My wife and I were heading to Chicago this weekend because some old friends are getting married, but no longer. There were two issues, the first being that ICE is running snatch and grabs in our old neighborhood where we were planning to stay with some other friends. There is no way I could stay out of it if I saw it happening, and we decided it didn't make sense for me to go and get arrested in Illinois. Just another layer of headache. The second was that we wouldn't have been able to attend official NO KINGS marches because of travel and scheduling around a gig in Somerset, WI.

So instead, we are heading to Madison to stay Friday night and Saturday with her brother's family and do NO KINGS at the Wisconsin capitol while getting to visit a bit with part of the family that's going through some stuff right now.

I am pissed off that these SOBs are making me change plans. I detest fascists, and as soon as they come to Minneapolis (and they will) I'll be heading down. See you in the holding cells, friends.

#fascists #chicago #readytomarch #nokings

Pick two:

#breakfast #poll #food

• Eggs (64%, 148 votes)
• Sausage (44%, 103 votes)
• Hash browns (35%, 83 votes)
• Yogurt (16%, 37 votes)
• Oatmeal (17%, 41 votes)
• Pancakes (25%, 59 votes)

By this point Google has effectively become a spam haven. If they weren't "too big to fail", their IP ranges would already have been blocked by SpamCop, Spamhaus, and all other anti-spam solutions.

In my case, they are the #1 source of spam.

We live a few minutes walk from where Lewis & Clark camped in 1805.

The Cathedral Park neighborhood was the site of a seasonal fishing village for tens of thousands of years. Our flower beds have fragments of fishing tools in them.

When developers take a lot down to grade, they remove evidence of Indigenous people. That mid-century bungalow housed the first white person to grow old on that land.

Portland is still a very young city on balance. Let's do better.

#Portland #IndigenousPeoplesDay

It's rare to get unanimous agreement across all political perspectives in media, but Pete Hegseth's regulations on Pentagon journalists were rejected by literally all reporters covering defense, even those from Republican outlets.

His latest version is just as censorial. poynter.org/reporting-editing/…

The Pentagon revised its media restrictions. They’re just as bad for press freedom, experts say. - Poynter

‘Rather than this overt censoring of journalists … it has morphed into this effort to intimidate both journalists and government employees’

^{Angela Fu (The Poynter Institute)}

`Steve said he was initially undecided because the bookstore job was much better than his “miserable and grueling” prior gig at Safeway. He became convinced after a conversation with a friend in a construction union, who argued that Half Price Books is a business focused on making profit. That meant that without a union, Steve would be saddled with more work, without extra pay, as soon as management could get away with it. `

bayareacurrent.com/unionizing-…

Unionizing the Strip Mall

You pissed off the wrong nerds. They unionized Half Price Books.

^{Franklin Liu (Bay Area Current)}

There’s nothing wrong with US military troops in line in food banks because they are not being paid.

If they never get backpay, which is probably likely given the nature of who’s running the country, we will know for certain that they have no fucking clue how bad this is. There’s a reason why tyrant keep the military loyal.

i spent the whole day rebuilding my 23 year old blog from Pelican to 11ty in place. i'm almost done i think (famous last words)

this will be the 4th migration: first Movable Type, then WordPress, then Pelican, now 11ty sixohthree.com/about

I wish the BBC would stop doing these tech ads as 'stories'

Isn't that sort of thing supposed to be forbidden at the BBC? But then the way they keep pushing 'smart speakers' suggests hawking tat nobody really asked for is how the Beeb is going to go now...

#BBC #Technology #AI

I still don't understand how Apple maintains any cultural cachet on the Left. They're so authoritatian. And they always have been -- right back to... well... 1984.

Their last genuinely good, liberating product was probably the Apple IIe. Even the classic Macintosh was a power grab, not power for the user. Their selling point is how locked down, polished, and impenetrable they are to the user.

But a lot of people seem to still think they're cool.

The #AntiFascistFrog speaks!

"So I'm out here protesting in a frog costume to, especially in a Frog costume, just to show how ridiculous the notion that we are violent terrorists is. It's just to showcase how that narrative is wrong."

#Portland #Antifa #Frog

Now, I know precisely fuck all about international finance, AI, investment banking or any of that stuff, but I reckon if you were to draw a diagram of how CDOs were layered during the sub-prime crash and then shuffled back and forward across the markets to hide the colossal tsunami of debt that had been created, then applied it to AI companies, it would look something like this.

#CapitalismIsADeathCult #FuckAI #Politics

Started the day getting stabbed in each arm to get my flu and covid jabs. I'm extremely proud of my brave wife @SaintlySin for doing the same in spite of being needle phobic, and continue to be cross at the government for restricting access to free jabs so we had to pay over £100 each to protect ourselves and those more vulnerable than us.

Vaccines save lives folks, get as many of them as you can.

Hey, @frameworkcomputer -- since you like big tents, you should also welcome krita, even if the maintainer is a trans woman.

After all, you use Krita in your 12 laptop page...

So, how about you start sponsoring us, too? I think that becoming a corporate sponsor would be great?

Let's talk euros!

Significant blow today for Stella O'Malley & her anti-trans advocacy organisation Genspect, as their spurious defamation action against Irish therapist, Leonie O'Dowd, is added to "The Gallery of Shame" by CASE (Campaign Against SLAPPs in Europe.) www.the-case.eu/gallery-of-s...

Gallery of Shame – CASE

#APOLITICAL

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