We're several months out but I've mvoed The #30dayfosschallenge to a github page and a subdomain, so that it no longer relies on just me (and could maybe be expanded to other pages in the future: http://foss.nullarch.com/ https://github.com/nixnull/30-Day-FOSS-Challenge

Finished Inscryption. Excited to mess around with Kaycee's Mod.

I feel like people see bikes and irrationally associate them with slowness. I get aggressively passed on residential streets at least one week. I'm on an ebike, I'm already going to speed limit! And then half of those people promptly slow down to the speed limit and now the only difference is I […]

If you're in St. Louis and want to oppose the creation of a AI data center, which will assuredly raise your electric bill and increase city emissions, here's what you can do: 1/2 * Attend and speak at this meeting (zoom) on Sept 25th, 8:30am * […]

Our city needs to become drastically more environmentally conscious, not less. Don't add AI shit to our grid at taxpayer expense. #stl #stlouis

How did a Toronto suburb reach high bus ridership? Through boring, effective rate and quality increases and not getting distracted with shiny big rail projects until the bus service was high quality […]

Free Speech is foundational to what America aspires to be. Anyone that opposes it is unAmerican. Anyone that waves the flag while opposing it is an authoritarian cosplayer. Resistance to those who would abridge it is patriotism […]

Our city needs to become drastically more environmentally conscious, not less. Don't add AI shit to our grid at taxpayer expense. #stl #stlouis

Kinda having FOMO that nobody tried to get me fired when I said Charlie Kirk would've supported what happened to Charlie Kirk.

I think few people have gotten the kind of individual making-the-world-better results Daryl Davis has gotten, so clearly he's doing something worth studying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis There's a documentary too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7fh5J_mo5E #racism #race #kkk

Bells and instruments in museums make he sad. Permanently silenced.

Back on matrix recently. Really is a ghost town over there. I wonder what needs to happen to make it have a sustainable community (or is it just the groups I'm in that have died off?)

Ok the results of yesterday's phone experiments. I tested 6 or 7 old phones. Two Galaxy S7s and a Poco F3 booted. The Poco is not supported yet on PostmarketOS and I had trouble getting anything to build for that. The S7s have a more convoluted process, involving TWRP to be able to flash them […]

The "proper" way to delete a Matrix channel is to kick everyone from it, and then leave, which makes it automatically delete in 7 days? This seems... inefficient. #matrix

Finally logged back into Matrix, and we've just fixed the Agora Nomic Matrix <-> Discord bridge, which means you can participate conveniently in Agora and stay fully FOSS once more. Learn about Agora here: https://agoranomic.org/ Join the matrix here […]

Went birding for the first time today. It was really cool. Borrowed someone's binoculars and they showed me how to properly focus them, and gave me tips on what to look for when buying. I actually bought some afterwards. Maybe an impulse buy, but I think I'll enjoy having them next time we go […]

I've got three old phones in various states of brokenness charging right now (or at least, attempting to). Going to see if any of them can hold enough charge to install postmarketOS and use them as a small server a la https://compost.party/. #permacomputing #recycle #reuse #selfhosting

I love iNaturalist. I love that there's someone out there identified as the #1 identifier of Obscure Bird Grasshoppers. I honestly think that websites like iNaturalist represent the kind of shenanigans we'd all be getting into in a post-capitalist utopia. Sharing cool bugs we found on a global […]

Nintendo just announced that they will be taking pre-orders for a piece of cardboard, and you have to be a subscriber to pre-order. https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/games-from-the-virtual-boy-system-are-coming-soon-to-nintendo-switch-online-expansion-pack/

Stunning to me that so many feel the need to caveat that they oppose political violence before talking about Kirk. He was very, very clear that if it was you or me that died he would find that an acceptable sacrifice. As far as I can tell he died in a way he professed to believe was not only […]

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe." […]

Lately, I've been using the chromium (I'm on graphene's vanadium but I believe all chromium browsers have this) feature to make an "app" out of webpages on my phone. It basically just makes a bookmark that opens without most of the web browser UI. Great for any site (like this one) that opens […]

Rewatching Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown and the Season 2 episode "Jerusalem" is a really fascinating and sad watch in light of the current phase of the genocide. Definitely a worthwhile (tho difficult) watch. Toni challenges a couple of his Israeli hosts on some of their hypocrisy […]

Every year I inch closer to fully sincerely believing that the Discordian Calendar is actually superior to the Gregorian one and unironically using it in daily life.

