Musk and Trump are trying to dismantle the VA by laying off 83,000 employees.
 
They are sacrificing the needs of our veterans to give tax breaks to billionaires.
 
That is something that the American people — Republicans, Democrats, and Independents — will never support.

Two part meme featuring a small child in a yellow jacket eating cotton candy. In the top part of the image, she's excited to eat cotton candy; the bottom part of the image she's looking at the cotton candy with big eyes. Text caption reads "Cities when they build new infrastructure" for the top image, and "Cities when they get the maintenance bill" for the bottom image.

The suburban development pattern creates this financial sugar high for cities. And when you chase this kind of growth, what happens is you get the sugar crash when the liabilities come due.

Denver icon Mercury Cafe closes after 50 years, will become LGBTQ-focused bar Denver’s 50-year-old Mercury Cafe — which for decades has held down the corner of 22nd and California streets with a fiercely independent, DIY culture — has closed.

NEW: The Mercury Cafe -- an iconic Denver bar known for its fiercely independent, DIY culture -- has closed after 50 years. It will now be The Pearl, an offshoot of Pearl Divers, a sapphic bar currently operating inside the venue Your Mom's House in Capitol Hill.

Everyone in #Homelab knows about the DIY 19" IKEA LACK rack... but did you know IKEA makes the perfect mini rack furniture, too? Presenting stirkage's Eket rack! github.com/geerlingguy/...

The holidays can feel like a complex choreography of family obligations, expectations, and traditions. We've learned some powerful ways to stay connected during this busy season. Pause, hold each other close, and dance through the beautiful chaos together.

#LetsDance #DanceBreak #HolidayLove

"I love you message" Sometimes, the deepest "I love you" message doesn’t need words at all... Love speaks in many languages. Dance is one of the most beautiful and connected ones. I choose you today, ... TikTok video by CouplesWhoDance James+D'Leene

Sometimes, the deepest "I love you" message doesn’t need words at all...

Love speaks in many languages. Dance is one of the most beautiful and connected ones.

#LetsDance #CouplesWhoDance #Marriage #Relationships #Love #CouplesRetreat

Dancing and Wine with live music by the amazing @skyylerpelous of @TheBoondockBoys Just a girl and boy dancing🥰 #DancingCouple #over40andfun #couplesoftiktok #CouplesWhoDance #creatorsearchinsights TikTok video by CouplesWhoDance James+D'Leene

Dancing and Wine with live music by the amazing @skyylerpelous of @TheBoondockBoys

Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.

NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform.

With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.

I know right? I was trying to see if there were any other westies who joined and I was so excited to find someone I actually knew.

🌟 CYBER WEEK SPECIAL EXTENDED! 🌟 Technical glitches tried to stop love... but we said NO WAY! We're extending our biggest promotional price of the year through Friday 8pm PST! ✨ Announcing Our Summer ... TikTok video by CouplesWhoDance James+D'Leene

✨ Our Summer Intimate Escapes Couples Retreat at the Magical McMenamins Edgefield! ✨
June 13-15, 2025

Join us and dance into passionate intimacy🤗😍

Click the 🔗 in our bio, in 💬👇 to secure your spot, or DM us for details.

#LetsDance #CouplesRetreat #Intimacy #Passion #CouplesWhoDance

In dancer world today is about THE OPEN🤗 We are cheering on all of our dance family and looking forward to being back out there🤗🥳 Za, you are an incredible person, teacher and dance partner🙌❤️ You hav... TikTok video by CouplesWhoDance James+D'Leene

In dancer world today is about THE OPEN🤗 Were' cheering on our dance family🥳
In memory of my sweet, best, friend who was such an important part of choreography and coaching for this routine, Nicki Silton❤️

www.tiktok.com/@coupleswhod...

#LetsDance #TheOpen #WCS #WestCoastSwing #DanceRoutine

YouTube video by Techno Tim I tried the HexOS Beta. Here's how it went.

I tried the HexOS Beta, the new Linus backed Home Server NAS operating system. Here's how it went.

youtu.be/Vyyq0_aOkIo

#homelab #nas #hexos

Always ask the question. Every story I’ve ever seen of someone curing their cancer using “alternative” therapies has a “also we did the normal stuff” subplot right beneath the surface.

And where reputable journalists and thinkers go, so do elected officials.

I’ve been getting asked lately about a more serious + systemic migration to Bluesky among electeds.

Idk the answer but it highlights how much of a breaking point misinfo & throttling has become for Twitter(& other platforms)

A DMZ is made by using a firewall, you have two options. Single firewall or double firewall. If you wanted to use your router then you would need some way to place it before the firewall internal to it. The big question is whether your Verizon router is capable of it could be either way.

In addition to that, running the web facing services inside a dmz. Then only open firewall ports for those services to your internal network if they need to access things like a NAS.

Looks like this guy figured out exactly that. cprimozic.net/notes/posts/...

Had a fun time trying to update the BIOS for 3 MS-01 computers. Each one had its own unique set of problems that somehow got harder with each one. Hopefully it resolves my proxmox instability issues.

Release v1.10.0 · hashicorp/terraform 1.10.0 (November 27, 2024) NEW FEATURES: Ephemeral resources: Ephemeral resources are read anew during each phase of Terraform evaluation, and cannot be persisted to state storage. Ephemeral resou...

Quite excited about #Terraform v1.10 release 🚀. It's introducing ephemeral resources and values, which are read anew during each phase of Terraform evaluation, and aren't persisted in state. I think this gives us a better story around safely storing sensitive values.

github.com/hashicorp/te...

a little boy is standing in front of a bookshelf filled with books . ALT: a little boy is standing in front of a bookshelf filled with books .

Banned means banned anywhere, not necessarily everywhere.

I'm reading that Mark Zuckerberg is genuinely spooked by the rapid growth of Bluesky. Sounds pretty good.

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Literally......

YouTube video by Techno Tim Talks Scaling Proxmox, Ultra-Wide Monitor - 1 Year Later, Wireless Bridge Adventures

The weekend topics:
* Scaling Proxmox
* Ultra-Wide Monitor - 1 Year Later
* Wireless Bridge Adventures

#proxmox #networking #battlestation

youtu.be/bmsGuR8ktxY

For some reason I cannot explain (other than a dull feeling of urgency and dread), I've been downloading and storing dozens of terabytes of data this year.

Movies, shows, books, old newspapers, music, source code, Wikipedia, Archive.org via API, etc.

It might be the most valuable thing some day. 🤔

1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network.

As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.

me: i need to transfer a blender file to my desktop

my ADHD: what i'm hearing is we need a dedicated home file server

me: that sounds reasonable