Wrote in @globalvoices about the Ethiopian doctors' labour movement. Their month long labour strike paralyzed Ethiopia's health sector. Ethiopian doctors are among the lowest paid doctors in Africa, with salaries on average ~70$ monthly. Strikers demanded better pay & fair working conditions among other things.

In response, authorities arrested 149 striking doctors.

Undeterred, the MDs are planning a new strike if reform isn't inplemented by Sept 15.
https://globalvoices.org/2025/07/15/whats-behind-the-mass-arrests-of-ethiopian-doctors/

Amazon rainforest deforestation falls to a 9 year low. But still much to do...

via https://www.instagram.com/chartrdaily/p/DCXUmyHvtii/

20 hours to go.

For what emergency? Every second for each of these six families is an emergency. I don't have a special emergency to offer you tonight. I have dozens, including:

- Life-threatening injury
- Burned-down tent
- Famine. famine. famine. Children not eating! Moms not eating!

And you can help, I swear. 945/1900. https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

📚🇵🇸Another new book out Oct 7, 2025!
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide
by Fatima Bhutto

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMNw7J6uBZP/

#FreePalestine #humanrights #apartheid #palestine #gaza #westbank #endtheoccupation #sanctionisrael #genocide #fromtherivertothesea #books #palestinebooks
@israel @bookstodon

"We’re not going to save the world with one backyard. But every #garden that supports wildlife, and every person who chooses #habitat over (or in addition to) aesthetics, adds to a growing shift."

#rewilding #pollinators #wildlife #gardening

https://www.rewildingmag.com/our-yard-is-now-teeming-with-life/

I find it oddly comforting that tech corporations are now straight up advertising their vision of dystopian individualism where all your friends have been replaced by their chatbot.

#AI #dystopia

Due to tariffs, Americans are likely to hear a lot about farm mental health as harvest approaches this year. Especially farmer suicide.

So let's get it on the record now. The "farmer suicide epidemic" of the last few years in the US is not real.

It's a lobbying tactic.

Veggie sautee with 100% garden veggies: long beans, sweet pepper, and Okinawa spinach (which grows incredibly well in our area and is a rich source of cooked green leaf veg).

This is the first time we've had my beloved long beans in years (the first year we lived here, we harvested them by the bucket and it was incredible). I'm saving the beans (and cooking the pods, which are soft and tasty) because this is exactly my favorite kind of bean and I don't want to repeat my previous mistake of letting them drop off. They are too delicious and nutritious!

Now I just need a local source of cooking oil (there has to be a local coconut oil company, right? 🤔 There's local macadamia nut oil, but it's very $$$)

...and an alternative to propane 😭 (I do have my solar cooker, but it doesn't fry - it steams, boils, bakes).

This was part of a lunch that included a fried egg (egg from @saltphoenix 's birds), fresh tomato from the garden, and short grain brown rice from the store. Instead of rice, I often have kalo (taro) from my bf, but today I didn't have any.

When the boats stop coming, I think there will be a lot less frying (more cooking over a fire) and when frying does happen, it'll be on butter (or tallow, for the meat eaters). It's definitely easier to get butter from cows than oil from coconuts or macadamias.

And as for propane replacement, I really don't know, but probably the ideal solution would be to get beefy solar panels and batteries, and an induction cooker.

I also don't have a local replacement for soy sauce, but we do have salt on the shoreline. It gathers in little low areas in shoreline rocks during dry periods. To get enough for daily supply though, you'd have to know the spots and spend a fair bit of time harvesting. The shoreline in my area really puts the "trace" in "trace minerals". I'd have to find the right spots.

#hawaii #growyourown #gardening #food #vegetarian #solarpunk

"Rising Cost Of Living Forcing More Buddhists To Continue Working Years Into Reincarnation"

https://theonion.com/rising-cost-of-living-forcing-more-buddhists-to-continue-working-years-into-reincarnation/

#TheOnion