Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

@atomicpoet @cwebber Heck, all I know is #Mastodon is orders less toxic than the bird site for me and the more people of any gender here the better

Bit of #Dartmoor for you, including the remains of a cairn

Nowhere is better to feel uncaged & set free!

#photograpy

With global sea ice currently at *record low* levels, both poles (#Arctic and #Antarctic) are more than two standard deviations below average (1981-2010)...

More visuals: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-figures/. Data from https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index.

Hey website and mobile app designers, how about letting me type the damn time in, instead of requiring me to use weird-ass, nigh-unusable wheel or slider interfaces you insist on coming up with?

Seriously, stop trying to be smart. Give me a text box where I can type four digits and a damn colon.

Your UI/UX ideas are bad and you should feel bad.

#WebDev #Design #UI #UX

@pwinn
Well said, we're just a completely lost and shitty country. It's gone completely off the rails and it's not looking like it's going to get any better.

I don't mean it go off on a rant here, but, my fellow Americans, we live in a country in which a six-year-old boy deliberately shot his first grade teacher with his mother's gun twenty-five days ago, and the national reckoning, the deep soul-searching and re-evaluation of every law and every cultural norm that has followed is... nonexistent. God bless America.

The school system's superintendent was removed, and the principal was reassigned, while the assistant principal resigned. The kids at this elementary school now have to walk through metal detectors and use clear plastic backpacks under the watchful eye of two cops. Which did no good at all less than a year ago in Uvalde, Texas. God bless America.

And that's it! Nobody has even bothered making a serious plea to change anything at all, because we know nothing will change. Virginia won't change anything any more than Texas did after the Uvalde shooting. We just know that this is now a part of life: sometimes people go to school to get shot. Sometimes it's children being shot. Sometimes it's children doing the shooting. Sometimes it's both. God bless America.

You might say it's been overshadowed in the news by the cops who murdered yet another Black man, a situation in which the Black cops were fired and charged with murder, while the white cops were put on administrative leave. But that murder didn't even happen until the next day, and didn't become public knowledge until three weeks after Virginia shooting. God bless America.

You might say it's been overshadowed in the news by January 6 being the anniversary of an attempted insurrection, for which the prime suspect remains at large. God bless America.

But if that's true, what does it say about this country that a six-year-old shooting his teacher takes third place at most to still more murderous cops and a scofflaw ex-president getting away with inciting rebellion?

God bless America.

#blog #politics #BlackLivesMatter #guns

My son bought two tickets to Ed Sheeran in Wellington on Thu night. It's his first gig away from home, his friend can't go and there has been no takers for the other ticket on FB marketplace, and he would hate it to go to waste. He paid $190 for it, but if you can have it for anything from $0 upwards, you name your price. This is not a bidding toot! Would very much prefer it go to someone who would really appreciate it, so please be considerate. Boosts welcome, DM me.

What strikes me as notable and important in the shooting death of Anthony Lowe, Jr. is that police deemed him a threat because he had a large butcher knife.

However, at the time he was shot (having already been tasered) he was not in his wheelchair, and was attempting to evade police, not move toward them, by crawling on his leg stumps, pulling himself along with his arms.

How was he a threat? Was he suddenly going to take flight?

Fossil fuel giants are acting as climate criminals – polluting our planet, creating 100s of toxic oil spills & leaving the public to deal with the damage while they reap billions in profit. Govt *must* end all new licences & kick out fossil fuels for good

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/01/31/hundreds-of-toxic-north-sea-oil-spills-since-2019/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1620446060933177347

While we are reasonably focused on Tyre Nichols, we need to pay attention to the fatal police shooting of Anthony Lowe, Jr. in Huntington Park, CA on Thursday.

Like more than half of Americans, killed by police, Mr. Lowe was disabled, a double amputee who used a wheelchair.

Like more than half of Americans killed by police, Mr. Lowe was having a mental health episode when he was killed.

https://apple.news/ACiRtuhG2TQCG0VpifoH7nA

Ah, gotta love malicious compliance.

US renewable energy farms outstrip 99% of coal plants economically – study.

It is cheaper to build solar panels or cluster of wind turbines and connect them to the grid than to keep operating coal plants.

#climate #climatechange
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/30/us-coal-more-expensive-than-renewable-energy-study