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2026-08-13 20:36:19 CEST

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Seriously though I just bought the redart on a whim and it turns out to be so incredibly beautiful. This is the first thing I cast from the slip and bisqued at ^04 and the color is excellent. Digital Fire says redart gives it's best color between ^02 and ^2 but it's hard to imagine it being better than this. Quite a contrast with the raw slip.
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2026-08-13 19:35:03 CEST

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I'm not so sure. Like what's the weight of one gram of vinegar plus one gram of baking soda? Or one gram of lye plus one gram of hair? Or even iron plus water over time. Some mixtures react and lose weight, some react and gain weight, and some react and the weight doesn't change.

2026-08-13 18:46:55 CEST

Here's a question for potters and/or chemists and probably a lot of other people too.
Pottery plaster is mixed with water at a 10 to 7 ratio. That is e.g. a kilogram of dry plaster wants 700 grams of water. Similarly a basic recipe for refractory molds for glass casting is half dry pottery plaster and half silica flour with a dry ingredient to water ratio of 3 to 2.
The problem lies in predicting the volume of liquid plaster produced from a given amount of water and dry plaster. There's a lot of miscibility going on and it's not even close to the sum of the volumes. Andrew Martin* has a recipe that gives one quart of wet plaster and using the ratio it's easy enough to scale it up or down as needed. But there's no such recipe for the glass casting mix, and anyway using a recipe bothers me to some extent. What I'm looking for is a direct way from "I need x milliliters of wet mix so I should use y milliliters of water" and then use the ratio to calculate the amount of powder.
So what occurs to me is this: barring technical and irrelevant details like elevation about sea level and air temperature the specific gravity (= weight in grams of one CC) of each of these two mixes ought to be constant. Suppose way pottery plaster has a specific gravity d. Then if I need e.g. v cubic centimeters of mix I know I need vd grams of mix. If w is the amount of water I need and p is the amount of plaster, both in grams, then we should have:
w+p=vd
7p=10w
So 0.7p=w and therefore p=vd/1.7 and w=0.7vd/1.7.We can do something analogous with the plaster/silica recipe. A formula like this would be much easier to work with since d is constant so I could get the amounts directly with just two calculations.
My question is: will this work? I'm worried a little about the assumption that the weight of the wet mix is the sum of the weights of the ingredients. There's some kind of chemical reaction happening with the water and the plaster and it wouldn't be all that strange if some weight was gained or released at that stage e.g. if some atoms are related or absorbed. The thought of mixing and measuring accurately enough is daunting so I thought I'd ask fedi!
*If you want to learn slipcasting Andrew Martin's book The Essential Guide to Mold Making & Slip Casting is fantastic.
#Ceramics #Pottery #Slipcasting #MoldMaking #Plaster

2026-08-03 22:24:44 CEST

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Would hogar be better than casa here?

2026-08-03 22:21:32 CEST

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oh my thanks! That sounds s lot better. Google was like all we are is mutual companions walking home. This one says "Solo estamos caminando el uno al otro a casa"

2026-07-31 23:05:19 CEST

#Breakups #alternatefridaymusic
Good Enough -- Fred Eaglesmith
And when I see her she says hi
But she's got that look in her eye
I know she's got some other guy
He looks like he's in junior high
I stole myself a car last week
Drove it up to willis peaks
Covered it in gasoline
But it's not the same when she's not with me
When I was good enough and we lived the life
Good enough and she carried a knife
Good enough and she wasn't like anybody that you ever knew
Sorry for uploading instead of linking but my favorite version doesn't seem to be on YT
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/117/016/617/501/237/922/original/7801ac9bfaaae4c8.mp3

2026-07-31 19:19:51 CEST

Melting glass beads onto fired clay is one of my favorite techniques. Until Tuesday I was sticking them on with white glue and firing them horizontally, which is necessary because the glue burns off long before the glass melts. I did the first five columns of this one at a time, propping the mug up in the kiln so that the column was horizontal.
But then on Monday I bought some sodium silicate at the ceramics store. It's a very high temperature liquid glass to glass adhesive (among other things). I used it to stick on all the rest of the beads plus some fancy stuff on the handle, and this is the result!
The only drawback is that it doesn't fire into the glaze at glass melting temperatures and leaves a kind of hard clear scum that's fired enough to be irremovable. At first I was painting a stripe of sodium silicate and placing the beads onto it because that's how I did the white glue, but it's noticable after firing (although I couldn't get a picture which shows it) then I learned to dip each bead into the sodium silicate and stick it on so that it all stays under the bead, which works great!
#Ceramics #Pottery #Glass #SodiumSilicate
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2026-07-30 01:45:25 CEST

