Time to update my pinned introduction toot to reflect changes in interests: To help some of the newcomers make connections: name subjects and topics that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.
#bicycles
#bikerepair
#commuting
#diy
#publictransit
#urbanism
#retrogaming
#retrocomputing
#buylocal
#cooking
#writing
#rpg
#GURPS
#gopher
#usenet
America in 2020. People using forged (and mis-spelled) cards from a fictitious organisation to misrepresent legislation intended to protect disabled people so they can avoid showing a basic amount of courtesy to help protect others during a pandemic.
Not only is this bullshit ableist as hell, it would literally be easier just for these people to put a damn mask on their faces.
If you're in the US and someone hands you one of these, cut it in two and throw it in the trash.
#blacklivesmatter demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia publicly opposed by Christina Pushaw - Californian white woman who
has made a career in the post soviet world promoting the USA and capitalism through think tanks and a consulting business and NGOs.
https://www.change.org/p/new-europe-newspaper-stop-anti-blm-activist-christina-pushaw
"Thereβs Now an Even Worse Anti-Encryption Bill Than EARN IT"
Get your IT business out of the US. This needs to have an impact on the economy.
Thereβs Now an Even Worse Anti-Encryption Bill Than EARN IT. That Doesnβt Make the EARN IT Bill OK. | Center for Internet and Society
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/06/there%E2%80%99s-now-even-worse-anti-encryption-bill-earn-it-doesn%E2%80%99t-make-earn-it-bill-ok #rr #LAED
While I couldn't find any airliner hex maps to use in a GURPS Cops scenario, I did find an awesome source of information so I could draw my own accurate maps.
https://aviation-safety.net/airlinesafety/exits/exit.php?type=022-0
Mrs. IPX is back from her brief six hour hospital visit. Kidney infection as we both suspected (not uncommon, as she suffers from Nephrocalcinosis), but this time she has gallstones in the mix as well.
My mom was discharged earlier this evening (different hospital). She's fine.
Thanks for the well-wishes, I mean it.
Anarchist Communist Group: **Grenfell and the end of cladding**
"Last Sunday was the third anniversary of the fire at Grenfell Tower that killed 72 people. They died because the building was fitted β¦"
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/06/21/grenfell-and-the-end-of-cladding/
fortysomething, married, Canadian π¨π¦, cycling enthusiast, phlogger.
Engaging, positive, but cynical. Prefer discourse to arguing. If I boost, I agree. #nobot