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Devon,🇬🇧,🇪🇺,🌍

Frantically waving a Linda McCartney sausage and a bike pump in the face of the howling void of chaos and despair.

I block accounts sharing unCW'd images of dead children.

I'm sorry, I don't donate money in response to DM's. I won't report you but I will mute you if you keep doing it.

Profile: a white woman with blue hair & glasses, smiling in a woodland in winter. Header: a Hotbin composter I painted with flowers and insects & the words "Kiri's Compost Collective"

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2026-10-30 10:49:13 UTC

If anyone wanted to honour #PatrickStewart by supporting the organisations he was proud to have worked with, the websites are
https://refuge.org.uk/
and
https://combatstress.org.uk/
#nevent1q…yehz

2026-10-29 11:17:30 UTC

Stockpile advice is not realistic, say low income families
"According to Prof Ruth Patrick, from the University of Glasgow, the UK government's guidance "will appear at best tone deaf and at worst almost insulting to the 14 million households currently facing poverty across the UK".
She is leading the Changing Realities project, and added: "There is a profound mis-match between this suggestion and the daily realities for parents and carers on a low income up and down the country who are struggling to get by, especially as costs continue to rise and the temperatures drop."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6x238kpxj8do
#Poverty #Inequality #DisasterPrep #UKpol

2026-10-28 09:52:10 UTC

Yes I know going to Mastodon to complain about hostile tech is like seeking validation in your hatred of alcohol at a temperance meeting. But I just need to rant about how hard my parents have found something as simple as getting some tickets for a free community showing of Robinson Crusoe of all things. They couldn't handle setting up the account on the ticketing platform so I ended up doing it for them, and after showing my Dad several times on Monday night how to show the QR code on his phone he's told me he can't do it and could I print them for him? And my parents are not isolated or vulnerable, they have lots of people around them to help with things much more important than this, but if even community theatre events or whatever are locked away behind interfaces elderly people find inaccessible no wonder so many of them are lonely and isolated.

2026-10-26 06:04:10 UTC

Well done Brazil and Serbia.
Makes a nice change to wake up to good news doesn't it.

2026-10-25 16:12:09 UTC

"I have no concept of clock changes, am sure that it's dinner time, and demand that you stop reading and feed me THIS INSTANT!"
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/502/423/655/635/157/original/aa975c23938e5ccd.jpg

2026-10-25 14:24:47 UTC

Why has no one ever designed a pack of just normal sized sticking plasters? Why do they all have half a dozen gigantic ones in, so you use all the reasonably sized ones and end up with a drawer full of comically enormous ones? Is it all a conspiracy by Big Big Plaster?

2026-10-24 13:14:49 UTC

Depiction of characters under the age of 16 in porn is being banned, but school uniform isn't. Yes there could be some bad faith arguments that some sixth forms retain uniform for 17 and 18 year olds, but let's be honest school uniform serves as a market that someone is under 16 90% of the time.
Article here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/23/teenage-girls-ban-school-uniform-porn-children-minors
Petition here: https://www.change.org/p/ban-school-uniform-in-pornographic-content
#nevent1q…6s8m

2026-10-20 16:40:29 UTC

A scuff on your bag, a dent in your mug – and suddenly it feels like time for a new one
"The results suggested that people who strongly preferred flawless items had more elaborate ideas about what their ideal product was and were sensitive to even small deviations from those ideas. Their standards also kept rising. Seeing something better than what they owned could raise the bar further for them."
https://theconversation.com/a-scuff-on-your-bag-a-dent-in-your-mug-and-suddenly-it-feels-like-time-for-a-new-one-293689
#Consumerism #overconsumption

2026-10-18 12:31:31 UTC

#SilentSunday
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/461/914/865/816/112/original/7fd776ee46bf4514.jpg

2026-10-16 16:17:58 UTC

See the shitty thing about being an elder millennial is chronologically I have to accept I'm at least middle aged if not old, but I'm still financially precarious enough to feel like part of The Youth in contrast to the financially established Older People
#nevent1q…3wgj

