And the good girls go to heaven, but the bad girls go everywhere...
I haven't yelled that many (overwhelmingly excited) swear words at the sky for a long time. WWOOOOOWWWWW. Reddest auroras I've ever seen!! Usually it takes a long time exposure/CCD camera to see red at all. This is BRIGHT!! You can actually see easily outside by aurora light!!!!
Warming up for a few minutes before heading back out
@brainofdane that seems like a really good idea. I haven't made anything bigger than an enormous wrap for a friend, yet, because I like variety too much to commit to a blanket. 😊
Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate
So at the end of the day, FUCK the Republicans who are taking away our healthcare. We can still be angry with the weasels who let Schumer make them vote for a deal while he pretended not to support it. We can still primary Schumer. We can still want more aggressive Dems, but we need to focus the anger where it belongs, and that is on the Republicans who have voted multiple times a year for 15 years to take away our healthcare.
"The storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism”
This is one of the best essays I’ve read in more than a decade.
Essential reading.
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/
“understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people”
“their mandate will grow; the boundaries of acceptable identity and speech will shrink”
“think about elections in this future”
“understand that every issue you care about—any hope of participatory democracy—is downstream of this”
I Want You to Understand Chicago by @aphyr
https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago
Reading the stories from #Chicago :
https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago
Makes me glad I'm signed up for this NLG webinar (this Monday, 11/10/25) on Preparing for the Federal Domestic Terrorism Apparatus:
https://www.nlg.org/civicrm/event/register/?reset=1&id=90
I feel so helpless in the face of this lawless administration. Hopefully NLG will have good concrete suggestions for what to do!
@eryngium @brainofdane I love Tamara's patterns - they're always so clear and easy to follow! She has a variety of free blanket patterns with various textures - https://www.mooglyblog.com/?s=Blanket
In case you missed it, Owls in Towels has a new home on Mastodon https://mas.to/@owlsintowels
We share pictures of owls (in towels) and stories of wildlife rehabilitation.
Followers on the old instance will need to manually re-follow (since the server hosting us shut down before we had a chance to migrate, and we had to start afresh). It would be a tremendous help if you could boost this or tell someone you know about Owls in Towels! Thank you for your continued viewership and engagement 💛🦉
She might like John Connolly's Charlie Parker series, or Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels...
In case you didn't know, Owls in Towels has a new home on Mastodon
We had to shift servers when the one we were on got deleted without warning a month ago. We lost our 4000 followers and had to start from scratch, so it would be a tremendous help if you could boost this or tell someone you know about Owls in Towels! Thank you everyone for your continued viewership and engagement 💛🦉
Keep Android Open
https://keepandroidopen.org/
This is important. We already have a basic duopoly in mobile operating systems, now Google is trying to lock down their platform even more. Nobody benefits from this other than Google's shareholders.
Whether you are a device owner, a developer, or a public institution, this affects you and should matter to you.
Everyone can meaningfully help to push back.
:boost_requested:
@0xabad1dea I'm sure that was an exciting way to wake up!
On the bright side, at least it wasn't an epic, resounding fart...
@talldarknweirdo lovely! Safe travels...
@scottwilson ahh, I subscribe via the Play store so I'm on a Pro Legacy plan and won't get the price bump - but also won't get new features. I can live with that. https://www.todoist.com/help/articles/pro-legacy-plan-njefgq1UE
@scottwilson oh FFS. I missed that. Guess it's time to do the same. Just how I wanted to spend my weekend! 😡
I'm already running Obsidian, so that's probably the path of least resistance...
@scottwilson Todoist!! I am slightly obsessive about it. Projects, shared projects, habit tracking, labels... Super flexible. :)
