@ProjectFearlessness@mastodonapp.uk @kevinrns@mstdn.social
Don't get me wrong I think Fediverse has incredible potential as an organising sphere right now, and later when wider adopted & more figures with prominent positions are here it will have pressure and leverage power.

Currently the Fediverse is highly useful for people who already want to do stuff, to develop skills / toolsets to do stuff. Most people on the Fediverse are moderately aware of issues (some issues more than others) already, for the most part they need tools for action, more than extra awareness.

@ProjectFearlessness@mastodonapp.uk @kevinrns@mstdn.social
Oil Bosses don't care about outcry. Plus I doubt they even know or care the #Fediverse exists.

The only thing they will care about is being defunded. Which requires both political and consumer action, BOTH of them.

Defunding them becomes a spiral, leading to better politicians and more regulation, just in the same way as apathy or waiting for politicians alone to magically do all the regulation we need leads to untouchable #FossilFuel companies. (getting more leases in the North Sea for sweet FA, paying zero tax, & hiking energy bills by vast amounts for example in #UK).

Defund.
Defund.
Defund fossil fuels.

Fediverse can be very useful for organising ways to defund them, and organising tactical political operations, and uplifting journalism that is actually independent and not in hock to the current corporations status quo.
#ClimateCrisis #environment #Activism

Dear journalists:

By remaining on Elon Musk's platform you are -- knowingly or not -- directly supporting your enemy. He is systematically turning his platform into a showcase for people and entities that see democracy as an impediment to achieving what can accurately be understood as fascist goals.

Wrecking democracy means destroying freedom of expression -- the basis of what you do.

For your own sake, and for your honor, please leave.

https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-becomes-x

#journalism

@black_intellect@mstdn.social

so if you ever wonder why the british are so Like That, remember that in the last decade we have had five prime ministers and the objectively least terrible one was the one who actually fucked a pig to get into a posh club

I can sum up everything that is wrong in this world on one word.
BILLIONAIRES
#capitalism #Democracy #socialism #socialjustice

#Kbin & #Lemmy as alternatives to #Reddit gets a writeup in PCMag.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/reddit-alternatives-lemmy-kbin

Great Wired read about a Wikipedia editor who's making sure that no one gets away with Nazi reputation-laundering. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/one-woman-s-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-on-wikipedia?utm_source=pocket-newtab

"...history is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs in the balance."

@ArtBear@mastodonapp.uk @kainoa@calckey.social
--coming soon--

"Don't just eXit from #XTwitter losing everything.

Download your #Twitter archive, then upload your post history to #Firefish.social.

Join the millions of users in the Fediverse. A world where billionaires no longer buy & control your social media, and you can freely talk & move between platforms."

---It's a very easy story for us to tell all our contacts, once it's up and running.

@dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social
Somewhere started doing this, read about it a long time ago, not sure why it isn't more widespread. LEDs don't need warm up time.

Oh interesting. Microsoft owns the service mark for "X".

I'm sure that'll be fine and not a total clown rodeo.

@BobWilliams@mindly.social
Good for you!

Clearly what humanity needs right now is more machinery designed to generate vast amounts of plausible, but wrong, answers...

#books

@StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe @joncounts@mastodon.nz @KorimakoEcology@ecoevo.social @rewildingmag@spore.social

Think of this thread as a miniature case study that illustrates the point.

It is incredibly hard to communicate facts that don't suit people's pre-existing biases.

We all like to think we're personally strongly science, evidence & fact based.

Actually it's incredibly easy to show that we humans often aren't. It can be just as hard to communicate with a Brexiter about the effects of Brexit, a Republican about the effects of GOP, a gun owner about mass-shootings or a Standard Americanised Diet about the effects of Animal Agriculture. We're biased & emotional creatures. Any comms strat will have to work with the emotions, to find a route in for uncomfortable facts.

@StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe @joncounts@mastodon.nz @KorimakoEcology@ecoevo.social @rewildingmag@spore.social
Sure....

"Is it ok to tell female voices to shut up?"
"No! If it makes some people uncomfortable, tough."

"Is it ok to tell BIPOC voices to shut up?"
"No! If it makes some people uncomfortable, tough."

"Is it ok to tell queer voices to shut up?"
"No! If it makes some people uncomfortable, tough."

