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:kitten: Say hello to the new Kitten web site! 🎉
https://kitten.small-web.org
Like Kitten itself, it’s a baby but will be evolving quickly as they approach API version 1 together.
Enjoy!
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PS. Of course it’s written in Kitten itself. It doesn’t do anything fancy but here…

Working from home today means opportunities to be outside in the yard! The bog filter has its first layer: the milk crate fits! Also, we put some Hastas in the pond from our collection elsewhere in the yard. They are gangly for now but appear to enjoy it! One of the pond lillies is blooming and the goldfish have been very active after all the fresh rain!
#pomdlife

Tired journalism on the radio this morning:
"The Bank of #Canada has one job: to maintain the rate of inflation at 2%."
Maybe read the BoC Act before spouting nonsense? The Bank's mission is set out in the preamble. While inflation - though the word is never used in the law - is part of the story, it's anything but the full story. And, yes, 2% has become convention since the …

It would be helpful if 19th through 23rd Street had bike lanes immediately approaching Mission St even if they don’t otherwise have bike lanes. I’m frequently stuck behind cars waiting to turn for the entire light cycle, and there’s no space to filter through to the front due to parked cars.
Thought inspired by https://www.instagram.com/p/C…

Friends of Slow 22nd on Instagram: "Can you tell what’s missing in the first photo? Photo 1: 22nd Street, looking west across Mission. Photo 2: 20th Avenue, looking north across Lincoln. Both 22nd Street and 20th Avenue are essential bicycle routes in San Francisco. Both intersect with major streets. Both go through vibrant neighborhoods. But 22nd Street does not have equitable bicycle infrastructure — for example, green bike boxes at signalized intersections. 20th Avenue has them. 22nd Street does not. Green paint isn’t everything, but people on 22nd Street in the Mission should enjoy the same safety features as other parts of the city (or better!). Bike boxes at all signalized intersections would be a start, and they’d indicate to drivers which streets are meant to be bike routes. Let’s make it happen. P.S.: There’s one more difference between the two photos. 20th Avenue isn’t on the city’s list of high-injury streets. 22nd Street is. #visionzero #visionzerosf #bicycle"
6 likes, 2 comments - slow22nd on June 6, 2024: "Can you tell what’s missing in the first photo? Photo 1: 22nd Street, looking west across Mission. Photo 2: 20th Avenue, looking north...".

The Joint ALMA Observatory is hiring a Systems Engineer! If you're the successful applicant, you will be collaborating with both operational and development system engineering tasks.
The alt-text of the image cointains more detail, but the full details of the application, including how to apply, can be found at

Job opportunity: Systems Engineer- Grade 15 at Alma Observatory
The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) is seeking an experienced engineer to become a System Engineer in the Engineering Service Group, part of the ALMA Department of Engineering (ADE). The selected candidate will contribute to the success of the exciting new period for the observatory, in which the regular stable operation must be efficiently combined with changes introduced by extension of capabilities, obsolescence upgrades, and new systems related to the ALMA 2030 initiatives. The selected candid…

Trump is testing the mainstream press. He’s saying in every way possible: Yes, I really am going to be a dictator. Yes, I really am going to dismantle the democratic institutions that have defined this country for 250 years. Yes, this really will be the last election, if I win it. And by the way, of course that means the end of a free press.
Now, how are you going to cover this political season?

Indivisible (@indivisibleteam@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Just this week, Trump doubled down on the idea that he would prosecute his political foes, a terrifying assertion of dictatorial intent. We have the opportunity to repeat 2020 and stop him. It is time to hit the ground running on the 2024 election cycle. We’re not just going to try. We’re going to beat Trump. We’re going to win a trifecta. And we’re going to codify reproductive freedoms and democracy reform: https://indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/neighbor_to_…

And then there were 4. Dual Senses with Hall Effect joysticks, that is. Got the second one I bought off eBay today. Was pretty trashed. Shell was broken in a couple places, stick cap got pulled through the shell.. found out once I opened it up why it was sold "as is". It had obviously been opened up and they noticed the headphone jack was broken off the board. Took most of the pads with it. I don't have good enough gear to fix that.. but I did test it before doing the stick swa…

Speaker Mike Johnson is under pressure to pass a bill that would support Trump and allow him to move New York state charges to federal court,
but Johnson can’t get the votes to pass the bill.
It would be career suicide for any of the moderate Republicans in districts that Biden won in 2020 to vote for a bill that would support convicted felon Trump.
There is no good reason for any of these Republicans to throw their careers away when even if the bill passed the House, it w…

Mike Johnson Faces Mega Flop As He Can’t Get Votes To Support Felon Trump
Speaker Mike Johnson is under pressure to pass a bill that would support Trump and allow him to move stage charges to federal court, but Johnson can’t get the votes to pass the bill.

re: UKPol BBC election debate show
Questioner wonders why election campaigns are full of promises but governments never get anything done.
Conservatives would have loved to do things except for the pandemic got in the way!? They don't mention that they did in fact do a thing, because the thing was terrible: brexit.
Reform says it's coz the Lab and Con are too similar, and we need a new electoral system with PR (and I agree with him for once!)
Labour reckon they will keep their promises, because they've barely made any promises and all their plans are cheap.
Conservatives keep banging on about their made-up number that Labour will tax each family 2000 more. That is a lie, and anyway the same methods say Conservatives will cost 3000 more.
Greens want diversity in the commons. Lab and Con are barely a cigarette paper apart. Interrupted before a mention of PR but they do want it.
Scots list the things they have delivered: Cheaper homes, public water. And they say the Con/Lab are in fact being honest, and are thus offering crap all.
Cymru think it's about integrity, but also admits he's a journalist who also aren't really know for integrity. He's against corruption.
Libs, the very party of broken promises, just directs attention towards conservative broken pledges. Someone taunts them about breaking promises to students about fees.
Here is where I get to agree with Nigel. Corruption comes from the electron system.
#ukpol #election #debate

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday appointed two far-right Republicans to the powerful House Intelligence Committee,
positioning two close allies of Donald Trump who worked to overturn the 2020 presidential election on a panel that receives sensitive classified briefings and oversees the work of America’s spy agencies.
The appointments of GOP Reps. Scott #Perry of Pennsylvania
and Ronn…

Speaker Johnson appoints two Trump allies to House Intelligence Committee
House Speaker Mike Johnson is appointing two far-right Republicans to the powerful House Intelligence Committee. He is positioning two close allies of Donald Trump who worked to overturn the 2020 presidential election on a panel that receives sensitive classified briefings and oversees the work of America’s spy agencies. The appointments of GOP Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Ronny Jackson of Texas to the House Intelligence Committee were announced on the House floor Wednesday. Johnson,…