Car tires are found to be responsible for 78% of microplastics. Plastic pellets contribute 18%, and textiles and personal care products account for 4% combined.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/land-use-biodiversity/rising-microplastics-seas-puts-pressure-tyre-industry-2023-07-17/

A reminder to everyone to stay safe and only use basic text editors this month. Beware the IDEs of March

Imagine if all the collective money spent of “self driving cars” had been spent on public transport.

As in, not cars - which are ultimately bad solutions for most of the world - but punctual and pervasive clean-energy public trams, trains, and buses.

It’d have cost less and been far more useful for far more people. Including non-drivers. And actually be here. Today. Working.

netherlands:

• everyone speaks english.
• “card only” signs everywhere.
• “sorry, we’re forbidden from accepting cash”.
• employees even at big grocery chains visibly confused by cash and struggling to count coins.

germany:

• “was?”
• “cash only” signs everywhere.
• “sorry, card payments from 10eur only”.
• “easy online payments, just provide your online banking login and password to sofort, it’s completely safe and totally does not blatantly violate the terms of agreement you signed with your bank”.

I've noticed a worrying trend in the USAnian fediverse: leftists using #accelerationism to describe voting for Trump to hasten societal collapse. Some think it's a strategy for a new future, but that's not how leftist accelerationism work.
I'm well aware that rightwing accelerationism do exist and I beg you not to give to the alt-right yet another gift. I'm so sick of leftists allowing fascists to appropriate every-fucking-thing.
Leftist accelerationism is about achieving a post-work society by demanding full automation, full welfare and basic income for anyone. Under no circumstances it's about voting for fascists. Only fascists vote for fascists, period.
Please read this book and stop shitting on accelerationism.

wow they named a street after the hashtag #WaterDrinkers #WaterDrinking #DrinkWater

the worst appliance just dropped:

combined oven/microwave

Because famously you never use metal containers in ovens or plastic containers in microwaves

One thing that I notice is that some people think of accessibility as a chore that everybody forces them to do to satisfy a tiny minority of users with severe disabilities or rare conditions.

Nothing more far from truth tbh.

For the most part, accessibility is about making the service/product better for everyone and not *excluding* people with specific needs.

It's saddening how many things on the web and even in public infrastructure are severely lacking when it comes to that…

If you make a commercial product that allows someone to remotely access video, audio, or location data from a device, I am begging you to threat model for domestic abuse BEFORE YOU SHIP YOUR GODDAMN PRODUCT.

please stop presenting using light mode as something worth mocking or a worse experience

very often light mode is an accessibility and readability feature

some people just can't read on dark backgrounds well for example

or need higher contrast in general

or just work in a high-brightness environment where light mode just works better for them

And so it begins. Drie maanden nadat een in meerderheid transfobe Tweede Kamer zitting heeft genomen wordt het eerste schot afgevuurd op de transzorg. Deze motie is aangenomen. Nog voorzichtig geformuleerd... Er moet meer onderzoek gedaan worden, wie kan daar nou tegen zijn? Behalve dat er al heel veel onderzoek /is/ gedaan naar het zogenaamde "Dutch Protocol". Maar hiermee begint het. Twijfel zaaien. Steeds meer barrières opwerpen. De vooruitgang in de transzorg voor minderjarigen wordt door deze motie in één klap stilgezet, klaar om achteruit getrokken te worden. En daarna worden de pijlen gericht op volwassen trans personen. De VS en het VK zijn ons al voor gegaan - kijk daar om te zien waar we hier op af stevenen.

can we stop doing the UX sin of having everything be unlabeled meaningless icons and finally add fucking labels to icons again

In ‘news that should surprise nobody but it’s nice to have it quantified’: high speed rail is less carbon intensive than short-haul flights, even when you take into account the full life cycle (including construction).

In other words, we should be banning short-haul flights and investing in trains.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S136192092300384X?via%3Dihub #trains #climateChange #rail #transport

our roommate (@deetwenty) stayed inflated the entire con but started deflating the day after the inflatables panel that they ran lmao

Trans people don't own gender. We stole it the same way Prometheus stole fire, so it would be available to everyone.

You're welcome.