We need good PSAs

Thank you to Yale for publishing a wonderful handout with great graphics for the general public. This is one about asymptomatic infections that should be posted everywhere. https://pdflink.to/yale-covid-19-immune-system-impacts/. Please share with friends, family, work, school, church and social circles. #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #Covid #Covid19

Content warning: fursuit straitjacket Reveal/hide

Happy fursuit friday :P

#fursuitfriday

The dehumanization of the homeless has brought us to a point where existing without a home is now a criminalizable offense. That means poverty is being criminalized, public space is increasingly inaccessible, and existence is becoming harder for all of us. We have to resist, both in action and in shifting the paradigm away from the dehumanization of our fellow human beings who struggle in this capitalist world.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-homeless-are-not-alone

The Homeless are not Alone

I just saw another video of Gavin Newsom personally stealing the possessions of homeless people and throwing them out.

^{Joshua P. Hill (New Means)}

Meet Foster! My new canine/telephone sona, just arrived on Wednesday and can't wait to take them on adventures

Maker is _memevit_ on Instagram

#fursuitfriday

On its 50th birthday we might ask how successful has the Health & Safety at Work Act been?

well in 1969 there were 323,000 workplace deaths & injuries.... top from 168,000 ten years earlier.

In 1974, the there were 2.9 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers; by 2023-24, it was down to 0.42 per 100,000 representing 138 work-related deaths.

Now that looks like success.... not Health & Safety gone mad, but workers & their families saved from tragedies!

#workers #politics

https://theconversation.com/the-uks-health-and-safety-at-work-act-is-50-heres-how-its-changed-our-lives-235794

The UK’s Health and Safety at Work Act is 50. Here’s how it’s changed our lives

The Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974 brought legislation to protect employees out of the Victorian age.

^{The Conversation}

found out another friend has Long COVID of the "full symptoms" variety that is not abating and has gone for 3 weeks so far.

fuck this society for convincing people COVID is no longer a problem. we are intentionally disabling people. #COVIDIsNotOver

Still thinking of the tidbit that the piece of popular wisdom that says human brains finish developing at 25…

… apparently comes from a study that found human brains were still developing at 25, but didn’t study people older than 25.

Masks keep you safe.

Vaccines work.

Never Again means Never Again, no matter who does it.

Global Warming is real.

Billionaires are an existential threat to society.

This is just your periodic reminder that you are sane and the gaslighting isn't working on you.

Me, replying to a facebook group where a local football club has been offered money for a mobile tower on its land. The land isn't "beautiful" so won't be spoiled. A win/win, right?

No, because unscientific cretins are claiming the usual old shit about "health effects of 5G" and are trying to get it stopped.

I've obviously left out "duty cycle", beam forming and such. But still. I really think people go "ooh tower, scary" and totally forget their HANDSET causes far higher dose.

Me:

One way sexism appears in the workplace is when maternity leave is considered some sort of holiday or break by male colleagues....

So, I love this graphic telling it how it really is (which is circulating on LinkedIn).

Next time, a colleague make the mistake of think maternity leave is a holiday, print this out & stick it on their desk.

#women #pregnancy #feminism #workers

Pre-chopped fruits and veggies make it possible for so many people with various disabilities to prepare healthy meals and maintain their energy.

#disabled #spoonie #chronicillness #mecfs #longcovid @disabled @spoonies @chronicillness @mecfs @longcovid

I've noticed a big shift toward, "We should be teaching kids how to cite AI."

That's antithetical to citations. A citation points you to the original source. Citing AI is effectively erasing original sources in a misguided effort to "teach students how to responsibly use AI tools."

Responsible use is teaching people that AI tools are plagiarism machines. Period.

