Powderhorn
Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.
I read news so you don’t have to (but you still should).
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Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Lawsuit Alleges 'Secretly Altered' Vote Machines Stole Election From Kamala HarrisEnglish12·15 hours agoAlways remember that any GOP accusation is actually admission of guilt.
This news broke last week.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Lawsuit Alleges 'Secretly Altered' Vote Machines Stole Election From Kamala HarrisEnglish5·15 hours agoNo one wants to. This is just a suppression lever.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Lawsuit Alleges 'Secretly Altered' Vote Machines Stole Election From Kamala HarrisEnglish5·15 hours agoAfter years in Oregon and Washington, this whole thing of having to go to a polling place was weird. Also, even the secretary of state in Arizona mailed out voters’ guides that we apparently need LWV to put out. Not that I’d trust Paxton with anything but a loaded gun in a locked room, but how we run elections here is pretty anachronistic.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Op-Ed: ICE Tactical Units Are Preparing to Deploy in Seattle — We Must Fight Back - The UrbanistEnglish1·15 hours agoSchell is the only politician I went after off campus. Locke was fucking useless, but Schell loved to fuck up at every chance he got.
And I ran the editorial board at Seattle’s third-largest daily (bearing in mind the P-I was still printing), so I got to do it anonymously.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Op-Ed: ICE Tactical Units Are Preparing to Deploy in Seattle — We Must Fight Back - The UrbanistEnglish1·1 day agoCan’t be worse than Paul Schell.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•Op-Ed: ICE Tactical Units Are Preparing to Deploy in Seattle — We Must Fight Back - The UrbanistEnglish3·1 day agoA time element for the election would be nice here to understand the context. I’ve not lived in Seattle for 25 years, so I don’t remember the cycles, and I’m too mentally exhausted to deal with a search engine.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•No Kings Day at Austin, right now 5:28pmEnglish1·1 day agoWait … you’re local? I intended to go today, but my Street Medics chaperone got sick yesterday, which I only learned about when reaching out to finalize plans around 1030.
I’m 45 and have never been to a true protest, let alone covered one (I got pressed into reporting in college from time to time, but those weren’t protests so much as students sitting around for a couple of hours). I was hoping to get eased into it today, but alas. I mean, it’s not as though more of these aren’t coming down the pike, but it sure as fuck gets hotter from here.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto Entertainment@beehaw.org•Mel Brooks to reprise role in Spaceballs sequel4·3 days agoHe ages like a sourdough starter.
You can say that again!
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•[Live] Explosions Heard Across Israel As Iran Fires Missiles In Response For Israeli StrikesEnglish16·3 days agoYeah, that’s to be expected after launching a war against another country to hold your government together enough to avoid being subject to prosecution.
Tehran wasn’t going to be like “Yeah, let’s just take this in stride.”
What is with this end-times porn? I don’t like to kinkshame, but, like … making sure to escalate things that will affect tens of millions of people because you don’t want to end up in court – and I don’t say this lightly – is straight-up evil.
Suggestion: Keep the SSDs and get external housings. They’re unlikely to generate any significant income, so using them as backups may be the better solution.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto Beehaw Support@beehaw.org•minor request: beemojis on mobileEnglish3·3 days agoI’m ambivalent about Sync, but before the server upgrade, it was one of the only games in town still supporting the 0.18.4 we were on. Now that we’re up to 0.19.11, I’m certainly considering other clients, and while that may solve your issue, I know no one likes shopping around.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto Chat@beehaw.org•Plea for help: I've got a cash infusion coming Monday from my mom, but I'm basically broke ahead of tomorrow's No Kings Day protest and want the option of getting out of the area via Uber/Lyft.English3·3 days agoI’m going to be embedded with Street Medics, so the risk is lower than for somebody just sauntering down there. This does not change having an exit strategy should things go south. The official protest lasts only until before sunset, and we plan to leave at 20.00.
The key word there is “plan” … best laid plans.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto Politics@beehaw.org•Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump?English7·3 days agoMy take, and I’ve only been covering politics since the '90s, is they realized they crossed the line for public support, so now there are two options: admit overreach (obviously not an outcome here) or double down.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto Politics@beehaw.org•Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump?English13·3 days agoRespectfully, no fucking shit. I wanted to happily just go about designing pages, and then it became clear the point of the enterprise was not to inform our readers.
I honestly don’t know how others engaged in “journalism” were willing to look the other way. “Because they needed to provide for their families” or some shit? You cease to be a journalist when you compromise your ethics. You’re now in marketing or PR.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto Chat@beehaw.org•Plea for help: I've got a cash infusion coming Monday from my mom, but I'm basically broke ahead of tomorrow's No Kings Day protest and want the option of getting out of the area via Uber/Lyft.English3·3 days agoI’m short one (1) bike to have a bike as an option.
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Something curious is going on surrounding X.Org and it's forks...English91·4 days agoIf you think the forks are bad, wait until you see the spoons! (Tip your waitress; try the veal.)
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto Entertainment@beehaw.org•Mel Brooks to reprise role in Spaceballs sequelEnglish4·4 days agoWho’s to say that’s not the plan?
Powderhorn@beehaw.orgto Politics@beehaw.org•DHS post anti-immigrant propaganda poster on TwitterEnglish7·4 days agoThey didn’t even make the McRib permanent!
Abusers gonna abuse. I endured seven years of “you don’t do what I say, and I can make your life hell.” I can only imagine what she would have been capable of had I needed her for citizenship reasons.
But, seriously, Crystal Justice? That sounds nothing like a real name.