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knapjack honked 06 Nov 2024 14:38 +0000

"If you're famous, they let you do it."

knapjack bonked 06 Nov 2024 14:34 +0000
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“We are here, and this is now.” Constable Visit, a strict believer in the Omnian religion, occasionally quoted from their holy book. Vimes understood it to mean, in less exalted copperspeak, that you have to do the job that is in front of you.

Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

knapjack bonked 06 Nov 2024 14:32 +0000
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Huge love to everyone who did anything to try to stop this. We developed some muscles through this work, and we'll keep using them. Never stop sticking up for yourselves and your neighbors.

knapjack honked 06 Nov 2024 06:37 +0000

Who's gonna call Putin and congratulate him?

knapjack bonked 06 Nov 2024 06:34 +0000
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yes there’s a lot of voter suppression and structural issues are at play but also, damn that’s a lot of people affirmatively voting for the most racist possible thing

knapjack bonked 06 Nov 2024 05:56 +0000
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As @jvl.bsky.social pointed out, Harris ran a smart campaign. She was a solid candidate. Trump ran a disastrous campaign and is in clear decline. This was a clear choice. No matter who wins, half of voters either chose bigotry and authoritarianism, or had no problem with it. And that’s hard to take.

knapjack bonked 06 Nov 2024 05:27 +0000
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I think regardless of how the election goes, all of Europe really needs to rethink tying so much of their security to a country that's always a coin toss away from descending into fascism. Russia taking Ukraine shouldn't rest on the vibes of a bunch of people who can't grasp the fact that the president doesn't set gas prices.

knapjack bonked 05 Nov 2024 15:12 +0000
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Today in Labor History November 5, 1916: The Everett Massacre occurred in Everett, Washington. 300 IWW members arrived by boat in Everett to help support the shingle workers’ strike that had been going on for the past 5 months. Prior attempts to support the strikers were met with vigilante beatings with axe handles. As the boat pulled in, Sheriff McRae called out, “Who’s your leader?” The Wobblies answered, “We’re all leaders!” The sheriff pulled his gun and said, “You can’t land.” A Wobbly yelled back, “Like hell we can’t.” Gunfire erupted, most of it from the 200 vigilantes on the dock. When the smoke cleared, two of the sheriff’s deputies were dead, shot in the back by their own men, along with 5-12 Wobblies on the boat. Dozens more were wounded. The authorities arrested 74 Wobblies. After a trial, all charges were dropped against the IWW members. The event was referenced in John Dos Passos’s “USA Trilogy.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #anarchism #Everett #massacre #vigilantes #police #policebrutality #union #strike #books #fiction #novel #writer #author @bookstadon

The Seattle Star November 6 1916 Front Page headline reads: 7 killed, 50 wounded is toll of Sunday’s I.W.W. battle. By The Seattle Star - The Seattle Star November 6 1916 Front Page, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83684869

knapjack bonked 04 Nov 2024 02:54 +0000
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i hadn’t touched a computer in 10 days and today i did and it was fun. computers are fun when you’re not forced to stare at them 10 hours a day who knew.

knapjack bonked 03 Nov 2024 23:30 +0000
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In early February 1979, Matanuska Valley schools were closed for at least 5 straight days due to high winds. I've grown tired of people who say AK schools never used to close in winter so I'm just starting to research it. Already have examples from a century ago. #alaskahistory

knapjack bonked 03 Nov 2024 18:24 +0000
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10yrs ago give or take a month, I was broken.

Then I went on a trip around Scotland.
Then I bought a camera I didn't know how to use.
Then I went out in the landscape every single day for just over a year.
Then I had an exhibition.
Then I had a new career.
Then I was a little less broken.

Still working on it. But no regrets.
One of my first shots, 15 Nov '14.

Nature can heal. 🙏
#AilsaCraig

Ailsa Craig taken during the blue hour after sunset from near Lendalfoot

knapjack honked 03 Nov 2024 16:21 +0000

Chipping away at my backlog, developed a couple of rolls Ilford FP4+ yesterday. No idea which cameras, but extremely happy with the exposures.

This is a light table snap, still in the sleeve. Can't wait to scan it.

Very low tide in Homer, Alaska, with expensive sand in the foreground and snowcapped mountains in the distance.

knapjack honked back 03 Nov 2024 13:50 +0000
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@alexpsmith It's a genuine mystery.

My dad is one of those people who has fallen under Trump's spell. If I had told him twenty years ago that he'd be willing to take up arms for a convicted felon who wears a suit and makeup to pose for pictures in a dump truck, he would have said, "Shoot me now."

He sees Trump as a builder, and doesn't see how he scams his contractors. He sees him as strong and doesn't see how he grovels to tyrants. He sees him as an Everyman and doesn't see his gold toilets and penthouse. He sees him as Christian (nearly messianic) and doesn't see him doing so many things Christ never would have done.

I really think the US is deeply rooted in a kind of Christian patriarchy: God gave dominion over the earth and over women to men, and Trump embodies that idea. A huge swath of Americans subconsciously embrace that idea, and feel that pull that if Trump is elected then the rest must be true, and there you go.

