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markhburton

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Scholar-activist. Politically homeless degrowth eco-socialist. Various topics, chiefly orientated to the pancrisis we are all in. Anti-imperialist.
I also grow unusual edibles, do a bit of crafting in wood, and paint very occasionally.
Chorlton, Manchester, England.

I rarely engage with accounts where the user hides their name.

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petergleick , to Random stuff
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You Are Here.

Current atmospheric CO2 levels are higher than ever in human history, and far earlier...

This is human-caused .

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@petergleick
In short, we are buggered, most probably, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to do all we can, collectively, to reduce the harm.

thunderbird , (edited ) to Thunderbird
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The Thunderbird Beta channel just updated to version 126.0b1, and it brings major visual improvements to Cards View! 😍
(Shown here with all visible messages selected.)

A big round of applause to Micah and Sol from our UX team for their awesome work on this, and to our community for your valuable feedback here and on our UX mailing list (https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/ux).

markhburton ,
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@thunderbird
Just sort out the zoom shortcuts and put the system menu back where it belongs.

markhburton , to Random stuff
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But it needs to be an external investigation, not an internal whitewash.

International pressure grows over Israeli strike on World Central Kitchen staff - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68716499?utm_source=press.coop

markhburton , to Random stuff
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'“The overwhelming nature and scale of Israel’s assault on and the destructive conditions of life it has inflicted reveal an intent to physically destroy Palestinians as a group,” Albanese’s report said.'

UN rights expert report to call for Israel arms embargo over ‘acts of genocide’ |

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/israel-gaza-un-rights-expert-arms-embargo-genocide

dangillmor , to Random stuff
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While my main computer runs Linux, I have a Windows laptop for certain uses. It infuriates me that Microsoft relentlessly insists on making changes I DO NOT WANT TO MAKE -- not security updates, but mostly stuff that hands over vast amounts of data to Microsoft. The latest "request" -- using a full screen -- has two response options: "Continue" or "Remind me in 4 days". The option I want is "Never" --

markhburton ,
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@dangillmor
My partner sticks to windows. When I help her out with the problems I find myself disorientated: bizarre, complicated menus, nothing is where you expect it to be. Control panel functions buried, unnecessary level of web integration.
And the intrusive updates.

thunderbird , to Random stuff
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You've heard of WE RATE DOGS, but are you ready for WE RATE LAPTOP LIDS? 💻😄

Maybe your laptop is decorated with stickers from your favorite projects or Linux distros. Maybe it's adorned with your favorite bands, characters, comics, or coffee shops.

Or maybe it's just a sticker of your awesome silly face, like this one from Thunderbird's own @brendan (Shows restraint, perfect centering, makes us laugh: 11/10).

Take a photo of YOURS and email it to us: 💌 community@thunderbird.net

markhburton ,
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@thunderbird Stick to the knitting.

markhburton , to Random stuff
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Oh shit...
Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds | Oceans | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/09/atlantic-ocean-circulation-nearing-devastating-tipping-point-study-finds

oatmeal , to israel group
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/ Israel-Hamas war: Germany warns against Rafah offensive

Deutsche Welle (DW) reports that German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has told Israel that a military offensive in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip would be wrong.

"The majority of the victims are women and children. Let's just imagine they are our children," Baerbock told the RND. "Together with our American partners, I have been making it clear to the Israeli government for some time that the people in Gaza cannot disappear into thin air."

https://www.dw.com/en/israel-hamas-war-germany-warns-against-rafah-offensive/live-68161802

View https://p.dw.com/p/4c00E

@israel @palestine

markhburton ,
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@oatmeal @israel @palestine
Oh she's woken up.

markhburton , to Random stuff
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Palestinian village fears Israel wartime demolitions | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/1/16/palestinian-village-fears-israel-wartime-demolitions?traffic_source=rss

aardrian , to Random stuff
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I recommend not publishing on Medium, for starters.

Full disclosure, I opened the article to see if its 2024 recommendations were the same as the 2004 or 2014 recommendations (headings, alt text, contrast, etc.) but now I cannot be sure what new insights it contains.

Only one sentence is visible (“I recommend the MDN Docs tutorial for HTML for starters”) before it fades into the Medium overlay requiring you to create an account to read the rest.

markhburton ,
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@NatureMC @aardrian @writers
I agree. There isn't a real alternative to wordpress. Both wordpress.com and self hosted are options I use for various activities.

EU_Commission , to Random stuff
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🤝 Connecting people, connecting regions.

🚆 New train service 🇮🇹 Rome – 🇩🇪 Munich and 🇮🇹 Milan – 🇩🇪 Munich, with a possible extension to Berlin;
🚆 New night train service 🇫🇷 Paris – 🇮🇹 Milan – 🇮🇹 Venice;
🚆 New train service 🇩🇪 Munich – 🇨🇭 Zurich.

We’re supporting these and 7 more pilot cross-border train connections across Europe!

🚉 More sustainable travel options for you soon.

More: https://europa.eu/!v6b776

markhburton ,
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@EU_Commission
New night train service 🇫🇷 Paris – 🇮🇹 Milan – 🇮🇹 Venice;
Hmmm, it's not so long ago that there was one. I was thinking of going on it pre-pandemic.

markhburton , to Random stuff
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We no longer have "risk" making the comparison.
The Israeli far right is doing it.

Israeli Local Council Head Calls to 'Flatten Like Auschwitz Today' in Radio Interview - Israel News - Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-18/ty-article/israeli-local-council-head-calls-to-flatten-gaza-like-auschwitz-today-in-radio-interview/0000018c-7bf9-de44-a9be-7ffd05e90000

EU_Commission , to Random stuff
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Travelling can lead to distressing moments. What if your travel documents get lost?

