Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

@girls_can

This is excellent. Thankyou!

So in addition to cluttering up low earth orbit, wrecking terrestrial astronomy, creating the potential for a Kessler Syndrome cascade which could close access to space, and creating a national security nightmare, Starlink internet access is a climate catastrophe using up to 30 times the carbon footprint per internet subscriber of land based internet.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2394949-starlink-carbon-footprint-up-to-30-times-size-of-land-based-internet/

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved transit, not only did it transform the city’s public life & economic success, but the traffic got better.

The traffic got BETTER.

Above average temperatures continued across the entire northern half of the Atlantic Ocean during September 2023. Temperatures were also anomalously warm over much of North and South America. The El Niño is of course striking too.

Data from ERA5 reanalysis at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels-monthly-means?tab=overview.

No, great teachers need adequate supplies, adequate support, a pay raise, and for parents to sit down and and butt out—not a Ted Baker vanity bag. Happy World Teachers’ Day y’all! #boots #TedBaker #teacher #WorldTeachersDay

It would be so much easier for Canadians to ignore US politics if the right-leaning parties here weren’t so eager to import the culture war and campaigning-without-solutions tactics

The oil-soaked bird photo that shocked the world.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231002-the-photo-of-the-deepwater-horizon-bird-that-shocked-the-world

"On 20 April 2010, the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded after a surge of natural gas blasted through its concrete core, spilling 795 million litres (210 million gallons) of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. Two days later, the rig capsized and sank into a valley in the continental shelf."
#Oil #Drilling #WildLife #OilSoaked

We are at the stage of higher education where faculty members are now given option to remove themselves from information directories due to fears of violence.

Social collapse doesn't happen in a day. Very likely historians will look back at this and point to it having already begun.

I'm coming to a point in my life when my ambitions have shrunk, and it feels so glorious.

I am no longer ashamed to say that I love small things. Smaller communities have always been more meaningful to me. Small businesses, modest but achievable goals, political ideologies that scale to thousands instead of millions. My dreams are small enough for me to live inside.

It's my goal to live in such a way that my gravestone can say "she attended well and faithful to a few worthy things."

​ Paying a few dollars a month to use Twitter, which is run by a billionaire.

​ Donating a few dollars a month to help your Mastodon server, which is run by people who care about their communities.

Periodic reminder to check the "About" section on your Mastodon server to see if they have donation links. :)

The #Brazilian president...telling the #UN that market liberalism had plagued #democracy and disfranchised millions, leaving them in poverty and prey to nationalist #totalitarianism.

“The 10 richest #billionaires have more wealth than the poorest 40% of humanity,” he said, adding that there was a lack of political will among those who governed the world “to overcome inequality”.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/world-inching-ever-closer-to-a-great-fracture-says-un-chief

#news #politics #economy #inequality #NeoLiberalism

Profit ruins everything. And it doesn’t even bring you efficiency, the greatest failure. It is way more efficient to build a society that is safer and better for its people than to tear the planet apart for wont of a greed pillage. We also don’t place our passions in an undeniable basket, no matter what a capitalist thinks. Because then we would give more than we take.

What is this need of humans?

Emergency counter-protest this Wednesday!

On Sept. 20, hate groups will be demonstrating against school policies protecting queer and trans kids. Numerous organizations like the 519 Community Centre & the OFL are coordinating counter-protests. Please, please, please show up if you can. We need to show Queen's Park that hate is outnumbered.

📅 Wednesday, September 20, 2023
🕣 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
📍 Barbara Hall Park, 519 Church St., Toronto → Queen's Park

- Toronto event details: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/emergency-protest-protect-trans-youth-tickets-719922215727
- Ontario-wide updates from the Ontario Federation of Labour: https://ofl.ca/event/no-space-for-hate/
- Background from the Canadian Anti-Hate Network: https://www.antihate.ca/1_million_march_4_children

(via @fubar)

#events #toronto #lgbtq #lgbtq2s

I’m sorry but I don’t see “outing trans kids so parents can abuse them” on this list. Also, where is “making sure LGBTQ people are neither seen nor heard”. I was told that these issues were very important. #CdnPoli

“No university anywhere in the world would admit her.

No scientific society would grant her membership.

Still, Eunice Newton Foote (July 17, 1819–September 30, 1888) would go on to become the first scientist to link atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to rising planetary temperature.”

https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/12/eunice-newton-foote/

#climate #GHG #GlobalWarming

People organized over 650+ actions in 60+ countries, & on all seven continents & the North Pole
In New York City, 75,000 people marched to demand President Biden #EndFossilFuels
Just 5 Global North countries –the United States, Canada, Australia, Norway, & the United Kingdom– are responsible for
over half of carbon dioxide pollution threatened by new oil & gas extraction between 2023 and 2050
Climate protesters in New York & across the globe send message to United Nations
https://www.reuters.com/world/climate-protesters-new-york-across-globe-send-message-united-nations-2023-09-17/