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stevenbodzin

@stevenbodzin@thepit.social

Discontent creator. Big fan of living things.

Award-losing journalism is at https://journa.host/@guacamayan

Photos: me, soda pop and ferns

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stevenbodzin, to random
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Who really defunds the police? Often, police officers https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/dominic-coluccio-former-president-united-probation-officers-association-pleads-guilty

Binder, to random
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When a business or executive is described as laser-focused, your visual model should be that of a cat chasing the meaningless dot of a laser pointer until exhausted.

stevenbodzin,
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@astroPug @Binder yes, that is the job of shareholders, business TV like CNBC, and customer suggestion boxes

lynn, to Jewish
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So many places Jews can’t go back to.

stevenbodzin,
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@lynn to me, this is a very weak argument for the effectiveness of Israel at keeping us safe. It sounds especially bad for someone in the US, where a growing part of the population espouses the idea that we should all go off to Israel and leave the US as a white ethnostate.

stevenbodzin, to random
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Folks I could not be prouder about this. What an amazing group of people, what a great neighborhood, what an inspiring video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YiV3F9pG0I

Iragersh, to random
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https://bronxriver.org/event/cross-bronx-5-bridges-project-info-session

Cross Bronx 5 Bridges Project Info Session
Free, Special Event
Sign Up Now!
Event Details
2024-04-16
Zoom
14:00-15:30

Another highway overpass is coming to the Bronx River.

This ~$900m project will have construction zones along a mile of the Cross Bronx from Boston Road to Rosedale Avenue for 5 years, passing over the Bronx River.


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stevenbodzin,
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@Iragersh jobs

stevenbodzin, to random
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I am so excited that the fembots have discovered Mastodon

stevenbodzin,
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@futurebird what is it?

KimPerales, to random
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Floridians are fleeing the state bc the red🩸state is failing them:

A Tampa dad has nearly given up after his son who's autism was dropped from MDCD *1 of 460K children in FL.

Chaz, was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder *nonverbal. Peterson said his son tried attending public school, but saw success in ABA therapy, which had been completely covered by MDCD under the Dept of Children & Families during COVID. He'd been attending ABA therapy 5 days a week.
https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/just-help-me-get-my-kid-services-tampa-boy-with-autism-among-460k-florida-kids-kicked-off-medicaid/

stevenbodzin,
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@KimPerales almost 500,000 people left but 750,000 arrived

i hate Florida but this is the same BS as people say about NY. Any state that is a major first stop for new immigrants is going to have massive out-migration as people get their feet under them and find opportunities in the interior. This has been true for hundreds of years on the US East Coast

stevenbodzin, to random
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Blocking the term "xz"

stevenbodzin, to random
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Look a 2032 poll on congestion pricing just came out

Mrfunkedude, to random
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What's YOUR favorite thing that YOU'VE forgotten?

stevenbodzin,
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@Mrfunkedude that one thing, you know

cassey, to random
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We need a movement for conscientious objection to ReCaptchas. I don’t want to be forced to participate in training machine learning models to identify sidewalks, crosswalks, buses and cars in order to go about my daily life digitally.

I don’t want driverless cars on my city streets. I don’t believe the fiction that this technology will ever be safe.

I do not consent to using my own cognitive labor to train the models that will mow down people on foot or bikes later with no accountability.

stevenbodzin,
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@cassey also, the images are very cultural specific and the audio option only uses English phrases

mike, to threads
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Yesterday morning I was flipping through my Mastodon timeline via Flipboard and I saw a post from @gtconway3.

@tchambers had boosted George's post using whatever app Tim likes to use to these days (I suspect @phanpy though it could just as easily have been the native Mastodon app, @mammoth, @ivory, or @IceCubesApp)

I tapped on George's profile and saw he was posting from . I tapped the follow button and now I see his latest posts in Mastodon and Flipboard.

There's a whole new array of apps, people and posts in the fediverse and it all just works. It's wonderful.

FTW.

stevenbodzin,
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@mike that is nice but if you respond, can he see that?

