Btw Much As I Love To Make Fun Of Twitter And Reddit's Business Decisions, I Have 0% Trust In Tumblr's

As much as I complain about it, I actually really love writing. 

The satisfaction of one really good sentence is worth slogging through NaNoWriMo and producing thousands of terrible ones. The tiny eureka moments are worth the sleep I lose typing them into my phone after midnight. The accomplishment of writing “the end” is worth the hours that passed by in the rest of the world, while mine was standing still.

Writing takes a lot out of me, but it also gives me a lot, too. Worth it.

20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’

The man who won't rest until the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is cleaned up has successfully tested his system for doing so.

““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.

Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.

Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.

The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.

GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.

It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…

Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21

TEARS TEARS THERE ARETEARS GOCMCOMING DOWN MY FA CE

Title: Rose (Picture taken - Sunday 14 January, 2018; Drawing completed - Thursday 12 April, 2018)

My strange, strange cat….

Reblog this to prove your blog was made before the February 2022 tumblr resurgence

JOB LISTING TRANSLATION GUIDE:

Urgently Hiring = Severely understaffed

Competitive Pay = Everybody gets paid something different. Don't even think about asking for a raise

Cross-Training= You'll be doing 3 or more jobs for the pay of 1

Fast-Paced Environment = You're gonna run your ass off

Earned PTO = You only get paid time off if you've been working there for a year or more

Benefits Available to Full-Time Employees = You'll be working part time

Rewards & Recognition Programs with Cash Payouts = Work hard enough and you might get a $15 gift card

Y'all, this is slowly not becoming fun no more! (And it's sort of hilarious)