Vitamin D-Day. The day when you put on gloves for the first time since before the Summer. It struck me yesterday that it was October 18th and there we were, still wandering around without hats or gloves on. It's been so mild - warm, even - that I haven’t even thought to root out my gloves from Summer storage. Usually I’d be begloved in September. Then today dawned with the first sight of overnight frost.

#ClimateDiary
#Aarhus

@martinodder Tak

@dutypo Morgen

@jwcph Tak - ha' en god uge

@CStamp The emphasis was on the 'almost' And good point about not using the term 'influencer'. I hadn't thought about that, using the term on their terms, so to speak. I shall remember that.

@WhiteCatTamer @ChristineMalec @johncormier @daveybot

Glædelig mandag. Here’s a postcard from #Aarhus, just to wish you a good, light, bright week.

@WhiteCatTamer @CStamp @ChristineMalec @johncormier @daveybot

"influencers renting sets designed to look like the interiors of private planes, and of course upscale kitchens"

I'm learning so many new things! That is rather sad, really. Kind of pathetic. Almost making me experience influencer empathy.

@WhiteCatTamer Great point about rental being the more sustainable option for many things. Less waste at all stages. And cheaper and handier for many people, if they only need something once or rarely. I live in a mixed-used city centre and we can rent tools, lifting trolleys and the like from the local hardware for anything from 2 hours to several months. A cheaper, more environmentally-friendly option.

@CStamp @ChristineMalec @johncormier @daveybot

@ChristineMalec I didn't know you could rent hot tubs! I can see that being great in a winter holiday season.

I wonder if that's country-specific. I've just done a quick DuckDuckGo and can't immediately see Hot Tub Rental in Denmark. On the other hand, I just learnt that you can rent a Hot Box sauna, which I never knew.

@johncormier @WhiteCatTamer @CStamp @daveybot

@johncormier @WhiteCatTamer @CStamp @daveybot Interesting thought, interesting topic - 'things I never dreamt you could rent'. I am both scared and curious now.

@WhiteCatTamer People rent car wheel rims - that's a new one to me!

@CStamp @daveybot

@CStamp @daveybot I learnt from a digression in this lovely podcast about a rental car that people used to rent pineapples.

“They cost thousands, so people would rent them and just walk around with it as a status symbol. Like: "Look at me, flexing on all you poor people, I got a pineapple and you don’t. I need you to see me walking around with this pineapple, but I can only have it so long because I got to get this thing back by 4 o’clock or they’ll charge me extra.”

https://www.everythingisalive.com/episodes/alzo-rental-car

@MaSiKa69 Generative AI is unethical and built on stolen data. The oligarchs profiting from it fund a US government that is disappearing people into camps. Environmentally, we might as well drive around the neighbourhood in fossil-fuel cars throwing leaking AA batteries into compost bins as use generative AI and draw on data centres. I have yet to hear of a use case that is so critical for humanity that we should pay that high price.

@stjerneskov

@bjo A young woman in Aarhus designed it in the early 1970s. Part of the genius of her design was precisely that it travelled so well - it worked easily in multiple languages.

https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/117463266358865646

@bjo 'Atomkraft' is Danish for 'nuclear power'

@NatureMC Well yes I know it became famous and used worldwide. It's famous for being used in multiple languages.

@jackeric Perhaps! The 'No, thanks' works intuitively in this context, I think, even if probably younger people don't immediately know the original source.

@snittegodskontoret

@stjerneskov @MaSiKa69 @snittegodskontoret Well put and well said. This is exactly it.

@NatureMC @RickGaehl @capnthommo

The Smiling Sun was designed on the back of an envelope by 21-year-old activist Anne Lund in Aarhus. It's commemorated to this day in a landmark mural in the city centre.

Funny you mention wearing the logo on a rain-jacket. That usage was in her thinking. She's quoted in this article:

“It needed to be pretty enough for women to wear it on their overcoats to indicate a kind, but firm ‘no thanks’. No clenched fists, no scary images."

https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/anne-lund-the-smiling-sun-graphic-design-internationalwomensday-080318

@deadrobot Dead Robot resonates! Nice strong logo.
@snittegodskontoret