I haven't done a #FollowFriday in a while. Here are some accounts that I frequent! If you find them useful and/or interesting, you should follow them as well!

@DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss
Automated toots from #DemocracyNow's Headlines RSS feed.

@UnicornRiot
#IndependentMedia amplifying stories from the frontlines of social and #environmental struggles.

@AIF_Massachusetts #AmericanIronFront in Massachusetts: standing against Nazis, the alt-right, and fascists of all stripes in Massachusetts and the greater New England area.

@freedomofpress
Defending and supporting public-interest #journalism in the 21st century.

@internetarchive
#InternetArchive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the #WaybackMachine.

@RadicalAnthro
London's longest running evening class, studying What it means to be human at UCL #Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by #CamillaPower. Radical anthropologists include #ChrisKnight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan.

@bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Automated parrot. #CensoredNews is a service to grassroots #Indigenous Peoples engaged in #resistance and upholding #HumanRights.

@gerrymcgovern Author of #WorldWideWaste. Focused on reducing data waste and #eWaste.

@RadicalGraffiti Just sharing pics of #AntiCapitalist, #AntiAuthoritarian and #AntiColonial #graffiti, #stickers and #StreetArt seen around the world.

@thebeeguy
Founder of #WorldBeeSanctuary - the expanded ambition of The #Bee Sanctuary of Ireland - 55 acres of certified stock free organic land dedicated to our #NativeWildBees. The one and only true native wild bee sanctuary on the planet. No hives! No honey! Just wild! A not for profit social enterprise.
 Disruptive but irresistible.

@mutualmorris
We are a#MutualAid group in Morris County, New Jersey, USA wanting to connect with likeminded folks, to learn, share, and build #solidarity communities as far as we can. We are led by mostly #queer, #poor / #unhoused, #immigrant, #socialist, #communist, and #anarchist types from multiple generations and we seek to build a real, active path out of "business as usual".

@CrimethInc
#CrimethInc. is a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and our world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. We believe that you should be free to dispose of your limitless potential on your own terms: that no government, market, or ideology should be able to dictate what your life can be. If you agree, let’s do something about it.

@igd_news
In search of new forms of life. A digital community center and media platform featuring news, opinion, podcasts, and reporting on autonomous social movements and revolt across so-called North America from an #anarchist perspective. 🏴

@Todd
#ToddChretien is a farmer, translator, editor, and author. He is co-chair of #MaineDSA and works in the #PineAndRoses editorial collective.

@g7izu
#SpaceWeather, #aurora and #RadioPropagation from a UK perspective. Any alerts or warnings are informational only and are not official. I post about various other subjects as well, but always hope to be informative and interesting. Not a professional space weather forecaster, it's my hobby!

@sundogplanets
Professor of #astronomy, farmer of #goats. Asteroid (42910). She/her.

@MusiqueNow
#Music #Musique #Musica #Musik #pouetradio #WeAreTheRadio and #news#SolidarityWithPalestineRadio 🇵🇸 
#QueerRadio 
PROUD GAY #ATHEISTJEW✡️ he/him
#TransAndNonBinaryrRightsAreHumanRights#QueersBashBACK#NEVERAGAINforANYONE
Cis, #gendernonconforming, gay #goth, black #guyliner, #vegan guy 🥦
#JewsAgainstIsraeliApartheid#GothsForPalestine🇵🇸🇵🇸 
#QueersForPalestine :pride: 🇵🇸 
 Welcome to all #GNC, #LGBTQIAplus & allies
TERFS, bigots, zionists, etc. FUCK OFF!!
#NiDieuNiMaître#SewBro#FCKNZS#JewsAgainstZionazism #ZionazismIsNOTJewishness#SiamoTuttiAntifascisti
(Be warned: I'm rather sweary)

#FollowFridays #followerpower #FridayFollows

@gerrymcgovern I deleted **79,125** 'promotional' emails from my Gmail account yesterday.

Didn't think I really needed them.
Didn't think they were useful.

Why do I get so many of these completely useless messages?
Why is so much time and energy expended on these hopeless things that most people completely ignore?
And why should we keep storing them, year after year?

What a terrible waste.

#capitalism #worldwidewaste #media #press #tech #technology #email #spam #climateemergency #energy #clutter #waste

@netzpolitik_feed schade, zu einseitig dieser Artikel. Mir würde eine Datenmaut gefallen, die zum Sparen aufruft. Es ist echt mühselig sich durch die Einstellungen der verschiedenen Portale zu gehen, um Autoplay zu deaktivieren und von "High quality" auf "data saver" zu stellen.

