Asklemmy LillyPip • 7 months ago • 94%

My cat needed to be euthanised last month, and I just received her ashes. They came with a round black sticker. What’s the purpose of this sticker? They mentioned my chosen urn was suitable for sprinkling cremains (I don’t plan to do that) – maybe it’s related to that? Thanks.

Voyager LillyPip • 8 months ago • 87%

Back in Apollo, we had a feature where you could long-press on mobile and save a screenshot with options to include usernames, number and levels of parents, and original post, amongst other things. Those were the ones I used. I also remember there was a checkbox for watermark, which defaulted to on, and which I never touched but always respected, because it never condescended to me. Anyway, I used that feature so much that there was no Apollo without it before the ensittification. As a user experience designer, Apollo had done a lot right that the big tech names had been doing wrong, and I’d floundered on Lemmy until the Voyager team started from that foundation. I appreciate everything this team has done for me, but I do miss this feature. It seemed aimed straight at me, so I almost hate to bring it up, but it was beautiful and I loved it. (I’m sorry for not saying this on Git, but I just can’t right now) eta: you guys are the best. I love everything you’ve done. <3

Life Pro Tips LillyPip • 9 months ago • 88%

This only works by phone. Be nice, but firm. Don’t be satisfied with their first answer – make them escalate you to the retention department. They’re often authorised to give much larger discounts because it’s cheaper for them to retain customers than to recruit new ones.

politics LillyPip • 9 months ago • 99%

Removed works include Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’; no individual reasoning given for books' removal. …. The purge of books from Orange County Public Schools, in Orlando, over the course of the past semester is the latest consequence of a conservative movement across the country — and strongest in Florida — to rid public and school libraries of materials deemed offensive. While the vast majority of such challenged and removed books involve race, gender and sexuality, several Jewish books have previously been caught in the dragnet. [Article continues…](https://www.timesofisrael.com/florida-district-pulls-many-jewish-and-holocaust-books-from-classroom-libraries/)

News LillyPip • 9 months ago • 99%

Removed works include Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’; no individual reasoning given for books' removal. JTA – A global bestseller by a Jewish Holocaust victim; a novel by a beloved and politically conservative Jewish American writer; a memoir of growing up mixed-race and Jewish; and a contemporary novel about a high-achieving Jewish family are among the nearly 700 books a Florida school district removed from classroom libraries this year in fear of violating state laws on sexual content in schools. The purge of books from Orange County Public Schools, in Orlando, over the course of the past semester is the latest consequence of a conservative movement across the country — and strongest in Florida — to rid public and school libraries of materials deemed offensive. While the vast majority of such challenged and removed books involve race, gender and sexuality, several Jewish books have previously been caught in the dragnet. [Article continues…](https://www.timesofisrael.com/florida-district-pulls-many-jewish-and-holocaust-books-from-classroom-libraries/)

Space LillyPip • 9 months ago • 86%

bigthink.com

Misinformation was extremely popular in 2023, as bad science often made global headlines. Learn the truth behind these 10 dubious stories. KEY TAKEAWAYS - While there have been huge scientific advances in a wide variety of aspects of physics and astronomy, there have also been wild headlines that do not reflect at all what's true in this Universe. - No, we haven't found a room-temperature superconductor, overturned the expanding Universe or Big Bang, discovered that the cosmos is twice as old as we thought, or discovered alien technology on the seafloor. - There has been a lot of fiction permeating science news this year, and the frustrating thing is that these untrue stories are posing as actual facts. Here are 10 lies you may want to learn the actual truth behind. [Article continues…]

science LillyPip • 9 months ago • 82%

bigthink.com

Misinformation was extremely popular in 2023, as bad science often made global headlines. Learn the truth behind these 10 dubious stories. KEY TAKEAWAYS - While there have been huge scientific advances in a wide variety of aspects of physics and astronomy, there have also been wild headlines that do not reflect at all what's true in this Universe. - No, we haven't found a room-temperature superconductor, overturned the expanding Universe or Big Bang, discovered that the cosmos is twice as old as we thought, or discovered alien technology on the seafloor. - There has been a lot of fiction permeating science news this year, and the frustrating thing is that these untrue stories are posing as actual facts. Here are 10 lies you may want to learn the actual truth behind. [Article continues…]

Eurovision Song Contest LillyPip • 9 months ago • 100%

eurovisionworld.com

The visual artwork for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 has been revealed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Swedish broadcaster (SVT). The visual identity is inspired by the northern lights and sound equalizers.

