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[odinsblog]

🗣️THIS IS WHAT INCLUSIVE, COMPASSIONATE DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE

Minnesota Dems enacted a raft of laws to make the state a trans refuge, and ensure people receiving trans care here can't be reached by far-right governments in places like Florida and Texas. (link)

Minnesota Dems ensured that everyone, including undocumented immigrants, can get drivers' licenses. (link)

They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families. (link)

Minnesota Dems dropped a billion dollars into a bevy of affordable housing programs, including by creating a new state housing voucher program. (link)

Minnesota Dems massively increased funding for the state's perpetually-underfunded public defenders, which lets more public defenders be hired and existing public defenders get a salary increase. (link)

Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion. (link)

Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040. (link)

Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots. (link)

Minnesota Dems expanded the publicly subsidized health insurance program to undocumented immigrants. This one's interesting because it's the sort of things Dems often balk at. The governor opposed it! The legislature rolled over him and passed it anyway. (link)

Minnesota Dems expanded background checks and enacted red-flag laws, passing gun safety measures that the GOP has thwarted for years. (link)

Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system. (link)

Minnesota Dems restored voting rights to convicted felons as soon as they leave prison. (link)

Minnesota Dems made prison phone calls free. (link)

Minnesota Dems passed new wage protection rules for the construction industry, against industry resistance. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a new sales tax to fund bus and train lines, an enormous victory for the sustainability and quality of public transit. Transit be more pleasant to ride, more frequent, and have better shelters, along more lines. (link)

They passed strict new regulations on PFAS ("forever chemicals"). (link)

Minnesota Dems passed the largest bonding bill in state history! Funding improvements to parks, colleges, water infrastructure, bridges, etc. etc. etc. (link)

They're going to build a passenger train from the Twin Cities to Duluth. (link)

I can't even find a news story about it but there's tens of millions in funding for new BRT lines, too. (link)

A wonky-but-important change: Minnesota Dems indexed the state gas tax to inflation, effectively increasing the gas tax. (link)

They actually indexed a bunch of stuff to inflation, including the state's education funding formula, which helps ensure that school spending doesn't decline over time. (link)

Minnesota Dems made hourly school workers (e.g., bus drivers and paraprofessionals) eligible for unemployment during summer break, when they're not working or getting paid. (link)

Minnesota Dems passed a bunch of labor protections for teachers, including requiring school districts to negotiate class sizes as part of union contracts. (Yet another @SydneyJordanMN special here. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a state board to govern labor standards at nursing homes. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a Prescription Drug Affordability Board, which would set price caps for high-cost pharmaceuticals. (link)

Minnesota Dems created new worker protections for Amazon warehouse workers and refinery workers. (link)

Minnesota Dems passed a digital fair repair law, which requires electronics manufacturers to make tools and parts available so that consumers can repair their electronics rather than purchase new items. (link)

Minnesota Dems made Juneteenth a state holiday. (link)

Minnesota Dems banned conversion therapy. (link)

They spent nearly a billion dollars on a variety of environmental programs, from heat pumps to reforestation. (link)

Minnesota Dems expanded protections for pregnant and nursing workers - already in place for larger employers - to almost everyone in the state. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a new child tax credit that will cut child poverty by about a quarter. (link)

Minnesota Democrats dropped a quick $50 million into homelessness prevention programs. (link)

And because the small stuff didn't get lost in the big stuff, they passed a law to prevent catalytic converter thefts. (link)

Minnesota Dems increased child care assistance. (link)

Minnesota Dems banned "captive audience meetings," where employers force employees to watch anti-union presentations. (link)

No news story yet, but Minnesota Dems forced signal priority changes to Twin Cities transit. Right now the trains have to wait at intersections for cars, which, I can say from experience, is terrible. Soon that will change.

Minnesota Dems provided the largest increase to nursing home funding in state history. (link)

They also bumped up salaries for home health workers, to help address the shortage of in-home nurses. (link)

Minnesota Dems legalized drug paraphernalia, which allows social service providers to conduct needle exchanges and address substance abuse with reduced fear of incurring legal action. (link)

Minnesota Dems banned white supremacists and extremists from police forces, capped probation at 5 years for most crimes, improved clemency, and mostly banned no-knock warrants. (link)

Minnesota Dems also laid the groundwork for a public health insurance option. (link)

I’m happy for the people of Minnesota, but as a Floridian living under Ron DeSantis & hateful Republicans, I’m also very envious tbh. We know that democracy can work, and this is a shining example of what government could be like in the hands of legislators who actually care about helping people in need, and not pursuing the GOP’s “culture wars” and suppressing the votes of BIPOC, and inflicting maximum harm on those who aren’t cis/het, white, wealthy, Christian males. BRAVO MINNESOTA. This is how you do it! And the Minnesota Dems did it with a one seat majority, so no excuses. Forget about the next election and focus on doing as much good as you can, while you still can. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1660846689450688514.html

[qqueenofhades]

I am FULLY ONBOARD the Harris/Waltz train, tho before this i was leaning towards Mark Kelly (AZ is a swing state! He's an ASTRONAUT!) If you want or have time, no pressure, but any thoughts on what makes Waltz a better pick?

I like Mark Kelly too, and since he's married to Gabby Giffords (having run for public office after she got shot and could no longer do so) he would have been an amazing pick in terms of supporting the first female POTUS. But he is a less charismatic public speaker than Walz (for whatever that's worth, but politics is a mess of Aesthetics and Vibes that matter as much and/or more than actual facts) and more moderate/conservative. He's been a great senator and picking him would defuse some of the BORDER IMMIGRATION BLAH BLAH!!! scaremongering that Republicans love to run on, but it would also leave open the possibility of losing a special election and other dangers with the Democratic senate that we really need to minimize. So Walz is a better choice for that alone, but also:

He really has serious progressive credentials as governor, even if he was a fairly mainstream Democrat (who flipped a rural red House district in Minnesota that Democrats have not been able to win again after he left) during his 12 years in the House. This is an INCOMPLETE LIST of what he was able to do in two years with a one-seat Democratic majority in Minnesota:

A Climate Action Plan that included:

Investing in energy infrastructure

100% carbon-free electricity by 2040 goal

Transition off of fossil fuels and onto clean energy resources

Building more electric vehicle charging stations

Providing funding to help workers acquire new skills through apprenticeship programs in clean energy fields

Direct state funding for transit

Money for rail

Tax credit for e-bikes

Permitting form to fast-track clean energy projects

And that was in addition to:

Codified abortion access in Minnesota

Guaranteed paid sick time and paid family and medical leave

Funded replacing ALL LEAD PIPES IN THE STATE

Free school breakfasts and lunches for all

Made public college free

Stronger labor protections

Drivers’ Licenses for All

Voting Rights Act to reverse recent court rulings that make voting harder, including restored voting rights to convicted felons

Banning medical debt from credit bureaus

The "Taylor Swift Bill" requiring all ticket "junk fees" be shown up front

Banning most "junk fees"

No book bans

Protection for tipped workers

Banned non-competes

Legalized recreational cannabis

Gun control, including increased penalties for straw purchases of firearms, expanded background checks and enacted red-flag laws, passing gun safety measures that the GOP has thwarted for years

Made MN a Trans Refuge State, and required health plans to cover “medically necessary gender-affirming care.”

Pay increase for Uber and Lyft drivers

Elimination of the so-called “gay panic defense”

A ban on “doxxing” election workers

A prohibition on “swatting” elected officials

In March, during the height of the Gaza/uncommitted primary protests against Biden, Walz said that young people should be listened to and they had a right to be speaking up and the situation in Gaza was horrible and intolerable, without directly slamming Biden or getting involved in the issue in a way to draw negative headlines. Regardless of what you think about any of it, that is a very deft way to handle it and pairs well with Kamala's better responsiveness on the Gaza issue overall. That was a big part of the reason why Gen Z/younger voters were very excited about Walz despite him being an "old" (actually the same age as Kamala but he has joked that teaching high school for 20 years will do that to a guy) white guy. If half the battle in politics is making the right pick to excite your core voters and reach out to new ones, then Harris nailed it. As I have said in earlier posts, there was just too much energy with young voters FINALLY checking in when Harris became the candidate, to risk introducing a big ideological split with Shapiro.

Aside from that: the most insufferable Smart White-Bro Political Pundits (TM) are big mad about Walz, many Never Trumper Republicans thought they were entitled to a "moderate" in exchange for oh-so-generously lending us their vote against Trump and not run the risk that we might end up with someone *gasp* progressive, and the regular MAGA Republicans are hysterical, which means they're terrified. It's also incredibly hard to paint Literal Midwestern Stereotype Dad (football coach, social studies high school teacher, military veteran, etc) as THE EVIL END OF AMERICA in the way they desperately want to do, though the fact that they're trying shows that they've got literally nothing. The fact that Kamala picked Walz against the PREVAILING WISDOM!!! that she had to take Shapiro (for whatever reason that might have been) is also a good sign, because by far the most genuine and extensive enthusiasm that I have seen from Democratic voters, especially those feeling burned out or disillusioned or angry with specific policy choices of the current administration, was for Walz. Having everyone excited for the pick beforehand, effectively using the "weird" line, and rallying behind the guy, only for her to actually go for him, is inspiring. It makes people feel like they're being heard and the Democrats have decided to win by being progressive, and not just endlessly Catering To The (Imaginary) Middle as they have always been told to do (and often done). That alone is MASSIVE.

Walz is tremendously funny, personable, has Democrats from AOC to Joe Manchin praising it (again, shocking), was right out the gate supporting Kamala, has already been majorly successful on TV, was by far the most progressive-on-policy picks of the VP finalists, is incredibly, hilariously wholesome and small-town Midwestern (he's the JD Vance that they wish JD Vance was), and is already sending ActBlue gangbusters with donations again. And when you're getting this kind of response on the Cursed Bird Hellsite, just:

Just. I don't know what's happening either. But let's enjoy it, and then work hard, because we gotta fucking do this and for possibly the first time this entire year, I really think we might. Heck yeah.

[matan4il]

I am at a loss for words.

A Jewish woman in Paris was kidnapped, held for several days, and raped for being a Jew, and her mother was psychologically taunted and tormented, as "revenge for Palestine."

And while the perpetrator is the main person responsible for this horrific crime, every single person denying or justifying the Oct 7 sexual violence is guilty of contributing to this normalization, making this antisemitic terrorist think his excuse is in any way an acceptable justification for this atrocity. Every single person who didn't believe Jewish victims, every single person who demanded proof, but turned a blind eye to the visual evidence Hamas terrorists themselves provided, every single person who called the films and pictures and testimonies from countless Israelis "propaganda," every single person who justified it and claimed that "rape is resistance." They're all complicit. They all have to know they've helped make Jews everywhere in the world less safe.

Speaking of complicity, even though a UN report found credible evidence for the sexual crimes committed by Hamas on Oct 7 and against Israeli hostages since, the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, has personally decided to leave Hamas out of the annual report on sexual violence in conflicts around the world. Israeli commentators expressed their belief that this was done, because had it been included, then the UN would have no choice but to finally recognize that Hamas is a terrorist organization. The UN is complicit. Guterres is complicit. Hold them accountable.

Speaking of the UN's known anti-Israel bias, what a surprise, their report on UNRWA, their own agency, claimed not to support the charges against it, though they did find that UNRWA has "some issues" maintaining its neutrality...

Just to make it clear, "staff publicly taking sides" refers to UNRWA employees being openly anti-Israel, antisemitic and pro anti-Jewish violence, and the "problematic content" in UNRWA textbooks is incitement to terrorism and educating Palestinian kids to be antisemitic. This alone constitutes more than "some issues with neutrality." But there's more. Out of the 12 Gaza UNRWA employees first identified by Israel as having participated in the Hamas massacre, at least three were killed inside Israel on Oct 7 itself, and at least one more was captured on film while helping to kidnap an Israeli young man's body from an Israeli kibbutz into Gaza using a vehicle with UN license plates. I'd say that's a bit more than "difficulties with neutrality". In fact, the UN itself implicitly recognized the evidence was damning, or it would not have fired nine of the twelve right away, and admit a tenth UN worker was dead following the invasion and attack on Israeli communities, while claiming they're still "clarifying" the identities of the other two killed employees who participated in the Hamas massacre. BTW, it's been about 3 months of the UN "clarifying" the identities of those other two dead employees (screenshot below is from the article published 2 days ago, link with same claim on "clarification" is from Jan 27).

UNRWA is complicit. There are other humanitarian aid NGOs, which can do better. Dismantle UNRWA. But we know the UN will not be dismantling the cash cow that this agency is, even though no other refugee group gets an equal treatment to that. At what point do we say out loud, that if more and more UNRWA employees are found to be complicit in a massacre or being embedded with Hamas, if Hamas terrorists have continuously used UNRWA infrastructure to store weapons and shoot at Israelis, if UNRWA was found to be providing a terrorist organization with internet and electricity, and if the UN can't hold its own agency accountable, then the UN is also complicit in UNRWA's collaboration with Hamas?

In Israel itself, as the biggest Jewish community in the world is celebrating Passover, attacks on Israeli Jews continue.

Two days ago, on the Eve of Passover, a combined terrorist attack took place in Jerusalem, in an ultraorthodox neighborhood, with two Palestinian terrorists driving their car into a group of visibly Jewish young people, then the attackers left their car and tried shooting at their victims, but the weapon thankfully malfunctioned. Three people were lightly wounded. (the vid below shows most of the attack, but not the graphic parts of the car hitting the young Jewish men)

Yestrday, the Lebanon-based terrorist organization Hezbollah launched three suicide drones at Israel's northern communities, along its Mediterranean shore. This attack comes on the heels of the news that out of 18 Israelis wounded in a previous Hezbollah drone attack on an Israeli Arab Bedouin town, one has died from his injuries, after fighting for his life for 5 days. It's 27 years old Dor Zimel, an officer who was stationed in that town to protect it. Dor was set to get married next month, and he had proposed to his fiancee with a ring donated by a bereaved father (his son, 23 years old Addir Messika, was a jewelry designer, and the ring was one he designed before he was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival on Oct 7). Dor's organs were donated and saved the lives of 7 people, including an injured soldier, who's also the father of a girl. May Dor and Addir's memory be a blessing.

And today, on the second day of Passover, an attempted stabbing attack was stopped before the Palestinian female terrorist managed to harm anyone. She was neutralized at the scene.

I'm sure all those who decried Israel having to continue its war against Hamas during Ramadan are being extra loud about this wave of anti-Jewish violence during Passover, which is actually just a partial list of the on going attacks on Israeli Jews during this holiday.

In other news, the preparations for the IDF's ground operation in Rafah have actually already started. Reports suggest 250,000 Palestinians who have come to the southern city as they left other war zones in Gaza, have already left Rafah, and that Israel has already started building encampments to house those it will evacuate from the city before the ground operation begins.

Trying to remember when have I ever seen an army building an entire camp city for the enemy's civilian population. I'm coming up blank.

This is Miri Gad Mesikka.

She lives in kibbutz Be'eri, together with her husband Eli and their 3 kids. On Oct 7, they locked themselves in the bomb shelter from the invading Hamas terrorists. They were in there for 12 hours, fighting for control of the bomb shelter's door, until the terrorists set their house on fire, and the Gad Messika family had to make an impossible choice: stay and maybe suffocate to death from the smoke (or worse if the fire got in), or jump from their second floor window, probably be injured and maybe be shot to death by the terrorists. Eventually, they chose to jump out. They all got injured, and one of her sons got his leg broken, but the terrorists didn't spot them, and this decision saved their lives. During the time they were locked inside the bomb shelter, Miri recounts how she would see some of her friends and neighbors not responding anymore, and she couldn't know why. She kept hoping it was because their phone batteries ran out. "Today I know some of them were being kidnapped, while others were being murdered. It was a massacre, happening in countless different spots at the same time." One of her friends told Miri, that her daughter, a baby who was less than one years old, was shot in the head right in front of her. Then the friend's husband was murdered as well, and despite being shot with a bullet in her lungs herself, the friend somehow managed to get herself and her two other kids away.

Never forget.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[nasa]

For the Benefit of All: Assistive Tech Developed from NASA Tech

What do modern cochlear implants and robotic gloves have in common? They were derived from NASA technology. We’ve made it easier to find and use our patented inventions that could help create products that enhance life for people with disabilities.

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, which highlights the contributions of American workers with disabilities – many of whom use assistive technology on the job. Take a look at these assistive technologies that are NASA spinoffs.

Low-Vision Headsets

The Joint Optical Reflective Display (JORDY) device is a headset that uses NASA image processing and head-mounted display technology to enable people with low vision to read and write. JORDY enhances individuals’ remaining sight by magnifying objects up to 50 times and allowing them to change contrast, brightness, and display modes. JORDY's name was inspired by Geordi La Forge, a blind character from “Star Trek: The Next Generation” whose futuristic visor enabled him to see.

Cochlear Implants

Work that led to the modern cochlear implant was patented by a NASA engineer in the 1970s. Following three failed corrective surgeries, Adam Kissiah combined his NASA electronics know-how with research in the Kennedy Space Center technical library to build his own solution for people with severe-to-profound hearing loss who receive little or no benefit from hearing aids. Several companies now make the devices, which have been implanted in hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

Robotic Gloves

Ironhand, from Swedish company Bioservo Technologies, is the world’s first industrial-strength robotic glove for factory workers and others who perform repetitive manual tasks. It helps prevent stress injuries but has been especially warmly received by workers with preexisting hand injuries and conditions. The glove is based on a suite of patents for the technology developed by NASA and General Motors to build the hands of the Robonaut 2 humanoid robotic astronaut.

Smart Glasses

Neurofeedback technology NASA originally developed to improve pilots’ attention has been the basis for products aimed at helping people manage attention disorders without medication. The devices measure brainwave output to gauge attention levels according to the “engagement index” a NASA engineer created. Then, they show the results to users, helping them learn to voluntarily control their degree of concentration. One such device is a pair of smart glasses from Narbis, whose lenses darken as attention wanes.

Anti-Gravity Treadmills

A NASA scientist who developed ways to use air pressure to simulate gravity for astronauts exercising in space had the idea to apply the concept for the opposite effect on Earth. After licensing his technology, Alter-G Inc. developed its anti-gravity G-Trainer treadmill, which lets users offload some or all of their weight while exercising. The treadmills can help people recover from athletic or brain injuries, and they allow a safe exercise regimen for others with long-term conditions such as arthritis.

Wireless Muscle Sensors

Some of the most exciting assistive technologies to spin off may be yet to come. Delsys Inc. developed electromyographic technology to help NASA understand the effects of long-term weightlessness on astronauts’ muscles and movements. Electromyography detects and analyzes electrical signals emitted when motor nerves trigger movement. Among the company’s customers are physical therapists developing exercise routines to help patients recover from injuries. But some researchers are using the technology to attempt recoveries that once seemed impossible, such as helping paralyzed patients regain movement, letting laryngectomy patients speak, and outfitting amputees with artificial limbs that work like the real thing.  

To further enhance the lives of people with disabilities, NASA has identified a selection of patented technologies created for space missions that could spur the next generation of assistive technology here on Earth.

Want to learn more about assistive technologies already in action? Check out NASA Spinoff to find products and services that wouldn’t exist without space exploration.   

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[beababoobies]

hii i hope ur day/night is going good! can please u write a oneshot type fic where sal and reader go to a drive-in theater and are being cutsey idiots in love ? :3

hello hun! Im alright, work has me stressing unfortunately. I’d love to do that for you! Sorry this took so long, I hope you still enjoy!

Crash Into Me - Sal Fisher X GN!Reader

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“You know, I’m still hurt you wouldn’t let me drive.” You say with a small chuckle, resting back in your seat while your boyfriend pulls into the theatre, one hand on the steering wheel and one on your thigh as he finds a good spot to watch the movie from. “Number one” he starts as he backs the car up slightly, giving you both a good view of the giant projector screen, movie not have even started yet.

“you do not even have your license. And before you say anything, I know Larry has been teaching you on his gross old truck on the dirt roads, but I don’t even trust him to drive.” He says with a soft sigh as he puts the car in park, pulling the key from the ignition.

“For your information, Sally, Larry is a wonderful driver. He has only crashed into three trees and one electric pole.” You say defensively, taking off your seatbelt before slouching into yourself as you realized exactly how much that statement probably only made your argument worse. Sal looked over at you and you could pretty much feel the harsh judgment through the mask.

“fine, whatever.” You mutter quickly, leaning over and giving him a quick peck on the cheek, causing him to roll his eye. “I’m much too cute to get my license, for your information.” You say with a sarcastic dismissive wave of your hand, opening the car door, leaning back in for a sec. “Cmon, let’s sit on the roof. It’ll be romantic.” You say with a wink, and Sal dejectedly sighed as he took off his seatbelt.

You carefully hoisted yourself onto the roof of his old car, sitting yourself comfortably as you watched your boyfriend do the same, pulling himself up and sitting next to you, resting his head on your shoulder lazily as you sat back on one hand, the other running carefully through his hair.

You were right, this setup was perfect and romantic. Until about halfway through the movie, when it started absolutely pouring.

You and Sal had rushed back into the backseat of the car, giggling and completely soaking from the rain, leaning against each other as you watched the projector start to flicker, movie no longer visible from the rain pouring onto the windshield. He pealed his soaked prosthetic off of his face, chuckling softly, strands of his wavy blue hair stuck to his forehead and the sides of his face. The smile on your face stuck as you watched in awe of how absolutely lucky you were.

“I wouldn’t call - call that romantic.” He said between laughs, wiping away a stray tear from the bottom of his eye, before properly looking up at you, smile faltering slightly as he notices your staring, tilting his head.

“what’cha looking at?” He says with a smile, and you purse your lips together, the smile on your face refusing to fall as you leaned in, his eye falling to your lips. “Somethin’ pretty.” You responded with a small chuckle, before placing a gentle kiss on his scarred lips, returned eagerly and quickly as his hands scrambled to find the back of your head, pushing you into the kiss further, humming against your lips contently.

You kissed for minutes that felt like seconds, lovingly and completely trapped in the moment, the rain beating down on Sal’s car like music, until there was a small tap on the window right behind your head, making your jump and pull apart, Sal scrambling to find his mask and you rolling down the window slightly to find a tired drive-in theatre worker, draped in a rain poncho with a flashlight. It was only then when you realized that the rest of the lot had been cleared out, and you were the only two remaining.

“Sorry to bother y’all but the movie has been cancelled ‘cus of the rain. I’m going to have to ask you to leave, but you have a.. free movie on us the next time you come ‘round. Have yourselves a nice night.” They grumbled out tiredly and you nodded, rolling up the window as they walked away, looking back over at Sal, who was red as a tomato, prosthetic on the front seat, and you both looked at each other for a second, before bursting out into another fit of giggles.

“stop! Stop it, that - that was not that funny.” You protested, but only through chuckles of your own, climbing into the passengers seat after he climbed into the drivers, still chuckling into his palm, nodding. “You’re right - I’m sorry, I- no, that was unbelievably romantic. Thank you my love.” He teased with a smile as he leaned over and kissed the blush back onto your cheeks.

~ twas short, I do admit. But I’m gonna be honest with y’all… no I’m not. ENJOY!

[afeelgoodblog]

The Best News of Last Week 🐧

1. ‘Robin Hood�� energy strikers give free power to French schools, hospitals, low-income homes

Amid national strikes in the energy sector, some workers in France have found a novel way to protest. On Thursday, "Robin Hood" operations – unauthorised by the government – provided free gas and electricity to schools, universities, and low-income households throughout the country.

Among the facilities provided free energy were public sports facilities, daycare centers, public libraries, some small businesses and homes that had been cut off from power. 

2. UK scientists discover method to reduce steelmaking’s CO2 emissions by 90%

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have developed an innovative method for existing furnaces that could reduce steelmaking’s CO2 emission by nearly 90%.

The iron and steel industry is a major cause of greenhouse gasses, accounting for 9% of global emissions. That’s because of the inherent carbon-intensive nature of steel production in blast furnaces, which currently represent the most-widely used practice.

3. Watch this cargo ship fly a giant kite to save fuel and cut emissions

The 2,700-square-foot parafoil is helping to tow the cargo ship and lessen the workload of the massive diesel engines — reducing the ship’s use of dirty fuel.

4. Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images

A newly discovered emperor penguin colony has been seen, using satellite images of one the most remote and inaccessible regions of Antarctica.

The colony, home to about 500 birds, makes a total of 66 known emperor penguin colonies around the coastline of Antarctica, half of which were discovered by space satellites. Emperor penguins are the only penguins that breed on sea ice, rather than land, and are located in areas that are very difficult to study because they are remote, inaccessible and can experience temperatures as low as −60C

Kowalski, analysis!

5. Dungeons & Dragons Scraps Plans to Update Its Open Game License

Wizards of the Coast, publisher of Dungeons & Dragons, announced yesterday that it will no longer be pursuing deauthorization of the Open Gaming License 1.0a. The deauthorization of the OGL 1.0a was a huge sticking point for fans and third-party publishers who made a living using a license that was granted nearly two decades ago.

6. Turning problem sea algae into a replacement for plastic

Excessive outbreaks of seaweed and microalgae are clogging up waters from the Caribbean to the Baltic. Now both are being harvested alongside farmed crops to create ingredients for cosmetics and food products.

7. German parliament officially commemorates LGBTQ victims of Nazi regime for first time.

The German parliament for the first time on Friday focused its annual Holocaust memorial commemorations on people persecuted and killed over their sexual or gender identity during World War II. Campaigners in Germany have worked for decades to establish an official ceremony to commemorate the LGBTQ victims persecuted under the Nazi regime.

“Today’s hour of remembrances focuses on a group of victims which had to fight for a long time to achieve recognition: people who were persecuted by the National Socialists because of their sexual orientation or their gender identity,” Baerbel Bas, president of the Bundestag lower house, said while opening a ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation.

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[ffauthor]

Michael Afton x Reader + William Afton.

Which reader has a little work incident and gets helped by her oh-so-sweet co-worker, which takes her to the hottest doctor in town, also his dad.

"Michael!!" You scream, running towards the boy who is clueless about what is happening around him. You sprint in front of his back and get hit by one of the multiple electric wires, making you fall to the floor in pain.

Your body was shaking intensively and your whole left arm was burned and shaking by the electrical pain shooting through it.

Michael's gaze met yours as his mouth fell wide open and his pupils grew. He fell on his knees, crawling towards you while his mind went crazy. He saw his pretty y/n on the floor, clearly in pain. Your screams and then the sudden silence made him worry, it made him clinch his fist and let his breath hitch.

Michael held you down, placing half of your body on his lap as he brushed pieces of your hair out of your face. he could feel his eyes getting irritated, and although he hated crying in front of you, he couldn't help it. he let tears fall down his cheeks while he screamed, sore throat for help.

He knew he didn't have much of a choice, or even much of luck sincerely since the only people in the building were you, Michael, Jeremy, and possibly even henry, if you both were lucky.

But that didn't provide him from screaming, crying, and being a panicky mess. Not even when he took ahold of you in his arms and ran out of the electrical room with you losingly hanging over his weakened arms.

His screaming for help did seem to catch people's attention because both of them came rushing down to where the sound was coming from. Y/n unconscious in Michael's arms.

Both of the males helped Michael rush you into henry's car, while they exchanged keys. Henry trusted him enough to drive both you two, and the car unscratched to the hospital, Michael was driving for his license after all.

And he did, he drove pretty neatly even tho he was speeding harder and harder, holding your hand secured in his. Mainly to reassure himself. You were a strong woman, you were gonna make it. At least, you had to. He wouldn't accept losing you, not when you were all he had.

''Come on y/n. We are almost there okay? Hold on for just a little while.''

His car grazed over the highway, slipping through the sharp corners and dribbling past any other car that was getting on his nerves. Normally, Michael was a patient male, but right now. He was everything but.

When he finally reached the parking lot and felt your pulse grow slower and slower he slammed the door shut, running to the passenger seat to open your door & take you out as quickly as possible. He didn't bother locking his car, all he cared about was seeing our beautiful eyes open and glowingly healthy.

People all around looked at the scene where a stressed messy haired male with a purple crumbled shirt and his eyes red and puffy was holding an unconscious pale girl fighting for her life.

Michael didn't care, he just kicked one of the doors open with his feet and started to scan the hospital in his blurry sight. It was hard for him, especially since he had to particularly squeeze his eyes to see something. But when his gaze met a brown-haired male with glasses calmly placed on his nose and a Stethoscope hanging around his white large jacket he started to breathe.

He walked toward the male who was talking to a possible patient at a rushed pace before he raised his voice, making the male look up towards him, his eyes widening and a nerve of panic hitting him straight in the head. ''Goddamnit dad, please. Y/n.. she-''

Y/n. Unconscious. 

Two words were enough for William to keep his head up and take things seriously. ''I need one bed, one Iv-drip, and one goddamn oxygen mask!'' William yelled to one of the nurses, who nodded and left to get the supplies immediately.

William placed his clipboard underneath his armpit and got a penlight out of his pocket, only to open one of your eyelids and shine it on there, seeing your whitened sclera twitch.

William looked so focussed but so worried as he put the light back in his pocket and started to softly hit your cheeks.

''Okay. Michael, I'm going to need you to tell me exactly what happened.''

[dusksescape]

So I went to vote because mama didn't raise no bitch and I didn't have a license with my current address. But I did suffer through updating my electric, Internet companies and bank to update my address in February so I brought what I could according to MyVote and that includes my lease (that wasn't in date either rip...) a bank statement I got the same hour before voting, a bill under 90 days old and the license.

I wasn't even sure if the poll worker would even accept it but by the time we got to the third document I brought she told me to chill out and said "I really appreciate how prepared you are, now let me get you all set."

Bro, in the 2020 election I watched some lady have drive in with her toddlers without her license and have to use her fucking fishing permit. You think I want that to be my future?

[rjalker]

Why is it every single time people mention that actual real leather is better for the environment than literal plastic, everybody always assumes that all leather must come from giant evil mega corporations instead of... Understanding that you can literally buy leather products directly from indigenous people, or hunters, or ethical farms.

Do people think that leather only existed after the industrial revolution? What do people think was being used literally for all of human history up until a little while ago in the grand scheme of things???

It's like people who claim that plastic bags are better for the environment than cotton because they insist upon only making cotton bags in the most fucking unsustainable way possible and then pretend like this is an inevitable consequence of cotton itself and not the fact that they're purposefully choosing methods that do the most damage so that they can make the most amount of money. (And again, the explicit and purposeful ignorance of the fact that plastic will not biodegrade the way cotton will. You cannot throw a plastic bag into your compost pile and get good results the way you can with a cotton bag.)

If it were legal to grow cotton here, I could literally grow my own cotton, spin it into yarn, and then crochet bags without the use of any electricity at all, and without using any water except for the rain. The only thing stopping this from happening on a larger scale is that the rich people do not want to fucking pay workers fairly for their labor! That's why they're called capitalists! The only thing they care about is profit!

If you want ethical leather then actually look for it, don't just buy it from the biggest big box store you see. Buy it from indigenous people, or from a thrift store, or from a friend, or make friends with some local hunters and literally learn how to process it yourself if you fucking want to. Or get a damn hunting license and do everything yourself! There's literally tutorials on YouTube for how to process deer hides into leather. Cows are not the only animal on the planet that can be used to make leather.

[bakfoo]

A bunch of watchog in a car getting pulled over, but when the officer asks for license and registration, ALL of them pull out their wallets except the watchog in the driver's seat

A bunch of scraggy doing bike repair with one falling over his pants and dropping tools everywhere

A conkulldurr and a human in construction wear arguing as they point at the same clipboard

An old man playing chess with a group of pachirisu who point at different areas of the chess board while one struggles to make a decision

A stadium of pokemon cheering as they watch a human WWE style cage match

An extremely tired diggersby with like 50 kids in a stroller

A group of timburr and a human worker trading various lunch foods while they eat off an i-beam

Lucario service animal with an older lady with a vest that says "please do not interact with me, I am working"

A mellotta singing in a bar, the crowd surrounding her laughing and having drinks. pokemon and human alike

A bearded biker man and a sylveon getting matching tats

An unaware NYC style stand owner not noticing as a squirtle takes a candybar

A simisear, simisage, and simpour howling in laughter at a library as they draw a rotated "3" next to the word for "butt" in an encyclopedia

A disgruntled community service officer with missing hair and a couple of honking geese pokemon in the back

Some soldiers getting a selfie with a cheeky serperior they convinced to slide lengthwise into a cannon barrel

A demonstration of electrical circuits, letting an emolga balance a lightbulb on her head while holding two wires. kids look on in wonder

A rider on an Unfezant delivering mail to someone on a building rooftop

A purrloin on a diner counter handing an older couple a menu, dressed in a bowtie. The rest of the restaurant has similar high counters for other cat pokemon to take orders

A leavanny and a zoroark helping a man get tailored, with a zoroark using illusions to provide an idea of what it might look like

A group of kids, pokemon and all, running around with sparklers, except a chickorita who somehow got a hold of a blinking traffic come and is running with it on their head

A view from the bottom up, showing a braviary dropping off heavy cargo while a guy directs him with hand signals

Furret conservationist pokemon with a clipboard and a pencil wearing a golf visors making sure displaced pokemon from urban expansion get proper housing

[female-malice]

Are we doing feminist driving discourse?

Well, you already know what I think, right?

Drivers license testing should be rigorous and difficult. It should absolutely not be easy. Everyone should be tested to the same standard. You should need to be just as skilled as a professional driver in order to drive a car. Minors should not have licenses. Drivers should have to retake the test every five years to prove they are skilled safe drivers. Any driver that hits a pedestrian or cyclist should get their license revoked permanently.

No car should be able to go over 60 miles per hour.

Cars are tools, not toys. Cars should mainly be for delivery drivers, maintenance workers, and first responders. Everything beyond that is redundant luxury private transportation.

"But what about feminist independence? What about my cross country road trips?"

Hey, guess what? Car companies do not love you like that. Fossil fuel companies are not going to liberate women. SUVs and big cabin trucks with 4 ft hoods are not a feminist girlboss symbol.

This is it. There's no more time left. It's not 2010. You can't fart around in your car for another decade eating ice cream and cheap cheeseburgers. If that's what you planned for your life, I'm sorry. It's not happening.

Adapt. We need to adapt. We need to adapt all the women in our towns. The most important feminist goal right now is climate mitigation, adaptation, and if we're lucky, restoration. If we don't accept this goal, that means we are not invested in women.

We are in an emergency situation right now. The media and the government do not want us to recognize that. They want us to be weak and helpless in the face of disaster so they can exploit us. Do not sit around and cooperate with their plan! Be bold! Adapt! Carry the women around you forward into the future!

Force fossil fuel interests out of your town and out of the lives of the women around you! Every time your town spends money on car infrastructure rather than public transit, that's fossil fuel interests at work. Every time you use your car when public transit is a viable option, that's fossil fuel interests at work. Every time you imply that a carless woman is a burden on others, that's fossil fuel interests at work.

If you're American, I know everything I'm saying here feels wrong in your gut. That's because of our American socialization. As Americans, we live in the petrostate imperial core. We are socialized into an all-encompassing car culture. Adapting and changing and seeking freedom from fossil fuel interests feels wrong because of how we're raised. We are socialized to believe that cars are freedom and car companies and fossil fuels give us freedom. The reality is, of course, the exact opposite. Car dependency makes it easier for police to track us and bully us. And fossil fuel dependency has stolen our freedom to live in a stable future.

Women will never be free unless we push back against American socialization.

Trains. Buses. Electric cargo bikes. Electric carts. Public community garages. Abolish private transportation. Let's go. Adapt.

[galerymod]

Personally, I think the AI is misjudged. As always, there is far too much hype about something that is currently only about beta testers in many areas. Namely, a herd of voluntary users who optimize the incomplete product free of charge for the tech giants. Click workers for free.

Dangers yes but first open the Pandora's box and let it run and then talk about ethical principles. But only talk and warn not implement. Whether only nuclear energy or chemical weapons to bio weapons first make and then look.

The same problem happens again, we are simply not capable of learning whether only genetic manipulation or AI we run after the progression because it could be another faster.

Ultimately, it is the great challenge which will bring about an entire social transformation. That will be so drastic that no area of life remains untouched.

All this takes place without restrictions and any ethical basis. It leads us not into the as always promised paradisiacal future but into the irresponsibility of the individual. And the loss of control of the individual against the AI system owners. By the way, who does not know the real satirical slogan atomic energy make electricity cheaper for all, from the sixties,

Today, a soldier sits at the trigger of a killer drone and must make a decision or a higher level of responsibility in the Relationship of dependence makes this decision with the consequence of responsibility.

But what then? The drone has an independent AI and decides without final consideration.

China is a special example to the loss of control of the people by a regulative and punishing state AI with evaluations system around the maximum control to receive.

At some point, the wolf will no longer have to monitor the sharp, but they will do everything not to attract the wolf's attention. The independent curtailment of freedom with the scissors ✂️ in the head.

Just to info the entire use is not climate neutral!

For example only Google without all the other options in the Internet.

Since Google currently processes up to nine billion search queries per day. If every Google search used AI, it would require about 29.2 terawatt hours of electricity per year, according to calculations. That would be equivalent to Ireland's annual electricity consumption.

I do not believe in help systems that filter my world and use my data for the self-interest of a few. In the end, the whole thing is just a crappy licensing system to sell surveillance products.

For example, why does facial recognition AI software need to recognize everyone to protect society?

Isn't it enough just to search for the people who are criminals and are wanted by court order!

All those the software does not recognize are irrelevant, thus false negatives.

However, it is not so you want to be able to judge whether someone is suspicious and perhaps criminal or even terrorist is on the road.

.

But this is error-prone and thus antisocial and dangerous.

If someone sweats at the airport and has anger in his face, this means an error assessment if it goes wrong. If one would be a terrorist, one injects Botox and has no anger and no hatred in the face but only the indifference of a misguided person whose act can only be resolved in retrospect. The more data you have to analyze, the longer the analysis takes. So why make the pile of straws bigger when you are only looking for the pins. Is my question!

mod

[thecrimecrypt]

Crimes That Shook Britain (East England)

Joanna Dennehy Joanna Dennehy grew up in a loving home. But, at 16, she left, got into drink and drugs and lived in a violent fantasy world.  In March 2013, she launched a two-week killing spree, murdering men ‘for fun’. She lured Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, to her Peterborough flat with suggestive texts, stabbed him and dumped his body. 

Ten days on, she stabbed housemate, John Chapman, 56. Next, she killed her landlord Kevin Lee, 48. He was found in a ditch in a sequined dress. Days later, she stabbed two men at random. Both survived. When arrested, Dennehy laughed, danced around the police station, and was later diagnosed with psychopathic antisocial personality disorder. 

Dennehy, 31, pleaded guilty to three counts of murder, and two of attempted murder. She received a whole-life sentence.  

Suffolk Strangler  Late in 2006, sex workers began disappearing - Tania Nicol, Gemma Adams, Annell Alderton, Annette Nicholls and Paula Clennell - after being picked up from the Ipswich red-light district. 

Their naked bodies were found in remote locations.  Police tracked the murders back to Steve Wright. He’d drop his partner at work, then trawl the red-light district for small, slight prostitutes. After having sex with them, he’d kill them, dump their bodies, then go home, get changed, and go to work. 

Convicted of the five murders, he got a whole-life sentence. His repeated appeals have been unsuccessful. 

Tony Martin  In August 1999, Fred Barras, 16, and Brendon Fearon, 28, broke into Tony Martin’s Norfolk property. 

Martin had trouble with burglars before. Arming himself with an unlicensed pump-action shotgun, he fired at the intruders as they fled.  Both had leg wounds, but Barras was shot in the back and died. 

Martin was tried for murder but claimed self-defense. He was convicted, jailed for life. The case provoked debate over rights to defend property.  On appeal, Martin’s defense claimed he was suffering paranoia, particularly regarding burglars, when he killed Barras. 

Martin’s conviction was reduced to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and he was released after three years. 

Soham Murders The photo made headlines worldwide in August 2002.  Smiling best friends, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, both 10, in matching Man Utd football shirts. 

Shortly after the photo was taken, the schoolgirls had left a family barbecue to buy sweets and vanished.  Their bodies were found nearly two weeks later in a ditch near RAF Lakenheath, 12 miles from their homes in Soham. 

School caretaker Ian Huntley, who’d given several TV interviews during the search, was arrested.  He’d lured the girls into his house as they walked by and murdered them, before disposing of their bodies. 

He was jailed for life.  His girlfriend - the girls’ teaching assistant Maxine Carr - was jailed for perverting the course of justice after initially giving Huntley a false alibi. She was released in 2004. 

Murder of Emma Ward Emma Ward’s family contacted police in May 2010, concerned for her safety. Her husband Nicky Ward claimed that weeks earlier she’d left him a note saying she was leaving him for another man - but there was no trace of the note. 

Detectives found rubbish bags in the garden containing Emma’s passports, birth certificate and driving license. Ward was arrested.  Forensics found bloodstains in the bedroom, on the landing, on a picture frame and pillowcase. Traces of Emma’s blood were in the bathroom, and on an electric saw. 

