Notices by Rob Carlson :ally: :BLM: (vees@epistolary.org)

Just thanked John #Fetterman for his vote against the anti-trans legislation yesterday. If you're in #Pennsylvania please do the same. He's such a wildcard he needs all the positive reinforcement he can get. Call 202-224-4254 menu option 1, takes two minutes and you only need to talk to a voicemail.

@kims @futurebird They’d break up out of embarrassment from how comparatively awesome your relationship is?

Logged in to one email telling me to respond to the OPM "bullet point your job" email and two telling me to absolutely not. I'm not even a fed.

@kims @Holberg I’m confused if your answer to the question caused a dismissal?

Spread the news https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/02/uk-orders-apple-to-implement-secret-global-backdoor-for-end-to-end-encryption/ #Apple #Encryption #UKpol #backdoors

Note: For some reason registrations are closed, I've reached out to the organizers. Stay tuned.

The Montgomery Bar Association in #Norristown a is running a Virtual Name Change Clinic in February for #Pennsylvania folks who might not be happy with their birth name for :transgender_flag: reasons. More info here: https://www.montgomerybar.org/?pg=events&evAction=showDetail&eid=296506&evSubAction=listAll #MontCoPA

@http_error_418 @tek @Remittancegirl My strategy is just to buy whatever's cheap and make sure I have the NAS in a 2 drive failure config (RAID6 or SHR2) with 3-2-1.

@float13 I knew it, but its important to remember that sometimes folks put out free infrastructure like instances and phpBB forums just because the world is better off for it being there.

Fediverse has sufficient size and reach to be an effective earthquake detection system like Twitter used to be.

We are apparently at the part of the Hegseth nominations where a powerful man looks at another knowingly and says: It's okay, we all beat our wives in private, that's why we go to church and pretend to repent in public.

"It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out..."
#SchrodingersCat
#ChekhovsGun
#OccamsRazor
#MurphysLaw
#ScienceHumor

@GossiTheDog What's the link where the full text of this screenshot comes from?

@tek I once got shunted to training for investigating one of the tracking URLs in the email headers with curl. Apparently it was unique to me.

Please enjoy my dog in the slightly too small cat bed for some reason. #dogs

@tek What are you reading?

TIL: Arizona does not regulate theme parks https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-man-climbing-moving-roller-coaster-arizona-lap-bar-unlatch-rcna181896

Just your average nature hike through Central New Jersey.

Saw my first Facebook post from someone angry that the ACLU of PA is suing our school district for speech violations after they trespassed parents who confronted a school board member in the parking lot after the meeting and required a local (in the district) address on a PA ID to be allowed to enter the a public board meeting. #Souderton #ACLU #PublicSchools #OpenMeetings

I'm old enough to remember when Russia bought a nine-year-old LiveJournal to identify and stifle local dissenters who were using the platform to mobilize. The whole Twitter thing happened before and it'll happen again, over and over again until we fucking learn.

@jimcarroll To be fair, the rest of my week is *also* filled with undocumented Node and Ruby platform updates, so maybe it just blended in with the rest of the noise