Notices by Jules she/her (afewbugs@social.coop)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/117372715318838996

I read the first sentence and thought it was some sort of horrifying fermentation accident where it filled his kitchen and smothered him or something, like those pictures you see of dough bursting out of bins

@oblomov *refills your glass* "...go on"

@tansy I do wonder whether they would have been so quick to accuse a white French man of being unable to write a book without help

@skinnylatte admittedly a sample size of two, but my friend of Korean heritage and my ex of Thai Chinese heritage both think mooncakes are disgusting. From which I have concluded that, much like English Christmas Pudding, mooncakes are a food only enjoyed for their festive associations or by people who didn't grow up with them

My friend's queer-owned antique shop got a bunch of protest badges from the 70s and 80s in, I reckon someone extremely cool just passed away.

https://www.wandvintage.com/

@simon_brooke I think the danger of concentrating all the Palestinian accounts on one instance is it would be easy for instance moderators to just block the whole instance. As I understand it that's why Gaza Verified tries to spread them around multiple instances when they join

We are celebrating a brief interruption of the drought and the return of the rains in true British fashion by going camping in it, but I thought Mastodon might appreciate how someone else traveled to the campsite

I looked up #DollyParton's #ImaginationLibrary to make a donation in her memory and learned some things I didn't know before:

💖 It's not just in the US! It also operates in England, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland, Éire, Canada and Australia.
💖 So you can donate in any of those currencies.
💖 If it operates in your country you can sign up to be a local coordinator recruiting children in your community.
💖 If you donate you get a copy of a lovely warm thank you letter from Dolly.

https://imaginationlibrary.com/

@MediaActivist I always find it wild that the default position is animals aren't sentient beings, and the onus is on research to prove they do feel pain, rather than the other way around, you know?

@Heidentweet @villebooks anyone with an active @gazaverified link has been verified as actually being in Gaza via IP address and a video call with either @aral or @casey . There is a coordinated disinformation claim going on to discredit all Gazan sources of information by saying there is no internet access in Gaza. This is not the case, I'm not saying everyone claiming to be in Gaza anywhere on the internet is, but anyone who is #GazaVerified definitely is and spreading the idea that there is no internet access in Gaza is just helping the Zionist propaganda narrative designed to discredit any reporting going on from there

#Quakers reaffirm commitment to trans inclusion and refuse to make any changes to toilet provision in the wake of EHRC Code of Practice
https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-reaffirm-commitment-to-trans-inclusion-in-the-wake-of-ehrc-code-of-practice?

"The policy also states that Quakers will not require trans, non-binary or intersex people to disclose or prove their status in circumstances where such evidence is not demanded of others.

Under the arrangements confirmed by trustees, toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience.

Similarly, facilities labelled with a 'male' sign remain available to cisgender men, trans men, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience."

This is what I don't get about all the people confidently asserting this summer is within the normal range of variation and we're all just snowflakes for making a fuss about it. Even if they can't look out of the window and see the brown grass surely they have friends or family it's affecting? I don't know, maybe I'm primed to pay attention to these things when they come up in every day conversation but in addition to the above person who got heatstroke at work I have a friend who works on a neurology ward where staff are fainting and a tray of plastic syringes melted in the heat, and a farmer friend who's planning to drastically reduce the size of her flock of sheep next year because there isn't enough grazing to sustain them.

More "it's just Summer! We don't need maximum workplace temperatures!" news from Perfectly Normal Island.

#ukheatwave

@skinnylatte I don't know if any country teaches stuff in schools that doesn't portray them in a favourable way much as I'd like to believe someone must. But it's quite scary how many white people seem to not either have the curiosity to question it or to have had friends who go "well my family ended up here because of this awful thing" and gone "wait what? Why have I never heard of that?"

@eco_amandine @skinnylatte I also spent two years at school in Belgium and learnt nothing about the atrocities in the Belgian Congo, I can't 100% conclusively say we wouldn't have learned it if I'd been there long but honestly I'm sceptical

Without wanting to make everything about me as a white British woman, I find it genuinely horrifying how the British history I learned in school was exclusively about things that happened within the British Isles and nothing about what the British Empire did in the rest of the world, I had to pick all that up myself as an adult. I'd like to believe things are different in schools now but I'm not sure they are.

For people who like video explainers here's Dr Amir Khan talking about #Partition for Parkistani and Indian #IndependenceDay s

https://imginn.com/reel/DcBQO6kIfzR/

#UKHistory #ColonialHistory #BritishAsianHistory

@rootsandcalluses for the Gaza accounts I trust anything on Gaza Verified because they have had a phone call with a team of people, two of whom I've personally interacted with and know are real (but I realise the chain breaks down because you have no way of really knowing I'm real), and have had their IPs verified as coming from Gaza by the same people. It's the same problem though that many of them do write in very inauthentic sounding ways, probably because they're using some sort of translation software if they don't speak English. I must admit that I tend not to donate in response to actual Gaza Verified posts but I have an amount I allocate for charity, crowdfunding and mutual aid each month and if there's any left at the end of the month I go to https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ and give it to the accounts that have raised the least

Does anyone have links to a good explainer of how internet access in the Gaza strip works? There's this idea going round that any information coming out of Gaza must be fake because all internet infrastructure has been destroyed, but I follow a number of people from Gaza who I at least am confident are where they say are. Can anyone recommend any reliable articles on how people are getting the internet working over there?

"#GMB is pushing for #union recognition at the UK’s largest energy company, #OctopusEnergy, known as a progressive organisation with a focus on #RenewableEnergy.

The union is planning to submit a formal proposal for voluntary recognition at the London-based company and says Octopus, as a top rated ethical business, should welcome the involvement of trade unions.

But the company, which has risen to prominence in the UK energy sector with its tech-driven approach, has said there is currently no need – or demand from staff – for union recognition."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/06/octopus-energy-workers-union-recognition

Unions are like condoms, if they're trying to persuade you you don't need one, that's when you need one most