Ward was charged with murdering his wife in the bedroom of their Norfolk home because she was about to leave him, and dismembering her body in the bath with a chainsaw.  Her remains have never been found, but Ward was convicted, jailed for life. 

Jeremy Bamber At 3:30am on 7 August 1985, Jeremy Bamber called the police claiming his father had phoned, said his sister Sheila had ‘gone beserk’ with his rifle.  At his adoptive parents’ house in Malden, police found Bamber’s parents Neville and June, plus Sheila and her twins Nicholas and Daniel, 6, shot dead, the gun by Sheila’s side. Murder-suicide? 

But Bamber’s girlfriend told police he’d confessed plans to hire a hitman to kill the family.  And a blood-flecked silencer was found at the house.  Bamber was convicted of killing his family to inherit their fortune. He received a whole-life sentence, but still protests his innocence. 

[jeanjauthor]

Lemme tell you something. I'm Gen X. They PUSHED "go to college to get a good paying job!" on the younger half of my generation...even as they started hiking college tuition costs through the roof. Older generations looked down on trade skill jobs.

This is why the trade skills are hitting 55 and reaching retirement jobs with few people to replace them in slightly younger age brackets.

Now, I'm from Western Washington, where "get into tech! get into IT!" were the big rallying cries...but IT isn't paying like it used to.

You know what's still paying well?

Plumbing. Roofing. Painting. Electricity. Carpentry. And other such "blue collar" tradeskill jobs.

Because we still need those things, and we need skilled workers...and they are willing to train apprentices for many of those jobs. (Be advised that they do require a physically active body in most instances.)

(Also, pro tip: If you can't get in on the ground floor as an apprentice, ask to be their Go-Fer employee, to do all the "half-forgotten jobs" that nobody else wants to do...like cleaning the work trucks, getting the truck license plates registered, groundskeeping around the office, running the errands nobody else has time to do because they're busy doing the skilled labor stuff, helping go buy all the bulk supplies at the wholesalers, etc, etc, etc. If you are willing & able to learn, and work well, you can often be offered an apprenticeship, or be given advice on how to get into the training courses (and have the money to pay for those courses!) to be able to get the apprenticeship needed.)

[cosmindart]

LEMRES (and phoslytes) INFO DUMP (long post)

Name: Lemres Moore

Age: 16 Phobosian cycles (basically he's 32 in earth years, mars take twice as long as earth to go around the sun making 1 phobos cycle equalt to 2 years)

Species: Phoslyte

'Human Gender': He/Him (Hiermee - Type C)

Height: 1,70m / 5'7 feet

Nicknames: Lumo, Lemmy, Lem, Lamp

Occupation: Cryptozoologist

Personality: Empathetic, Curious and curious. His best quality is being a hard worker and his worst Flaw is his gullibility but he's worked on it quite a bit. He still tend to take fellow alien's words but is much more cautious about humans.

Likes

Fairies, mythical creatures & cryptozoology

Night time and Stargazing

Water-based activities

Reading

Fruits

Earth mobile games

Dislikes

Harsh sunny weather (sunburns easily)

Dairy products

Dried Meat

Sand

Wool fabrics

Fish Eggs

PERSONAL HISTORY

Lemres (like almost any other Phoslyte) was born and grew up in the Grand-Dome on Phobos.

He was a very studious child and in his school years his favorite class was Earth, not much the human & history since - like most of his kind - humans and their war-filled history didn't interest him that much. He was much more into the fairy-tales, folklore and cryptid side of it.

He is a firm believer in cryptids even if most phoslytes laugh at him because of it. Tons of humans believes both cryptids and aliens are fake but aliens are clearly real so why can't cryptids exist too?

He flew down to earth to find and research more about these mythos as soon as he got his flying license. He didn't land where he planned and had to survive on his own in a powered down ship after a mild crash.

He spent a few month stranded in a desertic ghost town to repair his vessel but then was found by a friendly local organization. While his new ship is capable of flying all around the world he still haven't left the American desert yet. The dry lands somehow grew on him.

VISUAL REFERENCE

Lemres tend to be seen wearing a semi space-ready bodysuit paired with a pair of indigo sleeves of sort. The suits helps with thermoregulation making it a great tool to tolerate the desert heat or the tundra's frost, it's not perfect nor foolproof but a great asset nonetheless.It also features an amber core on the back that stores and share power. Phoslytes having their own electric energy flowing through them, they can themselves rechange the core or absorbe what the core has to offer to save themselves when in a weakened state. Additionally the core can be used as a lightsource.

EQUIPMENT

Lemres has many tools in his inventory. The ones he can't live without are his E-Vac backpack, his Com-pad (similar to a smart tablet) and his Mliambar (Phoslyte instrument)

HIS SPECIES

History

> Phoslytes live on Phobos, Mars’s biggest moon. While they live there it’s pretty clear that they are not native from there as the moon is completely barren and not life friendly. Judging by their appearance (very pale skin, levitation capabilities and glowing hair) it would be quite possible for them to be a hybrid mix between Greys and Nordics (perhaps some Human also) that ended on one of Mars moon and built a colony there. Greys loving to conduct biological experiments, they could be the result of a very old hybridization test.

> To live on Phobos They have created huge domes. While these massive bubbles looks clear, they are actually made with their very common Amber tech. Just like with spaceship cores, these domes are much bigger inside than out.

> Earth History is a mandatory course in Phobosian school but most are not interested in it. They are not hostile toward humans, just uninterested. They are also neutral toward most other alien races. (They are a very small population so even if they wanted to be hostile they wouldn’t have the army power to do anything)

> Most Phoslytes eventually leave Phobos to find better living space as their moon is small and barren. Even if the domes are big inside, the space available is still fairly limited and creating new cores of this size for new domes is no longer possible. Any large core created these days are exclusively used for spaceships.

> Phobos and it’s inhabitant has not record of any type of wars (withing themselves or other races). They are very peaceful and diplomatic for the most part.

ANATOMY

> Phoslytes have Pale greyish blue skin (there are some darker skinned individuals but even those are paler then how dark human can get).

> Their hair glow from the excess electrical energy coursing through their body. When weakened, sick or dead their hair do not produce any light leaving their hair jet black. Injuries can result in permanent black spots in the hair.

>The color of their hair never change since birth but it’s unclear how it’s defined as children can sport colors entirely different from their parents (A yellow Phoslyte and Green Phoslyte can give birth to a Pinkphoslyte)

> They have human-like hand but with no nails and gecko-like fingerprints. Their feet have 3 toes and the same gecko grip.

> Their diet mostly consist of plant produces as it’s harder for them to farm animals on their colony, but just like lots of herbivores from earth they will gobble meat if the opportunity is presented to them. However even if they end up somewhere than give them permanent access to meat they will limit their intake due to folktale talking of Phoslytes going mad and ravenous, corrupted by the flesh.

> They have neurocables/biocables hidden in their hair in pairs from 2 to 6 (2 being the standard and 6 being nearly unheard off anymore). They use these to plug into other lifeforms and read their emotions but only that! they can't clearly read minds and dreams! they can feel you're sad but not what you're sad about. Additionally those connected can/will feel soothed by the Phoslyte.

