Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

If you think about it, Disney World is the closest thing to the Vatican City, we have in the United States.

Get that pollen

#insects #MacroPhotography #bees #pollinators

Texas Democrat spends night in Legislature protesting police shadowing in redistricting battle

https://apnews.com/article/texas-redistricting-democrats-police-california-3459806da6c593d5ffcbe6891551fd7e

Ridiculous that we have to keep repeating this in 2025, but:

✅ Vaccines save lives

✅ Flouride prevents cavities

✅ Sunscreen prevents skin cancer

Prompted by his meeting with Vladimir Putin, yesterday Trump declared his intention to end mail-in voting in the U.S. But let's not be fooled, this isn't just his latest gambit to ensure Republicans hold the House. It's pure Trumpian authoritarianism, and it should alarm us all. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-mail-vote-outlaw

The cat is fully charged and ready for #Caturday now🔋

Trying to find my people on here. Please share and follow me if you:

-Believe the lava from lava lamps must be returned to volcanoes, where it rightfully belongs.

-Argue that marathon runners should shave their eyebrows to be a little faster.

-Will eat the rich on principle, but dread the taste.

It pleases me immensely that there is a beverage canonical to the Star Trek universe called War Nog

But when is Kirby Air Riders coming to the Amiga?

Last week trump announced plans to "review" 8 Smithsonian museums. Today he doubled down, very explicit about the intent to revise history to reflect the ethno-nationalist fantasy of US history.

You can do something about that! We are backing up the digital archives of those museums on sciop: https://sciop.net/tags/smithsonian

You can take direct action to preserve the historical artifacts the right wants to destroy:

1) you can download a copy and seed it, every seeder counts. Subscribe to the smithsonian RSS feed to auto-download torrents as they are scraped.

2) we have also written a crawler connected to sciop that distributes the scraping work, and automatically creates and uploads a validated torrent that piggybacks off the s3 bucket as a webseed source while it lasts (instructions in reply).

The data from the 8 threatened museums is on the order of ~10 TB, and we have split it up by jpg/tif so people without much spare storage can join in on the jpg's at least. The full contents of the public smithsonian bucket is ~700TB, so if we want to have a full independent copy we'll need lots more seeders.

All this code is being written flat out, on the run, as it's needed by volunteers with exactly zero resources, so it's not polished or well documented, and if you're interested in helping damp the flames of the book burning by contributing to any of the code or docs, we'd love to have you.

#Smithsonian #Sciop

A friend is moving and gave me some of her Keyboard Shit, so I put the unlabeled keycaps on the 30% keyboard to produce the most 1960s Star Trek keyboard I could.

#StarTrek

REMINDER:

#Disney owns #ESPN and still holds a controlling interest on #FOXSports, making it the defacto boss of USA’s sports broadcasting m̶a̶f̶i̶a̶ and the leader of the largest media #monopsony in the planet

“ESPN has dropped Spike Lee‘s forthcoming multi-part documentary series about former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.”

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Gov. JB Pritzker signs bill guaranteeing immigrant students access to public education
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-laws-gov-jb-pritzker-signs-bill-ensuring-free-public-school-education-kids-despite-us-immigration-citizenship-status/17590636/