@gerrymcgovern mit seinem Buch #worldWideWaste kritisiert schon lange Digital pollution: ‘We have a pandemic of data and 90% of it is crap’. In seinen Vorschlägen für ein greener web fordert er unter anderem auch eine Steuer auf Daten.

#greenIT #GerryMcGovern #netzpolitik #sustainability #web

90% of digital is waste. Disguised as data and devices we produce #eWaste at high speed as if there were no tomorrow.

That's what @gerrymcgovern says in his book #WorldWideWaste.

Overconsumption and waste – is this our #DigitalCulture?

Reading tip for #Developer and digital policy makers in @campact 's blog (German language):
https://blog.campact.de/2023/11/world-wide-waste-digitalisierung/

#GreenSoftware #GreenTech

"World Wide Waste"

Das Streaming des Musikvideos zu "Despacito" verbraucht so viel Strom wie Tschad, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Sierra Leone und die Zentralafrikanische Republik in einem Jahr. Warum uns Digitalisierung in einen ungesunden Zuckerrausch versetzt, darüber schreibt Friedemann Ebelt im Campact-Blog:

Campact Blog

90 % unserer #Digitalisierung ist Abfall. In Form von Daten und Geräten produzieren wir im Eiltempo #Elektroschrott als gäbe kein Morgen.

Das sagt @gerrymcgovern im Buch #WorldWideWaste.

#Überkonsum & Verschwendung – ist das unsere Digitalkultur?

Ein Lesetipp, speziell für #EntwicklerInnen & Digitalpolitiker :innen im Blog von @campact:
https://blog.campact.de/2023/11/world-wide-waste-digitalisierung/

#Entwickler #GreenFediverse #Klimakrise #Klimaschutz #GreenSoftware #GreenTech

"World Wide Waste"

Das Streaming des Musikvideos zu "Despacito" verbraucht so viel Strom wie Tschad, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Sierra Leone und die Zentralafrikanische Republik in einem Jahr. Warum uns Digitalisierung in einen ungesunden Zuckerrausch versetzt, darüber schreibt Friedemann Ebelt im Campact-Blog:

Campact Blog

One Nigerian Entrepreneur's Solution For Millions of Old Tires

We make nearly 2 billion tires every year, while old ones continue to pile up. They can act as breeding grounds for mosquitoes and cause hard-to-put-out fires.

Some countries recycle a majority of them, and one Nigerian entrepreneur is aiming to get hers to do the same.

#WorldWideWaste #tires

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFQ9zQekRio

One Nigerian Entrepreneur's Solution For Millions of Old Tires | World Wide Waste | Insider Business

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How Disney's Magical Trash Tubes Ended Up In New York City

At Disney World, the Magic Kingdom uses a system of pneumatic tubes to keep trash out of sight for park visitors. While this was supposed to be the future of waste disposal, only one other place in the US uses something like it on a similar scale: Roosevelt Island in New York City.

#WorldWideWaste #trash #waste #interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_9ngalquVU

How Disney's Magical Trash Tubes Ended Up In New York City | World Wide Waste | Insider Business

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Cosmetics Packaging Is A Recycling Disaster. Can Turning It Into Furniture Help? | World Wide Waste

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Cloud providers want us to think that using large Public Clouds is a more efficient utilization of compute than running servers on premises. The reasoning is that servers running on premises stay idle for a lot of time.
e.g. Sustainability issue of AWS Architecture Monthly
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture-monthly/AWS-Architecture-Monthly-August-2021.pdf

I was curious to find out how much idle time there is in the public clouds. It seems like it could be in the range of 40 to 50%.
https://devops.com/the-cloud-is-booming-but-so-is-cloud-waste/

#PublicCloud #WorldWideWaste

Dafaq!

Meet The Man Who Shoots At Birds All Day To Keep Them

If migrating species land on the Berkeley Pit for more than a few hours, they get cooked from the inside out. Now, miners use a rifle, drones, and lasers to scare the birds away.

#Birds #WorldWideWaste #BusinessInsider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtlPTE-UmY4

Meet The Man Who Shoots At Birds All Day To Keep Them Off A Toxic Pit | World Wide Waste

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