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Sorta PSA: If you make a post and the whole content of it is "PSA: Don't use (website/browser/software/OS/thing)", then you are not actually doing a public service announcement.
At worst, you're just engagement-baiting the people who already agree with you to boost and like your opinion in a desperate sense of validation.
At best, you're putting in the least possible effort to change hearts and minds of people around you.
Ask yourself, would you give any credibility to a toot you saw that was just an unsubstantiated claim like that, with "trust me bro" as its only source?
Years ago, some wings of social media took "I don't have to explain this to you" to illogical extremes. No, you don't need to explain your own lived experiences, or to explain why people should care about other people. But if all you're doing is telling people to change their habits, then yeah, actually the onus is totally on you to explain why you're saying that in the first place.
Happy pride month! :D
I'm super late this year too, but it's still June, so good enough! Ofc I had to draw Anxious Cheet and Supportive Doggo again, showing off their new pride shirts while heading out to some event.
I truly wish the best to all my fellow LGBT+ around the world, and urge everyone who sees this to give as much support as possible. Any help can make a huge difference at times.
#anthro #furry #furryart #PrideMonth #pride #TraditionalArt #watercolor #watercolour
Carol Vorderman, writing for @goodlawproject on the PPE scandal:
'We must never forget the ministers who stood & clapped for key workers on the front steps of Downing Street while they ushered their pals in round the back'!
The GLP have been working to expose this corruption & while the Tories might hope it will be forgotten, we need to ensure the next Govt. brings the culprits to justice, if we are to maintain some semblance of a fair democracy!
#Tories #corruption
https://goodlawproject.org/carol-vorderman-the-ppe-scandal-must-be-at-the-heart-of-the-general-election/
The Tories want to move on from the debacle over their unlawful VIP lane. We must hold them to account at the ballot box.Good Law Project
Credit scores are a joke.
My score dropped when I paid off my car.
My score dropped when I paid off my student loans.
Credit agencies told me to take on more loans to increase my score.
The system wants you to be in debt.
It's a business for them.
They punish you for not owing money.
"I can sleep when I'm dead." - Me, 2014
"If I can't sleep, I'm dead." - Me, 2024
Work-life balance isn't a luxury. It's a necessity.
Trust me.
I saw someone recently talking about how they realised the worst thing about companies removing the headphone jack from phones wasn’t forcing you to buy then ultimately lose Bluetooth headphones. Or even trying to lock you into getting AirPods.
It’s that it’s the main contributing factor to the rise in assholes on speaker in public.
Playing music top volume, watching videos, having loud phone conversations etc.
And, yea.
Dear Managers,
Please add this to your email signature:
“I am emailing at a time convenient to me, and please do not feel obliged to reply to this email outside of your normal working hours.”
Please feel free to use it, and share it.
Introducing Grout! He's arrived home and is excited to meet you. Hi Grout!
This is the fursuit photo account of @MtKanjon@meow.social -- check me out over there for more art and silly posts!
#Introduction #Furry #Fursuit #Fursuiter
If you have symptoms, stay home. Then test two days later.
“If a person with #COVID19 tests immediately with a rapid test when symptoms emerge, they receive a false negative as much as 92% of the time. Waiting two days after symptoms brings that rate down to 70%… Our symptoms are happening sooner, but it takes longer to reach enough virus in your body for it to be detectable.”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-covid-days.html
Peek in medicine cabinets across the U.S. and you'll find stacks of leftover COVID tests.Lisa Marshall (Medical Xpress)
Oh gosh, we used to use 35mm film containers for some small stuff in the kitchen, like for pre-weighed portions of sugar/salt/etc for breadmaking.
I just discovered a week or two ago that Pringles tube lids fit our most-used drinking glasses pretty much perfectly! Very handy for putting on the top of a glass overnight so that, come morning, I don't have moths swimming in my wake-up drink. I even filled a glass, put a Pringles lid on it and turned it upside down over the sink - no leak at all, they fit so well!
We also have some little ramekin dishes that these lids just happen to fit quite well too. Handy for sealing small amounts of left-overs in to put in the fridge. So good when things just happen to work like that.
Turns out there is one good thing about the Cybertruck; it’s so obviously bad for pedestrian safety that it’s actually bringing awareness to our lack of standards in that area. People who do not know or care about cars look at it and just intuitively know something is wrong.
My mother, who probably does not know how many cylinders are in her engine or how many gears her transmission has, now knows that EuroNCAP includes pedestrian collision testing while the NHTSA process does not and she has opinions on that.
@foone at least one person totes is
JK Rowling’s transphobia has forced many to re-evaluate their relationship to the famous boy wizardDazed Digital
Hands-up who gave feedback to the UK's Online Safety Bill debate, that imposing ID / age verification requirements on website operators will put user data at risk?
Well, in utterly unsurprising news...
https://www.404media.co/id-verification-service-for-tiktok-uber-x-exposed-driver-licenses-au10tix/
As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
It's exactly one of the things I wrote¹ to my former (Labour) MP about. Although I stipulated it'd be an adult entertainment business doing the age checks.
“Do we really want adult entertainment businesses to hold our credit card numbers, or even worse, our personal passport details? I would find this too much of a security risk."
Crickets back of course.
I get that Paramount have ‘compressed’ their offering and staff due to budget constraints, but getting rid of MTV News content lock, stock and barrel…and giving no justification for that wilful act of cultural vandalism, hmmm…that’s smells very odd indeed.
Someone somewhere had a reason for wanting to make that material disappear and made it happen.
In May 2023 it was announced that Paramount would be laying off 25% of its staff across the board at its cable TV networks. This includes staff at Nick, MTV, Comedy Central, Paramount Network, CMT, Smithsonian, TV Land, Logo and Pop TV.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
I’m told it’s #626day, so here’s something appropriate.
I’m told the suiter’s name is Wolftail.
Pic taken at Midwest FurFest 2017.
I don't know if this is the same Wolftail I remember from online in the 1990s. That Wolftail made probably some of the earliest animatronic tails. Would be interesting to know if he's still around, haven't heard of him in ages.
*bit of searching later* Aha, yes, it is he, Wolfgang Tail, aka Wolftronix! His Stitch suit is on his web site so it is the same guy. :)
and to no ones surprise
livingcomputers.org is gone
will they be nuking the github projects too?
git clone while you can
https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum
Living Computers Museum + Labs on First Avenue South in Seattle. The nonprofit closed in 2020 just before the pandemic and never reopened. (GeekWire PhotoKurt Schlosser (GeekWire)
More interesting brain stuff that's probably come too late for my mum's Alzheimers', but will hopefully lead to better treatments in the future.
The brain makes lots of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes : Shots - Health News : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/06/26/g-s1-6177/brain-waste-removal-system-amyloid-alzheimer-toxins
