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Feel isolated / Need to talk? [ #NewProject Like Collapse Club... ] 

Links to existing chat space and that you can help me recreate but without:

❌:ablobglarezoom: they use Zoom so I want to switch that to

➡️ Post-Doom, No Gloom
(postdoom.com/connect/) calls,

➡️ Safe Circle small-group calls (livingresilience.net/safecircl).

➡️ Deep Adaptation events (deepadaptation.info/events/),

Not sure about forum but maybe as FAQ:

➡️ CollapseSupport community on Reddit
➡️ DarkOptimism.org.

All welcoming, and
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❌:ablobglarezoom: they use Zoom so I want to switch that to

❌:mastodon: they're not on Mastodon [yet] so want to switch that also

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Money analysis by Aliens... [Video] 

[ PeerTube :peertube: Video ]
dalliance.network/w/q3sKJYwJF2

Made by Starship Schrödinger's Destiny
See @starship on :fediverse:

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A Rice field - did you ever think of rice looking like this from growing to landing on your plate? 

I feel like a kid who isn't sure how somethings grows even though I've seen and eat it a million times.

Having not grown or seen fields how can kids (or me) know about these or feel in touch with it in reality?

Have you seen these things in real life (does it grow in your country for example?) Soyou might have seen this as a picture (me not often), but also never in real life (?)

And then it's on your plate so it's a lot less further obvious in a plastic packet than that of apples or something you might see more often right?

Wait... don't answer if you see apple trees regularly.

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phys.org/news/2024-08-farmers-
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a staple of the Iraqi diet but drought and declining rainfall have strangled local production.

Iraq's rice crop usually requires between 10 and 12 billion cubic meters of water during the five-month growing period.

Iraq's scorching sun, with temperature soaring towards 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit), Joufi trudged across the muddy field, pausing to tend malfunctioning sprinklers spread out on his one hectare (2.5 acres) of land.

"We want to learn which seed genotypes respond well" to irrigation using sprinklers instead of flooding, Moussa said.

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#plastic #disease called plasticosis ! 🤣 

= ! 🤣

"...the fibrotic disease caused by plastic-induced scarring they observed in the stomachs of seabirds."

+ scarring (gut intestine etc)

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311

The Plastic Problem
Since the 1950s, industry has pumped out plastic products at an increasingly rapid clip (5). Production now reaches about 400 million metric tons per year (5). Half of these plastics are intended for a single use, such as polystyrene plates and polypropylene grocery bags, of which the vast majority are not recycled.

When pieces measure less than 5 millimeters, researchers call these fragments microplastics. Industry also produces microplastics directly for consumer use, such as beads in exfoliating face washes and fibers in synthetic textiles.

Microplastics have been found in sea ice in the Arctic Ocean (6), air in the Antarctic (7), and dust in homes (8)... guts of seals and dolphins (9) and in seafood (10) and bottled water (11). They’ve even been found in human blood (12), stools (13), lungs (14), and placenta (15).

“We’re swimming in a mess of our own making,” says marine ecologist Randi Rotjan of Boston University.

And macroplastics are going to break down to microplastics for millennia. - Randi Rotjan

It’s not as though the water had been thick with plastic. Imagine piling nylon filaments onto a quarter and then sprinkling them into a 6-liter tank... That amount of microplastic was all it took for the dramatic increase in mortality.

- Meredith Seeley, who conducted the research as a PhD student at VIMS. Mmarine scientist and environmental chemist.

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Paul Houle

🍗 'Floating duck syndrome' can trick people into working hard while failing to achieve their goals

phys.org/news/2024-07-duck-syn

#psychology #work #success #socialpsychology

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= * * Data Collection and * * Labeling Techniques for Machine Learning

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Sweat Not Oil - "More sweat, Less oil..." #Quote 

Sweat Not Oil Economy
(People working more than Oil's bad economy)

+ Full Text below:

"I really want to see more sweat, less oil (in UK's football Premier League)," says Fatih Birol, Executive of the International Energy Agency @bbcr4today, adding sport to a question on UK energy policy! Had he by any chance read our report "Sweat Not Oil"👇🏼

badverts.org/latest/sweat-not-

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Sweat not oil: why sports should drop advertising and sponsorship from high carbon polluters.

In the last year, the sports industry has launched a range of initiatives aimed at reducing their carbon emissions and tackling the climate crisis - but there’s one area that still needs major attention. Our new report, Sweat not oil: why sports should drop advertising and sponsorship from high-carbon polluters has revealed over 250 sponsorship deals between sports groups and high carbon industries such as oil and gas, aviation and cars.

From cycling to cricket, tennis to the Olympics, advertising and sponsorship deals are rife across the sector. The worst offender was football, with 57 high carbon sponsorship deals..
Download sweat not oil
Download Report
Who are the sponsors?

The automotive industry is the most active high carbon industry courting sports sponsorship with 199 deals across different sports. Airlines come second with 63, followed by oil and gas companies such as Gazprom and Ineos, whose deals have already been criticised by climate campaigns.

Toyota was the largest sponsor by number, with a massive 31 sports deals with partners including the Olympics. The carmaker is closely followed by the airline Emirates with 29 partnerships - even giving their name to the iconic Arsenal football stadium.
Why does it matter?

