Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics https://phys.org/news/2023-04-chemists-tackle-tough-recycling-plastics.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
#plastic #recycling #chemistry #science #technology

Some of us make too many excuses not to do something that is actually in your best interests.

Excuse 1: “Oh, the bill won’t pass anyway…”

Answer: THIS IS NOT THE POINT—YOU NEED TO LET THESE GOP’ERS KNOW YOU ARE VOTING THEM OUT! Use. Your. Power. VOTE.

#vote #voteblue #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #politics #usa #fascism

A row of colourful guitars seen in Naples, Italy.
Naples, a city in southern Italy, sits on the Bay of Naples.
https://pixels.com/featured/guitar-row-john-hughes.html
#BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Naples #Italy #guitar

"Microsoft Edge sends a request to bingapis .com with the full URL of nearly every page you navigate to"

Microsoft secretly tracks people across myriads of websites/apps via pixel. Now it was caught tracking them directly in the browser, by default. Wild.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23697532/microsoft-edge-browser-url-leak-bing-privacy

"Gobsmacked Microsoft president says UK's regulator blocking the Activision deal is company's 'darkest day'"

Not so fast what about the day Windows ME released

https://www.pcgamer.com/gobsmacked-microsoft-president-says-uks-regulator-blocking-the-activision-deal-is-companys-darkest-day/

Marjorie Taylor Greene has lashed out at non-biological mums, saying stepmothers and adoptive parents don’t count as mothers.

This is what biological reductionism leads to.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/27/marjorie-taylor-greene-adoptive-parents-stepmothers/

#transgender #trans #lgbtq

A friend who's a public school teacher isn't allowed to accept gifts valued at over $50 from publishers, outside organizations, or parents. Clarence Thomas feels entitled to accept gifts "from a friend" that are worth more than she earns in a decade.

Scientists discover gene in the brain that puts the brakes on anxiety
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/gene-stops-anxiety/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

Gender-affirming care—for ADULTS—is now predictably under attack in #Texas. This is part of a Republican plan of genocide underway against #trans people. We need cis allies to be loud and angry on our behalf. Pay attention, this doesn't end here or with us:

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/25/transgender-health-care-legislature/ via @texastribune

#LGBTQIA+ #transgender #transphobia #HumanRights #Healthcare #news #Politics #TXlege #USpol #gender

Every budding teen (and adult) in the country needs to learn this ASAP. I've done dozens of presentations at High Schools here in Ottawa and this is a common activity. Among a litany of other things, simply sharing a non-consensual intimate image might land you on the National Sex Offender Registry. #CanadianCriminalLaw #Sexting #Cybersecurity #ITSecurity #Infosec https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2023/04/strengthening-the-national-sex-offender-registry-and-empowering-victims-of-crime--government-of-canada-introduces-legislation.html

fully open source girl, free from any precompiled gender binaries

i'm not transitioning i'm bootstrapping my gender from source

Why don't the Broncos have a 1st-round pick in the NFL draft?

https://broncoswire.usatoday.com/2023/04/27/why-do-the-denver-broncos-not-have-a-first-round-draft-pick/

Broncos Wire

#RussellWilson #BroncosBuzz #GeorgePaton #quarterback #Timely #Trade

All articles in the journal's new #JEB100 Special Issue, Century of Comparative Biomechanics: Emerging and Historical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Field, are available for #Free

#biomechanics #zoology #biology #ecology #evolution #Engineering

https://tinyurl.com/42zhapj6

@pthenq1 @cwebber

Guix is the name of a package manager (GNU Guix) and a Linux distribution (GNU Guix System) that is designed around a few very specific goals but two of the big ones are: use only fully FOSS software, nothing proprietary; and use a functional package management system, which means packages are managed in a way that makes the result predictable and reproducible, and undoable (rollbacks).

Airman Accused of Leak Has History of Racist and Violent Remarks, Filing Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/us/politics/jack-teixeira-leaks.html

Thing is, attacks on trans people work best when so-called moderates and progressives don’t care enough to stand up for us. But now we’re seeing conservatives massively overextend and, in the process, actively throwing a bunch of moderates and progressives onto trans folks’ side.

Our position remains clear. We will not back down on providing private, safe communications. We join with other encrypted messengers pushing back on the UK's flawed Online Safety Bill.

It is #NationalBabeRuthDay today!
In his MLB career, he hit 714 homeruns but his first professional homerun was hit in Toronto!
It happened on Sept. 5, 1914 when he played for the Providence Grays.
He not only hit that homerun, but pitched a shoutout against Toronto, winning 9-0

A tweak in the operations of #NASA's #Voyager2 spacecraft should allow instruments to remain running for several more years. Declining power from the spacecraft's RTG would have required the project to shut down an instrument this year. Engineers instead decided to turn off a voltage regulator, freeing up power it had been using for the instruments. With the voltage regulator off, there should be enough power to operate all the current instruments to at least 2026.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-will-do-more-science-with-new-power-strategy