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Jules she/her

@afewbugs@social.coop

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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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Joined February 28, 2023

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2w ago

#Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to #feminism The theatre was told that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf’s work] are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out. To resolve the situation, Meta recommended removing “key words” so that the text doesn’t appear to encourage activism. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-barcelona-teatre-raval #SocialMedia #Censorship

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 1mo ago

In light of the UK government's recent advice to households to stock up on food and water in anticipation of potential interruption of supplies this winter, I thought I'd do a little thread on #DisasterPrep for people who aren't gun-obsessed misanthropes as someone who has managed water and sanitation for a few ecological fieldwork and bushcraft camps. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/angela-eagle-uk-stock-up-supplies-el-nino-warning 1/🧵 #ClimateBreakdown

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 3w ago

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

Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers

Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers

The museum in Poole says it will remain closed until until the anti-migrant protests stop.

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2w ago

Boosted by @kcarruthers@infosec.exchange

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

How the pro-nicotine ‘wellness’ movement rebranded an addictive drug

The Conversation

How the pro-nicotine ‘wellness’ movement rebranded an addictive drug

Nicotine products like pouches and patches are being promoted for cognitive enhancement, stress reduction, improved athletic performance and much more – with little scientific evidence.

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 1mo ago

Replying to

Water purification If you run out of stored water you're going to need to start purifying it. This is where the recommendations to start buying a lot of stuff starts mounting up, so where it would be helpful to get together as an apartment block, your street Whatsapp Group, a local Transition Town group, a community kitchen, whatever. I have this stuff kicking around anyway because I like hiking and wild camping, so if you're lucky someone in your group will already have it, but if that's not something anyone's into this is I'm afraid where it gets expensive. 5/🧵

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 3w ago

Okay which one of you lot wrote this? With that headline it has to be someone on here https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/2026/sep/13/how-to-start-your-own-tool-library

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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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

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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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/

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

The UK has opened a consultation on the sale of fireworks to the public, and is seeking responses particularly from groups who sell, use or are affected by fireworks, but it's open to everyone. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/fireworks-and-pyrotechnics-in-the-uk/fireworks-and-pyrotechnics-in-the-uk Personally with the number of wildfires burning at the moment, at least one of which was actually caught on camera being started by fireworks https://imginn.com/reel/DasV2FPNxgu/ I think it's time to ban their sale to the general public. And that's even before taking their effect on pets, wildlife, people with PTSD, and burns and house fires into consideration

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/116843262333036534 Please folks, I know awful things are happening in Palestine but sharing un cw'd images of dead bloodied children is not the way to raise awareness. I'm going the make this personal because I don't think some people understand in the abstract. I have PTSD, after witnessing an accident in which a small child was badly injured. Seeing that unexpectedly has given me flashbacks and made me feel sick, exhused and dissociating. This will affect my ability to do what I have to do for the rest of the day.

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@afewbugs@social.coop

After starting my morning by blocking someone for sharing an unCW'd image of a prisoner being tortured in Isreal, I'd like to reiterate that no matter how important your cause this is neither the most effective or the most compassionate way of mobilising people to support it. It's not just about the people seeing the image either, if that poor man survived he probably wouldn't want that image out there and any of his family probably wouldn't want to stumble across that on the internet. But people don't need to see graphic images of torture to understand torture is bad, and in fact if following your source of information risks exposing them to those images people are more likely to block the source than learn from it. Vegan activism is finally starting to grapple with these issues, it's time human rights activism did too. Why Vegan Activism Needs To Be Intersectional And Trauma-Informed | The Vegan Society https://www.vegansociety.com/get-involved/research/research-news/why-vegan-activism-needs-be-intersectional-and-trauma-informed

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

Due to the popular confusion about #ebikes, West Midlands police seized and crushed this poor bloke's perfectly safe and legal @ternbicycles@toot.bike https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvl7ld06r8o

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

#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

BuzzBallz are 'greenwashing' say recycling experts

BuzzBallz are 'greenwashing' say recycling experts

BuzzBallz cannot be recycled because the metal lid and plastic body are attached, say experts.

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/116963206337727977 Helen of Troy does not lay Helens of Troy, her father is not valued

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Richard Littler

@Richard_Littler@mastodon.social

Helen of Troy was born from an egg as a result of her father turning into a swan (or goose) and mating with her mother, who may have been either Leda or Nemesis. And let's not forget the 6-headed, 12-footed Scylla, and the half-bird, half-human sirens. I look forward to all the hiSToRICle aCCuraSSy.

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Richard Littler: "Helen of Troy was born from an egg as a result of…" - Mastodon

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 1mo ago

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Hahah, the #Reform councillor who complained about the Pride event at #Exeter Library has now been investigated and apologise and undertake code of conduct training. https://www.creditoncourier.co.uk/news/reform-leader-must-apologise-after-library-sexual-aids-stall-row-933690

Reform leader must apologise after library 'sexual aids' stall row

Crediton Country Courier

Reform leader must apologise after library 'sexual aids' stall row

DEVON’S Reform leader has criticised a reprimand that requires him to apologise and undertake code of conduct training as a “stitch-up”.

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

Absolute carnage in Tesco this morning, most of the chiller cabinets seem to have failed in the heat so they're selling off everything they can half price. I just popped in to grab something for lunch but ended up grabbing a lot of discounted fresh produce and deli bits. I won this morning but in the long term we're all going to be the losers. #UKHeatwave #ClimateDiary #FoodSecurity

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

Fair play to the lads for giving it a shot and having a bit of fun, but I think we can all agree that the male Lionesses will never be able to play to the standards of proper footballers. (Too soon?)