"Is it ok to tell plantbased/vegan voices to shut up?"
"Yes! They make people uncomfortable."

Communicating the importance of doing something about climate change is vital. Our shopping baskets are actually one of the greatest tools we have to enforce change. We can use our shopping baskets to defund some of the worst offenders at the heart of climate change, both corporate and their associated politicians & media.

This is a vital topic, how to get humans to accept facts they don't like & act on them (even if they are uncomfortable animal agriculture facts).

@breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social
A 3,000 head dairy farm creates more sewage pollution, than a half million ish, 500,000 head, population human city does.

Yes, fossil fuel corps are bad.
Animal ag corps are bad too, and massive users of fossil fuels.
They both tend to fund the worst politicians who divide, stall, create hate in order to not act on #climatecrisis.

Defund all 3 of them by cooking #plantbased.

Arguing over technicalities, or astro-turfed BS denialism isn't going to help us at this point. Defund all 3.

@KorimakoEcology@ecoevo.social @joncounts@mastodon.nz @rewildingmag@spore.social
Yeah it's not the facts that are the problem, the problem is that humans block facts that are personally inconvenient.

For example:

Putting 100 times more grain into a cow than you get out in kcal is not only 99% less efficient than just eating the grain. The cow production itself involves a lot of land water labour and energy cost. So it's just inefficient as hell.

8billion humans consume a lot less food & water than 1billion cows.

Animal ag produces huge amounts of sewage waste. Just 2500 dairy cows is equal to a human city of 411,000 people.

91% of Amazon destruction is related to... cows.

That's just a few bits for the cows. Our animal ag. is really not sustainable, & it is a massive climate change driver. Unfortunately that is just one of those fact situations where people will whatabout, non-sequitur, topic change, argue whether it 89% or 91% like that's life or death, go full-scale defensive etc... all just to get away from the conclusions which are uncomfortable.

@KorimakoEcology@ecoevo.social @joncounts@mastodon.nz @rewildingmag@spore.social
It's good you're only eating meat a few times a week. It's good to cut down on dairy fish etc too. the more plantbased the better. Most people aren't doing much of anything though.

The data doesn't support ignoring food production. Animal agriculture is a bigger emitter than transport. It's also far easier to swap bean chili, for beef chili, than it is to give up having a car, or buy an electric and fit panels to charge it.

No-one is defending fossil fuels or the companies that have pushed fossil fuels. No-one is denying we need strong action on them. Which means strong political will. Which means defunding bad politicians.

Regardless, animal agriculture is a massive user of fossils fuels, including fertilizing, particularly when 100 Kcal of grains can be fed to a cow in addition to grazing to produce 1 Kcal of meat. Plus all the complicated transport, refrigeration, packaging, increased labour costs etc for animal ag, which again adds huge Kcals of inefficiency cost.

Most of all animal agriculture is depriving us of carbon sinkage, species diversity, ecological stability and food chain resilience because such vast amounts of the earth's surface are intensively, unsustainably de-natured, mono-cropped & fertilized as feed crops to then process through animals at vast inefficiency. World Wildlife Fund reported 60% of species loss is due to animal ag for example.

It's time to do more, be better, & try a bit harder. Most of us could cook #plantbased at home very easily. It even saves us money and improves our health. It's pure habit / marketing that we don't. Mild inconvenience now, or massive life changing inconvenience later.

@KorimakoEcology@ecoevo.social @joncounts@mastodon.nz @rewildingmag@spore.social

This may be the least popular thing I have to say.

For every thousand people I see posting their climate concerns every month....
...maybe 1 in a thousand is prepared to learn to make a #plantbased recipe. yet it is such an easy way to do actual climate activism from home.

Take a bit of pressure off the food system, reduce climate change cumulatively and defund some of the worst corporations & their awful political trojan horses (with all their associated bigotry, homophobia, racism, transphobia etc the hatred, rights and societal backsliding).

I just don't think we're going to make it when 999 out of a thousand want to leave a lot of really easy simple, save yourself actual money, activism to vague 'other people' to do for combating #climatecrisis.

Plantbased (#vegan) is incredibly easy to do. It's a bonus to your family's health too. There are vast amounts of free resources. You don't have to label yourself anything, or do it all the time. You just have to start doing it.