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Interesting note since I started responding with human trafficking assistance resources to all my sha zhu pan ("pig butchering") text messages -- they have stopped completely. I believe I got added to some exclusion list the criminals pass around. So I can endorse this strategy on several levels […]

@mitch @hakona "Sometimes people who send messages like this aren’t doing it by choice, and are being forced or trafficked into it. If that’s what’s happening, you don’t have to tell me details but please know you can get help confidentially and for free. You can message @BeFree (233733) in the […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115750090899522382 This may be my favorite piece of music ever composed and I now love the original even more than the holiday version.

Here's the document release you were waiting for today! The UNIX V4 tape! https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw #retrocomputing

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

Denver Post: Boulder artist makes stickers to cover Trump’s face on National Parks passes — and the orders are flying in https://www.denverpost.com/2025/12/19/national-parks-pass-stickers-cover-trumps-face/?share=tefwoicfr1woett112ar #nationalparks

Seattle: southseattleemerald.org/news/2025/12...

Whatever the humans were eating, it smelled like fish, and Rom (Cambridgeshire, UK) was very certain he would like some. He decided to loudly let his humans know this for as long as he could still smell it (which was quite some time). #cats #cat #CatNews #catsofmastodon#CatNews#cat#catsttps://cat-news.news/

Australia competes worlds largest battery-electric ferry. Carries 2100 pax, 220 cars. Very cool. Can we get some for us in the PNW? thedriven.io/2025/12/15/r...

As someone who runs my own blog, email, social media, backup system, home automation, business site, etc... I feel like self-hosting digital services is a lot like backyard chickens. Rewarding, lots of control, independence from Big Egg, and a great reminder of why distribution of labor and […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/109515757404630583 3 years ago today.

Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in #somali neighbourhoods of #minneapolis amid #trump crackdown “Armed #ice agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant & demanded papers. Federal agents also entered East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the […]

Attention Washington State: WYA (Washington Youth Alliance) is a new org that is focused on getting 14-24 year olds across Washington State engaged in civics and mobilized to put pressure on state lawmakers. They are building out youth councils for every city/ town. www.washingtonyouthalliance.org

FYI: Washington State (especially Eastern Washington) #cta #resist #organize #pnw #washingtonstate #cascadia

If you were born after 1994 in South Africa, it’s easy to forget that being gay used to be a crime. 🏳️‍🌈🚫 While the racism of #apartheid is well-documented, the regime's extreme homophobia is often overlooked. Under the National Party, it wasn't just […] [Original post on mastodon.africa]

ooooooooo I don't think that's enough colour separation but I appreciate that there _is_ colour separation maybe they should use a square or something as a redundant indicator? (GEOMETRY!) #lightrail #soundtransit #testing #2line #1line #udistrict #stolenfromelsewhere #cascadia #seattle

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rubenbolling/115691564369915601 By shifting to 98% renewable energy "The total cost of electricity production [in Uruguay] decreased by roughly half ... About 50,000 new jobs were created in construction, engineering, and operations, roughly 3% of the labor force … […]

Breaking news, orca edition: K-pod has a brand new member. 🤩 https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/new-orca-calf-born-into-southern-residents-k-pod/PCS42EP7JBGQJAYHRHMJ4UQHUI/#

[🐷 Bootlickers, Seattle City Council] Fuck Joy Hollingsworth, Maritza Rivera, Debora Juarez, Dan Strauss, Bob Kettle, and Sara Nelson- approving this police contract is unconscionable. #Seattle #Spog

Protesters condemn Seattle Police (also known as a right wing gang of Neo Nazis who attended the January 6th insurrection and have not faced any legal actions for it). Most of Seattle PD is comprised of chuds who are not from Seattle and have nothing but contempt for this city and our residents.

Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃

And that's what makes the anti-trans sports stuff so clearly bullshit. Everyone on the "actually, there are some valid concerns!" side of things is cheering on this 61-year-old lady no longer getting to hag out with her friends and play tennis.

