I hope every single elected official, every single government worker listens to this and takes a moment to reflect on their role in this genocide.

Indy folks - The city is going to continue to kill pedestrians in the snow by not clearing sidewalks. We can buy a used 4x4 w/ a snow plow for $3,200 and at least plow the sidewalks on Keystone and other especially hostile pedestrian thoroughfares. Anyone want to join the collective?

🕯️Tomorrow we'll gather to honor Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker and veteran advocate whose life and service meant so much to so many. 📍Indianapolis VA Medical Center 1481 W. 10th St, Indianapolis, 6:00 PM Some GTC board members will be there. Join us to stand in solidarity and remember Alex.

Really feeling this song today. Bodily autonomy is the single most important right.

Another powerful story from Mirror Indy and the Indy Star on the corruption of the Hogsett administration.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Every one of these mother fuckers needs to hang.

Fucking Vichy Democrats. History will not be kind.

Vop has clearly demonstrated that he lacks the moral character required to hold any elected office. My fear is that he has been selling out city contracts and land to the monied interests with a quid pro quo that they will buy him the mayorship.

The everyday courage of normal people is breathtaking

"We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine."

Fuck ICE.

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

My 2026 prediction: Trump claims the $500k reward for Maduro's capture for himself.

trans people if you did nothing else this year you made it through 12 months of the federal government having your extermination not low on its list of priorities and you can feel really good about that it’s a big deal

Lauren Roberts is seeking $50,000 in damages from the city after City-County Council President Vop Osili ordered sheriff’s deputies to remove her from a council meeting: https://bit.ly/44zcYvL

City-County Council president Vop Osili will not seek reelection to his leadership role. He is one of several Democrats rumored to be considering running for mayor in 2027: https://bit.ly/44WisRi

Every vaccine given is a life protected — a child growing up healthy, a grandparent staying safe, a community thriving. Vaccines save lives. Fact.

Trans rights and bike advocacy are both, at their root, about the safety of vulnerable people

Fuck.

The new IMPD transparency hub is promising, but I was curious to see that they don't include ethnicity in the dataset, just race. I believe they were compelled to publish this, and I wonder if the enabling legislation just omitted ethnicity? Would like to know how IMPD is treating Hispanic people.

with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry. come over.

""" “If you’re going to tell me I can’t do it,” said Grambo, who carries a whistle on his keychain and has since bought a body camera to document future interactions, “I’m going to do it even louder.” """ Hero shit.

Is it just me or are the Healthcare.gov emails reminder emails different this year? I've gotten several that loudly and up front advertise "Your coverage next year is going to be more expensive". Someone on the inside trying to insure voters understand the situation? A ploy to collapse the market?

If trans women aren't real women then why do I love putting tiny kittens down my shirt? Checkmate, fascist, look upon my cozy kitten and weep.

My darkest secret is that when I'm making dinner and my wife is not home I secretly use the pre minced garlic that I keep in the back of the fridge. And sometimes even the squeeze bottle of lemon juice I keep hidden behind the soy milk containers. Shhhhh

Why the fuck is it pitch black outside.

CalTopo just completely blows my mind for backcountry planning. It is just so good. So many incredible layers, so many powerful features, and with a completely usable free version? It scales from full blown search and rescue planning to day hikes.

"Perhaps you like we, love boats and dream of really going somewhere in one. If I could share only one insight with you it would be this: Don't believe for one minute that the limitation on what you can do lies with the boat you do or do not own. That's not it. The limitations lie within ourselves."

Late Saturday night/early Sunday morning a helicopter circled my neighborhood for some time. I was able to go back and identify it, although it had requested that tracking be disabled. I believe it was owned by ISP. It took off from the IMPD training facility at 10th and Post and landed at Greenwood

This story may have been based on my tip! I was looking at the list of projects and saw Brian Mowery's project and it seemed extremely random, until I looked at the property records and saw where he owns a house.

The workflow where I open an app and to log in they send a code to my email, but when I switch to my email app and back it reloads the app without saving the state and I have to log in again, triggering another code via email... A few sites and apps have a "already have a code" option, which is nice

We all deserve this and we all need this. I hope we all get this.

Doing anything during an AWS outage is an exercise in frustration. Is it a configuration error or just Twilio puking on my shoes while AWS holds their hair back? Only time will tell!

Cause of death: pjsip authentication issues

Nothing is more defeating then the firewall slamming down while you are trying to configure it. On the one hand, I've now established that fail2ban is working well, on the other hand now I need the out of band console to whitelist my IP.

Mayor Joe Hogsett was once named “Mr. Clean” by a watchdog organization for his tough stance on government corruption as U.S. attorney. A Mirror Indy/IndyStar investigation finds that the mayor ignored conflicts of interest involving millions of dollars in city incentives. https://bit.ly/3L8OOBe

Hope everyone has a good day and remember

Amphibians unite 🐸🐸 #WarRavagedPortland

Fuuuuuck. Amazing.

Where can I go in North America in November or December for a week-long wilderness trip where it will be beautiful, I won't see any (or very few) people and it won't be too cold? Bonus points if they don't kill trans women there.

Is it a sign of aging that my raspberry pi zero ADS/B receiver has been persistently crashing and the thought of ssh'ing in and fixing it is just exhausting instead of exciting? I have been putting off upgrading it to a N150 mini-pc so I can stop paying for VPSs as well since its a chore and not joy

Indiana Offers Tax Breaks To Attract Religious Doomsday Cults http://theonion.com/indiana-offers-tax-breaks-to-attract-religious-doomsday-cults/

The City of Indianapolis continues to fail survivors of sexual abuse perpetrated by its leaders and employees. @laurenkayroberts.bsky.social is leading a fundraiser to support the immediate housing needs of another survivor, please give what you can to keep this person housed while our city fails us

"God is Change, And in the end, God prevails. But meanwhile… Kindness eases Change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles" — Octavia E. Butler, 'Parable of the Sower'

Shout out to medical portals that require SMS 2 factor on every login but don't support any other 2 factor method. Really keeping things locked down there buddy.

When changing the rear wheel disc brake pads on the Radwagon 4, it is much easier to just remove the caliper than it is to remove all the crap that is in the way of accessing the caliper. Learn from my experience, and save yourself a lot of hassle.

Local interest mystery - why are there a bunch of dead rats on the Cultural Trail connector on 10th St under the Interstate? They keep appearing, like 20-30 of them, and then slowly disappearing before a new batch appears. Both sides, north and south. @indystar.bsky.social @mirrorindy.org