I hope things get easier. {hugs}

Throwback to a few weeks ago when we reached a historic agreement with Columbus elected officials to officially place an alternative-crisis response proposal on the May ballot!

Vote YES on Issue 5 by May 5!
@ofupac.bsky.social 🖤

Tell Columbus Metropolitan Library to stop their anti-union campaign Librarians and library workers at Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) are coming together to form our union. We deserve a voice in the policies that affect us, and we will use that collective voice to...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Columbus Metropolitan Library to stop their anti-union campaign. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.

They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Are you still receiving mail in that account from people other than you?

What code would you like to see generated for MaxBy and MinBy instead?

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
Leave your comment here:

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A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

This is an important read for DBAs, and pretty much everyone in IT.

blog.sqlauthority.com/2026/02/27/w...

#sqlfamily

I have a Roomba 980. It often runs out of battery before making it back to the charger. It is confused by chair legs that are close together under hour under the dining room table. A long piece of thread or a shoelace will cause problems. Get one that retains maps and lets you edit them..

Tell the Senate: REJECT the anti-voter SAVE Act The House of Representatives has passed the SAVE Act – a cruel, calculated attack on every American’s right to vote. It’s designed to effectively block millions of eligible Americans from casting a b...

The House passed the SAVE Act, the latest attempt to block millions of Americans from voting —including nearly 70 million married women.
Now it’s up to the Senate to stop it.
📞 Call your Senator today and tell them to REJECT the SAVE Act.
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“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

NEW: ProPublica and @texastribune.org found that DHS rushed a revamped tool to check voters’ citizenship into use while it was still adding data.

As a result, the tool has made persistent mistakes, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused Investigators say one immigration official abused his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he sexually abused a woman in his custody.

An AP review of crimes committed by ICE agents shows how their powers can be abused:

One official admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody.

Another is charged with taking bribes to remove detention orders on people targeted for deportation.

What Democrats need to know to truly reform ICE I'm an expert, and the misconduct and corruption run far deeper than even the deadly surges have shown.

As top immigration officials testify before Congress this morning, read @vermontgmg.bsky.social on what Democrats need to know to really reform ICE.

From a technical perspective, the latency involved in the vehicle "phoning a friend", getting routed to someone, who then has to look at the cameras, is far greater than zero milliseconds that would be needed in a real-time traffic situation.

If you use Notepad++, this is critical reading and you need to update ASAP

It does NOT say that ICE agents are not welcome as customers, only that they cannot enter private (employee-only?) areas without a judicial warrant. That statement is simply what is guaranteed by the Constitution. They are not taking much of a stand here.

Context: collecting Skymiles to fly people home who were kidnapped in Minnesota and released in Texas.

Please upvote: Enhance Extended Events to capture key values in the message for FK violation on INSERT statements.

#AzureSQL #SQLServer

100 percent you're going to see some right wing jerks complaining that Springsteen has gone woke because they never once actually listened to his lyrics before

Just so we are clear. Haitians are currently in the United States legally.

They are not here illegally.

Trump is revoking their legal status Feb. 3, and then, according to reports, immediately sending ICE in to Springfield and Columbus, Ohio, to target them.

Abolish. ice. 💔

I guess he just got lucky.

One of the many reasons we have cats instead of dogs. 😊

Given all the attempts to make absentee voting less available and reliable, this seems like one good way to compensate.

You should consider adding this to the output of your queries on sys.query_store_runtime_stats:

"ReplicaType = ISNULL(CHOOSE(rs.replica_group_id, 'Primary', 'Secondary', 'Geo secondary', 'Geo HA secondary', 'Named Replica'), 'Named Replica')"

As I found out the hard way, this means that you now see this query date for geo-replicated secondaries IN THE PRIMARY, which for most of us is an unexpected change that can lead to lots of confusion when trying to track down the source of performance issues on the secondary.

I think that the Indivisible groups have some resources for this (phone/text trees, email lists, etc.).

They are already in Columbus, although they haven't fatally shot anyone yet (they did shoot one guy in the leg this week). However, most people tend to shy away from shooting at Federal officers, regardless of circumstance. You never know when that could change.

More information from the guy whose car had smoke grenades and other stuff thrown in it. The baby's heart stopped and EMS was called to the scene. Yeah, ICE may have almost killed a 6 month old baby yesterday