Posts by solarbird@solarbird.net
(DIR) Post #AhNiV3Lp11J6vjmQYi by solarbird@solarbird.net
2024-03-20T07:29:11Z
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this is some 1820s science right hereWhat.“We have discovered that hard, electrical conductors (e.g., metals or graphite) can be adhered to soft, aqueous materials (e.g., hydrogels, fruit, or animal tissue) without the use of an adhesive. The adhesion is induced by a low DC electric field.“Most importantly: it stays stuck with the voltage turned off. It’s stable for MONTHS. Reverse the polarity of the electrical flow and it unsticks. YES REALLY. This is some literal “Alessandro Volta playing around with bananas in a shed” science AND YET it WORKS and we DID NOT KNOW.Here’s a video. Holy shit. What.[link] #science #science
(DIR) Post #AnhkCg5lTJTAtaEeMS by solarbird@solarbird.net
2024-11-04T16:14:00Z
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A pitch I did not expect to have to make on this final dayFor years now, I have been railing against the Republican Party as a literal – literal – Party of Plague. In these closing days of the campaign, they have quadrupled back down on this in ways that will kill millions of Americans.Not “might.” Will.Appointing RFK, Jr. as czar of public health and letting him “go wild” will kill millions. Not might: will. Not immediately, no, but over time. Trump himself is utterly refusing to promise he and his party won’t ban vaccines and said on Sunday that RFK Jr.’s pledge to eliminate fluoridation of water on day one “sounds OK to me.”If they do this and make it stick, millions will die. And an outsized number of them will be children.Courtesy McNadoMD on Mastodon, here are a few of the diseases mass vaccination eliminated from American life, and which banning vaccination will bring back, along with some of their symptoms and progression paths.Lockjaw and rabies:Diphtheria:Whooping cough:Polio:You get the idea, right?These aren’t the only ones. These are just a few of those less often mentioned in these modern times, because people have forgot they exist.When I say the Republican Party is a Party of Plague, when I say it is a goddamn death cult, I mean every single one of those words in every way you might think.They are promising economic ruin and they are promising ethnic purges and now they are promising mass death of children.All while killing pregnant people for their vile sense of domination, of course. Let us never forget that, since their families certainly won’t.One of the things their apologists keep saying is that “Trump doesn’t mean it” and “Trump won’t do it,” and “That’s just Trump being Trump,” and they talk about “Trump derangement syndrome,” and say that we’re stupid for believing what their candidate fucking says he’ll do, and meanwhile, they get enraged about shit they completely make up about us and the candidates who are with us.We react to things their candidates promise. They react to shit they make up wholesale about us. We are not the fucking same.If only the political press would catch on to that fact.The very last day of a campaign is a pretty lousy time to bring up another topic, even if it’s not really new. But this is, again, so murderously psychotic that I can’t not bring it back up.Maybe you can bring it up, too, on this final day of this hellish and evil campaign, this Monday, November 4th, 2024.Zero days remain.It is Lastday.[link] #medicine #politics #science #USPol #fascism #politics #uspolitics
(DIR) Post #AnupfMD3sygKqdYgpU by solarbird@solarbird.net
2024-11-10T22:10:49Z
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CISHET MEN: GET ON ITI am not seeing nearly enough cishet men react proactively to this national wave of rape threats.Most men listen only to men, particularly on topics like these. These men specifically only listen to men. Not listening to the opinions of women is the point, because as far as they’re concerned, we don’t get to have any.Right now, these men are testing what they can get away with. They see but don’t care about how women react; if anything, they like the revulsion and anger, and look forward to more of it when they actually start “grabbing women by the pussy.”But they do want to see how other men will react. They want to know what other men will say or do.Passivity now, in the face of this, is permission. And your men friends are watching. If you don’t object, they probably won’t either. So if you’re against this – and you fucking well need to be – you need to get ahead of it.And the next time, and the time after that? Every other time the fash test something? Because they will be testing everything they can?It’s the same reality.You have to get in front of it. Independently. Not just a thumbs up to a woman’s post. Preferably in your own words.And you have to start right now.#fascism #politics #uspolitics
(DIR) Post #Anv8wmVTGXq0SUBvP6 by solarbird@solarbird.net
2024-11-10T22:21:17Z
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Say “You know that rape taunt going around? If you do this in front of me, I WILL IMMEDIATELY PUNCH YOU IN THE DICK.”Or whatever you’re willing to say, but say it as strongly as you’re willing to say it. They’re looking for social permission from men. You must pre-emptively deny that in the strongest terms you’re willing.This is about force now. Not reason.
