The only way to use the toilet safely and without fear is to bring one with you wherever you go. Buy a portable AMERICAN bathroom now.

For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

Even if they were “drug boats“ it would still be murder. 

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

I love that Chrome has a publicly visible bug database. It's also nice that users can file bugs (although that does lead to significant chaos and "variable" quality bug filings) but the main benefit for most users is having some hope of being able to track progress on important fixes.

The fun part about the internet is that this is **indistinguishable** from a phishing attack against @cloudflare.social customers. There's no binding between "Cloudflare.pay" and "Cloudflare.com" so we have no way to know if this thing is legit when it asks for permission to your account.

Now in blog post form: Cloudflare tried to phish me. textslashplain.com/2026/08/04/s...

Security is Hard, Y’all

It started innocently enough. I saw a tweet about a new product offering from one of my favorite companies, Cloudflare. Neat! I clicked through to the site and there it is: And huzzah!, my preferre…

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Well, it's happened as predicted. Last month I told my bank (Vancity) that new versions of Chrome couldn't download credit-card statements from their site. At the time I had one machine that hadn't upgraded Chrome so I was able to download my June statement.

I just read the NY Times article about how the US electric-car industry is being crushed and I just kept thinking to myself how insane the US government strategy always was. It has always subsidized gas (the federal gas tax is unchanged since 1993 so inflation has dropped it by 57%)

Oh look, a weird and non-responsive "Close" tooltip is floating over my Windows desktop. That's odd. I guess I'll do what any normal human would do. Fire up Visual Studio, use that to launch Spy++, use that to select the window, then view what process owns it.

Really remarkable article, the Anglican Church is going gloves off against multiple cities. $9M and 6 years of delay to build 85 units of below-market seniors housing on their own land

Ryan Jabs@ryanjabs.bsky.social · 3d ago

Another window into why even non-profit housing is so expensive. Saanich delays led to an extra $9milliom (!!) in costs. No one in Saanich is held accountable so they keep dragging their feet and increasing costs. bcbusiness.ca/real-estate/...

It is honestly impressive how consistently HP's software developers are unable to close process handles when they are done with them. If you have a handle to the process and then the process dies then some of the metadata about the process is forced to be retained until you close the handle.

Well this is a ballsy request. In order to sign up for a fun fundraising event OneCause Peer to Peer wants access to all of my contacts. That is hella rude! When my non tech-savvy friends find that somebody has got a hold of their contacts list they assume that they have been hacked.

Is there a sudden rush of new followers in general on bsky? Bots maybe? I don't feel like I've done anything super interesting lately, but maybe I have?

Phil: "I urge you to vote in favour of this development, vote in favour of our youth, and vote in favour of our future." Great speech from Phil. This is a major theme between supporters and opponents: opponents focus on what they have; supporters focus on the future of the city.

Supporter: This plan is the gentle density people say they want; but turns out gentle is also too much for the opponents. "No to towers, no to townhouses, no to everything. That leaves no room in Vancouver for families like mine".

Dale Doback Says Yup! (Step Brothers)

ALT: Dale Doback Says Yup! (Step Brothers)

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What sort of crazy person would create elevator control panels like this, in adjacent elevators in the same condo building? Only one of the elevators can go to the GR floor (fine) so the position of every floor above that is moved on the panel! Spatial memory be damned

Favorite passage from Life After Cars

In other words, you don't get rich from stock speculation by identifying the businesses whose profitability will grow the most - you get rich by identifying the businesses that *other investors* will pile into, pushing the price up. 21/

It may strike you as weird, but lenders *love* lending to poor people who will have trouble paying them back. Obviously, lenders want to be repaid, and the more money you have, the easier it is to settle your debts, but that means that if you have a lot of money, you pay *less* to borrow. 1/

It turns out that 1,447 minutes is one day and seven minutes, so somehow Google's transit data feed had the next train not coming for a bit more than a day, or something like that. The good news is that the next train actually came in two minutes which, technically, is "up to 1447 min"

this is really bad

kottke.org@kottke.org · 2w ago

“A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy.” (AI bots and prediction market dipshits.) [stephenfollows.com]

Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.

Romeo Kokriatski@vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 3w ago

I grew up in Jackson Heights in Queens and we still had a car, and our lives got measurably better when we did.

That’s funny. Much of the “anti-car” stuff I see is from parents who want safe streets for their kids. Many of them still own cars, but they want to be able to bike with their kids. They want their kids to be able to walk to school.

Romeo Kokriatski@vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 3w ago

Honestly with a 9mo without a car, it'd be a logistical nightmare just to make it to his checkups. I feel like a lot of anti-car stuff comes from people who don't have kids tbh

Some free WiFi systems at airports require that you supply an email address and blah@example.com usually works and avoids spamming some innocent. But YVR actually requires a _valid_ email address. As in, not just syntactically valid, but in existence!

Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.”

My speech in support of the Villages plan at council just now

Waymo’s robotaxis keep blocking bike lanes. It’s emblematic of a bigger problem. When passenger convenience and public safety conflict, robotaxi companies will favor the former. 🧵 about my guest essay in @driverlessdigest.bsky.social

Why Are Waymos Still Blocking Bike Lanes?

Waymo's robotaxis are marketed as dramatically safer than human drivers. But persistent bike lane incursions reveal an uncomfortable tradeoff: when safety and convenience collide, which one wins?

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"Some 40 years [ago], Finland´s capital started to design new solutions to reduce deadly road accidents - and then eventually eliminate them. Those efforts have now paid off. 12 consecutive months without a single road death..." You mean they didn't just try telling people to follow the law?

A year with zero deaths on its streets: How Helsinki became a world reference for road safety

With around 1.4 million inhabitants, the Helsinki metropolitan area has achieved an unquestionable milestone in road safety. What can other EU capitals and big cities learn from its success story?

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Ruofan: "The truth is, no amount of gentle density will ever be gentle enough to appease those who do not want things to ever change, and by prioritizing those voices for decade, council after council have robbed young people of the opportunity to stay in this great city." PERFECTLY SAID

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.