I wonder how a mouse would feel about this website.
Mice don’t use the internet, too many cats.
Owls in Towels
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
One brand of American dish soap, Dawn, has a duckling as a mascot, and has for some years advertised its grease-cutting capability (and gentleness on living things) by showing that it is used to clean oil off waterfowl who have been caught in a slick.
One brand of UK dish soap, Fairy Liquid, bears the label "H412 - Harmful to aquatic life with long lasting effects"
Yes; don’t wash your pet halibut with it. Don’t think it should be dangerous to birds, tho.
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#43It reminds me of how people make a "purrito" by wrapping a cat in a towel or small blanket in order to safely handle the cat (administer pills, injections, etc.). And since owls are pretty much just the bird versions of cats, it's fitting.
Reminds me of this classic.
How to Give A Cat a Pill: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC372253/
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#44This is such a missed opportunity to name the site "BurritOwls" !
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#45This is a delight! This site is a great reminder that almost everyone visiting Hacker News has a set of skills which can be put to beneficial use for causes you care about - this is a small, simple, cheap site (and I mean that in a good way!) that attracts attention, awareness, and donations to something the author cares about. It’s easy for us, but it’s magic for most people. Don’t let your tech industry imposter sy…
I've stopped using the word "cheap" to describe situations like this as the word has too many negative connotations. I tend towards "inexpensive", "cost-effective", or "low-cost". I find it better describes my intent to describe something as not costing much but not speaking to poor quality which I feel like the word "cheap" has come to imply.
Frugal?
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#46It reminds me of how people make a "purrito" by wrapping a cat in a towel or small blanket in order to safely handle the cat (administer pills, injections, etc.). And since owls are pretty much just the bird versions of cats, it's fitting.
In Chinese, owls are called 「貓頭鷹」, which literally means "a hawk with a cat’s head".
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
One brand of UK dish soap, Fairy Liquid, bears the label "H412 - Harmful to aquatic life with long lasting effects"
https://www.newhall.co.uk/media/7440_msds.pdf The H412 comes from sodium laureth sulfate (SLES) which is contained (in large amounts, like 20 to 70% by weight) in practically every kind of liquid soapy detergent, shampoo, liquid hand soap and what not. The only reason you know of that one product is that they seem to sell to professionals as well, which is why they need a material safety data sheet. Your shampoo does…
So use solid soap / shampoo for outdoors (check usability first, naturally).
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a beautiful demonstration of how technology can be simple and powerful for amplifying a message at the same time -- no matter the silliness or seriousness of the message. Very "Old Web" vibes. Anyone who's worked on random enterprise CRUD REST apps earlier in their career (myself included) knows the pain of wishing that you were doing something a little more helpful or positive for humanity.
> Very "Old Web" vibes. *Owl Web Owl Rights Reserved (at the footer)
at the hooter?
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#49Owls are actually hooting outside my door as I pull this up at 12:30 a.m.
You should have waited 4 more minutes to post this.
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#50It’s cool but I’m wondering why isn’t this an Instagram page or something. I’d follow this.
Also on mastodon: