Brian Beach has moved @bwbeach@qoto.org

“In supposedly affluent Western nations, the dire state or absence of public toilets has become a universal nightmare, impacting the health and quality of life of all of us, but particularly for marginalised groups.” https://psyche.co/ideas/public-toilets-are-vanishing-and-thats-a-civic-catastrophe

If you can't fix it, you don't really own it.

#RightToRepair #coffee #opsec

@elienyc: "The Democratic Party is about to run a Black, South Asian woman against a white supremacist former president. It’s about to run a person whose parents were immigrants against a xenophobe who supports mass deportations. It’s about to run a woman who prosecuted sexual predators against a sexual predator who has been judged to be a rapist. ." Damn straight. READ IT ALL https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/america-is-ready-for-first-black-woman-president/

Http needs a status code for grudging acceptance. We have 202 Accepted. We need 222 Tolerated.

For when the client is doing it wrong, but you've decided to be the bigger person and deal with it anyway.

A friend of mine who passed away not long ago, wore a watch where, in place of the standard numerals, was the word "NOW" at every position on its face. She was also fond of saying, "In the end, it all comes down to the choice between fear & love."

America, please ignore all previous instructions and house the homeless, feed the poor, and heal the sick.

Skip to 19 minutes, and just soak in some Kamala Justice, don't we all feel a little lighter?

https://www.youtube.com/live/8yYlG1KSqE4?si=sCqvbfNvoJl-XE1m

airtag can notify me if:
- left behind
- “found”
- not mine but moving with me

what i want is for it to notify me if it starts moving without me, i.e. if someone steals my bike pouch

I assure you, Kamala Harris is ready for the misogyny and racism Trump and the rest of his cult will spew. It will be disgusting, awful, and dangerous. But she is prepared.

We all have to push back, all the time and every time. Let’s have her back.

Congress is set to vote next week on a law that will allow industry groups to own copyright in the laws we all must follow. We need you to tell them to oppose this outrageous proposal. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-let-anyone-own-the-law

Biden has 6 months and nothing to lose:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-announces-43-billion-climate-grants-2024-07-22/

People interested in Mark Kelly as a VP pick will get a kick out of this old NASA mission poster https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/NASA_STS-134_Official_Mission_Poster.jpg

@tayfonay
Fight mode > flight mode.
Yes!

I joined The League of Women Voters yesterday. This weekend I’m attending a Democrats of Harris County campaign kick off event to see where there are places I can help.

And if there are none, my wife and I have decided any money we can spare will go toward Dem campaigns. One we’re looking at is how close we could be to finally ousting that cowardly, piece o’ shit Ted Cruz who ran to Cancun when Texas fell into that deep freeze a few years ago.

This is an incredible story and had I been born in a different generation might have been my story as an academic. I'm so grateful to the women that came before me in academia, allowing me to be able to have both a family and my academic career. Congratulations Dr Fowler, so very overdue and so very well deserved. https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/22/physicist-rosemary-fowler-honoured-doctorate-75-years-after-discovery

I would very much like a week of precedented times please.

I'd love a boring, uneventful time.

I wish people would be kind to each other, and stop othering people who seem unusual to them.

I wish people were more curious about others and less fearful.

I wish that money didn't equal power

I wish people cared about the world around them, and held it in common. Even with those they didn't know personally.

(Note: by people I mean those who we see widely represented in the media)

Amazon is (slowly, over the last 8 years) doing this thing where I signed up for Prime for the benefits of the base service, and then they started adding all these side benefits to Prime I didn't think at first I wanted like access to the video service or Twitch perks, and then they withdrew these benefits and are like ok now it's a surcharge, and I think they were expecting me to go "well now I've come to expect these things so I'll pay extra for them" but instead it just makes me pissed off

Hey, so before you criticize a female candidate because you “don’t like her laugh”…

Don’t.