Light ya up! ✨😋

📸 QuickshotCoyote 🤍💜🪇

#EAST #FursuitsEveryday

huh, this makes a lot of sense and is kinda cool

so, I was wondering why mahjong tiles use all the standard numerals for digits except five, which uses the "financial" version

backing up a bit, in latin scripts, we tend to write out numbers in full on financial documents like checks to prevent them from being altered. it's very easy to change a 1 to a 7 but much more difficult to change one to seven

but in chinese and languages which use chinese characters, the numerals are the words. with extremely simple numerals it's trivial to change them by adding in extra lines:

一二三四五六七八九

so, there are "financial" versions of the numerals that are much more complicated and can't easily be changed to match each other:

壹貳參肆伍陸柒捌玖

out of these numerals, one stands out as being much more similar to its original: five (五). in particular, it's the same character, but with a "person" radical next to it: 伍

it's also the only character which uses its financial version on mahjong tiles instead of the original

so, it turns out that apparently, this is to ensure it has a different tactile feel from three (三), which differs from five by two lines, assuming that this reddit comment is accurate: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/16liu0b/why_is_%E4%BC%8D_used_on_mahjong_tiles_instead_of_%E4%BA%94/

since mahjong tiles are small and harder to hold/hide, a lot of people rely on feeling the tiles instead of looking at them to determine which tile they are, and this makes the tiles feel more different. (unlike playing cards, mahjong tiles are pretty much always engraved)

which is a cool case of a game being made more blind-accessible even if it wasn't necessarily the intention originally

Just saw this headline under "positive news": "9-year-old sells lemonade to help pay for dad's kidney surgery"

This is not fucking positive or heartwarming, it's dystopian!

It's utterly horrible that we've decided that allowing people to become billionaires is more important than universal access to lifesaving medical care.

I've lost count of how many studies have shown that the government just doing the obvious thing like paying to give people healthcare, homes, UBI, or whatever is ultimately more cost effective and beneficial to everyone than punishing people for being poor.

But punishing people for being poor is foundational to our society so, you know.

I worked with an academic back in the early ‘00s in the UK who looked into the mental health benefits of playing with LEGO.

Great to see this story about how it helps with childhood trauma and PTSD.

I’ve always loved LEGO - particularly the space variety! The combination of imagination and physical play is very therapeutic.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-lego-is-being-used-to-reduce-stress-combat-childhood-trauma-and-manage-ptsd/

How LEGO Is Being Used to Reduce Stress, Combat Childhood Trauma, and Manage PTSD

The root of LEGO's tremendous, and proven, psychiatric benefits lies in the ability to help individuals zone out while playing with them.

^{Andy Corbley (Good News Network)}

i wish PC tech reviewers (and the market at large) gave more of a crap about power efficiency

twice the power consumption for being 10% faster than a competing part is criticised in passing, but ultimately treated like no big deal; a new generation bringing just a 5% performance uplift at 33% lower power is a "missed opportunity"

For those who did not receive the last memo:

THE VOID is for screaming.

THE ABYSS is for staring.

Please do not scream into THE ABYSS. And under no circumstances should you ever stare into THE VOID.

That is all.

We've been hearing an increasing number of reports of trans people's GPs refusing to prescribe their HRT to them - even if they have a letter from an NHS gender clinic requesting that they do. That's why we're created our new My GP is Refusing to Prescribe My HRT resource: https://transactual.org.uk/medical-transition/my-gp-is-refusing-to-prescribe-my-hrt-what-can-i-do/

Has your GP recently refused to prescribe you HRT? Let us know at https://tinyurl.com/TransActualHRT

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #TransHealth #HRT #Testosterone #Oestrogen #MTF #FTM #MTX #FTX

Sunset my love – @inkrrred on Tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/inkrrred/758759978956914688/sunset-my-love

#centaur

inkrred

Sunset my love <3

^Tumblr

It's been ages since I've been through my photos and thought it was high time for me to post something new.

Here we have a photo of Capo the maned wolf (https://www.furtrack.com/index/character:capo) taken at a Manc Furs meet last year. While he is striking a 'no nonsense' pose, it's hard to look menacing with those deep eyes and fluffy mane.

#Furry #Fursuit #Fursuiter #Fursuiting #FursuitEveryday #MancFurs

Apparently I have two types of friends right now: Those with covid and those with a bad cold/allergies who won't test for covid.

If you're one of the latter, be responsible and test. I'm sorry if it ruins your weekend plans, but you could literally save someone's life by being responsible.