Linc Madison (Danny Belle) ☎️🧚🏳️‍🌈 🏛️ 🗣️✈️

Such a shame he didn’t get to do the story as an embed…

I’ve been busy this fall, making substantial #accessibility improvements to my website, LincMad.com, particularly for #ScreenReader users.

I would love feedback from screen reader users: what you liked, didn’t like, etc.

#telnum #telecom #a11y #aria #LincMad

Today, eastern Tennessee’s area code 423 (incl. Chattanooga and Bristol but not Knoxville) gets an overlay with 729.

Originally planned for March, but postponed because of the flooding in large parts of the area.

You won’t see any actual 729 numbers for a while, not until 423 actually runs out.

#TelNum news: Today, British Columbia adds overlay #AreaCode 257, bringing the province to 6 area codes.

That’s too many. It’s unsustainable. Canada is using far more than its fair share, clinging to outdated 20th-century policies that waste numbers by the tens of thousands.

Number pooling NOW!

so funny I forgot to laugh 🙄

* statuTe of limitations

I swear a 3-year-old drew the Cybertruck on the back of a Denny’s placemat.

Either that, or it’s the first Tesla that Elon was directly involved in designing.

#AreaCode news today (2025-03-26):

1. California now has 41 area codes, up from 39 two months ago

2. date announced for 465 overlay on 718 & 347 & 929 & (part of) 917 = NYC: Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Isl, plus Marble Hill/Manhattan (2026-06-18)

IS IT A COINCIDENCE?
(Yes, it is)

#telnum

I canceled my subscription to the @WashingtonPost.com today, and selected “concerns about Washington Post content” as my reason for canceling.

Democracy dies in Darkness, and the Washington Post has declared its allegiance to Darkness.

Another bit of #AreaCode news: eastern #Québec’s 418 & 581 & 367 (Québec City, Gaspé Peninsula) will add 273 in just under two years (2027-02-27), becoming the province’s first quadruple overlay.

* new code and effective date proposed, pending regulatory approval

#telnum

@msnbc.com Yet another YouTube channel: “Receitas na hora certa” (ReceitasNaHoraCerta6677) Fourteen videos in the last 24 hours, 9 of them apparently pirated from MSNBC. Looks like a cooking channel may have been hijacked by pirates.

As of today (2/24/25), all calls in northern #Louisiana’s #AreaCode 318 can be dialed with the area code, in preparation for September’s 318 & 457 overlay.

You have 6 months to get used to 10-digit dialing, mandatory as of 8/25/25.

#telnum

Today, #California officially activates its FORTIETH telephone #AreaCode, 837 overlaying 530 in northeastern California (Davis, Tahoe, Redding, Chico, Lassen, etc)

… but #41 is coming to Fresno in less than two months.

#telnum

I was just watching a seal 🦭 rescue video (Ocean Conservation Namibia 🇳🇦 ), & they put a Latin phrase in the subtitles:

Vivamus auctor id justor eu ultrices.

Google Translate insists that it’s something to do with basketball 🏀 or football (presumably ⚽️ rather than 🏈)

Correct translation, anyone?

* Colombia

Listing of the 11 available telephone number prefixes in area code 530 in northeastern California

JUST IN TIME!

California is adding an overlay to #telnum #AreaCode 530 later this week, not a moment too soon. Out of nearly 800 possible prefixes, they’re down to just 11 available.

Sadly, not for long. Columbia already capitulated.

The sort of question you’d be expected to answer in any job interview, going directly to the applicant’s UTTER LACK of any relevant experience.

As the Fox5NY article text mentions, existing phone numbers and area codes WILL NOT CHANGE. Adding an overlay code does NOT “get rid of” ANYTHING.

News headlines about tech details are often fuzzy, but this one is outright FALSE.

NYC is getting rid of these area codes The state says there's a need for more telephone numbers due to population growth in the New York City metro area.

Coming up this week in #TelNum news: NE #California (Redding, Davis, Truckee, Lassen) #AreaCode 530 gets 837 overlay.

#NYC boroughs prepare for yet another overlay code (details TBA). #Fox5NY had the misleading headline “NYC is getting rid of these area codes” 🙈🤥 fox5ny.com/news/new-area-code

In #Hegseth confirmation, questions mostly on abusing women & alcohol.

We already know Trumpublicans have no problem embracing that.

My question: “#SecDef oversees 2.9M people, uniformed, civilian, & national guard. What SPECIFIC experience best prepared you to lead an organization that size?”

As Jesus said, “If someone slaps you on the cheek, unload a couple of clips on full auto”

@msnbc.com There is another YouTube channel (DogaArt) posting what appears to be pirated MSNBC content.

Oddly, they often seem to truncate the video and add about 15 minutes of close-ups of someone’s hands doing some sort of craft project. They also tend to have 🅼🆂🅽🅱️🅲 in the video titles.

The answer is alarmingly simple: it would have required HOURS of Trump’s attention to consider the pardons on a case-by-case basis, or even to create guidelines to categorize them.

Trump certainly is a fucking mad bastard, but he is also a LAZY fucking mad bastard with ADHD (or worse)

As of today, #Houston officially has 5 #AreaCodes (713, 281, 832, 346, and 621)— but you won’t see any 621 numbers just yet (other than the test number 621-621-1621), because there are still more than a hundred unused prefixes in 346.

The only other quintuplets are Atlanta, Alberta & BC.
#telnum

I deactivated FB, IG, and Twittex, at least for now. I will consider next week whether I will reactivate any of them.

I am now dark on Facebook, Instagram, and Twittex, at least for the next week.

I was planning to do it before the recoronation, but I wanted to download my data first, and that took quite a while.

I would love to see the “active user” numbers for those platforms, along with the data downloaded.

A bit of meaningless nerd trivia for you…

If you look at a list of new North American (country code +1) area codes that have been announced but not yet taken effect, and sort them numerically, the first three entries are

257
357
457

#telnum #NANPA #NPA

Musk spent more than a quarter of a BILLION dollars on T***p

Still pocket change for Musk, but a quarter mill is more like pocket lint.