Notices by dr elmyra (elmyra@wandering.shop)

Hey folks. Wanna play a fun game? Let's imagine our solar/hopepunk future together. I'm looking for specific ideas of what your life/community/neighbourhood would look like. We're talking near future, existing assets/infrastructure/technologies. And we're looking to fight climate change, oppression, inequality, and injustice.

Reply and tag #ImagineBetter

Hashtags for reach:

#SolarPunk
#HopePunk
#ClimateJustice
#Liberation

Boosts welcome.

Unpopular opinion: I like daylight savings time. I live far enough north (52°) that without it the sun would rise at 3 am in summer and set at 3 pm in winter.

Having said that, a lot of the problems people have aren't actually with DST, they're with the fact that we're being forced to comply with Capitalist Time rather than being able to listen to our bodies and live with nature.

Anarchist accounts, I really need you to start using alt text.

@gerrymcgovern I want to see degrowth supporters set out visions for how we will support the most vulnerable in our society. This piece is pitched to the middle classes (and I do understand the need to appease the middle classes) but I need to see how we will support disabled people, homeless people, poor people, refugees (economic, climate, and otherwise).

@Syulang @gerrymcgovern I think what the degrowth rhetoric increasingly glosses over in an effort to appease the middle classes is the need for concurrent radical redistribution. Not just from the private jet owning classes either. That article gives me the creeps because it's very much "you'll still have your lawn and white picket fence, you'll just work three days a week".

Folks I need tech help. I want to be able to see who's outside my front door before I open it. Ideally, before I get up from the sofa. I do not wish to give any data to amazon or the cops. Does a solution exist?

@aral I'll see your 5 0 and raise you 75 the UK.

@aral oh oops I stand corrected, it's 65 now apparently.

@achisto @aral my parents live in Germany, are in their late 60s with a bunch of additional health issues, and both their GPs told them not to bother with boosters.

Semi-regular reminder that using ableist language, not using accessibility accommodations like alt text, and not doing everything in your power to prevent covid transmission makes you ableist, no matter how "liberal", "left-wing", or "radical" you think you are. You are participating in the structural oppression of disabled people.