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Hey, itΒ΄s fursuit friday.
EAST was a nice time again. :)
I hope to meet some cute fluffs at #Eurofurence, again.
Fursuit: Shane
#furry #fursuit #photo #ff
Doin my best gargoyle pose for Fursuit Friday :3
π: @norfdog
#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #FurryArt #FurryArtist
Another pro tip from me for people who are new to 3D printing: unless you are in dire circumstances, ask yourself if you're about to print something that you could have bought for a ridiculously small amount of money. There are a lot of times you could have just NOT spent 20 hours printing something.
For example, you rarely need to print a tube. PVC pipe is extremely cheap. Use it. Which brings me to a side version of this same point: ask yourself if you could, instead of printing a large object, print smaller objects that would convert something you can buy on the cheap into the thing you're trying to print. Maybe instead of printing an entire storage box for something, you can print an insert that fits into a box you have that holds those things. Back to the PVC thing, instead of printing a large thing that's 90% tube, just print ends that can attach to PVC pipe. Instead of printing a big self waterer for a plant, you could print just a screw on lid that will convert a plastic bottle into one. There's a LOT of prints out there that will turn everyday objects or fairly standardized global products (this is why IKEA is popular with 3D print types) into new things.
Now I'm not saying never ever do this, if you see some special carrying case for something and you like it and want to print it then go for it! But I've met a lot of people who just see a thing, print it, and don't really consider that they could have easily avoided a large percentage of the print by spending $5 or less on some PVC pipe or even grabbing a water bottle for free, and spent that time and plastic printing something else (and for structural things could have had far more strength than a pure 3D print would have had anyway). It's always worth thinking about if there may be a better way to go about it. Sometimes the best 3D printing project results come from *not* printing everything.
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This article doesn't have the word "commute" in it at all. Not very many of them do.
"As much as an 8 percent raise", but 8% of an 8 hour day is about 45 minutes. Which is... a 20 minute commute to and from work, which is time out of your life your employer is taking from you, unpaid, for which employer and employee both gain nothing.
And a 20 minute commute in Toronto is a _joke_, it's nothing. 40, 60, sometimes 90 are common.
I wish journalists could do math.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/23/why-remote-work-has-staying-power.html
The pandemic-era trend of working remotely has endured largely because it benefits both workers and businesses, economists said.Greg Iacurci (CNBC)
Holy moly, 4.4% of people in England have long covid
That's 1 in 20 people! Not of the population who have had covid, but the general population. Not in the past, but right now.
WHY ISN'T ANYONE WEARING MASKS ANYMORE
NOT EVEN ON TRAINS WHAT!!??
#coronavirus #COVID19 #LongCovid
Report into prevalence of condition reveals stark north/south divide with the highest rates in north-westTobi Thomas (The Guardian)
Why do newspapers find it so hard to link to the fucking study
https://www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/app/uploads/LONG-COVID-REPORT-2024-FINAL.pdf
FWIW: This is self-reported long COVID from the GP Patient Survey and the 4.4% number is from 2022. It was 5.0% in 2023 and 4.8% this year (methodology change). The ONS number from earlier this year is 3.3% and I suspect their question wording is a bit better.
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Source https://fosstodon.org/@deshipu/113000517135266583
You know the 10x developer? You know, that one guy on the team that writes ten times more code than everyone else, because everyone else are too busy fixing everything he breaks? I have some great news, everyone! We have automated that guy, and put β¦Fosstodon
I did a calculation yesterday that made me want to scream. If you look at the *current* density of satellites in 1km altitude bins in Low Earth Orbit, and assume they are travelling at circular velocities (generally true), then Starlink satellites pass within <1km of each other EVERY 30 SECONDS.
At Starlink altitudes, everything is travelling at 7 km/second, so <1 km close approaches are terrifyingly close. Every 30 seconds. WHY.
When I was on holiday in a cottage in the deepest Wales countryside for a few days last month I happened to check the AS my phone's internet packets were coming from. Starlink. I must admit I was conflicted.
"Oh don't worry, SpaceX has amazing engineers! They know what they're doing!"Well yes, they're amazing. But they definitely make giant mistakes. Like... you know... dropping hundreds of pounds of debris from a "fully demisable" spacecraft by my house. Whoopsie.
SpaceX, please don't whoopsie us into Kessler Syndrome.
When Space Junk Fell on My Neighborβs Farm, the Law Had Few Answers for Us
A Saskatchewan farmerβs near miss with potentially lethal debris falling from orbit highlights the skyrocketing risks and murky politics of space junkScientific American
Fuck everyone who uses "unalive" with zero sense of irony. Fucking socmed algorithm brain poisoning.
Say "kill". Say "murder". Say "suicide". Say "rape". Say "pedophile". Say what you mean. If people need to not see or hear those words they'll use a filter.
(Or if you're on a platform where you feel like you're forced to elide a word, make it obvious you know you're being censored and don't use stupid euphemisms like it's a totally normal thing to do.)
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Happy #FursuitFriday
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HBCF provides resources for coexisting with beavers and supports landowners in implementing nonlethal management to address common beaver-caused problems.Human-Beaver Coexistence Fund
WOW. That's a *huge* shift in just one year. It's wonderful to see @godotengine doing so well and loved by so many people.
#godot #GodotEngine #gamedev #unity #GMTK #GMTKJjam
Very excited to attend the SotonFurs summer party this weekend with my @azakir! We had an absolute blast last year, it's such a great time and such a great group of people.
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Keep on rockin' in the (furry) world. π€
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When I first had a savings account opened for me as a child and some pocket money put into it, interest was at, I think, 17% or more. I thought that was normal at the time and probably couldn't understand why anyone would do anything with money but put it in savings. Then rates dropped off a cliff and seemed incredibly low; I didn't realise at the time it was just going back to normal.
I studied economics in college and learned about the business cycle. And then we had decades of really, really low interest rates and inflation.
It honestly was nervous-making, because it means that governments don't have the "lever" of lowering interests rates to goose the economy.
It's wild to me that just using Google Fonts (the hosted-by-Google way) immediately makes you in violation of GDPR.
https://termageddon.com/google-fonts-violates-gdpr/
You can always self-host though: https://gwfh.mranftl.com/fonts
Or it's a one-clicker on Cloudflare: https://developers.cloudflare.com/speed/optimization/content/fonts/
A court in Munich, Germany has recently found that websites that have embedded Google Fonts violate the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).Donata Stroink-Skillrud (Termageddon)
![[A friend is standing behind Cueball, who is typing at a computer.]
Friend: You should be more careful what you write. Future employers might read it.
[The friend still stands while Cueball looks at his computer.]
Cueball: When did we forget our dreams?
Friend: What?
[Cueball stands beside his friend.]
Cueball: The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out before us. We see the same things every day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us.
Cueball: And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up.
Cueball: This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can:
[The next three panels are Cueball standing.]
Cueball: FUCK.
Cueball: THAT.
Cueball: SHIT](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/558425 "[A friend is standing behind Cueball, who is typing at a computer.]
Friend: You should be more careful what you write. Future employers might read it.
[The friend still stands while Cueball looks at his computer.]
Cueball: When did we forget our dreams?
Friend: What?
[Cueball stands beside his friend.]
Cueball: The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out before us. We see the same things every day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us.
Cueball: And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up.
Cueball: This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can:
[The next three panels are Cueball standing.]
Cueball: FUCK.
Cueball: THAT.
Cueball: SHIT")
