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afewbugs

@afewbugs@social.coop

Devon, UK, Europe

Born @ 341ppm

#Botany #Entomology #Ecology #Sustainability #Composting #Hiking #Cycling #RightToRoam #FlightFree #Bushcraft #WildFood #PlantBased #AncestralSkills #FibreCraft #OpenSource #OpenAccess #SolarPunk #coops #unions #RightToRepair

Profile: a white woman with blue hair & glasses, smiling in a woodland in winter. Header: a Hotbin composter I painted with flowers and insects & the words "Kiri's Compost Collective"

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Boost walking and cycling in towns and cities, urges UK government adviser

“Cars particularly destroy the liberty of the child and the teenager to move around safely,” it said. “Children are much less free now than they were 50 or 100 years ago, a fact which changes the nature and vitality of our towns.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/19/boost-walking-and-cycling-in-towns-and-cities-urges-uk-government-adviser

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UK doctors who receive convictions for climate protests face threat of being struck off

Particularly alarming given how permissible forms of protests in the UK are being continually restricted.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/16/uk-doctors-involved-in-climate-protests-face-threat-of-being-struck-off

afewbugs, to UKpolitics
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"The English councils’ current financial gap [is] about £4bn a year, which could have been filled more than twice over by the money used for that...cut in . He seems to still think that councils must sink or swim:...he & his allies in the rightwing press have reprised old and stupid rhetoric about millions supposedly being wasted on “consultants” and “diversity schemes”."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/17/birmingham-britain-state-cuts-austerity-local-services

afewbugs, to repair
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Rather a lovely series of interviews with people who run or attend #repair cafes.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/12/theres-a-real-joy-in-fixing-something-the-rise-of-the-repair-cafe

#RepairCafes

afewbugs, to random
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EU will force cosmetics companies to pay 80% of the costs of cleaning up

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/29/eu-will-force-cosmetic-companies-to-pay-to-reduce-microplastic-pollution

afewbugs, to permaculture
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Setting up for the today at on , where I'll be teaching . Come along! Opens 10:30 to 14:30.

A cafe stall with a selection of handmade cakes and flapjack
A stall by Incredible Vegetables selling various perennial plants like perpetual kale and sweet violets
A tray of tomato seeds with a display about tomatoes behind it

afewbugs, to disability
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. @incurablehippie writes about what happens when NIMBYs think disabled people “lower the tone” of a neighbourhood in , and what this says about the wider scrutiny and prejudice disabled people experience in the UK.

afewbugs, to random
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I started my journey with bushcraft school led by Hannah Nicholls, a genuinely kind and compassionate woman. Hannah is now recovering from bacterial meningitis and unable to work, her family have set up this crowdfunder to help support her recovery.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/Hannah-Nicholls?utm_id=107&utm_term=NGJkqpexZ&

afewbugs, to cycling
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Crowdfunding campaign by to get advertising on buses encouraging drivers to give cyclists space. Because the government isn't interested in promoting anything that might be seen as constraining car drivers in any way.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/debbie-smith-870?utm_term=GD2Q33VJ3&

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I pulled this lipstick plant out of a skip outside the vet over a decade ago when I was living in London - there were three of them but I could only carry one and a feisty cat in a carrier. It plodded along for years in various places I lived in the interim until I left it at my parents' house last year, and some magical combination of light and conditions there mean it's now thriving.

#HouseplantsOfMastodon

afewbugs, to random
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I'm sick of just having to accept that this is how the world works now, of seeing everything get worse over the course of my career. This has now happened to just about every amazing place I've been privileged to work, filled with amazing people contributing knowledge that enriches all of humanity.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/08/uk-leading-agricultural-research-facility-rothamsted-facing-funding-crisis

afewbugs,
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Kew gutted its scientific capacity years ago and its beautiful herbarium is going to become luxury flats. The Imperial campus I did my Masters on is now a business school, because teaching wannabe Apprentice candidates to talk bollocks is more profitable than researching the crops we need to eat. Someone just needs to turn LSHTM into a betting shop or something to complete the set.

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If anything encapsulates how messed up the "engagement at all costs" model of algorithmic recommendation is, a friend of mine just sent me a link to a tiktok video about house sparrows. I don't have tiktok, watch anything like that in a browser with various tracking prevention measures so tiktok presumably has no idea what I'm interested in or what to show my next. (1/2)

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European cars are getting 1cm wider every 2 years

"Crash data from Belgium from 2017 to 2021 shows that a 10cm increase in the height of vehicle fronts raises the risk of death by 30% when a car hits a pedestrian or cyclist, according to a study by the Vias Institute, previously the Belgian Institute for Road Safety."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/22/cars-growing-wider-europe-report

afewbugs,
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With cars getting 5mm wider every year, and bigger cars more likely to kill other road users as well as pumping out ever more emissions, Paris votes to triple parking charges for . This seems like an excellent strategy for avoiding the potentially regressive nature of schemes like London't which potentially penalises poorer people with older cars.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/05/will-other-cities-copy-paris-decision-to-hike-parking-charges-for-suvs

afewbugs,
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have the right idea but seem to accidentally target mobility vehicles a bit, parking fees proportional to danger and damage (that escalate every year as better public transport alternatives become available) seems like the way to go

afewbugs,
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Update: With cars getting 5mm wider every year, and bigger cars more likely to kill other road users as well as pumping out ever more emissions, Paris votes to triple parking charges for vehicles over 1.6 tons, some, but not all of which, are SUVs, a distinction that is apparently important to car nerds.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/05/will-other-cities-copy-paris-decision-to-hike-parking-charges-for-suvs

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Best tricks for ways to search your own timeline an article you boosted about a month ago with an annoyingly generic title about AI and meta please?

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Somewhere between 10% and 40% of garments produced every year are destroyed unsold.

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/jan/18/its-the-industrys-dirty-secret-why-fashions-oversupply-problem-is-an-environmental-disaster

afewbugs, to random
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Calm down Chris MacNab, you know they're never going to fuck you right?

afewbugs, to random
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Just got to go in one of the new climate-controlled lab pods and scream my head off to test whether someone trapped in them could be heard, and that was probably one of the most satisfying afternoons I've ever spent at work

afewbugs, to random
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Reading @pluralistic's and will say more about the actual book on Bookwyrm later, but I'm weirdly struck by the fact it's the second book I've read in the past couple of months set in new future where Twitter still exists. Like it's fascinating the assumptions we make about what is an immutable part of our world and how quickly those assumptions can be overturned, even for authors whose whole thing is anticipating the future and questioning the present

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Am I the only one who deliberately sabotages my own streak when I get to about five, just because the longer it gets the more anxiety-inducing the pressure of maintaining it is?

afewbugs,
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@quixoticgeek the streak thing is a bit of a perverse incentive for me!

afewbugs,
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@quixoticgeek which language are you learning?

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