Starmer to introduce digital ID cards. You just know it’ll be used to out trans people as well as the stated purpose of harassing anyone who doesn’t look white enough. Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g54g6vgpdo

My wife and I have happily supported the #boston #eruv for many years.¹ They put up a "We support Israel" logo on their website in October 2023 and haven't taken it down since. I just emailed them that we won't donate again until they stop publicly supporting Israel. It is long past time for […]

I think regularly about how much better so much shit in the world would be if wealthy and powerful people actually engaged with an effective therapist. But then I also think - that's something of a self fulfilling prophecy. If someone was actually mentally healthy and found fulfillment in ways […]

I've an article idea about whether chatbots have been giving hikers and walkers dangerous advice when asked to plan trips. Would love to hear some good suggestions for tech or outdoors magazines that take freelance pitches, if anyone has any!

'Today, Nigel Farage said that all mice are gay and they're from space. We ask experts whether there is any truth in the claims'.

A tooter who quooted a toot Tried to tutor two tooters to quoot He was in their replies Over thirty-two times But the two had the tooter on mute

It’s #wrensday! *screams*

When the GenAI hype dies, I want to know how much total water, power, rare minerals were wasted in pursuit of this pipe dream to kill off labour.

Making soap in time for Christmas. Olive, coconut and macadamia oils, calendula, lemon myrtle, luffa.

A NEW study of the Finland basic income experiment just dropped. Turns out psychotropic drug use decreased by 8 %–11 %, and incomes increased on average by 9% to 11% due to people not losing the income when they accepted a job, unlike traditional unemployment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In a gift economy, wealth is understood as having enough to share, and the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away: In fact, status is determined not by how much one accumulates, but bu how much one gives away. The currency in a gift economy is […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Two things can be true at once. The world can be wasting more energy and burning more fossil fuels than ever before -and_ solar power and renewables in general can be taking off. We're not there yet but that doesn't mean there's no point continuing. I like this […] [Original post on social.coop]

Hi @seengoals I think someone's cloned your account? https://mastodon.social/@nabilzaq/115257637727098947 @aral

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

I’m offering this #VirtualWorkshop for the second time on Saturday, October 25. If you’ve ever had an interest in working with #clay, I hope you’ll join me. #Ceramics used to be a free creative medium but has become an expensive hobby. In this workshop, I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Forgive me for sounding like an extremist, but if the purpose of society isn't to house, feed, and care for its members, what the fuck is the purpose?

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

The wild geese are back at 55°N, 4°W! I love it when they return. #climatediary

If raptured people leave their clothes behind, if Trump got raptured would he leave a big orange puddle of fake tan?

Radical Anthropology Group Autumn programme begins on Tues Sept 30, 6:30pm at UCL Anthropology Dept. Everyone welcome, we are LIVE and on ZOOM (details to follow) Sept 30 Chris Knight/Camilla Power How to resist alpha males Oct 7 Volker Sommer In praise of lying.The […] [Original post on c.im]

We might ask ourselves why the hell everyone in a position of power is bending over backwards to appeal to Reform voters, but not to appeal to anyone else.

The Day Humanity Fixed the Sky September 16 is not only a day to remember the ozone layer, but also a day to remember what humanity is capable of when it puts aside division. We literally fixed the sky. (New post from the Climate Historian) […]

I'm hosting this on Thursday! 🏠 If you're based in #london and wanna chat about #housingcoops please swing by! I think we'll probably order (vegan) pizza together and chat about #coops! It's at #space4 in #finsburypark, which is a co-working space run by a tech co-op (#outlandish) Monthly […]

WRITE DISNEY A LETTER. Not email. Not social media. WRITE DISNEY A LETTER. On PAPER. Put it in an ENVELOPE and MAIL IT. Yeah, they'll think you're old(er). They'll also think you have 1) money and 2) maybe children, more likely grandkids. And […] [Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

And if you really want to push candidates left, you do what the Black Panthers did. You provide the service you want to see so the government is forced to play catch up. If you build the world you want to see, you force the state to follow you in order to remain relevant. You make enforcing […]

I have heard people getting denied for COVID vaccines because they don't have a health condition. Let this trans person teach y'all cis something: It is always ethical to lie to gatekeepers preventing you from getting the healthcare you need. Spin whatever narrative you need to in order to fit […]

