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"Fish biology inspires laundry microplastics clean up"
#Microplastics #Laundry
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Fish biology inspires laundry microplastics clean up
Inspired by marine life, inventors have created a filter to trap pesky microplastics leaked during laundry

I’m just happy they’re not making self-driving cars.

me: "🎶 up up and away in my beautiful my beautiful balloon 🎶"
me: *flies the laundry basket between my wife and her two laptops*
my wife: "OKAY! OKAY! I'LL GO TO BED!"
#CatsOfMastodon #AnnoyingHusbandsOfMastodon

@… i guess i can live without bob and moe, but angleton? we hardly knew ye, thou were so intriguing. if you do any more laundry content, angleton as a protagonist would be something i'd ask santa^Wyou for... ;)

This is how my weekends usually go:
- Get the laundry done
- Get the dishes done
- Get the dogs to the dog wash
- Get the groceries done for the week
- Do something that brings you joy
I'm always surprised when I get to that fifth item successfully.

It’s possible that this is nothing at all, and they’ll be back in full force today. Nobody, and I mean nobody, has suggested that maybe the worst is over.
But we took the days of relative rest anyway. Hmm, “rest” is wrong: mutual aid, food distribution, school observers, people doing laundry for those who can’t go to a laundromat — that continues unabated. But there’s a definite feeling of catching our breath for a moment.
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So 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.

I spent Sunday with friends I hadn’t seen in a month or more. We baked cookies, worked on a jigsaw puzzle, shared stories. The story sharing consists of someone talking about a personal experience that would have seemed unthinkable a month ago: a friend with a missing relative, a car left in the street, a family who had 8 loads of laundry because they couldn’t leave the house, running on the ice and fumbling for the whistle while witnessing somebody being abducted right there, right in front of them.
After each story, there is really nothing to say. It is horrible. We nod. We know. We continue the puzzle.
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A week or two ago, I saw a youtube video where someone was claiming that the adult thing to do was to get your coats dry cleaned at the end of the winter season, so that they are ready for next year. I briefly thought that it would be a nice gift for future you. Fast forward to this past Monday and I ended up dropping my coat off at the dry cleaners in an attempt to get cat pee out of it. I've used laundry services before but not a dry cleaner. I'm curious to see what $40 buys me.

@… Not denying your experience, but laundry room was definitely an option for us when we configured ours.
Now, should these devices be on the network at all? Probably not.

Rotisserie Chicken

A laundry list of offseason changes awaits Aaron Glenn, Jets https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47483660/new-york-jets-aaron-glenn-offseason-changes-coaches-quarterback-draft

Man muss sich ja schon fast wundern, dass die smarte Waschmaschine einem kein "Your year in laundry" schickt. #justthinkin

Vent-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 -

Vent-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

People talk a lot about "inbox zero." I am far more gratified by achieving laundry hamper zero.

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🌴 Designer enzyme enables yeast to produce custom fatty acids, reducing need for palm oil
#biotech

Designer enzyme enables yeast to produce custom fatty acids, reducing need for palm oil
Whether they are laundry detergents, mascara, or Christmas chocolate, many everyday products contain fatty acids from palm oil or coconut oil. However, the extraction of these raw materials is associated with massive environmental issues: Rainforests are cleared, habitats for endangered species are destroyed, and traditional farmers lose their livelihoods.

#fridayfun

Top tip: if you’re in Iceland and your bag is stuffed and you think you need another suitcase, my suggestion is to save a ton of money by getting a 150ISK 66°N shopping bag to put your laundry in and make room for a couple boxes of Hraun. 🤣

Metropolitana II🔶
城 II🔶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Ok, predictions for 2026. In my field:
1) A leap forward in embodiment. Something like a robot folding laundry in an apartment it hasn't seen before. Control and safety will not be solved and pose a major headache.
2)The bubble will not burst this year, unless there is an economic downturn from other causes.
3) LLMs trained specifically to manipulate humans (i.e. maximize engagement games. social media) will become a serious problem.

A laundry list of offseason changes awaits Aaron Glenn, Jets after Bills game https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47483660/new-york-jets-aaron-glenn-offseason-changes-coaches-quarterback-draft

Just finished the last Laundry Files book. It is the end of an era, but a good way to close things off.

The 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…

Lightning round privacy guide
https://microblog.jackiejude.me/posts/202602021855/

@… 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

Petersen graph - Wikipedia

It's /actually warm/ in the sun today!

Why the Raiders Have Some Decisions That Are Easier Than Others https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-have-some-decisions-are-easier-than-others

🛀 Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/japan-launches-human-washing-machine-for-public-use-after-expo-success-9721446

"Washing machine filter captures microfibers as small as 20 micrometers in size"
#Plastic #Plastics
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Washing machine filter captures microfibers as small as 20 micrometers in size
A single laundry load containing synthetic clothing can release thousands of plastic microfibers from nylon, acrylic and polyester materials. Lab testing of an SA-made washing machine filter at Flinders University shows it can be a useful new way to help protect waterways from polyester and other synthetic microparticles.

My neighbors definitely do not think this is more of the same. You don’t have to take my word for it. Look at how many Somali and Latin-American restaurants were thriving in November and now are closed, or getting almost no business if they are taking the risk of staying open. Look at how many kids are staying home from school — regardless of legal status, just because of the color of their family’s skin. Look at how many families are living in houses filled with dirty laundry because they won’t even take the risk of leaving the house to go to the laundromat.
My neighbors are living in •terror•.
If it’s more of the same, why did all of this suddenly change in the last two months?
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"California Company Launches Beer Made from Shower Water Using NASA-Grade Technology"
#US #USA #America #California

California Company Launches Beer Made from Shower Water Using NASA-Grade Technology | Happy Eco News
Epic Cleantec launched the first commercial beer made from shower water, now available nationwide. The Shower Hour IPA and Laundry Club Kölsch use water purified through membrane filtration, reverse osmosis, and UV treatment. Buildings waste 15 percent of global drinking water, and Epic's technology demonstrates how advanced recycling systems can transform this discarded resource.