Excited to share my Techtonic interview with @cyberlyra - aka Janet Vertesi - founder of the #optout project and #techreclaimers .

Janet explains WHY and HOW to get off of Big Tech, and onto community-minded alternatives.

Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-23-janet-vertesi-founder-of-the-opt-out-project/

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

#photographie #photography #wildlife #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #Canada #VancouverIslandWildlife

Thanks to @markhurst for having me on Techtonic this week!! You can listen to me wax poetic about the #optout project and #techreclaimers here:

https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-23-janet-vertesi-founder-of-the-opt-out-project/

@TheBulletin

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#lfc #fedifc

As you will know I don't normally post on sport (nor follow it for that matter), but I must note that FIFA has decreed that all teams in FIFA women's football tournaments must have a women as head coach or assistant coach with at least two members of the coaching team women.

I'm sure the men of football will be spluttering about needing the 'best' coaches but this looks to me like an excellent bit of affirmative action!

#football #politics #women
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cge0djne300o

Raft of sea lions recently photographed on Vancouver Island during the herring spawn.

I am amazed by their flexibility. How can they sleep in that position?

#photography #wildlife #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #VancouverIslandWildlife

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a crow it came up that she has never been sat on by a cat. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never been sat on by a cat.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on by a cat.

🐈🐈‍⬛🐱

Have you ever been sat on by a cat?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

Friends in England, a message for you.

I have periodically posted this before, but it's been a while since I last did, and I was putting my pills into my pill organiser and thought of it.

If you regularly have prescriptions, you do NOT need to pay for them all. This isn't terribly well advertised, and lots of people go through life never needing a repeat prescription then suddenly finding they need lots (me, I did this, up until I was 42 my only regular medicine was an antihistamine, now I have a full pill organiser).

A pre-pay prescription certificate can be purchased for a year and costs a little less than the price of 12 prescriptions (£114.50 compared to £118.80 if you have one prescription a month for a year). You can buy for this in instalments by direct debit, you don't have to stump it up all in one go.

You can also buy a three-month certificate for £32.50 (slightly more than the cost of three prescriptions).

These prices are fixed. It costs the same whether you're getting one prescription a month or ten. If you have at least one a month then the yearly certificate WILL save you money.

Everyone in England who pays for prescriptions is eligible.

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/help-nhs-prescription-costs/nhs-prescription-prepayment-certificate-ppc

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.

🏇 🐎 🐴

Have you sat on a horse?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.