Finding that the easiest way to have a hopeful outlook for the world is to look for the beauty in the everyday and gardening. It's hard given the droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires though, but nature is resilient if we give it the space, time, and support. Hope it helps you all too a little during this insane time
hi! I blocked a contact but it’s still showing up in my contact list. when I open the contact there’s no information and it wants me to add name etc. when I try to then it crashes the app. there’s no option to delete the contact even if long pressing. any help?
I have an iPhone 16 on the latest iOS.
Everything is being used to the extreme so that we can consume consume consume: animals are being raised like Frankenstein's monsters so that we can gorge on three portions of meat a day; our wastewater is so contaminated that fish have antibiotic resistance genes in them; and our essential antibiotics are becoming useless. And STILL there is no urgency and no action. I wrote about how all of this stems from capitalism and monopolies, including for research. Curious if there are other, less-rage induced, perspectives!
I have some friends who are so opposed to communism/socialism because they've been born and raised post-collapse of the USSR and their countries have been liberalised, joining the EU etc. I struggle to discuss it with them and wonder if anyone has any advice?
The heatwave in Europe and our governments' inaction (backtracking even!) took so much out of me this week. I tried writing a bit but it only got me so far and I saw that we consumed almost as much between 2016 and 2021 as we did in the entire 20th century. Like ???
Last week in Brussels there was a big demo against the militarisation of the EU because they want to spend another 800 BILLION on it and of course that means austerity for everyone else. I'm curious to hear about if there are other climate movements around the world that would be good to read about or if you have thoughts on this? I wrote a bit of an article about it too if you want a summary :)
Happy pride! <3
I hope it's okay to share some personal thoughts on what's currently going on in the UK and the importance of sticking together and standing up for each other? Would love to hear about any good news form local communities like Durham! :)
Wondering what everyone's thoughts are on the impact of privatising research in relation to antibiotic resistance? Publicly funded research created the overwhelming majority of our discoveries in the past hundred years (everything from plastic to the internet and covid vaccines). But the pharma companies don't invest in AMR research because it's not profitable for them. What do you think? :)
Living through late-stage capitalism is rough and everyone else is unbothered. So I took that energy and wrote about the antibiotic crisis we're seemingly not going to survive because corporate greed goes above all else. Curious to hear your thoughts and to discuss!
