Notices by stragu (stragu@mastodon.indie.host), page 18

still, what we're looking at there is: "selfishness" is a product of conditions. selfishness is built into whiteness, itself built into empire, itself built into capitalism. these things cannot be disentangled, but they are holistically *unnatural.*

there is a history of *specific* events and human actions that led to these conditions existing, and these conditions have only been in place for (depending on how you count and how fine-grained you are about "these conditions"), like, half a millenium, out of the forty-plus millenia that anatomically-modern humans have walked the earth.

"selfishness" does not rise organically out of "human nature"; it arises out of systems we made, and which we can unmake.

Every day I pick #plastic #waste people have discarded along my #footpaths.

It pisses me off that companies are allowed to package or sell these. Young kids don't appreciate the impact yet. And then there are "grown-ups" that never grew up to the world's problems.

Please don't condone these companies, don't buy confectioneries in #SingleUse plastics.

Et paf. Le Haut Conseil pour le #Climat (#HCC, avec des vrais bouts de #Jancovici dedans) pond son premier rapport et, oh surprise, il propose des mesures contraignantes et de réduire les inégalités à coup de rabot.

#Environnement #Climat #Énergie #Économie

https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/huet/2019/07/03/le-haut-conseil-pour-le-climat-frise-la-revolution/

Roses are red
Violets are blue...

Good morning! I'm Gerrit. #intro #introductions

I'm into decentralized networks, open source hardware, modular design, distributed manufacturing, appropriate technology and solarpunk.

I spend most of my time liberating data from diabetes devices like insulin pumps and blood glucose meters, writing open-source software for tidepool.org.

I would like to spend more time growing food and building hardware to support that, and I hope to find inspiration here in the Merveilles.town community.

Today is the birthday of Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary, #FrantzFanon.
Happy Birthday comrade Rest in power! #OnThisDayInBlackHistory #Blacktwitter #BlackLivesMatter