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Linux since 1995. Radical Leftist. Photographer. Social content consumer, not a social content creator. SFBA

Loc: Swift Water lands, Salish Sea, Cascadia, North America

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-r--r--r-- on Teh Tweeters since November 2, 2022

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2026-03-13 22:30:00 UTC

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Saw this and had to perform due diligence and now have #NoTagsPub on my Profile, and I've Domain Blocked the entire @tags.pub domain
Was completely unsurprised to see Evan #MaxiFedi Prodromou all over the #Github pages -- he's never imagined a #Fediverse too big or one that shouldn't suck up anything any bright-eyed programmer can figure out how to vacuum up
So, yeah
Once again, thanks but no thanks
I'll curate my own content, thank you very much

2026-03-04 15:46:03 UTC

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"Hegseth: "Death & destruction from the sky all day. We're playing for keeps.
Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by POTUS & yours truly.
Our rules of engagement are bold, precise designed to unleash American power, not shackle it ... we are punching them while they are down""
Sure hope #Hegseth was wearing a cup to keep his erection under control while he was saying all this
#Ammosexual
#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #PeteHegseth #BenjaminNetanyahu

2026-02-07 16:15:01 UTC

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Oh, be daring
Go on
Branch out
cc @npub156x…ju5t

2026-01-30 17:10:28 UTC

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"In a post on his Truth Social platform early Friday morning, #Trump suggested that the videos of the earlier incident undercut the narrative that Pretti was a peaceful protester when he was shot."
Necessary edit:
"In a post on his Truth Social platform early Friday morning, #Trump suggested that the videos of the earlier incident confirmed the narrative that Pretti was previously known to ICE / CBP and was subjected to a premeditated public execution."

2026-01-27 21:42:44 UTC

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aha...
But did #SusanCollins furrow her brow?

2026-01-23 14:37:23 UTC

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"For all intents and purposes, the meeting between DT and the NATO chief did in fact cede something: parcels of Greenland for the U.S. to expand its military presence and put its lust for minerals to work.
For NATO, this is about countering Russia and China, which, taken separately, is a smart move.
For DT, it's about acquiring Greenland, "
The Europeans simply do not understand what they're up against in #Trump
Trump is a pathological liar
#MarkRutte in particular is completely in over his head, and completely out of his league
It's way past time these sober European "adults" wake up and see #Trump for what he really is and has always been, and act accordingly
Trump will simply lie and claim repeatedly that he got everything he demanded from Rutte in Greenland
Rutte will smile weakly and look contrite and continue with his appeasement
cc [@NBCNews](https://flipboard.com/@NBCNews ) @npub1z0d…amnh

2026-01-19 15:57:34 UTC

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Has exquisite dot social been Blocked as a domain by Mastodon dot Social?
Have you been Blocked as an individual by Mastodon dot Social?
That's what the symptoms sound like: one or the other
The fact that both run the Mastodon distribution is irrelevant; the legendary "Fediverse" is an abstraction that means even less
As to why?
Mastodon dot Social is an enormous, monolithic enterprise and there's little explaining anything it does
Finally on closer inspection your instance seems to be running as a forked Mastodon distro that I (at least) have never heard of:
v4.5.4-EXQ2.21+glitch
So who knows?

2026-01-15 15:21:58 UTC

OK I've now spent a couple days camping the #TheForkiverse / #Forkiverse Live Feed
/public/local ("These are the most recent public posts from people whose accounts are hosted by theforkiverse.com.")
feed and all I can say is, in no particular order:
Zero to very low #Hashtag use
Empty #ProfilePages
Pretty much content-free posts in general, I mean:
"trying out this new corner of the internet. u up?" with zero hashtags by an empty Profile
An "old" account is barely a week old
Very little (if any) threading; posts are all one-offs
Current server stats:
7.4K active users 01/19/26
Analysis: a New York Podcast Influencer's flash-in-the-pan idea, featured in (apparently) one podcast
Forecast: it's nothing more than Just Another Mastodon Instance(tm) on v4.5.4; slow decline into irrelevance, right now there's simply nothing to set the Forkiverse aside from all the other Mastodon instances that offer anything besides a famous Podcast Influencer
YMMV
Here: https://theforkiverse.com/public/local

2026-01-07 14:19:59 UTC

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Sealed jar so it won't evaporate?
Maybe make that a small sealed jar :)

2026-01-07 14:18:16 UTC

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Speaking only for myself, if I can catch me some graupel Imma gonna keep it in the freezer to show my grandkids

