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knottedthreads

@knottedthreads@mstdn.social

Industrial #chemist specializing in #dyes, #pigments, #polymers, and process development. I'm in the #epaper biz; if you have an #ereader device, chances are I've worked on the technology in the screen. Personal account; all views my own.

Outside of work, my hobbies include: #lacemaking, #crochet, #writing (#fiction), #reading (everything), #herbalism, #music (I'm a classical #percussionist), learning #languages, being a doting auntie, and learning to code.

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rooster, to random
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    knottedthreads,
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    @rooster I’m just guessing here, but I imagine the people who did the reporting have to eat and keep a roof over their heads. So, we either pay them for their work, or we have state-run, state-controlled media instead. Pick your poison, I suppose.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    I know we were all traumatized by Covid and still are, but we really need to remember all the things the Trump administration did to us at the beginning of the pandemic. They took away PPE from Blue states, tried to hoard it for themselves or make money selling it to states, wanted to use herd immunity when they saw Black people were dying disproportionately and did a genocide, didn't care about the lives of front line workers, seniors, children or teachers, got people to stop using masks...

    knottedthreads,
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    @curiousgawker @StillIRise1963 Well, they're going to get their wish. Trump has promised to build concentration camps on American soil when he is elected.

    QasimRashid, to random
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    March is Women’s History Month.

    A reminder that after no fault divorce was finally legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%.🤯

    The "strong 1950s family unit" GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating domestic violence, & zero female financial autonomy.

    Or maybe that’s the GOP’s goal.😐

    knottedthreads,
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    @QasimRashid People don't realize what life was like for women in the US within living memory. My mother is an active, healthy septuagenarian. When she got married, her bank cancelled her credit card and unilaterally gave my dad sole control over her accounts (and therefore her paycheck), and this was normal. We had no access to the banking system without men's permission and no right even to our own wages. We were legal dependents with no option to be otherwise.

    drahardja, to random
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    It seems unethical for me that universities get to patent any applications that arise from their research, and profit from them. It just sounds super incestuous and scammy, like they are simultaneously the research arm of industry, but also the gatekeeper for people who want to work in those industries, and also the exploiters of academia who work in their ranks.

    knottedthreads,
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    @drahardja This is how patents work in both industry and academia. I have several patents to my name, but I don't derive any continuing income from them. Whoever my employer was at the time they were filed funded the research for them and consequently owns the rights to them. It's common practice in industry to provide a small incentive to inventors for filing a patent and having it granted, but it's the employer, not the inventor, who reaps any resulting income.

    knottedthreads,
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    @drahardja One of the things that universities do with their patent income is use it to take some of the pressure off their faculty for bringing in grants. Science is expensive, and the costs have to be offset.

    Also, when patents are granted, they do become public domain. That's the exchange. The inventor shares what she knows with the public in exchange for a protected, finite term of deriving exclusive income from her inventions.

    Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random

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    knottedthreads,
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    @Teri_Kanefield Yeah the last time I went for jury duty, everybody on the docket that day settled. Our entire purpose was to lurk ominously in the jury room and scare people into settling rather than going to trial.

    gbhnews, (edited ) to fediverse
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    🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH News bringing you the world from . It's 68F at Logan Airport and visibility is 5 miles.

    Google will track many users' browsing history to target ads, in a move worrying advocates.

    A judge granted a new trial to a man who was found guilty of murder in 1993 after new DNA evidence called the conviction into question.

    volcano Kilauea, one of the world's most active, erupted nearly two months of quiet.

    cold remedy:

    knottedthreads,
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    @gbhnews Tea is an excellent remedy (especially elderflower tea), but real chicken soup is also excellent. Back before chicken wings became rich-people food, I used to buy a big bag of frozen wings, make my own stock out of them and fresh veggies and herbs, and then make a giant pot of soup to eat for days until I felt better. It's gotta be made from real chicken stock, though. The canned stuff isn't as helpful.

    knottedthreads,
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    @gbhnews Yeah, the change in mouthfeel is often due to collagen and gelatin extracted from connective tissue and bones over a long simmer, but there's more to it. Bone marrow is where vertebrates keep part of their immune system, and extractives of those tissues become part of the soup.

    igd_news, (edited ) to random
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    On March 11th in Wadsworth, Ohio a drag storytime event for kids was targeted by anti-LGBT extremists, including Neo-Nazis, Christian Nationalists, and Proud Boys. Leif was one of many people who answered an open call for community volunteers to protect the event, after threats were made leading up to the event and event organizers feared for the safety of the attendees.

