Police Chief Kurt Frisz said a total of 10 officers will undergo an online, self-paced training that gives them quicker access to ICE in order to determine the status of individuals found without legal status.
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I just found out a couple of days ago that here in my city, they would be unfurling the largest trans flag in the world for TDOV! I decided to go, and took the drone with me. Turns out they didn't have anyone else flying a drone, so I was able to get this video of the unfurling for them! qnews.com.au/brisbane-unveils-β¦ #tdov #transpride #trans #transgender #transflag
EroticMusings 2026.03.29 β Week 44 (March 29-April 4) Culture: Is there an aspect of culture or political stance that shapes most or all of your erotica? CW: Sexual and moral politics
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Feminism. Ethics. I'm anti-patriarchy, which is the use of oppression of women to enslave half the population in order to steal their property and rights. Morals are not ethics. Morals masquerade as ethics, but are arbitrary rules created to keep those in power in power and the rest of us unquestioningly loyal or enslaved, and to create new generations of unquestioning loyal and enslaved. Gender roles mandate conformity; they validate bullying and hate to enforce that conformity. I'm of the opinion that humans are programmed by evolution to want to reproduce, and if they want to do so, especially with the technology to deal with the downsides of disease and unwanted pregnancy, nothing should stand in the way of choice with consent. Technology means humans can be more than brutish animals; society needs to stop reducing us to brutish animals in the name of something arbitrarily "natural" or self-servingly moral. Attraction and preference is something every person discovers for themself. Others to fighting someone else' choice and preferences is at best bullying. Technology again obviates downsides, as above, so long as there is consent. Sexual shame is a terrorist tool.
As you may guess, what's spicy in my stories is influenced by my views as expressed above. I celebrate humans being human. Doesn't mean my characters are perfect, but their imperfection is a different kind of stupid.
Sooo, my company have opened up for volunteer redundancies, if anyone needs or is hiring for a senior dotnet/python/rust dev who's entire personality is "I like making cool things work", I'm open
Some of my highlight include
- I wrote the entire train driver licencing management system for all of Great Britain, on my own, in a few weeks, with a completely unfamiliar stack
- Successfully defended the aforementioned project directly to the cabinet office when they blocked it and allowed it to continue to be deployed
- Once built a 64 bit computer in vanilla Java Minecraft (no command blocks)
- Worked on nuclear, medical, and autonomous driving systems, cannot talk about this too much, but this does mean I can absolutely talk your ear off about the importance of strict vigilance in software engineering
Whoops, was so busy on so many things yesterday that we forgot to post a song. While the movie Black Dog was crap, the soundtrack was awesome, lots of great covers on their, but today we're focusing on Rhett Akins cover of Eddie Rabbit's Drivin' My Life Away.
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupDrivin' My Life Away (From "Black Dog" Soundtrack) Β· Rhett AkinsBlack Dog Soundtrackβ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.Re...
Call me crazy, but I donβt think an official government app should be loading executable code from a random personβs GitHub account. Or tracking your GPS location in the background. Or β¦
β οΈ Do not move your account to mastodon.cloud. If you know someone already on mastodon.cloud you might want to suggest they move to a different server.
-Mastodon.cloud's admin hasn't posted since Feb 2023 -There doesn't seem to be any moderation, really awful bigotry is still there months after being reported -The server software is very outdated and full of unpatched security holes -Because of all the above, many other servers have defederated mastodon.cloud
I'm genuinely surprised that it can still still survive in this zombie state. A lot of Wordpress and similar sites have pretty quickly attracted from the hosting or co-location company's interest after enough reports have been filed against it for objectionable concept or it just being a trojan payload sharing site.
I don't know, but generally when something web based gets pwned hard enough, sysadmins typically start to raise stink about it. If I spot port scanners or obvious stuff being run against the systems I maintain, I might fire an e-mail to their ISP's abuse address, depending on where they from. With China, Russia etc. I don't bother, US and Europe likely, the Nordics, very likely.
Recording of Interview of maintainer of Pawoo/Mstdn.jp/Mastodon.cloud :D by @darnell@darnell.day @darnell@one.darnell.one and joined by ~12 audiences like @socrates1024@cryptodon.lol etc
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As if we needed any more evidence showing just how deep and thoroughly corrupted the Trump administration is. Itβs an endless cycle of self-serving actions, pushed forward by bigots, griftersβ¦
Ooops, guess I'm re-inventorying the comics, was trying to figure out how to remove some of the books and accidentally erased them all. 11000 comics⦠This is going to be a project to redo. Oh well, was already thinking of doing it as some books turned up around the library when I first did it, and around the house while doing the books, so things are a bit of a mess. Plus I used existing boxes, so I have a fair number of long boxes, it'd prolly be good to use only short boxes as there's already more of those. I think I'll be giving the graphic novels to the book buyers, they might not give me much for them, but with the scale of the collection, most shops won't give me much either, prolly 50’/book, maybe 75’ if I'm lucky, so its not like it'll hurt me, and it'll let me thin the collection down, prolly not enough to make a difference, but we'll see.
Giggles, "Some mentions of Star Trek on my timeline made me dig this video out. I don't think this is the one I originally saw, that included the sixth movie, but this is still a good video."
