Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

If this child was strong enough to survive colonization, land theft and reservation internment — then white kids should be strong enough to learn about it in school. #nativeamerican #NativeNations

Police are worse than useless. They are actively harmful. We just had a medical emergency with one of our encampment residents. She was flat on the ground, stuporous, with severe decerebrate posturing and breathing normally.

The cops radioed it in as an overdose (which means EMS will take forever to respond), even though there were no signs of OD. To make things worse, the 911 dispatcher confirmed to me that the cops had given them the complete wrong address in their call.

Even worse, I was the only one on scene carrying Naloxone. The cops made everything worse and were not even prepared for an overdose. The cops asked me several times if I could administer Narcan; I had to correct them repeatedly and tell them there were no overdose symptoms and that the woman had a recent history of aneurysm. They stood their and did nothing, and were afraid to even touch her.

NEVER assume that police have made a proper emergency call. Always call 911 yourself. Carry Narcan.

Microsoft’s post-layoffs Halo studio is smaller and switching to Unreal Engine

/ A new game codenamed Tatanka will use Unreal Engine instead of the previous in-house Slipspace engine used for Halo Infinite, according to a new Bloomberg report.

By Jay Peters

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579819/microsoft-layoffs-halo-343-industries-tatanka-unreal-engine

#microsoft #halo #unrealengine #tatanka #slipspace #343industries

@atomicpoet @cwebber Heck, all I know is #Mastodon is orders less toxic than the bird site for me and the more people of any gender here the better

Bit of #Dartmoor for you, including the remains of a cairn

Nowhere is better to feel uncaged & set free!

#photograpy

With global sea ice currently at *record low* levels, both poles (#Arctic and #Antarctic) are more than two standard deviations below average (1981-2010)...

More visuals: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-figures/. Data from https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index.

Hey website and mobile app designers, how about letting me type the damn time in, instead of requiring me to use weird-ass, nigh-unusable wheel or slider interfaces you insist on coming up with?

Seriously, stop trying to be smart. Give me a text box where I can type four digits and a damn colon.

Your UI/UX ideas are bad and you should feel bad.

#WebDev #Design #UI #UX

@pwinn
Well said, we're just a completely lost and shitty country. It's gone completely off the rails and it's not looking like it's going to get any better.

I don't mean it go off on a rant here, but, my fellow Americans, we live in a country in which a six-year-old boy deliberately shot his first grade teacher with his mother's gun twenty-five days ago, and the national reckoning, the deep soul-searching and re-evaluation of every law and every cultural norm that has followed is... nonexistent. God bless America.

The school system's superintendent was removed, and the principal was reassigned, while the assistant principal resigned. The kids at this elementary school now have to walk through metal detectors and use clear plastic backpacks under the watchful eye of two cops. Which did no good at all less than a year ago in Uvalde, Texas. God bless America.

And that's it! Nobody has even bothered making a serious plea to change anything at all, because we know nothing will change. Virginia won't change anything any more than Texas did after the Uvalde shooting. We just know that this is now a part of life: sometimes people go to school to get shot. Sometimes it's children being shot. Sometimes it's children doing the shooting. Sometimes it's both. God bless America.

You might say it's been overshadowed in the news by the cops who murdered yet another Black man, a situation in which the Black cops were fired and charged with murder, while the white cops were put on administrative leave. But that murder didn't even happen until the next day, and didn't become public knowledge until three weeks after Virginia shooting. God bless America.

You might say it's been overshadowed in the news by January 6 being the anniversary of an attempted insurrection, for which the prime suspect remains at large. God bless America.

But if that's true, what does it say about this country that a six-year-old shooting his teacher takes third place at most to still more murderous cops and a scofflaw ex-president getting away with inciting rebellion?

God bless America.

#blog #politics #BlackLivesMatter #guns

My son bought two tickets to Ed Sheeran in Wellington on Thu night. It's his first gig away from home, his friend can't go and there has been no takers for the other ticket on FB marketplace, and he would hate it to go to waste. He paid $190 for it, but if you can have it for anything from $0 upwards, you name your price. This is not a bidding toot! Would very much prefer it go to someone who would really appreciate it, so please be considerate. Boosts welcome, DM me.