    While Leif was helping escort families with children out of the event, a group of anti-LGBT demonstrators rushed forward at them, striking Leif in the head with a heavy object and continuing to push into the escort group. Fearing for his life and the lives of the people behind him, Leif used mace to end the attack. Even though he was struck first and he only acted in defense of himself and others, he has been charged with multiple counts of assault.

    From: https://www.gofundme.com/f/qg2wt-drag-defense-legal-fees

    knottedthreads,
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    @nuncio @igd_news Only certain types of people are allowed to stand their ground. Everyone else is supposed to die quietly.

    futurebird, (edited ) to random
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    -"No, you don't understand, his followers like that photo."
    -"It looks like he just stopped crying."
    -"They think it's tough."
    -"They liked it when he'd say 'You're Fired!' too. I never understood that."
    -"It shows authority. Power."
    -"If you need to show it that hard you don't have any."
    -"That kind of thinking has too much nuance."
    -"Did they like the Queen in Alice in Wonderland when she'd yell 'Off with your head!' too?"

    knottedthreads,
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    @drahardja @futurebird @Runyan50 He gives them permission to set down the burden of decency. He lets them be their worst selves without guilt.

    rbreich, to random
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    With the stroke of their pens, six unelected Supreme Court justices blocked student debt relief, ended affirmative action, and made it easier to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people

    What happened to the belief that the Supreme Court had no role in legislating?

    knottedthreads,
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    @rbreich I mean, if they're going to legislate, then we should be able to vote for or against them.

    gbhnews, (edited ) to fediverse
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    🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH News bringing you the from . It's 76F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 miles.

    Maui's mayor toured Lahaina, the town devastated by wildfires, and says he barely recognizes it.

    Judge Tanya Chutkan is considering a protective order to put former President Trump on notice that he shouldn't...share sensitive government information...from his case.

    Mayor Wu is moving forward to rebuild treatment facilities on Long Island.

    knottedthreads,
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    @gbhnews Your ellipses are... eloquent! 😂

    knottedthreads,
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    @gbhnews This, incidentally, is another plus in the column. Character limit per post on http://bostonsocial.online is 6000. Your reach will be more limited there, so if you want to try it for longer-form stuff, I think posting from there and boosting from your mastodon.social account would work best.

    gbhnews, to mastodon
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    FANCAM!!!!

    The day has arrived! We are 10,000 strong!!!!!

    I guess this means I have to walk to the top of Great Blue Hill?

    Does anyone know when I can do this at a time where I won't be hit with a torrential downpour and/or lightning? Say in the next week or so? I will say hi at the top.

    [Backstory: GBH's radio call letters stand for "Great Blue Hill," a hill in Milton. Our transmitter is at the top of this hill].

    A mastodon logo with the excited exclamation of "10,000!!!!!!" floats across CGI animation of woolly mammoths trekking across a snowy plain

    knottedthreads,
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    @gbhnews @wordshaper Wild! I thought it stood for Greater Boston [[something?]]

    taylorlorenz, to random
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    The largest public school district in Texas is eliminating librarian positions and converting the libraries into 'discipline centers' at 28 schools this upcoming year https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/

    knottedthreads,
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    @tzarfenix @alexwild @taylorlorenz It’s not for the public good. This is for the purpose of expanding the school-to-for-profit-prison pipeline. Gotta line those donors’ pockets somehow, and majority-minority schools are the perfect target for them.

    gbhnews, (edited ) to fediverse
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    🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH News bringing you the world from . It is 71F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi. Air quality is moderate with an AQI of 59.

    The beat the Braves last night. The team is a season-best 8 games over .500.

    Mass. Auditor DiZoglio is asking for the state attorney general's support in auditing the state's legislature.

