ordinaryash.bsky.social
She/Her. Aspiring medical historian with an interest in how respectability/morality is applied to the body/illness. Based in Aotearoa. Harm reduction advocate. Dog lover. Flower afficionado. Knows how to throw together a meal. Shoddy crafter. Hot mess.
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Write your guesses on a piece of paper and we can all compare later 😅
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For extra context this is the size of the things. They're teeny. This is just a random screenshot that shows the scale. This is resin being mixed. Children are unlikely to have the dexterity needed to mix this without getting it on their skin. And some have quite thick resin that will never cure.
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Resin is inherently dangerous but adults making an informed decision to use it with correct PPE and ventilation is entirely different from the young children these products are marketed at using it. Parents often aren't aware of the danger and the warnings and instructions are inadequate.
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Oh another important thing. The plastic allergy people can develop is to acrylates which are widely used in medical and dental settings. Also, FYI, there's some studies starting to be done into off-gassing in 3D printers. So use these with caution too (ie with ventilation, not in bedroom etc).
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Omfg the reviews are a nightmare. People complaining about resin that hasn't hardened, giving to kids as young as 6, complaining about strong chemical odour, complaining about how hard it was to wash the "slime" off their hands, instructions unclear, trying to use heatlamps to cure instead of uv...
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They're little mini build it yourself items that use resin. Often they're little cakes or other sweet treats. This is the MGA brand one but Zuru do one too.
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I haven't purchased one but it's very worrying that they're clearly marketed at kids and there's not even a safety warning at point of sale. From what I can see online the instructions are inadequate and don't warn about the hazards of resin at all.
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Good idea. I just filled in a form but it's kind of targeted towards specific products that people have purchased and been personally injured by not general safety issues.
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Same goes for at home gel nails. Just don't. Unless you or whoever else is doing them on you actually knows how to do them properly and has the exact wattage of UV light specific to the brand of polish used. And don't get it on the skin. And buy from a store/brand you trust.
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Please don't buy these for kids. Your kids or anyone else's. And please don't give them the finished products. Don't use them yourself either. Incompletely cured resin off-gasses forever and can damage lungs skin etc. It can also sensitise cause people to develop an allergy to certain plastics.
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I walked down the aisle at the warehouse the other day and the resin smell was so strong I know it's gotta be a health hazard for staff anywhere near it. I'm legit worried I damaged myself just browsing for a few minutes nearby.
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I hate that I'm citing the 'undeserving victims' trope but this is urgent and important and awful. These children will never even have a chance at 'personal responsibility' (which is horseshit anyway but still). There's no amount of morality or harm reduction that is exercisable by a foetus.
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My cousin walked into a London cafe soon after arriving & the barista said she was the spitting image of his flatmate's girlfriend, but she would know if she was related to her because the girlfriend was from NZ & had a famous relative. Turns out they're second cousins & are, in fact, doppelgangers.
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Dimmable and colour changing ability. Except you do have to use an app or assistant to change the settings which is annoying AF but I'm all about the dim light life and mood lighting so I cope.
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The dimmers are temperamental and tend to break or go glitchy. Plus you end up up having to buy dimmable bulbs which are expensive. We put dimmers in all the rooms 6 years ago and they're all broken now. Have started to replace with normal switches and smart bulbs now which are heaps better.
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*Wealthy white people beige everything decor. As typified by the Sopranos family home.
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Tiger equivalent of beige everything decor?
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Never trust a person
Without a cardigan in their wardrobe
Their feckless sense of dress
And bare arms
Leave a lot to be desired
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Wait... After a quick Google, am I right in thinking companies can claim the full donation off their taxes (vs 1/3 rebate for individuals)? So it's essentially a donation in full to the company?
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A broken clock is right twice a day or something like that 😬😬😬
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I feel like this is testament to the ambiguity around the term Ai. Because the digitisation projects are already largely done with software and have been for nearly 2 decades. The captcha tests used to be words from old books being digitised that the software couldn't decipher.
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Also how much of what is actually digitised is unreadable because much of the scanned source material is faded, blotchy, or in fonts the software doesn't recognise (including the archaic long S). I'm currently reading and making notes on tens of thousands of old articles, almost none are accurate.
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South Featherston 😊
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Neither. I'm really not OK. I haven't been for a few years. And it's really wierd because I'm not depressed and my personal life is fine. I'm just so sad all the time for completely justified reasona and because so few people seem to care about other humans in even the most tokenistic way these days
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And there's just SO much happening that I've hardly seen any press or discourse about it. Does anyone even care about this stuff anymore? Or was it actually all performative and people are OK with condemning (mostly) black babies to horrific, painful, short lives?
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I wish I could not pay attention. This shit, cuts to academic research/institutions, and axing USAID HIV programmes will all have a heavy death toll. I can't stop thinking about the thousands of babies who will be born each day HIV+. Completely preventable and inexcusably evil. It's messing me up 😓
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Lol just realised I missed a 9. That should be $999,999,999
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But yeah billionaires shouldn't exist. If people can't live comfortably on $99,999,999 they need to learn how to live within their means better and stop their irresponsible spending.
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If you could save $100k a year you would be a millionaire in a decade. At that rate it'd take TEN THOUSAND years to become a billionaire. John Key pulled that waitress' pony tail 10 years ago, humans first started developing agriculture 10k years ago. Slight difference in timelines