“The way that #USPS has treated San Antonio letter carriers during this summer’s heat wave is inexcusable. They have been misleading to members of Congress, gone back on their word, and created a dangerous working environment."
#BestOf2023: @josephinelee interviewed mail carriers, who told us the agency doctored their training records to cover up violation of its own heat-illness prevention rules.
https://www.texasobserver.org/usps-worker-heat-death-safety/
#news #politics #USpol #Texas #WorkersRights #ClimateChange #HeatWave
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it's amazing how angry i get when someone dares to call me on the phone i carry everywhere with me
Yeah, wasn’t gonna vote for her. Now, will actively work to make sure she isn’t the winner https://l.threads.net/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fmeet-the-press%2Fvideo%2F9-year-old-asks-nikki-haley-if-she-would-pardon-former-president-trump-i-would-201069637673&e=AT1D9_38-47rPl8Rbla8tH98gESLa3ahxxTc3n4GTZ3UuItdG7i1B1MrcncCYERqpIh3oIoVe5-Xlotdxw558Kxxf7QQVO3jIsXbulp5gCF5M2By3jsfMitf-FP1NY1yAw
Oh, the evil irony.
#ClarenceThomas will get to decide whether #tfg engaged in an insurrection that his wife helped organize.
Let’s take a look at the #SCOTUS #ethics code. Second paragraph under “Disqualifications.”
Count the ways Thomas should disqualify himself.
Would be sweet if #JackSmith would announce that #GinniThomas is a likely witness in the #insurrection case. See the last sentence of this section of the code.
Billions in student loan debt canceled through a public service program https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/122623_debt_forgiveness_op/billions-student-loan-debt-canceled-through-public-service-program/
Government and nonprofit workers are getting billions in student loan debt canceled through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, created in 2007 during the George W. Bush administration, to encourage people to work for the government and nonprofits.
#Tucson #Arizona
CNN - Recordings, emails show how Trump team flew fake elector ballots to DC in final push to overturn 2020 election. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/recordings-trump-team-fake-elector-ballots/index.html
@thomasbeagle In Texas, oddly enough, what you describe is law. Parents and delivery person could end up in jail.
For our friends at #37C3:
1. we have public bridges for use if you'd like a fast first hop onto the #Tor network:
https://bridge.emeraldonion.org
2. we have a linux shell script for deploying #obfs4 bridges if you'd like to create your own private bridge for personal use:
Over the last year https://HoneytreeTech has created easy and simple scripts to install, configure and secure hard to manage #FOSS apps like: #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #PeerTube, #Superdesk, #Postal, and others.
The last installer for 2023 will be https://listmonk.app.
#Listmonk is a #OpenSource alternative to email marketing and newsletter platforms like #mailchimp and #ActiveCampaign
You can check out the and get the auto-installer scripts on our GitHub: https://github.com/orgs/Honeytree-Technologies/repositories
Mammoth 2.2 is live. Faster feed, quote post stuff coming from Threads, cuz: who needs sleep.
My house isn’t messy, it’s just sorted by Date Last Modified
.NET Aspire Preview 2 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-aspire-preview-2/
An opinionated, cloud ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed applications in .NET https://github.com/dotnet/aspire
@merill Good video! Why on 🌍 did 🇪🇺do that to themselves? Like, what’s their motivation?
mbin releases v1.2.1 - it's a decentralized content aggregator and fork of kbin
it supports all ActivityPub actor types and can communicate with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, Peertube, etc
full changelog here: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/compare/v1.2.0...v1.2.1
#mbin #kbin #aggregator #software #activitypub #fediverse #oss #foss #opensource #reddit #mastodon #pixelfed #misskey #peertube #fork
🎅 You have an old unread notification from Santa!
700 million mobile phones unused in drawers across the #EU could make the perfect Xmas present for someone!
Thanks to our new recommendations for EU countries, it is much easier to return phones, tablets, and laptops. They include:
🔄 financial incentives to return devices
🔄 tools to estimate the value of devices for buy-back
🔄 easy ways to return and collect devices via postal services
It is a win-win for us and our planet.
@ProPublica Come check out https://verifiedjournalist.org on the #fediverse!