Eurovision Song Contest LillyPip • 9 months ago • 100%

eurovisionworld.com

Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO has just revealed their artist for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Raiven will represent Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. The song that Raiven will sing on the Eurovision stage is titled "Veronika" and will be released on 20 January.

Eurovision Song Contest LillyPip • 9 months ago • 90%

eurovisionworld.com

Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS has just revealed their artist for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Joost Klein will represent the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 after being selected internally from over 600 potential participants. The song that Joost Klein will sing on the Eurovision stage in Malmö will be released at a later date.

Ask Science LillyPip • 10 months ago • 73%

Excess oxygen is actually harmful to humans, ~~but all the climate warnings are about losing oxygen, not nitrogen~~ edit: but when we look for habitable planets, our focus is ‘oxygen rich atmosphere’, not ‘nitrogen rich’, and in medical settings, we’re always concerned about low oxygen, not nitrogen. Deep sea divers also use a nitrogen mix (nitrox) to stay alive and help prevent the bends, so nitrogen seems pretty important. It seems weird that our main focus is oxygen when our main air intake is nitrogen. What am I missing? edit: my climate example was poor and I think misleading. Added a better example instead.

Eurovision Song Contest LillyPip • 10 months ago • 85%

The 21st edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast live from Nice, France. 16 countries competed at this year's edition, and once all was said and done Zoé Clauzure from France was declared the winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with the song ‘Cœur’. Zoé Clauzure from France was crowned winner based on voting from national juries in all 16 competing countries. For the seventh time, viewers from around the world could also vote for their favorite songs in two windows: Online voting before the show, where the voting was based on snippets of rehearsals, and online voting during the show, where the viewers could vote during the 15 minutes after the last performance. [Article continues with embedded video and results table…]

Voyager LillyPip • 10 months ago • 96%

This is very strange and I’m sorry for multiple issues in one day, but I just switched to my inbox and it’s all someone else’s account. I’m @lillypip but my inbox currently shows someone else’s account. I won’t post it here, but I have screenshots if a Voyager Dev wants to see them. I think I can reply to people from there (the buttons seem to work, but I won’t do it for obvious reasons). Not sure if this is a Voyager or Lemmy issue, but it’s very seriously weirding me out. e: it’s not even the same server. My account is on lemmy.ca and my inbox is someoneelse@kbin.social (not the actual account, obviously). e2: my inbox isn’t that person’s inbox, it’s their *outbox*. All the content is from them, not to them. I’ve never interacted with this person to my knowledge. e3: I was wrong: I HAVE interacted with them. A few hours ago, I messaged them to say a link they commented was broken. I didn’t recognise the name until I tried to message them as recommended in the comments here. I can’t message them now; it just hangs. e4: restarting the app didn’t help, but rebooting my phone fixed it. Maybe it was a caching issue? Like I said, it was showing what was in their public profile (comments and posts), perhaps my inbox was stuck showing that? Anyway, it’s fixed now, so it seems like a caching issue, probably?

Voyager LillyPip • 10 months ago • 100%

I’ve only noticed this in the past few days. Not sure if it’s a new issue, but I feel I wasn’t getting this before last week. (Eta: I’m on the latest update) Most Lemmy image links in comments are doing this now. Sorry if it’s been posted already; I tried searching and didn’t see anything. Thank you for all your hard work – I LOVE Voyager! ❤️

Space LillyPip • 10 months ago • 100%

jalopnik.com

Becoming an astronaut is a fairly romanticized career path, but there are a lot of less-than-romantic aspects to working 50 miles or more above the Earth’s surface. Case in point: just being in zero G makes the human body do all sorts of embarrassing things. A new story from the New York Times exhaustedly points out that living in space comes with all sorts of “bodily indignities” which should give even the most eager potential space explorer pause. It turns out, it’s not just deadly radiation or muscle loss due to weightlessness astronauts traveling to spots in our own solar system will have to put with: > In microgravity, however, the blood volume above your neck will most likely still be too high, at least for a while. This can affect the eyes and optic nerves, sometimes causing permanent vision problems for astronauts who stay in space for months, a condition called spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome. It also causes fluid to accumulate in nearby tissues, giving you a puffy face and congested sinuses. As with a bad cold, the process inhibits nerve endings in the nasal passages, meaning you can’t smell or taste very well. (The nose plays an important role in taste.) The I.S.S. galley is often stocked with wasabi and hot sauce. > These sensory deficits can be helpful in some respects, though, because the I.S.S. tends to smell like body odor or farts. You can’t shower, and microgravity prevents digestive gases from rising out of the stew of other juices in your stomach and intestines, making it hard to belch without barfing. Because the gas must exit somehow, the frequency and volume (metric and decibel) of flatulence increases. > Other metabolic processes are similarly disturbed. Urine adheres to the bladder wall rather than collecting at the base, where the growing pressure of liquid above the urethra usually alerts us when the organ is two-thirds full. “Thus, the bladder may reach maximum capacity before an urge is felt, at which point urination may happen suddenly and spontaneously,” according to “A Review of Challenges &amp; Opportunities: Variable and Partial Gravity for Human Habitats in L.E.O.,” or low Earth orbit. This is a report that came out last year from the authors Ronke Olabisi, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and Mae Jemison, a retired NASA astronaut. Sometimes the bladder fills but doesn’t empty, and astronauts need to catheterize themselves. [Link to NYT article (paywalled)](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/magazine/space-living.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;fbclid=IwAR2Z_-h7XIPUl6fTEGPlGbSKANJijtwMiBZZKsIwQPgxFmV-u6UdJqch8zA)