Cheeses, that's a large recall. NPR: Check your cheese: Shredded and grated varieties are recalled nationwide December 3, 20251:47 PM ET https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5630116/shredded-cheese-recall-pecorino-romano #cheese #recall #foodsafety

You can just write your own prefaces to books you own. Nobody can stop you

Mayor-Elect Wilson Appoints Deputy Mayor Brian Surratt, Other Top Staff The diverse team includes a longtime budget staffer, housing policy experts, and organizers. publicola.com/2025/12/02/m...

Billionaires don't oppose taxes because they're afraid of having to pay them (there'll always be loopholes). No, billionaires oppose taxes because the only thing they contribute to the production of value is capital. Labor actually builds things (tangible or virtual); capitalists merely […]

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RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/115633311634884334 and therein lies the problem, as long as hegemonic USians sit on their hands waiting to vote a government that won’t turn against them. if you don’t organize and rise up to bring all these fascists to justice, you are willingly holding […]

Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite ceasefire https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/11/israels-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza-continues-unabated-despite-ceasefire/ #gaza #freegaza #genocide #fascistisrael #freepalestine

So back in 1944, a German U-Boat Commander named Heinz-Wilhelm Eck did exactly what US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered US military forces to do - kill the survivors of a destroyed boat at sea. Now, as then, this is considered a War Crime. In 1945, Commander Eck was tried, found guilty […]

Anybody know of a #linux #foss group in #seattle that is helping people keep devices alive after Win10 support ended?? Also folks working to jailbreak Rad Power Bikes??

Here's what these kids are earning, based on interviews with 61 workers. Most of them were born in the US to migrant parents. prospect.org/2025/11/28/c...

Today I want to tell you about farmworkers. Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley. As young as 12 years old. In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety. Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:

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I deleted my FB account years ago. Why support Zuckerberg in any way? Because FB is convenient? So we make exceptions, some Trump pals are acceptable, some aren't? Musk is bad so we delete our accounts, take down Tesla, but Zuck is somehow okay bc you rely on his product? I don't get it.

Started with paper, did a rough prototype with grocery bags, and then five rounds of tweaking with a manila envelope with the teen.

There’s this “vibe” fediverse users give off that they are somehow immune to, or above and removed from, all the problems of big social media platforms by virtue of being on the fediverse, and that’s arrogant nonsense.

Friendly reminder. Just because there’s no engagement algorithms behind the scenes on the fediverse or any invisible string pulling or whatever to push higher engagement, that doesn’t mean the very real and human tendencies that those algorithms and tactics play to don’t apply here. Rage bait […]

We're seeing some confusion about this, so let's talk about it. Home Depot has been complicit as ICE snatches day laborers out of parking lots. At minimum Home Depot is turning a blind eye, and there have also been rumors they may be more actively complicit. Organizers including #weaintbuyingit 🧵

Olympic Pipeline spill outside of Everett is one of several in recent years

Why do news outlets keep saying they’re “testing” the #ceasefire? It’s been broken dozens of times over! #israel launches strikes in #gaza ceasefire's latest test Health officials in Gaza reported at least 24 people killed & another 54 wounded, including children. #geopolitics #middleeast […]

Q: “Are you Seattle's urbanist mayor right now?” A: “I mean, yeah, I think I probably am Seattle's urbanist mayor…. Certainly a lot of my policy positions, I think would rightly be called urbanist.”

The full WA delegation vote detail:

WA Democrats who voted with Republicans to condemn socialism: Marie Glusenkamp Perez Kim Schrier Marilyn Strickland (Rick Larson and Suzan DelBene did not vote)

RE: https://union.place/@ufwupdates/115582150682710591 #solidarity

Seattle is a union city. Don’t forget we are organizing for a general strike. Next meeting is on November 25th (first day of the nationwide black out the system) at 6:30PM. Location: Washington Labor Council office. 321 16th Ave S, Seattle. #seattle #generalstrike #union #solidarity

RE: https://dair-community.social/@KimCrayton1/115560243824655074 This short thread outlines why MTG's "apology" isn't about regret or learning, but about self-preservation as their movement implodes. (The way I put it was that she's one of the first rats off the ship, but she's still a rat.) […]