Notices by Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)

"One thing that strikes me even now is how even if one were to take #NeilGaiman at his word, to assume that Pavlovich, Caroline, and the 6 other women who have accused [him] are all embellishing their stories for publicity, one is still left with a man who thinks it’s possible to have “consent” with women whose choices are to either assent to sex or find themselves homeless. This is the version of the story he wants the world to believe. This is his best-case scenario."

https://wildhunt.org/2025/01/editorial-gaimans-abuse-survivors-demand-we-see-the-truth.html

Well this is just dystopian

Doctors defying NHS to prescribe baby formula, shampoo and toothpaste to struggling patients

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prescriptions-nhs-gps-baby-formula-b2677330.html

A question for #Blind Mastodon: has anyone ever had live #AudioDescription of a wedding ceremony and if so are there any resources you could point me to of where to start with planning and organising please? Many thanks

Zoe Hughes, an #Exeter City council member for #Pennsylvania, has resigned from the #LabourParty over their banning of gender affirming treatment of under 18s.

Good for them, nice to see a politician with some principles.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy89e1g71ppo

#CassReview #UKPol

After reading that I emailed Zoë Hughes to thank them - I think it's important to send positive messages of support when politicians do the right thing, especially on issues where they'll probably be getting a lot of nasty responses - and got this reply:

"Emails like this one have really lifted my spirits and reminded me that it's still ok to have principles in 2025 - so thank you so much for sending it.

@aral my parents got a watch like this one when I graduated highschool 25 years ago. I wore it for my entire adult life until about six years ago when the strap broke and I lost it. So I immediately went on eBay and bought exactly the same one again, which I hope to get at least another two decades out of

A little reminder for the holiday period

Source: https://www.instagram.com/share/p/BAMoA5hVm-

@aku @leadegroot @Gargron +2

Could Tenbury Wells be the first UK town centre abandoned over climate change?

Worcestershire town has been flooded seven times in past four years and shop owners can no longer afford insurance

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/01/could-tenbury-wells-be-the-first-uk-town-centre-abandoned-due-to-climate-change

#ClimateBreakdown #UKFlooding #StormBert #ClimateDiary

I've read a lot of #Solarpunk / #HopePunk fiction, it's a genre I enjoy, but I realise something I often find lacking in it is conflict - I think solarpunk sometimes gets conflated with #CozyFiction, and while cozy solarpunk like the #MonkAndRobot series is great in its own right I'd like to see more about people resolving differences of opinion.

There's also some great writing out there about the conflict between people who want a better future and those who oppose them (#TheLostCause is another highly recommended book about this), but I'd like to see a lot more #Solarpunk stories about people who have different ideas of how to make a better future working that out together, in keeping with the idea that the community not the individual should be the protagonist of a solarpunk story.

Too often the premise of how the society or community works just seems to be accepted by everyone in the story, but I'd like to see more about people working out different ideas. Land sparing for wildlife via agricultural intensification or land sharing via permaculture? Veganism or traditional hunting? Energy descent or renewables? Everyone has their own bioreactor or regulation of potentially dangerous novel organisms? Resources to proven technologies or time and effort spent on innovation?

@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.