Notes | Brutkey

In a new digital twist to environmental responsibility, the #UK government is now suggesting people to “Delete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought 🤪

This country ... (no words)

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall

HOW TO SAVE WATER AT HOME

Install a rain butt to collect rainwater to use in the garden.

Fix a leaking toilet – leaky loos can waste 200-400 litres a day.

Use water from the kitchen to water your plants.

Avoid watering your lawn – brown grass will grow back healthy.

Turn off the taps when brushing teeth or shaving.

Take shorter showers.

Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.

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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt

"Transphobes used to say things like 'if you have a vagina, you're a woman, end of discussion' and now they say things like 'if your gametes are diagonally haplodidic and they fall between 0.4 and 0.9 on the Strasburger Faultline, you're a woman, and I really can't be any clearer than that'"

https://bsky.app/profile/rosssayers.bsky.social/post/3lw6zc7cug22n

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Rooftops, 2022 by Emma Haworth, a contemporary London-based painter #WomensArt

Painting looking slightly down on a UK townscape with terraced houses and gardens under a sky in which swifts-small birds, swoop

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My Child Brought Home A Pink Princess Nightgown — Then Said 5 Words That Cracked Me Wide Open

"If this story makes you uncomfortable, I invite you to sit with that. Let discomfort be the beginning."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-daughter-child-psychiatrist_n_68934611e4b044af87acd946

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Letter of the day (in the Times)
with AltText

Palestine Action as a terrorist group

Sir, The home secretary proposed to ban Palestine Action on the ground of "unacceptable criminal damage" after they infiltrated RAF Brize Norton ("Palestine Action's rise from ashes of Corbynism to public enemy No 1", Aug 9). In the 1980s when I was UK commander of the RAF Greenham Common cruise missile base, I had a £250,000 annual budget to repair damage done by peace protesters to the perimeter fence. We had a strong Ministry of Defence police presence to stop intruders, often in a rather Benny Hill fashion. The intruders were left in no doubt that if they tried to infiltrate the secure storage area with its 96 nuclear warheads, they would be shot by US air force military police, who were a mean crowd. There were thousands of such protesters "threatening" the base, but their freedom of speech was always respected and I never heard anyone in Whitehall or the Pentagon suggest that they should be classed as terrorists.

Wg Cdr Andrew Brookes (ret'd)
London SW9

Natasha :mastodon: 🇪🇺

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A reminder: "E.U. nations must recognize legal gender changes across bloc, top court rules" 🇪🇺

"Gender, like a first name, is a fundamental element of personal identity,” the court said in a news release accompanying its ruling. “A divergence between identities resulting from such a refusal of recognition creates difficulties for a person in proving his or her identity in daily life as well as serious professional, administrative and private inconvenience.”

... The UK is ridiculously out of step (this was back in 2024 btw). A Brexit benefit no doubt ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/04/romania-transgender-eu-court-gender-identity-ruling/

#Transrights #UK #EU #Europe

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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt

Happy Monday morning, to all who celebrate or indeed suffer it ☕☕☕

An old fashioned poster of a woman pouring coffee entitled "COFFEE! If you're not shaking you need another cup."

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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt

Rise and shine ☀️

David Zinn's little creatures taking on a life of their own that we can only wonder at, as always ⛏️

#Whimsy #StreetArt #DavidZinn

A chalk drawing of two small mouse like creatures, drawn on the pavement, emerging from a hole triumphantly as if they've dug their way to the surface. One carries a shovel, the other a pick

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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt

I really won't, I promise ... 🤔

An email from Penguin Random House

"Never miss a new book by Marcus Tullius Cicero"

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UK: Palestine Action ban protest: half of those arrested were 60 or over, data shows

"Total of 532 arrests at London protest on Saturday, most for displaying placards or signs ... Males accounted for 263 of those detained, females 261 and eight either defined themselves as non-binary or did not disclose their gender."

Metropolitan Police arrested 532 people during a demonstration in Parliament Square on a Saturday.

The arrests were categorized by age range, with the 60-69 age group having the highest number of arrests (147 people).