Poetry LillyPip • 11 months ago • 100%

I wanted to ask If you’re okay But I felt like I already knew the answer I should have asked if you were okay But I was afraid I already knew And I didn’t want to know What I knew I didn’t want to know And my mind went To all of our favourite places To us holding hands forever Through all of our days Through all of our seasons To you making tea for me when I couldn’t do it To the laughing and knowing And the shouting and crying We swore we would talk it out in the morning But morning never came I should have asked why You texted me that night I hadn’t expected your voice At three in the morning And I was tired I tried to keep you waiting Like all of the times you waited for me Until deep in the morning But you couldn’t wait You never could wait, and now I’ll die waiting For days that never will come For you Only for you

Today I Learned LillyPip • 11 months ago • 98%

[Link with more horsestaches.](https://www.boredpanda.com/horse-moustaches/)

Star Trek LillyPip • 11 months ago • 96%

I’ve searched every way I can think of and can’t find anything.

What is this thing? LillyPip • 11 months ago • 96%

I remember it played a nursery rhyme like a music box when both armrests were gripped. That’s my sister and I visiting my great-grandmother in her infirmary in *1975. The chair wasn’t meant for visitors, but for children housed in the infirmary. The chair had metal armrests that acted like actuators, and a metal box under the seat that played nursery rhyme songs like a music box when both armrests were gripped and the chair rocked. Was this a common thing, perhaps mass-produced, or just something jerry-rigged by some guy? Have you seen anything like this? Thanks! (Sorry for reposting; my post went wrong last time.)

Voyager LillyPip • 11 months ago • 94%

Self-explanatory, I think. I miss being able to flag users in Res – I usually used it to mark known trolls or experts in a subject so I could easily see them in threads. I sometimes used it to mark people who were especially witty or the like. I think it was all client-side, because I had to import/export when changing clients. It greatly contributed to my overall experience, and I think it would be a very valuable addition to Voyager. Thank you, you’re awesome! ❤️

Voyager LillyPip • 12 months ago • 99%

I’ve tried several Lemmy apps for iOS, and just switched to Voyager based on a recommendation here. Oh my god, it’s fantastic! I was a loyal Apollo user from beta till the enshittification, and your app makes me feel like I’m home again. It’s beautiful, has the features I so loved, and then some. Thank you for your hard work and attention to detail. I love your icon/logo, too. You’re the best! &lt;3 &lt;3 &lt;3 e: the only thing I don’t see is the Tip Jar. Am I just missing it?

Shortly after this picture was taken, we were on a float with my mother for the bicentennial parade. She made both our outfits of a (very itchy) polyester gabardine, and she wore a dress to match. The apples my sister is holding meant something, but I don’t remember what and now I can’t ask her. I’d be very interested if anyone knows the significance of the apples during the US bicentennial. I was 5 and my sister was 3.

Eurovision Song Contest LillyPip • 12 months ago • 100%

Left Reddit in June and i will miss the live thread we had there during Eurovision. Are there plans to do that here?

Starfield LillyPip • 12 months ago • 90%

www.xbox.com

I haven’t seen this with any other characters (lvl 46), but Sam Coe does this all the time. It’s so very creepy.

aww LillyPip • 12 months ago • 95%

They’re both semi-feral and don’t always get along. Precious (the calico) doesn’t often have patience with her daughter, and Moppy (the big one) spooks at everything, real or imagined. I’ll never get another picture like this, so had to share.

Starfield LillyPip • 1 year ago • 97%

Proof this is a Bethesda game. It feels like home.

Starfield LillyPip • 1 year ago • 100%

www.xbox.com

I’m no astrobiologist. Could be defensive or a mating display. Open to ideas.

Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy LillyPip • 1 year ago • 100%

I’ve got several replies in my inbox that I assume were deleted because when I click them I get an error message (or maybe it’s another bug, not sure), and I’d love to know whether they’re happening based on a certain reply, but I can’t tell. It would be awesome if the community/threat were displayed in the header of messages in the inbox. Thanks for all you do!

Most Excellent Physics Community. LillyPip • 1 year ago • 100%

phys.org

Researchers at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with Danilo Zia and Fabio Sciarrino from the Sapienza University of Rome, recently demonstrated a novel technique that allows the visualization of the wave function of two entangled photons, the elementary particles that constitute light, in real-time.

Memmy - An iOS client for Lemmy LillyPip • 1 year ago • 86%

I’m sorry if these are known issues, but I cant tell because of these issues. I can’t sort this sub in a way that helps. I like to sort by new, but as of today I only see Top, Hot, Active, Most Comments, Most Comments (yes twice), New Comments, and Old. I want to sort the community by ‘new posts’, not new comments, but that’s no longer an option at all. Also, if I try to reload a few times, it crashes the app. Not being able to sort by New Posts is pretty bad, and I’m hoping this wasn’t a design change (I assume it wasn’t, but since I can’t sort without the app crashing, I can’t tell what’s happening). Thanks guys. I know you’re working hard and I appreciate everything you’re doing!

Sewing LillyPip • 1 year ago • 100%

[They love it.](https://imgur.com/a/KKMexeI)

News LillyPip • 1 year ago • 80%

www.wired.com

In a study published in June in Environmental Science &amp; Technology, Hussain and his colleagues reported that, when microwaved, these containers released millions of bits of plastic, called microplastics, and even tinier nanoplastics. […] Once they’ve snuck past the body’s defense systems, “the chemicals used in plastics hack hormones,” says Leonardo Trasand, a professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the director of the Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards. Hormones are signaling molecules underlying basically everything the body does, so these chemicals, called endocrine disruptors, have the potential to mess with everything from metabolismto sexual development and fertility. […] Judith Enck, a former EPA regional administrator and the president of Beyond Plastics, a policy and advocacy group against plastic pollution, stopped microwaving plastic 30 years ago. She thinks that you should, too: “My goodness, especially if you have kids or if you’re pregnant, do not put plastic in the microwave.” “It’s a pain in the neck,” she acknowledges, but “even this one study should be a wake-up call—not just to new parents but to the FDA. They need to be far more proactive.” Transand agrees: “The FDA is glacially behind.” […] “I don’t believe that there are microwave-safe plastics.” Trasand and Enck agree that while independent studies should continue testing how much plastic is being released from food packaging, there is already enough evidence to show that “microwave-safe plastic” isn’t really safe. “I think the FDA needs to tell companies that they can no longer say *any* plastic is microwavable,” says Enck.

RetroGaming LillyPip • 1 year ago • 83%

gameranx.com

For a good while, there was a bit of hype built around the Xbox Series S, in particular for the retro gaming scene. It was a cheaper device that offered a small form factor. Likewise, it allowed consumers to download emulators and enjoy various retro video games. But while this process was available, some consumers were skeptical. Of course, it didn’t take Microsoft too long before they outright banned emulators from being available in the marketplace, making it impossible to download and enjoy. That’s just the emulators being used in the Xbox Series X/S retail mode. […] > RETAIL MODE ON XBOX IS DEAD! > - 15-day suspensions handed out to users of retail emulators as a warning shot from Microsoft. > - Devs warning users to delete emulators > - Retail Mode team disbanding and shutting down the Patreon. Sorry to bear the bad news. RT to warn others [Article continues…]

Space LillyPip • 1 year ago • 100%

www.independent.co.uk

Astronomers are perplexed by a strange young planet so close to its parent star that its atmosphere is evaporating and its orbit is changing in unpredictable ways. The planet AU Microscopii b (AU Mic b), according to scientists from Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is showing clear signs of atmospheric loss with the its hydrogen-rich atmosphere puffing out in front of the planet, like a headlight on a fast-bound train. “We’ve never seen atmospheric escape go from completely not detectable to very detectable over such a short period when a planet passes in front of its star,” study co-author Keighley Rockcliffe said. “We were really expecting something very predictable, repeatable. But it turned out to be weird. When I first saw this, I thought ‘That can’t be right,’” Dr Rockcliffe said. [Article continues…]

Life Pro Tips LillyPip • 1 year ago • 71%

Real sheep’s wool is a moisture wick. Your comforter will dry in one cycle. Your wool throw will still be damp, but read wool doesn’t mildew like down or synthetics do.