm
📍Leeds 1pm
📍Dundee 2pm
📍Dublin 3pm
Details of each are on our pinned tweet
You know, nothing's perfect and in any community there are going to be flaws and work needed to improve things, especially in transition periods. That never stops.
Having said that? I f***ing love the fediverse. I'm so glad to be here. I love that I can learn from someone nerding out about gardening, birds, art, medieval history, who knows - it's always a surprise! - and the vast majority of the folks are looking to share their joys rather than tear other people down. You people rock.
To be considered by Lego for production, my Ideas submission needs to gather 10,000 votes. If you'd like to see this set of arthropod model organisms available for purchase, please vote here and share among your friends and colleagues:
I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!
✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.
✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.
✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default
✔️ I want the country to own it.
RT @RBReich@twitter.com
A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Living car-free in a beautiful small city in the American Midwest.
Have visited 40+ countries, and have lived in four, but tend to stay closer to home these days. Still interested in learning about other places.
Also love: music; architecture; the outdoors; baked goods; coffee/tea/hot chocolate; your adorable pets and other animals; woodblock prints and other art; and this planet that we all need to take better care of.
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I'm losing my heart all over again to this 11.5cm tall #stag, carved from a single piece of wood & originally covered with gold leaf, with its vast branched leather antlers. Made in the 5thC BC as a finial for a #prehistoric #Scythian headdress, it was one of the artefacts in the #BritishMuseum's 2017 Scythian exhibition.
There's more about the exhibition at https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/introducing-scythians. /1
I popped out to the shops as London's first snowflakes of the year were falling. Two excited cafe staff ran out into the street in their shirt sleeves, laughing and dancing. I asked, "First time?" and they said "yes!". First time for me too, after 23 years in the tropics. It really was magical. A romcom moment. Don't have a photo but I can replay the experience in my head.
It’s so easy to take advantage of people who work out of a sense of responsibility for others, altruistic, caring, vocational jobs. Where money is not a motivator, job satisfaction is. But there comes a time when being demonised, ignored, just treated like a grasping idiot is too much to bear.
#NursesStrikes #NursesPayRiseNow #RailwayWorkersPay #PostalStrike #AmbulanceStrikes #UniversityLecturersPay
Shoutout to all the essential hosts, moderators and wonderful people who are making huge efforts to make #Mastodon a safe space and option for us.
We appreciate you more than words can say.
Thank you!
Longtime expat recently returned to UK from Timor-Leste. Trying to get used to living in Leeds, UK. Trying to get used to Mastodon, where I have also recently migrated. Still on Twitter for now, same name. Former journalist. Tourism development and communications consultant.
#TwitterMigration #animals #dogs #art #food #photography #nature #yorkshire #UKpolitics #NHS #gardening #tourism #marinelife #BritishTV