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28 *They/Them* *I'm an anxious cat* *You can call me Tea*

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[transientescape]

this bitch got an internship

Les go

[cleanycleanyclean]

Strawberry Scrubbers via AliExpress

[solarpunkbusiness]

Seaweed packaging is shifting single-use plastic out of stadiums

Notpla is aiming to expand in Europe and displace 1 billion units of single-use plastic by 2030.

Notpla, the company which makes seaweed-based packaging to replace single-use plastics, started with its two French and Spanish founders, Pierre Paslier and Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, experimenting in their student kitchen while at Imperial College London.

Now, Notpla has replaced more than 21 million items of single-use plastic across Europe, and is aiming to displace 1 billion units by 2030. In partnership with Just Eat, Notpla’s packaging was used at the UEFA Women’s Final at Wembley Stadium, London in 2022. From seven types of folded carton board boxes that year, it has grown into a catalogue of over 50 different designs. 

And the company is launching a new deli range, featuring plastic-free windows so people can see their sandwiches before buying. Honsinger hopes this will help Notpla branch out into office catering and museums, where that sneak peek is important. 

[hope-for-the-planet]

A lot of these "plastic alternative made from plants" products actually use at least a small amount of plastic mixed with the plant fibers. However, that does not appear to be the case here--they are truly making plastic-free packaging and cardboard coating even if that means their products do not have all of the same desirable characteristics as plastics.

A quote from the article:

“We're not going for the easiest win,” she says. “We're not going to mix our product with a bit of plastic to make a semi-natural product because that's a bit easier. We're going to go for it even if it's the hardest thing, to make sure it's truly natural.” 

[juniper-petunia]

they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids

[vampurrring]

maybe growing up is just becoming who you were at 14 again but learning how to love her this time

[the-tired-meatbag]

@funnier-as-a-system

[anglaised]

genderfuck girlboy realness is great until a black person wants to wear braids and waist beads, he she vibes r so awesome until a black person ask u not to treat them as the aggressive bodyguard Man of the group just for having short 4C hair, we love fagdykes until that fagdyke is black and notices u only seem to treat them as the masculine dominant Top in relationships and doesnt like it bc of u only doing it due to race

[miamaimania]

René Magritte (1938) ꩜ Glass fragments mirror what they can’t contain

[is-this-fascism]

#1 thing you can do to be a better driver is to be at peace with going the wrong direction for a little while.

like it is not the end of the world if you miss your turn. all the roads are connected to all the other roads. you will find your way very quickly.

unless you're experiencing a genuine emergency, dont even think about making a sudden movement, ESPECIALLY across one or more lanes, just to avoid missing a turn

just relax. be at peace with the way the universe has led you. who knows you might discover something you never would have seen, like a nice restaraunt or a park you didn't know about. just. fucking relax

[self-loving-vampire]

It turns out that actually standing by "men and women are not inherently very different" is a reliable way to bother absolutely everyone. Left or right, cis or trans, feminist or misogynist, all cling to the binary for dear life.

[sorcerornobody]

From the replies on this post:

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the thing that drives me up the wall about “anti/proship” discourse is that it frames grooming as like, primarily an ideological practice in which the threat is that kids will “think adult/minor relationships are morally ok”. which sure maybe that happens idfk but the thing is that grooming is in practical almost entirely divorced from ideology and is so much more about individual exceptionalism… which I think is especially true for fandom-aged demographics! these aren’t kids who are just freshly learning the basics of right and wrong, most of them probably already generally know what pedophilia is and think it’s bad, it’s just that they’re also particularly susceptible to individualized attention that makes them feel uniquely special and mature.

like. I don’t know. it’s just incredibly frustrating to see people continually talking about CSA like it only happens because the perpetrators and victims believe pedophilia is morally permissible rather than because they think that their own personal circumstances exonerate them and make it uniquely acceptable and not harmful.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

it is overwhelmingly my experience that kids and teens who met and then “dated” adult partners struggle to think of themselves as victims of CSA because for whatever reason it just didn’t count—not when it was them. they were too precocious, they had too much agency, their abuser didn’t mean any harm, and what would have been a terrible criminal travesty if it had happened to anyone else was just a weird but understandable fluke situation that they brought upon themselves.

[tackedtothewall]

the antishippers should take some time to talk to actual survivors of CSA.

The idea of "oh, [Name] is such an upstanding member of the community, he/she would never" does so much more harm than reading Dragonriders of Pern in middle school.

[lifespan-deactivated20260401]

if you start introducing nice things into your life it's a slippery slope and you have to be careful in case you start liking it when things are nice

[gumi-megpoidd]

what file format is prev

png

jpg

wav

mp3

mp4

pdf

exe

gif

txt

zip

obj

something else

Voting ended onSep 14, 2025

[twocatsinatrenchcoat]

No, no, I said forcemask. Good girls wear their N95s when they leave the house.

[inzaltsiknyam]

#kn95 bc n95s are expensive 👍

idk what kn95s cost but I got a box of 440 3m NOISH n95s for $40 last year and I'm still not even through 100 of them because they can be reused. def just make sure to get one that fits best to your face! but I would not say that n95s are extremely expensive tbh

[pocket-deer-belly]

i think in a world where the political right is aggressively trying to portray all trans women as pedophile invaders, making it your job as a trans person to hunt down trans women who you personally believe to be dangerous (based on, let's be real, information gathered through stalking campaigns from people who have nothing but malicious intent) makes you also a fascist

[pocket-deer-belly]

you are not solving a societal problem, you are not attempting to help children by addressing systemic issues that harm them, you are a cop.

[pocket-deer-belly]

you are a tool if you spread callouts about trans people on the internet. i mean this very literally: you make yourself very very useful to people who want trans women to not have any space in society.

[pocket-deer-belly]

i'm glad this post is taking off i hope you fucking mean it this time <3 protect every trans woman you meet

[minicheck]

“Bronze basin with little animals that spin when filled with water. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 697–628 BC”

[cryptotheism]

Crazy that little bronze animal technology peaked in the zhou dynasty

[littleguysdaily]

Will they ever get to spin again?

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the thing that drives me up the wall about “anti/proship” discourse is that it frames grooming as like, primarily an ideological practice in which the threat is that kids will “think adult/minor relationships are morally ok”. which sure maybe that happens idfk but the thing is that grooming is in practical almost entirely divorced from ideology and is so much more about individual exceptionalism… which I think is especially true for fandom-aged demographics! these aren’t kids who are just freshly learning the basics of right and wrong, most of them probably already generally know what pedophilia is and think it’s bad, it’s just that they’re also particularly susceptible to individualized attention that makes them feel uniquely special and mature.

like. I don’t know. it’s just incredibly frustrating to see people continually talking about CSA like it only happens because the perpetrators and victims believe pedophilia is morally permissible rather than because they think that their own personal circumstances exonerate them and make it uniquely acceptable and not harmful.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

it is overwhelmingly my experience that kids and teens who met and then “dated” adult partners struggle to think of themselves as victims of CSA because for whatever reason it just didn’t count—not when it was them. they were too precocious, they had too much agency, their abuser didn’t mean any harm, and what would have been a terrible criminal travesty if it had happened to anyone else was just a weird but understandable fluke situation that they brought upon themselves.