Notices by Jules (afewbugs@social.coop), page 2

"Electric vehicles as a whole displaced about 1.5m barrels of oil a day globally in 2022, according to Bloomberg. Two-thirds of that – almost 1m barrels a day – was just from electric bikes and mopeds, which are known as electric micromobility."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2024/apr/11/evs-are-booming-but-electric-bikes-are-really-cutting-emissions

#eBikes #ElectricBikes

Plants are inherently anti the zero-sum scarcity paradigm aren't they. If you give someone a cutting of your plant you still have a plant but now they have one too. They can grow it till they can give away cuttings and now more people have plants, and your plant is still there.

@h @ryanc https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-12-06/debates/E7306EC2-EFCB-4331-BD82-F01FDF67CCBF/GenderRecognition

#GeorgeMonbiot on the #SouthDevonPrimary - attempt to resolve the #TacticalVoting dilemma and let voters decide which progressive candidate to unite behind to have the greatest chance of unseating the Tories under the #FirstPastThePost system.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/20/revolution-britain-politics-devon-tory-mps-afraid

#UKPolitics #SouthDevon #Totnes #ElectoralReform

UK doctors who receive convictions for climate protests face threat of being struck off

Particularly alarming given how permissible forms of protests in the UK are being continually restricted.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/16/uk-doctors-involved-in-climate-protests-face-threat-of-being-struck-off

#UKPolitics #RightToProtest #DirectAction #ClimateCrisis

Rather a lovely series of interviews with people who run or attend #repair cafes.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/12/theres-a-real-joy-in-fixing-something-the-rise-of-the-repair-cafe

#RepairCafes

Setting up for the #Exeter #Seedbank #SeedSwap today at #PostiveLights on #SidwellStreet, where I'll be teaching #CoilBasketry. Come along! Opens 10:30 to 14:30.

#SeedSovereignty #OpenPollinatedSeed #Permaculture

Somewhere between 10% and 40% of garments produced every year are destroyed unsold.

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/jan/18/its-the-industrys-dirty-secret-why-fashions-oversupply-problem-is-an-environmental-disaster

#FastFashion #TextileWaste #OverProduction #CapitalismIsKillingYou

Am I the only one who deliberately sabotages my own #DuoLingo streak when I get to about five, just because the longer it gets the more anxiety-inducing the pressure of maintaining it is?

@BethanyBlack didn't some guy off Jersey Shore break his hand punching a wall on holiday in Italy or something?

@stavvers @cstross @rererere and then apparently I've been reliably informed they all drive home because there's no public transport