alx

alx, 1 day ago to animals

A ban on having exotic animals as pet would actually be the best to honour these 'magnificent' animals.

I don't think the owner was necessarily bad. However, if you are a pet owner, of any animal, not just exotic ones, the least you can do if you go away for holidays is having someone coming to check for your pets.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/man-sentenced-for-dumping-bodies-of-giant-tortoises-in-devon-woodland

#ClimateDiary #Animals #Wildlife #Pets

alx, 1 day ago to random

#ClimateDiary

https://mastodon.social/@micchiato/112530519688284669

alx, 2 days ago to Palestine

"We call upon our colleagues in the homeland and internationally to support our steadfast attempts to defend and preserve our universities for the sake of the future of our people, and our ability to remain on our Palestinian land in Gaza. We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/29/open-letter-by-gaza-academics-and-university-administrators-to-the-world

@academicchatter

#palestine #gaza #AcademicMastondon #academia #AcademicFedi #Scholasticide

alx, 3 days ago to random

Worth your time.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry

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alx, 9 days ago to random

#ClimateDiary

"Pozo attributes the deaths to a “synergy” of factors, including high heat, drought, forest fires and logging that deprives the monkeys of water, shade and the fruit they eat."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/monkeys-mexico-heatwave

alx, 14 days ago to architecture

Streaming now from Goldsmith, Dana Erekat (CEO of whyze) & Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture) open a symposium on the role of architecture and planning in colonialism (focused on Palestine, but it's a broader discussion architects refuse to have)

https://research-architecture.org/The-Struggle-for-Palestine

#architecture #colonialism #israel #palestine

alx, 16 days ago to random

In the meantime a material scientist that I really admired is hosting a Rio Tinto-sponsored podcast about 'sustainable materials' (not linking because I don't want to promote it). If you wonder how #greenwashing happens and why sometimes people don't trust experts.

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/03/madagascar-rio-tinto-mine-water-contamination/

#ClimateDiary

alx, 20 days ago to Palestine

'Insectifada' for the win.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-800712

#palestine #israel #ecocide #ClimateDiary

alx, 21 days ago to academia

There is a level of discomfort and cognitive dissonance that keeps growing in me working in HE while scholasticide and ecocide (yes, they are part of the genocide or ethnic cleansing) committed in Gaza for more than half a year, and the deafening silence of Western universities completely ignoring it.
I truly believed that if there is any place in the world when dialogue should and must always be a priority, is in academic fora. Dialogue is the foundation of #academia
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#StudentsProtest

alx, 26 days ago to random

#SilentSunday #Butterflies #AnimalSanctuary #Devon #ClimateDiary

alx, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to drawing

(In Italian - English in alt-text and below)

Uno schizzo veloce, un disegno fatto ritagliando un tempo che non ho per celebrare l'antifascismo e la liberazione, ma soprattutto per ricordare, in primis a me stessa, che la resistenza è un atto quotidiano, che risiede in ogni atto, anche nelle pennellate improvvisate di una mattina di aprile, un 25 Aprile.
Buona liberazione e buona resistenza a tutti e tutte!

#25aprile #Antifascism #Liberation #watercolours #MastoArt #Drawing #Resistance

alx, 1 month ago to random

It's always a good day to be an #antifascist.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/21/italy-antonio-scurati-rai-broadcaster-antifascist-monologue-cancellation

alx, 1 month ago to random

#SilentSunday #TheAlps

#ClimateDiary
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/04/melting-glaciers-in-alps-threaten-biodiversity-of-invertebrates-says-study

alx, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to drawing

Bored at Heathrow drawing bored people for my boring sketching series “Waiting”

#sketching #sketchbook #drawing #MastoArt #watercolour #UrbanSketching #GraphicEthnography

alx, 1 month ago to ai

'Technology is neutral'

#AI #BigTech #War

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

alx, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

#ClimateDiary

It’s end of March here in South Devon, UK. Spring break is starting in around 36 hours. It’s snowing and the Met Office website is in total denial because it keeps saying it is raining

#spring #snow

alx, 2 months ago to random

One of the most balanced essay on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I know many don't like YouTube, but for anyone interested in politics, follow this podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLr_VCqnId0

alx, 2 months ago to random

Frans De Waal was enlightening in many ways, but I think the concept that will stuck forever with me is his criticism of the general attitude of comparing humans to chimps, using them as an evolutionary explanation for our violent hierarchical social structure. De Waal stressed how we share the same amount of genes with Bonobos, 'The Forgotten Ape', and there's no evolutionary reason why we couldn't have been more Bonobos, instead of Chimps: a 'make-love-not-war' ape. Imagine that.

#FransDeWaal

alx, 2 months ago to random

“ “Never again” must mean never again by anyone, against anyone. If this call is not applied to Palestinians, there can never realistically be any hope that others will apply it to Jews – especially in an era in which so much anti-Semitism goes ignored because it does not fit into the pro-Israel/pro-Palestine dichotomy.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/13/criticism-of-israels-war-and-occupation-is-not-anti-semitism

alx, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

As part of my graphic “Women Warriors” project (started in 2018), I’m a bit late, but this year I’m dedicating it to Palestinian women. This is a sneak peak, tomorrow I’ll post the picture on @alx.fsl@pixelfed.social

*Update: full picture, close ups, and work-in-progress images here: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/672452956402958058

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024 #MastoArt #FreePalestine #watercolour #sketchbook #SketchbookSaturday

alx, 2 months ago to random

Just went to watch #Dune 2. As we rooted for the Fremen’s liberation, I couldn’t stop thinking that in real life, people who fight against the empire and the colonial rule, are generally called terrorists.

alx, 2 months ago to random

“ Many of the protesters who fill the streets of their cities week after week have no immediate relation to the European past of the Shoah. They judge Israel by its actions in Gaza rather than its Shoah-sanctified demand for total and permanent security. Whether or not they know about the Shoah, they reject the crude social-Darwinist lesson Israel draws from it – the survival of one group of people at the expense of another.”

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

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alx, 2 months ago to random

The Democrats at least are antifascist…ah no

alx, 3 months ago to girlyposting

Some #FrugalAbundance morning sky from SouthWest England.

#dawn #sunrise #sky #pink

alx, 3 months ago to books

Reading the news is unbearable and depressing. Better to read some sci-fi classic about a people oppressed by an empire who extracts all it can from the people’s native land and portrays them as ignorant primitive terrorists when they fight back.

I really can’t figure out how authors could envisioning such a world

#dune #books #SciFi #bookstodon