Notices by katt, sky-guided 🌈🌌 (starkatt@vulpine.club)

Guns are a thing that exist in the world, doubly so in the US. Regardless of your political opinion about them, it's a good idea to know how to interact with guns safely should the need arise. Even if you never want to be near 'em, this knowledge can only help you.

There's four universal rules that can prevent the vast majority of unintentional gun injuries and deaths. They're not complicated. The exact phrasing varies a bit but the message is always the same.

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Okay I think I've found my new favorite piece of MtG card art: Soulherder, by Seb McKinnon
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Anyone else feel like SEO saturation -- and especially saturation by products, product shills, and content farms -- has made web searches way less useful than they were 5-10 years ago?

So personal ornamentation -- jewelry and makeup and fashion and body modification and all that -- is largely seen by our culture as frivolous and not worth prioritizing in terms of money or effort.

But like. Ornamentation of some kind is present in pretty much every society on the planet both current and historic, all the way back to prehistory. Cosmetics are also often some of the most highly valued trade items.

Choosing how to decorate the self is fundamental to the human construction of identity!

So like. It's cool. Spend money on that new tattoo or whatever.

I tried looking for a good citation here but it turns out finding just one is really difficult because this is anthropological and sociological consensus going back decades.

Serious question: are Kids These Days still drawing the Cool S?

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I feel like the word "sustainable" has been really watered down. It's treated as a thing that nice to have, when possible.

Because I don't think we've really internalized what "unsustainable" actually means.

It's so fucking telling though that (at least in my working class world) a stock response to "how're you doing?" is a weary "livin' the dream" as shorthand for "I'm underpaid, overworked, and tired all the time."

People know the system is busted.

@CobaltVelvet scientists: here's a black hole with the mass of billions of suns, an event horizon as large as the solar system, and an inferno of an accretion disk that's blasting out unbelievable amounts of hard radiation.

Fediverse: i wanna pet it.