Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
oops I'm not supposed to be here any more
but I haven't figured out that business with the archive yet
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my undyne shimejis: sitting around like mean girls judging me
my alphys shimejis: hiding on the ceiling
ok looks like I have my archive at last so once I figure out how to get anything useful from it (only the Parallax thread, really) I'm blowing this popsicle stand
follow me on @alyx@icosahedron.website instead, or if you want there's always my Twitter (AlyxWoodward there)
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it wouldn't let me download tho anyone know how to get shimejis for download?
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some surprising sustainability
Also:
* Growing almonds for almond milk damages ecosystems and uses a *lot* of water. 80% of the world's almonds come from California, where severe droughts can be a problem
* Soy farming drives deforestation in South America. Tofu can have twice the carbon footprint of chicken
* Fish populations are dynamic. Sustainable fishing leaves land open for reforestation
* Bioplastics are not necessarily better than recyclable plastics like PET
* Industrial cooking is more efficient than home cooking. Tinned tomatoes, chick peas, etc can be a good option
* Cling film is plastic, and plastic is not good. But if you use it carefully, you can prevent food waste, which is worse. Beeswax wrapping is ideal
* Leather can last over a decade, and is biodegradable. Fake leather is made from short lived plastic
* Cotton production is energy intensive. A cotton bag needs to be used 149 times to be more carbon efficient than plastic. Get a good one. Use it often
once I get my archive safely downloaded I'm gone from this place. I'll keep doing the Parallax and _Organic Syntheses_ review stuff there, for now, until we can work out a better place to go
not sure what more extensive shit we'll be doing but for now, I'm gonna be ditching this instance and reviving @alyx@icosahedron.website
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Another photo of a pygmy nuthatch.
This one creepily hanging upside down. Do you even birb, nuthatch?
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It's exactly two weeks until my birthday! If you are the sort of person who is inclined to buy me a gift, here is a list of things I wouldn't mind having: https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1UMBS6S4HV6Q3/
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Mauna Kea, Decolonization, Hawaii
(Photo taken from Mauna Kea today as myself and the family went up to join our fellow Hawaiian kia'i)
Also, the international astronomical community & beyond are more and more on the side of the Native Hawaiian protectors of Mauna Kea each day. Currently seriously investigating the Canary Islands alternate site for TMT. https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/08/09/astronomy-faces-a-field-defining-choice-in-the-next-steps-for-the-tmt/#598df10244ff
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Asking for Money 
I need $40 before this Wednesday if I am to be able to make it to my therapist's office for my weekly therapy appointment.
Please help me out:
Cash App: http://cash.me/$NatsumiKitty
PayPal: http://paypal.me/gamer0313
oh I guess I technically have the icosahedron.website account
suppose I could at least just ditch this account if nothing else
archive the Parallax stuff, which is basically the only thing I've ever done here that I care about saving
how are we gonna cut ourselves loose from this fucking fediverse? staying here is stagnation. but no other course seems like a good one. like, I got my Twitter account but I earnestly hope there's no future in Twitter either, that's just too depressing
negative, community salt
ugh. I should just clear on out of here. sick of this place's dysfunctions
the fediverse really is like the flippin' suburbs
bluh. going to bed
"I think our next release should incorporate blockchain technology"
"Earl...we make operational amplifiers here"
like if you wanted to filter out potential bad tech employees, you'd probably do a pretty decent job just by finding out which candidates are into #cryptocurrency garbage
you'd have every reason to believe they'd be risky hires. secretly hijacking everything that wasn't nailed down, to mine their play money on. would you want a Bitcoin cultist _working_ for you? I wouldn't
witchcraft.cafe disappearing, salt about Mastodon
I swear, this place is like "geek social fallacies gets their own social medium"
witchcraft.cafe disappearing, salt about Mastodon
I feel like it really says something about what a chaotic clusterfuck the fediverse is, that an instance can simply disappear, and nobody will even tell me what happened after weeks of asking
