Notices by Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone), page 2

RE: https://mstdn.social/@paulknightly/116137849559097334

This horrific news, giving a state reason to arrest any trans person driving a car but when I learned Kansas elected Stephanie Byers, a trans woman who won a state congressional seat in 2020, it all clicked for me.

The cruelty is always the point

@adr it was his OPENING! HIS LIGHT HEARTED JOKE.

it sounded so light for a little chuckle, not terrorizing your own employees in front of literally everyone.

@adr I recently learned Benioff worked for Larry Ellison at Oracle for years before starting Salesforce and things begin to track after that

Two EV test mules being driven on the 126 freeway near Ventura California. I don’t know what these are—maybe a new Hyundai or Toyota EV coming out?

TL:DR; The Salesforce CEO at a company's annual all hands gathering asked international employees to please rise in the audience, then made a "joke" that ICE agents were in the back of the room ready to nab them.

Guillotines for billionaires is the moderate choice at this point

Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post not to enshrine one of the finest examples of a fourth estate institution, not so WaPo could continue to do fearless reporting, but so he could dismantle the paper that brought down a president through Watergate.

Jeff Bezos is a real piece of shit.

uhhh what in the flying fuck? I showed up in Epstein’s inbox for my popular tweets?

Ugh.

Then put your little hand in mine

There ain't no hill or mountain we can't climb

Yesterday’s Alex Pretti memorial ride in Portland ended by passing the Portland ICE facility and of course ICE tear-gassed the crowd, including kids on bikes.

Thursday in Salem, Oregon, feds tore a US citizen’s rotator cuff yanking her out of a car window.

The Minneapolis surge really is coming for us all.

Sure, Tim Cook is throwing Apple under the bus and kissing Trump’s ring this week, but don’t forget that a few months ago Apple also removed the ICEblock app

The past year has made it clear that since I was a kid I've been fed a misguided ideal of "rugged individualism above all else" akin to brainwashing all my life. The only "honorable" way to do anything was to do it all on your own. Anything less was you showing weakness by needing help from others.

But watching mutual aid networks pop up overnight after fires and public kidnappings and now murders, it's clear random strangers can be good and remarkable to each other when they work together

Bought tickets to a Lord of the Rings extended screening then Siri spotted it on my calendar and suggested I give Peter Jackson a call.

AI is such a helpful thing

They should double check that it’s actually Dilbert’s body before they start digging the grave, he’s known to use sockpuppets and aliases

I found out he died after driving past the jerk store and seeing the flags at half mast

All the Jack Smith news coming out now is so utterly disappointing. They had an airtight case against Trump that proved what we knew, that he tried to overturn an election but diddly squat came out of it.

I’m not following news closely but I noticed there are a lot of stories coming out of Minnesota and sure most of it is xenophobic anti-Somali junk but when someone here posted it’s a push to discredit Tim Walz for the next two years ahead of any future presidential elections, it all makes sense.

Every web nerd I know seems to be looking for a new domain registrar because whatever everyone's used for 10-20 years was likely bought up by private equity firms so they tripled their prices while slashing features.

Are there any ethical companies still doing cheap reliable domain hosting?

This recent video showing remains of the red car electric train system that was ubiquitous in Los Angeles is so depressing. You can see how much we lost by losing it, like the opposite of progress. My mom used to tell stories of zipping around LA everywhere on a train. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1TEJW4sh5k

There were over 1,000 miles of tracks that connected everyone from Thousand Oaks down to Orange County. I’ve heard podcasts claim the car companies didn’t kill it, it just stopped being profitable by the 1950s, but why not turn it into a public good? Convert it to a state-run system instead of removing it all?

@annika I'm fine with larger upper bounds. I'll never use them but I'm cool with them.

(I'm not sure I even use a client that would allow me to post >500 chars)