Notices by Rachel Rawlings (linuxandyarn@mastodon.social)

@lerxst @whknott @mekkaokereke Yep, this is a key design theme of Robert Moses's work, making bridges across the thruways on Long Island and going upstate too low for buses to carry Black people from the boroughs out to the upper class suburbs. Robert Caro mentions it a couple times in "The Power Broker."

@lerxst @whknott @mekkaokereke He's really only been dead just over 40 years, and it's been less than 50 since he retired. Even worse, after giving up the parks and highways, he spent a couple years in the 1970s as an advisor on public housing.

@lzg That photo barely does it justice, though, considering where it lives on the High Line. https://www.designboom.com/art/aluminum-pigeon-dinosaur-ivan-argote-high-line-plinth-new-york-sculpture-07-31-2024/

@eribosot Meeting Silicon Valley libertarians who were tabling outside the Mountain View municipal building convinced me that engineers and politics should be kept apart.

This is a timeline cleanser every #DoctorWho fan needs: Tom Baker covered in #kittens!

@mekkaokereke I've actually managed not to see Colin Farrell or Christin Miloti in anything else before now. They and Rhenzy Feliz were incredible!

And the show was so well written that I forgot my pledge to swear off sociopaths. In terms of quality (and rabblerousing), The Penguin is to the DC universe what Andor is to Star Wars.

Democrats told us for years that they couldn't get rid of the filibuster because they might need it when they're in the Senate minority. Well, they'd better spend the next 2-4 years filibustering every goddamned shitsack piece of legislation the GOP brings up.

@downey @conservancy I was at the first OSCon when Tim O'Reilly explained--not in these exact words--that the term "Open Source" was invented to be more business-friendly than "Free/Libre Software" so it doesn't surprise me to see it watered down further.

@br00t4c Gidursky's a founder of the 1776 Project PAC so racism is just part of his remit.

JK Rowling 🤝 Voldemort
fascist bigots who have scarred children

If you fear his supporters' violence should Trump lose the election, don't.

You should fear how much more violent they'll be if he wins.

#Vote

@wendynather @mattblaze I think it's an appropriate level of escalation.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/24/politics/video/tucker-carlson-trump-dad-spanking-digvid?origin=serp_auto

In relationship to General John Kelly's unsurprising revelation about Trump, there's some middle ground here:

Hitler did something good; he died.

But he could have done it much better if he hadn't dawdled for 20 years.

#JohnOliver's revelation of the Waffle House plate code (two pickles means a bacon sandwich; add a packet of mayo to the plate for the grill to add an egg) is just fucking astounding.

https://www.thewrap.com/john-oliver-waffle-house-hurricanes/

It's like someone in the C-suite at #WaffleHouse saw a movie about Navajo code talkers in World War II being incomprehensible to the Germans, the rest of the axis, or even allies, and thought "We need something like that, a language spoken by no one in the International House of Pancakes."

@mttaggart @mwl One can only hope that the UK will give up Anguilla next and they change their name back to Malliouhana, rendering the .ai country code extinct.

@mainframed767 The one I stab into macaroni and cheese works pretty well, unless I forget to take lactase.

I don't normally want to see a broken bat or wild pitch get through the safety netting, but there's some yutz in the front row directly behind the batter's box at the Phillies-Nationals game wearing a MAGA hat and it's not like a concussion could make him any dumber.

The most destructive con man in American history was not Charles Ponzi or Bernie Madoff, or even Donald Trump.

The most destructive con man was Meredith Wilson, who wrote "The Music Man" and convinced the public that most con men were charming and ultimately beneficial like Harold Hill.

You Don't Own Me

#TellYourBossOffASong
#HashTagGames

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