2026-01-06 15:28:15 UTC

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#Jan6
Never forget
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/115/848/857/790/279/665/original/412b4cf8c2fd09f1.jpg

2025-12-28 22:16:17 UTC

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Donald Trump is a profoundly disturbed, acute narcissist *and* a confirmed, serial, pathological liar
Even when it's possible to believe that Trump might know what he's talking about, always take anything he says with several handsful of salt

2025-10-30 15:40:57 UTC

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To be able to *create* new quote posts you need to be homed on an instance running at least v.4.5.* which is now only in beta release v4.5.0-rc.1
"ClearlyClaire released this yesterday"
Here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0-rc.1
The instance you're homed on seems to be running v4.4.8

2025-10-04 19:12:14 UTC

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Translation neither offered nor allowed: 404
cc @npub1zdf…6u9l @npub1845…7ztz

2025-09-07 00:34:43 UTC

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That awkward moment when your "some substantiation" is a conspiracy theory video on...
...wait for it...
Youtube
"If you feel that anything contained within any of the videos on this channel is objectively inaccurate, please contact me using the channel email which can be found below) with details and reliable sources of the accurate information for me to update."
Yeah...
I'll get right on that
cc @npub1wxk…k909 @npub1u7x…ztt0

2025-08-14 01:40:07 UTC

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People seem to be going full-on giggly-snarky about this, but read Popehat's entire thread
He gets a little snarky too but presents the real focus:
This event is the full force and assets of Federal law enforcement and the Federal judiciary being brought against a Washington DC resident who used profanity against a Federal CBP agent and then hit said agent in the chest with a deli sandwich
The Federal CBP agent was wearing tactical body armor
A sandwich was thrown at him
What are the Feds going to go for?
First degree assault, or attempted murder?
A deli sandwich against tactical body armor is Federal-level assault?
This is the hallucinatory world Trump and Pam Bondi live in
Sorry, but I do not find one thing about this funny in the least
Who's next?

2025-07-10 22:52:50 UTC

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I'll just drop this in on the top-level post for those interested in more info
A Duck-Duck search for 'ABC7' returned the LA TV station's web page which has more info
"Federal agents clash with protesters after immigration raid at farm near Camarillo"
The auto-play video is, of course, just noise
The web page itself is better than nothing. I suppose...
Here: https://abc7.com/post/federal-agents-conduct-immigration-raid-camarillo-farm/17056098/

2025-06-27 13:37:43 UTC

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"He says his concerns about DOGE are "as grave as ever" but plaintiffs haven't met standard for a PI"
Necessary edit:
"He says his concerns about #DOGE are "as grave as ever" but "Go ahead and do whatever you want to do!""

2025-06-13 13:52:07 UTC

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"That's it. "Are you terrified that your country is slipping into fascism? Pay me.""
Necessary edit:
"That's it. "Are you terrified that your country is slipping into fascism? Pay me. And Vote Blue, No Matter Who!!!""
That's all the #DemocraticNationalCommittee #DNC #Democrats got
The Dems are castrated and out of ideas
America can go suck eggs, for all the Democrats care

2025-06-09 20:50:17 UTC

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Vancouver WA
Been a hotbed of far-right violence for a decade or more
See, Joey Gibson and Patriot Prayer for one
"Patriot Prayer is an American far-right group founded by Joey Gibson in 2016 and based in Vancouver, Washington, a suburban city in the Portland metropolitan area.[1][2]
Since 2016,[3] the group has organized several dozen[4] pro-gun, pro-Trump rallies held in cities in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.
Often met with large numbers of counter-protesters,[5][6] attendees have repeatedly clashed with left-wing groups in the Portland area.[4]
Far-right groups, such as the Proud Boys,[7][8] have attended the rallies organized by Patriot Prayer, as well as white nationalists, sparking controversy and violence.[9][10][11] "
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Prayer

2025-03-22 15:27:53 UTC

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Not to digress from an important issue, but I'm still trying to understand why, every time I see any photo of #RFKjr I feel like I'm looking at a corpse
RFK jr is supposed to represent healthful living?
He looks like he's been dead a week or so every time I see him
#PublicHealth #Measles #Vaccines #Immunizations #Misinformation

2025-03-17 21:45:29 UTC

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"DOJ lawyer says that's what his client [#Trump] has instructed him to argue."
"I am only following orders"
#Law #Constitution #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #AlienEnemiesAct

2025-03-17 00:03:09 UTC

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Fedilab?
Might want to try talking to someone here:
https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab/issues
cc @npub1vl7…f6g0

2025-03-12 20:05:49 UTC

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"A determination by Secy of #State #MarcoRubio is so far the #Trump admin’s sole justification for trying to deport #ColumbiaUniversity student #MahmoudKhalil,"
Marco Rubio statement: "I was only following orders."

2025-03-12 19:48:55 UTC

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I just went back to Github and found the pull request involved:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615
"Add Fetch All Replies Part 1: Backend # 32615"
and in scrolling down and back up noticed I had "73 un-opened replies" somewhere after mid-November
Opened those, and scrolled down again
Not going to beat an un-dead horse but this is a *long* way from being worked out and ready for prime time and the untutored masses
IMO of course
*sigh*
I won't be doing amateur Help Desk/Tech Support on this one, that's for sure

2025-03-12 18:44:36 UTC

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People are getting *way* out over their skis on this one
A very early thread included RenChap (y'all may have heard of him) saying quite clearly that:
1) it's very early days on this
2) it's going to appear first in the Mastodon dot Social Nightlies, and it will be --> OFF <-- by default
3) there is still a great deal of concern about server load/instance resource consumption, particularly for the "You can host your own instance!!" single- small-user crowd
So y'all need to take a deep breath and chill just a little
And no: I'm not going to scurry around and find y'all a link to that thread: it was *way* early this morning

2025-03-10 12:58:33 UTC

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Yeah, it's always the first couple mornings
Do I operate on "clock time" or "body time"?
Body time is a luxury I can enjoy but it's so hard to look over at the clock and not thing "Wow I really should get up now..."

2025-03-10 12:39:06 UTC

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I just posted:
"5:35 am PDT in the US and it's still over two more hours to sunrise
Fuck Daylight "Savings" Time"

2025-03-10 12:36:42 UTC

5:35 am PDT in the US and it's still over two more hours to sunrise
Fuck Daylight "Savings" Time
#DaylightSavingsTime #DST

2025-03-02 04:56:03 UTC

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"...make sure their containers of blush hit pan"
"hit pan"
Oooo... I just love learning a new technical term!
Not that I'm likely to actually *live* the meaning in my personal life, but full support to those who will!
#Shopping #Buying #Consumerism #LowBuy #NoBuy #PersonalFinance

2025-02-28 19:06:54 UTC

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This may come to solving one of my biggest concerns: that both #Zelensky and #Macron have been delusional in thinking that Trump is either a possible ally or even faintly coherent
This debacle today should (one would hope) remove all delusions about exactly what #Trump and #Vance really are: #Putin puppets

2025-02-25 23:53:05 UTC

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The punchline here is that the 'private citizen army' is going to be directed by former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince
#Blackwater
#ErikPrince
Didn't take long for that combo to appear in #Trump's #Nazi administration

2025-02-19 13:25:33 UTC

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Pretty weird that this is publicized as being about the #Fediverse but there's not anyone from any #ActivityPub distribution mentioned
Docktorow, Masnick from the techy rag Techdirt, Evan #MaxiFedi Prodromou from WC3, Cottle from Threads, and Paul Frazee from Bluesky
Anyone missing you can think of?
I sure can
#SXSW
cc @npub1fdr…lvhs [@molly0xfff](https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff ) @npub14j8…pjuf @npub1764…nuj0 [@pcottle](https://threads.net/@pcottle/ ) [@pfrazee.com](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com )

2025-02-15 16:47:36 UTC

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About what I expected from you
You don't address my point
You go off on another one of your extended monologues
Either way, bye...

2025-02-15 16:03:43 UTC

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Well then
If we're going to jump down people's throats for sugar-coating what they post here, why hold back?
"This entire thing is to PURGE THE GOVERNMENT DOWN TO ONLY WHITE PEOPLE."
should read:
"This entire thing is to PURGE THE GOVERNMENT DOWN TO ONLY WHITE MEN."
"MEN"
Right?
Or not?
cc @npub1z6y…qah3

2025-02-10 14:13:45 UTC

Dry upper level trough moving down from the north going through the area later today. Narrow high amplitude upper level ridge just offshore extending north along the British Columbia coast into Alaska keeping dry cool northerly flow aloft going into Wednesday. Record low temperatures possible the next couple of mornings. Pattern breaks down Wednesday night with an upper level low weakening and moving into Oregon Thursday night into Friday. Precipitation associated with the low could get as far north as the Puget Sound area Thursday night into Friday.
Organized front arriving from the west over the weekend moderating the air mass