2026-10-16 10:06:14 UTC

There's a poll going round the Fedi at the moment about whether you would be able to use an AED/defibrillator on a woman having a heart attack and a lot of people are commenting they'd let the trained person who brought it use it. In the UK at least you don't need to wait for ambulance staff to bring it, they're in lots of public locations like stations, shopping centres and churches. In an emergency if you're on the phone to the ambulance service they will tell you where the nearest one is, but if you want to familiarise yourself with the locations of nearby ones just to be prepared you can see them here: https://www.defibfinder.uk/

2026-10-15 16:23:55 UTC

The grass is green again, but it's still pretty worrying underground. Severe drought declared in six areas of England as reservoirs run low
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/15/severe-drought-declared-six-areas-england-public-water-supplies-threat

2026-10-15 16:22:03 UTC

Does anyone know how to delete your saved cards from Stripe as a customer, not a business account?
#AskFedi

2026-10-12 19:07:55 UTC

Anyone who thinks #vegan #food isn't tough or hardcore, behold the mighty power of tofu* 😂
*It was still frozen in the centre of the block
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/429/504/268/045/279/original/f994b54f8d6929d5.jpg

2026-10-12 12:38:44 UTC

So I'm only just catching up on the news about the BBC censoring a "Protect the Dolls" tshirt because I have a filter on here for the name of the dance show it happened on. If anything similar ever happens in any vehicle-related sport, American football or any of those games that generate a sequence of red and green squares someone's going to have to tell me about it directly.
#transphobia #UKtransphobia #ShitpostAboutASeriousTopic

2026-10-06 09:08:32 UTC

I'm currently reading a fantasy book where a chimera, a magical creature created in some immoral magecraft experiment by a distant ancestor of the protagonist, lives in the walls and abandoned rooms of the castle. He's been there so long no one can remember a time when he wasn't there. He has an immense store of arcane knowledge but his concerns and goals are his own and inscrutable, so he appears and disappears according to his own whims and imparts knowledge only when it would be interesting to him to do so, or to stop the heroes doing something that will harm them.
Anyway I've just realised this guy is basically a fantasy lab tech.

2026-10-03 17:58:37 UTC

"Dentist with a Skoda X5 4.8is and a taste for Crime."
I've made it maybe a tenth of the way down and actually have tears in my eyes 🤣
#nevent1q…qxny

2026-10-02 07:48:33 UTC

Me: "Hello new students! Welcome to our lab! Please don't pour molten agar down the sink!"
New students: *nod, smile, immediately scurry off to pour molten agar down the sink*
Every. Sodding. September.
#Labstodon

2026-09-30 13:16:24 UTC

When you let your squash vine grow along the fence out of curiosity to see how far it would go, forgetting that you would then have to get the squash back through the fence to harvest them.
#allotment #GrowYourOwn
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2026-09-27 14:24:23 UTC

Looking for #Kent #campsite recommendations please. We've been invited to a wedding in #HerneBay next summer and are going to make a little mini break of it, I've found a couple of campsites in cycling distance but they look like there's no shade and if next summer's like this summer that might be a bit tough. Does anyone have any *personal recommendations* for campsites with shade nearby? Please just personal recommendations, not just searching which I can do myself or asking AI which I don't want anyone to do. TIA.

2026-09-26 18:11:24 UTC

Do you ever stop and think about how we spend so much of our lives doing housework and life admin and email and trying to live up to our parents' standards and impress our bosses and worrying about our weight and meanwhile we live on a planet where the sky just does this and we're not going to be here forever. And it's not doing this for us, sunsets are just as beautiful whether we're good people or bad people and whether we have good credit scores or clean kitchens.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/338/666/848/725/527/original/bdbe881da71d352f.jpg

2026-09-25 10:07:36 UTC

Nothing makes me feel older than the start of a new term with a fresh batch of undergraduates. The kids now seem to be layering their socks, like ankle socks over knee socks over thigh socks, and I have so many questions. Aren't their ankles hot? How do they fit them in their shoes? Do they buy shoes specially in bigger sizes to fit them into? Do they only have to wash the innermost ones? When did I turn into my grandmother?

