Notices by Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (blaise@hachyderm.io), page 2

No set form close date, I'm just going to leave it open for the season until slots fill OR I get too busy with tattoo for the month.

@tinkb333 I remember breathing in (I was about 10) and it hurting in my chest from the smog... in the San Fernando Valley, L.A.

@GottaLaff I am old enough to remember what it was like to breathe unclean air. I was born with allergic asthma. These firings are unconscionable.

Today's #vintage #FountainPen: Esterbrook J late transitional Pearl Grey

@paninid @memeorandum

I detest Elon. I knew he was a horrible person when I bought our model 3 in 2018. It was the first model in a price range we could afford.
We lived near the factory and several neighbors worked there.
We lived in the mountains, , the savings on fuel, oil changes, brake jobs, exceeded the monthly payments.
I was stunned by how well it handled, even in a snowstorm that shut down the freeway, we comfortably exceeded the speed limit.
Six years later, we have driven it from Santa Cruz to Boston and it has never once had an unscheduled outage.

Building out my new Linux desktop. Made sure that the motherboard is Linux friendly. This puppy is going to be as Right to Repair friendly as I can make it. Using several recycled components from a previous computer. Plan to install Nobara 41.

I think. :-)

#Fractal #Linux #RightoRepair #DoitYourself #OpenSource #PCBuild #Nobara #GNOME

Please sign up for the general strike.
https://generalstrikeus.com/
#politics #USPol #generalStrike

Please read (again) Arendt.
"Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to folIow the rules of common sense and self-interest-forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries. ..."

@chavalarias
It seems like the list does not include options based in #Canada or #Mexico
which would be interesting to me.
I wonder if that is another resource?

@chavalarias
Thank you for the link.
A number of us in the Hachyderm community (SRE former google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, etc) are considering an Internet infrastructure #cooperative to serve as alternatives to AWS, Google, M$FT.

@DaleHagglund
Oh! I had not heard. Thank you.

@cazabon
Well, I anticipated that people might complain that it's a long tail response or that it's too far from everyday life.
I think that it would send a strong message to Conald's patrons that he's creating long term problems, AND it makes sense for Canadian sovereignty.

The general rule that I *try* to follow in situations like this is "first, establish a relationship".

If you're going to make unprompted demands of someone or even give them unsolicited advice, you need to give them a reason to care. There should be *some* level of reciprocity involved. Find a way to support their work. Join a common organization. Develop some resources to *help* them do the thing that you're asking them to do. Just… something. Anything.

“There’s gonna be a big presence in DC, but it’s not just DC — I want to see this in rural areas, in suburban areas, in urban areas, in red states, purple states, blue states. It’s going to take all of us.” - Ezra

We’re taking to the streets nationwide on April 5: http://handsoff2025.com

;; there is a vast emptiness stretching from horizon to shore
;; an inland sea buffered by a lakeshore zone
;; nature's final fasciculata protecting herself from our spores
;; those intransigents who purport all to be 'crime ridden no-more!'
;; their nor-intellected infection nothing more than a dereliction
;; a hardly modern affliction of nascent pithy pseudo-marxist mores

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🧵 The passage of this dangerous Republican funding bill is a travesty. The ongoing administrative coup led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk is a constitutional crisis. The authoritarians stripping away our rights and trying to loot the government to enrich the billionaires are a five-alarm fire. Indivisibles across the country have been organizing furiously to fight back — that’s where they want to focus. Yesterday, Sen. Schumer gravely undermined their work. https://indivisible.org/statements/indivisible-calls-schumer-step-aside

After weeks of constituents demanding that Democrats use this rare, precious point of leverage on the government funding bill, Schumer did the opposite. He led the charge to wave the white flag of surrender. But we have no intention of surrendering to Trump, Musk, and congressional Republicans.

This is why today, we called two emergency meetings of Indivisible group leaders for groups in New York, and for the 1,600 local Indivisible groups nationwide.

In a vote, the two groups gave us clear direction: 82% of group leaders in New York and 91% of Indivisible group leaders nationwide voted to call for Schumer to step aside as Senate Minority Leader. Accordingly, Indivisible is calling for Chuck Schumer to step down from Senate Democratic leadership. We thank him for his service, but we need new leadership in this moment and we understand to get there we need a chorus of support for change.

This is a painful decision, the gravity of which we take very seriously. Senator Schumer has contributed to and led many important accomplishments that Indivisible is grateful for. But with our democracy on the line, he let us, the country, and the Democratic Party down. We organize local activists in communities in every state in the country — regular people dedicating themselves to opposing Trumpism and preserving the promise of a functioning democracy.

And they deserve a Democratic Party, and leadership of that party, who’s willing to fight as hard as they are.

Senator Schumer should step aside as leader. Every Democrat in the Senate should call for him to do so, and begin making plans for new leadership immediately. We will be encouraging our groups and activists to talk to their senators at town halls, community events, and office visits about the urgent need for a Minority Leader who’s up for the fight this moment demands.