Alon, to random
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Pedestrian Observations: The United States Has Too Few Road Tunnels https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/03/29/the-united-states-has-too-few-road-tunnels/

stevenbodzin,
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@Iragersh @Alon also because drivers need a view -- this is why he refused to build a lower, cheaper Henry Hudson bridge that would have saved Inwood Hill Park, Van Cortland Park, and the village of Spuyten Duyvil. You can't enter a great city like a rat, scurrying underground! He really said that.

Also recall that NY only has a tunnel because Roosevelt was convinced that a bridge would be a security threat to the Navy Yard

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stevenbodzin,
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@Iragersh @Alon i can't find it. Might have been my memory playing tricks

Gotta go search on a digital version, though THERE IS NO DIGITAL VERSION

ps i am almost done copying my copy of the audiobook to non DRM MP3 files. Such a relief to be able to listen in the player of my choice. Even one that works! (Unlike the Kobo app lately, which fails to play books but sends thousands of tracking beacons back to its real masters)

stevenbodzin, to random
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I don't think I've ever said this before, but this is one where you really do need to read to the end.

Democrat takes a swing seat back from Republican with two-thirds of the vote.

https://aldailynews.com/democrats-flip-alabama-house-district-10-in-special-election/

futurebird, to random
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I love how Spanish-speaking ant-keepers pronounce "Camponotus"

"Comp pu NO tus"

I'm starting to do it myself, it's just a more fun way to say the name of the genus.

♥️ adoro hormigas! 🐜

stevenbodzin,
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@futurebird wait, that's how I have always said it. I thought Latin had the same accent rules as Spanish. How do other people say it?

stevenbodzin, to random
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The guy leading the charge against TikTok is going to go work at Palantir.

Lawmaker Who Led TikTok Ban Bill Joins Private Surveillance Firm: Report

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-gallagher-tiktok-ban-palantir-1234993167/

(Original story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/03/22/china-hawk-rep-mike-gallagher-is-taking-a-job-at-palantir/?sh=235f43cf5148)

jake4480, (edited ) to InitialD
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Researching for a blog post and ran across my favorite game ever, Centipede, archived fully 10 years ago at the Internet Archive. Via the 'Internet Arcade'. Love it. And it loads up in MAME. Rad.

https://archive.org/details/arcade_centiped#

stevenbodzin,
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@jake4480 thank you for the memories! When I was 10 I embezzled all of the money from my paper route and spent every cent on Centipede

ai6yr, to Energy

More than you ever want to know about exterior shading of windows for energy efficiency. https://basc.pnnl.gov/resource-guides/shading-and-solar-control-windows-and-skylights#edit-group-description

stevenbodzin,
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@ai6yr @cmgrowell @glightly my first road trip with a drivers license was to Saline Valley, which is the same landscape as that photo but with a much, much worse road, in a 2WD Corolla. We definitely didn't use AC. We definitely did drive a lot at night. Slowly.

brettezeleliquide, to photography French
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le matin
#photography

stevenbodzin,
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@brettezeleliquide Mussolini memorial traffic signal

stevenbodzin, to random
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This guy really needed to run the red light so when*went on the green, he kept going and when i tried to move over into a bike lane he hit me. Lightly, but he hit me. Fucking irritating

BlackAzizAnansi, (edited ) to random
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Are you susceptible to believing propaganda? Please explain your answer and reasoning.

stevenbodzin,
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@BlackAzizAnansi yes. I'm a human

stevenbodzin, to random
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Get yourself a member of congress who actively takes on dystopia. I can't say how represented this makes me feel. I agree, dystopia is the biggest challenge we face.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3QvSMppPOm/

Screenshot from video of US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying, "We reject dystopia"

pvonhellermannn, to Massachusetts
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“In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dollar500k-dune-designed-to-protect-massachusetts-homes-last-just-3-days

stevenbodzin,
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@pvonhellermannn @passenger @dogzilla @dibi58 @juandesant @espanabizarra @mbpaz shouldn't that be deflationary? What is the owner-equivalent rent of an uninsurable building?

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