🚩 Just another milestone on the way to somewhere not good:
"Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei #Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to years in a penal colony..."
"...crosses a new threshold in the repression of dissent under President Vladimir Putin."
[#]HumanRights
https://neuters.de/world/europe/three-navalny-lawyers-jailed-belonging-extremist-organisation-mediazona-news-2025-01-17/
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
Just read an article mentioning 'limbic capitalism'. Then I duckduckgoed the term, just for fun, and - good ol' Jeff Bezos, always good for a LOL ! - the top result I see is "Buy limbic capitalism | Low prices on limbic capitalism"
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
🥬 ...and so it came to pass:
🍆 "UK vegetable growing sector ‘in jeopardy’ due to post-#Brexit border checks"
🍅 The (UK) government’s new Border Target Operating Model (BT😔 M) posing a “critical challenge” to plant and seed imports.
🥒 "lack of careful handling and uncontrolled holding conditions"
[#]FoodSecurity
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/uk-vegetable-growing-sector-in-jeopardy-due-to-post-brexit-border-checks/698833.article?c=&cid=DM1177703&bid=573516140
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
'Environment
Britain leads the world in...' <ooh! what's this ~ things looking up?😃 >
'...cracking down on climate activism, study finds' 😒
[#]UK #environment #oppression
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
So worrying the United Kingdom still has no apparent plans for a sound food-supply.
This change here, by the Welsh Government, happily looks like little baby steps in the right direction:
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/welsh-government-u-turns-on-controversial-compulsory-farm-tree-planting-proposal/698367.article?c=&cid=DM1175089&bid=565124340
[#]brexit #farming #wales
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
[#]Obituary
🎨 Frank #Auerbach, leading figurative painter who fled Nazis as a child, dies aged 93 🖌️
[#]art
https://guardian.gyford.com/
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
How we're getting to where we're going
🔺 Shell not obliged to cut its pollution, Dutch court rules in landmark climate case 🔺
The loophole that saved Shell is: 'insufficient agreement in climate science on a specific reduction percentage that an individual company should adhere to'. Guess they can afford good lawyers.
https://lite.cnn.com/2024/11/12/energy/shell-climate-case-netherlands/index.html
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
🧠 Does air #pollution cause dementia? UK scientists launch study to find out 🧠
I was wondering if there's a conncection with neuro diseases after my brother succumbed and I noticed how prolific they are.
“Once we understand those mechanisms in greater detail, we can use that knowledge to develop treatments that will dampen the impact of air pollutants and perhaps one day prevent the effect of the environment on brain diseases”
Meanwhile, keep driving them cars! 😃 👍
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/20/does-air-pollution-cause-dementia-uk-scientists-launch-study-to-find-out?CMP=share_btn_url
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
Yes! to this*
'When I researched the nesting habitats of mourning doves, the wildlife management bureaucrats included in their entry tips on how to build wire cone structures that will provide a superior foundation for the nests...
I suppose that was targeted at dove hunters...
But the idea of *using our tool-making ingenuity to enhance #wildlife habitat instead of (or even in the aftermath of) destroying it is one we all need to start integrating into our lives.'
https://fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/rock-squirrels-paper?r=44bvn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
Dear Barry repair cafe,
I'm hoping you can give me some guidance regarding domestic dehumidifiers which can be repaired.
I bought one a few years ago and lavished nothing but TLC on it, but one day it just wouldn't switch on. I mentioned it to someone at Swansea repair cafe and they replied "Dehumidifiers are tricky". I do need one to demist my house, but don't want to have a lump of useless e-waste after just a couple of years. Pls advise, if you can.
Love from Semele xxx
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
🌊 For the First Time, Part of the Ocean Has Been Granted Legal Personhood : “When you recognize a little bit of space of the ocean, like these waves, you are reaching the whole ocean”
[#]legal #RightsOfNature
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/for-the-first-time-part-of-the-ocean-has-been-granted-legal-personhood/
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
"...probably the first person to make a legal oath in a British court based upon his devotion to a river – after he had given a secular affirmation to cover conventional legal bases."
[#]Rights #Nature #EarthRights #law
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/02/environmentalist-becomes-first-juror-to-swear-oath-on-river-water?CMP=share_btn_url
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
Thousands march in London to urge leaders to tackle #wildlife crisis.
One said "the devastation that is being caused to our environment needs all of us to bind together, stand up and demand from whoever forms the next government...to make changes now.
We can’t miss this opportunity.”
😢 All, except the Green Party, have their eyes fixed on 💰 .
'There were also chants of “less faeces more species”.' :toot:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/22/thousands-march-london-urge-leaders-tackle-uk-wildlife-crisis?CMP=share_btn_url
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
Was just tooting :emoji_squint: about air-pollution, when the acrid stench of someone burning nappies in their back garden made it a bit of a struggle.
[#]coincidence #AirPollution
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
This report about #Ukraine stood out for me. Lots of pics.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9xx15pe311o
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
I am a little puzzled by a Reuters article about a boy suffering Avian flu: "Health authorities in Australia's southeastern state of Victoria said contact tracing had not identified any further cases and there was a very low chance of others becoming infected as the flu does not easily spread between people."
"not easily spread between people" — I thought it didn't do that AT ALL, yet.
[#]H5N1 🦆
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
It felt wrong to swill the black dust, emitted from passing traffic and which deposits onto my front door, down the drain, into the sewer, into the river and sea.
[#]car #pollution #water
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
Such a wonderful and interesting resource: Verfassungsblog..." is an academic and journalistic open access forum of debate on topical events and developments in constitutional law and politics in Germany, the emerging European constitutional space and beyond."
They do lots of deep dives. Antidote to bait-clicking.
[#]blog #politics
https://verfassungsblog.de/blog/ 🖤 🤍
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
🐓 Defra unveils multimillion-pound River Wye clean-up action plan💩
Something must have spooked DEFRA sufficiently for them to move on this issue. Article notes that many other #rivers in England & Wales (UK) are horribly-polluted by "poultry litter".
[#]FactoryFarming #Pollution
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/sourcing/defra-unveils-multimillion-pound-river-wye-clean-up-action-plan/690301.article?c=&cid=DM1130643&bid=379320767
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
[#]FensterFreitag
=> More informations about this toot | View the thread
=> This profile without reblog | Go to semele@mastodon.social account This content has been proxied by September (ba2dc).Proxy Information
text/gemini