Daniel Howard

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In late August, the Trump administration loaded 12 Somali immigrants onto a plane and flew them to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay. According to them, they were taken there without their knowledge. One man described it as “the worst place ever I’ve been in my life.”

RE: https://mastodon.world/@ApostateEnglishman/117510800599308766 I guess we're playing catch up with China in yet another race!

RE: https://esq.social/@LeslieBurns/117508811796137295 Pour one out for Chekov!

Dream job: old man who sits in a comfy chair at the restaurant and will hold your baby for you.

"California is a Progressive state so regressive sales taxes are great just please don't tax wealth!!" -Democratic Party Leaders

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

TIL if you need to trigger an Out Of Memory event on Linux, like say you're testing an OOM detection and alert setup, you can easily do: tail /dev/zero

Elon Musk can just fuck around with our military infrastructure whenever he feels like it and POTUS is like "I don't want to comment but the important thing is he put it back" I guess Putin doesn't have the monopoly on puppet strings.

Miyazaki design!?

I have questions. But I don't want to hear the answers. Also credit to the rest of my family who read this as a reference to the nice Vegan lady down our block.

A lot of sound and fury this morning so I checked my personal server and found that Ubuntu unattended-updates patched PHP YESTERDAY at 6am US Central Time. I glance at my blog every now and then and see it is still standing. Though I also have nightly database dumps and VM snapshots. 🤞

Toronto advocates are putting their bodies on the line to protect a bike lane the province wants to rip out - and and to fight a wave of anti-bike lane sentiment that this writer warns is sweeping the whole continent. @usa.streetsblog.org

It sounds like a amid the finger pointing, the decision to nerf US Military command and control was made by a civilian Fascist Trillionaire who (imo) should be prosecuted. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-ukraine-spacex-starshield-trump-administration/

Most PTAs have fun discussions. Tonight, our PTA is discussing what food we should stock in our school's food pantry for families who live in shelters and don't have kitchens. A good portion of our PTA funds goes toward supplementing families' nutritional needs.

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

A case for the guillotine, from The Week October 16, 2026

Man. Abolish ICE and cut us refund checks for that horror show. Except the checks are sent to the schools because clearly people need better larnin.

Thanks PG&E bringing down my AT&T bill.

Veteran photojournalist Heidi Levine, who was on assignment for the Washington Post, was hospitalized after Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank attacked her and a group of Palestinians during the annual olive harvest. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports. Read more: https://cnn.it/4edEMKU

Headline writer takes a stand by phoning it in.

Today, another American citizen & journalist was brutalized by Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank. This repeated violence & brazen impunity for attacks against Americans & Palestinians alike are unacceptable. When will Trump & Rubio DO SOMETHING?

Vote Yes on Prop 40 Better to have a haircut than to lose your head.

I never asked myself how depraved you have to be that Donald Trump shoots down your bright idea. Way to go, Petey.

RE: https://masto.ai/@unusual_whales/117447590404959507 no shit

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/117445514809499472 AI data centers are the new high density feedlots.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jef/117445643333845746 I like to think that in a 1,000 years we will all have moved to UTC for scheduling and the need to change it will seem silly and we won't bother with the leap hour.

CW: Declaration Orange Once they cross the border they're called America Geese.

CHICAGO POPE is gonna be just fine he's got DITKA watching out for him now.

Sending the old Lake Street Bridge down the river

There are two kinds of Democratic Party leaders, my friend; Those who believe in addressing wealth inequality, and those who appreciate large campaign finance contributions.

Return of Ronald Reagan

Periodic reminder that Gavin Newsom is not on your side. (Unless you're a billionaire.)

Zuckerberg's Opening Monologue wasn't very good.

An oil terminal in Rostov is transferring its diesel to the cloud. That's where Trump can get it if he wants to.