Don’t worry, losing your passport doesn't have to snowball into a disaster, the EU stands by its citizens.

If you need help from your embassy or consulate outside the EU, but your own country does not have one, you can get help from another EU country.

The right to remains a cornerstone of European citizenship, guaranteeing our support during unexpected situations: https://europa.eu/!TjxR8n

markhburton ,
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@EU_Commission
You've lost it, Britain.

davidho , to Random stuff
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Admin freaks out every time I submit a share receipt for $5, but they have no issues with $50 for taxis and $100 for rental cars because they see biking as recreation. We need to normalize as .

markhburton ,
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@davidho When I worked for the UK National Health Service (til 12 years ago) I claimed and was paid a mileage allowance for cycle trips between meetings etc.
I didn't need it but claimed it to help keep it live as an option. Not for bike hire but wear and tear on own bike.
I was the only fairly senior manager to do this in our organisation.
Another plus was I could wear presentable casual clothes rather than business dress of ties and jackets.

markhburton , to Random stuff
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A very moving news item on @BBCNews North West.

Israel war: 'Broken' takeaway boss loses five relatives in bombing - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-67683701

markhburton , to Random stuff
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Have you heard of the Lydda death march?
Expulsion in blistering heat of some 50,000 to 70,000 Palestinians from there homes during the 1948 Nakba.
Among those who died, the sister of George Habbash.
.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_expulsion_from_Lydda_and_Ramle

neil , to Random stuff
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The best time to install Firefox was 15+ years ago.

The second best time is now.

markhburton ,
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@josephdickson @neil
The pc version is great. For Android also good but restricted add-ons so try Iceraven fork (via GitHub).

markhburton , to Random stuff
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In case you were in any doubt: here's the evidence of Israel's targeting of health facilities.

Hospital damage in during Israeli offensive – a visual investigation | Israel-Hamas war | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/hospital-damage-in-gaza-during-israeli-offensive-a-visual-investigation

markhburton , to Random stuff
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The , the continues in

Israeli military bombs buildings in Gaza minutes after truce ends | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/12/1/israeli-military-bombs-buildings-in-gaza-minutes-after-truce-ends?traffic_source=rss

markhburton , to Random stuff
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Israel is threatening to attack hospitals in northern . Sheltering inside are countless patients, staff and displaced people, terrified for their lives. The UK must intervene to save hospitals and innocent lives
Via

markhburton , to Random stuff
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Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
"So what are we supposed to do, I ask you? What are Palestinians supposed to do? That’s a rhetorical question because the last three weeks have made the answer to this crystal clear: we are supposed to shut up and die."


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/07/palestinians-human-rights-israel-gaza

markhburton , to Random stuff
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Join the first in a series of online campfire events, for an evening of information sharing and discussion with Palestinian permaculturalist Murad Al Khuffash and Alice Gray, a veteran UK permaculture teacher and development consultant who lived and worked in for 10 years.
Murad and Alice will share information about the humanitarian context in Gaza, the ongoing Palestinian struggle for land and food sovereignty....
Register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErf-CvrTovHdzAJo2CutIGzfDj5qCc9CBa#/registration

markhburton , to Random stuff
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Gaza's Palestinians are neither puppets nor accomplices of Hamas.
17 years ago, in the last election in , Hamas got 47% of the vote. Much of that was a vote against disappointment and the corruption of Fatah 41%). Nobody now under 35 years old voted.
In a recent opinion survey, only 29% had confidence in Hamas.

Los palestinos de Gaza no son marionetas ni cómplices de Hamás
https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/palestinos-gaza-no-son-marionetas-complices-hamas_1_10654727.html

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Lack of clean drinking water for 95% of people in threatens health crisis | Global development | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/04/lack-of-clean-drinking-water-for-95-of-people-in-gaza-threatens-health-crisis

markhburton , to Random stuff
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Not only the Secretary General calling out Israel's genocidal bombing. UNICEF too.

Child casualties in a ‘stain on our conscience’: UNICEF | Israel- conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/25/over-2000-children-killed-in-gaza-a-stain-on-our-collective-conscience?traffic_source=rss

markhburton , to Random stuff
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Explained: The Gaza Concentration Camp
https://www.mintpressnews.com/gaza-concentration-camp/285976/

markhburton , to Random stuff
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Credit to Sadiq Khan for standing firm on this.
"Clean air ‘a right not a privilege’, says London mayor as Ulez is expanded" | Low emission zones | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/29/clean-air-right-not-privilege-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-ulez-is-expanded

markhburton , to Random stuff
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Brilliant news! Ecuador votes against

"Ecuador’s rejection of oil extraction in the Amazon ‘gives us all hope’ - Global Justice Now Global Justice Now"

https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/ecuadors-rejection-of-oil-extraction-in-the-amazon-gives-us-all-hope/

markhburton OP ,
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“But the struggle to protect Yasuni is not over yet. It is a bold step for a country like Ecuador, whose economy has depended on oil exports, to choose to leave fossil fuels in the ground. But if dealing with climate change isn’t to impoverish countries in the global south, polluters need to pay compensation to keep the oil in the soil. The corporations and countries – like the UK – that have grown rich off trashing the planet must be made to pay their climate debt."

markhburton OP ,
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“This result will also give courage to movements in the UK resisting fossil fuel developments in places like Cumbria and Rosebank. Ecuador’s choice to reject oil extraction gives the lie to Rishi Sunak’s eager embrace of more oil, coal and gas. We in the UK can also say no to mining and yes to life and the planet.”

markhburton , to Random stuff
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More about me. Scholar-activist. Politically homeless . (Former health and social care manager / renegade psychologist). Various topics, chiefly orientated to the pancrisis we are all in. See https://steadystatemanchester.net
Also an occasional personal blog https://uncomontater.net for culture, politics, gardening, making.

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