Science should do tomatoes that produce THC next

One thing that's worth noting: Every state that has restricted trans rights and bodily autonomy has a pile of legislators working to undo it. Kentucky this year has a collection of proposed bills that restore trans healthcare, evidence-based sex education, and enshrine abortion rights into law.

Finally something has gone right

raising and lowering the opacity on a projection of Where Weed Is Legal/Where Trans is Legal and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right.

they haven't revoked passports yet, but given that we can't renew them and they have an expiration date... they may has well have

Kentucky coming in hot with an exciting plan to remove healthcare from all trans people, regardless of age

solidarity with all marginalized people in Kansas. you are not alone. together we are going to build the better world we all deserve.

Because many (most) trans people in Kansas aren't going to move, please also look for ways to support those staying and fighting the current regime there. Sadly when a draconian anti-trans measure hits in a "red state," wider support pushes tend to forget those who aren't leaving.

she was the blueprint

Picked up a mini-disc player as a treat for surgery recovery and USPS managed to misdeliver it (or *something*, marked as delivered, but definitely not in my neighborhood!)

For those of you (esp. Louisville-area folks regardless of UofL connections, or university-affiliated folks anywhere) who kindly expressed interest in this petition effort, here it is—I would warmly welcome your support.

FOSS Nerds: We are announcing today an exciting project, the Hurtsume Nexus, an AGPL fork of the closed source Torment Nexus

The New TARC Network is bringing new signs to stops, rolling out in the coming months. New features include: 🚍 Customized info for routes, destinations, and frequency 🚏 Larger signs and fonts 🚌 Double-sided so readable from either direction 🔵 Background changing from red to Kentucky Sky Blue©

The QRTs to @chloetankahhui.bsky.social shows the extent of naivety that a lot of people have. No one who does hardware security believes that any system is bulletproof, but do you really think that circumventing these things will always be a simple firmware mod or hardware hack? Let's dive in. /1

Getting the hang of QGIS for some transit fantasy alt-history (and future model railroad freelancing 👀)

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

This kind of thing is why I'd love if there were more of an urbanist movement in Louisville. It would make my life to be able to turn Poplar Level into a *nice* urban thoroughfare

*imagining how cool it would have been if the pittsburgh and middle divisions of the prr had been electrified and managed to retain that infrastructure to today and getting a nosebleed about it*

The bike lane I would have to use to get anywhere more "in-town" without going miles out of the way. (Despite being signed 35, the average speed is more like 50)

Embrace Rogersian Thought.

In 2013 I stopped at a rural Arbys along I-70 between Pittsburgh and Wheeling to get lunch. I tried to pay with a credit card, and they looked at my like I had 3 heads. Eventually they found a manager who dug out the oldest carbon-sheet style credit card machine I'd ever seen.

I dream of living in a world where the rightmost edge of the overton window is, "Private enterprise should be allowed to compete with public services but only at substantial structural disadvantage"

A ton of commuter rail systems along the NEC run diesel-under-wire because it's cheaper for them to buy diesel from the market than electricity from Amtrak. Amtrak, clearly tired of this situation, now has the means in sight to force Amtrak to run diesel-under-wire for economic reasons, too.

The social construction of the "email jobs" crisis, driven by AI, seems very consonant with growing awareness by the fascist elites that the existence of an educated middle class with leisure time and potential to be radicalized is a perennial threat to them!

Corporate IT is what happens when you combine the cultures of engineering and HR

Nobody can beat X: The CSAM App when it comes to anti-semitism and islamophobia.

2026 basically

The first is that we will get our asses kicked

Louisville Metro Government is suing to keep secret public records that would reveal where surveillance cameras are located around town. From @morganwatkins.lpm.org at KyCIR:

Tired: Cassette futurism Wired: Minidisc futurism

Entering my minidisc era, I guess

the Black Panthers were right

Amtrak's Newest Train on film Their "Airo" trainset in Cascades livery looks fantastic on Fuji 200

Falls City, the tree of Liberty thirsts

Louisville deserves the progress we could get if we drained the wealth and power from every last real estate, insurance, and dynastic wealth personality in the metro.

Blessed to be alive at the same time as so many incredibly trans artists, writers, and scholars

BTW IMO, an underrated element of transgender venom against Gavin Newsom is his cruelty to the homeless. I think general online Dem populations may see homelessness as an abstract issue whereas trans people are very likely to see it as a potential future or current reality for ourselves/our friends

My favorite part of coders being like “the code coming out of dubisAI is next level man” is that they think I’m just going to assume they’re talented coders and not the more likely option; idiots who get a pass for their insane spaghetti code because they’re white guys who leverage their authority

one thing that's very irritating about the LLM discourse is that they're just not very good at highly specialized tasks, but they won't *tell* you that, they'll just do it in a million subtly wrong ways you'll be spending weeks trying to fix unless you're paying attention

If anyone ever struggles to understand how sometimes folks can only truly realize their gender dysphoria when it's gone, it's just like if you have SAD and you finally get a day over 50 and sunny and you suddenly feel like a person again

Regretting settling on N Scale as soon as all N Scale releases of cool stuff dry up completely 😤 (but not really tho)

It's unfortunate that the wealthy tech oligarchs who began the conflation of 700 different technologies under the banner of "AI" have achieved exactly what they intended in doing so.

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S/o to this joke I played on our lab tech in 2019

Age verification? Python 3 feels new

it's funny to me that the bsky map has put me closer to "furry art" than "electronics/embedded hacking" but it's probably better company in general