    There is a severe storm risk today in New England. Stay safe & dry, folks.

    Public radio & tv stations should have:

    knottedthreads,
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    @gbhnews I don't think this is an either/or poll question. Both/and. Spinning up an instance may be beyond the capabilities/budget of small affiliates, so have a global npr/pbs/prx instance for them. Major outlets like WGBH that have their own newsroom, produce TV & radio content for syndication, etc. can and probably should support their own instances. As adoption grows, the configuration can change.

    knottedthreads,
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    @cambionn @Bicyclejohn They've gone from talking about ActivityPub support as a thing that is happening "soon," to something that is "further down the road" and a "long term goal." If they decide they can sustain the platform without it, I expect they'll drop the feature.

    nazgul, to random

    ❝ Texas doctors have been required to submit patients’ private medical information into a state-run website without their knowledge or consent—adhering to a mandate that forces them to report women as suffering from abortion complications even when they’re not.

    This rarely reported on section of Texas law lists 28 medical issues as abortion complications—conditions that reproductive health experts point out often have nothing to do with abortion. ❞

    https://jessica.substack.com/p/texas-is-fabricating-abortion-data

    knottedthreads,
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    @shuttersparks @nazgul It's only illegal if women are people. If we're livestock, it's fine.

    atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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    Well, this is an unexpected curveball.

    Jack Dorsey hopes that Bluesky will be “temporary”.

    How likely is Bluesky to actually be “temporary”?

    @fediversenews

    knottedthreads,
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    @atomicpoet @ChrisPirillo Oh, that's interesting. Perhaps what they're doing here is building a hedge against the US Congress or courts detonating Section 230.

    futurebird, to random
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    Something came in the mail today. I can only draw one conclusion.

    it is very sharp
    pica

    knottedthreads,
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    @futurebird @Sylvhem

    I don't know who came up with it or why, but I do use it when I'm feeling stabby.

    knottedthreads,
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    @sexy_peach @koncertejo And that’s the rub, right? is supposed to be but it only federates with itself and it will only federate in the future with entities that use its proprietary protocol (i.e. its vassal states). So, how is this anything but just another walled garden beholden to corporate interests? I do like the idea of nomadic identity, but it doesn’t mean anything until/unless Bluesky starts talking to other services.

    mollywoodpro, to random

    Guy kills five neighbors including a child because they ask him to stop scaring the kids with his machine gun. My brother is at Safeway yesterday and a guy pulled a gun on another guy inside the store because of a parking lot beef. Like. This is terrorism. I am terrified. No one wants to live like this!!!!

    knottedthreads,
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    @britishtechguru @mollywoodpro We do know the cause of the shooting. The neighbors asked the shooter to please not shoot his weapons while their newborn was sleeping. His response was to go try to kill everyone in the house. 1 child is dead, and the two mothers who were in the residence died protecting three toddlers and infants.

    Because they asked him to please not wake their babies. Babies, which conservatives are supposed to want to protect? I guess not.

    knottedthreads,
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    @britishtechguru @mollywoodpro You're quibbling over semantics while 5 people are dead. The shooter was asked not to wake an infant. His response was to slaughter the household of the people who made the request. This isn't a "symptom," like a stuffy nose.

    knottedthreads,
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    @britishtechguru @AmyPetty @mollywoodpro Nope, you're just determined to make a mass murderer who responded to a reasonable question asked by his neighbors with fatal violence directed even at little children into a victim. I don't care how fragile your ego is, it is never appropriate to respond to hurt feelings by trying to kill children.

    tannat, to books

    It seems like the new default price for newly released is $16.99 (CAD), although sometimes it's higher, of course. Just a year ago it was usually more like $14.99, which I already found expensive, and I remember noping out on $17.99 offerings.

    Publishers do know this just pushes more people to libraries, right? I guess this is why they try so hard to limit library lending.

    Grr.
    @bookstodon

    knottedthreads,
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    @FlorriePuddlefoot @kimlockhartga @tannat @Kinniska @sharonecathcart @bookstodon You can tell if the blood is freshly applied, but not if it's oxidized. This is also true of reddish-brown iron gall inks.

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