chickweed

Northeast U.S.

Mostly a reader

#MakeEcocideACrime

chickweed (npub1ue8…cr3z)">https://justmytoots.com/chickweed (npub1ue8…cr3z)

Timeline: All over the place

Last Notes

2025-08-04 13:16:50 UTC

"For years, countless women sacrificed everything to pursue whatever justice they could—before and after Epstein’s death.
In 2021, the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program was established by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate and paid approximately $125 million to over 150 survivors of Epstein’s sexual abuse. Two years later, after more than 100 survivors sued JPMorgan for enabling Epstein (a longtime client), the bank agreed to settle for $290 million."
#inequality
https://www.jezebel.com/since-no-one-else-seems-to-care-lets-remember-epsteins-survivors

2025-05-01 12:41:37 UTC

Bumble bees are important pollinators:
"Like honey bees, bumble bees live socially in hives which provide shelter and a place to raise their young. Usually located underground [..] bumble bee hives usually include between 50-500 individuals.
Managed bumble bee hives have become big business during the past two decades as agricultural demand for bumble bee-pollinated berries, peppers and, especially, hothouse tomatoes has skyrocketed."
#gardening #pollinators
https://blog.nwf.org/2021/05/5-facts-about-bumble-bees-and-how-to-help-them/

2024-09-10 10:37:01 UTC

A typical complaint fielded by Babylonian administrators: “I am not getting water for my sesame field. The sesame will die. Don’t tell me later, ‘You did not write to me.’ The sesame is visibly dying. Ibbi-Ilabrat saw it. That sesame will die, and I have warned you.”
#history #humor
photo: https://www.schoyencollection.com/24-smaller-collections/maps/map-irrigation-ms-3196
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/112/784/917/159/280/original/f1b910c7c1a8f651.jpeg

2024-09-10 09:07:10 UTC

A Climate Rights International report exposes the increasingly heavy-handed treatment of climate activists in Australia, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US.
Wealthy, democratic countries in the global north are using harsh, vague and punitive measures to crack down on climate protests at the same time as criticising similar draconian tactics by authorities in the global south, according to the report.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/10/climate-rights-report-draconian-measures-protest
#climate #protest