Derek Payton

PG&E wants another massive rate hike — adding $42/month or $500/year to your bill. 💡

Join us Fri, Nov 7 at the CPUC hearings in Fresno (2 PM & 6 PM) to say NO to higher rates! Rally at 1:15 PM at Fresno City Hall.

Thanks to ReclaimOurPower for the graphic!

#StopTheHike #CPUC

I LOVE MY LIBRARIAN AWARD 2026. Your librarian could win $5,000! ilovelibraries.org/love-my-librarian. Logos for Carnegie Corporation of New York, American Library Association, and the New York Public Library

Has a librarian made a difference in your life? Nominate them for the #ILoveMyLibrarian Award for a chance to win $5,000 and the honor of a lifetime. Nominations close Dec. 15!

Submit your nomination: https://bit.ly/3uVK4V0

🔪🎃😄

A screenshot of a tweet by user dmpayton on January 20, 2021, the day Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States. The tweet reads, 'Damn, the whitehouse.gov "Past Presidents" page ain't holding back.' Attached to the tweet is an altered screenshot of the Past Presidents page from the White House website where the portrait of Donald Trump has been replaced by a picture of him photoshopped to look like a clown.

abc30.com/post/trump-h...

Same energy, but one is a joke by some bored dude (hi) using browser dev tools and the other is the literal pettiness of our current President on display at the White House.

America by Design A National Design Studio Initiative

Folks in our community have asked us to comment on “America by Design”—but a site like this largely speaks for itself.

It's really disappointing to see an article like this behind a paywall when it could be critical health information for some. Do better @fresnobee.com.

On this day 37 years ago, August 10, 1988, 11-year-old Dade "Zero Cool" Murphy crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Happy Zero Cool Day! #HACKTHEPLANET 🧑‍💻

There seems to be some major context issues with GPT5. Ever since it rolled out yesterday, it will give randomly give a response to a prompt from a completely different conversation -- and it's always the same one.

Donate Support the programs you love with a tax-deductible contribution.

Please find the PBS station near you and donate:

www.pbssocal.org/support/donate

Congress: Save Medicaid Now Politicians are attempting to pass devastating cuts to Medicaid right now and we must act fast. Send a message telling your member of Congress to fight back now.

Medicaid is at risk! The Senate just passed a bill that threatens vital health services, including asthma care for low-income families in the Central Valley.

Now it’s up to the House—tell your Rep to vote NO! action.aclu.org/send-message...

#ProtectMedicaid #AsthmaCareMatters

A graphical flier for the planting event with all the same information that's in the main post.

🌿 The Van Ness Village is getting greener!

Join us next Tuesday, July 1st, from 8–10AM at Root Access (1476 N Van Ness) to help plant our new planters!

Free breakfast + tools provided (or bring your own).

Let’s plant something good together! 🌸
#Fresno #VanNessVillage #PlantTogether

Springfield Library
Hours
8 - 12
7 days a week

Only four hours a day? Someone should lobby Mayor Quimby for more funding so they can have extended hours. #FundOurLibraries

This is where I'm so conflicted. I also stopped listening to Nuge years ago, but damned if I don't love me some Damn Yankees.

This is great! In the early 2010's, during the fight for legalization, I wanted to build something just like this to track local cannabis ordinances across California. But I realized how much work it would be and bugged out. Cheers to you for doing that work!

I met Michael at SCALE 10x in 2012 and hung out with him several times at PyCon over the years. He initially struck me as someone who was very serious, but I soon got to see his fun side. He was always supportive and encouraging, and I will miss seeing him at PyCon.

Huckleberry Doc Holliday GIF Alt: A gif of a scene from the 1993 movie Tombstone, in which Doc Holiday (played by Val Kilmer) says, "I'm your huckleberry"

Tombstone is one of my all-time favorite movies. When visiting my grandparents in Tucson as a kid, they often took me to the real town.

I once named a startup idea Huckleberry—never made it past prototype, but I loved the name.

a dodgers baseball player celebrates a home run with his arms outstretched Alt: Teoscar Hernández, an outfielder for the L.A. Dodgers baseball team, celebrates a home run with his arms outstretched as a handful of sunflower seeds is tossed at him.

Happy Baseball Eve to all those who celebrate! ⚾

EPA Administrator Zeldin is reconsidering rules on air pollutants that are credited with saving thousands of lives every year. This includes the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard, which forced power plants to rein in mercury & soot pollution. These are all linked to asthma, heart disease, & cancer.

Brendan Eich - Wikipedia

Also, it's kinda gross to have Brave on a list of companies supporting DEI when their founder & CEO donated money to ban gay marriage in California. The apology he did offer smells like a non-apology "Sorry you were offended."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan...

They also have Brave listed, and I will not support anything involving their CEO.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan...

Spend Blue JOIN US as we use our collective buying power to FIGHT the billionaires and their buddies in the place that matters to them the most - their BOTTOM LINE!

The www subdomain isn't configured, but you can remove it to get to the website:

spendblue.org

Lmao, I look like a doofus in these pics. Anyways, glad to have beer near here again! 🍻

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I think those have been my favorite PyCons.

You fear to go into those mines. The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke...

Oops, I accidentally hit repost.

Our local hackerspace is trying to raise funds to upgrade our security after three back yard break-ins this week. Every bit helps!

"You never hear people talk about the ozone layer anymore."

Yup that's because we banded together, listened to scientists, passed regulations, and fixed it.

Why does no one know this?

I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning.
Without those grants, my lab must close within a year.
And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues
🤬
#MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬

“I’m a disabled vet and the only thing I ever asked for from this country was this job, and they took it,” said the former EPA employee, who fought back tears. “I made all the money for my family. We don’t know what we’re going to do.”