An old friend of mine -- it'll be fifty years next fall -- lives in an illegal rental in Oakland, California. It's illegal in the sense that it was never registered with the Oakland rental board. His original landlords sold the property to a flipper a few months ago and they've been trying to get my friend to move out.
They started by offering him cash for keys a few months ago, but two different lawyers advised him not to take the deal because it came with onerous conditions (that I can't remember right now) so he didn't take it. Then they progressed to yelling at him and calling him names.
A couple weeks ago they escalated to smashing out his car windows and a few of the apartment windows. They also spraypainted the word "PEDO" on an exterior wall. The cops, doing their job by protecting the landlord, refused to do anything because there's putatively no proof that the landlord had it done. They also told him to remove his personal belongings from the bathroom and the kitchen because they were going to start demolition, they said.
Then last night they escalated again. At around 2 am he was working at the computer when someone smashed both the windows near his desk and sprayed pepper spray through the holes. They also smashed out all his car windows again, sprayed his front door with pepper spray, and painted "PEDO" on the side of his car. S again the cops, who were apparently personally sympathetic, still said they couldn't do anything. One of the cops advised him to file a civil suit pro se.
He's physically unharmed and is talking to lawyers and doesn't feel like giving in yet, but of course he's worried, especially given last year's murder of a tenant by a landlord who wanted the property vacant to increase the sale value. If you follow me chances are good that you already understand the intrinsic scumminess of landlords, and I do too, but it's still surprising and shocking to see the lengths they'll go to to collect money they are absolutely convinced is theirs by right.
#OaklandCalifornia #Oakland #California #Landlords #Rent #RentIsTheft #PropertyIsTheft
https://abc7news.com/post/civil-lawsuit-alleges-motive-killing-tenant-eric-bigone-san-franciscos-outer-sunset-district/19319210/

2026-07-08 16:28:49 CEST

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These are so thin that they're translucent at cone 10, which is something I never thought I'd be able to do!
Now I'm on to the next phase, which involves sprigs and very tiny pieces of glass melted onto various parts of the outside. More news when I have it!
3/3
#ceramics #Pottery #Slipcasting #Porcelain
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2026-07-08 16:24:34 CEST

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I made press molds from some Czech glass buttons I had laying around and used those to decorate the bottom handle attachments. These are a little blurry, but so are the originals.
2/
#ceramics #Pottery #Slipcasting #Porcelain #CzechGlass
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2026-07-08 16:19:18 CEST

A couple years ago I had a vision of a porcelain mug but it was far beyond my skills at the time. At the beginning of this summer I finally felt like it was within my grasp so I started learning the necessary skills. Slipcasting was the most complex but two months in I feel like I'm good enough at that to move to the next phase. Here are a couple of slipcast mugs I finished yesterday as proof of concept. The decoration isn't what I ultimately want, but it's beautiful in itself and I thought I'd share.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/884/782/379/673/399/original/2d4c757b4d0f5708.jpg

2026-06-06 05:00:07 CEST

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No, that's bunya. Nunya is a country in East Africa.

2026-06-01 21:50:54 CEST

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I talk up violence? You must have me confused with someone who lives in your head.[1] Laws are enforced by violence. Without violence there are no laws. Compulsory voting laws require violence. It looks like you're the one talking up violence, not me.

2026-06-01 21:34:46 CEST

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Your contention is that vocally opposing mandatory voting helps maga win? Why do you think that?

2026-06-01 21:19:18 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116676429719184525
They're fucking whiny losers so the cops should hurt them, possibly kill them.
I'm a whiny piece of shit (but I usually vote so I guess Ben Royce doesn't have me on his kill list... Yet)
Ben Royce is a bully. If this is the libs' get out the vote messaging I'm not surprised they want to call in the violence workers when it's ineffective.
#note1gvj…2466

2026-05-26 00:56:57 CEST

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These are fantastic! Do you make your own molds? I've been fusing glass in my ceramics kiln recently and thought I'd try casting. I made a mold out of porcelain and filled it with frit with kiln wash as a release but it wasn't satisfactory. I will try zyp next bc your results look so good!