2026-09-24 10:06:34 UTC

‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ death bloom looms for Kew Gardens plant
"The mountain agave, which was planted around 20 years ago, will open up into a massive cluster of thousands of individual flowers when it blooms.
After that, the parent plant will die. Botanists are looking to cross-pollinate the behemoth, calling it "the UK's most eligible agave".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq2e0y90ej34o
#London #KewGardens

2026-09-22 14:37:55 UTC

New from the people who brought you "sunscreen causes skin cancer" and "vegetables are toxic, actually": "nicotine is good for your brain!"
How the pro-nicotine ‘wellness’ movement rebranded an addictive drug
https://theconversation.com/how-the-pro-nicotine-wellness-movement-rebranded-an-addictive-drug-290129
#Drugs #MedicalMisinformation #MAHA

2026-09-11 16:43:10 UTC

I really love how done with customers' nonsense whoever wrote this menu clearly was.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/253/401/109/694/991/original/568f913613d260b8.jpg

2026-09-11 10:19:23 UTC

A lifeboat museum says it has been forced to close after its volunteers were targeted by anti-migrant protesters.
Poole Old Lifeboat Museum said it made the decision after several incidents of "protesters verbally assaulting our volunteers".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62mq66lrqjo
#RNLI #FarRight

2026-09-11 06:29:36 UTC

Iceland’s government will submit a bill in February to ban whaling, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the only two countries in the world to continue commercial whaling.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/iceland-propose-whaling-ban-leaving-norway-japan-isolated-rcna596976
#ShareGoodNewsToo

2026-09-08 06:54:54 UTC

"Don't mind me, just here to collect my Amazon parcel"
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/234/103/877/728/540/original/ad4b333447df96f1.jpg

2026-08-29 20:02:07 UTC

We are celebrating a brief interruption of the drought and the return of the rains in true British fashion by going camping in it, but I thought Mastodon might appreciate how someone else traveled to the campsite
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/180/578/344/576/480/original/ac772057834d639a.jpg

2026-08-29 17:28:48 UTC

The Human League's "Don't you want me baby" is basically three minutes of a bunch of red flags in a man suit telling on himself isn't it.

2026-08-28 13:18:08 UTC

Jumping beans: UK shoppers turn to legumes to save cash and improve diet
Sales of beans, lentils and soya bean derivatives on rise while Britons buy less real and fake meat
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/aug/28/bean-lentil-sales-british-save-money-improve-diet
#Vegan #Vegetarian #PlantBased

2026-08-28 08:27:46 UTC

Dear culture-war motorists, look to the future. We’ll all be driving at 20mph soon
"We need politicians to explain – and to keep explaining – why the unrestricted use of cars in urban centres is damaging to the local economy as well as to the environment, to people’s health and to the overall feel of a place"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/28/culture-war-motorists-future-drive-birmingham-speed-limit
#20sPlenty #Urbanism #Birmingham #ULEZ #AirPollution

2026-08-25 11:10:31 UTC

Is there a single documented instance of a car alarm actually preventing a crime? Rather than causing one because your neighbours murder you for keeping them up all night because a fox breathed near your car or something?

2026-08-24 11:15:02 UTC

Today in "horrors beyond mortal comprehension" I learned that there is an abandoned Mr Blobby theme park in Somerset, and would like to propose it as the location of the 2027 UK Fedi meetup.
https://archive.is/A4KtK

2026-08-23 14:00:22 UTC

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@nprofile…k3a7 I was once walking down the street eating a pear, and a stranger nodded at me and said "Nice pear love!" which made both of us laugh too

2026-08-23 10:20:51 UTC

"No you can't sit here, I'm using both cushions"
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/117/144/312/808/840/172/original/198319ee5fd9a25c.jpg

2026-08-23 09:14:37 UTC

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emission-zone-working-other-cities-cautious-clean-air
#AirPollution #ULEZ #CultureWars #Disinformation

2026-08-22 13:01:19 UTC

How UK permitted development planning rules affect where you will and won't be allowed to install #BalconySolar #PlugInSolar
https://www.techradar.com/home/3-places-you-cant-install-plug-in-solar-panels-the-new-planning-rules-that-could-ruin-your-grand-designs-for-your-balcony

2026-08-21 12:50:07 UTC

#Quakers reaffirm commitment to trans inclusion and refuse to make any changes to toilet provision in the wake of EHRC Code of Practice
https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-reaffirm-commitment-to-trans-inclusion-in-the-wake-of-ehrc-code-of-practice?
"The policy also states that Quakers will not require trans, non-binary or intersex people to disclose or prove their status in circumstances where such evidence is not demanded of others.
Under the arrangements confirmed by trustees, toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience.
Similarly, facilities labelled with a 'male' sign remain available to cisgender men, trans men, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience."

