If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
this is a pretty fascinating look at one corner of the supply chain mess that's looming from the oil supply interruptions, industrial lubricant disruption
The specialty lubricant angle is worse than most realize. Group II/III base oils (needed for modern industrial lubricants) come from a handful of refineries in SK, SG, and USGC. Even if crude flows, basestock-specific refining capacity bottlenecks independently. Plus synthetic PAO lubricants rely on ethylene — and European ethylene crackers are idling on gas prices. Two stacked siloed constraints within the same disruption.
figured this out: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116583041143972081
we have struggled for awhile with how to make instancewide information salient - announcements aren't exactly that, and many ppl don't know they exist. in particular we wanted to do voting within the instance, but we would have to go and boost the poll a bunch of times and only a few people ended up seeing it.
so this lil change might be of general interest to small instances out there - added the ability for moderators to sticky/unsticky posts and have them stay at the top of local and home feeds. we'll trial it out and see how it goes.
Having my least favorite conversation in the replies, and I'm not mad but... I just, don't get what you folks want from me.
"I agree, what now?"
I mean does the society around you agree? Do they LOOK primed to shut it down and end capitalism?
So I don't know. What I know is that the solution I settled on was to talk to regular people, many of whom find the word anarchist terrifying, and explain to them what's happening, how they can fight it. I am not done explaining - clearly. Look at them?
What do you think I'm doing, right now? Yeah - YOU agree. Are YOU a revolution, by yourself? Me neither.
They aren't gonna put me on CNN mate. They aren't putting you there either. This is what we got, telling each other.
I have spent 10 years training up maybe 450 revolutionary minds, because that was the best I could do. If I could make it happen tomorrow, I'd have done it many tomorrows ago.
What now? Learn to organize. I can't do that for you.
During my working life in the social enterprise movement I came across many initiatives like this Anti-Fashion Repair School in northern France - ,https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2026/05/17/clothing-repair-school-in-france-s-former-textile-capital-gives-garments-a-second-life_6753529_117.html - that combine environmental aims with social aims - in this case working for a circular economy with disadvantaged and socially excluded people.
Capitalism is indifferent to the over-exploitation and degradation of both people and planet - and people that care about the environment also generally care about other people - the political left and green are natural allies.
Inner peace arrives when you stop trying to control everything and instead accept that somewhere, right now, a goose is making decisions with complete confidence. There may be a lesson in that. #gooderliving
A Yellow-Crowned Night Heron looks for dinner in the grass.
Interview: Francesca Albanese on the systemic sexual abuse of Palestinians by Israeli forces.
The abuse reported by the NYT had already been documented & published for years by human rights groups & Palestinian organisations, including Albanese herself.
Albanese examines Israeli sexual violence & impunity – & the double standards western govts & media apply.
#USPol #EUPol #GazaGenocide #FrancescaAlbanese #news #palestine #palestinianPrisoners #IsraeliCrimes #racism .
I will never understand why Israelis accept the violent Netanyahu regime.
Video from a protest in Jerusalem where a young woman is arrested for "walking with handbag", and other protesters are beaten violently.
Alligevel lidt en overraskelse i et nyhedsbrev fra Danmarks Naturfredningsforening 😉
@tryberg Følger pantersæsonen bukkejagten?
Having my least favorite conversation in the replies, and I'm not mad but... I just, don't get what you folks want from me.
"I agree, what now?"
I mean does the society around you agree? Do they LOOK primed to shut it down and end capitalism?
So I don't know. What I know is that the solution I settled on was to talk to regular people, many of whom find the word anarchist terrifying, and explain to them what's happening, how they can fight it. I am not done explaining - clearly. Look at them?
The City of Pasadena approved an organization to hire 600 goats to eat vegetation on the steep slopes of the Arroyo Seco and reduce wildfire risk. The pilot project was 100 acres (about 50 hectares). The goats finished their work much faster than expected. See this article in PasadenaNow.
https://pasadenanow.com/main/goats-finish-ahead-of-schedule-in-arroyo-seco
It used to be that somebody who ate well would describe a meal by the dish: coq au vin, sole meunière, steak and kidney pudding, pasta alla puttanesca. Today we seem describe every meal by its macronutrient: 40 grams of protein, some carbs, a little fat. The descent from cuisine into nutritional accounting happened inside twenty years.
@Daojoan I think you might just know more joyless weirdos than other people do
@Quasit is 95 percent a number you came up with, or do you have a link to a source which documents this number?
@randahl @Quasit it's sick colonial society.
https://www.dw.com/en/how-do-israelis-see-gaza-war-and-palestinian-suffering/a-73600368
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fabienmarry/116582903742091605
A “good enough is good enough” world was perfectly prepared for LLMs.
Or … “in a world of thieves the only crime left is getting caught”
AP: WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreaks in Congo and Uganda
https://apnews.com/article/congo-ebola-uganda-who-africa-emergency-6f93a87ff28107bdda8990599bbcd52d
Engineer, amateur pilot and internet delight Xyla Foxlin made a dress out of wood veneer marquetry and it seriously rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ejR5DSWKI
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