@wdlindsy Next step: municipalities and states should declare ICE to be a criminal (or "terrorist" if that plays better; both are accurate) organization, and that anyone associated with it should be handled accordingly by law enforcement.

@lauren Yay, someone in authority telling Tr#mpCo to literally f#ck off! ^.^

@servelan Can we get rid of* personal jets first? This feels like distractivism...

(* or super-heavy-tax, enough to pay for remediation that more than makes up for the carbon)

@riley 😡 🔥

@gazaverified @aral It looks like Omar's account has been suspended -- which I take as affirmation that I was correct to be suspicious,

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115849637054866569

(Is a quote-boost treated the same as an image when it's CWed? Find out, in this exciting episode of Me Trying Stuff...)

(Edit: yay, it's handled sensibly!)

Linux desktop voice control has a gap. Talon costs money. Other tools are X11-only or cloud-dependent.

So I built EasySpeak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl5m2Zo1oIE

https://github.com/ctsdownloads/easyspeak/tree/dev?tab=readme-ov-file#easyspeak

- Free and open source (GPL-3.0)
- Fully local — no cloud, no accounts
- Wayland-native
- "Hey Jarvis, open downloads"

Built for RSI, accessibility, or anyone who wants to talk to their computer.

#Linux #OpenSource #Accessibility #VoiceControl #GNOME #Wayland #a11y

Yes Petunia, the bookshelf is definitely the best place for you to sit.

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #FediCats

@suzannealdrich Are those different from Farmer's Markets in the US?

@noodlemaz @blogdiva @ellie @chieroglyph

GUARD #1: Halt, adventurer! Before you continue you must answer our riddle.

ORANGE GUARD: WINDMILLS CAUSE CANCER

GUARD #1: One of us always lies, and one of us

ADVENTURER: It's that one. The orange one. He's the one that always lies.

GUARD #1: but you didn't even wait to hear the whole riddle

ORANGE GUARD: INJECTING BLEACH IS GOOD FOR YOU

ADVENTURER: I got it. It's that one.

GUARD #1: you sure you don't want to, like, stay for a bit and listen, maybe get some clues or something?

ORANGE GUARD: I DIVERTED A HURRICANE WITH A SHARPIE

ADVENTURER: nope I'm sure.

GUARD #1: *sigh* okay yeah fine you got it. Proceed.

ADVENTURER: *walks past the guards*

GUARD #1: please take me with you

ORANGE GUARD: I AM THE SMARTEST AND BEST GUARD EVER I KNOW WHAT GIRAFFE IS

@amcooper Cæsar's legit an' all but we got a buryin' job ta do.

@Extelec [curiosity core engaged] What type o' stuffs are you trying to buy? (This is partly because I'm looking at getting back into online retail "Real Soon Now"...)

@dec23k It's a pity that sealions are even a thing, really... but here we are.

@brooke "The more horrifying the world becomes, the more art web becomes abstract."

I often want to read government and UN and other organization reports when I’m down with a migraine. That means i need to read on my phone and unfortunately all these reports are released as pdfs which are completely inaccessible on a phone screen.

If you know of an easy and quick tool that works on an iphone to turn online pdfs into html or epub or something actually legible on my phone screen, it would be much appreciated.

UPDATE: The best option I’ve found is https://www.freeconvert.com/

I appreciate that it takes urls. It’s a bit finicky and doesn’t always work; conversation to epub seems more reliable than html which often just returns the pdf. I don’t love the green flashing indicator while it’s working.

Better options welcome.

@omarzeyada@freefree.ps : What I'm getting from recent posts is they were closed for the last week or so of December, but they are now open again. Retry?

@aral
@gazaverified

@dec23k Sealions are usually cleverer than that, in my experience.

@aral -- Mr. Zeyada here (@omarzeyada) says the Gaza Verified verification process is closed. Can you shed any light on this?

(I'm replying to a DM, but making it public.)

@djsundog I mean, we've got a replacement for MTV, so why not a replacement for PBS? Start small, build up...

@amcooper What I remember is there was a loud bang (the tire blowing out, but at the time I wasn't sure what had happened) and it started pulling to the left -- where there was a metal railing (and basically no shoulder).

I think my first thought was to try to keep the car straight and also not bash into anything at that speed, so I veered hard right -- which did in fact stop the pull to the left, but started pulling to the right instead.

In retrospect, I think there was basically almost no sideways traction, because of the blown-out tire (and possibly this problem got rapidly worse as the tire shredded -- hence being able to stop the leftward swing but not the rightward one), so any rotation tended to be hard to stop -- it kept going right (even as I swung hard left to compensate) and eventually the back end spun around to the front.

I think we spun around at least once, so I was facing forward again, but the rotational momentum was too much to stop, so it kept going... but fortunately by that time, friction from the blown tire had slowed us down enough that when we swung around one more half-spin, we were only going a few MPH -- backwards -- and I was able to brake to a stop before hitting the opposite railing.

I'm not sure that answers the question, but maybe it gives you a better idea of the situation?

The story is here, fwiw ;-)