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This continues to stun me with its moral clarity. I feel like every chapter provides a sharpening and deepening of my understanding of Palestine, and Imperialism. #freepalestine #bookstodon #audiobooks

Quite frustrating opening line from an NPR article that normalizes Trump's attacks in states. It's not "the latest". It's literally never happened before in US history, has no legal basis, and is an intentional violent escalation. These are other states' national […] [Original post on social.coop]

I'm also working my way through an old recommendation - Ecotopia. I've heard it's dated but cautiously optimistic currently.

My current audio book is One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, and it feels like an instant required reading for critiques of western regimes. #freepalestine #gaza

I just listened to the audio book of Kitchen Confidential, and I strongly recommend it! Bourdain was quite the storyteller.

Work has kept me too occupied for much social media (probably a blessing) but I wanted to check in with a few thoughts.

Re: new phone. I ended up ordering a Pixel 9a. I'm going to continue to use @GrapheneOS. While it looks like LineageOS and /e/OS are great options for degoogled alternatives Grapahene still looks like the best one for *security* in a serious sense. It's nice to be in a time period where there's […]

Anyone using a Pine Phone or Pine Phone Pro as their daily phone? How is it? #pinephone

Anyone have any good suggestions for phones that can loaded up with an AOSP or Linux distro? My refurbbed Pixel 6a seems to have given up the ghost. #phone #pixelphone #degoogle #pixel #android #aosp #linux

Sounds like an infection is going around #stlouis right now. I had 4 separate people report feeling unwell today. WashU shows a bump in covid infections. If you think you might have covid, keep in mind the current recommendation is to test twice if you're using at-home. You can also of course […]

Watched Carrie tonight and all I knew going in was the pig's blood scene and honestly? That's the most normal part of that movie. Everything else is somehow so much more unhinged.

Made a joke about a "funganism" diet and got curious, so I asked an LLM "What is the funganism diet?" And it generated a whole plausible diet, suggesting that it's obscure but never explaining that it's entirely fabricated. I feel these kinds of answers can lead to LLMs "inventing" things […]

Will the Cahokia Interpretive Center *ever* re-open again? It's been closed for what feels like years. So sad. #Cahokia #stl #stlouis #missouri #mo #unesco #illinois #il

I love REI but all the bike accessories there seem very expensive.

My partner and I are catching up on "movies we feel like we should probably see sometime" this summer. So far we've done: * 12 Angry Men (perhaps my personal fave of this list) * Dead Poet's Society * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest * Rosemary's Baby (also fantastic) * Harold and Kumar Go To […]

One of the more annoying things about the 4th of July is that it's one of the holidays that's basically impossible to ignore. Regardless of if I'm celebrating, I'm not going to get to sleep until most of the fireworks are done. So I guess I'm staying up late and watching movies or something anyway.

Wired - Amid the rising popularity of ICEBlock, an app where people can share sightings of immigration enforcement officials, Trump administration officials have threatened to prosecute its developer and CNN for reporting on the platform […]

https://www.reddit.com/r/chaoticgood/comments/1lqg0ok/republicans_when_informed_how_their_big_fucking/ The smirking man saying no to cutting tax cuts for the rich is Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana. Why does he oppose this so hard? Because the rich fund him […]

Florida can put 5000 beds together in under a month if it's to build a concentration camp, but can't house their 31,000 homeless citizens. These are policy choices, and not just on the right. Dems could be using emergency powers to house people in blue states. We have a party of fascism and a […]

Great infographic of companies involved in the genocide of Palestinians. Taken from this article, which also has more information on each: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they #politics […] [Original post on social.coop]

If you have an iPhone and haven't already, you should download ICEBlock, which allows you to report and warns you of nearby ICE activity. It stores minimal data and deletes data after 4 hours (according to its documentation). https://www.iceblock.app/ #ice #iphone #app #tech

"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product" applies to politicians too. Go to open secrets and look up your representatives. Scroll down to %s of funding sources. If less than half their money comes from small donations (people like you and me), then they don't work for you, they […]

"Since March 19, more than 200 of them have been detained at the Phelps County Jail in Rolla. Some are there for only one day, while others have been detained for more than two months. They arrive with no possessions and limited ability to contact their loved ones. Now activists have come […]

The new St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners looks hella corrupt. All but one is white, in a city that's half black. Most are wealthy business owners. One owns a car dealership that does bulk deals with local police. One is a co-owner of a private policing company. Absolute sham of an […]