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Degrowth cabaret comes to London (and other news)
Degrowth Cabaret! LONDON FRI 23 JANUARY 10.30am – 4.30pm Siobhan Davies Studios If you are an economist interested in performance, a performer interested in economics or simply curious in how these seemingly distinct languages can be bridged, then this session is for you! But don’t worry, you won’t need prior knowledge of economics or the arts! Joaquín Pereira (economist and dancer) invites you to a day-long lab where…

Degrowth cabaret comes to London (and other news)
Degrowth Cabaret! LONDON FRI 23 JANUARY 10.30am – 4.30pm Siobhan Davies Studios If you are an economist interested in performance, a performer interested in economics or simply curious in how these…

Fur Auction Decried As Colorado Mulls Halt to Native Pelt Sales https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/fur-auction-decried-as-colorado-mulls-halt-to-native-pelt-sales-2026-02-02/

Fur Auction Decried As Colorado Mulls Halt to Native Pelt Sales
DENVER— The Center for Biological Diversity today urged Colorado officials to move quickly to halt the sale of furs from native animals. The call comes ahead of a planned annual fur auction on Feb. 4 and 5 in Hugo, Colorado.

Discord now lets users buy, wishlist, and gift in-game cosmetic items directly within its platform, starting with a store within Marvel Rivals' Discord server (Ash Parrish/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/835385/discord-shop-marvel-rivals-gifting-…

Discord now lets you buy and gift video game skins
Discord has launched a new store feature in partnership with Marvel Rivals that will let users buy in-game items through Discord.

This weekend the daughters are visiting for an annual tradition - interior Christmas decorating including the tree. I'm responsible for exterior decorations, and that was done 2 weeks ago. My only job inside is to put up our 35 year old artificial tree (bought at a post Christmas sale at White Rose) and then get out of the way. That tree will outlive me I think.
My wife is very excited because we are in a new house which means she MUST shop for new stuff. Actually she needs very little since we downsized this year and she has recently given away 2 boxes of assorted holiday decorations by posting them as FREE on a local online marketplace. Apparently a young couple, new homeowners and short on cash, were the lucky recipients. Tis the season...
#Christmas #SantaClaus

#art #pixelart #abstractart

Hungary’s Famous Thermal Baths Are Saving the Country’s Famous Grasslands from Desertification https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hungarys-famous-thermal-baths-are-saving-the-countrys-famous-grasslands-from-desertification/…

Hungary's Famous Thermal Baths Are Saving the Country's Famous Grasslands from Desertification
The Water Guardians blocked several channel switches along a canal, and brought thousands of gallons of spa water streaming down onto the land

Via John Baker on the #FF2025 channel on the AI4LAM Slack: 'Cataloging books with LLMs: using out of copyright books as training data' https://medium.com/digirati-ch/catalog

10 Maple Syrup Recipes #plantbased

10 Maple Syrup Recipes
These maple syrup recipes show just how versatile the natural sweetener is in many plant-based dishes from dessert to dinner

Ran across this today.
Does Superfast Matt work at Discord?
(Context in image; I realize this might be one leap of logic too far for the joke, but *I* found it funny.)
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxUSjXwB44F-IJOEe5uXv7LRZLBF-9miUL?si=BeDGAaW9vPLzxG…

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This is the networking site for the UK degrowth community, which launched in September 2018. What is Degrowth? What is Degrowth UK? What is Degrowth? Degrowth is a radical alternative to the domina…