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@capntransit @streetsblognyc
Tragic. I feel awful for the guy and his family

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Texas electrical grid is going to be tight this evening once the sun goes down and solar goes offline.

#ERCOT #Texas

ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboar

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Large pro-Palestine, anti-Hartzell group on the UT Austin campus this afternoon. A much smaller pro-Israel group is at the side and mostly getting drowned out.

#UTAustin #Texas #Gaza

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service cancellations are all now negotiations with truculent demons

- crap discount offer
- I banish you
- meaningless price change
- I banish you
- major discount offer
- I BANISH YOU
- true form appears, snarling, breaks the contract, disappears in clouds of chatbot

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@noelreports
I'm sure that Ukraine would be more than happy to focus on Russian military troops on their own territory... if only someone had the good idea to provide them with the equivalent of 60 billion $ in weapons and ammunition!
I really wonder whom this 60 billion $ military help could come from... any idea, Mr Austin?

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theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m

If this level of violence was carried out with anything other than a motor vehicle, the perpetrator would be facing a charge of attempted murder. Four years and ten months jail is an insult and even considering allowing this person to ever drive again is a baffling decision.

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Yes, yes, we should all dump on the poor Hampton Jitney riders, but messenger aside: private Intercity & regional buses should not be forced to pay to congestion charge.

Doesn't seem like a sane policy decision: these services get cars *off* the road.

societyforasianart.org/sites/d

I just read the Manifesto of Futurism and loved the writing style, so wanted to share. It's only four pages long, well worth a read.

Futurism is an art movement characterized by "celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth, and industry." But see this very cute Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

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It's kind of difficult to describe from a still photograph, but when this desert blister beetle (Pleuropasta sp.) walks forward, it looks *exactly* like a red harvester ant dragging a large seed backwards. It's a really tremendous mimic.

Photographed in Anza Borrego.

#Meloidae #Desert #Insects

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Whenever the "free fare transit" conversation comes up in US circles, I am always peeved with the big problem of transit in the US: whether from the left or the right, *everyone* agrees "buses are for poor people", so it doesn't get proper funding so anyone using transit ends up waiting an hour at bus stops with no seating or shade next to 6 lanes or traffic and changing three lines to get where they need to, because "poor people's time is cheap and they don't care about quality".

@capntransit I mean, it's less net CO2 than natural gas, right? The carbon in that wood was never going to be permanently sequestered in the way that carbon in petrochemicals should be

@shortridge isn't the "no victim blaming" point the thinking that leads to everything requiring 2FA? Sure, some users will come up with bad passwords and get their accounts stolen. I'd rather blame them than require that every time I log into my github account, I also have to pull out my phone in case some hacker wants to... star some repositories?

@ifixcoinops I toast a lot of bread and I've never had an issue with a toaster or toaster in the US. Did you make sure the settings on yours are what they should be and not it's not in "warm" mode? If so then I think you just have a bum toaster

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