For thousands of years, fermenting beer was considered a household task for #women.

By the Middle Ages, some sold beer at English markets. Female brewers wore tall, pointy hats to be easily spotted. They stood by cauldrons & often had cats to keep mice away.

Sound familiar? It should.

You see, when male brewers felt threatened, they accused the women of witchcraft. These rumors may have led to some witch iconography we still recognize today.

https://theconversation.com/women-used-to-dominate-the-beer-industry-until-the-witch-accusations-started-pouring-in-155940 #history #HistoryRemix

Last night, in a fit of thinking "Twitter is becoming a dangerous place," I decided to prepare a free "Community Edition" of Tweet Yeet.

Sideload the #free #Android app to delete your tweets but hold onto your #Twitter handle to avoid potential abuse. Don't let billionaires hold your data, and don't let scammers steal your handle.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m85CkozX-zrAAuFdrfKHI6egCJKDUbx1/view?usp=share_link

It's worth noting that Insider's Linette Lopez and Fox Business correspondent Susan Li remain suspended on Twitter and it's both unclear precisely why or when their accounts might be restored.

It's also notable that Fox — which for years has billed itself as the anti-censorship network — is totally silent as its reporter is banished from Twitter, apparently for committing an act of reporting. Spokespeople for the network haven't replied to requests for comment.

Those getting excited about the #Twitter poll #Musk has set up about whether he’ll continue as Twitter’s CEO may wish to consider two things.

1. Musk will still own Twitter. Anyone who replaces him in the CEO role will report to him and do his bidding.
2. Most important, sure, Musk is currently the problem we’re focussing on, but he’s a symptom as well. He’s a symptom of a fundamentally broken, dangerous model where one very wealthy individual can hijack public discourse. If the principles of a free, open Internet hadn’t been compromised, all the money in the world wouldn’t have allowed him to do what he’s doing now.
I get that it’s painful to rebuild our communities, to learn new ways of doing things and to make improvements to the underlying technology which will never be perfect, but this is our chance to learn the lessons of history and do it right this time. We must do all these things so this can never, ever happen again.
The decentralised, federated model, driven by the people, can never be bought. Under this model, we are all the co-owners, on Twitter, we were the product. Let Twitter go. The work we’re doing here at the moment is important, exciting and the way to a better future.

The Tadpole Nebula in Gas and Dust

Image Credit & Copyright: Craig Stocks (Utah Desert Remote Observatories)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221219.html #APOD

I'll be posting a series of posts showing the lifecycle of different berries.

Today, I'm starting with the blackberry. I hope you enjoy it!

#nature #life #photography #amazing #blackberry #fruits #berries #photo #photos #beautiful