kasey @kasey@qoto.org

So I understand that the bird site has started blocking links to common/known Mastodon instances, and that doesn't seem like free speech to me. So... I did a thing.

If you go to https://spacekaren.sucks it is now a URL shortener that blocks the twitter user agent. That means you can share that link that will redirect to your Mastodon account without the pouty baby stopping you. If you find this helpful can you boost so others can find it? #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #Musk #introduction

A mob of red deer stags in Richmond Park, they were on the edge of the woods and unless you stopped to look from most angles they were perfectly hidden, I crouched down to take the shot, that's when I could see how many there were (shot with a long lens it looks like I was a lot closer than I actually was). #RichmondPark #RedDeer #Stags #RedStags #WildLifePhotography #Nature #Photography #AltText

The High Court has ruled that the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has acted and is continuing to act unlawfully by failing in her legal duty to provide for the essential living needs of asylum seekers. This follows evidence that she ignored advice from her own officials that the current rate of £40.85 per week is no longer sufficient to meet basic living https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/high-court-declares-home-secretary-acting-unlawfully-failing-meet-asylum-seekers-essential

#AsylumSeekers #Destitution #CostOfLivingCrisis

@Popehat Is there any explanation for why the world's richest edge lord doesn't just make it explicit that you're not allowed to make fun of him or criticize him on his platform.

Put that in the TOS and be done instead of pretending that there's some larger concern than his own ego.

The whole thing just seems so wimpy.

REFLECTIONS, ANGEL 🚇

I think its fairly obvious that I'm a bit of a puddle hunter. I think the reflections of the beautiful night colours of the city look really magical at night after heavy rainful. Taken at Angel London underground station.

#london #travel #londonunderground #nightphotography #photography #mastoart #angel #mastoart #reflections #photo #potd #uk #station

I think I’ve been spotted, Short-eared Owl looking fabulous and on the hunt, taken at Uphill, #Somerset #UnitedKingdom
#owls #shortearedowl #uk #ukbirds #Birds #birdwatching #eyes #ukbirders #fieldcraft #hunting #birdsofprey #gorgeous #mastodon #MastodonNatureCommunity #nature #outdoors #photography #canon

Gwenda Morgan - Midwinter & The Changing Year

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/dec/09/teacher-shortage-worsen-dfe-rejects-dozens-established-trainers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other The DfE have very exacting criteria as do Ofsted. I fear this will result in pockets where there are no providers, local research isn't happening and teachers from other regions won't move there.

If you have followed me for years, first on Facebook and then other places and now here, I want to say thank you. My existence has been ruled by these insane algorithms for a decade now, so it feels great to be in a place where there is no algorithm.

https://newsthump.com/2022/12/05/nadhim-zahawi-is-right-british-nurses-using-food-banks-is-the-only-thing-stopping-my-conquest-of-ukraine-confirms-vladimir-putin/?fbclid=IwAR1LypqdZFnh2WPiOEQ-QSwOkSGoYnCOfnDHjki_ouyt1Y3SFYC0QSUpD-8

I still see posts with people wanting no politics. So I will leave a reminder:

1. Politics = how we make decisions about living together in society.

2. Not participating in politics = endorsing the status quo.

3. Refusing to participate in politics is a privilege. It is also a decision to abandon those in a more vulnerable position.

You might want to abstain and that's fine.
But someone has to combat injustice, racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBTQ hate.

The King's Men, a circular group that form part of the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire. They're believed to have been placed around 2500BCE, and bear a close resemblance to stone circles in the north-west of England, such as Castlerigg in the Lake District. The photos were taken in the fog on Friday 4th December 2022.
#StandingStoneSunday #RollrightStones #KingsMen #Neolithic #Oxfordshire #CanonR5

All the letters, large and small case. Quartz veins in stone. Molly Montgomery collects natural unedited rocks on the beach creating an alphabet that took her many years...

The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.

Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.

Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.

Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.

👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.

Hooooooo boy. Student spouting misinformation about Covid vaccines in their microbiology homework. Makes me want to fail them from the class (this student should NOT become a nurse without some re-education, oy). I won't, of course, but I'll send them a message with my concerns, for what good it will do. There are times when I hate the Internet.