2026-08-21 08:24:19 UTC

That stupid contrarian channel 4 ADHD program is going to cause a lot of direct harm with people coming off their meds or taking their kids off, but it's also causing a lot of wider harm to peoples' mental health by trying to take us back to the idea that if you struggle with something that many other people don't it must be because you're not trying hard enough. Certainly for me the greatest benefit from the wider acceptance and understanding of neurodiversity in recent years that this sort of program has been pushing back on hasn't been in terms of accommodations or coping strategies being offered, it's been the understanding that there are different kinds of people and if you struggle with something that most of the people around you seem to find easy it's not because you're being lazy or don't care about it enough, it's because it's harder for you than it is for them. You're just different, not a bad person.

2026-08-20 13:02:46 UTC

"Breakfast is a social construct" is a hill I will die on
#nevent1q…pf88

2026-08-19 20:28:22 UTC

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@nprofile…zvpa it is absolutely not something that should be decided by majority vote of people who don't know what they're talking about. But also I don't believe there are any neurotypicals on the Fediverse

2026-08-19 20:03:56 UTC

Calls for urgent law change as UK’s largest water reuse system cannot be switched on
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/19/water-reuse-recycling-law-cambridgeshire
It is currently illegal to supply non-drinkable quality water to UK homes, even if the water is to be used for non-drinking purposes like toilet flushing, so it turns out rainwater harvesting or grey water recycling is currently illegal in the UK. Another way in which our infrastructure hasn't caught up with the reality of climate change.
#UKHeatwave #UKDrought

2026-08-19 19:28:09 UTC

I don't normally do this but the Fediverse tends to be very good on #MutualAid. This young man is the nephew of one of @nprofile…hzjd 's colleagues and was left hospitalised by a brutal attack. The family is trying to raise money to do something nice for him when he gets home, if you have a few quid going spare I'm sure they'd appreciate it.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/elaina-dunn-1

2026-08-19 08:12:39 UTC

"While the UK generally produces enough grains, meat, milk and eggs to cover its needs, it has one of the lowest food self-sufficiency ratios among large western European countries.
About 40% of its food is imported – including 80% of its fruit and 47% of its vegetables – one of the highest rates of reliance on imported fruit in Europe, making the UK more dependent on imports than France, Germany or Spain."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/19/uk-heat-stressed-countries-fruit-veg-import

2026-08-18 15:14:06 UTC

Today I learned via my workplace manual handling training that all the gay in the body is stored in the spine
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2026-08-17 15:21:50 UTC

Still not over the time I made a joke about setting fire to Keir Starmer wicker man style and someone said it was the nastiest thing she'd ever seen on the internet and blocked me. And honestly if that's true I'm still envious

2026-08-17 11:42:42 UTC

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@nprofile…x7cn that's such a shame 😭

2026-08-17 10:39:04 UTC

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This is what I don't get about all the people confidently asserting this summer is within the normal range of variation and we're all just snowflakes for making a fuss about it. Even if they can't look out of the window and see the brown grass surely they have friends or family it's affecting? I don't know, maybe I'm primed to pay attention to these things when they come up in every day conversation but in addition to the above person who got heatstroke at work I have a friend who works on a neurology ward where staff are fainting and a tray of plastic syringes melted in the heat, and a farmer friend who's planning to drastically reduce the size of her flock of sheep next year because there isn't enough grazing to sustain them.

2026-08-17 09:58:47 UTC

More "it's just Summer! We don't need maximum workplace temperatures!" news from Perfectly Normal Island.
#ukheatwave
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2026-08-16 13:59:22 UTC

So there's a post going round at the moment trying to find someone who saved someone's life, and while I absolutely understand the impulse to find someone to express your gratitude, if the guy hasn't come forward by now maybe he doesn't want to be found? Some people hate the sort of attention that would probably come with doing something big and heroic. Given the shit I write on here this may surprise people, but I absolutely hate being Perceived in real life and I think if I ever saved someone's life and was found out I'd probably never feel comfortable leaving the house again. Maybe if the guy wants to remain anonymous he should be allowed to?

