@vruba Great README!

@konklone Both of my children check isitchristmas.com throughout the year (I'm not sure what they expect), and make sure they visit the site on Christmas, as they have for years. IDK how they discovered it—I didn't tell them. Anyway, this year my youngest is finally old enough to grasp the Console, and I showed him the hidden chat room, and it blew his mind.

Huh
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115786772801337830

The data is clear: congestion pricing in NYC has been a “huge success”. “Pollution: -22%. Revenue for mass transit: $548M.” https://bsky.app/profile/marklevinenyc.bsky.social/post/3manvvwzhmk2k

Goddamnit bot, you were so close
https://mastodon.social/@thisemailfindsyou/115786599735248266

@daliazygas That's the one!

The fake profile in my name is back, so I guess it wasn't removed. Still no Mastodon.social notification about it, oddly. I reported it again. Also oddly, “fake account" is not a category of report that you can choose when reporting an account.

@maxfenton We saw their EV Bus when we were out your way a few weeks ago. If VW hadn’t burned 100% of my goodwill with Dieselgate, I’d have been tempted to get one!

@maxfenton We just do so much driving every day. It’s 28 miles round-trip to take H to the bus for school, 30 miles to pick him up (different spot), and usually there's at least one other trip daily. Five days a week we're hitting ~65 miles across three trips.

@liza @maxfenton This is why I went with the Bolt and not the Volt in 2018—the simplicity. That tradeoff isn’t right for everyone, but it’s worked for me.

@liza @mathowie This is why I bought the Bolt (just a regular car) and the Lightning (just a regular truck). Both have been discontinued, but the Bolt will go on sale again next year.

This is no worse than measuring work in lines of code.
https://functional.cafe/@joomy/115749500002317829

@robpegoraro The highest *rate* of blocking is, as with you, PetalBot: 1 allowed, 3.9k blocked. But the highest in raw numbers is Applebot (28k), followed by Amazonbot (28k), followed by BingBot (18k).

@mathowie As do I with, my Lightning. Trump has successfully neutered the domestic EV market.

@mathowie 🤦🏼‍♂️ https://insideevs.com/news/782418/vw-id-buzz-electric-bus-canceled-2026/

@krusynth Oh, interesting, I don't think I knew that only OFCIO could apply rules! Perhaps those rules were more like case law than code law. Also, I was interested to see the rule that only federal agencies can request generic terms, which makes sense—they can fight among themselves who gets benefits.gov or whatever. https://get.gov/domains/choosing/#only-federal-agencies-can-request-generic-terms

@krusynth Like, should Madison County, VA be able to register "committees.gov”? Probably not! Should GSA be able to register it for FACA? Maybe!

@krusynth No, but when .gov was at GSA, I remember a bunch of rules about what domains could be registered (e.g., who gets portland.gov), and I imagine they exist at CISA. One reasonable rule could be around the use of domains so generic that they'd cause confusion.

GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy has registered councils.gov. Either OGP should have known not to use such a generic domain, for whatever they're doing, or CISA shouldn't have allowed it.
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115741474280765116

GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy has registered councils.gov. Either OGP should have known not to use such a generic domain, for whatever they're doing, or CISA shouldn't have allowed it.
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115741474280765116