Operation Raise the Cash! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sponsor a Flag for Gaza! 🇵🇸 https://gofund.me/5d0d3c751 Flags of St George across Birmingham exploit the far-right agenda. Subvert that symbolism! Donate £5 per flag - for a total of £7,500 for United Nations Relief & Works […] [Original post on social.coop]

I needed to find something in the news today that might convince me we didn't all slip into a surreal alternate timeline in around 2015, and nothing will ever be the same again. Anything - a heart-warming human interest story, some good news - that might […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

We're specialty #coffee roasters based in #Sheffield. #PlasticFree. We #cycle local deliveries. Previously based in #Nottingham & #London. Most of our business is repeat custom but new customers usually found us via twitter. We're here because currently […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

Does anyone else have a Herald Tree? That’s a tree - often a Sugar Maple - that is weeks ahead of the others in turning red? In St Henri, one is in the parking lot of Atwater Market. One cold night under 7C and an entire section will turn red. Next, soon […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

There's this obsession with crushing the cars of people doing various things wrong. EVERY car has an enormous built-in CO2 footprint, before it's ever driven a single metre. This is why, in CO2 terms, buying 2ndhand cars is better than buying new. Ditto for fixing older cars and keeping them going.

Charities attack ban on Gaza students bringing families to UK "Last week, 34 Gaza students with scholarships at British universities were evacuated ahead of starting their studies. But some students said they would have to give up their places rather than leave family in Gaza, after learning […]

Yes yes yes I know individual actions alone won't accomplish anything, but do you ever reuse the little piece string from a clothing label to make a loop to hang a picture and think "Fuck yeah, I'm basically Greta Thunberg"? Asking for a friend.

I can sort of understand why people fly-tip. I have a dead microwave I want to dispose of. For the council to collect it, I'd have to pay £35. I can't drive, so taking it to the tip isn't an option. I'll get someone to take it to the tip for me, but I can see why some people would just go 'fuck […]

I've been seeing ads recently for a phone with AI assistant. In one (a), a guy asks it which coat and hat he should wear to go camping, and in the other (b) two women use it to recommend a "serum" for skincare. a) you've got to what looks like your mid-late twenties without being able to work […]

The trouble with terfs isn't that they face silencing. It's that their definition of "silencing" is, “some people didn't agree with me”, and in some cases, “some people didn't agree with me and now they don't want to give me awards”.

Hand wringing about how to recycle carbon fibre wind turbine blades. If only there was as much attention on cleaning up after nuclear power. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Heritage Open Days peak inside one of #leeds' rarely seen but most spectacular interiors https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1375329?section=official-list-entry

I'm going to introduce a new to me concept: #enfascisisation, to rhyme, rather bitterly, with @pluralistic's #enshittification. Enfascisisation is the process of making a society more vulnerable to #fascism#enshittification#enfascisisationespecially by spreading the belief that the triumph of fascism is inevitable. Thus when […]

Many sidewalks in Korea are built with bricks, which makes maintenance underneath them for utilities, etc. easier than have to jackhammer away concrete. Also, they get these neat rivers of moss in the cracks #Mosstodon #silentSunday #nature #naturePhotography #korea #southkorea

Zuiderheide #landscape #photography

Is there a German word for "The feeling of putting your shorts in the washing machine at the end of summer, knowing it's probably the last time this year and it won't be hot enough to wear them again till next summer?"

Just finished reading The Lord of the Rings with my son. He enjoyed it a lot, which is in contrast to the first time a few years back that he attempted it and found it too heavy going, and rearranged the book spines to record his review! @bookstodon

Humans were born to move and mix https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/claims-of-pure-bloodlines-ancestral-homelands-dna-science-says-no/

Scarborough beach getting some banksy inspired sand art. By Fred Brown.

Guess what I'm planning on doing today? That's right: absolutely nothing! No chores, no website work, no route designs, no work of any kind at all. I have a new book to start, and some telly to catch up on. I have a guitar to play, and a bike to ride later. Today's all about feeding my soul.

News you didn’t know you needed: there is a single specific seal who seems to have dedicated their life to swimming through the Netherlands’ freshwater canals to tour cities. They’ve been at least as far inland as Utrecht and were last spotted in Amsterdam […]

Skills Exchange Nottingham - 7pm, Friday 26th September You are cordially invited to our social. Learn about time banking. All welcome. Featuring live music from Hummingbirds and Dave Fairey also Poetry, Quiz and Raffle. Vegan meal & cake for a donation […] [Original post on social.coop]

We found the perfect ball of moss #mosstodon