Notices by Sally Strange (sallystrange@eldritch.cafe), page 3

@davidzipper #Alt4You #DescriptiveText #accessibility

The fact that it's basically illegal to go from one place to another and accept a job should be mind-shatteringly outrageous to us

#BordersAreViolence #BorderSecurity

Whenever people respond to critiques on Democratic elected officials with "who's paying you," all I can think of is this:

#USpol

In order to build a massive EV factory in Germany, Tesla chopped down 500,000 trees from 800+ acres of forest (329 hectares). The deaths of these trees are estimated by Kayrros (a private environmental tracking organization) experts to have released approximately 13,000 tonnes of CO2, which is equivalent to the average annual emissions of 2,800 internal combustion cars. In addition, dozens of incidents of environmentally damaging spills of diesel, paints, and aluminum have been reported at the site. The deforestation will also put pressure on the relatively dry (for Germany) region's water supply.

Nevertheless, the Brandenburg state have approved plans for a doubling of production capacity at the site. Tesla, while acknowledging the deforestation and multiple spills/leaks, also claims that no environmental damage has taken place, and besides, if it did, they did something about it anyway so just shut up, OK??!? Elon Musk shouts from Xitter that all the people protesting the environmental impacts of the site are either very dumb or puppets for bad guys who want to destroy the environment.

This has been your Musk hypocrisy update for the week. #Climate #ClimateChange #deforestation #WaterWars #Musk #Tesla #EVs

https://qz.com/tesla-berlin-germany-trees-gigafactory-1851630254

@spacekatia anyone with "space slut" in their name or bio gets an automatic follow from me :)

I passed my erosion and sediment control test! I am officially a Certificate Holder in New York State for Erosion and Sediment Control! Huzzah!

Important #Caturday update: Topaz came and chilled on the bed while I gave Spouse a neck & back rub. Now she's enjoying the sunlight and a teensy bit of catnip. #TopazPosting #cats

@NoFlexZone Competent electioneering would be "I recognize your concerns but yada yada"; instead it's just "fuck you". As the old protest chant goes, they think it's a joke. They think it's a game.

@x00001 I still think one-person-one-instance is the endpoint of this whole experiment

Grace Jones is still performing?!? This is from a couple Saturdays ago. "Nightclubbing," "My Jamaican Guy," a brand NEW song (didn't catch its name but it's funky), and more. Impeccable stage craft as usual. What a legend.

#GraceJones #music #Jamaica #SanFran #LiveMusic #OutsideLands

https://youtu.be/98VcG6JuzzU?si=kP-iqLB7OM4nXDYA

lol the Democrats' "new" master platform says "President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats are running to finish the job."

They didn't pay their copy editors?

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf

"Democrats know that Wall Street didn’t build America. The middle class built America – and
unions built the middle class."

The hate for the poor continues. Were enslaved African people "middle class"? Is the typical roofer, bricklayer, or logger "middle class"? Not in my experience.

They're still "fighting for 15" but that was a decade ago and a livable wage now would be more like $20 or $25 per hour

Asserting that all billionaires are an existential threat to humanity makes me "no better than The Orange Fascist and his ilk," apparently.

This is why liberals lose. They choose fascism over reality when pressed, but reality persists. #BlockList

https://toot.io/@nutmeg/112965840523533001

About sex segregation in sports...

[Note: here "women" and "men" can be read as "cis women" and "cis men," but usually when I talk about women and men I mean all of them, cis, trans, nonbinary, and more.]

Despite what some people say, sex segregation in sports is NOT for the protection of women's health. Women are not that fragile.

Sex segregation in sports is for the protection of men's egos, which are that fragile.

We don't know women's true capabilities at the current moment. We are barely beginning to emerge from a long period of enforced ignorance about women's capacity for strength and athletic achievement. Example number one million or so:

For decades, the idea that “lighter is faster,” was the reigning mythology passed on by most track coaches when it came to conditioning, especially to endurance athletes. Coaches would encourage young female runners, who often have higher body fat percentages than their male counterparts, to lose weight to improve performance.

Today, many women runners are flipping the script. They’re discovering how dangerous undernourishment can be – including the risks of disordered eating – and are seeking out coaching that supports proper fueling. The old model of coaching for thinness is gradually giving way to an emphasis on strength and stamina.

Undernourishment by athletes competing at high levels can have a number of bad health effects; one of them is bone micro-fractures. I have seen TERFs citing the prevalence of micro-fractures among women athletes as proof that women need protection from competing with men--but in reality it's evidence that women in sports are being systematically discouraged from adequately nourishing themselves.

Until sexism is eradicated, nobody can make any blanket statements about women's capacity for athletic achievement.

#Sexism #Transphobia #Misogyny #Sports #Olympics #Running #WomenAthletes

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/08/nx-s1-5065821/olympics-track-field-female-runners-fueling-performance

@RMiddleton I've never met or heard of anyone who uses different pronouns based on whether it's possessive or not. I think it's more of a convention for neologisms where the different forms might not be so intuitive, for instance "zie/hir", which is what the late great Leslie Feinberg used. There's also "fae/faer" and "xe/xir", etc.

I was discussing vegetables with a coworker (a common occurrence when one works with botanists) and she had never heard about any of these brassica memes. So, courtesy of my lovely coworker who gives me pepper plants and wildflower seeds, please enjoy some brassica oleracea humor :)

#brassicas #vegetables

@unabogie @darrellpf @actuallyautistic YES

It drives me nuts how unaware people are of what they're doing sometimes

@darrellpf @actuallyautistic omg! I do this and I have never understood why other people don't simply pay attention to their tasks, continuously optimizing their performance of said tasks so that eventually they have a truly efficient way to perform them.

@AnthonyJK feckin landlords. I'm sorry dude :lila_heart_blue: