Obbie King
ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Dear Phone Bankers:

We already voted! Please stop calling!

2 days ago
Obbie King
ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Here we go again...

A German green-card holder was disappeared at Logan Airport. His mother got to speak to him on the phone only after he collapsed from flu and went to the hospital.

"[he was] 'violently interrogated' .. for hours, ..stripped naked, put in a cold shower [and] put back onto a chair.

"..he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people.., with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication.."

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained

March 15, 2025
Obbie King
ObbieZ@urbanists.social

These Democratic (and Independent) Senators voted to allow passage of the Enabling Act:

Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Durbin (D-IL)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hassan (D-NH)
King (I-ME)
Peters (D-MI)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)

#RememberInNovember

March 14, 2025
Obbie King
ObbieZ@urbanists.social
March 14, 2025
Obbie King
ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Dear La Crosse Tribune / Lee Enterprises:

Nothing drives a user away from your site more than intrusive auto-play videos. Most news sites learned this twenty f***ing years ago. Please figure it out, or you will lose relevancy.

March 14, 2025
Obbie King
ObbieZ@urbanists.social

The book that Mark Schmuckerberg doesn't want you to read:
Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams

It'd be a pity if lots of people suddenly started reading it.
(Not gonna give a link to the Evil Book Empire. Just know that it's available.)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/13/meta-careless-people-book-former-employee

March 13, 2025