2026-08-15 11:23:36 UTC

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@nprofile…x7cn it really is terrifying how the narrative that "the problem isn't climate change it's rewilding" seems to be spreading at the same speed as the fires

2026-08-14 16:53:30 UTC

I wear a mask, wash my hands, get my vaccines, brush my teeth with toothpaste not butter and wipe my arse. How on Earth have we got to the point where things are so polarised that you can infer my political leanings from the fact that I practice basic personal hygiene and take care of health???

2026-08-14 16:16:49 UTC

Daily Mail rebuked over 'irresponsible' claim that #rewilding has caused record number of #UKwildfires
https://leftfootforward.org/2026/08/daily-mail-rebuked-over-irresponsible-claim-that-rewilding-has-caused-record-number-of-uk-wildfires/
#ukheatwave #UkDrought

2026-08-14 15:31:31 UTC

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@nprofile…eqsh anyway Farage won and didn't even bother showing up on election night, the investigation into his finances picked right back up where it got paused for the election, Clacton has gone back to having an MP who spends most of his time somewhere else in the country ranting about immigration instead of doing anything to help anyone and the only person who's come out of this with any dignity is the man with the bin on his head

2026-08-14 15:29:24 UTC

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@nprofile…eqsh extremely condensed version: Nigel Farage is a far right "politician" whose acceptance of dodgy donations finally caught up with him and an investigation was launched into his finances. He decided to step down as an MP, triggering a new election in his constituency, and stand again, treating the whole thing as a public referendum on his fitness for office. No one has ever tried this before and it's a loophole that should probably be closed seeing as the resultant election cost public finances an estimated £350m to run. All the mainstream parties refused to run in the election saying it was a farce and shouldn't have been allowed to happen.
Count Binface is a comedian who wears a bin on his head and pretends to be an alien invader and catches a lot of people out by doing something very stupid while being an extremely smart man under the bin. He ran against Nigel Farage in this pointless election and took every opportunity to make him and proceedings look as stupid as possible

2026-08-14 14:46:26 UTC

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@nprofile…nrlp I don't know if any country teaches stuff in schools that doesn't portray them in a favourable way much as I'd like to believe someone must. But it's quite scary how many white people seem to not either have the curiosity to question it or to have had friends who go "well my family ended up here because of this awful thing" and gone "wait what? Why have I never heard of that?"

2026-08-14 14:37:36 UTC

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Without wanting to make everything about me as a white British woman, I find it genuinely horrifying how the British history I learned in school was exclusively about things that happened within the British Isles and nothing about what the British Empire did in the rest of the world, I had to pick all that up myself as an adult. I'd like to believe things are different in schools now but I'm not sure they are.

2026-08-14 14:34:17 UTC

For people who like video explainers here's Dr Amir Khan talking about #Partition for Parkistani and Indian #IndependenceDay s
https://imginn.com/reel/DcBQO6kIfzR/
#UKHistory #ColonialHistory #BritishAsianHistory

2026-08-13 12:49:42 UTC

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@nprofile…s4ce do you have any sort of debunking resources you can recommend please? To be clear I fully accept that there are people out there getting on the internet somehow, but I don't know enough about how to be able to explain it to others

2026-08-13 10:23:25 UTC

Does anyone have links to a good explainer of how internet access in the Gaza strip works? There's this idea going round that any information coming out of Gaza must be fake because all internet infrastructure has been destroyed, but I follow a number of people from Gaza who I at least am confident are where they say are. Can anyone recommend any reliable articles on how people are getting the internet working over there?

2026-08-13 09:07:46 UTC

Inside London's policing effort to tackle illegal 'e-bikes'
"As Cycling Electric revealed earlier this week, achieving minimum wage may be a long shot for some delivery riders and we have found instances of gig economy workers returning less than half the London Living Wage even at peak times. This shortcoming in pay can be true even if riders use modified to be illegal 'e-bikes' and there appears to be evidence that faster vehicles are preferred suppliers to the algorithms that many delivery companies use. This incentivises bad practice on road safety, as well as the sourcing of likely non road-compliant kit."
https://www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/london-illegal-ebikes-policing

2026-08-12 18:53:16 UTC

Took the colander for a walk.
#SolarEclipse
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2026-08-11 18:00:33 UTC