2025-02-06 14:11:04 UTC

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Last thing I saw here yesterday, central Puget Sound / Vashon Island, was an absolutely astonishing hail storm right before nightfall yesterday that covered everything in white like a snow squall, even filling in the grass
That was it, and now that's all melted off and it's raining lightly
#WAwx #ORwx #BCwx #PNWwx #PNW #KSEA #NWS #WX #Weather #Snow

2025-02-02 15:56:22 UTC

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I may not do more that one of these, but at first light (now Sunday 02/02/2025 07:53:28 PST) central Puget Sound / Vashon Island @ ^ 300 feet above sea level:
Snowing. Side road completely covered, main two-lane road I can see has two melted car tracks and a snowy center line. Not sticking on the grass yet. Sticking on well-insulated roof tops
KLGX Doppler radar out at Copalis Beach WA in Precipitation Depiction mode has patchy snow bands coming onshore, southwest --> northeast trending
KATX Doppler at Camino Island shows pretty much the same
Both Cascade Mountain passes (I-90 Snoqualmie and US 2 Stevens) currently open with traction tires required, compact snow and ice, overcast only at the moment
Off we gooo...

2025-02-01 00:13:08 UTC

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I am trying to get my head around what I'm reading, and it seems that significant Federal government IT systems have been compromised and overrun by unknown third parties
Unknown except that they're working under the direct orders of Elon Musk
And no one in the Republican party is...
...concerned in the least?

2025-01-29 15:20:46 UTC

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Ah, OK, interesting
Don't pay much attention to any of them, but I'll keep this in mind
Thnx...
cc @npub1ucv…5a8g

2025-01-29 15:13:12 UTC

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If this is as bad as all this nonsense gets, I can live with it
It's when the NWS goes offline entirely and we're all forced onto the Weather Channel that I may just completely freak out
cc @npub19xy…lkfq

2025-01-29 15:10:15 UTC

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Took a bit of thinking and hunting, but there it is
Fitting somehow that it first shows up on a forecast for #Texas
Dammit. Here we go...
#GulfofAmerica
" Day 1 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK -- 0648 AM CST Wed Jan 29 2025
Valid 291300Z - 301200Z
...THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTH TEXAS...
...SUMMARY...
A few strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible across parts of the southern Great Plains tonight."
Here: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/113/912/272/156/318/715/original/bf594efc50764727.png

2025-01-24 00:33:13 UTC

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OK Imma gonna mute this convo
My entire point was that the graphic presentation (which is what people scan for maybe three seconds) paints an entirely different story when viewed on the phone "app" everybody uses now, as opposed to the data presentation in a full-screen web browser tab
Clearly a design choice was made to *not* reformat the data to make the same presentation on any viewing device
And with that...
...i'm out
/EOF
cc @npub1lcc…lcye

2025-01-23 21:53:38 UTC

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I have FediDB open in a tab daily
Some time ago I noticed a formatting change (really it was done with the time distribution) whereby in a browser tab, full screen HD 32" monitor, the top page, lead graphs were all virtually flat lines
Just thought to myself 'who would want this data portrayed in such an uninformative way?' but I see now it was reformatted for phones, because as we all know, *everyone* views the web through an "app" on their phones
Docktorow really needs a re-write to discuss the "enappification of the Internet"
That "enshitification" shchtick is so 2000s

2025-01-23 21:16:18 UTC

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So is that how you do it -- make that graph look like it's actually showing something since the recent formatting change?
Looks like you're looking on your phone, and the graph show some uplift at the recent end
Myself, looking full-screen 1920@1080@60p on a 32 inch monitor, full-screen Firefox browser tab, I see only the faintest, softest curves upward
Pretty unimpressive, really
Also interesting to note that the time scale is daily for me with a significant gap between data points, while you've got four-day data points all run together
Interesting to consider *how* the data is presented affects the message delivered, I guess
Bet DanSup and Gargron like the data rendition you see better than the one I see...

2024-07-08 22:42:34 UTC

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"CenterPoint Energy: "“The storm veered off the originally expected course and more heavily impacted the company's customers, systems and infrastructure than previously anticipated,”"
huh...
Could have sworn I was watching the projected storm track pretty closely at nhc.noaa.gov for days and days and don't seem to recall much of a "veered off the originally expected course"
What did I miss?

2024-07-07 22:47:26 UTC

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We're still a ways out but it's looking like Galveston will be in the NE / 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm quadrant as Beryl (whatever-it-is) comes ashore