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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/

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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Likewise the people who believe sunscreen gives you cancer and staring at the sun is good for your eyes used to be a self-resolving problem

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

UK Parliamentary Petition for a ban on sale of disposable BBQs. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/770200#main-content #UkHeatwave #wildfires

Petition: Ban on sale of disposable BBQs

Petitions - UK Parliament and UK Government

Petition: Ban on sale of disposable BBQs

We want the Government to introduce a nationwide ban on the sale of single-use disposable barbecues. Disposable BBQs are increasingly linked to preventable wildfires, which poses a serious risk to public safety, wildlife, and emergency services. Also, disposable BBQs contribute to unnecessary waste

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

RE: https://beige.party/@TheJen/116977113820325560 Alt text: a black Singer sewing machine that has been hand painted with the Progress Pride flag, starting on the baseplate and looping and swirling up the body of the machine. Some of the colour stripes split off from the flag and swirl away on their own into concentric circles. The Singer logo has been painted with each letter in a different rainbow colour

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TheJen will not comply

@TheJen@beige.party

Got some cleanup and more touch up to do, but I am super tired now. Need to stop for today. Edit: This is 100% painted freehand. 1926 Singer 128 Pride machine. Once all the painting is done, I'll put her all back together and get her purring like a kitten. All my machines will be in full working order because I don't see the point otherwise. :) #VintageSewing #Sewing #SingerSewing

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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@rooster@beige.party the paper's here btw https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2606876123

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

My current morning routine:

Open phone
Check weather forecast
5-10 minutes allocated for existential despairing
Coffee

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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?

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

When you're a lesbian trying to support your straight friend going through a nasty breakup by going to her nail appointment with her, so you ask your wife who's slightly more femme than you what it involves but she is, inconveniently, also a lesbian.

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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If you want to get rid of pavement weeds and you don't mind killing the invertebrates in the soil, as this salt will have done, use boiling water which at least will cool and not stay there permanently. Or pull them up. Or learn to identify them - there are some great resources on learning to identify and appreciate pavement weeds here https://morethanweeds.co.uk/ Invertebrates are struggling enough as the plants they depend on wither in this heatwave, can we not just leave them whatever scraps remain just this once? Honestly as these relentless, climate collapse induced heatwaves kill people, kill wildlife and set fire to the landscapes I love I'm feeling increasing despair at how indifferent most people seem to be to their environmental impact. But I feel particularly depressed to see things like this that probably stemmed from a deeply misinformed attempt to help.

morethanweeds.co.uk

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social

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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social 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?

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I recommend @tinker@infosec.exchange, @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party and @cckitchen@kolektiva.social for people actually out there doing positive things

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 1mo ago

How Britain’s railways are struggling in the heat – and can they be fixed? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/28/britain-railways-struggling-heat-fixed-derailments-explainer #UKHeatwave #LewesDerailment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAdaption

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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So if anyone was wondering what happened to #HannahSpencer's bill to set up a commission to look into a legal maximum workplace temperature (not actually to set one, as a lot of reporting I saw implied) it's due for a second reading on Friday the 16th or October. So still worth writing to your MP about. https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-07-13/debates/B365A0A6-83E3-4952-9D5B-50CEDA1E1BFE/BillPresented #UKpol

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

‘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

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/116956726794807459 In the face of massive outcry the police have finally admitted that they messed up and they need a better testing method. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyx5j7rm6no

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@afewbugs@social.coop

Due to the popular confusion about #ebikes, West Midlands police seized and crushed this poor bloke's perfectly safe and legal @ternbicycles@toot.bike https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvl7ld06r8o

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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Right so I have been informed that Carthage Was A Lie https://www.badancient.com/claims/carthage-salted/ but I reckon someone must have salted some fields somewhere for the concept to exist as an idea. And whatever the truth of the ancient practice, large quantities of salt are not good for organisms or ecosystems

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

UK government drops plan to stop paying coastguard volunteers https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/16/uk-government-drops-plan-stop-paying-coastguard-volunteers Good work everyone who signed the petition

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk "Outright hoaxes remain rare and are often easy to spot, said Lees – nobody is falling for a toucan sighting in Siberia – but he says birders often use AI to edit and improve an image, and the algorithm can then introduce parts from different bird species to create the new image." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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@brad@1040ste.net @Nickiquote@mstdn.social @Lilysea@aus.social I will support you in your bid for godhood. Are heavy robes required during the ceremony? Only it's a bit hot right now

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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@mjr@masto.bike @pete@social.coop you can also get bags to post things to Terracycle...that you have to pay for

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

‘It’s alright for them’: private schools and golf courses stay green despite England’s hosepipe bans As parks turn brown and paddling pools go unfilled, exemptions mean sports pitches can stay lush – even in school holidays https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/31/england-hosepipe-ban-drought-private-schools-golf-courses-green-grass #UKHeatwave #UKDrought #Inequality

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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Also worth signing the TUC petition on maximum workplace temperatures if you haven't already done so. https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/workplace-temperatures-week-action #UKheatwave

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social @Lilysea@aus.social yeah I'm not saying weedkiller's good, I'm saying salt isn't either. I'm really arguing for either pulling them or leaving them

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com why not?

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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@Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al bloody hell "Whereas scientific norms at the time viewed scientific publishing as a public good that should not be subject to profit motives, Maxwell understood that scientific publishing was a market unlike others because there was an almost ceaseless growth of demand, and free labour. Scientists would pressure their institutional libraries to secure access to any serious journal publishing work relevant to their own" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Press

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Jules she/her @afewbugs@social.coop

· 2mo ago

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@brad@1040ste.net @Nickiquote@mstdn.social @Lilysea@aus.social these are the same kind of people who broke my Mum's heart by moving in next door to my parents and cutting down the huge crab apple in their garden that produced beautiful blossom every spring. I hope they're regretting the loss of shade now at least

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