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Wednesday's blog post (09/10) is now posted (17:17 EAT) - Shipping disruptions unlikely to precipitate another inflation surge - billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62036


Whether it’s our electronics, clothing, furniture, cars… we need to be using our things for longer🪛

Let's take a laptop - 80% of emissions happen before it even gets into the user’s hands. Meaning the best way to prevent them is to keep your existing laptop running💻🏃‍♀️

Celebrate #RepairDay by having a go at repairing something you own and giving your stuff a second lease on life! 🎉⁠

Find the map of global events at: repairday.org 🌎

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Agreed! Excellent post.
And one way to keep old computer hardware running longer is to install lightweight #linux distributions on it when other operating systems slow down. These days, it's easy to do!






Afghan women fight to hold Taliban to account over gender apartheid - theguardian.com/global-develop… "What women face in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity, say activists pushing for recognition by UN" #afghanistan


Die Stadt Graz bietet ab jetzt wieder kombinierte Grippe und Covid Impftermine im Gesundheitsamt an. Unkompliziert mittels Online-Terminbuchung möglich.

etermin.net/stadtgraz?serviceg…

#Graz

#graz


Ich freue mich sehr über unsere neue Folge #DickeBretter
Diesmal sprechen Constanze und @eliza mit Simone Ruf über das Konzept Sachverständigen Anhörungen im Rahmen von Gesetzgebungsverfahren.
chaosradio.de/cr294-beteiligun…

Eine schriftliche Version findet ihr wie immer bei @netzpolitik_feed

netzpolitik.org/2024/sachverst…

Großer Dank geht wie immer a die Chaosradio Crew!



#Gaza #Palestine

US officials have said that there is a “growing distrust” between the Biden administration and the Netanyahu government over what the Israelis are telling the Americans about their military and political plans in the multi-front war it is waging, Walla reported on Tuesday.

The distrust is growing against the backdrop of the attack that Israel is planning against Iran, in response to the latter’s missile attack last week.

middleeastmonitor.com/20241009…

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Ça tombe bien, Biden va bientôt disparaître dans la grande poubelle de l'Histoire au profit d'une sioniste convaincue (par son mari) ....
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@RocknRoll_Papy
Biden is so deluded that he probably thinks he will be celebrated as a hero in the history books. 🏴‍☠️



Smaller Sibling

Often overlooked due to its proximity to Goðafoss, this neighbouring cascade has the same volume but is much narrower, forming an interesting chute.

The geology around it is particularly beautiful too, with basalt formations and rock arches. In winter, we've seen ptarmigan in these caves, white plumage obvious against the brown rock.

Geitafoss on the Skjálfandafljót river in Þingeyjarsveit, NE #Iceland.

@photography

#WaterfallWednesday #DailyPhoto #LandscapePhotography

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Seaweed is devouring Aotea Great Barrier Island.

"To save the ocean we're going to have to kill the ocean"

salient.org.nz/post/to-save-th…

in reply to Dave Moskovitz (((❤️)))

"The former Federated Farmers president turned ACT MP is as fresh as can be. Elected in 2023, a month after becoming an MP he was Minister of Biosecurity."

#DanMoskovitz, 2024

salient.org.nz/post/to-save-th…

You what now? We've got Queen St Farmers into charge of f%&king biosecurity? The people who wanted to import an infectious disease to kill rabbits (and eventually did in violation of biosecurity rules)?!?

#FacePalm

@davemosk

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Speaking of which, one thing I didn't notice was any discussion of what's *feeding* the algal bloom. FedFarmers types love to deflect from that question by babbling techno-solutionism at us. Just like the coal industry love to babble about carbon capture (a mythical technology right up there with zero-point energy).

Why? Because what's feeding the algae is most likely the same thing it usually is; nitrogen-overloaded farm runoff.

@davemosk

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I don't know enough about the ocean currents around Aotea to speculate on where that runoff might be coming from. But someone who does could tell you which major rivers feed into the waters around the island. I guarantee you that the industrial farms bordering those rivers are the true source of the algal problem.

So that's the supply side. So what kind of intervention might actually help, *without* killing the ocean to save the ocean?

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As the late, great Bill Mollison once quipped, "the problem is the solution". The example he gave was that a gardener doesn't have an oversupply of slugs, but a deficiency of ducks : P

I once heard another permaculturist, USAmerican David Blume, talking about using weighted nets to grow kelp in nitrogen-poisoned oceanic dead zones. Then harvesting it for food, salt, biofuel, whatever.

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Just as ducks turn slugs into eggs, the people of Aotea could be turning the poison feeding their algal problem into a fuel source.

If they can grow and harvest enough noninvasive algae, maybe they can get toasters? ; )

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@sj_zero
> but given that the byproducts were to be disposed of likely by burning without doing anything productive with it, you're getting a lot more useful energy out of one unit of crude oil, making things much more efficient

Agreed. If you're going to kill the bison, use the whole bison.

Of course, with both fossil fuels and bison, you reach a point where you realise that in most cases you shouldn't be killing the bison at all. But as you say, that's a separate issue.




#Gaza #Palestine

At least 17 Palestinians were killed in relentless Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to medics and witnesses.

Gaza’s Civil Defense Service said that its medics had recovered the bodies of nine people, including children, following a strike on a home in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.

“An entire family was wiped out in this new massacre,” an eyewitness told Anadolu.

aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/at-le…

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‘A huge loss’: is it the end for the ship that helped us understand life on Earth? - theguardian.com/environment/20… "The Joides Resolution has contributed to our understanding of climate crisis, the origin of life, earthquakes and eruptions. But funding cuts mean it may have sailed its last expedition" stupid, short-term thinking



When will the US finally act to hold Israel accountable?


While the U.S. has waged war in the name of spreading democracy, it blatantly refuses to hold Israel accountable for its deeply undemocratic actions and violations of international law in Gaza and the West Bank, including its treatment of prisoners like my cousin. There are many days when I wake up and I feel like I’m in the twilight zone. As a Palestinian, the gaslighting rhetoric of the Israeli and American governments feels deeply dissonant. On one hand, I am force-fed the American values of democracy, justice and morality, while on the other I watch my people slaughtered by Israeli soldiers using weapons and tax dollars that we give them, abducted and imprisoned without regard for human rights or international law, all for the purpose of maintaining a brutal system of apartheid.

#Impunity #WarCrime #History #WestBank #US #Hypocrisy #Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
thehill.com/opinion/internatio…





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