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Gulfie :verified: mastodon (AP)
Remember to keep pirating Disney content so they aren't allowed to kill your wife
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SherBeareth mastodon (AP)

This gem needs amplifying, from @sarahhbickerton — truly masterful. Much appreciated.

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#TheResistance #women #JDVanceIsWeird #PostMenopause

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Chris Hallbeck mastodon (AP)
My children think I’m a master detective at finding their lost toys when my technique is just entering the room they insist has been thoroughly searched and looking at the floor.
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Dan Gillmor mastodon (AP)

Latest reminder that if you buy something that the maker calls "smart" you are setting yourself up for being ripped off.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/smart-sous-vide-cooker-to-start-charging-2-month-for-10-year-old-companion-app/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I go out of my way to avoid "smart" stuff -- but it's increasingly difficult to find.

Someone will make a lot of money when they open a store that sells things that purchasers fully own.

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RevK :verified_r: mastodon (AP)
There are edge cases of "smart" and "fully in your own local control", no cloud, no account, honest. https://faikin.revk.uk/ is my effort.
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naima mastodon (AP)

picture of mwezi from a few weeks ago at Berkshire furs

:ms_camera_with_flash: by rioichi, whom I'm afraid I have no handles for.

#fursuitFriday

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Cheetah Obscura mastodon (AP)
Most welcome! Always love cute purple animals! 💜

HAPPY #fursuitfriday BABYYYYYY

Here is me being asked to point to the nearest mountain (and I’m such a good boy for doing so)

📷 @hyenaholes.bsky.social
📍Banff, AB

#fursuit #fursuits #photography #fursuitphotography

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Get in critters, we're getting meatballs and furniture and cute trans icon shark plushies!

📷 @xenfluffs
🪡 @selkiesuits
🌍 Confuzzled 2024
⌚ #FursuitFriday

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Steven SDF mastodon (AP)
Until I go full team maws supporter and you throw me out of the bag. XD
@SDF_of_BC *giggle* naaaah. I may prefer the paws but there's plenty of room for both in my world!

Wildfox mastodon (AP)
#FursuitFriday How to find me at IFC next weekend!
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Diego mastodon (AP)

Heya, the weekend is coming.
Enjoy your weekend and Happy Fursuit Friday!

📸 @remy._the_shepherd (On instagram)
——
#furry #fursuit #furryfandom #publicfursuiting #furries #fursuitfriday

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Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)

Hugging Ari at ConFuzzled 2013.
Photo taken by Jack Tail.

#FursuitFriday

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Avon DeRussate mastodon (AP)
I liked that venue
Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)
@avon_deer
Best con venue ever.

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*Taps mic*

As a lifelong teacher, homework should be abolished.

At every grade level.

No research we have supports homework as being effective, and most of it (like teaching grammar) *ACTIVELY HARMS STUDENTS*.

(Except maybe some very mild homework in math and a couple of highly specific sciences).

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Hal Pomeranz mastodon (AP)
Whenever I see a headline like “Cyber attacks against XYZ industry increase by 2000%” I think, “Oh, they finally started monitoring their networks, huh?”
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Cheetah Obscura mastodon (AP)

Feeling a bit introspective on a few different things lately... #FursuitFriday

Photo by Cryptodawg

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#taur
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Kianga mastodon (AP)

Went outside and touched grass, so I can post about it on social media. Am I doing this right?

📷 @keeya

#FursuitFriday #Fursuit

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🆎 mastodon (AP)
“But a man on the internet said EVs don’t work very well when it’s cold?”
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“N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows … So-called ‘duckbill’ N95 masks scored highest in the study... The researchers also found that—in what might come as a surprise to many—cloth masks outperformed the specific brand of KN95 mask that was tested. Surgical masks brought up the rear in performance out of the four types, but even they blocked 70% of the virus, the tests showed. (To reflect the general public's use of masks, study volunteers were not fit-tested for their masks or trained how to properly wear them.)“

#covid #covid19 #GetVaccinated #disability #disabled #LongCovid

[h/t to Violet Blue on @Patreon for their #CovidRoundUp - https://www.patreon.com/violetblue?utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan]

https://today.umd.edu/n95-masks-nearly-perfect-at-blocking-covid-umd-study-shows

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Wolfie Rankin mastodon (AP)
Frankie says Yes please.
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Chris Hallbeck mastodon (AP)
I was doing an activity with my youngest and then told him I had to go back to work. As I walked over to my laptop he said “Okay, go touch your letters daddy.” which is such an amazing burn.
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Liv 🐝 mastodon (AP)
Pronouns in DNS
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Huskify mastodon (AP)

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

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Toasted Lynx mastodon (AP)

Content warning: fursuit straitjacket

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Toasted Lynx mastodon (AP)

Content warning: re: fursuit straitjacket

@Twig
Twig mastodon (AP)

Content warning: re: fursuit straitjacket


jphill mastodon (AP)

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

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China? it's the whole USA credit system. it didn't exist in the US until Reganomics normalized that shit.

Puerto Rico had a law AGAINST credit scoring systems because they go back to Spanish slavery & the creation of plantation (company) towns post abolition.

sometime in the 1980s (aka Reagan-Bush) that all changed.

remember: Prescott Bush was a banker to the Nazis and Hitler's inner circle.

@samhainnight @GhostOnTheHalfShell @joshuaphilll

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JSON Alexander mastodon (AP)

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

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Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)
I love the concept and I love the name, and not least of all because I was a huge fan of Beneath a Steel Sky...!

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

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Juggling With Eggs mastodon (AP)

@marjolica @johnflomax
I agree, the fact that much of UK’s heavy industry and mining has been wound down since the 70’s and outsourced to other countries does probably also play a part in the reduction of deaths.

To acknowledge the H&S risks that other country’s workers take to provide us with cheap goods, food and fuel should be acknowledged and steps taken to improve their workplaces too.

#Fairtrade should be valued by UK consumers.

@JugglingWithEggs @marjolica @johnflomax

That's really good point about the export of risk of worker injury & death.... he distancing of international markets makes us less aware of these dangers


Chris "Not So" Short mastodon (AP)
nixcraft has been sharing this and it's tragically comical
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Draki mastodon (AP)
Oh, myyyyyyyy!
You can't believe! I met Captain Jean-Luc Picard !
A dream came true! 😍😍🤩🥳
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Anupap Kasook mastodon (AP)
da beneide ich dich! X3
Draki mastodon (AP)
@AnupapKasook Awwwwwwhrhrhrhr, danki!
In zwei Wochen sehen wir uns, gell? =D

Violinknitter mastodon (AP)
Kitten, free to a good home
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D. G. Fitch mastodon (AP)

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

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Erkhyan mastodon (AP)

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.

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Dio9sys mastodon (AP)
Every time there's a documentary about someone coming out as gay, they interview family and friends and they're like "I was blindsided!" and then they show childhood photos and they all look like this
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Angie mastodon (AP)

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.

This entry was edited (1 year ago)
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🆎 mastodon (AP)

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:

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Henryk Plötz mastodon (AP)
I'm half expecting them to read this and now argue for banning of handsets on their land because of the radiation emitted by the inverse square law!
@henryk I"m sure the very people who get 5g towers blocked are the same who complain about poor mobile coverage. (Also those who oppose streets being dug to install fibre complain about poor broadband and those who refuse wind turbines hate high energy prices)
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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

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Tom Kindlon mastodon (AP)

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

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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.

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