Notices by Weird Socks (ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us)

@GossiTheDog
Forgive my ignorance, please. I'm a civil engineer, not a cybersec specialist. Are the screens visible from this website all computers a person could start controlling remotely the password listed in the report?
That can't be right. That's crazy.

RE: https://thecanadian.social/@action_jay/117310628753994614

#unions #union

@blogdiva
I mean, yes, I loved Tintin as a pre-teen. I read every one. Great yarns and Herge's immediately recognizable art.
But it's.all mid-century European colonialiast master fantasy. My parents didn't know better but my GenX friends did not buy the books for their kids. They let them sink into the archive.
Now this.
Decades ago Peter Jackson came up by going out of his way to tell new stories. It's just so disappointing.

Today in #NotTheOnion

#Seattle and surrounding towns:
Please fill out this #SoundTransit survey. It took me about three minutes, even including dealing with the phone-unfriendly format.
https://soundtransit.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d7jkaU59BHOdblY
It's a little maddening that a survey like this might be very important but that's how this goes.

Please boost and share to your #transit riding folk.

@Fragglemuppet
Which reminds me, what am I supposed to with this goat, @adhdeanasl?

@darnell
Nuclear, as I recall, can't easily increase or decrease production either, so I'm not sure where you're going with that reason to build more nukes.
Wind, if over built, scales up just fine in that, unlike nukes, one can safely have wind turbines sit sidle. Same with solar.

As you said, the thing in the center of it all seems to be transmission.

@darnell
Wow. I respect your point of view as always but I really can't disagree hard enough, both on the direct action itself and on being able to cover the disturbance as a journalist.

You might have the wrong idea.
This stuff is very much in your face.
Everyone I know is stressed every day.
We just had the first general strike since 1946.
Anyway, this isn't for @GossiTheDog. He's never replied to a post of mine and he's been condescending to people here the whole time we've been trying to stop this.
This is for the rest of you over there.
Please push your electeds to break monetary ties with the US.
Yes we over here will all be fucked if that really happens. Do it anyway.

@inthehands @robcinos
My Senators will block funding.
I don't know how to pressure the ones who often vote with the Republicans.

#guitar #music playing people:
When you hear a way a guitar sounds on a track, how do you figure out how the guitar player made that sound happen?
I assume it's a pedal thing.
But is there something short of playing the song to every poor soul on the street and hoping you get lucky?
I mean, I'll try that but they might start getting wise and avoiding me.
[Edited for typos]

#USPol
How...convenient.
Leavitt's brother is fighting a custody battle with Bruna Ferreira, a woman ICE abducted last week.

(Not gonna link to the New Republic's Threads account)
HT @ErickaSimone

DAIR-rull

DAIR-rull

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/07/Trump-pardons-Darryl-Strawberry-two-former-Tennesse-politicians/6461762538766/

I toured a powerhouse today and found that some still follow the old ways.

#linux #WindowsExodus
I have close to 15 GB on Google Drive and another great wad on OneDrive.
I've installed Mint and I've ~75% moved from Gmail to Fastmail.

Question: What do you use for cloud storage for your Linux box and do you recommend it?
I'm looking for something that allows easy transfers and folder creation and renaming and such from within the desktop OS the way OneDrive does, if possible.

@rspfau
Thank you! I found pCloud in my quick research.

@alissaazar
I hope DHS honors the order.

@mjg @inthehands @Donatella @blogdiva
Imagine my surprise when I learned after getting back to NE Seattle after the march that I need not have left! There was a ten block march down 35th Ave NE just a few blocks from our door.
I'm glad we went to the big event, though.

@inthehands @Donatella @blogdiva
It's taking some getting used to for me.
In #Seattle, the *march* was smaller at 70K+ than the Womxn's March (100K+).
The overall bodies who attended a rally today in the Puget Sound region was probably well over 100K+, though.

I have to get it through my head. The new game isn't about numbers. It's the big march *and* people waaay outside the urban core also doing their thing. It's first timers who weren't seen on the news but were still seen.

@ufwupdates
So angry.
This is all so stupid

Thank you for this video. I want people to see it.