Notices by Bam (bam@sfba.social)

@kingrat Narrator: It was, in fact, a mistake.

Shana Tovah to my Jewish pocket friends. 🍯 🍎 ❤️

The real challenge of having an EV is all the miles of extension cord you need to keep in order to drive it. Someone really should come up with an answer to that.

At the entrance to Auschwitz was the sign “arbeit macht frei” or “work sets you free.” It was a sick joke.

Except for those liberated by the Allies, those who entered Auschwitz were never made free in this world.

They were separated at arrival, with one line sent to “showers” that were gas chambers, where they were mass murdered with gas because they weren’t worth wasting a bullet. Their nails clawed at the gas chambers walls, seeking anything to find air. Their bodies were mass cremated (in violation of Jewish law), only after anything of value, like gold fillings, were stripped from them.

And the other line? They were starved and worked to death through forced labor to feed the Nazi war machine while being subjected to random execution.

Having fences, bunks, and showers does not make something Auschwitz.

What’s happening in Florida is vile, but it’s not Auschwitz. And if you use that analogy, you are both diminishing what happened in Auschwitz and distracting from what is *actually* happening.

@kingrat

There you go. I wasn’t purporting to assert what most or a majority of people think. I was setting out that there are a lot of people that I contend agree with the substance of the article.

@kingrat

a) I wasn’t referring to the title. I’d suggest you read the article before commenting.

b) I think you wrongly assume what you claim I “wrongly assume” rather than reading what I wrote.

This really does a very good job summarizing what I think a lot of people are feeling right now.

The Atlantic: Right Move, Wrong Team

https://archive.ph/2025.06.22-123524/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/right-move-wrong-team/683283/

@cwebber You should see the author’s social threads. 😳

@lgsp

“Are you better off than you were four”…checks notes…”four months ago?”

@Nonilex

1/20 FAA Director fired

1/21 Air Traffic Controllers hiring frozen

1/22 Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded

1/28 Buyout/retirement offer sent to almost all federal employees

1/29 First mid-air collision in the US in 16 years.

They starved the function by understaffing and made them afraid for their jobs which might actually be distracting. Nevermind that there’s airports operating without ATCs because they tried to privatize and low ball the ATCs who just threw up their hands and quit.

But tell me again about how it’s due to DEI hiring. 🤦♂️

@GottaLaff Now that’s a feature I don’t want and would turn off immediately.

@okwithmydecay @tomwwolf

Apple also has a dedicated classical app, which is excellent.

@mastodonmigration

Just so you know @mekkaokereke has posted about the abuse of followers only replies many times in the past. Tbh, I had no idea people did this until he posted about it. Since then I’ve been the target of it as a minority as well, although not to the same extent (likely due to my own preventative actions).

@torgo @tchambers

Home is here, but I’d love for the AP-AT bridge to become standard both ways so we can simply choose how we prefer our content (such as clients) rather than have to choose between platforms.

@mekkaokereke

It is often disappointing looking back at people who were trailblazers in their time only to see their deep flaws. Idolizing human beings often sets us up for disappointment.

@whknott

@drdrowland

“You see judge, it’s not an illegal lottery because my client is actually just engaged in a fraud.”

@Bruiserzinha @picardtips

@RickiTarr

Stop, NewsMax. You sold me already.

#SCOTUS opinion release day…

@mekkaokereke @kellogh

Bees are also fantastic pollinators and honey producers! They’re wonderful.

The wasps and I are constantly at war though. They love building those damn nasty nests everywhere. Two Yellowjacket stings over the past three years. Little bastards.