pageflight

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[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Nice!

I hadn't heard about the local employment aspect:

New Bedford is home to the Marine Commerce Terminal, a $150 million specialized staging port for offshore wind. All of the massive turbine components for Vineyard Wind were stored and partially assembled there before being loaded on boats and sent to sea. The project has employed about 3,500 people, many of whom are union workers.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Most other brands can charge at Tesla superchargers now too, and other charging networks are gradually improving, and you'll do almost all of your charging at home or work anyway.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I see you, too, enjoy a good Beth Mole article.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

If only we could limit the damage to people who deserve it.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago (10 children)

Messing with the jet stream is terrifying.

means you get a lot of extremes next to each other,” Maue said. Storm fronts coming from the Pacific hit that high pressure heat dome in the Southwest and are pushed north to climb that mountainous jet stream peak, “grab access to that cold air reservoir up there” and bring it back down south down the other side of the hill, he said.

Numerous studies have connected unusual jet stream and polar vortex activity to shrinking Arctic sea ice and human-caused climate change.

The article doesn't talk about impact on this year's crops, but I can't imagine this is good for agriculture.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, he has a billion dollar army out there committing hate crimes, there's no "may" about it.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Wikipedia link to save other folks a search. Hadn't read about that before.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Don't be safe! It costs so much more than continuing to expand the bubble!

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fossil fuels & red meat!

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the "hire someone" vein, setting an artificial deadline can sometimes help. "If I don't build the X by Y myself, then we just go buy it."

As with anything, momentum builds too. If it's not something that has a lot of constraints, just looking for one little step is easier to accept than Starting The Project. Like, I'm not necessarily going to frame the new opening today, just cut a hole in the wall in the back of the closet. May depend on housemates' tolerance. But often just getting into the workshop is enough to overcome activation energy for me.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Same, that was news to me.

 

From How Eric Clapton’s racism sparked a musical revolution, more at Wikipedia and How We Beat The Fascists Last Time (YT / Nebula).

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Data is beautiful, humanity has a real horrifying underbelly.

 
 

Join the ACLU of Massachusetts, Indivisible Mass Coalition, Mass 50501, and partners from across the pro-democracy and pro-worker movement as we rise together.

Where: Pathways to Power AND Rally @ Boston Common—Proudly display your amazing signs, flags (no poles, please!), and your most creative protest attire as you make your way to Boston Common from 1-2 p.m. Let’s show the world what patriotism really looks like by filling the sidewalks. Consider getting off the T a few stops early to extend this visibility walk! 2-4 p.m. Rally @ Boston Common.

When: 1-4pm (1-2 Pathways to Power march, 2-4pm Boston Common)

Anyone have good sign ideas? I was considering just listing people murdered by ICE. Something I read claimed connecting potential dictators' actions with overthrowing democracy was a key, so maybe quoting Anne Frank or drawing comparisons to Stalin/Hitler.

 

Request for email or in-person testimony, for bills that would affect Boston and Bedford. Main link is a Google doc with templates and some suggested points to bring up.

From the opening of the bill for Boston:

Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 452 of the Acts of 1948, or any other general or special law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, all regular and special elections in the city of Boston for the positions of mayor and district city councillor involving three or more qualified candidates, and all regular elections for the position of city councillor-at-large, shall be conducted by ranked choice voting. In any contest using ranked choice voting, the general election ballot shall allow voters to rank four candidates, including write-in lines, in order of preference.

The in-person testimony is Thursday, February 10, 2026, at 1PM - 5PM at the Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02133 .

If you're unfamiliar with ranked-choice voting (RCV), it lets you list our 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th choice candidates, so you can prioritize whoever your real top pick is while also putting your weight behind a backup in case your 1st choice doesn't win.

(Also I see I'm posting a lot here, glad to pipe down if it's too much but hope folks find the info useful!)

 

Following up on my previous post: finished with the miter saw. Sanded the handle and blade, jointed and sharpened the teeth, waxed the blade, BLO on the handle, polished the reinstalled the nuts.

saw in cut

Seems to cut well!

The blade has a nice marking on it, hard to photograph. It's not perfectly shiny, but I got the bulk of the rust off anyway.

blade detail

Working on the handle for the 2nd one. Sanding those inside surfaces is a pain, tips welcome. It has some big cracks, so I'm filling those with sawdust+glue.

handle sanded

Also working on a plane.

plane

Disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled the metal. Sharpening in progress. Looks like it's missing one piece, a little washer that sits on the lateral adjustment arm and fits into the slot in the iron. Both wooden handles were split, so I'm gluing them before refinishing.

 

Via Indivisible on Bluesky (sorry for the image of text, that's what was posed there). The email is elizabeth.lutts@masenate.gov . The bill is SD.3574 .

Related is an email template for the federal budget in the Senate.

 
  • In your Gmail app, go to Settings.
  • Select your Gmail address.
  • Clear the Smart features checkbox.
  • Go to Google Workspace smart features.
  • Clear the checkboxes for: Smart features in Google Workspace, Smart features in other Google products
  • If you have more Gmail accounts, repeat these steps for each one.
  • Turning off Gemini in Gmail also disables basic, long-standing features like spellchecking, which predate AI assistants. This design choice discourages opting out and shows how valuable your AI-processed data is for Google.

This has finally gotten me to take steps to deGoogle my email, Fastmail trial underway.

 

The move came as dozens of immigrants arrested in Minneapolis were shipped to the Torrance County Detention Facility, which is run by private prison operator CoreCivic, in New Mexico. One of them, 33-year-old Jorge Cordoba, told Source NM he lived in Minneapolis for more than 20 years and was in the country legally under protected Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival status.

Residents who spoke during public comment were overwhelmingly in favor of the bill, though Otero County Attorney R.B. Nichols spoke during a virtual public comment period to oppose the bill. He said it would disproportionately harm economies in regions like Otero or Torrance counties that rely on detention centers for jobs.

The bill’s supporters, though, contend that it would not force these facilities to shut down. Many detention centers contract with other law enforcement agencies, such as the U.S. Marshals, and would still detain people accused of crimes.

“We’re disentangling ourselves from the immigration industry that’s been…a money-making, for-profit machine off the backs of our neighbors and families and friends,” Chávez, one of the bill’s sponsors, told Source NM. “I think that it sends a message to the rest of the country.”

 

On Oct 7

Boston police said a group of between 200 to 300 protesters blocked Tremont Street near Winter Street around 6:46 p.m., while officers were responding to an unrelated emergency three blocks away.

“When officers attempted to move the group to the sidewalk to allow emergency vehicles to pass, protesters surrounded police cruisers, kicked vehicle doors, and resisted dispersal efforts,” the department said in a statement.

 

Mass 50501 will join Boston DSA, PSL, and other orgs in calling for an end to Trump’s extrajudicial acts of war against Venezuela and an end to ICE’s reign of terror across the U.S. tomorrow, Saturday, Jan 10th, at 12 PM at Boston’s State House.

After the protest, join us to march to the JFK Federal Building for LUCE’s 2 PM rally and vigil for Renee Good and all those whose lives have been taken by ICE.

Via the Mass 50501 email list.

 
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