(DIR) Post #AnvDZOmDpHrNyKhDbk by solarbird@solarbird.net
2024-11-10T22:11:47Z
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And yes, if you’ve understood this?White people?Extrapolate it to race.
(DIR) Post #AoZwB8KktMyW5hnx2G by solarbird@solarbird.net
2024-11-30T18:14:00Z
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google’s latest fuckery: if you write online, read thisThe Google app for iOS now adds THEIR links to YOUR posts from YOUR website unless you opt-out.Their links lead people away from your site and back to Google. Because that’s definitely what you want, right? That’s why you have a blog or portal or web site or whatever. You want people to leave your site and go back to Google.Oh, it’s not?If you don’t like it, you can “Opt out.” Opting out is a pain in the ass. Here’s where you go to do it. You have to enter every variation of each of your domains or it won’t work. It will take up to 30 days, during which time Google will continue to pollute your work and your writing and your website with their modifications and their added links to take people away from your site and back to themselves.For example, here’s the list of what I need to opt-out just for this one blog:solarbird.nethttp://solarbird.nethttps://solarbird.netwww.solarbird.nethttp://www.solarbird.nethttps://www.solarbird.netweb.solarbird.nethttp://web.solarbird.nethttps://web.solarbird.netYes, you explicitly have to file no prefix, http:, and https: variants separately. They say so.Making it difficult like this is 100% intentional and entirely designed to make it as annoying as possible, and also, to make sure you slip up if at all possible and forget one or more combinations.(Tho’ I am just going to depreciate web. as a prefix right now, to bring down the load a little. Still gonna list ’em, though, because spite is why.)Right now it’s only in the Google app for iOS and it’s probably a test to see whether they can get away with it without complaint, and how much revenue it generates. Let’s make that a combination of no and as close to zero as possible. Because otherwise they’ll roll it out everywhere, and probably derank you if you don’t go along.Fucking hell, Google. Fuck you. Just… fuck you.#art #t0000000000bs_ #writing
(DIR) Post #Ar8zZcxFQF83ejraIi by solarbird@solarbird.net
2025-02-15T02:02:03Z
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HHS employees, DO NOT OPEN YOUR EMAILHHS employees, DO NOT OPEN YOUR EMAIL.Not without reading this first.They’re going to cut off your network access as soon as you read your email, so you need to download a bunch of things first. Details at the link.DO NOT OPEN YOUR EMAIL WITHOUT READING THIS FIRST.See also the firings in the Epidemic Intelligence Service.#datascience #fascism #medicine #politics #science #uspol #uspolitics
(DIR) Post #AsaXwJp3UHUXC1NZM8 by solarbird@solarbird.net
2025-03-30T17:23:00Z
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HEY EVERYONE DOING PROTESTS LISTEN UPOne addendum to the last post:We need to do our own reporting. We need to talk about these protests. To everyone. You need to post about them, at least to say you did them, that you were there.The media’s not reporting it, so WE HAVE TO REPORT IT INSTEAD.Which is one reason why I’m writing all this up. WE have to spread the news, because THEY will NOT.Seriously, the fash podcasting littleman I talked about last post? He was literally the ONLY media to show up. No other media was there.So once again, we have to be that media. For real.#politics #uspol #uspolitics #wapol
(DIR) Post #At3ebDoTFCv4Acu74C by solarbird@solarbird.net
2025-04-13T18:43:07Z
