(Any/Comrade, Tankie for the unserious)

Marxist-Leninist with Meowist leanings (cat supremacy, but love all animals)

Labor organizer. USian.

Scientist, experience in vaccines/drug delivery/chemistry/analytics/biochemistry/protection of eggs dropped from tall structures

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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I have an incredibly happy sundew that doesn’t mind the colder temperatures by my windows in the winter at all.

    I took a big round-bottom flask, threw in some wet sphagnum moss, added the sundew, and capped it with parafilm. Zero upkeep besides an occasional turn and it’s thrown up multiple flowers. It’s an artificial marsh with the sun causing the water to circulate and keep the humidity high while it’s quite low outside the flask.

    This has worked well for other carnivorous plants too…until a cat decides to yeet itself onto that window ledge and knocks everything over.




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    8 days ago

    You need to treat them nicely and maybe show a bit of romance. Poems, flowers, even a printed picture of flowers, something nice that will last is all it takes and your instruments will work perfectly for you. Each person may need to contribute individually to the shrine.

    I swear, some damned tech came in on a PM and removed my poem from my favorite HPLC and now it’s been acting up for me nonstop.



  • Oh, this shit is funny!

    Offset is a platform that aims to generate high integrity, premium carbon credits from industrial sabotage and direct actions. At the heart of our work is an innovative new methodology for quantifying the climate benefits of political actions that publically disrupt carbon flows.

    Our Approach

    Carbon offsets apply the logic of capitalism to atmospheric interactions. This logic assumes that all activities on earth can be quantified and abstracted, and therefore exchanged. Offsets produce the capacity to outsource the effects of one’s consumption—at the scale of the individual, the corporation, or even the nation state—to someone, somewhere else, even to the generations of the future. In short, many existing carbon offset markets act to maintain a status quo rather than address root causes of the climate catastrophe.

    In contrast, the Offset platform includes a registry of alternative offsets that focus on social exchanges and political actions in order to contribute to a program of highly financialized radical change.

    Institutional Support

    Offset (version 0.1) was commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, for Data Relations.










  • The article

    One of the attacks was in Wichita, where they disrupted the payment system, leaving the water running, but the payment system down, so that customers couldn’t pay their bills.

    Damn, attack my city with that one.

    Why did the activist group, CyberAv3ngers, attack US water systems equipment? Because it was made in Israel and they are targeting all Israeli-made equipment.

    All other references were to China and Russia. China was from the FBI director telling Congress that Chinese hackers are 1337 and preparing for potential US infrastructure attacks, one specifically being to cut off all communication from the US to Asia in the case of US military aggression, but not allegations that they had done any harm at this time. Russia was a reference to a hack in Texas that made a water filtration tank overflow. I’m not going to look up that article. This is all mostly fear mongering and if there is damage being done or planned for the future, it’s (as always) because the US is up to no good and was the aggressor (or enabler/aggressor in the case of Israel).


  • Lol, what? WTF kind of advice is this?

    NO. You talk him like a peer and respectfully say “stop,” you don’t run to the fucking work police and try to get his ass in trouble because he’s annoying you and you never told him you were annoyed. Why would you complain to HR because someone annoyed you when they don’t even know they did it?

    Sure, let’s just escalate this shit and make his life worse, guarantee he’ll be pissed off at you because you didn’t react like a reasonable person, you did what the institution that most alienates you from your humanity suggested ( your workplace, complain to HR), and make the entire situation worse than it ever needed to be. Let’s just jump to firing the guy while we’re at it, because a negative tip to HR for a person in their probationary period might be that anyway!

    Fuck off with this advice.

    Going to HR at this point in this situation DOES mean you aren’t a team player. It’s like shooting your teammate’s knee out instead of passing the baton if you were running in a relay race.

    Talk to the man like a human.