@cheryanne@aus.socialThe Spin Out
Join The Laundry Lady CEO Susan Toft as she chats with inspiring entrepreneurs, busy parents, and game-changers who’ve created freedom on their own terms...
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@raiders@darktundra.xyzAnalyzing the Alarming Issues Surrounding the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-maxx-crosby-travis-kelce-pete-carroll-josh-mcdaniels
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe washing machine is thrumming along in the laundry. First load. I wander out the back door. Outside, it's damp but not raining. A currawong sits on a rock awaiting the morning's largesse. I pour out a small cupful of seed onto the feeder. On my way back, I pause by the sunken bathtub (repurposed as a planter). It is overflowing with luscious mint plants made extra vibrant by the overnight rain. I pick a single leaf and inhale. Its scent is glorious. Another sunday in suburbia.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangegluten free laundry detergent
@hex@kolektiva.socialSo in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.
@scott@carfree.cityone of my hottest takes is that shared laundry machines in an apartment building is better than in-unit. it's a good example of how individual solutions can be worse than collective ones.
with shared machines you can use two machines at once at a less-busy time. a single in-unit machine would take twice as long. in-unit means the noise the machine generates is inside your apartment, so you can't have guests over or take a meeting while it's running
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itThis cat, I swear..
Every time I use this basket, after I empty out the clothes, Twig will hop in and demand a ride. So I have to carry him around the house until my arms get tired. #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialMan muss sich ja schon fast wundern, dass die smarte Waschmaschine einem kein "Your year in laundry" schickt. #justthinkin
@yaya@jorts.horseso many Things that need doing and I am Tired and also my vape is basically dead which is Not Gonna Help
I need to do laundry but that means I need to go through all of my bags of clothes from moving and also I don't know if the laundromat has detergent or if I need to go to the store and i also need to take a bath but i dont have clean clothes yet for aforementioned reasons and im hungry and I need to go vape store and my room is too dark and AAAAAAAAAAA
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzShemar James setting Cowboys' records; bright spot for struggling defense https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/shemar-james-setting-cowboys-records-bright-spot-for-struggling-defense
@jensilber@mastodon.socialPeople talk a lot about "inbox zero." I am far more gratified by achieving laundry hamper zero.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyVent-Axia Lo-Carbon Tempra single-room MHRV: Review - Learn how our Tempra MHRV helps keep humidity down in the kitchen and the air fresh, even when drying laundry in winter. #frugal #cutCarbon -
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialJust finished folding and hanging some laundry. It occured to me to wonder when was the button-buttonhole combo invented, and by whom? Based on the archeological finding of bone needles dated to many 10s of 1000s of years ago, fitted clothing in one form or another has been a thing for a very long time. Maybe even Neanderthals did it. So fasteners of some sort would exist, but what about the button-buttonhole combo as we know it today?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Robotics-ER 1.5, enabling robots to perform multi-step tasks like sorting laundry, including by using web search (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7843dfdb-7c60-46e7-a90a-dd54b7703f4a
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@catsalad@infosec.exchangeRotisserie Chicken
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itThe moral of the story is: Never Wash Halloween Costumes!
There was a pair of pants in the dirty laundry that I'd been avoiding because it had black bubbles (boba) attached to the legs. Earlier today I thought, "Hmm.. maybe I'll finally wash it, and someone could use it next year!" I examined the boba closely; it looked like it had been glued on. Obviously I didn't try to pull it off or damage it. So I figured it was okay, as our heat pump dryer doesn't get th…
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@gfriend@mas.to“5% of companies have dropped sustainability/ESG/DEI like dirty laundry, 5% doubling down, 90% staying the course.” -Tim Mohin #VERGE
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social@… TiL about the Petersen Graph, which is the exact combination of mathematics and pentagrams that I feel epitomises The Laundry Files.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersen
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comThe conversation in the last boost is just a laundry list of large orgs who can't deliver to gmail. gmail users just don't have a working email system but I guess they don't care because email works so bad in general anyway now.
@davej@dice.campVery good news, indeed.
Also: “The agreement has sidelined Sussan Ley’s Coalition, who criticised the ‘dirty deal’ after Labor refused to accept its laundry list of business-friendly demands.”
This, of course, is a natural consequence of the #LNP doubling and tripling down on policies that handed them their arses at the polls, and then publicly throwing a tanty when they don’t get their way.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyVent-Axia Lo-Carbon Tempra single-room MHRV: Review - Learn how our Tempra MHRV helps keep humidity down in the kitchen and the air fresh, even when drying laundry in winter. #frugal #cutCarbon -
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeYou feel a presence watching you. 👀
@hex@kolektiva.socialFor any of my comrades who are using SNAP, I wish I had something better to say than "if you crush 4 buckeyes with a hammer and tie the pulp in a sock you can wash a good sized load of laundry." English Ivy also has saponins, but I've never been able to make soap from it myself.
Ivy is everywhere. Buckeyes (Horse Chestnuts) are common in city parks (there are a ton in Seattle).
Yucca is also a good source of saponins, but it also has silica. That makes it a good scrubby soap. You can find these plants all over they're pretty common to find in yards.
If you can find acorns still (it's a bit late, but who knows), acorn grits are great and something you can survive on for a bit. Acorns need processing (it's easy to look up, but feel free to ask or check out one or Black Forager's videos on it).
If you've been following me for a bit, you probably already know all this. But if you don't, I hope it helps.
Any other forager folks are welcome to drop hints here that might be useful to folks in the city.
#Foraging
@yaya@jorts.horselike I feel like I should take an Adderall to sort things out but I'm trying to figure out if I even have enough things to sort that it'd be worth it bc like Nothing Has A Place To Go rn until I acquire Places and I can't go do more laundry bc I can't afford it rn so like??
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