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Anyway I made it home eventually, got off the train and an elderly gentleman just said to me as we left the station "Gorgeous day isn't it?". And I was just so thrown by this I said "I guess???". And it must have seemed so rude, he was just being friendly but I'd just come from being able to smell smoke on campus and hear sirens and helicopters overhead, and we were surrounded by brown grass. And that quote about ecologists living alone in a world of wounds really struck me. I find it astonishing that there are people out there still seeing this weather as something positive but there clearly are.
#UKHeatwave #ClimateDiary

2026-08-11 16:52:19 UTC

There is currently a large grassfire in #MincinglakePark in central #Exeter. In case anyone was wondering yes that is close to where my parents live but fortunately they were babysitting my nieces in Totnes today so are staying. I'm currently trying to get home, Charlie is home and fine. I'd advise avoiding Exeter if you can, traffic is gridlocked and some roads have been closed for emergency services.
#Devon

2026-08-10 19:36:11 UTC

Don’t use washing machines or dishwashers during solar eclipse, urges Ocotpus Energy
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/solar-eclipse-electricity-octopus-energy-b3030376.html
Well this is unexpected but a fascinating demonstration of how much of the UK electricity supply is now solar

2026-08-10 15:56:22 UTC

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Okay the thick plottens, the cable relocation may not actually have been due to Dobby's grave after all?
Honestly I rather envy the person who read that article and thought "that sounds stupid and may not be true". I read it and thought "that sounds stupid, that tracks"
https://mastodon.social/@hardindr/117071960987057461

2026-08-10 08:30:53 UTC

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/10/harry-potter-fans-force-relocation-of-430m-undersea-cable-to-avoid-dobbys-grave
Normally I'm all for a bit more whimsy in life, but it's incredibly sad when we can't seem to muster opposition to infrastructure disrupting ancient woodland or an actual sodding Bronze Age archaeological site, but can for the imaginary grave of a fictional character in a derivative series created by a terf.
#HarryPotter <- hashtag for muting purposes

2026-08-08 09:21:16 UTC

"#GMB is pushing for #union recognition at the UK’s largest energy company, #OctopusEnergy, known as a progressive organisation with a focus on #RenewableEnergy.
The union is planning to submit a formal proposal for voluntary recognition at the London-based company and says Octopus, as a top rated ethical business, should welcome the involvement of trade unions.
But the company, which has risen to prominence in the UK energy sector with its tech-driven approach, has said there is currently no need – or demand from staff – for union recognition."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/06/octopus-energy-workers-union-recognition
Unions are like condoms, if they're trying to persuade you you don't need one, that's when you need one most

2026-08-07 14:52:18 UTC

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@nprofile…yuu3 I personally feel we have had far too many Events in the past few years and would like to have stern words with the person who pressed that button

2026-08-06 11:28:38 UTC

Wow. Did self-sustaining life evolve not once but twice?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-new-study-points-to-two-origins-of-life-on-earth-by-tracing-early-chemical-reactions-in-single-celled-organisms-180989260/

2026-08-03 18:12:50 UTC

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Anyway I know my audience, and I suspect Mastodon will be much more interested in how I got there than what I was doing when I did. Laughton Greenwood is about 15km from #Lewes station, and I did consider taking my bike on the train but I thought it would be a pain with all the basketry supplies I had to transport and in the end I'm glad I didn't because part of the journey was cancelled in the heat and I ended up having to get a coach. So I hired a Tern GSD from Get Bikery https://getbikery.org/, a CIC that hires out e- #cargobikes. It was £50 for the day which was a bit of a splurge but I decided to treat myself because I'd never tried a #cargobike before.
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2026-08-03 07:14:06 UTC

A beautiful day teaching coil basketry at Laughton Greenwood 's tenth anniversary celebration yesterday. This was surprisingly emotional for me, I was involved with getting this project set up ten years ago, taking minutes, organizing events, setting up websites and social media and then moving on to some hands on volunteering once the land was actually secured. It's incredible to see how far it's progressed in ten years.
https://www.laughtongreenwood.co.uk/
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2026-08-02 16:52:40 UTC

It is officially "chocolate biscuit soup" degrees hot
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2026-08-02 05:58:12 UTC

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@nprofile…3g42 @nprofile…3e6m I mean unless you're vegan humans eat other mammals...

