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Valeria Frances Jul 8, 2023

Chris Rowan Jul 8, 2023

The ecosystems we’d be destroying by deep sea mining would not recover for probably thousands of years - if ever - and the area of the seafloor disrupted would extend orders of magnitude beyond any mining site.

We’d be making a wasteland of the seafloor for generations to come.

From: @helenczerski
https://fediscience.org/@helenczerski/110677454905281096

Helen Czerski (@[email protected])

This is a horrendous situation to be in. The deep sea is a huge & biodiverse wilderness. These nodules can take two MILLION years to form. We absolutely do not need minerals from the seabed - battery designers are designing them out - and it will be almost impossible to monitor the significant damage that mining would cause. We must say no. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/08/future-of-deep-sea-mining-hangs-in-balance-as-opposition-grows?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #ocean #Seabed

FediScience.org

Valeria Frances Mar 3, 2023

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Chris Trottier Mar 3, 2023

A thought: what if we built social media to enable true human-to-human connectivity?

Because, right now, that's not happening.

Right now, it's relevancy algorithms and bots and A.I. that's acting as a social media middleman that's inserting itself between you and your friends.

People aren't talking to people.

They are talking to algorithms in the hopes that algorithms will connect them with their friends -- though that's no guarantee.

Valeria Frances Mar 3, 2023

Truth or Fiction Mar 3, 2023

Despite appeals, #KariLake is still not governor of Arizona:

https://www.truthorfiction.com/kari-lake-arizona-investigation/

Election Denier Kari Lake Facing Investigation as Arizona GOP...

The failed gubernatorial candidate claimed, falsely, that a photo of voter signatures constituted a "bombshell discovery."

Truth or Fiction?

Valeria Frances Mar 3, 2023

Truth or Fiction Mar 3, 2023

In case you missed it, #EliLilly has agreed to cap the monthly cost of insulin to USD$35:

https://www.truthorfiction.com/insulin-cap-vote-results/

Insulin Cap Vote Results – Truth or Fiction?

Several Imgur posts on April 1 2022 deviated from the pranks of the day to focus on votes to cap insulin costs at $35 a month in the United States.

Truth or Fiction?

Valeria Frances Mar 3, 2023

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Chris Trottier Mar 3, 2023

It's not social media when talking to your friends is a gamble.

If you're saying something for friends to see, and the algorithm hides what you're saying because it assumes that what you say is "not relevant" to your friends' interests, that is *not* social media.

That is anti-social media.

Valeria Frances Mar 3, 2023

Steffani Cameron Jan 15, 2023

Sometimes you get a #sunset that just keeps giving. Tonight’s ended up being one of the most colourful sunsets I’ve ever seen.

This is the Salish Sea in Victoria, BC, (Canada) looking toward Port Angeles, Washington.

(this was January, 2023, so I have muted notifications on this post -- but I'm thrilled people love it.)

#photography #nature #colour #ocean #pacific #pnw #bc

Valeria Frances Mar 3, 2023

Catherine Schmidt Mar 3, 2023

Five different colored cats on their stomachs straddling the ridge line of a corrugated shaped roof. All looking the same way with one cat at the end of the roof on the peak sitting up.
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#Cats #CatsOfMastodon

Valeria Frances Feb 5, 2023

Danatheone Feb 5, 2023

Utah's Legislature is working toward a decision on how to save the Great Salt Lake— this one is going to take courage, water away from farmers, and if done right save the health and lives of millions of its citizens— will know by end of March

Valeria Frances Feb 2, 2023

Rep. Ritchie Torres Feb 2, 2023

House Republicans's priorities:

30% sales tax
Hunter Biden
Ilhan Omar
Gas stoves
Woke M & Ms
AP African American History
Socialism
CRT

What ever happened to fighting inflation?

Valeria Frances Feb 2, 2023

Scientist Rebellion Feb 2, 2023

This isn't a cost of living crisis. This is an excess profit crisis.

Our climate, energy and economic crisis is caused by the extreme greed of the richest 1%.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/shell-makes-record-40-billion-annual-profit-2023-02-02/

Shell 2022 profit more than doubles to record $40 bln

Shell <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/SHEL.L/"target="_blank">(SHEL.L)</a> delivered a record $40 billion profit in 2022, the energy giant said on Thursday, capping a tumultuous year in which a surge in energy prices after Russia's invasion of Ukraine allowed it to hand shareholders unprecedented returns.

Reuters