@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-15 16:32:39
1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/
@trochee@dair-community.social2025-07-16 16:39:47
How you like them #hugops
https://infosec.exchange/@technotenshi/114863846781201965
@erikdelareguera@mastodon.nu2025-07-16 16:38:11
Så hölls Storbritanniens evakuering av afghaner hemlig – med munkavle för medierna https://www.dn.se/varlden/sa-holls-storbritanniens-evakuering-av-afghaner-hemlig-med-munkavle-for-medierna/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-17 04:10:40
Thousands gathered in cities and towns across 34 states on Saturday
for a national day of protest against Republican redistricting plans in Texas and elsewhere.
“Fight the Trump Takeover”
was anchored in Austin, Texas,
with other sites spread nationwide.
In Austin alone, more than 5,000 protestors gathered at the city’s capitol in a show of defiance.
Videos and photos on social media showed protestors holding various signs that read:
“Abbott is a vot…
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-08-15 18:10:20
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-09-15 13:56:47
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/climate/epa-emissions-data-collection-halt.html
This will coincide with claims that the environment is improving.
But at least there will be an opportunity for public comments. To be ignored.
Those p…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-15 14:46:17
Turkish authorities have jailed hundreds of CHP members this year for alleged corruption,
including Erdogan’s main political rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who was arrested in March.
Critics say the crackdown is an attempt to destabilise Turkiye’s oldest political party,
which won a large victory over Erdogan’s AK Party, or Justice and Development Party, in local elections last year.
On Sunday, Ozel told thousands of protesters in the national capital that the ca…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-13 15:11:58
Reading about Baldur von Schirach. Sounds familiar.
“In February 1928 he became a university group leader of the National Socialist German Students' League.”
“He worked to broaden the Nazi Party's appeal to the bourgeoisie. Schirach was supported by Hitler in internal elections, who also wanted the Nazi Party to have a broad social base.”
“Schirach was skilled at bureaucratic power struggles. He founded the School Children's Leagues (Schülerbünde) to create competition to the Hitler Youth. He made an ally of Joseph Goebbels.”
“Schirach was named national youth leader of the party in 1931.”
“With Heinrich Hoffmann, Schirach produced several propaganda books of Hoffmann's photographs, including "Hitler As No One Knows Him", "Youth Around Hitler", and "Hitler in His Mountains". Schirach wrote the captions. The books sold hundreds of thousands of copies, earning Schirach and Hoffmann substantial royalties.”
“On 16 June 1932, he was made Reichsführer of the Party's Hitler Youth organization, and resigned from the Student League. Under Schirach, the Hitler Youth stewarded NSDAP events, and 21 members died in 1932. Schirach described these deaths as "blood sacrifice" for propaganda purposes. One example was Herbert Norkus, a fifteen-year-old boy who was stabbed to death by Communists. In a 31 May 1932 speech, Schirach recounted Norkus's death and called for a "National Socialist dictatorship". Schirach gave a memorial speech on the third anniversary of Norkus's death in January 1935.”
#hitleryouth #fascism #theAmericanFascist
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-16 14:35:21
Thousands are expected to gather in cities and towns across 34 states on Saturday
for a national day of protest against Republican redistricting plans in Texas and elsewhere.
“Fight the Trump Takeover” will be anchored in Austin, Texas, with other sites spread nationwide.
“Texas House Democrats are blocking a redistricting vote in the Texas House right now to Stop the Trump Takeover,”
a website for the protests says.
“But Trump has made it clear that he’s not st…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-16 01:59:35
The roughly 1,350 State Department workers laid off by the Trump administration last week
included senior analysts specializing in Russia and Ukraine.
The loss of expertise in those countries comes as Trump presses to settle the war between them,
one of his top foreign policy goals.
In other federal job-cutting moves, the Health and Human Services Department finalized layoff notices for thousands of workers,
and the batch of career employees fired at the Justi…