2026-07-31 20:12:42 UTC

Does anyone ever wonder what life would be like if humans were as agile as cats? Imagine if you were walking along a narrow passageway and if someone was going annoyingly slowly in front of you you could just jump clean over their head

2026-07-31 13:15:37 UTC

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@nprofile…rzv3 I wish they'd stop doing that. I was with the Phone Coop before they were absorbed into the Midcounties Coop and just got an email today they've turned back into MobileCoop

2026-07-30 16:19:21 UTC

We are serious scientific professionals who conduct our important work ensuring we can all be fed in a warming world with the gravity it deserves
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2026-07-30 09:31:13 UTC

‘It’s irreplaceable’: Fury over #Reform plans to expand quarry in ancient #Kent woodland
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/30/oaken-wood-ancient-woodland-kent-quarry-expansion-reform-council
Logistically it is unfortunately rather harder to go full Julie Butterfly-Hill in a coppiced sweet chestnut than a California redwood, but it's tempting.
#OakenWood

2026-07-29 13:23:00 UTC

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When 71% of the planet's avian biomass is in the form of farmed poultry rather than wild birds, maybe the most sensible solution is to farm fewer of them, you know?
https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass
#AnimalAgriculture #Degrowth

2026-07-29 12:43:55 UTC

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Like this video shows how dramatically the amount of meat in the Dutch diet suddenly increased over the generations, from his grandmother born in 1937 when people were eating 19.7 kg of meat per year, when his mother was born in 1960 it was around 22kg per year and when he was born in 1991 it was 40.5 kg a year. We really don't need as much chicken and egg as we're currently producing.
https://imginn.com/p/DYFGoD3IxCD/

2026-07-29 12:35:21 UTC

I'm honestly a bit surprised at how much outrage this study is causing, I thought we'd pretty much accepted by now that sometimes it's hard to balance different harms against one another. More intensive farming uses fewer resources but is worse for animal welfare. Cotton takes loads of water and pesticides to grow but doesn't release microplastics when you wash it. We have this problem with sterilising contaminated wastewater in the lab, do we autoclave it, suing huge amounts of electricity, or use chemical disinfectants and contribute to water pollution.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/29/organic-eggs-climate-caged-chickens-carbon-emissions-environment
And the solution where every option causes some harm but it's hard to directly compare different harms is to try and use less - buy fewer new clothes, if you have the financial freedom and can do so without health implications consume fewer animal products. We should just be eating fewer chickens and eggs as a culture in the first place really.
#AnimalAgriculture

2026-07-29 06:08:18 UTC

I think I've spent too much time on Mastodon. I had a dream last night I was in my local bike shop trying to help an anthropomorphic wolf find a bike helmet that fit

2026-07-28 16:18:53 UTC

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@nprofile…musx I fully support treating gendered toilet signs as a surrealist art project. Which category are you? Hats or potatoes? Cuttlefish or bookshelves? Paintbrushes or a nebulous yet overwhelming sense of unease?

2026-07-27 12:03:03 UTC

This is me in front of #JodrellBank's #LovellTelescope back in 2018. As far as I'm concerned the best thing we have ever managed to do as a species is to cooperate to do remarkably clever things none of us could manage alone, in the service of understanding more about the universe we find ourselves in. The fact we seem to be turning away from that as a culture and deciding the highest, most noble goal we could be persuing as a species is money making is heartbreaking.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6r9rdxygo
#ResearchFunding #ScienceFunding #UKRI
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2026-07-27 07:48:08 UTC

Okay Mastodon, cultural appropriation question, I'm a bit stumped here. I picked this parasol up in a charity shop for Pride a while ago and have been using it to walk to work in the heatwave. I'm white British.
This morning one of the cleaners at work, who is from Hong Kong, saw me with it, asked me where I got it from and got quite upset when I said it was from a charity shop. He said in his culture you should never use these parasols if you don't know where they come from as they may contain ghosts and will bring bad luck. I ended up asking him in all seriousness if there was a way to remove ghosts from parasols, but apparently not.
So basically what I'm asking I think is should I stop using the parasol if it's upsetting East Asian people in a way I didn't realise it was?
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2026-07-26 17:46:28 UTC

Distinct lack of forward planning on behalf of the person in charge of reality here, making the kind of person who likes cats often the same kind of person who likes string-based crafts

