“The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.”
- Bertrand Russell "In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays" (1935)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Idleness_and_Other_Essays

Edit 08/2023: Britons have become so mean that many of us think poor people don’t deserve leisure time
By Frances Ryan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/08/britain-poor-people-leisure-victorian-workhouse

#QOTD

If this year taught us anything, it's that:

1) Workers keep America going, not billionaires.
2) Corporate profits don't trickle down to workers.
3) Poverty is a policy choice.
4) Health care is a human right.
5) Strikes work.

I hope we act on these lessons in the new year.

RT @[email protected]

MASSIVE STATISTIC: Official #snowfall rates of 7.5" per hour at the lab between 4-5pm today. Snow is light and fluffy.

Onsite researcher recorded the daily 4pm measurement and went back to check accumulation an hour later.

#CAwx #CAwater #CAsnow #Snow #Weather #AtmosphericRiver

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/UCB_CSSL/status/1609359195035561985

Things I have learnt using #Mastodon:

1. Your Home feed only shows what you follow (people, hashtags), in chronological order. There's no algorithm to inject things you may like. This is good in the long term, but it also means that can be pretty empty and boring as you start.

2. To get started, follow some hashtags that interest you, to fill in your feed and find people you'd like to follow.

3. You can "star" (favourite) posts, but this does not imply you'll see more posts of that kind.

Captured yesterday morning at the pier in Port Dover, Ontario 🇨🇦

Everything covered by 6-8" of ice...

"Why Winter Storm Elliott Is More New Normal Than Once In A Generation" https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2022/12/24/why-winter-storm-elliott-is-more-new-normal-than-once-in-a-generation/

See a #BeforeAndAfter on 2/2

#ClimateCrisis

📷 Tim Warris

1/2

Kirkjufellfoss, #Iceland 🌈

I left Reykjavik early morning and headed 3 hours north to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula to shoot Kirkjufell.
We arrived at the famous peak. It was a downpour. My heart sank. Exhausted and still to early to go eat dinner, I took a nap in the car for “a few minutes.” A few minutes turned into an hour.
As I slept, the sun had come out behind me and woke me up. I turned and looked at Kirkjufell. My jaw dropped. #Rainbow over Kirkjufell!
#landscape #photography #waterfall

Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day.

Tell a man all the fish in the world are available to him if only he strives for fishing excellence even as you defund public fishing schools as dangerous socialism but emphasize that if he REALLY wants fish he can either go deeply into debt taking predatory loans to learn the proper means of fish management or take a shit job working for people who also can't fish but were born into a family that owns an empire of factory fish farms where he can harvest gross mutant garbage fish that he and other people whose public fishing schools shuttered can then buy at a 2000% markup because the people who control all the fish say "that is just the market dictating the price of fish" and he will eat what and when you tell him to, is the working theory.