Numbat conservation efforts pull native species from brink of extinction
Experts say efforts to protect Australian numbats must continue or numbers will again dwindle.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-12/numbats-pulled-from-immediate-extinction-risk/106903786

Anyone else, or just me?

Gen AI is to work, culture and education what pesticides, intensive monoculture and industrial farming are to agriculture. They are two facets of the same productivist dystopia, an existential threat to diversity and a massive health and pollution problem. #resistAIgen

@TheBreadmonkey

Not paying attention to the news I think is to be actively encouraged in these dark days, especially for anyone who struggles with their mental health, as I do.

I'm often encouraged by the mental health professionals in my life to do whatever little, kind deeds I can in my own life and try not to worry about whatever else is happening in the world, over which I've absolutely no control over.

Well done on the personal best and everything else you're achieving.

You're totally slaying it.

I sometimes hear "you don't know what you would do until you're in that position". No, fuck that. I know exactly what I would do and that's why I take risk analysis deadly seriously.

This shit is not a game. Not snitching is not an aesthetic, it is a sacred promise to each other that makes certain work possible.

We have to steel ourselves and shape our mindset. Never. Not fucking ever

i don't know anything about kagi search, except for the following:

* it's under a proprietary license

* it emphasizes privacy and a zero-surveillance approach

* it requires that you create an account in order to use it

they're lying. it will take extremely compelling evidence to convince me otherwise.

Wait, Lindsey Graham died?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgj25j6nmeo

🪦 🤡 RIP Bozo 🤡 🪦

#PACKWATCH 2026 LMAO.

#USPol

@Sustainable2050

France reports at least 1500 Exxon deaths, Germany reports 5,500 Exxon Heat Deaths, and now Spain reports another 1,000 people dying of climate heat, brought about by continuing to burn oil, coal and gas.

They died because European right wing parties delay and STOP solar installs, and if they can't stop, they put the cost on workers and farmers.

Tax oil corps, tax billionaires, who took us up this deadly oneway road.

Tax Wealth, build solar

#clima #climate #españa #klima

'The unease with AI comes amid growing pessimism about technology’s impact on student learning and mental health. Social media and educational technology companies are facing lawsuits filed by parents and school districts over allegations of addictive algorithms and data privacy breaches. Some parents have been pressing for far fewer screens in schools'

Meanwhile, our kelpie-adjacent dog, Freya, has been channeling her inner werewolf.

'New York City principals have been ordered to pause purchases of any new education technology software as the nation’s largest school system continues to wrestle with an AI policy amid a growing backlash'

#edTech #technology #pedagogy #ai #genAI

https://gothamist.com/news/all-education-tech-purchases-on-pause-as-nyc-schools-wrestle-with-ai

AI’s grip on the world is completely cultural. Just like smoking was once almost compulsory, it could vanish quite quickly. #AI #auspol

Population decline is, generally, good for:
- Working-age, working-class humans (Increases the value and reduces the supply of labour)
- The environment (less humans -> less of the messes we cause)

It is generally bad for:
- Capitalists (fewer workers -> labour is more expensive)
- The Economy™ (If GDP per capita doesn't climb faster than population falls, then number go down! oh no!)
- Elders who need care (more old people needing care per person providing it.)

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?"

10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.

Joel got a reply:

#CharlieBrown #CharlesMSchulz #SocialStudies #CivicStudies

Australia: ‘Things are about to kick off’: NSW flu cases spike

The latest NSW respiratory report shows a 43.1% surge in influenza cases for the week ending 4 July. Reported cases jumped past 3,000 across the state, climbing significantly from just over 2,160 cases in the previous week.

Source: https://archive.md/Nr71G

Petit dessin du jour 🖕🌻💣
#FuckAI #NoAI

I suspect I know some librarians here. If any would be open to advising me on something send me a dm please! :boost_ok:

edit: wow thank you!! i think i have enough connections and answers to proceed with wisdom. thank you all

They had this Machine that
told them lies and stories they really liked.

They were so fond of it,
they kept building more and more processing machines to contain the lying Machine.

While they were in awe of
how good the Machine was at talking and lying, they forgot about everything else and became obsessed by it.

They sacrificed all the
resources they needed to make their lives better to the lying Machine, because they wanted to use the Machine even more.

Eventually, they had no resources
left for themselves, as the lying Machine consumed it all.

It is said there was many early warnings about the dangers of the Machine.

But the Machine told them
to only listen to the Machine.

Y'all, I'm a little under the weather and unable to travel today, so let's talk about trauma and #hope.

This administration, and the very powerful rich puppetmasters behind them, have spent years deliberately pointing a firehose of #trauma and #kakistocracy directly at all of us.

They do it because over time, if their plan works; resistance falters, hopelessness sets in, the will to fight, or even to live, dies.

May I politely say; Fuck. All. Of. That.

This will end, one way or the other. The regime will fall. And when it does, there MUST be a reckoning.

Until then, what we have and what they cannot take, is each other. We're routing around the billionaires who think they control messaging.

We are the Masses, and together, we can change things.

Stop consuming their messaging.

I believe in you. I believe in us. I love us for who we can become.

Meet people. Be good. Punch Nazis. Practice this face for when dealing with the moronic.

#catsOfMastodon #Caturday

This story has been breaking for a while, but it's time to turn up the flame on it - the Irish right-/far-right government are despicable in their complicity and profiteering from so many multinational corporations fucking over normal people, but in few ways as nakedly evil as in the fuckery with Aughinish Alumina. https://youtu.be/5bTxEeywVUA