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Obbie King

@ObbieZ@urbanists.social
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Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability.

Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention.

Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

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ObbieZ
Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Jun 06, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @grammargirl@zirk.us
@grammargirl@zirk.us "AI tells you things that are wrong in a way that sounds completely believable." Ah, so AI is like Wally Cox on Hollywood Squares! (Use this analogy on old people. We'll understand.)
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · May 22, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social

"...he’s spent more time in 2026 interacting with an anonymous account called “XFreeze” than with any other user. It’s unclear who is behind XFreeze..."

How do we know that "XFreeze" isn't just another account controlled by #ElonSchmuck himself? That'd be on-brand for him.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/22/elon-musk-the-odyssey-casting

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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · May 22, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social

CBS news was my soundtrack thru the 80's and beyond. Before the Internet and time servers, the chime at the beginning of the hourly newscast was the most accurate way to set your watch. And their news stations (KNX in LA, KCBS in SF, many more high-powered stations) kept us informed.

Between nuking radio news and kicking Colbert off the air, CBS as we knew it is long gone.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/22/cbs-news-radio-end-major-loss
#CBS #news #radio

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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · May 19, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social

Another data point proving the age-old axiom, "If you want high school students to get deeply interested in something, try banning it."

"Students moved from learning a four-minute song to immersing themselves in the history of Stonewall. They learned more about Marsha P. Johnson and they spoke at the School Board meeting about her powerful legacy of fighting back for her community."
https://captimes.com/opinion/natalie-eilbert/opinion-the-wisconsin-school-board-hell-bent-on-erasing-history/article_c0529411-e890-4093-a20d-ed2cf2f02ff1.html

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ObbieZ
Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · May 17, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social

I'm glad to see the band #RareEarth getting a lot of mention in the news these days. I remember hearing this Detroit band described as "the only White band on Motown." They had a few hits in the 70s doing some stock Motown tunes.

I met some members of the band in a Motel 6 parking lot in 1990. I had just completed summer #Dead tour, and they were between shows on the county fair circuit.

Respectable guys, decent band, I'm glad they're getting attention. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kmxgwuMMGrP9qIdbpCeQeNsntDK9dsTXw

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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · May 17, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social

My weather radar is showing a red box (i.e. tornado warning) in #Madison

Hope all is well, Mad-town!

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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · May 11, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social

"the construction faces unforeseen costs. The lot is mostly topped with riverbed soil..."

Don't they mean SAND? It's the first time I've experienced this construction euphemism. Of course, most of this city is built on sand... er, "riverbed soil".

(We're talking about La Crosse WI, on the banks of the Mississippi River.) #LaCrosse

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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · May 09, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social

RE: @Nola_Haynes@findout.media

This needs to be a Big Movement.

Any white player that considers themself an "ally" must also refuse to play in the confederacy. Let those schools become marginalized athletic (and academic) shitholes.

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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · May 08, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @VE2UWY@mastodon.radio
@VE2UWY@mastodon.radio @straphanger@urbanists.social I've worked in IT since the early '90s (now retired), and every place I worked had a room overstuffed with out-of-date computer hardware. This equipment can run for decades, but is cycled out every 3-5 years. So, yeah, there's gonna be a shitload of top-end servers on the market in about 5-10 years. Suppliers of new hardware will have to move on to whatever is next.
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · May 08, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @straphanger@urbanists.social
@straphanger@urbanists.social At least when the railroad bubble popped, we still had all that track and rolling stock. When the AI bubble pops, what's gonna happen with all those server farms?
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ObbieZ
Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Apr 18, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @HoffmanLabs@infosec.exchange
@HoffmanLabs@infosec.exchange That's the Eternal Paradox of IT work. When everything Just Works, people have no idea how much you've been working your ass off to get it that way.
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Apr 07, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @infobeautiful@vis.social
@infobeautiful So many ways this chart is bullslop. I've studied Spanish, French, Czech and German (along with my native English). I found Czech much easier than French (simpler phonetic rules, for starters). So why is it lumped in with all those "hard" languages with strange alphabets?
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Apr 01, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @blogdiva@mastodon.social
@blogdiva@mastodon.social Saying it's "for entertainment only" is a legal CYA line. Note the rest of that section: Copilot fucks up, so don't trust it with anything important, and don't sue us if it makes a Very Expensive Mistake.
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Mar 15, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @haraldkliems@fosstodon.org
@haraldkliems@fosstodon.org Ah, but will any of the performers/speakers be able to show up? I'm watching the radar, and you guys are getting pounded right now.
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Mar 14, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @mattdawhit@mastodon.iow.social
@mattdawhit@mastodon.iow.social I see, so that's not a cargo bike but a three-wheeled trailer? Steering that assembly must get dodgy sometimes, no?
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Mar 14, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @mattdawhit@mastodon.iow.social
@mattdawhit@mastodon.iow.social I can't figure out how/where you sit and pedal?
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Mar 04, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @PipGowenlock@urbanists.social
@PipGowenlock Maybe they got the ratio upside-down?... in that it should be one vegan restaurant for every 128 people?
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Jan 06, 2026
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @ploum@mamot.fr
@ploum@mamot.fr I swore off that site the day it got taken over by Micro$lop
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Nov 18, 2025
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @Orca@nya.one
@Orca@nya.one @iFixit@mastodon.social That's not nothing. There were people doing useful work on less capable machines back in the 8-bit days. (TRS80 Mod 100 laptop comes to mind)
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Nov 18, 2025
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @RoboePi@mastodon.social
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/115555385897273188 @RoboePi@mastodon.social @iFixit@mastodon.social Where I read this...
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Nov 18, 2025
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @iFixit@mastodon.social
@iFixit@mastodon.social I've read lately that some vapes even have a computer built in, and some have been hacked into service.
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Oct 08, 2025
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @cmconseils@mastodon.social
@cmconseils@mastodon.social CW: Picky copy-editor note... To say "same time" isn't precise. A summer sunrise is 4-5 hours earlier than a winter sunrise, so they're obviously at different "times". That said, I struggle to come up with better words to express "same stage of sunrise process".
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Obbie King @ObbieZ@urbanists.social · Aug 30, 2024
Obbie King
@ObbieZ@urbanists.social

Lifetime campaigner for social justice, economic fairness and ecological sustainability. Delegate for Bernie Sanders to 2016 Democratic National Convention. Evangelist for minimum-impact low-maintenance living. Presented "Transportation Liberation - How to Save Time, Money and Sanity by Not Driving" to the World Car-Free Conference in Portland Oregon in 2008. Local and regional activist for public transit, bicycling, and walkable cities.

urbanists.social
Replying to @girlonthenet@mastodon.social
@girlonthenet@mastodon.social It looks like some sort of Assembly code, but I don't recognize it. I'm familiar with 8080/Z80 and 6502 (8-bit) Assembler, but I have no idea what processor this was supposed to run on.
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