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Never forget: truth and solutions are not going to come from big corporate.
Big corporate lives only to monetize the now (see below).
https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story
#3m #environment #health
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in peopleโs bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.ProPublica
I'm starting to think there will be business opportunities that are branded as "AI-free" much like food is branded Organic.
I'm already starting to look for products like that.
It's the same rationale for why my refrigerator doesn't need to be connected to the internet. Or why my hammer doesn't need to ask me about my day when I take ot out of the toolbox.
Only Machine Insideโข๏ธ
A sentence that helped me a lot this week is โthatโs not my beerโ, the German idiom meaning, โI accept Iโm not responsible for this.โ So I built myself a reminder, lest I forget the sentence.
Edit: I reprinted it to correct the text to โCeci n'est ma biรจreโ
Too Much Money.
If I had two million dollars or so I'd likely retire and never have to work again. But if I had twenty million dollars I'd do something stupid like try to start an animation studio and end up working harder and longer than ever only to fail and run it into the ground and end up broke.
So I'm careful never to enter lotteries with too big a prize.
How to make Google more usable with this One Weird Trick
By @ernie: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
My cup overflows with anger toward these lying, deceiving, murderous, oil and gas companies. So this morning, I did something I've never done before in hopes the people coming home from their long weekends in Tofino and Ucluelet get the message.
Please Boost.
#BCLNG #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #OilandGas #LNG #Liars #bchwy4 #bcWildfire
Itโs a blue fursuit blue Monday!
๐ธ - unknown (will update once I know)
Ft. Zephyrousfox (๐ฆ/๐ตโ๏ธ) , 
, spaldingindigo (๐ฆ/๐ตโ๏ธ) and furry_the_jake (๐ฆ/๐ตโ๏ธ)
#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay
Are you taking care of yourself?
Have you:
โค๏ธ Taken your meds?
๐งก Had something to drink?
๐ Cleaned your glasses?
๐ Looked away from the computer screen for a minute?
๐ Prayed to an Eldritch deity for luck?
๐ Brushed your teeth?
Always practice good self-care! :D
Appreciation: Former Lucasfilm staffer Bonnie Burton shares her memories of the beloved Chewbacca actor.CNET
In an email from our school:
"We are currently seeing a surge in the number of staff who are contracting COVID-19.
At present, though stretched, we are able to cover all classes. However, if the number of staff continues to increase this might become a problem. If we get to the point where we are unable to cover all classes with a teacher we will start to roster home particular years levels."
Some pics with @2chaotic and a Sylveon suiter we ran into @ Anime Impulse!
I really enjoyed ppl's reactions. Some people's faces absolutely lit up and it made me wag. ^^
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I write, I edit, I doodle, but mostly I'm just trash!Bluesky Social
A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have foundOliver Milman (The Guardian)
I just thought of a term that I can't really find the words right now to properly explain, but it's something that I think can be used to describe the type of behavior where someone is "just asking questions" but is actually stirring the pot in order to delegitimize the arguments, complaints, or perspectives of marginalized people in a discourse or a large group:
disingenuous civility
@tryst Well yeah that's because the only legitimacy fascism can have is if people who aren't already racist or drawn towards authoritarian thinking are:
1. Not marginalized enough to recognize fascism for what it is, and
2. Naรฏve enough to be susceptible to JAQing off and falling for all of the bylines hook, line, and sinker
I went to Anime Impulse this weekend, and there was a kpop choreo lesson! I did the entire thing in suit. xD
This is practice from about the halfway point. I'll share a vid of the full thing if I can find it!
Thanks, Ronan for capturing this!
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I write, I edit, I doodle, but mostly I'm just trash!Bluesky Social
