2026-07-30 11:04 UTC
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@afewbugs@social.coop 2026-07-30 11:25
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz @JoBlakely@mastodon.social I mean the sensible solution would be to stop making so many clothes we're dumping the ones that don't sell in the Atacama desert, but that would involve not structuring our entire civilization around the idea that everyone has to keep buying more of everything than they did before forever otherwise the whole system falls over. And apparently that's idealistic and impossible
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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org 2026-07-30 11:45
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz @JoBlakely@mastodon.social @afewbugs@social.coop traditional dyes could have some pretty unpleasant environmental consequences back when they were the only game in town too. My hope is that, if we manage to shift to a non digging stuff out of the ground and setting fire to it based economy and renewable energy becomes more abundant, we’ll be able to spend some of that abundance cleaning up after ourselves.
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@mjr@masto.bike 2026-07-30 11:47
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st aside: was there a 4? (=do I need to check the servers?)
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@ruben@zug.network 2026-07-30 12:21
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz @JoBlakely@mastodon.social @afewbugs@social.coop Naturism: the ethical alternative after all?
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@SK53@en.osm.town 2026-07-30 15:06
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st An under appreciated aspect of linen is that the countryside stank from the retting pits (a personal recollection passed onto me by someone who grew up in County Fermanagh in the 1950s).