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At this rate, the beta version of my course ’Repair:enting Your Inner Child’ may be ready before summer! No promises, but I’ll keep at it.

So exciting! 😃

#inner child #reparenting #repair #immune system #nervous system #healing #healing course #self-help #self-help course #inner child healing #inner child work #inner child wounds

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Next up - Elder flowers!

#Apothecary #home apothecary #Herbalist #herbalism #natural health #Youtube #Homemade tea #Tea #herbal medicine

It’s Pride month!

Or rather, in some part/s of the world, it is. There are a lot of posts going around saying that this Pride, let’s be radically supportive of transgender people. Which is great, sure. Because rape, murder and suicide rates are only going up.

However, LGBTQIA people exist and deserve support and love 365 days of the year. Not just the one month per year that it is somehow more socially accepted for us to exist.

People urging others to be supportive just this month can create issues. There will always be actual bigots who pretend to be supportive just so that they can party at Pride, get some good photographs (as proof of their open minds) and get praised and complimented. And then once it’s over, they go back to acting like bigots.

Let’s be good human beings and support human rights for all and let’s LOVE and PROTECT LGBTQIA ALL YEAR!

#Lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lgbtq positivity #human rights #the human experience #pride month #lgbt pride #trans pride #queer pride #lesbian #gay #transgender #queer #intersex #ace

Next up - Elder flowers!

#Apothecary #home apothecary #Herbalist #herbalism #natural health #Youtube

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hope-for-the-planet

France on Tuesday announced a "first of its kind" plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050 during a global conference aim

Last month, France unveiled a pledge to eliminate all coal use by 2030, oil use by 2045, and gas use by 2050--making their energy generation essentially free of fossil fuels by 2050.

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The measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation will allow businesses to benefit from a more circular economy.

From the article:

The European Commission today (Feb 9) adopted new measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) to prevent the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear. The rules will help cut waste, reduce environmental damage and create a level playing field for companies embracing sustainable business models, allowing them to reap the benefits of a more circular economy. Every year in Europe, an estimated 4-9% of unsold textiles are destroyed before ever being worn. This waste generates around 5.6 million tons of CO2 emissions – almost equal to Sweden’s total net emissions in 2021. To help reduce this wasteful practice, the ESPR requires companies to disclose information on the unsold consumer products they discard as waste. It also introduces a ban on the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing accessories and footwear.

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I love you tailors, I love you recycling center employees, I love you jewelry repair people, I love you tech repair people. I love you plumbers, I love you electricians. I love you all maintenance workers, who make it so things don't have to be fully replaced when they break.

There are so many ways to contribute to the climate movement.

Growing mushrooms to eat while reducing and reusing waste

I’ll be using these three containers for the set up. A bucket that once contained 5 kg of coconut oil. I’ve been using the bucket to store my flour blend for a few years, but now I use mylar bags instead. And two jugs that I previously stored flour and soy sauce in. They’re washed now and they’ll be sterilised before I fill them. Which should be in about two weeks.

A neighbour helped me drill the holes in the bucket and I prepared the jugs with a knife and a pair of scissors.

I’m growing my own mycelium (pasteurised brown cardboard and used coffee grounds) and I’ll also be using my homemade mushroom block as my mycelium. As for my substrate, I’ll be using straw pellets and coffee grounds. If I have some that I need to get rid off by then, some cardboard as well.

Using mushrooms to break down waste

Later on in the season I will be experimenting with using mycelium to compost my plastic waste. Right now I’m saving just about all of my waste (not food) in a garbage bag to see how much I produce. After 6 months (next month), I’ll go through it and recycle it. The plastic will be cut up and packed in this manual device that turns plastic or cardboard into fairly tightly packed bricks. I’ll see if I can inoculate some cardboard, coffee grounds and plastic bricks to break down the plastic.

Food waste

I already use a bokashi set up to compost all of my food waste. The compost soil is used in the garden and I will also use it to grow button mushrooms. The bokashi tea is used as fertiliser, with some other goodies.

#zero waste #lower your waste #No food waste #Fertiliser #organic garden #low effort #sustainability #Youtube

Communication alternatives

Beyond texting and using the internet, I can only think of interactions in person, letter writing and phone calls. But phone calls almost exclusively relies on 5G these days, which feels oppressive. I hate being told I can’t opt out.

