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kzodasnowman, 4 months ago to random

Urban water conservation is important, but lots has been done and there's not much more juice in the squeeze. The low hanging fruit here is agricultural land retirement and changing to less water intensive crops. Ag is 80 percent of human water use in California.

From: @ianjames
https://journa.host/@ianjames/111772245127219573

kzodasnowman, 4 months ago to norcal Japanese

Hi #SFBayArea I'm helping Community Democracy Project throw a Covid-safe dance fundraiser for Gaza (1/27). We can get jiggy, safely! Masks required, air purifiers, UV-C, testing, the works! #Gaza #Esims #CovidIsNotOver #Oakland

Boosts hella appreciated.

https://actionnetwork.org/ticketed_events/dance-benefit-for-gaza

inquiline, 4 months ago to random

Plea for one (1) day without people starting absolutely gratuitous arguments with women*, social scientists, and women social scientists on here

*whatever we want it to be

skinnylatte, 4 months ago to random

My main problem with ‘digital nomads’ is how, in search of ‘cheaper solutions’ to their own life problems in their own societies, they pretty much make life harder for the people from the nomad hotspots. There’s no sugar-coating this. Someone in Lisbon or Bali doesn’t easily have ‘a cheaper place’ to move to. I don’t think there’s an ethical way to do this, and legally it’s also such a fraught lifestyle. You’re one major illness or one global pandemic away from having to leave ‘your home’.

skinnylatte, 5 months ago to magASEAN

The only place in the world where there’s an accurate description of my ‘palate’ was Indonesia.

People knew exactly what foods and flavor profiles I like when I say ‘gurih’.

I’ve never liked plain or light tasting food (unless exceptionally high quality: like steamed fish, Teochew style, but the fish has to be world class); so I found it wonderful that all of the food east of Jogja was basically ‘food I’m obsessed with’, especially East Java, and NTT cuisines.

#TootSea #Indonesia #Food

inquiline, 5 months ago to random

Telling people the pandemic is over somehow results in an incredibly low uptake of updated boosters 🤔

kzodasnowman, 5 months ago to random

2 family members sick with COVID, luckily no symptoms. Got a homie who gets sick all the time now. COVID is catching wreck rn.

grimalkina, 5 months ago to random

One of my dear friends is a state scientist for California. In California if you trust state park beaches to not poison your kids and your dogs, if you appreciate companies getting cited and brought into line for dumping toxic pollutants in your backyard, if you align with all the ambitions we have in this state to meet climate goals -- who do you think is doing that work? It's state scientists who have been massively underpaid for years

Engineers make about 30% more doing the same work.

divya, 5 months ago to random

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skinnylatte, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

I just read Tahir Hamut Izgil’s memoir ‘Waiting to be Arrested at Night’. He’s a Uyghur poet who got asylum and now lives in DC, but his memoir provides essential reading on what it’s like reading the tea leaves and trying to figure out when is the right time to leave your home forever. With many challenges along the way (it is very difficult for Uyghurs to get passports; the Chinese state also confiscates them)

Western leftists who deny the Uyghur genocide should walk into the sea.

skinnylatte, 5 months ago to random

So many SF food trucks are just ‘what if restaurant prices but smaller quantities and worse food and you have to eat standing up holding paper plates and it’ll be $30 pls’

inquiline, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Story about the Houthis' Red Sea blockades/piracy and its effects on #SupplyChain with a short 🧵

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/19/red-sea-shipping-crisis-bp-oil-explained-what-is-happening-and-what-does-it-mean-for-global-trade

kzodasnowman, 5 months ago to Oakland

Eyyy yo I'm helping throw a COVID-safe dance party/fundraiser for Gaza relief in #Oakland come January. Immuno-compromised people deserve spaces to get jiggy too! Please let me know if you'd like to help organize or attend! #CovidIsNotOver #Accessibility

kzodasnowman, 5 months ago to random Japanese

Anyone got any recommendations for community supported and community focused journalism in #WashingtonDC?

I found Spotlight DC, looking for more.
https://spotlightdc.org/

kzodasnowman, 6 months ago to random

February 16-18 gonna be so wild. Genesis X, a huge fighting game tournament will be in San Jose. They have a link to COVID policies, they suck (optional masking, no ventilation info), but at least it's upfront! Make History Volume 3 coming back to Oakland. Breaking (so called breakdancing🤢) is a black dance! 2v2 all styles and 3v3 breaking!!!

Make History volume 3 poster.

kissane, 6 months ago to random

My copy still isn't here yet but I am EXTREMELY SO PSYCHED about @jomc's WRONG WAY, which is getting top spot on my holiday-break GTR* stack

It's @EndlessBookshelf's book of the year and an excellent holiday gift contender 🎁

Coverage:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780374610661

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a45823821/joanne-mcneil-wrong-way-interview/

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/11/wrong-way-joanne-mcneil-book-review/676028/

Powell's still has copies! https://www.powells.com/book/wrong-way-9780374610661

(* Get To Read)

kzodasnowman, 6 months ago to random

"Do better, white people" words that never go out of style.

From: @inquiline
https://union.place/@inquiline/111563095970483046

kzodasnowman, 6 months ago to random

AHHHH JUST FILL MY FEED WITH SKELETONS IN ARMOR!!!

From: @kimhu
https://peoplemaking.games/@kimhu/111556110747251005

limneticvillains, 6 months ago to random

Mastodon seems like the place to ask. So I'm a little indie musician guy. I'm slowly replacing Twitter with here, I've been using Bandcamp but am unhappy with large corporations buying and selling it - so I got a Faircamp (no sales yet but I haven't been pushing it!). What are alternatives to other large sites. Is Peertube a good YouTube alternative? What about email? If there's one thing I've noticed about Mastodon -I know there's a whole world of ultra computer nerds on here, and I salute you.

PacificNic, 6 months ago to random

I think we CAN win this. I think we CAN get people masking again, voluntarily. I don't think it will be easy, and I think we need to spend a lot of time and effort on hashing out a strategy, but I don't think it's impossible.

It's fundamentally rational to wear a mask to prevent the spread of disease. We have facts on our side.

SO many people only stopped masking in order to fit in, but they'd wear them again if we can find a way to give them social license and confidence.

#BringBackMasks

kzodasnowman, 6 months ago to california Japanese

#California, anyone had experience with the All of Us general health research subject cohort? I was a subject for a long COVID study, thinking about doing more. https://www.joinallofus.org/california

steve, 10 months ago to random

Last year I did a regular Friday music thread on Twitter, on songs about climate change. Time to revive it here. I'll start with the songs I tweeted last year, for anyone who missed them, then: new songs!
#ClimateSongs #ClimateRocks