Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

🐟🧽 University of #Bonn researchers developed a washing machine filter inspired by sardine and anchovy gill systems that removes over 99% of #microplastics from laundry wastewater. The biomimetic design uses funnel-shaped filtration with self-cleaning mechanisms copied from #fish feeding systems.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/fish-washing-machine-microplastic-filter/

#biomimicry #environment #sustainability #engineering #innovation #technology #tech

Some generous folk have opted to gift copies of the Space Dragons to folk who want them!

If you'd like a copy of either or both books in ebook and audiobook, please DM me! No need to be shy or justify the request. There are plenty!

You'll receive them when Kickstarter backers get their rewards (so 2026).

📚 Many, many available! 📚

#vKickstarter

Can we help a Black trans person with obtaining permanent residency elsewhere so that they never have to return to the United States?

Originally, they printed an unofficial copy of a form, but immigration only accepts the official copy. This copy costs about 20 CAD. Since money is tight for them until the 15th, they do not want to choose between rationing food and starting this process as soon as possible.

No hard deadline, but the sooner the better!

Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ndmathnerd

#BlackMutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #BlackTransMutualAid

RE: https://plush.city/@mynameistillian/115661719312362049

ayy i need help i am running out of money ;-;

#mutualAid #mutualaidrequest @mutualaid

In the Starfleet Technical Manual, there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar changes; eventual retraining is part of their job, but the flexibility allows them to take the retraining at their own pace.

I think about this from time-to-time and how this is still a sci-fi idea that is seen all too rarely in how we do actual computer UIs.

#StarTrek #LCARS #UI

hey all if you're around the #Koblenz and can help, this is an emergency—my two queer kids (young adults) who left my house recently had issues with their new host and are now stranded at the station, and they have no money to come home either. we need someone I can wire money to and who could bring it in cash to them, or else someone who could host them for a day, or else someone who could help them find a Bahnhofsmission at least. they do not speak German and are in an emotionally fragile state. DM me if you can help

*edit*: we did not find anyone in time sadly, so they'll hang out until I arrive there tomorrow. thanks everyone who helped 🙏

PLEASE help us with moving costs. we have someone to act as reference now but can't actually apply to anywhere cause we can't afford the deposit yet.

GOAL: £624.05/£4000

€ paypal: bellis-storm@tutanota.com
£ paypal: diontheblackdragon@gmail.com
or dm for € or £ bank transfer

#MutualAid #BlackMutualAid #TransMutualAid #Donate #Help @mutualaid

HEY CANADA.

MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament.

Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was already a good plan for this set out that got shelved. The longer we delay, the longer we risk what's happening in the US happening here.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6993

this took 1000 years and I'm calling it done

#PixelArt #MastoArt #PixelIllustration #Illustration

Mix all the goodies and
Pour all the cookies and
Lick on the back of my spatula

it’s my birthday

this is what my spouse got me

she knows someone that makes custom rugs and made me a LaserDisc Turtle rug

i love it

UPDATE: dang this is doing numbers, i'd be remiss if i didn't shout out Tuft Luck Rugs, the creator who made this. she mainly communicates via Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/tuftluck_rugs/