zx3 @zx3@driveinsaturday.org
- pronouns
- he/him, occasionally it/them
TMKF (THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS) 9000
owner of driveinsaturday.org
head projectionist for Drive-in Saturday, the internet's premier movie-riffing organization ("Joel who?")
- = flesh is fleeting, chrome is forever = -
Joined Nov 2022
zx3
boosted
Jewish Voices for Peace have occupied the Statue of Liberty, singing “cease fire now” as helicopters circle
There is nothing Jewish about apartheid or genocide
@Momentrabbit one advantage of living in the church is that you won't have rowdy immortals mucking up the place with their swordfights. it's three times a week around here. i'm like "go have your little head-choppy lightning battles somewhere else" but do they listen to me? phaugh.
(don't know what level of levity-appreciation you're currently at but we are all pulling for you, this is an awfully tough thing you're going through and i hope it all turns out well)
zx3
boosted
"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance, will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try."
Karis Nemik, Star Wars: Andor.
zx3
boosted
People of the US: election day is tomorrow. Voting is harm reduction and small, local elections are the ones where your vote has the highest impact. Go do the thing.
@LexYeen so many possibilities for a POE (pain over Ethernet) protocol. so many useful uses.
sending a rejection notice to a job applicant on the same day as their interview should cause the sender an immediate sensation of nausea and intense groinal pain, because that's exactly what getting one feels like.
this MAIL...is making me...POPFUL
remember, if you don't set your clocks back an hour tonight, you *will* be eaten by Langoliers. i don't make the rules here, people.
tonight's Culture Ship name:
GCU Bizarre Gardening Accident
just had a technical interview for a job i really want. now, all i need to do is wait, and figure out how to turn off the part of my brain that won't stop screaming.
we close the (heavy, creaky) door on another spooky season. happy Samhain to those who celebrate.
remember to leave a glass of champagne and a goblet of claret out on the stairs for Vincent Price and Elvira, who have been out carousing with bois and ghouls.
the Infinite Arcade awaits.
what shopping is like right now: it is not christmas yet, it's not true, that is bullsheet, it is nahhht.
oh hai santa
right about now, if a shift as winter caretaker for the Overlook hotel opened up as an unpaid internship with nothing but the promise of a reference letter come April, i'd already be in the car.
@acetone_kitten watch out, looks like you got Neon Witch Hats coming in on the left there, they're an invasive species. [clanky snugs]
@BestGirlGrace Wife 2: This Time It's HERsonal
zx3
boosted
Hoooly 🥞 I had not expected them to have this much success just grafting metal into bones. The bone actually grew around it, does not seem infected, and the bone mount is actually so strong the bionic hand can just be attached to it. Look at these x-rays, this is like right out of a movie, if we can replicate this to other people it's going to change prosthetics/augmentation forever.
Revolutionary Bionic Hand Fuses With Woman's Bones, Muscles, And Nerves : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/revolutionary-bionic-hand-fuses-with-womans-bones-muscles-and-nerves
@johnshirley2024@wandering.shop and this space music too!
zx3
boosted
You already know that plastics aren't being recycled, not to any significant extent. But there are some good details in this MIT article. It talks about some promising options for increasing reuse and recycling, talks about bioplastics, and notes the emergence of a company called "Perpetual" that's trying to stand up whole new circular systems for food packaging in 3 (soon to be 4) USA cities. Ultimately though, the tide of plastics can't be stemmed until polymer manufacturers, most of which are also oil extractors like Exxon, are forced to pay for the costs of pollution.
#Plastics #environment #pollution #FossilFuels #Climate
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/12/1081129/plastic-recycling-climate-change-microplastics/
- pronouns
- he/him, occasionally it/them
TMKF (THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS) 9000
owner of driveinsaturday.org
head projectionist for Drive-in Saturday, the internet's premier movie-riffing organization ("Joel who?")
- = flesh is fleeting, chrome is forever = -
Joined Nov 2022