Accepting huge sums of money from polluters directly contradicts the pledges many clubs and sports bodies have made to take action on climate change. With climate change increasingly seen as a health crisis and concerns over connected issues like air pollution on the rise, the report warns that sports bodies and individuals risk their credibility as promoters of public health.

There are strong parallels between these deals with major polluters and the now disgraced deals sports bodies used to have with the tobacco industry. Both involve the promotion of products and behaviours with the science well established about their known damaging effects on public health, and in the case of fossil fuels their contribution to the climate emergency.
What are we calling for?

Badvertising is calling for sports bodies around the world to end advertising and sponsorship deals from companies promoting high carbon lifestyles, products and services.

And leading figures within sport are on our team:

“As athletes, we focus a lot on keeping sport “clean” through prioritising anti-doping. Yet continuing to pollute in the face of the climate emergency is the Earth-equivalent of doping, or scoring own goals. By keeping polluting sponsors on board, sports detract from their opportunity to play a productive part in the race to zero carbon. It’s time for sports and athletes to change that.”

— Melissa Wilson, member of the GB Rowing Team and qualifier for the Tokyo Olympics.

“It’s wrong for these companies, who are fully aware of the deadly impact of their products, to use the power and beauty of sport to normalise and hide their behaviour. Sport has a unique power to connect and inspire people. I would like to see it use its voice to promote the idea of care and stewardship of our planetary resources, not insane exploitation and destruction.”

— Etienne Stott, Olympic Champion, London 2012 Olympics.

For more information on the role of high carbon advertising in sports sponsorship, download the full report.
Download Sweat Not Oil

And if reading about the extent sports sponsorships are contributing to the climate crisis has you wanting to take action, join our mailing list so we can make sure you’re updated about ways to kick big polluters out of sports for good.

Sweat not oil: why sports should drop advertising and sponsorship from high-carbon polluters was produced by think tank the New Weather Institute, climate charity Possible and the Rapid Transition Alliance for the Badvertising campaign, with support from the KR Foundation.

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John Bull

The new Railways Bill absolutely does not fuck about.

Expiring franchises cannot be extended or awarded, except to companies fully owned by the government, or jointly owned by the governments of the UK and either Scotland or Wales.

Franchise expires? Public operator. No retender.

Franchise goes bankrupt or hands it back? Public operator. No retender.

That's going to cause some potential short-term fuckery by the TOCs. But its not like they were investing for the future of the railways anyway

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Simon Willison

Super depressing read on the r/freelanceWriters subreddit:

"I literally lost my biggest and best client to ChatGPT today. This client is my main source of income, he’s a marketer who outsources the majority of his copy and content writing to me. Today he emailed saying that although he knows AI’s work isn’t nearly as good as mine, he can’t ignore the profit margin. [...] Please do not think you are immune to this unless you are the top 1% of writers."

reddit.com/r/freelanceWriters/

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" I’m beginning to think they just don’t want inequality on the agenda " - Russell Brand #Quote 

" When I was poor and I complained about inequality people said I was bitter.

Now I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite.

I’m beginning to think they just don’t want inequality on the agenda. "

- Russell Brand

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They knew but they did nothing... Bad guys who pretend to be good guys... (Most people are doing nothing / Irresponsible people) 

" Conservatives are the bad guys, and Liberals are the bad guys who pretend to be good guys, and the latter are the worse... they knew but they did nothing "

- Roger Hallam

yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=QmSn

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"When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!"

- Comment on video: yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=QmSn
5 Years In Prison: The Climate Trial

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" It's the Moderates that repress, distract, sabotage the resistance to injustice, they are the main problem." [ ]

- Roger Hallam quoting MLK

yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=QmSn

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@SRDas

"...you can hear the bubbling sound of fermentation"

Trust the Japanese to be so creative that they make even the process of fermentation seem beautiful. It’s almost like you want to hear or feel it.

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We are - to separate that leads to fascism.

" In the fight against fascism it’s time to integrate the knowledge that we are nature!

The separation of humanity from nature (which came about in the enlightenment) paves the way for … "

- comment by @K4ttyK4t

invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=hU18D

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to bridge.
bird.makeup/ ➡️ :twitter:

Enter any Twitter name to start...

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Short-Sighted People

If people do what's urgent first mostly then that might explain why a crisis or problem has to happen often to get things into their focus.

People + Change

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London event + afterparty.

House of the People on 11th August (Sat / tmrw)

Politics is broken, but you’re the fix.

- Here's the Twitter msg via filter

bird.makeup/@timetoassemble_/1

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Freeconomy Pay-it-forward #philosophy for #alternative #economy 

"The philosofree behind the Freeconomy community differentiates it from other forms of alternative economy.

Whilst others are still focused on the concept of exchange,

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is based on 'Pay-it-forward' principles and economics. One week someone who you have never helped may share their time, skills, tools or spare spaces with you for free; another week someone who has never helped you may ask you to do the same. Every time you help someone you just ask him or her to 'pay the favour forward'.

Not only do you then still have access to a huge resource, you also build the trust and friendships in communities that inevitably form when someone does something 'just for the love of it'.

This is our point - if somebody needs help, why do we need to get anything in return? Is the fact that another human being needs your help not excuse enough?"

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Any way to pull all my posts and each post's images to a RSS program? (not last 20 post but all posts with images)

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