While being more than 9000 kilometers away, I can still see and hear what birds are currently singing in the Vondelpark - Amsterdam.
https://luistervink.nl/locations/vondelpark/live/
I hope the herons and the owls don't mind.
Het voorkomen van uitbuiting van arbeidsmigranten is noodzakelijk op zichzelf, maar verbetert ook de onderhandelingspositie van Nederlandse werknemers. Go #FNV #SteunDeStakers
Now that I am a middle-aged rather than young urban professional, does that mean that I am a #muppy ?
Your middle finger is only your middle finger if you also count your thumb as a finger. Which I find hard to accept. @showerthoughts 🖕
@allo That's a gorgeous dog that I gladly share my name with.
@metaldream @Heyting In the end more than 5000 people gathered on the city's main square.
@metaldream because it does not show on Mastodon, I'm sharing the spot-on comment by @Heyting
Today employees of the #UniversityofAmsterdam #UvA are on #strike to protest against the budget cuts for education that are pushed by our far right government.
Universities are a place of wonder, curiosity and resistance.
This world is in desperate need of all of these things.
Update: there were 5000 of us today. And a student and I even made it to the main newspaper pic. 💅
\#WOInActie #HOInActie #FNV #AOB #Onderwijsbezuinigingen #BudgetCuts @unions@sh.itjust.works @unions@lemmy.ml
The mass protest of 25000 people has failed to convince the cabinet to reverse the disastrous cuts to higher education in the #Netherlands.
The #FNV, together with all #unions, has therefore decided to go on #strike nationwide. These cuts must be completely off the table!
On Wed, Feb 11 at 5pm, employees of the University of #Amsterdam are organizing an action meeting to discuss how the #strike will take shape.
More info and sign up: https://www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/overheid/onderwijs-onderzoek/kabinet-sloopt-hoger-onderwijs/universiteit-van-amsterdam-in-actie
I'm sure people will be wearing their most radical underwear tomorrow.
From Monday (tomorrow) up to and including Thursday unionised staff from the #UniversityOfAmsterdam are on #strike over the university's executive boards' unwillingness to cut (or even pause) ties with Israeli academic institutions.
For more information see https://fnv.nl/uva
Keep track of this thread for updates and details about the strike.
\#Palestine #Israel #Union @unions #FNV
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Re-publishing this, because I rewrote the post a bit.
Target audience is people who like to talk about "negative externalities" and the need to "internalize" them.
Although at this point, it might make strategic sense to use the language of neoclassical economists to push for (e.g.) a carbon tax, we should recognize the fundamental flaws in the underlying world view.
https://mishathings.org/posts/internalize-this-environmental-economics/
Ok. I would say the main question should be "are there sufficiently accessible alternatives to the usage of Twitter in the communication between companies and customers?"
I guess in practice, at least in Europe, there are often multiple ways to reach out to companies? (Twitter, contact form etc.) So in that sense it makes sense?
But the fact that Twitter is also used (much more) to share memes should not matter?
(Disclaimer: I haven't looked into this case in too much detail).
@abff08f4813c @OpenTech_AUC Just curious: what do you mean "not its primary purpose"?
Carbon is the work of the devil.
Last Friday, during a class about the short and long term organic #carbon cycle, a student raised his hand:
"So, 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons...", 666....carbon must be the work of the devil."
Maybe this can help us sell carbon neutrality to religious conservatives.
From the perspective of plants we are all rich and in the long run they will eat us all. @plants
@HexesofVexes Last year students were blocking that very bridge to protest the university's response to Israel's violence in Palestine. They should have know that they were being accompanied by this paleo-force of resistance.
This little plant, identified as Equisetum arvense by a colleague, appears to have grown right through one of the metal posts of the bridge of Amsterdam University College (#AUC #UvA #VU).
I think it should be the mascotte of all students at Science Park:
"Those who persevere against all odds find the light at the end of the tunnel."
Misha @social.edu.nl I am a lecturer at #AUC (Amsterdam University College).
I teach #PoliticalEcology & #EarthScience.
I spend too much time playing around with #linux, #emacs.
I have a small blog: https://mishathings.org/
I like to make #music: https://mishathings.org/music/_things/
I play a small role in #BIJ1 #Amsterdam
Some tags of my life: #Colombia #Medellin #SOAS #London #Bombay #India #Nieuwmarkt #Heiloo
(Boosting is not necessarily fully agreeing/approving).