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As a forum user from back in the 90s til recently, something that also bugs me, and apparently a lot of people, I felt this piece
'One last time, Discord is not a suitable replacement for forums': https://aftermath.site/discord-forums-

One Last Time, Discord Is Not A Suitable Replacement For Forums - Aftermath
They are not the same thing

EFSA scientific report discredits EU fur farming systems #AnimalRights

EFSA scientific report discredits EU fur farming systems
A new scientific opinion published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) confirms what Respect for Animals and other campaigners have been saying for decades, namely that the systems of fur …

"Where Next for Academic Social Media? How Scholars Are Rethinking the Platforms They Use – and Why" @ DeGruyter Conversations
https://blog.degruyter.com/where-next-for-academic-social-media-how-s…

New #video #discord

If you take a walk along the coast, near Caleta Camarones in northern Chile, near an old archeological site called Camarones 15, it is hard not to spot evidence of the mummies.
Cloth, rope, hair, tiny fragments of bones, and pieces of wood, an item that is nowhere to be seen growing anywhere nearby, but which the Chinchorro people used to keep their mummies intact like little dolls.
The Chinchorro mummies are considered the oldest mummies in the world.
Thousands of years olde…

The Chinchorro Mummies: Resisting in the Desert
Seven thousand years ago, the Chinchorro people, along the Pacific coast of South America, began to mummify their dead. Their bodies remain hidden in the desert. This is episode 41 of Stories of Resistance.

Kids and gun violence
This week's Executive Disorder started with a conversation about the school shooting in Twin Cities...
#USPol

The dbcooper package turns a database connection into a collection of functions. #rstats

GitHub - pipeline-tools/dbcooper: Create user-friendly accessor functions from a database connection
Create user-friendly accessor functions from a database connection - pipeline-tools/dbcooper

"According to the Committee on Climate Change, the UK’s share of global emissions is approximately 1 per cent. However, the carbon budgets they have recommended, up to 2043, are equivalent to 1.79% of what they acknowledge to be the available global budget for only a 50% chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees. Britain is setting too large a carbon budget for itself, taking nearly twice its fair share"
From my latest piece.

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables…

We're you at #OsloDegrowth25?
If so, how about a short blog post for https://DegrowthUK.org telling us all aboht it: highlights, controversies, learning and action points?

degrowthUK
Networking site for the UK degrowth community

The Trump administration has accomplished something that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and other dictators desired.
-- It destroyed the Voice of America.
Until mid-March, VOA had been on the air continuously for 83 years.
Starting in 1942 with shortwave broadcasts in German to counter Nazi propaganda,
America’s external voice had expanded to nearly 50 languages,
with a weekly combined audience of more than 350 million people worldwide, watching on TV, listening on radi…

I Fought To Keep VOA Independent. Now It’s Gone.
The Trump administration has accomplished something that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and other dictators desired. It destroyed the Voice of America. Until mid-March, VOA had been on the air continuously for 83 years. Starting in 1942 with shortwave broadcasts in German to counter Nazi propaganda, America’s...