Want to reduce crime? Science says: build more libraries.

By James Folta

https://lithub.com/want-to-reduce-crime-science-says-build-libraries/

#libraries

Fantastic news! We've reached 1 million votes! But please keep sharing and voting in case some votes are invalid!

EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban so-called "conversion therapy" in the EU. It's a practice that's extremely harmful towards LGBTQ+ people.

The site is a little slow, but keep trying!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban!

We now have eight countries past their thresholds, and we have at least 1,000,000 total votes.

So keep signing & voting!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

#lgbtqia #europe

The #Arctic is warming four times faster than the global average and #plant communities are responding through shifts in #species abundance, composition and distribution.

Species turnover was widespread, with 59% of plots gaining and/or losing species.

Proportions of species gains and losses were greater where temperatures had increased the most.

Arctic plant communities did not become more similar to each other, suggesting no biotic homogenization so far.

#biology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08946-8

@Natasha_Jay Well I do think that if the person listed is myself then a slightly different approach may be called for than when it's a person who is not me. /j

I can tell you what happens if only a few do it: they get harassed by their admin, possibly even fired (if they haven't yet achieved tenure).

I can also tell you what happens if everyone does it, because I have seen this, too. It's called Working To Rule. It's a classic and effective type of job action that is similar to a strike, but allows you to still collect paychecks. When we did it, admin buckled within a week. Much harder to pick off and punish individuals when the entire staff maintains solidarity.

#strike #worktorule #solidarity #union #teachers #school #education

To know @AlaskaWx is to love his total commitment to tracking Alaska weather and keeping Alaskans informed. I absolutely hate the way this admin is hacking up the social and cultural fabric that holds us all together

https://www.ktoo.org/2025/04/29/alaska-could-lose-a-beloved-climate-communicator-if-noaa-cuts-happen/

This is maybe more lyrical than my style would be but interesting. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/25/authoritarianism-latin-america-trump?CMP=share_btn_url

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A recent op-ed in the New York Times urged Democrats to lay out their own Project 2029, to counter the conservative thinktank Heritage Foundation’s influential Project 2025. What did the author of the op-ed believe should be in this new project? A call for national healthcare? No. Affordable housing? No. Paid vacations, universal childcare or an increase in the minimum wage? None of that. He suggested that the Democrats promise to streamline regulations and improve “the quality” of “customer-service interactions”.

[...]

Democrats in the United States can’t simply mimic social democrats in Latin America; they operate in vastly different political contexts. But Latin America is a useful mirror, reflecting the considerable distance Democrats in the US have drifted from New Deal values. They might want to read Roosevelt’s Faith of the Americas speech, where he said that the best way to defuse extremism was to use government action to ensure “a more abundant life to the peoples of the whole world”.
"""

@seachanger Mine are at name.com or gandi.net (which I started to get from the time I lived in France).

I’m going to say this slowly.

If Andrew Tate & his ilk were right about ANYTHING they’d have no audience.

Guys would listen briefly, apply advice, & be WAY too busy with their new gfs, side-pieces, & high income hustles to bother tuning in.

It’s the Tinder principle: if you’re happy, they lose a customer.

Their business model is your unending misery.

It's the time of year when water fowl return to Interior Alaska.

xah Canada goose
dąąxêd snow goose
deeɬ crane
dets’ên duck (general term)
t'aay chox mallard duck
tthí’k’ą̂ąy goldeneye duck
ndeɬ scoter, black duck
k’éɬttheel bufflehead duck
tuhtsêdl green-wing teal

@transitionalaspect @ScoterD

#Tanacross #Dene #Language #Alaska

How much total extra work time have you spent in the past 100 days dealing with fallout from the current US administration?

ACCAP is hosting a special listening session webinar Thursday afternoon to help folks understand all the things we do. I'm part of the team. #akwx

https://www.ktoo.org/2025/04/29/alaska-could-lose-a-beloved-climate-communicator-if-noaa-cuts-happen/

https://uaf-accap.org/event/special-accap-listening-session/

#NOAA fires about 800 employees, with more possible Friday

"The terminations are a blow to an agency that has been understaffed for years, even as the #climate crisis accelerates and #ExtremeWeather becomes more frequent.

#NationalWeatherService employees are protected by a workers’ union, which was trying Thursday night to contact affected employees."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/politics/noaa-federal-workers-firings/index.html

after the election, we started a "Friends and Neighbors" organizing group in my town that has been a great way to connect, find support, & share actions in these times. folks keep asking to join from out of the area, so i drafted a guide to starting one for your community!

https://bit.ly/friendsandneighbors101

Be the @TeenVogue you want to see in the world: "To put it bluntly, Trump is now violently pursuing, rounding up, and disappearing immigrants, the majority not charged with any criminal offense, while right-wing loyalists convicted and sentenced for violent felonies against the country are released and celebrated." https://www.teenvogue.com/story/donald-trump-criminal-justice-agenda-public-safety

If you're interested in catching up with what's happened with recent Alaska weather and climate and the outlook for the March and the coming spring, join me at noon AKST for the monthly Alaska climate outlook webinar. If you're interested but can't make the webinar live, it is recorded and will be available later Friday. Free registration here:

https://uaf-accap.org/event/february-nws-climate-outlook-briefing/

#akwx #Climate

Il semblerait que certains d'entre vous ignorent encore l'existence de cette pub de lancement du métro de Montréal.
C'est une erreur.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcC31r1BxBY
#rediff

Don’t cede any grounds anywhere to transphobia and racism. If you’re seeing this becoming normalised where you work or live resist it. I know there are caveats to this depending on how vulnerable you are, but apply this general rule.

Normal parents telling their kids to eat fish: "It's healthy and nutritious"

Chinese parents telling their kids to eat fish: "It rhymes with the word for abundance. If you eat fish, you'll prosper and have lots of wealth"

It's the dark time of year as a new cultural dark age emerges, but the wheel of the seasons goes on and on, as it has since before the dawn of time, and in that there is comfort. Happy holidays from Interior #Alaska.