GhostOnTheHalfShell

eniko, 3 hours ago to random

For my birthday, I'd really like it if my beloved fedi could spread word far and wide of Kitsune Tails. It's a platformer with a heartwarming story featuring queer main characters and personal discoveries in classic SMB3 style. You can find trailer, screenshots, and wishlist links here: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

It's coming out this year and the team and I have been working hard on it for several years now. Most of the team is queer in some form so by boosting you'd not only be making me happy on my birthday, but supporting a bunch of queer creators making queer art as well

yuzu kitsune tails, a purple haired fox girl, picks up samurai armor in a tower that's rapidly filling with lava. she jumps away from the rising lava and sticks her spear in the wall, doing a dashing twirl to get on top of it. she walks off the spear and into a new scene, fighting a ghost fox with armor and spear. it stabs and she jumps over, but is caught by a follow up stab. the ghost fox over extends and its ghostly powers wane, giving yuzu a chance to bop on its head

mrchrisadams, 5 hours ago to random

This is an industrial designed exercise bike from Lithuania that can store 2KWh of electricity generated by your own exercise.

The electricity can then be used for loads of stuff - it has a bunch of DC outputs, like USB-C (up to 60W) and USB-A, and AC outputs (can output up to 2KW - enough for an oven!)

It can also be fed from a solar panel, or the mains.

It’s about 3K EUR, so not much more than a high end Peloton , but obvs serving a very different market…

https://www.tukasev.com/en/

ChrisMayLA6, 7 hours ago to disability

Across the political Right, the narrative is that disability benefits (primarily Personal Independence Payments; PIPs) are too easy to get & are often paid to the 'undeserving'... however, in reality nearly half of applicants are rejected, rising to over two thirds for endometriosis (a gendered dimension I'll leave you to ponder), but with high rates of rejections over-turned on appeal (often with the same evidence).

More Tory lies, callousness & inhumanity

#disability

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/12/claims-conditions-personal-independence-payments-disability-benefits-cancer-arthritis-amputees

randahl, 5 hours ago to random

UN human rights experts horrified: Seven mass graves found in northern Gaza with 520 Palestinian bodies. Some beheaded, some showing signs of torture.

The Israeli government can scream "anti-semitism" as much as they want — The International Criminal Court is coming for Benjamin Netanyahu, and the world will never forget what his government did.

Never again.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4652018-reports-mount-of-mass-graves-at-gaza-hospitals-some-without-heads/amp/

aral, 4 hours ago (edited 4 hours ago) to design

If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.

Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.

#design #technology #ethics #peopleNotUsers

peternoahthomas, 10 hours ago to animals

Take me to your weeder.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #Cats #Saturday #Meme #Fedicats #Mastocats

dgar, 8 hours ago to random

KathyReid, 13 hours ago to random

In the most glorious "fuck you" I have seen in a while, you know the book that Cumberland City Council banned because they're homophobic bigots - Holly Duhig's "A focus on Same Sex Parents"? Well, the publisher, BookLife Publishing, have made a PDF version of the book available for free.

Sure be a shame if it was shared far and wide now, wouldn't it?

Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist.

https://www.booklifepublishing.co.uk/a-focus-on/same-sex-parents/

#CumberlandCityCouncil #SameSexParents #BookBans #Bookstodon

hart, 6 hours ago to random German

Innovation macht sinnvolle Dinge kleiner - Überkonsum macht sie größer und sinnloser
#Verbrenneraus schnellstens

szakib, 5 hours ago to climate

Perspective: the biggest carbon capture plant in the world sequesters 1 millionth of our annual emissions. We would have to build a million of these plants to not_increase the CO2 level. And we need to decrease the CO2 level.

Carbon capture is a scam.

#ClimateCrisis
https://www.fastcompany.com/91120071/climeworks-carbon-removal-factory-iceland

RadicalGraffiti, 7 hours ago to random

"Replace capitalism with a good nap"
Spotted in Paris

gutenberg_org, 5 hours ago to books

English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale was born #OTD in 1820.

Nightingale became famous for her work as a nurse during the Crimean War (1853–1856). Beyond her work in the Crimean War, Nightingale was a prolific writer and statistician. She used statistical methods to analyze and present data on healthcare and public health, making significant contributions to the field of medical statistics.

