ArtBear on Firefish

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Brit. Been some places, done some things. Travelled. Lived. Interests: #tech #creative #environment #sustainability #innovation #resilience #healthcare #ally #progressive #ADHD #NeuroDiverse #plantbased #vegan #RejoinEU #FBPE #FBPR #GTTO #politics #art #architecture #animation #Film #3D #SciFi #Music
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ArtBear on FirefishOct 25, 2023
It's really a lot like smoking.

It's bad for us, it's bad for the people around us, and it's almost impossible to be told to give it up.

We have to hit our own event trigger that makes us quit. It's addictive and gives us a hit, Big Corp silo media like #Twitter & #Facebook, but it's also an achievement & relief to stop using & after some time you really question why you ever started.
ArtBear on FirefishOct 12, 2023
People who I do want to give money to:
People like buskers and street artists who bring culture & joy and creativity in to our urban grey spaces.

People who I don't want to give money to:
Sociopath parasite-emperors like Jeff Bezos. Tax dodgers & resource burners, who immiserate the working lives of millions (both as direct employees & all the smaller businesses they run over).

...and all that endless greed for what?
Building their pointless phallus replacement ego rockets to go masturbate in space.

Every launch creates more debris in orbit. Every launch program uses more of the finite amounts of launch resources on earth. When we put people in space it should be serious people doing useful stuff.

Not joyriding celebs & billionaire tourist wankers.
ArtBear on FirefishOct 4, 2023
UK's Junior Defense Minister James Heappey:
"Ukraine has achieved a functional defeat of the Russian Black Sea Fleet."

The Russian fleet has been using Crimea as it's base to exert control over the Black Sea since their 2014 first invasion of #Ukraine. #Russia has suffered a series of defeats, is withdrawing much of its fleet out of #Crimea, specifically #Sevastopol to the Russian port #Novorossiysk, & abandoning much Russian influence over the Black Sea. This is a big balance of power shift, Crimea is also hugely important for overall logistics, and the execution of the whole Russian invasion.

This also means international insurers have started reinsuring grain ships & shipments from Ukraine because of decreased risks from Russian terrorism in the black sea. Great for both Ukraine and the populations with food supplies that have been on ransom to #Russian aggression.

Country with no Navy, handing defeats out to Russian Navy. Think what Ukraine will do when western politicians find their balls & supply #ATACMS & #Taurus.
ArtBear on FirefishOct 2, 2023
Tory party is all knee pads on for #GBNews last few days.
Risky Sunak, BlunderTruss, Shiti Patel, Cruella Braverman, all doing the fascism flirt.
Reeks of desperation when even their traditional right wing buddies are covering them sceptically & decide to suck up to fringe like KGBNews. #GTTO
ArtBear on FirefishSep 19, 2023
Billion half completed jobs. Viewing from, hopefully, house buyer at 6pm. House sale, moving, splitting lives, divorce. All rather time consuming.

Pear tree I planted has finally produced edibles this year. Not bad for how far north we are/were. Hope new owners will enjoy their few novelty pears a year.
Show threadArtBear on FirefishAug 30, 2023
@xy Also all kinds of herbs do great year after year with no maintenance apart from some minimal spring weeding, once you have a timed drip system set up. Chives and mint do great here. Bear in mind we're up near 54 parallel, like greenland, so despite mild weather from gulf stream, it's a lot less UK sun hours/strength/grow power than many places.

The mini cherry trunks in view never really produces a great deal and birds get most of it because I don't net that. Regardless I enjoy the structure and blossoms.
#Gardening #GrowYourOwn
Show threadArtBear on FirefishAug 30, 2023
Goodnight Fediverse. This is a gorgeous track to wind down for the night.

Wishing good rest to all the Firefish & Mastodons, the Pixelfed, the Lemmys and everyone else ​​😴​​💤

Dustin Tebbutt - The Breach (10yr version)

https://youtu.be/G_CQOcDOcAE?si=1IeLnEs7CkgA5vzh
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wrhWgmVl8EvWEKwAXLzpr?si=1eca9c2d89df40d8

#DustinTebbutt #acoustic #Guitar #Folk #music #beartracks #10s #Sweden
The Breach (Vast Decade ReWork) - 10yr Anniversary Release

YouTube
Show threadArtBear on FirefishAug 28, 2023
@xy
The secret to a good producing #strawberry patch is these guys, the runners. Keep looping them back to a spot in between plants and make sure the "heel" angled bit has good soil contact (even push it in a cm). It'll root and form a new plant until you fully pack out a planter.

If you want to make a new planter, cut the runner umbilical to a well rooted one or more and dig them out with a bit of earth & roots and transplant to new bed where they'll spread all over again.

That's how I did the new beds up above in the thread.
#gardening #growYourOwn
Show threadArtBear on FirefishAug 28, 2023
So I'm still adding worms, occasionally weeding and enjoying eating strawberries as I go past, yet I know I won't for much longer now.

It may be my wasted effort. The new owner whoever that will be, could well just rip everything out, star afresh.

Divorce, changes & new hope, new possibility have put me in mind of that zen story about being trapped on a cliff, with tigers above and below, yet taking the time to enjoy a strawberry.

I'm in a period of massive change, I hoping to go forward and get things much better suited to me and what I need. My efforts here, long term may go to waste, this won't be my finally settled house as I once thought.

Maybe somebody else will appreciate strawberries that taste vastly better than the store bought. Who knows?

Regardless I should enjoy those strawberries and the little bits of pleasure they gave me despite everything else going on.
Show threadArtBear on FirefishAug 28, 2023
No soil changing or any work like that. If I'm moving wood or digging and find worms, I chuck a few in the planter. That's it. Oh and replace the AA batteries on the timer, plus turn main tap water off for deep winter and back on for spring.

Simples.