2026-07-25 10:22:29 UTC

#BuzzBallz are unrecyclable, and claims to the contrary are #greenwashing say recycling experts
"The company behind the bright, pre-mixed cocktails that have taken Gen Z by storm said they were recyclable on its website, but experts say this is not true.
BuzzBallz cannot be recycled as the PET plastic ball cannot be separated from the aluminium lid, global environmental action body WRAP said."
I do think the need some sort of legislation to stop people launching consumer products in new types of packaging that can't be recycled by existing infrastructure, and will in fact mess up existing recycling systems with cross contamination.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr490335z1eo
#alcohol #recycling

2026-07-24 18:38:56 UTC

Well this is rather lovely. In a brief moment of creative overenthusiasm I picked up a decorative birdcage on Facebook marketplace from our wedding last year with vague ideas of presenting the cake in it. It turned out to be too small so we filled it with crisps instead, and at least one small child present was subsequently disappointed to discover that all weddings don't have birdcages full of crisps.
After the wedding we left it in the carport downstairs for a while, until one of our neighbours was passing while @nprofile…hzjd was outside and asked if he could have it if we were getting rid of it. Today we got this lovely letter through the door with photographs of it now!
#SmallBeauties
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2026-07-23 20:36:57 UTC

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@nprofile…tkx6 the more energy it takes to get it down to temperature, but as I understand it once it's frozen it actually acts as thermal mass in there and means it takes less energy to maintain the temperature

2026-07-23 20:33:52 UTC

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@nprofile…tkx6 I assume the freezer's already running, they're not using a specific freezer for food waste

2026-07-23 18:33:37 UTC

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Wake up babe another ecologically unhelpful life hack involving salt just dropped. In the UK at least the reason food waste is collected separately from general waste is for composting. Filling your food waste caddy with salt may deter flies in the heat, but if everyone starts doing it it's going to fuck up all the compost being made from it. If you're going to add salt you'd probably be better off adding your food waste to the general bin if it goes for incineration. Or as someone suggests in the comments if flies are troubling you keep your food waste in the freezer till collection day.
Twenty thousand shares on Instagram.
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2026-07-22 14:21:18 UTC

Helen of Troy does not lay Helens of Troy, her father is not valued
#nevent1q…58jy

2026-07-22 10:19:52 UTC

Cumberland council motion to ban sky lanterns rejected
"The Green Party motion, introduced by Jill Perry and Helen Tucker, was rejected with 20 members opposing, two abstentions and just nine in favour.
Liberal Democrat councillor Brian Wernham said he was "completely mystified" why the motion, backed by both the National Farmers Union and the RSPCA, had not received more support.
He said: "Farmers are very worried about these because they distribute metal debris onto grazing land which animals can eat and the brush fire risk is obvious."
I reckon I know the answer to this, it's culture wars bullshit. Because any measures to constrain people's God-given freedoms to harm the world, one another and themselves is leftie wokery.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e1pp6d5pjo?

2026-07-20 12:59:35 UTC

THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE is everything wrong with the government understanding of the purpose of science.
"Burnham’s team have asked officials to draw up plans to abolish the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) as part of a wider Whitehall shake-up.
The proposals in relation to the DSIT would hand over much of science and technology policy to a more powerful business department, to be led by the chief whip, Jonathan Reynolds."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/19/no-10-north-utilities-north-sea-drilling-andy-burnham-plans-government

2026-07-18 18:37:23 UTC

Science: hey look we found some new knowledge and want to share it with humanity!
Capitalism: you should be charging for that.
Science: no you see the more it gets shared about the more everyone can participate and the more further knowledge we can generate! It's not a zero sum thing! And that wouldn't work if we charged people to access it!
Academic journals: Don't worry Capitalism, we've got this
Capitalism: cheers fam
Science: well fuck

2026-07-18 10:15:23 UTC

The particularly horrible thing right now about seeing these sort of pictures is you need context from the account name to know if this is the UK, France, Spain, Canada...oh New Zealand's a new one
#nevent1q…8h34

2026-07-17 16:32:53 UTC

There's a girl on this train wearing a woolly sweater. Admittedly it's cropped and draped off one shoulder but it's still making me feel like my Gran. What is wrong with young people these days and why can't they dress for the weather?

2026-07-17 14:37:06 UTC

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@nprofile…nekg ah, that makes more sense 😂

2026-07-17 13:26:49 UTC

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@nprofile…nekg why not?