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Don't let a minority of bigots and transphobes persecute those who need medical help. Please sign if you live in the UK. Please boost the post if you can.
Petition: Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601
The Health Secretary has said that transgender hospital patients in England may be banned from being treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segregation is discriminatory, dangerous, and violates the Equality Act of 2010.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
A friend I'd lost touch with for 20 years got back in contact recently, and reconnecting has been such a total joy. We've been sharing successes and traumas and cheering each other on, and it is through these chats that I learned a saying I'd not heard before:
Joy shared is doubled, sorrow shared is halved.
Naturally I love this so much ❤
"Faster than light?"
"Anything can be achieved," the alien's translation device said, "by balancing the four fundamental chkoi."
"You mean gravity, electromagnetism, and the nuclear forces?"
"No, the fundamental chkoi."
"What are they?"
"Spite, tiredness, hope, and 'fuck it'."
If you haven't seen it: On the left is Progynova (a drug that provides Estrogen) sold in mainland China, and on the right is "Debian installation media box".
Design files are public on GitHub: https://github.com/moesoha/debian-media-box
“Debian 小药盒”，一个用来包装 Debian 安装介质的盒子设计和介绍用的说明书。. Contribute to moesoha/debian-media-box development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Capitalism is killing us.
This unrelenting senseless drive for economic growth at all costs means more of everything — more cars, more roads, more shopping centers, more cheap disposable plastic products, more waste, more factories, more fossil fuels, more CO2 emissions, and more global heating.
And that means more storms, more floods, more wildfires, more smoke, more droughts, more famines, more extinctions, and many many more deaths.
It's time to stop. Turn it off.
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For us to have even a small chance of avoiding setting off irreversible chain reactions far beyond human control we need drastic, immediate, far-reaching emissions cuts at the source.
When your bathtub is about to overflow, you don't go looking for buckets or start covering the floor with towels — you start by turning off the tap as soon as you possibly can. Leaving the water running means ignoring or denying the problem, delaying doing anything to resolve it, and downplaying its consequences.
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That's from page 202 in “The Climate Book” -- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709837/the-climate-book-by-greta-thunberg/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure...PenguinRandomhouse.com
As Martin Wolf argues in the FT today, the good news is that life expectancy continues to climb (albeit with occasional blips, like the one the UK is currently working through), but the bad news is we haven't reconfigured our social mores & practices to recognise this demographic change.
Improvements in longevity are unevenly distributed but the key to making this work for everyone is better public health provision & clearer notions of lifetime learning & supporting career change(s).
*squint* wait, whats that big dip from 2020 onwards.. wonder what that could be….
(It’s COVID)
In case, as I wasn't, you're not aware of which piece the name refers to, it's this stonking track (orchestral performance)!
Personally, I feel the only acceptable artificial noise for a car to produce is this:
JETSONS_SPACE_CAPSULE_LAND_AND_STOP_01.ogg
There are certain problem classes that I describe as a "Jell-O elephant".
Let me explain.
Imagine you need to push an elephant made of Jell-O up a hill. Precise, focused pressure on the problem will not work - you will end up inside of the Jell-O elephant, and it will roll back down the hill.
You move a Jell-O elephant with diffused, sustained pressure - like using a big square of plywood, and putting weight behind it. This is how you get it up the hill.
Culture change is a Jell-O elephant.
throwback to the distressingly long period where firefox engineers were freaked out about possible memory corruption bugs in rust's HashMap, because it kept showing up in crash reports. so you know, justified diligence.
as far as i know the resolution was "there's a lot of hashmaps, so statistically any given memory corruption bug has a decent chance of hitting some memory owned by a hashmap totally randomly"
One of my favorite moments is when someone picks up a copy of Eyrie, opens it, and is greeted with Brenda Lyons' beautiful interior art pieces.
"Peacock gryphons??" and "Saber-toothed tiger gryphons!!" are the usual happy exclamations =]
RT @jagarikin@twitter.com
あの伝説のルービックキューブをさらにわかりやすくしました
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jagarikin/status/1593771091738374144
Voting tops the list for the world’s leading climate scientists in a year when billions of voters go to the pollsDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
Ever wondered how I create labels with the exact shapes of screw heads?
I use the "Schraubenkiste" font, perfectly designed for this task! Found it a few years ago and it's been super handy.
Grab it for free under the SIL open font license at: http://www.peter-wiegel.de/Schraubenkiste.html
#Font #Label #Organization #StorageBoxes
Europe just made pretending you are green with "carbon offsets" illegal.
Trudeau's entire climate program is carbon offsets.
[ "I will plant 2 billion trees!" Trudeau promised/boasted in the year before climate burned 30 billion trees in 6 months ]
Europe made that claim illegal because "carbon offsets" is a lie, like Net Zero.
No more carbon can be burned,
build carbons replacement right now.
Build it. Right now.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/24/chevron-carbon-offset-climate-crisis
Exclusive: investigation finds energy giant’s efforts to offset its huge emissions rely on schemes with little impactNina Lakhani (The Guardian)
The relationship test.
Just a simple question! These animations are made possible by my generous supporters at Patreon! https://patreon.com/chrishallbeck #love #funny #couples #rel...YouTube
This!
Capitalism is all about inefficiency. Not at the level of manufacturing individual items, that is made ruthlessly efficient, things built at breakneck speed by minimum wage workers out of the cheapest materials that will technically suffice.
But on the output side it requires society to be extravagantly wasteful. Single use items, paid for, used once, and thrown away. Nothing can be shared, everyone must be forced/coerced into buying their own separate one even if each one is unused 95% of the time (look at how many cars are parked in any residential road at any time. A fraction of that number would be plenty to ensure what you wanted was always available if they were a shared fleet). Dedicate things to a specific task, don't make general purpose things. If single-purpose products aren't sufficient, make a no-purpose product and use marketing and advertising to convince people they need it.
Yes, it's in the nature of businesses to require profit, sure. But capitalism requires more, always always more. Mere profit isn't enough, it must be more profit than before, more profit than the competition, ever-increasing profit. Push costs down by any means necessary, increase revenue by pushing your products as hard as you can and driving competition out of the market. Investors won't be happy with only doing as well as any other business, you have to do better.
It's the same dynamic as with bitcoin. It started with everyone mining with a standard computer, but then someone built an ASIC to mine quicker, got a bigger share of the rewards, and then everyone had to do the same or it wasn't worth taking part. Now it's banks of GPUs. It's no longer worth mining any other way. Same with big businesses, you now can't get investment without the promise of huge and ever increasing profits. Decent businesses expecting normal-sized profits can't get that kind of funding.
And this is what runs our lives.
Mozilla is hiring Director of Engineering, Firefox
🔧 #cplusplus #javascript #python #rust
🌎 Remote; United States
⏰ Full-time
🏢 Mozilla
Job details https://jobsfordevelopers.com/jobs/director-of-engineering-firefox-at-mozilla-org-may-8-2024-775f94?utm_source=mastodon.world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=posting
#jobalert #jobsearch #hiring
Many say I’m crazy for full fursuiting in Atlanta. Did 8 hours yesterday and didn’t even notice how long it had been by the time I got out of suit. When I look like Martini, that is my mental happy place. I smile more, I feel beautiful, and my anxiety melts away. If I could become him one day I’d be a happy fox.
📸: Corporal
I read this a few days ago and shared it on other platforms via screenshot, but I wanted to come back and say how impressed with it I am..
You manage to set up an entire world (with a scene that's quite visual for me), without describing any of it. You make a pretty deep and on-point observation about humanity. And you make it funny.
Really good work!