It's March. At work we're activating summer heat protocols. In March. Totally normal. Totally fine. This is fine.

I did not have a female-to-female db9 gender changer but I did have two null modems and a male to male gender changer. Adapt. Improvise. Overcome. 😆🙈

Also, it's 2026 and critical infrastructure still relies on rs-232.

Apparently because I rolled over a 401k when I changed jobs AZ won’t let me e-file my state taxes. Not rejected. Not wrong. Just… the system literally refuses.
So now in the year 2026 I have to print out my tax return and mail it like it’s 1994.
Phenomenal system. No notes.

Trump saying he won’t work on any legislation until the SAVE Act passes is peak political hostage-taking.

Congress isn’t powerless. If they worked together to pass legislation that The People want, they could override a veto, including a pocket veto. The problem isn’t procedure. It’s political will

Banner Health went cashless.

In the lobby there is a machine that sells prepaid credit cards with a fee so you can pay them.

If you only have cash you must pay extra first.

Healthcare but make it hostile to poor people.

Japan and Brazil within the same half hour 🤯Not bad for something my boyfriend bought off Facebook Marketplace with a portable antenna stuck in an umbrella stand on my roof.

#hamradio #amatureradio #dx

Are you wondering how to vote in an upcoming Arizona election? Here is a quick cheat sheet -- if the candidate or proposition is supported/endorsed by the AZ Free Enterprise Club, Turning Point, or Arizonans For Responsible Growth -- vote against it.

Signs went up attacking a slate of candidates for the upcoming SRP elections who are heavily in favor of expanding renewable energy.... Arizonans for Responsible Growth is funded by two companies that build natural gas power plants and Google..... Not exactly your average Arizona citizens.

Back in high school at the start of the Iraq war I cited Tinker to my school's principal when he tried to forbid me from counter-tabling the army recruiters in the Lunch Room; I learned about the case on the @aclu.org's website.

Me: I'm an out and proud queer polyamorus person.

Also me: uses the generic term partner at my blue collar job because it's just less of a hassle.

Kinda wish I was hunkered down for the blizzard back east today -- it's gonna be 85° and sunny here in Phoenix today. Stay safe y'all.

I really got into ham radio as a way to distract myself from current events. It's been fun. Doing some #pota hunting from my back patio today.

If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up.

But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.

With two goats and a pony, an addiction treatment 'farm' takes root in Mass. The addiction recovery program in Gardner, Mass., is part animal sanctuary, part therapy center. The men who stay there get assigned to care for one of dozens of animals — from chickens, pigs, goats a...

This NPR piece on a “healing farm” for addiction recovery is genuinely beautiful; community, dignity, animals.

Which is why I’m already worried. In the U.S., anything that works eventually gets swallowed by private equity and turned into a billing machine.

Healing shouldn’t be an asset class.

Not saying Ancient Aliens and Honey Boo Boo made America stupid. Just saying they didn’t exactly fight against it.

A 50-year mortgage isn’t innovation it’s indentured servitude with paperwork. The bank gets your money for half a century, and by the time it’s “yours,” your grandkids are just inheriting the debt. You won’t own your home the bank will own your life.

Dick Cheney’s gone. The world’s not poorer for it. Some people leave behind legacies of kindness or progress, he left behind war crimes and a generation of suffering.

But they won’t. They’ll send another fundraising email, host another donor dinner, and talk about “protecting democracy” while doing absolutely nothing to build it.
3/3

They should be out there feeding people, handing out voter registration forms with every bag of groceries, and finding candidates to run for every city council seat, school board, and county office in the country.
2/3

If the Democrats had a shred of sense, or a backbone, they’d be setting up food banks in every county in America right now. SNAP runs out of funding next month and millions of people are about to go hungry. That should be their line in the sand.
1/3

An unvaccinated child in Texas has died of the measles; their parents should be charged with manslaughter. It was entirely a preventable death.

Shrinkflation is really hitting my girl scout cookies hard... These thin mints are becoming boxes of nonsense.

Elon hates USAID because of its work in the anti-apartheid movement.

Physically I'm at work but mentally I'm back in Alaska daydreaming about running off into the wilderness and never returning.

#Alaska #TongassNationalForest #Daydreaming #wilderness

fry from futurama is angry and says " i 'm literally angry with rage ! " ALT: fry from futurama is angry and says " i 'm literally angry with rage ! "

When you spend 5 hours on the phone with a vendor troubleshooting an outage only for it to magically resolve itself.

Spotted these on my morning walk all over the neighborhood, QR code goes: wehaverights.us/

My plan on how to cope with the next four years is to just be weird as fuck.

It’s extremely fun watching Trump remake the US in a day after 4 years of liberals insisting that Biden was powerless to make things better.

Hello world.