evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

If anyone has a secret mobile phone hidden from an abusive partner, remember to switch off or put in airplane mode etc as described below, or the phone will be activated with the loud alert during the afternoon tomorrow (Sunday 23 April) at 3:00 PM.

Please share this to help keep others safe

The alert will say:

“This is a test of Emergency Alerts, a new UK government service that will warn you if there’s a life-threatening emergency nearby.

In an actual emergency, follow the instructions in the alert to keep yourself and others safe.

Visit gov.uk/alerts for more information.

This is a test. You do not need to take any action.”

Mobile phone masts in the surrounding area will broadcast an alert. Every compatible mobile phone or tablet in range of a mast will receive the alert.

Your mobile phone or tablet does not have to be connected to mobile data or wifi to get alerts.

You can opt out of emergency alerts, but the government advises you should keep them switched on for your own safety.

To opt out:

Search your settings for ‘emergency alerts’.
Turn off ‘severe alerts’ and ‘extreme alerts’.
If you still get alerts, contact your device manufacturer for help.

Refuge have produced a really helpful video @ https://lnkd.in/e-D7uJpF

#domesticabuse #domesticviolence #safeguarding #safeguardingchildren #safetyplan #emergencyservices

Want to feel old? This is what the vampires from Buffy the Vampire Slayer look like now.

So.... Apparently at the ESA JUICE launch on Friday in French Guiana, a random sloth photobombed the live stream. He's been nicknamed 'rocket sloth' or 'Jerry'.

This from @mmasnick is so spot on:

“your reputation when you refuse to moderate is not ‘the grand enabler of free speech.’ Because it’s the internet itself that is the grand enabler of free speech. When you’re a private centralized company and you don’t deal with hateful content on your site, you’re the Nazi bar.”

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/

Millennials as kids on the internet

"Computer, find me an image of a man wearing a gold ring."

爆破実験 https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/107214767

Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.

A mechanism for #LongCovid

I am beyond excited to finally be able to share what I’ve been working on for the past year.

At the beginning of March 22, I discovered a potential mechanism for #LongCovid. It was a unifying mechanism that could explain every single symptom that patients were reporting, something I never thought possible for a disease that has over 200. Yet, this mechanism actually did.

Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1150105/full

I've been quite pleased with some of the photos I've taken today, but this is the one that made me laugh. In my attempt to capture the starling and robin together, eating their bugs while studiously ignoring each other, I totally failed to focus on either of them.

Still, nice in-focus blades of grass across the centre there.

Bah.

#photography #fail #nature #birds #drawing #silly

Found some funky plants today too, as well as the birds and the bees.

So much new life...

#photography #nature #silly #animation #GooglyEyes

“I am so happy to have finally got this shot. It has taken me all winter. I have had so many difficulties; frozen equipment, blurry photos through ice, battery issues, flash placements and flare, clouds(!), cats’n’dogs, wind blowing everything over, night exposure, and the list goes on. So you can imagine my excitement and disbelief this morning when I found this on my card! Thank you beautiful Mrs fox, you get an Oscar.”

~ Duncan MacArthur

Just got the initial demo of the music for current project and WOW; even if it turns out to be a dull game, it'll be a dull game with an amazing soundtrack

“If you can afford to spend billions of dollars on a thing, and smash that thing all to fuck and then giggle childishly as the shattered fragments fall to the ground, you can damned well afford to pay your fair share of taxes.”

Jeff Tiedrich (on Elon Musk)

It was drawn to my attention that there are machines for washing vegetables and they look excellent fun.

Look!

#video #machine #drawing #animation #silly

I'm aware giffing this kills the quality (such as it is) but I can't upload animated webps here.

Better quality / smaller file on my website, to be enjoyed alongside an old skool site with no ads, no pop-ups, no cookies, nothing...

Well, except a load of silly stuff I've made.

https://eclectech.co.uk/nonsense/2023-04rootvegwash

Spent the afternoon coding some deceptively fiddly date-handling stuff, it's not often I have to completely rethink my entire approach multiple times and pace around the flat swearing

🤖 In AD 2101 war was beginning
🔅💥 🔆💥
👸🏽 what happen
👷🏻‍♀️ someone set up us the bomb
💁🏾‍♂️ we get signal
👸🏽 what !!
💁🏾‍♂️ main screen turn on
👸🏽 it’s you !!
👾 how are you gentlemen !!
👾 all your base are belong to us
👾 you are on the way to destruction
👸🏽 what you say !!
👾 you have no chance to survive make your time
👾 ha ha ha ha
👷🏻‍♀️ captain !!
👸🏽 take off every ZIG
👸🏽 for great justice
🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