Ian Kenway @iankenway@qoto.org

We have signed the #web0 manifesto!
"web0 is the decentralised web."
"In other words, web0 is web3 without all the corporate right-libertarian Silicon Valley bullshit."
https://web0.small-web.org/
#GreenFediverse #Fediverse #web0

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Good morning world!
Have an awesome day.
#photography #travel #travelphotography #wales #cymru #snow #winter

Sad to hear of the death of Jet Black of the Stranglers.
The first single I ever bought was 5 minutes by them; the first album I bought was their No More Heroes.
#thestranglers

#introduction 😊
I am an Earth Scientist with a love for rocks, fossils & landforms. I pop up on TV as a rock & fossil expert. I am writing my 1st non fiction pop science book called The Whispers of Rock.

I am a woman of colour - proud of my South Asian heritage. I have been a single mum, but now have a wonderful blended family 🥰 I love fashion, make up, baking and running. I am a champion for EDI.

#writer #nonfiction #earthscience #geology #womeninscience #nature #rocks #fossils

Support for Scotland leaving the Union has risen to a whopping 56 per cent, according to the latest polling from Ipsos Mori 👏

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23175582.scottish-independence-support-56-ipsos-mori-poll-finds/

Apparently now people are sending death threats to UFoI members... all this does is reafirm to me the dire need for sonethi g like the UFoI

https://awoo.fyi/@Transparency/posts/AQXMaePil3qyNs6MM4

@ufoi #UFoI #UFI

@freemo @ufoi I didn't have a whole lot of background information on Mastodon or Qoto when I made my instance selection. But I'm happy to be supporting Qoto. I left the birdsite searching for something better and I feel that I have found it here on Qoto.

#introduction Hi, first toot! I'm a scientist and secular humanist. I love reading (fantasy and sci-fi but anything really), clouds, timekeeping, moose, the 80s, and classic rock music. Causes include the planet, human trafficking, and US blue wave 🌊

#ExcessDeaths could rise as vulnerable skimp on #heating, #UK charities warn | UK #CostOfLivingCrisis | The Guardian

The #Tories are responsible and don’t even pretend to care any longer.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/12/excess-deaths-could-rise-as-vulnerable-skimp-on-heating-uk-charities-warn

#Politics #Poverty

30 million in #UK ‘priced out of decent standard of living by #2024’ | #UK #CostOfLivingCrisis | The Guardian

This article is by #LarryElliot who is a fan of #Brexit. Note that he makes not one mention of its devastating effect on the #UK #economy.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/12/30-million-in-uk-priced-out-of-decent-standard-of-living-by-2024

#Politics #Poverty

I see Liz Truss is consistently billed as “former prime minister Liz Truss” which, whilst true, feels like calling yourself a former bus driver when you wrote off the vehicle 50 feet into your first trip out by smashing it into the wall of the bus garage, causing it to explode.

(Twitter cross-post)

Today, 740 years ago, a nation was conquered.
Its King murdered, its relics stolen, its people subjugated, its language banned from formal use, its laws torn up, its resources plundered, all to the benefit of its conquerors.

Ond dyn ni yma o hyd. We are still here.

It is my aim to make sure we don't reach 750 years.

#WelshHistoryThread #Wales #Cymru #annibyniaeth #indywales #Independence

When you order "original Sony" rechargeable batteries specified at 3000mAh & 30A, and the ones you receive are labeled Samsung 2500mAh & 25A, but upon testing it turns out they are more like 1500mAh & 15A... and probably fake.

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Liz Truss and I ‘got carried away’ writing mini-budget, admits Kwasi Kwarteng - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/10/liz-truss-and-kwasi-kwarteng-got-carried-away-writing-mini-budget understandable; after all, which of us hasn't got a little carried away and practically destroyed one of the largest economies in the world...?

French authorities declare the use of Microsoft Office and Google Docs illegal in schools and education markets, as they don’t follow GDPR and might disturb later competition by making students used to these proprietary solutions.

https://questions.assemblee-nationale.fr/q16/16-971QE.htm

I am excited to hear that as of today the user member count int he #UFoI has just hit a record high of ~400,000 user members! That gets us to about 5% fediverse coverage!

#UFI @ufoi

Government to weaken water #pollution goals in ‘attack on nature’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/09/government-to-weaken-water-pollution-goals-river-health the tories are killing our rivers and seashores...

In 1967, there were 322.31 ppm carbon in the atmosphere.

Today, there are 416.43 ppm carbon in the atmosphere.

That's an increase of 94.12 ppm during my lifetime thus far.

These levels are speeding up. As a comparison, carbon only increased 21.31 ppm during the 55 years before my birth.

Source: https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon-footprint-calculator/carbon-by-birth-year/