2026-05-08 06:59:12 CEST

What the cool kids are drinking in Hades?
#GinAndChthonic #Bookstodon #FictionalNovels #TheTourist #AustralianTV
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2026-05-05 22:16:00 CEST

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It's excellent in birria too. Full disclosure: I'm half Romanian.

2026-05-04 21:59:02 CEST

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I had the opposite experience. My parents were red diaper babies. They took me to see Billy Jack with some of their friends and made sure we understood cops and ranchers are really the bad guys.

2026-05-04 18:30:59 CEST

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Yeah absolutely. I'm indifferent to fediverse symbols but as a mathematician I'm professionally obligated to mock that damned ∴ on sight.

2026-05-04 18:19:28 CEST

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I'm happy to see that the proposed fediverse symbol has three asterisks instead of three dots. The three dots thing at least among mathematicians connotes someone who peaked in middle school geometry. It might be different for logicians.

2026-04-29 23:18:16 CEST

I solved the Rubik's cube...
#RubiksCube #Math #Mathematics #Puzzles

2026-04-23 03:55:07 CEST

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Just my personal impression as a native speaker but I think both those phrases would only be said as a goodbye. Just plain "good evening" is a way to greet someone at night and "good night" is also a goodbye. I don't think they're time based other than that you can only use them at night.
Now if I could only figure out when "buenos dias" gives way to "buenas tardes" I would feel much more confident in greeting my neighbors...

2026-04-22 23:50:57 CEST

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Pretty sure wert is it. The second and third rows are out because of vowels and wert is the only four letter word on the first row.

2026-04-20 02:02:11 CEST

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Reading Thistlewood's diary was an incredibly painful experience. To call him a monster feels like an understatement, and yet he and his white neighbors all thought he was a normal guy, a good neighbor.

2026-04-20 01:23:43 CEST

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Speaking of this do you know Dixie be Damned by Neil Shirley and Saralee Stafford? It's a history of Southern rebellions and a good corrective to the attitude you're calling out.
When I moved to Virginia in 1998 I really had to come to terms with the fact that southerners were one of the very few minorities that Yankees felt free to mock openly. Now there are even fewer but it's still acceptable somehow.

2026-04-16 19:47:47 CEST

I was smoking some lovely hash last week and I realized I could use a few more pipes. I looked on eBay, but then I realized that I had everything on hand to make one myself. I've made a lot of things out of clay but for some reason it never occurred to me too make a pipe. This came out of the kiln this morning and I plan to test it out thoroughly later today, around 4:20 I imagine!
It's porcelain painted with a cobalt oxide wash. I don't use much glaze in the studio -- mostly oxides and Mason stains either as washes or blended into the clay body. I just love porcelain and in this case it let me make the stem very thin.
#Ceramics #Pottery #Porcelain #StonerEngineering #420pm
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2026-04-13 02:42:04 CEST

Does it count as failing the Bechdel test if three women are talking about a man who attacked them and then they fought him off, stole his car, ran into him, backed over him twice, put his corpse in his car, and drove off to hide him and the car out "on the moors"?
#BechdelTest #Brassic #TV #Television

2026-04-11 18:23:09 CEST

Tuesday, April 7th. Catie Laffoon speaks absolute truth to the LA City Police Commission about LAPD violence against protestors. 🔥🧨
"You guys better watch out because you are starving an entire fucking city and they have nothing left to lose."
Via @KatanaSpeaks on Twitter.
#LosAngeles #LAPD #CatieLaffoon #LosAngelesPoliceCommission #ICE #ACAB #NoKings #Protest
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/386/969/256/730/928/original/a2fe708d1b99512f.mp4

