Notices by Nelson (skyfaller@jawns.club)

I'm excited by the idea of an NYC mayor who isn't awful.

When is the last time that NYC had a mayor who was halfway decent?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_New_York_City

I was going to post a poll, but I have no idea how far back you'd need to go to get a non-shitty mayor, and NYC has had a lot of mayors. Probably would need more than 4 poll options.

#NYC #mayor #uspol #history

I've been trying to replace my leaky porch roof with a green roof since November. It's not going well.

One problem is finding people willing to work on a small project like this at all (it's a tiny rowhome, and this isn't even the whole roof).

Another problem is the roof isn't flat, it's slightly sloped, and if I had to level it out that would probably be expensive.

Has anyone converted a small non-flat roof to a green roof? Can you give me tips? If you're near Philly, recommend contractors?

Seems all of the ballot questions passed in the #Philly primaries, which is good because I voted Yes for all of them:

https://www.phillyvoice.com/pennsylvania-primary-election-results-2025-philadelphia-krasner-judicial/
https://www.phillyvoice.com/philadelphia-ballot-questions-primary-results-2025/
https://vote.phila.gov/results/

#Philadelphia #elections

#Philly folks, how are you voting in the Democratic primary tomorrow? (Or how have you already voted, by mail?)

The Working Families Party has endorsed several candidates that the #Philadelphia Bar Association does not recommend:

https://workingfamilies.org/2025/04/pennsylvania-working-families-party-endorses-over-35-primary-election-candidates-across-commonwealth/

https://judges.philadelphiabar.org/

For municipal court the situation seems especially dire if you care about Bar recommendations, since you can vote for 3 judges but the Bar only recommends 1. Does that mean 2 non-recommended judges win no matter what?

@skinnylatte This is neither here nor there, but in high school I helped make a student film on Super 8 film.

Partway through the project, we had a dire problem: we ran out of film and weren't immediately able to acquire more.

As the director put it, "You can make a film without a budget. You can make a film without actors, a script, or lighting. You cannot make a film without film."

@evan No, but I'll watch the Muppets sing "Danny Boy" again

@fluffykittycat @evan I'd say that the US has had the enemy continuously on our soil since the Civil War, if not since its founding, but I understand your point. Not enough Americans know about events like the Tulsa race massacre, and don't recognize slavers and homegrown fascists as occupying forces.

@evan While fighting on enemy territory may be the correct military strategy, I'm not convinced taking enemy territory will inevitably have a significant effect on enemy morale. Ukraine advancing into Russian territory doesn't seem to have crushed Russian morale; or, alternately, Russian morale is already shot and the war machine does not depend on the morale of Russian soldiers or civilians.

@evan Do you think the majority of Canadians can be convinced that the USA under Trump is an existential threat before an actual US invasion? Because your plan won't be politically feasible if most Canadians believe the US is still fundamentally friendly until the US initiates military action.

@skinnylatte Can't go wrong with side A of "Dookie" by Green Day. I listened to it a lot while discovering depression as a teen, and I imagine I'd feel similarly about dying in a zombie apocalypse, except maybe less intense because nothing hurts as much as teenage angst.

I have to admit track 6 "Pulling Teeth" is my least favorite song on the album, but it's immediately redeemed by "Basketcase", which was played out back in the day, but now feels nostalgic.

My Gmail is unusable. It's all marketing emails, donation asks, and possible scams. It's necessary to log in to endless accounts that I've built up over decades, but that's exactly the problem, every service I've ever signed up for wants to send me automated emails.

I kind of just want to delete it, but I'd lose access to most of my online life, and if I ever order anything online again, the process will just start over again.

If I ignore it, I might miss a crucial #email alert.

What to do?

@stumblewyk There was that brief weird period where dozens of Philly sports accounts did invade Jawns.club. They all came at once and outnumbered the tech nerds for a glorious moment. Not sure why they all left again, really, I imagine Mastodon was too confusing or not sporty enough, but I have no hard data.

I guess if you could find any of them and ask them why they came and why they left, that might be useful info.

@jaz I've gotta ask: why isn't FediCheck already open source? Alternately, why should we trust a proprietary product to support our open source projects, when it is a centralized single point of failure that could disappear this quickly?

Honestly I assumed that as a non-profit part of the Fediverse, IFTAS work was all open source, and I was shocked and disappointed to discover that it is not.

@evan It would be great to replay this day a zillion times until I can speed run solving the climate crisis

@mcneely There was this recent thread about shelters: https://epistolary.org/@vees/113642182768353673

Some of my favorite non-Philly-specific custom emoji on Jawns.club, for transfer to a GoToSocial server via "Steal this look":

:anarchopunk: :antifa: :BLM: :covid19: :nice: :no_covid: :nocars: :yesbike: :all_the_things: :is_this: :picardfacepalm: :thisisfine: :ben: :gritty: :grittyreact: :pothole: :firefox: :inaturalist: :mastodon: :rss: :servo: :signal: :tux: :wikipedia:

@alcinnz I'm not sure I know enough to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, but have you seen iocaine?

https://git.madhouse-project.org/algernon/iocaine

@alcinnz This explanation helped me understand the motivation for iocaine:

> This has the downside that I need to redirect explicitly, so unknown agents will not be trapped (while they will be caught in Nepanthes' maze!). On the other hand, it means that my content is unavailable for AI crawlers in the first place - at least to known ones.

https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/@algernon/statuses/01JHRNX1KFQV19AVTB54ZFB8EZ

Welp, I deleted my Whatsapp account, I deleted some Facebook pages, but I'm stuck at trying to delete some of the Instagram accounts I've made for various projects because I can't seem to log in to them. They send me a code through my email, I enter it in, Instagram seems to accept it, but then the page just hangs forever. Adblocker is disabled.

I guess if I can't log in to an account then maybe it doesn't matter that it exists? But it's the principle of the thing.

For #FollowFriday, here are folks new to fedi, arriving on #Pixelfed, taking photos in #Philly. Please welcome them!

- @ShagrinaInk
- @Mich
- @huskybydesign
- @Flat_Pluto
- @rebeccatesler
- @jerkjerkson
- @theduchess
- @thetaoofmike
- @Jessicalibor

I don't know them or how good their pics will be, but I do want them to feel at home in our virtual neighborhood. Let's help everyone leave Meta/Instagram.

Also please be patient because Pixelfed.social is struggling under load.

#Philadelphia