It's kinda beautiful to see the Loblaws boycott being discussed off of social media - and permeate outside of social media silos - my retired father asked me what it was about and was like "oh I gotta do that too." It's getting difficult for him to save.
What I want to see is national discourse on food cooperatives. Let's tackle food sovereignty AND build/unite communities. Also, it lets us close the rural/urban divisions by supporting each other.
"The judge was scathing about the police's decision to impose unlawful restrictions on Greta Thunberg and other climate protesters. Put simply, he didn't see any need to interfere with the legitimate right of demonstrators to assemble to the extent they did."
Have you ever noticed how some folks toss grains like chickpeas away if they fall on the floor? I have!
And as a farmer's kid, I'm always puzzled when I see this!
Remember, these grains were already on the ground before reaching our snack packets. Let's think twice before wasting them! #Food#Grains#FoodForThought
#FoodForThought — a lot of #Fediverse implementors are Fedi-first, but in @nodebb's case, we're adding #ActivityPub integration to already existing and established forums. It makes me wonder whether I should think about individual users' #consent to have their content federated outside of the local instance.
All along I assumed I'd just build in a global on-off switch for AP integration, but maybe we need more granular user-level opt-in/out here 🤔
"For thirty years, people have been asking me how I reconcile X with Y! The truthful answer is that I don't. Everything about me is a contradiction and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them." - Orson Welles
Idea for a #scifi novel, outsourcing it to whoever wants to write it because I'm incapable of doing so✨
🌍 Earth becomes unlivable due to climate change. Humans are forced to explore space and they have to move to [planet of your choice] and colonize it, fighting for survival.
Fast forward to some centuries later, a bunch of astronauts are sent back to Earth to see how well things are going down there.
They land and see that Earth is now gorgeous, full of animal and plant life, it's thriving.
What does our protagonist, a climate scientist, do after they realize that bringing humans back to the planet would destroy it again? 🪐
As a former librarian I wish a very friendly Fuck You and Die to book publishers. They are the scum of the Earth.
They hate libraries. Did you know that they induce artificial scarcity by making libraries pay for each digital copy of a book? Despite ebooks being infinitely replicable, they make libraries pay for more than one copy at a time. Publishers deliberately force a limit on the supply of digital library books to extort more money out of libraries for popular titles.
In addition, publishers lobbied (in the UK) to make library ebooks only work through their apps on mobile and PC, and not compatible with any Kindle/Kobo/etc so people wouldn’t get a good experience. There is a cartel — made solely of a company called Overdrive. Their app is absolute buggy dogshit. A far cry from the breezy and simple interface of an e-reader.
But it gets worse. Original proposals from the publishers wanted it so that service users could only download ebooks while physically in the library, thus negating the convenience of them!
Despite ebooks being cheaper to produce than a traditional book and infinitely reproducable, Overdrive will sometimes charge more for an ebook than a supplier would charge for the equivalent copy.
Publishers would have lobbied against the invention of public libraries if they could. And take it from me — public libraries are one of the few open spaces left on this planet where one can just exist at without needing to pay for anything.