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

“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

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.

Who's gonna call Putin and congratulate him?

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

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.

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.

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

📷 Minolta XE-5
🔎 Minolta MD Rokkor 50 mm f/1.7
🎞 Agfa APX 400 (2006, EI 100)

#AnalogPhotography #ExpiredFilm #VintageCars #BlackAndWhitePhotography

Have two of these words been expunged? Should we impinge them upon the language? https://sesquiotic.com/2024/11/04/impinge-expunge-impunge-expinge/

On the ferry

#Photo #Photography #FujiFilm #Lisboa #Portugal

Whoa… a very elegantly crafted #DuckDB integration with Google Sheets https://github.com/evidence-dev/duckdb_gsheets

DuckDB is very rapidly replacing a large % of data ops I used to lean on #RStats for.

Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe
Credits: High-Z Supernova Search Team, HST, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography

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.

https://xkcd.com/

#harris #uspol #USPolitics #politics

I liked this post from Cory Doctorow about ActivityPub and Bluesky.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/

Dress for the job you want… #CabinLife #nunavut

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

Prague

Not the best light, but what a profile!

#Photography

That time—today actually—when random guy mansplains The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale.
#books #handmaidstale

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

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.

#SilentSunday

📷 Minolta XE-5
🔎 Minolta MC Rokkor 55 mm f/1.7
🎞 Kodak Gold (~2005? EI 64)

#AnalogPhotography #ExpiredFilm

Here's some milkweed I saw on Friday
#milkweed

Today's coffee shop sketches. Saturdays are the best. These are postcards again, and I still have not sent any. #urbansketching

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

#SilentSunday
#BelieveInFilm
#FilmPhotography

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

Chapati man and his tandoori oven. Dude is an artist.

#Kathmandu #Nepal #TandooriOven #Chapati #Photography #LumixS9

My heart is filled!!! ❤️ just got home from the Snohomish, WA #womensmarch and I feel hopeful.

We. Cannot. Go. Back.

#uspol #women #vote #pnw

There are exemplary #JapaneseMaple, #AcerPalmatum trees in other Oregon cities. This is #SalemOregon
#FallColor

#Belgrade in the evening

📷 Olympus OM1
🎞️ Ilford PAN 400

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead

#FensterFreitag

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

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

I just released v2.0.0 of d3-geo-polygon — just in time for the #30DayMapChallenge

New projections, new documentation & lots of other changes, see details here:

https://github.com/d3/d3-geo-polygon/releases/tag/v2.0.0

US: Politics

triggered
energized

That morning-after feeling where you wonder if you were too loud and weird talking about books and movies and things your like.

Wow. Tonight had it all here on Mount John. We started in a blizzard of snow and ended the night with a blizzard of solar particles visible in the sky! #aurora #auroraaustralis #NewZealand

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”

We're off to #Cornwall! Constantine Bay on the north coast.

#PentaxLX, #Pentax SMC M 28mm f/2 lens, #Ferrania #P33, home devved in HC-110 dilution B for nominal 7 minutes, home scanned.

#BelieveInFilm
#FilmPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography

Susan B. Anthony broke the law by voting in 1872. In 2024, women honor her courage

More than 150 years after Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting despite being a woman, Americans take to the polls on the anniversary of her historic ballot casting. #press

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5175307/susan-b-anthony-women-vote-history?utm_source=press.coop

The Dublin Halloween parade that was actually an AI hallucination thing is pretty funny but things could turn real bad if it draws attendance to a fake event with dangerous crowd control implications like a large, disorganised protest

https://defector.com/thousands-turn-out-for-nonexistent-halloween-parade-promoted-by-ai-listing

#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag

Windows and balconies on College St

#VOTE

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/

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?

#FensterFreitag

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

Yesterday was a beautiful morning in East Tennessee. Site of my company's newest medical facility. I was there to set up their computers. #FensterFreitag #KnoxvilleTN

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"

I'm just saying, it's a lot of lyrics.

https://youtu.be/ve6R_p4hsfk?si=bJFufvX4wo7aLVxv

@ketacik We're at 396. So close. How about you guys?

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/

This guy was just playing through today. #Turtle 🐢 ⛳

1. I didn't do it
2. nobody saw me do it
3. you can't prove anything
🧀

#cheese #heist

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168356/cheddar-cheese-stolen-neals-yard-dairy

External Attachment: a heart guy emerges in a cheese warehouse carrying armloads of cheese as Wham's "Careless Whisper" plays. The parmesan falls.

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