2026-04-11 02:20:03 CEST

I don't know if I'm the last person to know this but I just learned about Soulseek, which is music sharing software that's different from torrenting. It works so well and the selection is beyond belief! I found two albums that I've had on vinyl forever but could never find digital versions.
I started with a Linux flatpack, which hung my computer a couple times -- this *never* happens on Linux -- but then found out about Licorice, which is a client with a Debian repository and it's working great! Anyway, here's Ted Lundy and the Southern Mountain Boys singing It Rained a Mist, which is an obscure murder ballad. Arrr, y'all! 🏴‍☠️🦜
#Soulseek #Bluegrass #TedLundy #ItRainedAMist #Americana #Piracy #Licorice
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/383/188/360/500/864/original/7479750ae58bdc26.mp3

2026-04-07 22:29:21 CEST

World War Two was the archetypal good war. And ask any liberal, FDR was the archetypal good president. But don't ask Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie -- The Almanac Singers.[1] They released Songs for John Doe[2] in 1941 and it's full of anti-draft, anti-war, anti-FDR songs, inspired by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the first peacetime conscription law ever enacted in the US.[3]
And are you afraid to fight, Billy boy, Billy boy?
Are you afraid to fight, charming Billy?
You can comе around to me when England's a democracy...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almanac_Singers
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_John_Doe
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940
#ProtestSongs #AlmanacSingers #BillyBoy #WorldWar2 #WW2 #Conscription #SelectiveService #WoodyGuthrie #PeteSeeger #FolkMusic

2026-04-07 03:44:22 CEST

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Here are Sally Wainwright and the main actors talking about the show.
https://youtube.com/shorts/_m9FkCWM3pM?si=ipTodk_wwCSh-L7L

2026-04-07 03:43:34 CEST

I just finished Riot Women and it was just about perfect! Five menopausal women form a punk band and write angry songs about their lives. Sally Wainwright's scripts are tragic and hilarious, the acting is excellent. There's nothing about this show I didn't love. And it passes the Bechdel test with flying colors.
One big problem with TV shows (and probably movies, but I don't watch many) about fictional musicians that rely on original music is that the music sucks. I liked Nashville a lot as a soap opera but it's musically blah with one or two exceptions and they're mostly that way. This show is an exception. The songs probably aren't going to make the hit parade IRL but they're totally listenable.
Here's one of the songs -- Violet -- sung by the great Rosalie Craig -- Watch it!
#RiotWomen #SallyWainwright #TV #Television #RosalieCraig #PunkRock #Menopause
https://youtu.be/sSM3XOHMkx8?si=FnfK2Mn1_7_WrN54

2026-04-06 08:13:32 CEST

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Starting to sound a lot like Marc Bolan in here...

2026-04-06 04:16:32 CEST

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Talk about kicking over a hive!
cc: @npub1mt2…gsfp

2026-04-05 23:18:44 CEST

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I think this is a much harder problem than that. It's necessary to account for the fact that for the situation to stay stable all three birthdays must be after February. No matter whether we have a leap year or not there are 306 days after February.
So each person has 306 ways to be born after February. The problem is that the denominator changes in a leap year and I'm not sure how to account for that, so let p be the probability that all three are born after February.
Next we want all three to be born on the same day of the week. It's easier to do this by calculating the chance that all three are born on different days. This is (7/7)(6/7)(5/7)≈0.612. So the probability that all three are born on same day of week is ≈1-0.612=0.388.
This means the probability for the whole thing is ≈p×0.388. But what's p? I have no idea. You'd probably get a pretty decent approximation by just forgetting about leap days if that's good enough.
Disclaimer: discrete probability problems are hard and I only thought about this superficially so I wouldn't be surprised if I'm totally wrong.

2026-04-05 17:56:04 CEST

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Nice! It reminds me of Queneau's Cent mille milliards de poèmes, which has a good web implementation (link below).
One way you could put it on a static website would be to have a page for each line X containing the whole poem but starting with line X. A little JavaScript on the landing page will allow a random starting page. If they're all formatted the same then clicking to the next one would feel like scrolling.
https://bevrowe.info/Internet/Queneau/Queneau.html

2026-04-05 17:28:09 CEST

Kuwait Ministry of the Interior was hacked by Nasir Security. They only released a few images today but they're threatening to release much more if the Kuwaiti government continues its cooperation with the US and Israel. Onion link below.
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We, the sons of Al-Naseer, by the will of God, have successfully infiltrated the governmental and intelligence systems of Kuwait. We have uncovered many secret documents related to military and informational cooperation, as well as comprehensive support between Kuwait and its security, military, and American agencies.
These documents and information contain many names, identities, and photos belonging to officials, employees, military personnel, as well as princes of the Kuwaiti army, and senior political and security figures in Kuwait. In the coming days, we will send this information to those concerned for security, military, and economic strikes.
We are present within the nerves and secret corridors of Kuwait. If the Kuwaiti state does not pay attention to this warning, there will be severe security attacks across all governmental and military sectors and more within Kuwait.
If Kuwait continues its joint operations with the American-Zionist enemy, we will نشر more documents and escalate hostile actions.
#Hackers #Kuwait #DataLeaks #Hacktivism #Nasir #NasirSecurity #IranWar #Israel #USPol
http://yzcpwxuhbkyjnyn4qsf4o5dkvu6m2fyo7dwizmnlutanlmzlos7pa6qd.onion/pages/kuwait-ministry-interior.html
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2026-04-02 14:54:10 CEST

The #ThursdayFiveList theme is songs with an #AlliterativeTitle and why not the artists too??
Big Bill Broonzy -- Backwater Blues
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhqvkAjorQA
Brown Bird -- Horse Hooves
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eQXFPHSUivs
Freestyle Fellowship -- Jupiter's Journey
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O9XHaUnNwlU
Go-Gos -- Fading Fast
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-m1mJM5EZw
Kris Kristofferson -- Duvalier's Dream
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FQiOkgMcrNc

2026-03-31 22:59:19 CEST

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We have this in LA but for tamales, mostly on weekends. Not music but a squeeze horn, at least in my neighborhood. Champurrado too! Also elotes y esquites every afternoon from a lady on a bike cart.

2026-03-31 22:52:09 CEST

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I poured over your list and it really peaked my interest!

2026-03-27 00:12:11 CET

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My parents used to take me to Yogi Bhajan's ashram in Los Angeles from like 1969 to 1973 and to his birthday party every year, held at an elementary school if my 6 year old self's memories are accurate. I loved it all because at least from my pov it was wall to wall happy hippies and endless yummy vegetarian food. One had to burn an ego stick (which looked suspiciously like a popsicle stick, but 🤷‍♂️) at the ashram door before entering. I don't know if it was an actual evolution of 3HO or just that I didn't understand anything as a child, but OMG everything changed at some point and the tread
Side note: From 2009 through whenever Netflix bought out the whole block I used to frequent the huge 3HO center in Hollywood because of the excellent and cheap food and once when I mentioned the birthday parties a large group of employees gathered around and peppered me with questions about the good old days that they were uniformly too young to have lived through

2026-03-26 18:58:02 CET

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I take your point, but the more I learn about it the more I think it works like this all the way up, so that the state isn't actually intrinsically hierarchical for the pure capitalists that depend on it. It's very like a cooperative for them. Co-ops might come together to form metacoops to promote their interests, e.g. agricultural coops form cooperative organizations of coops.
Similarly, local elites create institutions like state legislatures and state militias to handle problems that require larger scale cooperation, but it's very much the individual locally situated zillionaires that are running things. State institutions are tools of local power and from their internal POV it's very much anarchism.
Clyde Wood' Development Arrested has detailed convincing explanation of how this has worked over centuries in the Mississippi Delta, but it's the same everywhere.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/1643-development-arrested

2026-03-26 18:24:54 CET

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At least in Los Angeles, where I understand the machinations of the 0.1% at a disturbing level of detail, it's possible to actually watch zillionaire conspiracies in action because most of their work has a significant public component consisting of lobbyist communication, business improvement district proceedings, etc. They don't have to be secret because what they're actually doing is camouflaged by internalized myths about democracy.
They don't have one overarching conspiracy, but rather a lot of smaller scale conspiracies that network and cooperate and support one another. Since they essentially all want the same things they don't have to work hierarchically among themselves.
In fact, immersing myself in zillionaire politics here is one of the main things that convinced me that anarchism is viable. No laws control the power elite here. They form dynamic alliances with each other when it helps their individual goals. They defer to one another in their own spheres of control. If one of them gets out of line to the extent that it interferes with too many other elites' class interests they'll band together to rein them in or punish them, etc.
The slogan about socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor, could be amended with anarchism for the ruling class.

2026-03-26 17:56:22 CET

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Cops threatening electeds is business as usual in Los Angeles and has been since forever.
Here's a timeline of LAPD spying since the 1920s, which has always included extortion files on city council members.
https://stoplapdspying.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Timeline-of-LAPD-Spying-Surveillance.....pdf
For instance in 1927: "LAPD officers, working in conjunction with mob boss Alfred Marco, pay the sister-in-law of an LAPD detective $2500 to seduce married City Council member Carl Jacobson in an effort to discredit him. Jacobson had been critical of the close connection between LAPD and criminals running gambling rings in the city."
And this has continued unabated although mostly less explicitly down to the present. Not always less explicitly, though. Sometimes even now they'll even publicly menace them, as in e.g. this incident from 2020 when what looks like hundreds of LAPD officers surrounded council member Monica Rodriguez in a parking structure and yelled at her about perceived cuts to their funding:
https://x.com/jasmineviel/status/1268961412241473539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1268961412241473539%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fgxebwb%2F%3Fresponsive%3Dtrueis_nightmode%3Dfalse

2026-03-23 02:44:52 CET

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Not a movie, but the recent (October 2025) miniseries Frauds is premiere heist content!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauds_(TV_series)

2026-03-22 23:53:17 CET

RE: https://sfba.social/@karlauerbach/116274850859884553
This new to me and completely unique cover of This Land is Your Land is so, so good. And it reminded me of this also unique also excellent cover by Mojo Nixon.
No matter what religion you have
No matter what part of the world you come from to here
This piece of dirt under our feet
Doesn't belong to just one person
The person with the most lawyers doesn't own all of it
It belongs to everybody!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXgL9hLuzQ
#note1wpg…s5hu

2026-03-11 18:42:26 CET

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Yuck I'm sorry to hear it. Being scammed is so hurtful.

2026-03-09 20:04:39 CET

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Sapporo Ichiban tonkotsu flavor is my current favorite -- Shin Black is also high on my list.

2026-02-27 00:30:00 CET

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Me in 1994 to chairperson who wanted me to set up a website for our department: "This world wide web thing is a fad. We already have a gopher server."

2026-02-25 19:57:38 CET

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yay conifers! I don't think you have ponderosas in your neck of the woods, but they're easy to identify because the bark smells like vanilla.

2026-02-15 20:00:29 CET

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Yeah that is a problem. Pachli supports on-device translation.

2026-02-15 19:38:50 CET

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2026-01-08 02:20:36 CET

Today January 7 ICE killed a woman in Minneapolis. Take to the streets -- Los Angeles. Downtown LA Action. 4 PM. Overpass between Arcadia and Aliso. 400 N Spring Street.
#FuckICE #ICEOut #ICE #LosAngeles #Minneapolis #ACAB #ReneeNicoleGood
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2026-01-02 23:18:32 CET

California law repealing criminal penalties for parents of chronically truant kids took effect yesterday. Kamala Harris was, of course, a big fan of this when she was San Francisco County DA.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB461
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/01/california-harris-truancy-00591137
#Antischooling #deschooling #California #Truancy #CompulsorySchooling #ACAB

2025-11-26 18:37:45 CET

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K-12 -- hell no. In fact hell no to compulsory schooling.
College math/physics/CS classes -- absolutely necessary. Learning math and mathlike things is like learning to ride a bike. You just have to keep getting on and falling down. It doesn't matter how many videos you watch about it.
Other subjects in college -- ?? 🤷‍♂️

2024-10-02 02:33:36 CEST

I'm teaching first year writing this semester. Their first major paper was due last week and four out of fourteen clearly used AI to write their papers. This after I had them write repeated drafts by hand in class so I could get a sense of their actual style. But the final version was typed, and that's when they had the computer do it.
It's obvious to me that none of them could have written what they turned in, but this is hard to explain to students and it's not great to challenge them without evidence. Of course the AI never writes the same thing twice, so the submissions aren't reproducible. TurnItIn is reprehensible and not very accurate, so that's out. But it turns out that asking ChatGPT to "finish this paragraph" along with a suspicious first sentence from their papers gets close enough to convince them to admit that they used it.
It returns different sentences and mostly similar or identical words, but the flow of ideas and the content is pretty much the same. This worked reliably. They're all new to college and I'm opposed to it anyway, so I'm not willing to report them, but they're all redoing the assignment.
Oh also, in order to encourage them to take the risk of doing their own writing I'm only grading them on whether they turn in all the assignments, including drafts and revisions, so there's nothing to gain grade wise by using AI, but I guess the temptation was too much. 🤷🏻
#FirstYearWriting #AI #ChatGPT #CollegeWriting #TurnItIn

