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afewbugs

@afewbugs@social.coop

Devon, UK, Europe

Born @ 341ppm

#Botany #Entomology #Ecology #Sustainability #Composting #Hiking #Cycling #RightToRoam #FlightFree #Bushcraft #WildFood #PlantBased #AncestralSkills #FibreCraft #OpenSource #OpenAccess #SolarPunk #coops #unions #RightToRepair

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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afewbugs, to random
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Over a decade ago when I was in The Gambia we had one of these badboys https://doulton.com/products/british-berkefeld-stainless-steel-gravity-system?variant=47184177824078 because as a poor country hammered by the legacy of colonialism it didn't the infrastructure to provide safe clean drinking water on tap, and today here I am in the UK in 2024 wondering if I should consider buying one of the damn things https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/15/devon-resident-told-to-boil-tap-water-over-risk-parasitic-disease-south-west

afewbugs,
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@OtherRyn it is, it does really feel like the country's spiralling backwards

afewbugs,
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@OtherRyn yeah medication shortages are getting a bit crazy. I promise I'm not exaggerating for dystopian effect, but I recently had to spend four hours going round a bunch of different pharmacies to get the antibiotics @SaintlySin needed for whooping cough Grace Petrie's "The best country in the World" plays quietly in the background

afewbugs, to queer
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today, and one of the many things I love about Pride (and indeed Halloween) is how it makes the quotidian just a little bit creatively weird. Just saw three extremely fabulous drag queens, all corsets and sparkles with hair as tall as their heels doing some extremely mundane shopping in Boots.

afewbugs,
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This is why Pride is so important isn't it, a critical mass of safe people people in one place at the same time so we outnumber those who might threaten people for being themselves. I wish those three could buy hand sanitiser dressed like that every day if they wanted to (though I'd imagine going about your everyday errands like that would be murder on the ankles)

afewbugs,
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Selected pictures from today with @SaintlySin

Me posing next to the Thomas Dyke Acland memorial sculpture and pointing out the word Dyke
Me wearing a pirate hat and sitting on a picnic blanket behind our sign, which says "No LGB without the T" The LGB is in the colours of the rainbow flag, the T is in the colours of the trans flag and has a heart in the centre. I've attempted sign writing style curlicues, not entirely successfully.
Assorted pins, stickers and badges spotted or bought. A badge saying "Be gay do crafts", a "No Pride in Genocide" sticker and a pin badge of a dandelion that says "Survive out of Spite"

afewbugs,
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Another on of me and @SaintlySin from yesterday, taken by a friend

quixoticgeek, to random
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Name a distance between 1mm and 100mm to 2dp.

afewbugs,
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@quixoticgeek 2.23mm

elverkonge, to random
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If there are Geoffs pronounced like Jeff in the world, there should be Geons pronounced like Jo(h)n.

afewbugs,
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@elverkonge @TheBreadmonkey if Steven and Stephen are both pronounced the same way, that implies there's someone out there somewhere named Phictoria

flexghost, to random
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After the parasite, that feeds off brain activity, starved to death leaving only a black spot, RFK jr was asked for a comment:

“Sometimes duck with cheese can purple. Tartar baby staples. Vaccines bad.”

afewbugs,
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@flexghost "Poor little guy starved to death"

afewbugs, to random
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The new Cybertruck is smaller than I expected

MikeInTheGarden, to random
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Well, this has to be one of the most unpleasant things I have ever had the displeasure of eating.

Imagine ultra congealed Stork margarine, and you won't be far off.

Nasty @druid forced me to eat one.

Ew!

afewbugs,
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@MikeInTheGarden @druid I'm Team Druid here. Babybel isn't meant to taste like cheese, it's meant to taste like childhood picnics by the reservoir inside the car while the rain batters on the windscreen, and the whole car smells of wee because your brother had to use the potty in the boot. ie slightly shit but weirdly comforting at the same time. Vegan babybel captures that perfectly

afewbugs,
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@NatureMC @MikeInTheGarden @druid gloat away from France, with your actually tasty cheeses and your childhood memories that don't involve being confined to a Volvo 😂

afewbugs,
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@NatureMC @MikeInTheGarden @druid that's just showing my own prejudices sorry, I generally assume any highly processed foodstuff that tastes like nothing in nature is English

afewbugs, to random
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Do you ever see something so niche you just have to buy it purely because you're just delighted that it exists?

afewbugs,
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@quixoticgeek ISBN is 978-1-62106-206-6. @dutchbarracuda has already called the loan after I finish it, but maybe he could send it on to you when he's done?

afewbugs, to random
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We're having an internal discussion in @SocialCoop at the moment about whether to disable images and replace them with alt text for World Accessibility day, as per this post:https://social.coop/@stefan@stefanbohacek.online/112275638101628439. The outcome seems to be leaning to no for technical reasons, but I've been fascinated to see how many are giving the suggestion that it's performative as a reason to disagree.

1/n

afewbugs,
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@agvbergin @SocialCoop some blind people weighed in on the discussion here https://social.coop/@dynamic/112349215483683893

afewbugs, to random
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Go ! Showing us that we can protect one another!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/london-protesters-block-coach-peckham-asylum-seekers-bibby-stockholm

afewbugs, to random
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In the pharmacy. Just thought "that woman has exactly the same shirt as me." It was a mirror

afewbugs, to random
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For people concerned about the proposed #asylumSeeker roundup in preparation for deportation to #Rwanda there's a list of local #AntiRaids groups here:

https://antiraids.net/local-groups/

#UKpol

junesim63, (edited ) to home
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The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK tomorrow..
Officials will hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration offices & also pick people up nationwide.
They will be immediately transferred to previously prepared detention centres & held to be put on later flights to Rwanda.

Anyone who takes part in this disgusting operation is breaking international law.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operation

afewbugs,
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@junesim63 @spytfyre what we really need is a hashtag to coordinate responses to the dawn raids. I suspect someone's already organising some sort of response tree, but does work pretty well

afewbugs, to random
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The number of guys who think this is a chatup line...

Good news though.

https://social.coop/@EU_Commission/112320639608329062

afewbugs, to UKpolitics
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Finally something actually positive from Labour for a change, I wish I wasn't so surprised https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/24/labour-promises-rail-nationalisation-within-five-years-of-coming-to-power

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Isn't it weird how serene this scene looks to us and how terrifying it must look if you were a fish

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