James Smith 💾 @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk

And if you don't think this is true, or overblown, you're just not paying attention. #ExtinctionRebellion

We have suspected anthropogenic climate change since 1938, and we've known it's true for decades. We're NOT DOING ENOUGH to protect our civilisation. It's now or never. #ExtinctionRebellion

The Amazon is on fire, as have been many many other places this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Amazon_rainforest_wildfires #ExtinctionRebellion

Long-stored methane is coming up from under the Arctic as it melts. This is potentially apocalyptic. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/12/us/arctic-methane-gas-flare-trnd/index.html #ExtinctionRebellion

Arctic sea ice is recovering incredibly slowly this year - we're about to cross over the 2012 line, which was the lowest measured so far. https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iqr_timeseries.png #ExtinctionRebellion

Protest is never convenient, but we'd be in a very different world without it. Let's not talk about disruption, let's talk about the goddamn climate crisis. #ExtinctionRebellion

A fair few people are looking down on #ExtinctionRebellion from inside the News Corp building - we can but hope they can inspire some positive change in there.

Can’t silence science! #ExtinctionRebellion

Damn straight! #ExtictionRebellion at London Bridge this evening doing excellent work.

"Britain often displays a peculiar preference for doing things the way they used to be done then, rather than how they should be done now."

Quote of the day, right there (I was reading about swans: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/07/22/globalpost-queen-elizabeth-swans/30506743/)

Asimov's little known fourth law of robotics: "A robot may not fill in an online form or, through inaction, allow an online form to be filled in."

Considering playing ur-fascist bingo during the parliamentary proceedings today, but I've already ticked off all the boxes and won. By which I mean we've all lost. http://www.interglacial.com/pub/text/Umberto_Eco_-_Eternal_Fascism.html

Status: retraining my fingers to type "music" instead of "itunes" into Alfred after upgrading to Catalina. So far today I've accidentally searched the web for itunes 7 times.

Seeing as Johnson and Trump have set the precedent of ignoring legal systems when they feel like it, I'm trying to think of some laws I fancy ignoring.

The only appropriate emojus for the world is now ¯\_🔥 _/¯

I’d settle for one that covered all Really Useful Boxes to start with.

There should be a website for “does X fit in Y” with dimensions for every object and container in the world.