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moira

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

She/her :blobcatheartlesbian: ex-software dev now writing words for money, fun, and/or survival. I like new people but may be too busy to follow back.

Republicans have campaigned on killing me and mine my whole life, so "Democrats are just as bad" crap gets a fuck off and an unfollow.

I write long-form on my Federated blog at @solarbird. If you want to support me or this instance, have my patreon: http://patreon.com/solarbird

https://justmytoots.com/@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

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Teppo_Nurminen, to random Finnish

The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.

moira,
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@Teppo_Nurminen The degree of ABSOLUTELY NOT that went through my brain was pretty hilarious xD

TechConnectify, to random
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I don't normally like being Mr. Grumpy old man, but it is currently 68° (20°C) and just about perfect outside, yet I hear a bunch of air conditioners running.

Consider opening yer dang windows, people!

moira, (edited )
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@TechConnectify This Cascadian has been working on an air-exchange based HVAC assistance package for a couple of years now.

This spring I've added automation and air-quality drivers. But really, I've got the bulk of the savings already - between that and an AC upgrade (to cover much more of the house), I've cut our peak-demand electric use by 40%.

Like you, I'm not aiming for "Constant 20°C" - in winter, it's like 17, in summer, 23. But having never needed AC until the last several years we've all been making adjustments, and, well.

GWillow, to random

A conversation about early adopters of various social media platforms evolves into a debate about the difference between libertarianism and syndicalism. The internet is back, baby

moira,
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@GWillow best answer xD

Lexi, to random

So The Atlantic is shilling a book by Helen Lewis regarding gender affirming care, and even though they make it sound "fair and balanced", it set off some red flags to me. Which isn't surprising given things she's said about trans people in the past, and that she's opposed bills to make it easier for people to change their gender in the UK (sound familiar?). But she also works for The Atlantic apparently, so no surprise they're pushing her book.

Anyway, she points out that countries that previously supported things like puberty blockers for trans youths who reach the age where they'd be helpful are now "backtracking" because of "new concerns over how much they help/harm", and republicans in America are using this as evidence that they were right all along.

Except...if you look at this article and its sources, an organization in Sweden (for example) only advised that puberty blockers should only be given out in "extreme cases". This is a suggestion to medical professionals, not a rule or a law. And their "evidence" for these concerns is actually debunked junk science from the US . So US is using Sweden as evidence they're right, and Sweden is using the US as evidence they should be cautious. Sounds pretty circular, doesn't it?

Every study that looks into trans affirming healthcare finds that it's overwhelmingly helpful. Less people regret it than those who get knee replacement surgery.


https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/02/23/sweden-trans-healthcare-puberty-blockers/

moira,
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@Lexi Assigned Media have some good coverage on this:

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/gender-affirming-care-europe

gwfoto, to random

The decision to have CNN host the town hall with Trump raises some questions, as the network’s new leadership has said it was too anti-Trump when he was in office. Therefore, firing some of the reporters and anchors who were most vocal against him and boasting about having more Republican officials on air now suggest that this is an attempt to please conservatives.
Don Lemon and other critics of Trump spoke out openly and honestly against his radical behavior.

CNN the new FOX?
just sayin

moira,
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@gwfoto @TomMarcinko Eh, look up "carry fees." They're what keeps Fox going, for example.

It's hard to find a streaming service that's cable-similar that does not have Fox, but they do exist. We're on one. But we also aren't big consumers of that kind of media.

moira, to random
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In today's Fascism Watch, we're still waiting for DeSantis's signature on SB 254, the "take children away from supportive parents" bill, but until then, we have MSN amplifying fake fascist stories about toddlers getting sex change operations, Musk Twitter boosting Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state propaganda, multiple American authoritarian propaganda teardowns, Florida Republicans just straight up admitting they hate "homosexuals," stealth candidates deciding abortion bans, taxpayer support for LGBT-hating schools, and all too much more:

https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/05/08/fascism-watch-for-8-may-2023-the-waiting-for-the-signature-edition/

moira,
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@KindlyWizard Oh, I mean specifically this. This particular fascist push in its particular form. I was describing it in writing some time ago and have been working specifically against this my whole life.

moira,
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@KindlyWizard Some of us have been screaming about this for decades, I have to note.

That said, this was always going to get worse through roughly now, even if everyone had reacted then. A lot less worse, but worse.

We've already won this once, at a time we critically needed to win it. I don't mean the 40s; I mean the 90s and 2000s. That's why they abandoned democracy when they regrouped for another go.

And we can win this again, if we fight.

og, to fediverse

So what is all about? Is it like ?

moira,
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@og Yeah but federated/distributed. I’ve seen a couple of videos on it, it worked fine for me so far but I don’t have an account or anything.

moira, to random
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Presumably wanting to one-up Republican Texas's move to restrict renewable energy and massively boost carbon dioxide output by burning as much fossil fuel as possible, Republican Florida wants to pave its roads with radon-releasing byproducts of phosphorus production.

