Notices by Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands (deathkitten@firetribe.org)

@shauna@social.coop It's worth noting that they changed the bylaws in 2022 so that only "active" members can vote. Which they define as someone who made at least a $10 purchase in 2024 or signed up for their co-op membership in 2024.

@travissouthard@jawns.club @shauna@social.coop I was ready to go vote to support the union, but I haven't bought anything in a while. Haven't had a need, and was irritated to find out they were union busters. >.<

I'll probably make a point to buy something this year to ensure I can vote next year if the union calls on us to do it again.

Okay, question for those of you who've already started cutting Google out of your lives: What's the best alternative to Google Maps if you want to store your own locations on top of a real world map? Like, places I've been or want to go, keeping track of where people in a group are located, or even just locations in fictional settings that are set in the real world?

Edit for clarity: I'm looking for something comparable to Google's "My Places" feature, a personal map that I can either keep private or share with others that isn't part of a public collective.

uMap might be what I need, but I need to figure out if 1. I can install it without a fucking docker container, and 2. if my current hosting has enough resources for it. Will investigate, but still open to further suggestions.

@beecycling@romancelandia.club @cstross@wandering.shop Okay, so asking to confirm if I'm remembering correctly:

All color machines do the dots, this is why printers refuse to print if they don't have a working color/yellow cartridge... but fully black and white machines (typically only laser printers, and not color machines set to B&W only) do not do this. Am I remembering that correctly?

@YellowReadis@mathstodon.xyz @donray@mastodon.online @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Oh FSM, the eucalyptus was one of the factors that made the Oakland firestorm in '91 so insane. It's considered an invasive species here, but it is everywhere all around the bay.

I was a little kid at the time, but this wasn't long after my parents had bought a house, and we ended up hosting my Aunt, Uncle, cousin, and their pet pot belly pig, as well as a family they were neighbors with. The neighbor family lost their home, my third grade teacher lost her home. The Aunt, Uncle, and cousin who stayed with us were like a block or so down from the fire line. Another Aunt and Uncle were like three houses down from the fire line elsewhere in the hills, and their neighbor across the street had all their windows opened when they evacuated, so the smoke damage ruined the inside of that house. My grandparents were a couple blocks away from the fire line in another part of the hills.

Fuck, it's crazy to think it's been over thirty years since then. I think Oakland Fire still remembers the lesson from that, but it's probably been long enough that home owners in the hills aren't doing the clearing and maintenance they should be. I wonder how many people who live in the Oakland hills now lived there at the time and remember?

@rasmus91@fosstodon.org @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io We do have a flag on it already. (Assuming we're not still claiming the moon landing was faked...)

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Here's the important question though: which color did they get you? Does it match the rest of the kitchen, or stand out in an exciting way?