Notices by Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)

So I know there are crosslisting tools that allow people to sell second-hand items on platforms like ebay or vinted, but are there the opposite, search tools that specifically search for things second hand across different platforms? In a more #CircularEconomy if you needed something it would be helpful if you needed something if the first results returned by a search were local and second hand, does any sort of tool like this exist?

I'm imagining a sort of #solarpunk "shopping" platform where you entered the item you wanted and first got a list of local libraries of things where you could borrow one, then a list of local ones available secondhand, then national secondhand, then handmade ones and only finally links to buy it new.

Even better you could start with the choice between "I need a thing" and "I need to fix a thing", and clicking the latter and entering what you need to fix gives you an ifiixit guide and a list of nearby repair shops and cafes

I basically want one website where I can put in "green summer shorts size 16" and get "Here are three pairs from eBay, here's one on Vinted and here's one on Preloved, there's a local artist who sews them out of handspun hemp, seaweed and celery strings, if you already have a pair that's torn here's a video on how to mend them and by the way one of your neigbours has grown too much basil and put it on Freecycle, do you want some?"

UK transphobia solidarity action - you can order "Maybe I'm trans?" badges to confuse the toilet police here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/maybe-im-trans

How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/01/dark-roof-lobby?

I find this fascinating because literally everything, however obscure, that might make life slightly better - heat pumps, traffic control measures, masks and vaccines and now apparently cooling roofs - seems to immediately spawn a #misinformation lobby arguing for everyone's right to make the more damaging choice.

#disinformation #CultureWars

@cwebber also I feel you need to distinguish between TTRPG GM (dom) and TTRPG GM (service top)

@rooster @cwebber wait, train enby is a common enough category to be a trading card? I thought I knew the only one of them

Indonesian food factories are burning imported Western #plasticWaste for cooking fuel, risking toxic contamination
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/10/tofu-plastic-indonesia?

Interviews with some of the young women arrested by Met police armed with tasers at the #YouthDemand meeting at #WestminsterMeetingHouse, a #Quaker place of worship
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/police-raid-london-quaker-meeting-house-very-worrying

#RightToProtest #DirectAction

Last night my partner and my friend had a friendly argument about whether Buffy or True Blood was the best 2000s vampire show and ended by agreeing to disagree, and that's what that phrase is for, not human rights

In response to the police raid on #WestminsterMeetingHouse, #Quakers are organising a #MeetingForWorship outside New Scotland Yard on Thursday. People of all faiths and none welcome.

https://mailchi.mp/d312ad2f1001/quaker-faith-in-action-october-16511620?e=6ffe430c3f

#Quaker #NonViolent #DirectAction #YouthDemand #RightToProtest #London

I'm not knocking the Grecians here, but I do find it fascinating that a crowd of football fans can block a road with a #SlowMarch on the way to a match and get indulgent nods and smiles, but if they were calling for clean air, better insulation in a time of #FuelPoverty and #ClimateCrisis or an end to the bombing of Gaza there would be immediate calls to lock them up for the disruption they're causing.

#RightToProtest #UKPol #JustStopOil #InsulateBritain #ExeterCity

I don't want an AI assistant to "help me keep track of information from across the web" I just want everything I follow to have an RSS feed 😢

Step aside Nicole, I found a picture of the real Fediverse Chick

In case anyone was following our minor domestic dramas, you may remember that our washing machine broke and had to be replaced in January. Our fridge has now broken, and it seems likely we broke it ourselves when we pulled it out to get the new washing machine in buy putting it too close to the wall so it couldn't vent waste heat properly and the motor burnt out. Sharing this just in case someone on Mastodon is right this moment wondering how close to the wall to put their fridge.

More Than Half Of Brits Unaware Cows Must Be Impregnated To Produce Milk, Survey Finds
https://plantbasednews.org/animals/brits-unaware-cows-impregnated-milk/

@albertcardona at a bit of a tangent I hope someday we do end up producing milk in factories like she thought. I do find it weird how much effort goes into producing lab grown meat where you have to get the texture right and get the cells in suspension into a solid lump, rather than already liquid tissues like milk or egg yolk or albumin

This morning I put my jumper on, thought it was backwards, turned it round, realised now it really was backwards, turned it round and put it on again. This must be what wearing a USB stick would feel like.

Time to reshare I think. “I don’t want my portraits to hang in your offices, because the president is not an icon or an idol. Hang pictures of your children there and look them in the eyes before every decision” – Volodymyr Zelensky