2024-09-29 17:03:09 CEST

Math education as an academic discipline ought to spend less effort thinking about how to teach math to children and more effort thinking about why to teach it to them at all if they're not interested.
#Math #Mathematics #MathEd #MathEducation #Unschooling

2024-09-28 17:15:30 CEST

Ben Affleck got PBS to cover up the fact that an unnamed-in-the-article ancestor was a slave owner. I wonder if it was Thomas Affleck, whose publication The Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book was a major influence on the use of the pushing system which, through unspeakable violence, allowed cotton planters to rapidly and continually increase the productivity of their slaves.
Thomas Affleck's work figures prominently in. Caitlin Rosenthal's breakthrough work Accounting for Slavery, which traces the origin of modern management techniques, including Taylorism, back to methods employed on cotton plantations.
#BenAffleck #ThomasAffleck #Slavery #Cotton #PushingSystem #Plantations #Capitalism #Management #Taylorism #CaitlinRosenthal #AccountingForSlavery
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/25/417455657/after-ben-affleck-scandal-pbs-postpones-finding-your-roots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Affleck_(planter)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Plantation_Record_and_Account_Book
https://search.worldcat.org/title/1090005373
https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/08/slavery-under-the-pushing-system-why-systematic-violence-became-a-necessity.html

2024-09-21 02:10:34 CEST

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The court also ordered Mom to pay $370 per week for the"reconciliation therapy."
https://kgnu.org/rachel-pickerel-hawkins-colorado-reunification-therapy-family-court-case-michael-hawkins-aurora-police-child-abuse-jail-alexis-kenyon/

2024-09-11 19:55:07 CEST

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So if a Democrat tries to pass a bill that a majority of Americans support he's helping Trump? Do you even hear yourself? I already know we don't have a democracy here but you don't seem to have caught on yet.
@npub177t…4ps0

2024-09-11 16:26:33 CEST

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I am American and I have a very good idea how our political system works and your argument makes no sense to me either. Harris is happy to keep paying American weapon manufacturers to send bombs to Israel, just like Trump is, despite the fact that a majority of Americans oppose it. How would Sanders's bill, which as you say has no chance of passing, convince anyone to vote for Trump over Harris?
[@jeremy_list](https://hachyderm.io/@jeremy_list )

2024-08-29 14:55:18 CEST

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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
-- Hebrews 13:2

2024-08-29 06:41:18 CEST

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Ammon Hennacy's Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist and The Book of Ammon are well worth reading. (Much of the first is included in the second). Here's a snippet and a link to free ebooks.
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Christian Anarchism is based upon the answer of Jesus to the Pharisees when He said that he without sin was to cast the first stone, and upon the Sermon on the Mount which advises the return of good for evil and the turning of the other cheek. Therefore when we take any part in government by voting for legislative, judicial, and executive officials, we make these men our arm by which we cast a stone and deny the Sermon of the Mount.
The dictionary definition of a Christian is: one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession. A Christian Anarchist is therefore one who turns the other cheek, overturns the tables of the money-changers, and who does not need a cop to tell him how to behave. A Christian Anarchist does not depend upon bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused, and dying world.
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/0ByfNi0UdxHLISXVoSFNjU0ZOR0U?resourcekey=0-PseVMCUls-qOSrvZKVrdag&usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/0ByfNi0UdxHLIRnE4b04xSjE4eTQ?resourcekey=0-F9exCAvLyZGn0S8TqwhJlA&usp=sharing

2024-08-25 22:17:34 CEST

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As late as the early 70s in the US they recycled glass beverage bottles by actually just washing and refilling them. I remember distinctly that soda machines had metal cases next to them to leave bottles in and the bottles had worn-down rings of roughened glass where they rubbed against each other in transit.