fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism
disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die
Insider is creating a database to track queer representation in children’s cartoons. I searched through it a bit and it’s pretty cool. I wished it had some links to sources of confirmation to some of them and I’m not sure exactly how accurate it is, but it seems accurate enough at first glance. You can check it out yourself if you want.
fact: Birds have an instinctive urge to feed their young, and sometimes some birds in captivity feed fish because their open mouths and the act of feeding them feels very similar to feeding young.
wrong and boring take: This bird is too fucking stupid to tell apart fish and its own young.
alternative take: While birds lack the cognitive skills for the kind of introspection required to wonder WHY they derive enjoyment of something, this bird is having fun.
additional take: despite having a brain exponentially bigger and more complex than that of a bird’s, you also enjoy feeding the fish
They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.
They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.
Re: the last post, the article mentions that some places use clams to test the toxicity of the water. It’s like that in Warsaw- we get our water from the river, and the main water pump has 8 clams that have triggers attached to their shells. If the water gets too toxic, they close, and the triggers shut off the city water supply automatically.
The clams are just better at measuring the water quality than any man-made sensors.
So last night I couldn’t sleep because of my insomnia and I couldn’t stop thinking about this. I mean, try to tell me this isn’t funny… you have no ground to stand on.