Ok, its been a rather productive week. I'd've done this as a #Loops video, but its back to crashing when I try to record there, soβ¦
Any how, as I've mentioned in other posts, I've been working on blowing out my husband's book collection using apps, three apps to be precise. Sure, they don't pay great, and it leaves me to deal with the books they don't want, but its fast and convenient, and got rid of about 900 books. The result is that the library is much smaller, with the books fitting on one wall now, plus one case in the living room. That's down from around 9 cases downstairs, 2 in the living room and 1 in the bedroom.
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Those haven't gone to waste, being used to upgrade my bookcases in the bedroom and rearrange them a bit, that narrow case for example is going to be used as a display case.
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But, this is just the tip of the iceberg, I'm also replacing the bed, dropping down from Queen to TwinXL, and I had thought about relocating it to the one wall over there, since late 60's design only leaves me two walls to use, but I'm also thinking of moving my desks and computers in there, so that won't work. Sure, I could put the desks where the bed is now, but that'd leave one sticking out into the room, and I suspect that'd make moving around the room difficult. Putting them on the back wall, aside from the standard electrical nuisance that I'll need to fix, will make for a more balanced space where the bed is in the front, and the bookcases and desks are in the back. And the TV will be floating around, as there's no good space for it. I might throw out that stereo that's sitting on the floor, I'd bought it in a thrift store, and it works⦠so long as you don't want any lights or digital displays. I'd figured it'd be an easy fix, that'd have to be a lighting circuit common wire, right? Yeah, the design and wiring of that thing is a nightmare, and with my computer room stereo coming with the computers and desks, I don't really need it as I have a record player in the living room. It was cheap new, it was cheap used, and its prolly too much work to fix it so we'll see.
Any how, this is the most productive I've been since he passed, between how much has been on my plate since November, and a lack of motivation to do anything here, not much has been done. That said, time is never on my side, and I have a lot to do, tons to sell, throw, etc. I have for the last month or so been cleaning out the shed, throwing out about half a can a week, but the house has mostly been ignored, and now I'm making it my house, or at least a test version, I'm still expecting to downsize and relocate as I live in a Republican state, something I'd like to change.
You know, the really fun part of cover songs is finding out that some of your favorite songs are covers. Move It On Over is a great George Thorogood song, something I found because my dad really loved the band, but did you know it was a cover? Yeah, the original is by Hank Williams, yes, Hank Williams the first, and a quite good country song, but I don't think I could've imagined this as a old school country song if'n I hadn't heard it.
Oops, forgot to buy a headboard, need a bookshelf style, though I'll have to make sure it'll work with the short bed frame (9") that I chose, otherwise its worse than no headboard at all. Also need some 'trees' for the updated version of Vik's memorial.
Lets go spend lots of money on Amazon. Yeah, I usually avoid them, part of the evil empire and all, but convenience and price wins out sometimes, especially when you need a bed, mattress and bedding, even at their prices its like $500 I suspect, and the only local option would be a furniture store, and that'd prolly double the bill. WalMart might save me a dollar or two, but not much and they'd be less convenient.
Sure, it'd prolly be easier if'n I bought a normal bed size rather than a TwinXL, but a Twin is 74Β½ inches, and I'm 5'12, unless I sleep with my head against the headboard, my feet'll be hanging off of that, so TwinXL at 79Β½ it is. I could prolly make my existing bedding work, its all Queen size, so same length just wider, but that's the smallest part of the bill, so not much point in saving at that point.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •p.s. If you want an easy way to discover reliable good servers, there are human-curated server lists at fedi.garden and joinmastodon.org/servers
All the servers listed on these sites have to comply with certain standards of technical reliability and moderation.
p.p.s. If you want help with moving there's a guide at fedi.tips/transferring-your-maβ¦
Fedi.Garden β An easy way to join Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.gardenHumphrey Archer
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •I just moved there with my non-fiction accounts
This is so tiresome
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Humphrey Archer • • •@screwturn
Oh no, really sorry to hear π
Hopefully the human-curated server lists can help reduce this kind of situation happening to people.
Ari SovijΓ€rvi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Ari SovijΓ€rvi • • •I wonder if anyone has reported it to the providers higher up the chain? π€
There have been reports via Mastodon's own moderation tools but these have AFAIK all been ignored.
Ari SovijΓ€rvi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Cadu
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •the same admin was responsible for mstdn.jp and pawoo.net, both of them also abandoned and running with outdated and unsupported versions.
(It's what I infer from mstdn.jp/@Sujiyan/109564291832β¦)
Suji Yan (@Sujiyan@mstdn.jp)
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Hm.. I believe they are part of some other instance, maybe pawoo?
I remember a company being behind .cloud and another big instance
Skwerlgyrl
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sam Nabi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •@crimini
π₯ Yours Truly! Unruly π¨π¦πͺπΊπΊπ¦π»
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Thanks! Will try and block it too.
schuh
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •gunstick
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Toni
Unknown parent • • •Que hastag, que publicacion? No entiendo. El hilo esta cortado-
@nlupo
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Toni • • •@coloco
They had suggested adding the fediblock hashtag, so I did. Then they deleted their own post because it was no longer needed.