Daddy Issues politics, so says the peanut gallery.

knapjack bonked 03 Nov 2024 09:56 +0000
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As we entered astronomical twilight this morning at Mount John, I started a 15 minute exposure with my trusty Fujifilm GFX 50SII camera. Quite pleased with the result. Star trails and an aurora, with dawn breaking. #Beauty #astronomy #NewZealand

knapjack bonked 03 Nov 2024 02:21 +0000
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Your friendly neighborhood poll worker would like to remind you: It's against the law in most states to wear items that promote a candidate into a polling place. Many states have expanded this to coded language such as "Let's Go Brandon" gear, "Childless cat lady" clothes, etc.

We election workers are all nervous given that there has already been one violent attack on a poll worker due to this regulation. Please be kind to your election volunteers and leave the campaign clothes and buttons at home! #uspol #uspolitics #election

knapjack honked 02 Nov 2024 22:40 +0000

Getting ready to develop some film. My "room temperature" water is 18.0°C. Thankfully it's monochrome, so I'm just going to be a little slower than normal. #AlaskaProblems #Crafternoon

knapjack honked 02 Nov 2024 20:07 +0000

US: politics, electioneering

US: politics, electioneering

During the hours the polls are open, a person who is in the polling place or within 200 feet of any entrance to the polling place may not attempt to persuade a person to vote for or against a candidate, proposition, or question. The election officials shall post warning notices at the required distance in the form and manner prescribed by the director.

https://casetext.com/statute/alaska-statutes/title-15-elections/chapter-1515-elections-and-ballots/section-1515170-prohibition-of-political-persuasion-near-election-polls A truck with "Let's Go Brandon" emblazoned front and back, parked directly in front of the Division of Elections (early polling location) in Wasilla, Alaska

knapjack honked 02 Nov 2024 17:51 +0000

US: Politics

US: Politics

triggered
energized

knapjack bonked 02 Nov 2024 14:51 +0000
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That morning-after feeling where you wonder if you were too loud and weird talking about books and movies and things your like.

knapjack bonked 02 Nov 2024 14:26 +0000
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My mother-in law who refused to wear a face mask during the pandemic because it ‘made her look dumb’ is now wearing a garbage bag in support of Donald Trump.

Adding this to the Wikipedia entry for “I can’t even”

knapjack bonked 02 Nov 2024 03:40 +0000
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Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I've got the day off today after a wild night of handing out candy to tiny deadpools, spidermen, chuckies, zeldas, marios, and barbies. A lot of "Angel or witch?" ambiguity, that I'm bringing into the long weekend which is a refreshing change from "email or meeting?" Have a good weekend.

Image credit: Florida Memory, on Flickr Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/31846825@N04/10573278664/

Black and white photo of a collection of children in a school gymnasium wearing home made costumes including dracula, alien, football player and robot with an American flag.

knapjack honked 01 Nov 2024 20:35 +0000

Like 43 days of #honknet uptime. Surely there must be an impending update, @tedu.

Speaking of which, when will Fairly Private Messaging make it to the adult's table?

knapjack bonked 01 Nov 2024 13:56 +0000
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During Canadian Federal Elections, poll workers have been known to direct husbands and wives to booths at opposing ends of the room, so as ensure spouses are not ‘monitored’ by each other. I have worked one once and was told by the husband “I just want to make sure she doesn’t make a mistake.” I told him that she was probably old enough to manage to make an ‘X’ on her own. She looked down as she smiled. He wandered off grumbling. I didn’t care how he reacted.
https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/113403485880930199

knapjack bonked 01 Nov 2024 06:17 +0000
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Fish Linux

A quick T-Shirt Design.

Inspiration https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@bt/113283612910042153
VIA https://safelyendangered.com/

Puffy SVG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OpenBSD_Logo_-_Cartoon_Puffy_with_textual_logo_below.svg and a blatant license violation, via the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD page

Font New Century Schoolbook Bold and Bold-Italic

PNG with Transparency suitable for T-Shirt print

Do with it whatever you want.

"Kris, kann ich das SVG kriegen?"
"Es gibt kein SVG und Du willst auch keines. https://blog.koehntopp.info/2023/08/17/t-shirts-selbst-designen.html"

Puffy OpenBSD Logo Fish, with the text Fish Linux rendered like the OpenBSD Text Logo, PNG, white background Puffy OpenBSD Logo Fish, with the text Fish Linux rendered like the OpenBSD Text Logo, PNG, transparent background

knapjack bonked 31 Oct 2024 14:01 +0000
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Tons of great Sophos research is dropping today which I’ll link in thread. China goes brrr.

I want to give them particular credit for directly talking about the cyber industry elephants in the room, both in the research and during media interviews

e.g. insecurity in appliances, need for industry change, monitoring threat actors through telemetry etc etc.

It’s really refreshing as they’re talking about what is *actually happening* - not all vendors do this.

https://www.wired.com/story/sophos-chengdu-china-five-year-hacker-war/

knapjack bonked 31 Oct 2024 02:20 +0000
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Nothing replaces the hours of wandering around the wastelands of "how do I do this?" when learning how to CAD or code, or learning anything on computers. Trying, failing, trying, failing. trying, failing and then FINALLY, it works 😍 and when you learn keyboard shortcuts - it's LIKE the clouds have parted and the tech gods shine their goodness down on me #CAD #coding