@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-16 16:23:15
A Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.
Basel-Stadt announced the problem with its e-voting pilot, open to about 10,300 locals living abroad and 30 people with disabilities, last Friday afternoon.
It encouraged participants to deliver a paper vote to the town hall or use a polling station but admitted this would not be possible for many.
By the close of polling on Sunday, its …
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-02-16 09:42:04
Made new test prints on some off-cuts, using a slightly stronger developer solution than usual to see impact on max. depth. The main image (Eagle Creek, Oregon) is using 18% sodium acetate (curve corrected negative), the test strips are of 20% and 15% solutions (both uncorrected). The phone capture doesn't really show the differences too well, but I think I will go for the 18-20% from now on...
(Btw. The original image is here:
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-16 10:22:41
On the first day of the #PTSD intensive, we talked about the shooting. I had felt like I was done with that, that it didn't have anything left for me. But there was something still that filled me with rage... that is still confusing and enraging.
It wasn't actually being shot. I wasn't even the possibility of death. I had been prepared to die. I always knew that was possible. It was something else.
I remember Marc Hokoana's face as he pepper sprayed pacifists, smiling and taunting, joyfully hurting people who he knew were refusing to respond. I remember their flags, the kek flag, literally a Nazi battle flag replaced in 4chan colors with the clover 4chan logo instead of the swastika. How many people have been tortured, have died? How much suffering, that these people not only welcomed but celebrated, joyfully participated in.
The cruelty was the point. It was the plan, the plan he posted to Facebook, the same plan as they have always had, of torturing people until someone responds and then murdering them. Inflicting trauma, responding with overwhelming force, showing how "big and strong" they are because they can always escalate.
Try to stop someone from peppers praying people, they shoot you. Shoot back, like Michael Reinoehl, and they send a death squad for you. But we keep standing up, so they keep escalating to the slightest imagined infraction. Now they just murder you for being in a car, for filming at a protest, for existing.
The bar for what justifies murder or torture will continue to move lower until there is no one left, or until they can no longer escalate.
The feeling of helplessness is still not the biggest thing though. It's the joy with which they inflict this on us. That's it. That's the thing.
CW: gun violence, abuse dynamics
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/the-creature-ptss-5-day-1
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-03-09 11:11:22
A hospital in the western Polish city of Szczecin has been forced back to a ‘paper-based’ system following a huge cyberattack that has blocked access to the medical facility’s IT system
https://tvpworld.com/91986106/hospital-in-western-poland-hit-by-cyberattack
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-06 20:05:01
WaPo Publisher Will Lewis appeared at NFL Honors in San Francisco Thursday, after failing to show for a Zoom call in which WaPo announced historic layoffs (Drew Lerner/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/newspapers/will-lewis-nfl…
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange2026-02-03 17:24:23
Follow up reporting on that breaking and entering by CBP in #Utah that led to warrantless kidnapping of the owner as well as the employee they were following.
Thank you, @… for the detailed reporting. Our local paper has removed the paywall on all reporting for 2026, so don…
@floheinstein@chaos.social2026-03-26 04:54:07
Auf der Vogelseite schrieb ich vor vielen Jahren über die Barbie-Girl-Interrupted-Amsel - ein Vogel, der morgens zum Aufwachen immer die gleichen 5 Noten pfiff.
An unserem aktuellen Wohnort gibt's zwei ähnliche Vögel:
- Der Waschmaschinen-Pieper, der einen unnötig in den Keller runtersteigen lässt, weil du glaubst, die Wäsche sei fertig.
- der Auto-Alarm-Pfeifer, der wie eine in der Ferne ertönende Diebstahlsicherung pfeift
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-04-01 23:42:05
If you've followed me for a while you know I try to pounce when snowflakes are falling as they were for No Kings last Saturday
#photo #photography #winter
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-03-30 18:41:21
