🔥 Introducing Follow Packs 🔥
So, maybe you've heard about Bluesky's popular 'Starter Packs'. BS users can create lists of accounts others can follow with one-click.
Well, we don't have this capability, but here is a way to follow entire lists of accounts. Not quite as convenient 🤷, but you can import packs of accounts, and you can add them directly into lists! 👀
**Update 12/22/2024: New AVGeek, BrazilFalantes, Humor, MostlyDogs, and Weather packs!**
read on...
South Africa is set to start joint naval drills with Russia and China, despite criticism from American, European and even some South African officials that it looks like an endorsement of Russia’s Ukraine war.
This makes me very angry.
These are anti-homeless benches designed to look pleasing. It’s called hostile architecture. They’re meant to be uncomfortable to discourage sleeping on.
The people who designed these are assholes. They’re decorators, not designers.
A designer makes things to improve the world for everyone. A decorator takes otherwise unpalatable injustices and disguises them with aesthetics in an attempt to make them inoffensive or even desirable.
Be a designer, not a decorator.
Black Students Sue Georgia School Dist For Banning BLM Attire But Allowing Confederate Flag https://buff.ly/3wctXmd
"[P]laintiffs complained to dist about the unequal treatment, but were told the flag represents 'heritage not hate,' whereas BLM is 'disruptive."
Yeah, this is blatantly unconstitutional
#FirstAmendment #Freespeech #censorship #Law #lawfedi #race #racism #equality #EqualProtection #speech #schools
You will be interested in this:
"I Hide Giants That I Make From Wood In The Wilderness Of The Belgian Forest
My name is Thomas Dambo. I build giant wooden trolls around the world and hide them in wilderness and forests. I build all my mythical creatures of repurposed wood to show the potential in this precious material, which is often discarded and becomes a threat to the natural world."
#CivicSpace 📢 New report outlines the legal, policy, & institutional frameworks & practices governments have in place in 4 key areas:
➡️Protection of civic freedoms
➡️#AccessToInformation
➡️#MediaFreedom + online civic space
➡️Enabling environment
See👉 http://oe.cd/civic-space-report
#Freedom
#free
#report
#Research
#civicfreedoms
#Humanity
#HumanRights
#direitoshumanos
#desigualdade
#equity
#Government
#biodiversity
#Environment
#meioambiente
#world
#earth
#areas
#key
#policy
The past decade has seen increasing international recognition of civic space as a cornerstone of functioning democracies, alongside efforts to promote and protect it. Countries that foster civic space are better placed to reap the many benefits of...
Here are a few photos of a beaver chewing a pretty good size branch off of a fallen tree, then dragging it across Meewasin Trail on its way back to the beaver pond. She looks pretty proud of her bounty on the last photo. Photos courtesy of Mike Digout, who you can find on Facebook and Instagram.
#Beavers #BeaverRestoration #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #Nature #Wetlands #Wildfire #Wildfire #Biodiversity #WaterQuality #Drought #sustainability
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