Lol. When at Dunedin Airport I always visit the only one of my pictures on public display. It is in the male throne room in departures :-) #art#publicart#astronomy#newzealand#toilet
I want to make one thing very clear. Despite my propensity for IoT gadgetry, I did not connect my toilet to the Internet! It's 2024. Why are you still scraping your arsehole with paper like some kind of 20th century throwback? A decade ago, I got a cheap bidet attachment. It wasn't great. The water […]
Last september, my #landlord decided to double my #rent, effectively kicking me out of my #home of 11 years. I fell into #depression. Luckily my parents own a plot of #land, and thus, with my dads help, i set off to build a #tinyhouse without rent. After 4 months and several tens of thousands of dollars of materials (which i raised by selling old #videogame collectables), i am ready to move in.
This thing is fully #offgrid. I use a #composting#toilet to do my business, which then goes into the small #garden on the right. I have a #rainbarrel to catch #rain water for my #water system, which is #filtered by rocks, to shower and stuff. I am in the process of building out a #solar system to #power the thing (my solar system should cost about $2000 to build out). My family owns this #land, so no rent. I have brought my living expenses down by thousands per month.
Innovation is dead. In its place, companies just add internet connectivity and voice control in places it’s absolutely not needed so they can pretend extracting data and profit is the same as progress. No one needs a “smart” bidet.
World Bank papers show ‘most concerning’ decline in toilet usage in Modi govt's flagship Swacch Bharat Mission. But three research papers were withdrawn ‘under pressure’ later . Pity Indian govt cannot take criticism
4 men are charged with nicking a gold #toilet from Blenheim Palace, a stately home in #Oxfordshire - Thames Valley Police and the Crown Prosecution Service found something to go on... 🚽
"Designs at the Venice Architecture Biennale are rethinking the modern flush for a water-strained world.
"Visitors to the Finnish pavilion at 2023’s Venice Architecture Biennale are greeted with an unlikely sight at a festival typically devoted to the avant-garde and newfangled: a no-flush #outhouse toilet.
"While the structure, known as a #Huussi, may seem a bit primitive to some, it’s long been a popular toilet design in rural parts of #Finland because it requires no connection to water supplies: It processes waste not by flushing it away, but by converting it to compost in a hay-filled container. It’s a design that’s making a comeback because it saves water and recirculates waste back into the #ecosystem — both essential goals in a world where many areas are drying out thanks to #ClimateChange, and where as much as 30% of urban #water supplies are used to flush human waste. Our modern toilet practices are likely to become unsustainable within the next few decades; by 2050 it’s estimated that up to five billion people could be facing #watershortages.
"Toilet composting could also fuel an alternative to the carbon-heavy manufactured #nitrogen#fertilizer and mined #phosphorus widely used in farming today. Chemical fertilizers also deplete carbon from one of the few places we want to retain it — in the soil itself, where it fosters vital microbial activity.
"Some designers in Finland are looking to the recent past for more sustainable, hygienic solutions for sewage, while others are using more modern technologies to reduce or eliminate the need for water. Part of what the exhibit at the Venice Biennale, open until Nov. 26, highlights is that these toilet designs are far less offensive to our modern olfactory sensibilities than many might assume. Here are some of the ways that architects and planners are rethinking toilet systems to help them fit into a circular economy, reducing the excess water and pollutants that billions of us literally flush down the toilet."
The "nobody ever uses the bathroom in fiction unless something is sus" trope popped up in a Trail of Cthulhu campaign I ran back in high school. One of the PCs realized in a moment of Mythos-inflicted hysteria that he hadn't used the bathroom in 9 months, which led to him slowly realizing that he was in an episodic work of fiction and would stop existing when the story was over
But nobody EVER roleplays using the bathroom. This is very suspicious. (comicpress.socksandpuppets.com)
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