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Eco-Impact Of Stuffed Animals | ShunWaste

Stuffed animals are bad for the environment

Stuffed animals, while beloved by many for their comfort and sentimental value, have raised concerns about their environmental impact.

Typically made from synthetic materials like polyester and filled with non-biodegradable plastics, these toys contribute to pollution and waste when discarded. Additionally, their production often involves resource-intensive processes and the use of fossil fuels, further exacerbating their carbon footprint.

The growing demand for stuffed animals, coupled with their short lifespan in many households, highlights the need for sustainable alternatives and responsible consumption to mitigate their environmental harm.

#plushies #Environment
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Eco-Impact of Stuffed Animals: Are They Harming Our Planet?

Discover the environmental impact of stuffed animals. Learn how they affect our planet and what you can do to make eco-friendly choices.
Meghan Hodges (ShunWaste)
#environment #plushies

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#WenkoffRetro No. 273 🎶❤️
#retromusic

Dnes na nás číhá trojitá dávka pohody. Já bych se pondělí nebál. 😉

A teď zpět v čase:
Je 8.12.1976 a 🇺🇸 kapela *Eagles* vydává své páté studiové album *Hotel California*. Deska se s prodejem přes 32 milionů stala jednou z nejprodávanějších desek všech dob a v letech 1976-78 dosáhla vrcholu hitparád napříč kontinenty.

Kapela *Eagles* byla založena v Los Angeles v r. 1971 a od samého začátku byla velmi úspěšná, o čemž svědčí už v r. 1972 úspěch debutového eponymního alba. Do rozchodu kapely (1980) Eagles vydali 6 alb a s celosvětovým prodejem na 200 milionů desek se stali jednou z nejúspěšnějších US kapel 70s.

Dva zakládající členy Eagles už retro kalendář připomněl. Dejme si je jako pondělní bonus. 😉👇

*Randy Meisner (No. 97):*
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*Don Henley (No. 136):*
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Enjoy! ♥️🎶

𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔 (@OttovonWenkoff@mastodonczech.cz)

Přiloženo: 1 video #WenkoffRetro No. 136 🎶❤️ #retromusic Pohodové pondělí s 80s! 🤞🎶 Po Randy Meisnerovi (8. 3., No. 97) je tu další zakládající člen kapely Eagles - Don Henley. Narodil se 22. 7. 1947 v Texasu.
𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔 (MastodonCzech)
#wenkoffretro #retromusic

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It's actually pretty easy to check previous blog posts or old version of websites from all these companies with sentences like:

"We strongly believe the future of the web is through ***"

And see through the years how those asterisks have been cycling through crypto, blockchain, VR and metaverse, and now AI.

Fascinating...still dystopically sad, but fascinating nonetheless

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Time, on average, runs 477 μs/day faster on Mars relative to Earth, according to physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), thanks to Einstein's theory of general relativity and the gravitational effects from its celestial neighbors.

This value varies by as much as 226 μs/day over the course of a Martian year.

Over 25 years, Mars inhabitants would age an extra 4.4 seconds compared to those on Earth. We can live with that!

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1. Pic of an Omega Marstimer Watch with Mars background. The watch features Mars-specific functions that were developed in partnership with ESA. The watch was rigorously tested at ESA ESTEC to ensure it was ready for space missions. We doubt it takes the effect of gravity on time into account, but it could. Price: $7,000 https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Branding_and_Partnerships/Testing_time_for_Mars https://www.omegawatches.com/en-us/watches/speedmaster/instruments/x-33-marstimer/product 2. Figure 1 from the paper shows plots of the clock-rate offsets between a clock on Mars compared to clocks on the Earth and the Moon for ∼40 yr starting from MJD 52275 (2003 January 1). https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae0c16 Note that time on the Moon is a steady 56 μs/day faster than time on Earth.

What Time Is It on Mars? NIST Physicists Have the Answer.

This calculation is necessary for future space navigation and communication networks.
Rebecca Jacobson (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
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Mám dnes náhodou narozky a tohle náhodou sjížděli na Rádiu 1... vtipný je, že od toho roku 1992 dnes uplynulo víc let, než bylo tehdy těm bigbeatům, co jsem zamlada poslouchal (tohle bych si tehdy nepustil...). Shamen vlastně definovali žánr, jako první se pokusili atmosféru rave scény přetransformovat do popmusic (což bylo následně megazkomercionalizováno, ale už bez nich) a taky byli jednou z prvních kapel aktivních na Internetu.

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#radiochao #shamen #radio1


The Shamen - LSI (Love Sex Intelligence) HD

Promo video for LSI by The Shamen directed by Mathew Glamorre.The video has been upscaled to HD and restored as much as possible for inclusion on www.shamens...
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#radio1 #radiochao #shamen
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Sacrament le Québec... Ça fait dur

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Les profs non binaires devront être appelés « monsieur » ou « madame »

Au Collège Jean-Eudes, Constance Bourguignon, qui s’identifie comme non binaire et qui emploie le pronom iel, s’interroge, justement : « Ici, le vouvoiement est déjà en place, alors les élèves m’appellent prof Bourguignon. Mais il y a un problème… »

Le souci, c’est que « prof » ne figure pas sur la liste du vocabulaire ministériel : les élèves doivent « utiliser le titre de “madame” ou de “monsieur” pour s’adresser au personnel de l’école » en vue « d’adopter un comportement empreint de civisme ».

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Civisme à l’école | Les profs non binaires devront être appelés « monsieur » ou « madame »

Ce sera monsieur ou madame, point final. N’en déplaise aux membres non binaires du personnel scolaire, le règlement sur le civisme à l’école, qui entrera officiellement en vigueur le 1er janvier prochain, ne prévoit pas d’exceptions en matière de dés…
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Very interesting! PSG Global Solutions ran an experiment on AI interview with 70,000 participants, and "when given a choice, 78% of candidates choose to be interviewed by an AI voice agent." "Women were also more likely than men to choose the AI over the human interview." "People who went through the AI interview process were 12% more likely to get a job offer and about 18% more likely to start and stay in the job for at least a month." #AI npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-56001…
#AI

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Am I finally done with these horrible, no good, verry bad #lemmy performance issues? I think I might be. Lemmy federation requires a lot more...everything...than does Mastodon style microblogging. People vote constantly. Posts and comments are longer. Everything has multiple images. And by default lemmy wants to cache everything all the time forever.
#lemmy

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Has anyone been keeping a list of tech that has milkshake ducked this calendar year? If not, let’s build one together.

• Framework: welcomed racists into its “big tent”
• calibre: added LLMs to software that doesn’t need it

Just to be clear: we're listing the projects and corporations who were our darlings earlier this year, until they lurched dramatically into unacceptability. The ones who've been on a downward spiral for years, they're for a different list.

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Regarding @MonaApp and all the upgrade stuff: I have no idea what's going on anymore. I don't remember what I paid for Mona a few years ago, I don't know which tier I'm on, and I don't know what my upgrade path to Mona 7 is. While I have no problem at all financially supporting the apps, services, and entertainment I like, I find myself confused about my own options and concerned that this developer is not being up-front with all Mona users. I may just stay on 6 for now.
@Mona app
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Alex Hall

@vick21 Agreed. It has amazing accessibility customization settings, it uses actions well, it lets you control the magic tap, and on and on. I love it, and would support the developer except for what seem like questionable pricing decisions. It's worse that there's been no clarifying post, not that I've seen anyway, even after all the posts mentioning the developer and asking for explanations.
@victor tsaran
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Pitermach

@vick21 there were previously two tears of Mona. There was a base pro purchase which granted you a license to use it on iPhone and iPad, and a Pro Max which you could upgrade to that also adds the Mac version. That's the version which gives you an upgrade path to Mona 7 lifetime, that's how I understand it. So anyone who bought the iPhone/iPad only versions of Mona Classic has to go to Pro Max first or take the Mona 7 subscription.
@victor tsaran

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Fantastic comment on Metafilter, on masking, that it is a constant burden of translation to be understood by a neurotypical audience.

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Melting Spoons and Autistic Burnout

'If you saw someone going through Autistic Burnout would you be able to recognise it? Would you even know what it means? Would you know what it meant for yourself if you are an Autistic person?...
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Tonight at 9 PM eastern, we present another installment of Sonic Synergy.
Tonight, we follow a special edition of the Digital Domain,.
Being fluffed by these guys always makes for fantastic radio, so join them in progress right now, and at 9 PM eastern, join us by strapping into our crazy carousel of chaotic conversation.

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Today on HKC Radio:

7 PM EST: The Digital Domain Online Radio Show, one night early. It's the first of their final three shows, getting into the spirit!

9 PM EST: bring your cookies and milk and snuggle by the fire with Kevin and Christina for a latenight relaxing episode of Sonic Synergy! Mor like Latenight sleepover antics that may or may not get the police called on them! Tune in and find out!

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The Home of Kickass Creatives | HKC Radio

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This is huge! We’re making it easier to use voice dictation with TalkBack on Android. Launching soon, you will be able to start dictating in Gboard with a simple two-finger double-tap.
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7 ways we’re making Android more accessible

This December, Android is getting new accessibility updates like dark theme’s expanded option, emotion tags in Expressive Captions, easier Voice Access and more.
Julie Cattiau (Google)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 17 updated and 2 added apps:

* Pano Scrobbler: a feature packed cross-platform music tracker 🛡️
* RecordMaster: Recording, Organizing, Sharing, and more – inspired by the Google Pixel Recorder app, but with more features 🛡️

RB status: 761 apps (60.1%)

Enjoy your #free #
Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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Angela Korra'ti

This is getting a bit more traction than my posts usually do, so hi, people reading me, a bit more context for my being pissed off about Calibre putting AI into its feature set:

I am an author. I've released work with Carina Press, and I've released work on my own. My released work is on record as HAVING BEEN STOLEN BY OPENAI, and I am in fact one of the many, many authors who've had to file claims on the settlement with Anthropic.

So I am not kidding when I say I don't want that technology, technology which HAS STOLEN FROM ME, anywhere near a program I use. ESPECIALLY the program I've used to not only manage my ebook library, but even perform format conversions on my work to prep it for sale. /1

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Angela Korra'ti

"Oh, but they're unobtrusive, you don't have to use the features if you don't want them" isn't good enough. My baseline is "I don't want that crap in programs I use AT ALL". Period. Full stop.

So I will for the foreseeable future remain on Calibre 8.10, the last known version to have no AI features in it whatsoever. And if an AI-free competitor eventually shows up, I am prepared to transfer my ebooks into a new manager if I have to.

Am I extremely fucking salty about this? YES I AM. Because, again: THIS TECHNOLOGY STOLE MY WORK and that of countless other creatives all over the world. And it's insulting and infuriating to me to see it creeping into each and every corner of my daily computer use no matter how much I DO NOT WANT IT. /End

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Dear Employer,

Thank you for your rejection. Unfortunately due to the high volume of rejections I have received, I have been unable to accept yours. As a result, I must inform you that I will see you on Monday for my first shift.

Good luck rejecting candidates in the future.

With kind regards

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