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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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Today I learned that hi vis workwear kilts exist, and I think it's very important that I inform the Fediverse of this fact.

https://www.blaklader.uk/en/product/19211831-hi-vis-kilt

afewbugs, to random
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"The richest 0.1% in Britain emit 22 times more from transport than low earners, and 12 times more than average. The data finds that income is directly linked to levels of mobility, with people who earn more than £100,000 travelling on average at least double the distance each year compared with those on incomes under £30,000."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/29/wealthy-white-men-uk-biggest-transport-polluters

nic, to random
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Why the fuck would anyone buy a whole bottle of Drambuie?

Related: if anyone fancies a wee dram of Drambuie, and listening to a few King of the Slums albums, give us a shout.

afewbugs,
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@nic put it in black coffee

afewbugs, to random
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Beach views in Britain right now

afewbugs, to random
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Right, everyone who can is registered to vote right? Got your postal or proxy sorted out if you need one? Got your ID?

#UKpol #GeneralElection2024

afewbugs, to climate
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“The UK and Ireland face a wetter, damper and mouldier future due to #climatechange Until the world reduces emissions to net zero, the climate will continue to warm, and rainfall in the UK and Ireland will continue to get heavier.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/22/never-ending-uk-rain-10-times-more-likely-climate-crisis-study

This is the message we need to get out to combat the populist nonsense like "well if climate change is real at least we'll have nice hot summers"

#ClimateCrisis #UKpol

afewbugs,
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@twobiscuits plenty of space between the raindrops to fit more raindrops into

afewbugs, to random
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"Just use Linux" is much like "just ride a bike" or "just shop at a refill store" - accessing the non default option can be time consuming, expensive or unavailable locally. We need to recognise you need a certain degree of privilege to have the capacity to complicate your life voluntarily. We need to be trying to make the better, harder thing more accessible, not blaming people for not using it.

afewbugs,
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Quite a few people in the replies seem to be missing my point, which is that the default option is the default option because it's easier. The non-standard option may well save time and effort in the long run, but in the immediate term you need to invest time and effort to make it work, which is something many people do not have the privilege to have available.

afewbugs,
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And honestly the people in the replies accusing me of "victimising myself" or "refusing to overcome my learned helplessness" are kind of making my point for me here. Some people wouldn't even know where to start with installing a new operating system Someone could be in a domestic abuse situation and worried about their abuser tracking them which is the hypothetical scenario which prompted this post, and being terrified and on constant alert is not the best headspace to learn something new

afewbugs,
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Comments criticising the person for not doing the thing are not helpful in that situation, or any sitution really

afewbugs,
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Also I, personally, already use Linux (and cycle for that matter). People assuming this is about me are missing the point utterly. I have privilege (time, energy, education, a safe living space) that means I can do the more complicated thing. Not everyone does.

afewbugs,
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@twobiscuits @cavyherd yes I think the analogy can be stretched to resources other than money, like time and energy - the more you have to start with, the more you can put into things that will give you more in the long run

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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#Exeter #Pride 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 #ExeterPride today with @SaintlySin

#Exeter #Pride

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 #ExeterPride 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

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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@skyfaller how bizarre! 😆 Did you get it?

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