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Alpha test release: do you bike in Snohomish County?I’ve got an alpha of the Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map posted in a temporary location. It extends the map northward to Lynnwood City Centre, tho’ not all the way up to Alderwood Mall.If you have any knowledge of southwestern Snohomish County biking, give it a look? I’ll get up to Mountlake Terrace to catch a train and I’ve biked the Interurban and North Creek trails pretty far up, but that’s it, and is nothing like on-the-ground knowledge.The uploaded version had to be trimmed at the bottom a little to stay on 11×17 paper with one-quarter-inch margins. Here’s what the full thing looks like; I’m honestly a bit up in the air about what to do about this. Staying on a single row of tiled 11×17 strikes me as kind of important.(Just because I happen to have some 11×17.625″ paper for reasons doesn’t mean most people do, because ALMOST NOBODY DOES lol)#BikeMap #biking #maps #seattle
(DIR) Post #Az2z9wjtRSnC6hKSeG by solarbird@solarbird.net
2025-10-09T16:01:00Z
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post your reality, part twoI’ve been calling for people to post pictures, video, whatever, of their towns when Herr Fuckface describes them as war zones, as hellholes, as whatever he pukes up this time. Particularly Chicago, and now, extra particularly Portland. But any blue city or state he lies about.Post the truth.On Wednesday night, Jimmy Kimmel requested people do that too, using the hashtag #ShowMeYourHellhole. They’ll look for and highlight some of those videos and contact you if they want to use it, so only use it on video you specifically want seen by as many people as possible. Post your reality; use the hashtag to help other people see it, if you’re okay with the one in a million shot that they ask you to let them use it on Kimmel.In reality, of course, they’ll mostly be checking YouTube and maybe other corporate social media, not cooperative spaces like the Federation. But he’s famous enough that if he calls for a hashtag, a lot of people will use it, and in this case, that’s no bad thing.So – Portland. Chicago. Los Angeles. Memphis. DC. You in particular, but not just you……mods are asleep. Post your reality.#cascadia #fascism #photography #politics #portland #seattle #ShowMeYourHellhole #uspol #uspolitics
(DIR) Post #AzYA08PsII4Gp6FOL2 by solarbird@solarbird.net
2025-10-24T18:54:07Z
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I really gotta point something out hereI really, really, really gotta point something out here.This “ballroom” Trump Shitstain the First says he’s building is 90,000 square feet, and is going to cost THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.Apparently. That’s what he says.This is bullshit. He’s pocketing AT LEAST half of that money. Probably two-thirds, maybe 70%. I daresay probably 70%. Or who knows, all of it – but let’s say he’s actually going to build something and some part of the extorted “donations” will actually be spent doing so. It’s still bullshit, and he’s still pocketing most of the money.How do I know this?Because $300 million for 90,000 square feet is over $3330/square foot in construction cost. That’s absolutely batshit insane by any standard. The highest-end commercial construction in the US is under $1000/square foot. You’re telling me he’s going to spend over three times that?I don’t fucking think so. It’s bullshit, and he’s keeping most of the money.But if that’s not enough for you, consider this:The most expensive commercial building EVER BUILT IN THE WORLD (according to Wikipedia’s list of most expensive buildings) is One Financial Centre in Hong Kong, which is, slightly ironically, two massive skyscrapers. It’s a combined two million square feet of floor space, mostly vertical, which adds assloads of cost. It is opulent as fuck and serves extremely high-end customers in an extremely wealthy city.Excluding land costs (because shitstain has the land already), 1FC cost right around $3315/square foot to build.Which is to say, slightly LESS than his fucking “ballroom.”His ballroom will cost MORE per square foot than the most expensive luxury commercial construction project ever built.Which is, again, bullshit.He’s pocketing that money, and nobody should think for a moment otherwise.#economics #fascism #politics #uspol #uspolitics