I mean, the amount of actual radiation isn't that high, but the problem there is that it's all alpha, which sounds pretty tolerable until you realise that this stuff dusts, and then that dust gets everywhere including breathed in, making the alpha output an actual problem.

And there's the radon, of course.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1174789570/florida-roads-radioactive-paving-phosphogypsum

fredrin, to random

you guys dont mind if i go all arty and dark on you for a little dip, do you? ^^;;

moira,
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@fredrin lol of course not xD

TheBird, to random
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Watched it today! So most of my favorites made it! I'm said the introvert song by Malta didn't make it. I related to that one so much. lol

But my other favorites made it at least! Czechia, Switzerland, Norway.

The next one is the 11th, and I'll watch that one too. Then the Grand finals is the 13th.

Also, those who aren't in Europe can vote now.

moira,
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@TheBird Are you in North America and if so how are you watching it? In the past we had the pleasure of other people's dubious torrents.

moira, to random
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strong "do you like turtles" energy xD

https://social.seattle.wa.us/@kcts9/110335077169115523

moira, to random
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automation is fun: ambient-hvac air quality control at work

(wherein I have automation now on the air-exchange system and it triggers itself automatically based on air quality indoor and out. this is the long-form version on my blog of what I mentioned yesterday evening)

https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/05/09/ambient-hvac-air-quality-control-at-work/

moira,
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@KindlyWizard basically the hardware i'm using is all Ambient Weather kit (hence ambient-hvac) and the core components are an ObserverIP relay (takes the radio reports from the sensors and throws them onto the network) and a fleet of sensors, mostly WH31E units. That plus another slightly different unit (because different radio ID) to get up to 9, plus their base outside weather station.

The software is mostly data analysis and display, really. That, and the automation part now. That's new. :D

moira,
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@KindlyWizard If you skip the automation part and just open and close windows appropriately you can install it anywhere without violating... anything. About rental agreements or leases or anything. Honestly. Most of it is paired indoor/outdoor temperature sensors and the corresponding data relay - along, of course, with the software on my github that tells you what's best to do at any given time.

moira, to politics
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Fascism Watch: The Bad Statistics But It's Still Bad edition, wherein WaPo really pooches it on a front-page opinion piece billed as news. Also, Texas moves to limit renewable energy and ramp up carbon output, because the whole state is now going to be rolling coal; Florida's state book ban released (spoiler: it's not actually pr0n); and Republican Texas legislators are moving to require public schools to install "bleeding stations" and train children down to third grade in trauma care.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/05/09/fascism-watch-for/

moira, to random
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i am literally meeting a plumber named MARIO in half an hour and i cannot stop laughing

someone help me oh god i can't stop

moira,
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FOR THE RECORD

i managed it.

and he did have an apprentice along but he was NOT named Luigi.

and thank the gods for that because that would've been it. i'd've been done.

https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/110340434688746215

solarbird, to politics

Fascism Watch for 3 May 2023: the Rapid Unscheduled Dissemination edition.

The American College of Paediatricians, one of the more successful fundamentalist evangelical pseudoscience hate groups, accidentally dumped all its data onto a visible Google Drive share. From this you get an outline of their history, their authoritarian fundamentalist Christian agenda, the various plans they have to sell “social contagion” but in even cruder […]

[link]

moira,
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@Frances_Larina @bird Yeah, that's all known fact. The linage is direct. They were originally rallying around segregation, then that became politically impossible and they shifted to abortion and birth control, then abortion and queers. (Like me, to be clear.)

moira,
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@Frances_Larina @bird You can back that up even further, I have shit like this back through the 90s - and it wasn't new then.

I'm slowly filling out the back end of my newish amalgamation blog that collects all my old Livejournal stuff, Dreamwidth, my band and production blog with stuff from 1990s activism, in part to help demonstrate how exactly none of this is new - only the targets have changed. And people are falling for all the same old shit over again.

moira,
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@Frances_Larina @bird I've been digging through this stuff for a while, the abyss and I are best buds at this point.

But yeah, it's hellishly awful.

moira,
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@Frances_Larina @bird it's in my profile! but: https://solarbird.net/blog

weird_autumn, to random

this is what the perfect home timeline looks like

moira,
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@weird_autumn can’t argue with peak performance like that

moira, to random
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oh hell yeah the air-exchange vent did the thing

the outdoor air was better than indoor air so it activated the air-exchange for five minutes before closing it again :D

ambient hvac at work :D

moira,
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@valencik I certainly think it is! It has a tag on my (federated) blog if you want to read up on the history :D

https://solarbird.net/blog/tag/ambient-hvac/

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