Democracy doesn’t die in darkness.
Democracy dies behind a paywall.

Gonna need a survival suit if I go out today. Lake Effect Snow Warning extended until Tuesday. We already have over 24” (60cm) of snow. Hasn’t snowed like this in years.

@Adorable_Sergal The Italian restaurant has been there since the early 1980s. The waiter sits you at a booth. The wood is worn, but still feels comfortable. A contemporary music mix quietly fills the air. There’s a faint tinge of tobacco smoke from the smoking area in the other half of the restaurant.
It’s just around 4:30 on a Saturday afternoon - but a reservation isn’t required. After a minute, a menu and a tumbler filled with ice water is delivered to your booth.

@Adorable_Sergal You’re in the mall. To your north is Babbages. To your south is Radio Shack. There are assorted goods and curio shops to the west. There’s a dimly lit Italian restaurant to the east - you can smell the delightful and delicious scents before you see it. You have twenty dollars in your wallet and a couple quarters for a pay phone.

Been a long time since I did anything with the transformer model. Rendered in #Blender. Going to be replacing the cables on the 1H 750kV connections with aluminum bars. #blender3d #blenderart #electricity

Firewalls are partially transparent to not block the view of the transformer itself.

How Black Friday purportedly works - my understanding:

1. Item X costs $50 to make
2. X normally sells for $80
3. X gets marked up to $100 in November
4. Black Friday - X gets marked down to a Black Friday “sales price” of only $70

Or:

1. TV A costs $600 to make and sells for $700
2. TV A.1 is a cheaper substandard variant of TV A, costs $300 to make, and it’s sold on Black Friday for only $400

US folks - are you doing Black Friday shopping? (Boosts encouraged)

Going down a sort of memory lane here looking through old posts.

This is where I met someone who ended up being extremely influential to me here: @tvorsk! Unfortunately auto-delete nuked a lot of the conversation about the sounds relays made.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Just wanted to say I’ll soon be transitioning from mstdn.social to tiggi.es - Leo Burr’s Instance. Should be seamless.

It’s supposed to be joyful, but tomorrow is going to be an extremely challenging day for a lot of people.

Make sure to lend people an ear and some kindness - they might even need an extra bit of patience too.

Doing some cleanup Mastodon post deletions pending my instance move, and I got a rate limiting message - I guess deleting posts are actually sort of costly for the server. Makes sense.

It looks like everyone’s data is up for grabs on BlueSky.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/blueskys-open-api-means-anyone-can-scrape-your-data-for-ai-training/

I think I’m going to buy some clay.

I keep getting warnings about Windows 10 end of life support.

My plan is to move to Linux.

@xoagray Yeah. I don’t think it should be some exclusive club - quite the opposite.

I don’t mind if there aren’t ten thousand people following me and blowing up statistics for my posts.

No algorithm, just good folks working together.

I think that Threads are BlueSky are running a race while the Fediverse is running a marathon. Or simply not running in a race at all.

@Zeta @FlitsFlash It’s OK to not feel OK

Waited over 30 minutes in a Wendy’s drive-through. Gave up. It’s absolutely insane. You’re practically better off ordering carry out from a proper restaurant considering the speed, quality, and price now for most fast food.

I’m the guy at work they ask to check one thing — and I end up reporting errors (of varying severity) in four other things.

“I’M FREE!” - #Cray T3E Cabinet