We're fostering mom (the eyes) and her one little kitten (the floof). Mama's so malnourished that the shelter didn't realize she was pregnant until they found this one little kitten in her cage one morning.

Mama was super stressed so we are fostering to give her a quieter and less stressful environment. Floof (Fernando) picked up an eye infection so we're also treating that. Yesterday was the first day that both mom and baby braved leaving their den while I was in the room. My absolute favourite part of fostering strays is helping them learn to trust people.

Once everyone is happy, healthy, and spayed/neutered, it'll be adoption time - so if you are near Calgary, Canada and in need of some unconditional judgment love grudging tolerance, look for these two at AARCS.

I have an Ankermake M5 that I hadn't used in a while and recently got back to printing some stuff. I had a few prints come out well but then turned my extruder into a giant glob of melted plastic on an overnight print. I ended up just replacing the whole extruder as there's been some revisions and I figured it would be nice to upgrade, and replace the v-wheels and all that.

The new extruder initially had a ton of problems with stringing, but increasing retraction fixed it. The problem that I can't seem to figure out is curved surfaces are now sort of wavy. It's regular - turning into vertical peaks and valleys. I'm doing a print currently with the speed turned way down, but the issue persists.

Any ideas?

edit: After some trial and error, I figured out that it was a slicer issue. I was using the EufyMake slicer because that one can send jobs to the printer directly. When I resliced in Prussa, the issue disappeared.

I built this calculator in the hopes that radical transparency would help.

It's Canada-centric, but you can plug in local prices, gas and electricity rates, etc, and it should successfully pull grid emissions data from your area.

I'm looking for any feedback on how to make it more useful, compelling, etc.

Thanks!

Go DONATE plasma (or whole blood) at Canadian Blood Services. The tainted blood scandal of the early 80s had a couple of underlying causes, but at the core was that not enough Canadians were donating which led to two major problems.

1. We started buying blood - and who did we buy blood from? The Americans - who sent us blood that was collected from prison inmates as a way for them to earn credit at the commissary, among other high risk sources. This blood was deemed too risky for domestic use, but just fine to sell to Canada, the UK, etc.

2. For profit collection in general - this disproportionately preys on marginalized groups AND it incentivizes EVERYONE to lie. The first question on the donor questionnaire is 'Are you feeling well today'. If you are dependent on the $50 or whatever you will get from that donation, then you are way more likely to rationalize that the way you have been feeling lately is just allergies.

The recommendations of Tainted Blood Inquiry were:

1. blood is a public resource;
2. no one should be paid to donate blood or plasma;
3. Canada should collect enough blood and components to satisfy its own needs;
4. citizens should have free and universal access to blood components and products; and
5. safety of the blood supply is paramount.

Grifols (the paid plasma company) permits plasma collection at double the maximum frequency of Canadian Blood Services, they sell resulting blood products overseas without donor consent, and they seem to be getting repeatedly cited for failure to follow standards for collection. MAKE THESE TURDS UNNECESSARY BY DONATING.

If you are healthy, eligible, and can, go donate plasma (or whole blood). If you are in Calgary, and nervous, you are welcome to join me on my next donation (Thursday) to see what's involved.

We are so, so absurdly lucky in Alberta - we get SO MUCH SUN. It's mid-March and I generated double the power my heat-pump equipped home used. Even after I replace the power I pulled from my EV commuting to work, that's still 7kWh more power coming off my roof today than I used. My gas bill is zero, my power bill is negative today and it's still technically winter ...

I'm a Jew. My grandmother survived the Ravensbruck concentration camp, death marches, and unspeakable horrors.

Israel does not speak for me. Criticism of Israel is not inherently anti-Semitic (a word that doesn't even mean what people think it means). Israel is committing war crimes. This is a genocide of parity with what my family experienced.

I stand with Palestine.

I made the biggest political donation of my life after this policy was announced - and sent a screenshot to my (barely elected) UCP MLA letting him know. There's a lot to hate the UCP for, but this one really takes the cake.

Another day, another CPS officer getting special treatment and avoiding (most) consequences after assaulting an indigenous person.

I mean, I guess the poor guy did get told he has to miss his trip to Greece... I wonder what punishment would have been doled out if the situation was reversed?

Was tearing my hair out this morning when I couldn't listen to podcasts on the way to work. I updated my S23 Ultra to ONE UI 7 yesterday evening and this morning Android Auto was working fine EXCEPT that I had no audio. Adjustment of volume in the car and on my phone were unsuccessful.

The solution was to make a quick phone call and now audio works fine again. I have no idea why it worked or why audio wasn't working to begin with - but I thought I would share in case it helps anyone else.