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• Post #4218258

  An old friend of mine -- it'll be fifty years next fall -- lives in an illegal rental in Oakland, California. It's illegal in the sense that it was never registered with the Oakland rental board. His original landlords sold the property to a flipper a few months ago and the new owners have been trying to get my friend to move out. They started by offering him cash for keys a few months ago, but two different lawyers advised him not to take the deal because it came with onerous condition...

• Post #4002536

  How does #asstodon feel about mules posting-wise?

• Post #3721306

  They're fucking whiny losers so the cops should hurt them, possibly kill them. I'm a whiny piece of shit (but I usually vote so I guess Ben Royce doesn't have me on his kill list... Yet) Ben Royce is a bully. If this is the libs' get out the vote messaging I'm not surprised they want to call in the violence workers when it's ineffective.

• Post #3709842

  Very thoughtful of some zillionaire tech bros to provide these convenient self-installing relocatable sidewalk trash receptacles! All of a sudden they're everywhere and we are using them! The grateful people of Los Angeles thank and salute our benefactors! #LosAngeles #Litter #LimeScooters #EBikes #Sarcasm

• Post #2944405

  A couple of nerikomi experiments. The blue and green one had a little crack, probably from being too thin but the yellow and orange one is perfect! I love the way the pattern goes all the way through the clay with this technique. I refired the blue and green with extra glaze in the hope of filling in the crack, which doesn't always work but it did this time! #Pottery #Ceramics #Nerikomi #Clay

• Post #1981453

  #Fedle #53 3/6 🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://fedle.fedilab.app/share/1343

• Post #1726286

  In 2020 I started having mild stability problems. If I'd had a cane the first time I fell down I would have been *much* better off. I tried some commercial ones but they turned out to be expensive, not durable, and very boring looking. So I figured out how to make my own from half inch copper pipe and porcelain. The picture shows what they look like, and this thread explains how to make them. Materials: * Type L half inch copper pipe -- this is the thick kind. * Clay to make a top an...

• Post #1518080

  @wiletha@mastodonapp.uk She narrated this 1954 biopic about Helen Keller also. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QODz_xciKY

• Post #1423877

  As you may have heard, the ransomware gang Worldleaks stole files weighing 7.7TB from the Los Angeles City Attorney. They kept them private for a few weeks but yesterday they posted them all again. Their site is made to prevent bulk downloads, and the kind of naive scraping I know how to do isn't good enough. People are working on that problem, but meanwhile I'm left to DL files one at a time. So I'm concentrating on significant events only. I'm publishing them...

• Post #1260410

  I don't know if I'm the last person to know this but I just learned about Soulseek, which is music sharing software that's different from torrenting. It works so well and the selection is beyond belief! I found two albums that I've had on vinyl forever but could never find digital versions. I started with a Linux flatpack, which hung my computer a couple times -- this *never* happens on Linux -- but then found out about Licorice, which is a client with a Debian...

• Post #1156233

  Tuesday, April 7th. Catie Laffoon speaks absolute truth to the LA City Police Commission about LAPD violence against protestors. 🔥🧨 "You guys better watch out because you are starving an entire fucking city and they have nothing left to lose." Via @KatanaSpeaks on Twitter. #LosAngeles #LAPD #CatieLaffoon #LosAngelesPoliceCommission #ICE #ACAB #NoKings #Protest

• Post #1096451

  Goddamnit! Worldleaks stole 7.7 TB of files from Hydee Feldstein Soto, the stunningly incompetent Los Angeles City attorney and published them yesterday.[1] But today they're gone.😭 Emma Best of @ddosecrets wrote about it.[2] Apparently there are internal affairs files and all kinds of good stuff! Twitter account whosthatcop posted one file but that's all that seems to be available.[3] Onion link below in case they reappear.[4] [1] https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/hackers-steal...

• Post #1047336

  One thing to remember on confederate surrender day is that after the war many thousands of elite rebel officers and government officials had their citizenship restored and their lands left unconfiscated. They worked their way back into public life -- white zillionaire class solidarity is a powerful thing --- and then, once the 1877 Hayes-Tilden compromise shut down any hope of radically reconstructing the South, these newly redeemed rebels fully reclaimed their ruling class status. They served...

• Post #892230

  A good time to listen to this one now. ---------- I can't pay no doctor bills But Whitey's on the moon Ten years from now I'll be paying still While Whitey's on the moon You know, the man just upped my rent last night Cause Whitey's on the moon No hot water, no toilets, no lights But Whitey's on the moon #GilScottHeron #ArtemisII #NASA #WhiteyOnTheMoon

• Post #810629

  I became an abolitionist when I understood the function of police and realized that to me nothing they protect was worth having at the price of the deadly violence they inflict on my neighbors, my family, my beloved community. I became an anarchist when I understood that every other form of social organization requires police for its very existence. #Anarchy #Anarchism #Abolition #Abolitionism #NoMorePolice

• Post #787352

  Timely wisdom from Bert Leston Taylor (1866-1921) Canopus When quacks with pills political would dope us, When politics absorbs the livelong day, I like to think about that star Canopus, So far, so far away. Greatest of visioned suns, they say who list 'em; To weigh it science almost must despair. Its shell would hold our whole dinged solar system, Nor even know 'twas there. When temporary chairmen utter speeches, And frenzied henchmen howl their battle hymns, My thoughts flo...

• Post #753421

  Inspired by a very insightful post by @dlakelan I'm finally getting around to asking about a CLI issue I'm having. Apparently xmms2 doesn't have tab completion out of the box. My distro is Mint 22.1. So far I figured out that I need to add a text file for it to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/. Weirdly there's already one for regular xmms. So I found one at: https://gist.github.com/ektich/3702fd8206e3a5ba6aff14566032d6e9 And added it to the directory bu...

• Post #726501

  UPDATE: this little pup has been claimed! Thank you everyone for your interest and support! Can you make good use of an original Commodore PET computer? This one is yours for free if you can pick it up in Los Angeles (near USC). My parents bought it in 1978. It has the famous chiclet keyboard and integral cassette tape drive. It doesn't work at this point, which someone told me is probably due to some bad RAM chips but I don't actually know. The screen shows random squares when...