England faces 5 billion litre a day shortfall for public water supplies by 2055 - and a further 1 billion litre a day deficit for wider economy.

Pressures caused by climate change, growing population, emerging technologies and need to protect environment.

£8 billion water company investment already committed over next five years

https://www.miragenews.com/england-risks-5b-litre-water-shortfall-by-2055-1479002/

#UK #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #MassExtinction #pollution #environment #climate

The fight to save Canada Post is a fight against capitalism.

https://www.marxist.ca/article/the-fight-to-save-canada-post-is-a-fight-against-capitalism

#canada #cdnpoli

Well, #Alberta's #Banning #Library #Books.

Sorry, "they're creating province wide standards to ensure age appropriate of library material after dozens of books containing explicit sexual content were found in #Calgary and #Edmonton #Schools.

What are the "sexually explicit books" in question? Four #GraphicNovels about young people "discovering their sexual identity."

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/extremely-graphic-sexual-content-found-in-books-at-k-9-schools-province-says

#ABPol
#CanPol
#Fascism
#BookBanning
#DanielleSmith
#AlisonBechdel
#MikeCurato
#MaiaKobabe

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Collapse is coming. It's probably already begun

"Technology can delay a peak, but the crash comes harder when it comes."
Dennis Meadows

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-collapse/

Big Tech is setting up global civilization for a collapse probably 100 times worse than any seen in history. And they know exactly what they're doing. And they don't care. Because greed has overwhelmed the tech bros.

Dutch news agency NOS reports:

German extreme-right group #reichsbürger outlawed. German police have raided locations of members of the group and arrested its leader, Peter Fitzek, who claimed the title King of the Kingdom in 2012.

Reportedly, the group counts roughly 6,000 members and is known for #antisemitism and #extremepatriotism . They claim to be free people and refuse to acknowledge German government, law, and refuse to pay taxes.

The group has been observed closely since 2016.

"They're becoming increasingly common, especially in cities: cargo bikes used as environmentally friendly means of transporting goods or children. But how safe are these eco-bikes? A test by the North Rhine-Westphalia State Traffic Safety Association has now revealed something alarming: 9 out of 10 cargo bike riders would not survive their bikes being hit by a cruise missile."

https://www.der-postillon.com/2023/05/risiko-lastenrad.html