Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The U.S. Postal Service is considering allowing people to ship handguns through the mail for the first time in nearly 100 years

@justingarrison.com It's about GitHub recent post-mortem. So I need to share it with you. 🤣

Lorin Hochstein@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 5mo ago

GitHub's had some availability issues lately. Their CTO wrote a blog post with some details about recent incidents. I wrote a quick post with my reaction here: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/03/12/q...

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

what happens if u cut 4 wires out of an ethernet cable & then plug it into yr PC

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc. Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

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Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives & don’t slow traffic. Implement them.— @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social. “Despite what detractors might claim, 20mph speed limits haven’t actually made journeys slower because journey times are largely dictated by junction delays, not vehicle speed.”

Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives and don’t slow traffic. Implement them | Sadiq Khan

There is too much bluff and bluster on this subject. Ordinary people just want safe streets for themselves and those they love, and we can achieve that, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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Poppie;

Der Bund publiziert eine Studie zur Klimawirkung eines Umstiegs auf Elektroautos nicht. Grundtenor: Sie könne falsch verstanden werden. Es gibt Richtlinien des Bundes, welche Studien publiziert werden: Keiner der Punkte hätte dieser Publikation widersprochen. Im Gegenteil.

Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

Der Bundesrat will Ausweispflicht & Vorratsdaten im Netz – ein Angriff auf digitale Freiheit & KMU wie Threema. Stoppen wir die Überwachungsverordnung! ✍️👇 act.campax.org/petitions/de...

Demokratie statt Überwachungsstaat!

🔍 Der Bundesrat will Schweizer Nutzer*innen im Netz zur Identifikation zwingen – per Ausweiskopie oder Handynummer. Alle Daten sollen 6 Monate gespeichert werden. Ein Angriff auf Privatsphäre und digi...

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First blog post in a year — what a streak 😅 I built a simple way to run tests for your #OpenFGA models — including a #GitHub Actions you can plug straight into your workflow. Check it out 👉 piotrooo.codes/openfga-test... #OpenFGA #Authorization #GitHub

OpenFGA Test Runner

Test your OpenFGA model.

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Ursula von der Leyen, "The diary of Anne Frank." "A painful reminder to Europe to be vigilant and unyielding towards all those who see hatred and want to divide our society" "Europe knows this path all too well. And never, never again must we embark on this path"

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

SVP-Initiative «Keine 10-Millionen-Schweiz»: Unter dem Vorwand des Umweltschutzes könnte sie zur Kündigung der bilateralen Verträge und zur Ausweisung Zehntausender Menschen ohne Schweizer Pass führen. «direkt» hat mit dem Geographen Antoine Dubiau über die Strategie der SVP gesprochen.

SVP instrumentalisiert Umweltschutz für Initiative

Bald wird die Stimmbevölkerung über die SVP-Initiative «Keine 10-Millionen-Schweiz» abstimmen. Unter dem Vorwand des Umweltschutzes könnte sie zur Kündigung der bilateralen Verträge und zur Ausweisung...

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The overwhelming majority of jobs at the two biggest companies in America pay less than $20/hr. Meanwhile, the heads of those companies are some of the richest people on the planet. See the problem?

Stephen Fry's argument against God and His morals.

This great video also reminded me of an interesting facet of motonormativity: people can lose 100 hours a year in traffic and never notice; but they have one late train and it's all "Never again - you can't rely on them"

Prof. Ian Walker@ianwalker.bsky.social · last yr.

"Everything you thought you knew about roads is a lie" GCN go hard on induced demand and all the other follies linked to road building www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVq7...

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An important lesson from Jean-Luc Picard that I’m still sharing all these years later.

Your pal Effin' Birds is nominated for a Webby Award. Vote for me as the best Weird account on the internet! Or vote for Zeppelinmoon, just keep the brands out of Weird! Weird is for the people! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Vote for the best of the internet

I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

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Ever faced DNS problems? There’s no way it’s DNS. It was DNS. Download The Phonebook of the Internet—a printable PDF with domain names and their corresponding IPs. nlnetlabs.nl/news/2025/Ap... #OfflineFirst #DNS

News - The Phone Book of the Internet

A handy booklet with the domain names and IP addresses you need, to keep everything working even when the DNS doesn't.

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Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · last yr.

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

No mistake was meep. We did not leak any classified information. They were all meeped. It was a minor meep, nothing more. Everything is under control. MEEEEEEP!

Fired? Chelsea Manning was sentenced to THIRTY FIVE YEARS in prison

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Warner, with Gabbard and Ratcliffe sitting in front of him: "If this was the case of a military officer or an intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior, they would be fired."

the Signal fiasco is a good reminder that while these people are destructive, and cruel, and bigoted, and petty they are also really, really stupid

lmao getting fact checked irl

Just stumbled on this brutal gutpunch of a video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSq6... I've trained The Algorithm to show me stuff like this— randos working on projects and showing them to you? I've never seen this channel but I've seen a dozen like it. Dude fixes radios. The video is not about radios.

Message to My American Viewers

YouTube video by Jim's Radio Shop

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