Notices by Linda Woodrow (lindawoodrow@mastodon.social), page 3

@Badgardener no bother! You prompted me to look up if there is something new about aluminium. I do use iron and stainless cookware, but mostly cos induction. And avoid nonstick cos pfas. So much to pay attention to.

@Badgardener I have a little single cup pottery one too, but I like the way my aluminium one pours. And the Alzheimer's aluminium connection seems to be debunked, and I haven't heard of others.

@Lozwood Great to see you here! A good way to get started is to fill in your profile a bit, especially with hashtags for the things you're interested in - people search for hashtags to find common interests and that's how they find you. Search for hashtags and follow people you find who look interesting. Follow lots of people - you can make lists or mute or filter later. Because there's no algorithm, your feed will be very empty till you start telling it what you want to see.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thelastfarm/p/will-this-be-a-wake-up-call

My #OptOut #SpendingStrike post today is a solid agreement with @MelissaBenyon's post. A few pots of herbs makes a difference way out of proportion to the effort they take, in money saved, delicious meals, nutrition, ability to magic dinner for a multitude out of a near empty pantry, or to avoid braving the supermarket on a cold wet night or during a plague wave, and that's without even talking about the plastic packaging, cold storage, food miles, pesticides etc avoided. https://witcheskitchen.com.au/gardening-in-small-spaces-go-for-herbs/

@foremostarchwiz @luckytran I'm in Australia. Yes. The summer of 2019-2020 was a horror fire season.

@naught101 @jackscottau woops! 😁

@vwdasher Big ones get fruit flies up here, but I'm picking buckets of cherry toms.

@jackscottau Hi Jack, one thing Mastodon allows that I found very useful to get my feed humming was that it lets you follow hashtags. When I sharted out here, I followed a heap of hashtags of things that interested me, and when I found someone I knew or whose posts I loved on those hashtags, I'd follow the person. You can also add hashtags to your profile, then someone searching by hashtag will find you.

Joining @MelissaB in #OptOut #SpendingStrike actions - tiny, no cost, no pain ways to starve the corporate system. Mine today is a teapot. This is my favourite, found in an op shop over a decade ago, and used it every day since. It's a kind that used to be everywhere in cafes in Australia before teabags. I buy loose leaf, fair trade organic Sri Lankan tea in a 3kg box and it's still less than half the price of teabags, much more delicious, and I get to avoid drinking microplastics.

@MelissaBenyon I do too. Starving the capitalist machine one cent at a time, multiplied by billions of us. No cost, no pain protests. Can I join you posting them? https://witcheskitchen.com.au/the-habit-of-carrying-water/

Ratatouille for dinner. First of the season's eggplants, zucchini, squash, capsicum, tomatoes, garlic, spring onions, basil, oregano. All from the garden. #fromthegarden #permaculture #retrosuburbia

@DarthAstrius @stux We cannot afford the energy use of AI. We cannot afford the energy use of the things we already use. Energy use has to go renewable *and* *also* drop off a cliff, not by 2050 but by yesterday. There are no doubt many very cool and very worthwhile tasks that AI could be put to, but it requires a gross underestimation of the scale and speed of energy use reduction we (especially we in the developed world) need to do to even consider them.

@kurohana @swift https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/anti-vaccination-advocates-double-down-as-measles

@the5thColumnist @benroyce @mloxton @KathyLK No there is no point. Australia has compulsory preferential voting. So you have to rank every candidate, and if the media is right and your first preference has no chance, your vote flows on to your second preference and so on down the line. I am often in the position of putting our most Trumpian candidate last, but knowing my vote will flow down eventually to someone I abhor slightly less. And I'm glad to at least have that much power.

First soudough of 2025

@lukito yes, I'm going with chainsaw beaker too. Chainsaw pruning can be brutal, but usually effective once it all settles down.

He's for a one and a bit (16 month old) boy. So he's toddler size (my glasses for scale) , soft and very cuddly, durable, washable. Recycled wool jumper shredded and carded till fluffy for stuffing, all recycled ingredients apart from some embroidery cotton. Took me a whole day to make but such a fun day. #handmadetoy #handmadewithlove #permaculture #degrowth

Refritos for breakfast. Onion, garlic, cumin seeds, cooked madagascar beans, fried then zapped with the stick blender. Fried egg and tomatoes to go with it and some chopped coriander garnish. Zero food miles except for some cooking oil and very delicious. #retrosuburbia #permaculture #fromthegarden

@jeffjarvis There is a kernel in this though. As we charge past planetary boundaries & climate crisis bites, the repercussions hit hardest & first in colonised parts of the world. People get on the move. The billionaire class kneecap efforts to address the polycrisis, & we entitled westerners don't like either the repercussions of our century long bender or colonised people trying to escape it. Cue fascist populism & the saying "for every complex problem there is a simple solution that is wrong"