Two for one special on #CampaignFinance transparency: #Ventura (going back to 2023) and #VenturaCounty (going back to 2014): https://ventura.ca.civic.band https://ventura-county.ca.civic.band #OpenData

It's extremely hard not to think, as I pre-schedule dozens of social posts for @civic.band, that I could be not doing this and instead working on more Campaign Finance sites or vote record extraction if someone just paid us.

Currently working through #Cary #NorthCarolina for @civic.band Over 4000 documents going back to 1939. I love when an archive goes deep like this. What was the average City Council talking about during WWII? Vietnam? 9/11?

Transparency includes knowing who's funding campaigns. We've added #CampaignFinance data for #SutterCounty, going back to 2022: https://sutter-county.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

am I the only one around here who still believes in cancel culture www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefan...

the time is RIPE for gilbert & sullivan revivals!!!! they are tiktokcore!!!! they are basically musical letterkenny!!!!!!!!

If you're watching the #California governor's race, the #CampaignFinance data from #SantaClara County might be of interest to you. We just added that data going back to 2004: https://santaclara-county.ca.civic.band

Two weeks from today, exactly, we'll be in the Expo Hall at SCALE 23x -- Workshops, real conversations, and practical sessions across open source, security, and cloud native. We'd love to say hi if you're there, and if you're on the fence you can use the code CIVIC for 50% off a pass.

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

We've recently started adding #CampaignFinance data to all the #CivicBand sites in #California where we can get that data easily. We now have data for #SanJoaquin county going back to 2012 https://sanjoaquin-county.ca.civic.band/

For those not fully in on the joke, the German far-left party (KPD) denounced the center-left party (SPD) as “social fascists” and believed allowing the Nazis to win would better set up conditions for a Marxist revolution. The leader behind this strategy wound up executed in a concentration camp.

everything is securities fraud

It took all week to get here, but I'm so close to having election finance data for California in @civic.band #OpenData #CivicTech

Bluesky working so hard to become twitter: Just got pig-butchering message spam.

Are any of my followers #FallenLondon players?

I wonder if my interest/obsession in civic meetings was awoken by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Define zero. bsky.app/profile/did:...

👏👏 Check out @phildini.net’s @civic.band! It tracks 150+ municipalities in Canada & the US, making their agendas & minutes queryable & searchable. Civic.band What an important, necessary & useful contribution to democracy—can’t wait to see how y’all change the world with it!

If we all start going "That isn't Donald Trump, that's clearly a body double" I bet we can make everyone in the White House lose their minds within a week. But we have to _commit_ to it.

Hey if you’re looking to try/retry/find a home on the ActivityPub/mastodon shaped part of the fediverse, I will personally help you get set up, move followers, block assholes, etc I have no interest in debating the merit of bsky-v-mastodon, purely offering help. Reskeets welcome ✨

My friend was once telling me something about Darwin and paused in the middle of the sentence to specify "Charles" like who the hell else would I be thinking of? Jeremy Darwin? Angelina Darwin? huh??????

hey! just putting this out there: propublica.org/tips

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

The laundromat is always so crowded in January because it’s full of people who are like “this is the year I finally wash my underwear regularly” but by February it’s a ghost town again

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

2026 sure was a short year only two days damn.

Getting a last blog post in under the wire for 2025: phildini.dev/the-body-pol... #OpenData #CivicData #OpenGov

At $30/lb, is Williams Sonoma Peppermint Bark more or less expensive than HP Printer ink?

"The Year Without a Santa Claus" posits that Mrs. Claus is a transmasc egg that just needed the push of their husband being sick

I was not prepared for the villain of Frosty the Snowman to chant "Think Nasty. Think Nasty. Think Nasty." while clinging to the bottom of a train.

I'd love boosts on this, or folks to drop me a line if they want access 🙇‍♂️

Anyone here on #letterboxd? I need more people to witness my slow descent into madness as I try to make it through bsky.app/profile/sena...

It's time for Netflix' greedy acqs Taking value to the max So just sit back and relax and give us all your cash We're now a Netflix acq!

Anyone here live in the Bay Area and do chainmail work? I have an increasingly dire bracelet situation.

#hugops to @github.com

People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.

"We are so hungry for conflict that we turn something as boring as Wikipedia into a part of the culture war." If you saw that clip of Jimmy Wales walking out of an interview, or just care at all about Wikipedia, @hankgreen.bsky.social provides some useful context. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...

hire my friend!!! she is a very good engineer! she has been at this for a very long time!!!

Does someone want to try and help me match names in this project to names of local politicians in @civic.band? We’ve got 9m pages and 800 municipalities; I bet there’s some fascinating joins here

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Finally reached Hades II true ending ✨

mmmm if not bedtime, why dark outside?

I'm at #TechCrunchDisrupt2025 today and tomorrow -- come say hi!

If you’re still in line to bat, STAY IN LINE

Huh. @techcrunch.com's Disrupt doesn't seem to have an official hashtag? Weird.

Hello @postoctobrist.bsky.social long time listener first time poster. I do a thing that’s relevant to at least two of your podcasts and the more I listen to @nogodsnomayors.com the more I need to share: civic.band is the largest collection of municipal meeting data for the US and Canada.