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Battery passports... you may not have heard much about them yet, but they are a critical part of a better future. Every large battery will have these, and really, plenty of other products need something like this too. Hooray for that future starting now!
"Volvo Cars is launching the world's first EV battery passport recording the origins of raw materials, components, recycled content and carbon footprint"
Holy fuck I just made a banger of a pride month profile header without even realizing it.
Check this shit out 😁
Like @alice says, "it's all fun and gays until someone gets locked out"
Be Gay - Do Crime lockpick earrings
https://www.lockpickextreme.com/product/lockpick-earrings-pride-be-gay-do-crime/
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign on social media
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
@🌿Mouse-Friend🌿 You can tell if bin Laden is there if you get bin Laden's DNA. I thought that's what they did. Or possibly find a concentration of Arabic people.
The plan was actually to try to find his descendants from living there a few years?
This is not stained glass, it's a wing.
- Just one dragonfly can consume over one hundred mosquitos in a day
- Dragonflies can fly backwards
- They have nearly 360-degree vision
- Their wings inhibit bacterial growth due to their natural structures
- They're very beautiful
"Dragonfly wing after emergence" by photographer Kelly J. Rebar
Text Rainmaker1973 (+Reddit posts)
I see nightmare stories of bosses getting upset when employees take PTO for important life events. I was at my desk at a previous job when I got a call that a family member had become suddenly ill. My boss all but shoved me out the door: "Go be with your family. Now. Leave. Take care of this and don't come back until you're ready. We'll cover everything here."
I couldn't overstate the effect this had on my loyalty to that boss and company.
@faoluin It's a stark difference. My previous employer was decent but might still call me (they'd give me back PTO days if they did)
I work for a university now. I think it wasn't even a month after I started when there was an extremely high likelihood my dad wasn't going to make it through the night. At the time the bereavement policy required being there for a year.
When I brought up with my manager that I might have to work remote because of it, he told me absolutely not, and that HR would figure out a way to make it all work and not to worry in the slightest, to go take the time I needed if I did and it would all be paid. I ended up not needing to, but the flexibility and care and the way it was expressed was a complete opposite from my old job. I felt wanted, valued for me and not just for being another techy person, and I still do.
Working for a university is the best. Could I make probably twice (or thrice, *maybe* even quadruple) the salary if I went to work for the national labs, or some weapons contractor (those are the other main tech employers here)? Yeah, probably. Would it be worth it? Fuck no. Not at all.
I work 3/4 time on a beautiful campus full of lovely people, that I can bike to in 10 minutes. Nothing I build kills anybody. My mortgage gets paid. I have a proper pension. It's great.
SNIFFS YOU SNIFFS YOU SNIFFS YOU SNIFFS -
While Taz'rir was at ConFuzzled, he was using his nose to sniff around for some fun!
Thank you VidiTheReindeer for the photos!
Fox steppies 
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GoniFox
✂️ @LupeSuits
📷 @AeroFox64 & me
#FursuitFriday #furry #fursuit #FoxFursuit #FursuitPhoto #FursuitPhotography #LupeSuits #FoxFurry #CuteFursuits #steppies #paws
Heliotrope Hawthorn, or HeeHaw for short, our plush donkey fursuit! another critter we own made by suit-a-dile, because we love their work!https://www.twitc...YouTube
still a majority of people out there who think that bureaucracy is a bad and inefficient way to run a country.
bureaucracy is in fact an extremely well-regulated system for the redistribution of wealth, and the moderation of political power.
there IS a reason the rich and powerful want you to think otherwise…
Deliberately undermining one of the most powerful tools against the threat of global pandemics from novel emerging infectious diseases is not only evil — it’s stunningly shortsighted zero-sum thinking that puts the US population at risk as well.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
When #Labour dropped their Green Pledge of £28 billion I had to admit to myself that the window for real #climate action in this country had just been slammed shut.
I want politicians to be honest about their fears for the near future.
We can’t be too cheap to save ourselves.
Fiscal rules have been broken plenty of times in my lifetime.
I don’t care if we tax and borrow our way to really reach our climate targets…the alternative is just war, famine, floods and anarchy.
'Fiscal rules' are just made up anyway.
They get changed to suit political purposes.
Professor Murphy states "There are no such things as fiscal rules. There are instead fiscal choices."
"However, many politicians... often claim that such rules exist. Those politicians create what they described as fiscal rules to justify the fiscal choices that they have made with regard to the macroeconomic options that are available to them."
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/glossary/F/#fiscal-rules
The Tax Research glossary seeks to explain the terms used on this blog that refer to more technical aspects of economics, accounting and tax.Funding the Future
I hate asking this, but...
Did anyone shoot any video of my strowger exchange in #nullsector at #emf2024, and would be ok with me using a short clip of it in a video I'm editing?
I got so carried away with talking to people about it, I forgot to actually film it in use 🤦♂️
I only need a short clip to fill in that bit of the narative.
The vid won't be monetized so I can't pay a meaningful amount, but I will credit/link etc, and of course love you forever!
#emf #emf24 #emfcamp #emfcamp2024
All shading languages suck.
Moreover, they’re an outdated concept and they’re failing us.
today i learned:
Have you been stared at by this dog? If so, you could be entitled to compensation 👀
📸 PurpleFoxCosmo
#FursuitFriday #fursuit #furry
Two chees and their emotional support doggo for #FursuitFriday! 💜 With @shadowcheets and Woger
Photo by @VarekMorro
An Arcanine (unknown fursuiter) leaving the Anthrohio hotel on Sunday, pushing their luggage cart. Tag if you know who it is.
#FursuitFriday #AnthrOhio #Arcanine
rad!
this has some serious wipeout/'the design republic' vibes