Sitka plagues
We were in Roberton today looking at the latest proposals for ‘new’ forestry around Whitslaid. Less Sitka than previously and there is a hint of Scots Pine and native broadleafs but it is still essentially monoculture.
Restore Nature have helped local conservation groups get permission for a judicial review of the refusal to carry out an Environmental Impact Assessment.
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-todrig-from-sitka-spruce-plantation-1
'#Firefox Is Dead To Me' - #Slashdot reports Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
We would end up with a #browser #monoculture. And monocultures, like #monopolies are most often bad
Long life to Firefox, even if #Mozilla has made so many errors.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/17/1520209/firefox-is-dead-to-me
Last week a tradesman came to the door and asked whether we'd like to employ him to sort the #garden; he named and gestured towards "the privet hedge and the lawn".
I was WFH and busy so very polite and just told him "no thanks". I didn't try to educate him against bland #monoculture or show him the native #orchids ...
I don't know if @mozilla Firefox 139.0.1 is buggier than anything else, but I'm running into more and more sites that just don't work.
* anything guarded by Cloudflare's bot "protection" racket
* DocuSign (mildly important since we're moving NEXT MONTH)
* thinkific.com training (doing OWASP SAMM)
I set up Floccus (https://floccus.org/) to hopefully keep my bookmarks in sync via my WebDAV server and @Vivaldi .
"Doing the wrong thing until it destroys their own industry."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/britain-deserts-dead-zones-purple-moor-grass
#EnglishTradition #degradation #grazing #overstocking #livestock #excavation #monoculture #biodiversity #DeadZones
In lush North East #India 🇮🇳🪷 a battle is being waged, between sowing native seeds versus industrial #palmoil #monoculture 🌴🔥 that threatens rare #ecosystems #animals and an ancient way of life. #ecology #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social
https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/10/06/indias-palm-oil-plans-wreak-havoc-on-the-ground/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
"Tropical Race 4 (TR4), a disease that affects #bananas. Also known as Panama Disease, it is a fungus that has been rampaging through #banana farms for the past 30 years. But within the last decade the epidemic has suddenly accelerated..."
"...bananas are grown on a vast #monoculture, meaning not just #TR4 but all diseases spread fast..."
https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-pandemic-threatening-bananas.html
🔸After the banana disappears the Minions end up running after an apple...😓
https://archive.org/details/banana_202404
Koalas face death, attacks and mass starvation from monoculture plantations
Cost-effective management techniques for Australian wildlife
"...Displaced animals were sometimes still up in trees that were felled and ended up with broken bones, or were orphaned babies left behind. Others were attacked by cows or dogs."
"A 2023 study of reported wild koala deaths in south-east Queensland found vehicles were responsible for about half (1,431) of all fatalities."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/11/koalas-face-death-attacks-and-starvation-as-blue-gums-chopped-down-in-victoria
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #harm #pets #Livestock #roads #vehicles #RoadTrauma #KillingZones #plantations #monoculture #extractivism #governance #Australia #extinction
Welfare of koalas living in plantations: Aerial and ground-based shooting of koalas
"..The ongoing chronic animal welfare crisis facing koalas in southwest Victoria that has been unfolding for decades. The root cause being rampant habitat loss and the relentless expansion of the blue gum plantation industry. With their natural habitat diminished, koalas are left with nowhere safe to go...Only one animal was rescued and taken into care, while 1,061 were euthanised."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/photos-expose-fresh-blow-after-1061-koalas-shot-in-national-park-sad-truth-063055245.html
#biodiversity #koalas #marsupials #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #harm #plantations #monoculture #SettlerSociety #euthanasia #Australia
#Rewilding #ModernFarming vs #Monoculture
"The End Of Monoculture" [ ± 1-3 min]
by amillison
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VyyEKR9159k
Quote by am:
"Apr 28, 2025
Monocultures dominate modern agriculture but they leave the land more vulnerable to drought, erosion, pests, and collapse.
At Camp Altiplano in Spain, a different model is being built: regenerative farming that restores the soil, harvests water, and supports biodiversity. All while still producing food.
Through simple techniques like keyline design, compost application, diverse ground covers, and integrated tree systems, they’re proving that agriculture doesn’t have to destroy the land. It can heal it.
Restoration isn’t an abstract idea. It’s practical, measurable, and already happening. This is the future of farming and it’s one we can all help grow."
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopRapingNature
#ClimateBreakDown
Debate rages over push to declare buffel grass a weed of national significance
"A pasture grass providing benefits as feed for livestock is not considered a weed."
