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Voted most likely to be eaten by a grue.
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@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyIt's coming to the big screen of the OMSI Emperical Theater. Squee.
https://tickets.omsi.edu/events/01a08223-de84-135c-b4ca-3c09637e7566
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyI've found billboards (and huge campaign banners erected on commercial properties) to be immensely helpful during election season. If the billboard says "vote for a candidate", I probably won't. If the billboard says, "don't vote for", that's somebody I'll look at with interest.
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyAnd, yes, I'm the very first person ever to make that joke.
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyLucky me! I got a single seat ticket last minute to see Jeff Goldblum and the Arlene Schnitzer Orchestra perform at the Mildred Snitzer Hall in #Portland.
Ughh ... wait! ..
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyHere is a in-depth spreadsheet of candidates in the Portland city election.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U3hzhXgEYsZO_WlOaFqNonVUPH5OU5vikQ_IKYqSioY/edit?usp=sharing
Note that you can filter "Candidates" tab by doing Data → Create Filter View then click on the three lines symbol […]
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy@psfshr Interesting. I've taken to buying one of every Matter device I've found at Ikea to play with it. (They're pretty cheap, so that was doable.)
I've got the Bilresa dual button and that's been working great, but I never did get the scroll wheel. Maybe a future trip.
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyI'm enrolled in the local community college. I emailed their "Ask a Librarian" about a technical e-book I wanted to read but they didn't seem to have. The response was basically, "Want us to order it for you?" Libraries are cool. 😎
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy@chris I ended up moving my stuff from AWS to Vultr some years back. I've been pretty happy, although I'm not using anything there besides VPS instances.
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyMy AWS account has sat fallow for years. Got an alert yesterday about anomalous usage. It may have been one of my old containers launched to run in a lambda. I dunno, it was a couple pennies. No matter, rather than debug the problem, I finally did what I should have done long ago: closed the […]
@hlkfotos.comReposted by @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy@hlkfotos.com I'm more of a little in the middle.
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyI just encountered a new kind of spam. It's LLM generated, responding to a recent blog post relating to home automation. The email is clearly slop, referencing unnecessary details from the post, and asking a question based on a superficial (but not inaccurate) read of the post […]
@pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gyReposted by @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyYou know when serious actual investigations of wrongdoing by elected officials are announced? Not October.
#USPol
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy@Edent FYI, the stability of my Matter/Thread network improved significantly when I added some smart light bulbs, to extend the mesh. Yeah, different networking, but same idea. Maybe worth a try.
@nonelvis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyFinally watched this today, and if you haven't, you should. Fascinating and infuriating, especially because as McKenzie points out so clearly, this grift is screwing over the people who can least afford to lose money. (warning about the opening credits: the quick flashes nearly triggered a […]
@mossyfoot.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyHey if you are an unhappy #veterinarian or vet tech and you'd like to live in #Portland, let me know. If my employer, DoveLewis, hires you after my referral I get a big bag of cash, too. :) It is a rather nice place to work in my opinion.
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy**TOMORROW**
Come to the Web Surfing Party and re-discover the fun and cool Internet.
Sat, Oct 10
1pm - 5:30pm
Belmont Library
1038 SE Cesar Estrada Chavez Blvd
Portland, OR 97214
https://clipdx.com/webday/index.html
hosted by @clipdx
@glassdelusion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyThe #pdx county library created a reading list inspired by a local production of "Little Shop of Horrors". ❤️
https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/124400762/3114888917
@courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gyEnjoying all of that political text spam you're getting? Then you'll love political spam robocalls. Even better, how about *AI generated* political spam robocalls What a glorious time we live in, thanks to the Trump FCC […]