> The tip of the neurocables are not needles that jam themselves into a surface but the soft network of thin veins that can easily weave itself between scales and though pores. (Here's and IRL gif of what it's like when the inner cable "plug itself" into the skin: Worm and "disturbing content" warning!)

> These neurocables can also be plugged into machines as long as it has the proper ports and connectors inside. When plugged, Phoslytes can either power their device with their innate electrical energy surplus (same energy that makes their hair glow) or control the device with direct brain commands.

> There is currently no canon depiction of their genitals! but here is a semi-canon (aka you can ignore it if you want) bit of sex/gender/sexuality lore doc I made (warning for images of peepees and veevees but more in a "biology textbook" way and not a "naughty smutporn" way

AMBER TECH and NEUROCABLE TECH

Phoslyte have what the call Amber Technology. Despite it’s name it’s not made out of Earth Amber but some sort of squishy material that conduct and stores energy really well. It’s featured on a lot of Phobosian tools:

> Bodysuit cores: Store power, Charge devices, Emit light

> E-vac cores: Shrink and convert into data object in order to store them inside, space capacity is way much bigger than what the outer appearance may suggest

> Spaceship Mega cores: Instead of just storing everything as raw data like the E-vac, it feature an inner non-euclidean space (The inside is much bigger than the core size). There is still a mild form of data-conversion somewhere in the process even if it's not completely clear. Phoslytes being vessel full of electrical energy they have no issue with it and neither do most plants but animals from earth (human included) show sign of health deterioration when inside a core for too long (this is why maintaining fauna of Phobos is hard).

> Stasis shelves: Store stuff without shrinking/datafying them, they can be seen inside the amber. While inside their decomposition is drastically slowed (DOES NOT WORK ON LIVING BEINGS!)

> Amber Glasses: can improve one’s eye sight if faulty but are mainly a piece of tech quite similar to a smart watch as it provide the wearer informations and remind them of notable events. 

> Portable cores: Comes in many sizes, usually work like a bodysuit core if unmodified.

Shown below: Bodysuit core (top left), E-Vac core (bottom left), Stasis shelf (Middle), Ship core (right)

Another big part of Phoslyte Anatomy and technology is the biocable. As mentioned previously, they have head tendrils and they built tech around it. There are many devices they can plug into to both power and control such as instruments, computers, weapons and more. (See Lemres's equipment for examples)

FAUNA

> Echo Pups and Echo Grubs: Echo pups can easily be judged by their names: one one had they are dog-like in both behaviour and status toward Phoslyte, and on the other they use echolocation to navigate like bats. They are kind of a mix between mammal and insectoid. Adult Echo pups give birth to live-grubs (no eggs) and do initially feed their young milk (they sweat their milk, they don't have teats) until the grub grow teeth they can chew food with. Eventually the grub will pupate, spend a couple month int their cocoon before re-emerging as their adult form.

> Yoozles: Also referred to as Slimes by humans, they are gelatinous being that originate form early Amber Core technology. The very first Yooyles were pretty much core that got corrupted by Phoslite energy and became living beings. They initially were all Amber-colored by after years of breeding they now come in all kinds of colors. Some of them can still act as cores/store objects but most do not.

> Fairies: These insectoids are named after the human mythological faes but are not whatever the real fairies might be. You can however find some of these on Earth thanks to irresponsible Phoslites releasing their pet fairies into the Terran wilds. There are many subtypes of fairies:

Pollen Fairies are the most common ones and are vastly used in the agricultural field. They are also the most docile and easy-to-care-for fairies making them common “entry pets”.

Hunting Fairie: These aggressive fairies were one of two by-product of early simulated wildlife back when Phoslytes attempted to maintain livestock from earth. These Fairies are carnivores and mostly hunt other fairies for food or scavenge from fresh corpses.

Tooth Fairies: These are the second livestock-experiment by-product, they feed on bones rather than flesh unlike their hinting counterparts. They are named tooth fairies since they like to take the teeth from carcasses to decorate their nests during mating season.

Hawk Fairies: These were bread from both Hunting Fairies and Pollen Fairies to create a new species that would pollinize crops like the green fairies but also fight off the aggressive purple ones as well as other parasites. It didn't work however and they are even more aggressive than Hunting fairies. They are however very popular as an exotic pet (but hard to take care of).

Arctic Fairies: Acclimated to cold environments, these are the only fairies that live in large hives rather than individual nests. That aside they are functionally identical to pollen fairies. Them needing to live in colder dome make them less likely to be kept as pets.

Flora

Phobos being barren, most fruits, veggies and other plants are mutated or scientifically-modified plants imported from Earth and other planets. OOC Note: some of the followings are reworked/retooled concepts from a previous work of mine. Most of them were modified to be easily farmed inside ship taking as little space as possible, especially with wall crops.

> Harpeechas: These huge heart-shaped vine fruits originate from a planet unknown to the phoslyte that was gifted to them by the Greys. They originally were small and grew in clusters like grapes but now Grow in singular units and can be as big as someone’s head. They taste like “blue strawberries”. The solid seed inside is often used to make perfume.

> Cocktail fruits: These hard-shelled pear-shaped fruits seem like they could be related to either bottle gourds or pears but are in fact distants cousins of the passion fruit. To eat the fruit you have to vigorously shake it to loosen and mush-up the insides, you then cut off the top and drink the smoothie inside. It tastes like a mix between peach and salted caramel.

> Deep Melons: These altered watermelon were modified with the same process that made passion fruits into cocktail fruits, resulting in a similar hard-shelled mutation. These can be grown either out or under water, how deep they are grown affect both their texture and taste. Melons grown out of water are firm with a very sweet “tropical sports drink” taste while ones coming from the depth are softer with a very sour “red berries mix” flair. Letting them ferment inside their own shell creates a fruity alcohol that is very popular amongst Nordics.

> Dorel Pips: Another imported fruit from a foreign plates. The insides look strikingly similar to oranges but taste nothing like it nor like any citrus fruit for that matter, the flavor is much closer to honey and roses.

> Arcatia Nuts: These are pretty much just very large hazelnuts. Their taste is however slightly altered, bioengineers managed to make then taste like sweetened hazelnut cocoa spread. These are their world source of “chocolate products”.

> Phoslytes write in a 26 letter alphabet that most likely evolved from human's Latin alphabet. Same goes for their numbers and Arabic numerals. It's clear that human culture was a big influence on the Phoslyte population. their spoken speech sound like a mix between slavic languages and old latin somehow. Font pack Download

> Common Adjectives related to the species:

Phobosian: Inhabitants of Phobos. It’s common for humans to say Phobians instead but it is not correct!

Phoslitic: Something/objects made by or originating from Phoslytes. A synonym for it is Phoslitian but it’s outdated/only used in certain dialects.

Martian: While Phoslytes live on one of Mars’s moon they do not called themselves Martians and are very against being called-so. It is seen as kind of a slur to them!