End of debate.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-20/graziers-and-environmentalists-clash-over-buffel-grass/105145268
#biodiversity #monoculture #livestock #cattle #lobby #SettlerSociety #weeds #bushfires
La moitié des #sols francais sont en mauvaise santé.
#biodiversité #culture #agriculture #viticulture #pollution #laboure #monoCulture
#opensource = choice, flexibility, lower costs & security! #opensource is the equalizer to IT #monoculture! Explore it with #openSUSE https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/03/31/branching-out-why-shift-from-it-monoculture-to-open-source/?utm_campaign=Oktopost-FY25%20Global%20Thought%20Leadership
Colonisation française de l’Algérie
🔴 L’accaparement colonial de la terre en Algérie a détruit des modes d’organisation et de gestion de la terre en commun. Le développement des monocultures et d’une agriculture d’exportation a aussi bouleversé l’environnement.
https://reporterre.net/En-Algerie-la-France-coloniale-a-aussi-detruit-la-nature
#Algérie #France #colonisation #environnement #nature #agriculture #élevage #guerre #société #dépossession #chasse #militaire #famine #monoculture #forêt #paysans
#SemaineAnticoloniale | Table ronde : #Colonialisme par #pesticides ou #nucléaire
https://youtu.be/I-UU2HmSKAM
#agrochimie #agricultureIntensive #monoculture #écocide #lobbyAgroalimentaire #phytovictimes #dioxine #AgentOrange #JusticePourTranToNga #JusticeEnvironnementale #chlordécone #essaisNucléaires #contaminationNucléaire #Brésil #Vietnam #Martinique #Guadeloupe #PolynésieFrançaise #DOMTOM #maladiesProfessionnelles #écologieDécoloniale #luttesDécoloniales
Agree 100%
The idea that the density of good people is different among different categories, whether races or genders or degrees of ableness or whatever, seems completely suspect to me. So there's that.
But also, abstract goodness is not always the entirety of what is needed of employees. Regardless of what score anyone might get open whatever test you could throw at them, there is intrinsic value and having people who come from different backgrounds. Diverse groups have a better mix of origin stories, and are not just diverse in nature but in nurture.
Diverse groups have walked more paths, seen more things, experienced more situations. There is a greater breadth of empathy. There are more varied sources of inspiration. Inspiration comes in odd ways from different situations.
When solving mysteries, differences in people's personal histories will lead them to see the same situation differently, sometimes shaking them out of overly narrow, limiting, or even toxic assumptions.
When creating policy, having folks present who can more directly represent those impacted can help to call out and perhaps avoid biases, prejudices, indignities or injustices that might be invisible to or unappreciated by a narrower group that is so used to things going a certain way that they don't realize or find it easy to relate to that full space of potential negatives others might endure.
When creating stories, diversity brings more richness of life experience to draw on.
When innovating, diversity brings more points of view a greater breadth of traditions and techniques to draw on, better thinking outside the box because the boxes people have inhabited are so many and varied.
When entertaining, more sources of music, jokes, artistic tools and media. Even with 5000 TV channels and as many grocery store products, we crave variety, which better comes of diversity than a sea of cultural sameness.
One can allege there is a kind of dogged efficiency in eliminating diversity, but there is no reason to suppose it will do anything other than destroy all that has made the US an interesting place to visit, study, and buy from.
The monocultural sludge we are becoming is the farthest thing from smart, safe, healthy, entertaining, or free. Even a highly efficient from of that toxic sludge will still be sludge and will not thrive economically or socially. The stock market is just an early warning sign but there will soon be other even more visible indicators. Our society is melting down before our eyes and the present experiment in selfish, bigoted authoritarianism is the cause, not the cure.
This cesspool of feigned expertise and mindless leadership being thrust upon us claims to be motivated by a desire to avoid bankruptcy, but in fact is the shortest path not only to economic but also moral, cultural and intellectual bankruptcy that anyone could have devised. If there is an efficiency to be claimed it is in the swift path ruin it has charted. Future generations of locusts will study the raw, ruthless, and ultimately pointless efficiency it has required to dismantle and plunder a thriving society in such short order.
#diversity #DEI #DOGE #efficiency #politics #bigotry #monoculture #inspiration #justice #bias #prejudice #injustice
H/T @salixsericea
@GottaLaff
Really bad news, I don't like hearing it but we all need to hear it.
The #USA is not an #oldwhiteman #monoculture even though I myself am an old white man. If mine were the only voice in the room my company and country would be destroyed.
This particular battle may be lost but not the war. #organize #evangelize #fightback #vote #resist
