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Matching colors of a different species, also they're cute
🦊@Draner_fox (tw)
🐈@lennyaa
#fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits #nfc2024 #nordicfuzzcon #nordicfuzzcon2024
1 week until I can see other furries again! I haven’t even done so since this Michigan bowling meet I went to back in January :O
📸 - ID-ID
Ft: Goldie, @juke , me , @Dilyn_LD , @fluffycyborgs
#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay
systemd+chromium
just... gonna entirely watch the world burn
someone. actually. wanted. this.
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-os-dev/c/c8lnhSV9rWk
i need to go run up to the sierra nevadas and stick my head in a snowbank
FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks
“Deceptive advertising and misinformation posed a risk to public health."
5️⃣ Here's the 5th installment of my series of posts highlighting key new features of the upcoming v256 release of systemd.Mastodon
Most people working as librarians in the US did not wake up, head to work, and wonder, What are the chances I’m going to be charged with a crime for letting someone take out a book today?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/17-states-are-considering-laws-that-would-imprison-librarians
Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis has been forced to limit certain Floridians to only one book-banning attempt per month.Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
This is like a bad supervillain movie where some maniac amasses greater and greater influence until he is ready to take over the world.
Sudo has a "large attack surface" and systemd does not ?
Really ?
https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/19-systemd-wants-to-expand-to-include-a-sudo-replacement
Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has posted on Mastodon about their upcoming v256 release of Systemd, which is expected to include a sudo replacem...M.Hanny Sabbagh (FOSS Outpost)
Scientists have been absolutely clear that we MUST make immediate and drastic changes if we are to avoid catastrophic eco-system collapse. But, as Greta Thunberg has said, all we ever get from politicians and industry leaders is more useless blah blah blah…
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #BusinessAsUsual
"Last year there was an #AxeTheTax rally that was supposed to be held in the Yellowknife that got cancelled because #Yellowknife was being evacuated because of a #wildfire. How does it start cutting through to folks that the alternative to #ClimateAction is burning cities?"
https://www.podcastics.com/episode/290038/link/
#Climate #Moratorium #abpoli #EnergyTransition #AxeTheTax #BurnBabyBurn #wildfires #drought #cdnpoli
*Taps mic*
There's no such thing as cosmetic surgery. The phrase is BS rhetoric.
Boob jobs, butt lifts, lipo, hair transplants--they should all be fully covered by insurance, *for cis people as well as trans*, and they should be covered to save costs.
Let me show you the math.
But wait, *it gets even more stark*.
Say it's a dude, and he's balding. Same stats. He stops hair loss with finasteride, but wants his hairline back.
A 1500-graft transplant, so one of average size, costs $6, 750, at a pretty average retail price of $4.50/graft.
Insurance turns a profit at 45 weeks.
45.
Weeks.
And if the insurer negotiates the rate to $4/graft, which is a very modest negotiation that they can probably beat, it costs them only $6,000.
I understand and appreciate this thread. Healthcare, especially in the States, is a big scam when paired with insurance.
That said, I also think therapy is a necessary step that exists even when surgery is an option. It's another rabbit hole but the discussion about easy and inexpensive access to therapy plays into all of this.
Corporate income tax rate before the Trump tax cuts: 35%
After the Trump tax cuts: 21%
What many corporations actually paid with loopholes: 14%
What Netflix, Bank of America, and Nike paid: Less than 5%
What Trump’s planning for a second term? Even more corporate tax cuts.
We can't or Google won't pick up our pages and we'll get fired...
Legit, this is all Google's fault. At least on the journalist side of things. Though sadly, I bet you aren't finding blogs that do exactly what you want due to their BS too. :C
Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.
Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.
We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150
Billions of phones will be hoarded in drawers and cupboards or thrown away rather than recycled, studies suggest.By Victoria Gill (BBC News)
Let me explain this real slow.
1. I borrow $100 from you today.
2. I pay you $10 every day for a year.
3. I have paid you back $3,650
4. I still owe you $90 somehow.
5. You then "forgive" the $90 debt.
In this scenario, absolutely nobody is paying anybody $90. Nobody is being stiffed $90. Nobody is being forced to pay someone else's $90 debt. Absolutely nobody is "getting a $90 handout for free".
What's happening is you have been paid back your original $100 and then profited a mere $3,550 on top of that and we're saying that's enough profit.
This post is about student loan forgiveness.
and debt forgivness has existed for just as long. It's only the recent colonial/capitalist era that people suddenly decided that no debts can be forgiven ever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_debt_relief
The earliest known debt cancellation was proclaimed by Enmetena of Lagash c. 2400 BCE.
Similar measures were enacted by later Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian rulers of Mesopotamia, where they were known as "freedom decrees" (ama-gi in Sumerian).
From what I read on it by David Graeber, the Babylonian king had to periodically forgive all debts in the city, because literally everyone became a debt slave to the temple, so they all started depopulating the city en-masse, because back then there was a place to retreat where the debt collectors couldn't follow.
https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
Vendor ships bottle of wine with a three digit tumbler lock on the bottle with a "book a meeting with us to get the code"
lol no.
Pick it in a few minutes and laugh at the vendor whilst we drink it. Thank you vendor.
A semi-playable Doom demo I built for #FrontEndConf using CSS scroll timeline, a handful of checkboxes and has() selectors + a nice assist from image-rendering: pixelated.
Oh and no JS, as god intended.
https://codepen.io/cobra_winfrey/full/oNOMRav
User: you charge me when people make unauthorised requests to an S3 bucket?
AWS: yes of course
User: but
AWS: working as intended
User: but
AWS: thank you for your money
Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning?Maciej Pocwierz (Medium)
TIL why the default Ethernet MTU is 1500!
#Ethernet #ComputerHistory #XeroxAlto #XeroxPARC
https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/04/24/magic-numbers/
At current installation rates, solar will pass fossil gas in 2024 and coal in 2025. Technologies like nuclear would require "magical growth rates" to compete.Andrew Blakers (RenewEconomy)
“At current growth rates (20% per annum), solar will pass fossil gas in 2024 and coal in 2025. Current growth rates also suggest that solar will approach 9 TW in 2031, when there will be more solar generation capacity than everything else combined.
Global nuclear capacity and annual nuclear generation have been static for the past dozen years. Nuclear failed in the global energy marketplace.”
Zed 80 is dead baby, Zed 80 is dead.... vulture claws over the astounding techRupert Goodwins (The Register)
So the Royal Mail is issuing fines to people who recieve post with stamps that they (the RM) suspect to be fake, something that the recipient has no control over
If this isn't an incentive for RM to send letters to people with fake stamps so that they can farm fines, I don't know what is
Postal company defends technology but suspends surcharge, while app allowing customers to scan own stamps developedAnna Tims (The Guardian)
• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.
There seems to have been a huge array of Lego police mini figures over the years. I’m guessing not all were sold in every country as many appear location specific…
But there is definitely a drift towards looking angry, defensive and armed:
![shibari weiss
@AliceAvizandum
the slow but very real progression
into fascism as charted by
the evolution of the Lego
police officer
[each police officer looks progressively less happy and more ready to suppress a peaceful protest]](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/468698 "shibari weiss
@AliceAvizandum
the slow but very real progression
into fascism as charted by
the evolution of the Lego
police officer
[each police officer looks progressively less happy and more ready to suppress a peaceful protest]")
I've seen people making the joke that it should be "systemd/Linux" or "systemd/GNU/Linux"
We have a saying over on Tumblr about this sort of joke: if you knock on enough doors, eventually the devil will answer
Pffft
You meant * emacs * for that last one