#books #statistics

"Diagram of the causes of mortality in the army in the East" by Florence Nightingale. Example of polar area diagram by Florence Nightingale (1820–1910). This "Diagram of the causes of mortality in the army in the East" was published in Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army and sent to Queen Victoria in 1858. This graphic indicates the annual rate of mortality per 1,000 in each month that occurred from preventable diseases (in blue), those that were the results of wounds (in red), and those due to other causes (in black). The legend reads: The Areas of the blue, red, & black wedges are each measured from the centre as the common vertex. The blue wedges measured from the centre of the circle represent area for area the deaths from Preventable or Mitigable Zymotic diseases, the red wedges measured from the centre the deaths from wounds, & the black wedges measured from the centre the deaths from all other causes. The black line across the red triangle in Nov. 1854 marks the boundary of the deaths from all other causes during the month. In October 1854, & April 1855, the black area coincides with the red, in January & February 1856, the blue coincides with the black. The entire areas may be compared by following the blue, the red, & the black lines enclosing them.

paninid, 9 hours ago to random

#infrastructure

anneroth, 4 hours ago to random German

Ich habe etwas wichtiges gelernt beim #FJT2024:

Den 2. Satz von Art. 1, Absatz 1 des Grundgesetzes.

Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar - das kennen wir alle. Aber dann:

👉 Sie zu achten und zu schützen ist Verpflichtung aller staatlichen Gewalt.

Es ist eine Verpflichtung. Und sie gilt überall. Für alle.

Daran sollten wir den Staat und alle seine Vertreter*innen öfter erinnern. Gerade jetzt, wo noch mehr Menschen von Nazis bedroht und angegriffen werden.

mondoweiss, 3 hours ago to Palestine

Israel is deliberately destroying the entire health sector in Gaza as only 4 hospitals remain operational. "If these hospitals stop working, they will turn into mass graves, like Nasser and al-Shifa," Muhammad Zaqout, General Director of Hospitals in Gaza, told Mondoweiss.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/gazas-collapsing-health-system-is-one-of-the-goals-of-israels-genocide/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

Michigander, 3 hours ago to nature

#SilentSunday
#nature #michigan #photography #aurora

auschwitzmuseum, 3 hours ago to random

12 May 1944 | A group of 39 Roma and Sinti children (20 boys and 19 girls) deported from the St. Josefspflege orphanage in Mulfingen, near Stuttgart were registered at Birkenau. Dr. Robert Ritter and Eva Justin of the Institute for the Study of Racial Hygiene carried out various tests on them before deportation.

The main purpose of this research was to confirm that the supposed "Gypsy" traits were inborn. When the children became useless, they could be deported.
1/2

mattotcha, 2 hours ago to Health

New mRNA vaccine for deadly brain cancer triggers a strong immune response
https://www.livescience.com/health/cancer/new-mrna-vaccine-treats-deadly-brain-cancer-and-it-triggers-a-strong-immune-response #health #mRNA #vaccine #BrainCancer #ImmuneResponse

Greengordon, 2 hours ago to climate

Wow, I can't imagine another group of professionals that has "almost a quarter" of its membership protesting. That should be a clue how serious climate change is.

"Almost a quarter of the scientists said they had participated in climate protests, as citizens who are deeply worried about global heating. This included scientists from every continent, including those from the US, Argentina, Germany, Bangladesh, Kenya and Australia."

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/what-are-the-most-powerful-climate-actions-you-can-take?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

minouette, 2 hours ago to random

Happy birthday to #mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)! The Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious math awards, is awarded to mathematicians < 40. In 2014, she became 1st woman to win. Her research included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, & symplectic geometry, & Fields committee cited her work in "the dynamics & geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces".⁠
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#sciart #mathart #linocut #printmaking #womeninSTEM #histstm #sciart #mathart #MastoArt

Glastomichelle, 5 hours ago to random

Another one from Friday nights amazing light show. Taken from Glastonbury Tor. #Auroraborealis #Aurora

appassionato, 2 hours ago to DadBin

#Evacuation

Israel sent tanks into eastern Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip early on Sunday, after a night of heavy aerial and ground bombardments, killing 19 people and wounding dozens of others, health officials said.

May 12, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

@palestine
#Gaza
#Jabalia
#displaced
#children

auscandoc, 3 hours ago to random

A Fight About Viruses in the Air Is Finally Over. Now It’s Time for Healthy Venting | Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-fight-about-viruses-in-the-air-is-finally-over-now-its-time-for-healthy/ “WHO and other agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did come around eventually, and it’s now broadly agreed that, along with measles, smallpox and tuberculosis, other infectious diseases can linger in the air and spread across rooms. #COVID #Airborne…

iangriffin, 12 hours ago to NewZealand

There are moments when you have to say, Mother nature is awesome. One such moment occurred at Lake Aviemore last night at 02:25:45. This is three five second exposures combined to make a panorama. WOW! #aurora #auroraaustralis #beauty #NewZealand

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 1 day ago to climate

@economics@a.gup.pe

#climatechange #degrowth 😑 #economics

This is the face of degrowth by means of climate inaction. Degrowth is not a future, it’s already underway.

https://youtu.be/-wYOkjVtBY4