Notices by Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)

@cpm @skinnylatte team Pocket Sriracha all the way

@cpm @skinnylatte also for the avoidance of confusion the sign on the wall says "No LGB without the T", but just being able to see the first part gives the wrong impression!

This is wild: humans have been eating oily fish for millennia, it's probably quite important for brain development, but as a species we've now managed to dump so much mercury in the sea it might not be safe for kids to eat anymore.

Tinned #tuna: Acorns Nurseries ban over #mercury levels concern - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e800kn14no

#WaterPollution

I rejoined Mastodon in 2022 and immediately loved it because it felt like the old Internet. As a direct result I have now bought an old Nokia dumb phone and am getting curious about ham radio. If this trend continues by 2026 I will be communicating exclusively in petroglyphs.

Lots of new people are joining the Fediverse right now, so a reminder that no one likes a gatekeeper

@zens I've also wondered what happens if a werewolf shaves her legs and armpits, does she have bald patches as a wolf?

I don't have anything practical to offer yet, but one thing I have learned over four decades on this planet is that people deal with awful things in two different ways and each group's strategy is unhelpful to the other. One type of people need to focus on the positives to avoid despair, to look for the remaining points of light and the actions they can take now, because focussing on the bad stuff paralyses them and means they can't do anything about it.

One group needs to focus on and talk about how fucked everything is, and gets strength and solidarity and validation from talking about how awful things are with other members of the group of people who feel the same.

The trouble is when the two groups react to the same things and start talking to each other. The people who need to focus on the bad stuff feel the people who need the positive aren't taking things seriously enough or aren't sufficiently aware of them. The people who need the positive stuff feel the ones who need the negative stuff are just trying to bring everyone down and paralyse them into inaction. Neither group feels heard or taken seriously by the other.

Okay hear me out: standardisation and interoperability for bra underwires. After the size and fabric the labels should say "This bra uses a 47009 underwire" and then you should be able to go to a website and just enter a part number to get a replacement, instead of having to measure and guess and still getting one that somehow has the wrong curve to it. And you should be able to order them singly not just in pairs.

COVID should have taught us but didn't that global supply chains are vulnerable to disasters, whether disease or weather, which will both become more common with climate change so we should be investing more in local small scale food production. Instead we have situations where small local producers like Down Farm https://www.instagram.com/downfarmwinkleigh? which used to supply our weekly veg box are going out of business because they can't make producing fresh food locally financially viable.

I have no idea whether this terminology went beyond his particular office or whether it was management sanctioned, but the idea was that these staff were set out as tempting targets to absorb customer frustration and anger at policies that they couldn’t change so that that anger didn’t get through to disturb management levels. When the piñatas broke they could be easily replaced.

Our train was cancelled this morning with no information sent to the app or the information point operator, and it got me thinking about a rather chilling conversation I once had sharing a taxi with someone who used to work for a major international airline. He told me that within his team frontline company service staff were referred to as piñatas.

Please people who put on events I'm begging you, have a mailing list or a physical website where I can look up dates in advance. Just saw a post on Instagram about a craft workshop I would have liked to go to but didn't see before hand, asked the artist if she had a mailing list and was told "no but I post all my upcoming workshops on Instagram and Facebook". I don't think a lot of people realise these don't show most of your posts to your followers, and what they do show isn't chronological?

Leaving aside the moral argument for the moment, decision makers in wealthy countries need to understand that it's far more efficient in terms of both lives and costs saved to share #vaccines and stop infectious diseases as early and close to the source as possible rather than hoarding their own stockpiles for when the disease reaches their own populations - sharing vaccines equitably may mean it never even gets there in the 1st place

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/30/worldwide-alert-mpox-spreading-three-steps-gordon-brown

#mpox #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth

@Raccoon no AI is sensitive enough to context for this to work. Meta has automated moderation, and my fiancée got a temporary ban when someone in a pet rat group asked whether they should get boy or girl rats and she replied "Boys are stinky and get penis plugs". More seriously if someone gets abuse phrased in a way that whoever designed the moderation system hadn't thought of, and responds by telling them to fuck off, they victim is the one to get the flag

I know we were on track to shoot past 1.5C of warming, but it looks like we've already done it 😰

Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/08/temperatures-1-point-5c-above-pre-industrial-era-average-for-12-months-data-shows?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Today I learned that hi vis workwear kilts exist, and I think it's very important that I inform the Fediverse of this fact.

https://www.blaklader.uk/en/product/19211831-hi-vis-kilt

"Just use Linux" is much like "just ride a bike" or "just shop at a refill store" - accessing the non default option can be time consuming, expensive or unavailable locally. We need to recognise you need a certain degree of privilege to have the capacity to complicate your life voluntarily. We need to be trying to make the better, harder thing more accessible, not blaming people for not using it.

For people concerned about the proposed #asylumSeeker roundup in preparation for deportation to #Rwanda there's a list of local #AntiRaids groups here:

https://antiraids.net/local-groups/

#UKpol