Are there other low tech/no tech ways of communicating with others? For now, I still use the internet, but I want to start using it less.

#Communication #low tech #no tech #no smart devices #Old school

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Fourth No Kings event will feature a concert with Bette Midler, Patti Smith and Rufus Wainwright streaming nationwide

Joseph Gedeon at The Guardian:

The No Kings movement has announced a nationwide event on 14 June, directly counter-programming Donald Trump’s 80th birthday celebrations and a Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bout on the south lawn of the White House. The centerpiece is a 90-minute concert at New York’s Town Hall featuring entertainer Bette Midler, songwriter Patti Smith, actor Jane Fonda, musician Rufus Wainwright and commentator Joy Reid – streaming free nationwide, while local groups host watch parties across the country. The event is co-presented by the Committee for the First Amendment, a coalition of artists and cultural figures, and frames the US’s 250th anniversary as a moment of democratic reckoning. The plans put two very different visions for the occasion in direct competition.

The US president is billing UFC Freedom 250 as a historic national celebration: a star-spangled octagon arena on the south lawn of the White House, with 4,000 ticketed guests, and a fan festival on the Ellipse expected to draw up to 100,000 people. The weigh-ins are reportedly set to take place at the Lincoln Memorial. Trump has claimed that demand for tickets, for an event which will feature a title fight between the lightweight champion Ilia Topuria and the interim champion Justin Gaethje, has been unlike anything he has seen. The White House spokesperson Davis Ingle called it “one of the greatest and most historic sports events in history”.

The 4th installment of No Kings will be on Sunday, June 14th-- one year after the first No Kings protest. The event will be billed “Rise Up, Sing Out.”

Beautiful! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

#no kings #all you fascists #Bette Midler goddess #Youtube

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At 1 PM on a Friday I get an email from my boss. I'm busy as hell so I don't check it immediately. Then I get a phone call from my boss, which has almost never happened before. I'm a white collar worker, a historian. There's never a 'historical emergency' requiring a phone call to kick me in the ass and get to work.

The request is so urgent my boss needs it by the end of the work week. Which, y'know, is 5 PM on a Friday. So I have four hours to do it.

It's a forwarded request. Somebody contacted a member of the donation team asking for help, "I need a map from the Vietnam War to use for a presentation." It's somebody she's trying to coax into giving a five figure donation to the museum.

The request was asked to the donation team member, who then emailed my boss, who then emailed and called me urgently.

This map required:

North and South Vietnam in it

All four areas that South Vietnam was divided into for military purposes ('Corps') clearly delineated

Four cities, all of them horrifically misspelled, and only identifiable because I know what battle the requester is asking about (it’s in III Corps on the border with Cambodia) (the requester danced around the battle but I’m knowledgeable enough to identify it)

Has Laos and Cambodia in it

Has the Ho Chi Minh Trail in it

So. I was mad about the 'you have literally four hours to find a map with a lot of requirements.'

I was then mad at myself about finding a copyright free map from Texas Tech University within half an hour, proving her right for asking me to do it.

Then, after I found a map that perfectly met the requirements, I was equally amazed, baffled, and horrified when I read further into the forwarded email chain.

The donation team team member they were speaking to used AI to generate a map.

The above put half of North Vietnam in South Vietnam, made the Ho Chi Minh Trail a country, made 60% of Cambodia part of South Vietnam, put the DMZ extremely high up in North Vietnam, completely disconnected the southern tip of Vietnam, misplaced all of the Corps zones, etc etc

At the very last second the donation team member had a moment of divine clarity, remembering there's three historians on payroll to ask for this kind of thing from. So she contacted my boss while saying, "I had fun with this, but I decided I should check for accuracy before I send it to the donor! I need a fact check by the end of the day, then I send it"

My boss, while not the most knowledgeable on the Vietnam War, does know her geography. She took one look, and knew it was so off she called me to tell me how urgent it is that I look at the email and respond

good fucking god, jesus tap dancing goddamn christ, I'm glad I was asked to look at it and then find a real map

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My fear has never been that AI would replace human intelligence. My fear has been that the people who Know Things and the people who Make The Decisions are almost never the same people.

We’re throwing real intelligence out on the street to starve while worshipping the shambling Frankenstein-ed corpse of knowledge puppeteered by those who see us as disposable assets.