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solarbirdHoly fucking hell, people are reviving the “the Trump shooting was staged” crap again, fuelled this time by ChatGPT slop.
I refer you to this writeup I posted the last time this was going around. We have a picture of the bullet as it’s going by his head. It wasn’t fucking staged.
jesus fucking christ
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solarbirdJune 14. Mass protest, like the biggest one last time, only hopefully bigger. It’s called No Kings. Here’s Indivisible’s notice about it.
Save the date, be ready to go out. Everybody.
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annathepiperMore Skyrim catchup, but this time with one of the active playthroughs. This is for my Nona playthrough in version 0.5.2 of Tuxborn, which is still in progress even though Tuxborn has now updated to its 1.0 official build.
Main action here is a mix of standard Skyrim stuff, and playing the Carved Brink mod. Accordingly, there will be spoilers for Carved Brink.
Read more on Anna Plays Skyrim.
solarbirdGreater Northshore Bike Connector Map 1.6.1 – 3 May 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 1.6.1.
This release wasn’t supposed to happen yet – arguably at all, the next was supposed to be 1.7 – but I mislabelled a couple of blocks of split sharrow/bike lane in Snohomish County as full both-sides bike lanes and that’s not okay. I had to get that fixed, and I have, so: new maps drop. Corrections are in all latest maps, of course.
Additions and changes since 1.6:
All permalinks continue to work.
If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because it doesn’t. If you have an iPhone, please use the website interface and not the app, because Apple takes 30% if you use the app. I’ll keep doing this regardless, but you know. Thank you! ^_^
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solarbirdMiller’s out there again threatening the courts with a suspension of habeas corpus if they don’t rule the way the fascists want. Explicitly. In words.
They’re threatening to start arresting anyone and everyone they want, at will, with absolutely no legal recourse for anyone. That’s what “suspending habeas corpus” means. Habeas corpus is the right to challenge an imprisonment through law, through the courts – it means you have to have a reason to arrest someone and it has to be valid, and people can demand you demonstrate that it’s valid or otherwise release that person.
Most people are quoting the “looking at” part, but I want to highlight two other phrases. First, I want to point at the monstrous cur calling this fundamental right of the Constitution a “privilege”:
“…the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended…”
Habeas corpus is a fundamental right, not a goddamn privilege, you solipsistic ghoul, and you know it but you don’t care. It predates the Constitution; hell, it predates the Magna Carta. What he’s doing here is telling the MAGAt base what to say and how to react, saying that it’s not a right, it’s some kind of bonus which can be taken away.
And that’s horseshit. If you don’t have the right to contest your own imprisonment, if you can be imprisoned by them at will, thrown overseas or into some dark hole to die with absolutely no recourse, then you have no rights at all, and that’s what they’re going for. You: no rights. Them: absolute power. That’s the intent.
Now, to the threat:
“[suspending habeas corpus] depends upon whether the courts do the right thing or not.”
If the courts don’t let them do whatever they want, they’ll throw out the most fundamental right that can exist – the right not to be arbitrarily imprisoned without recourse.
The right not to be disappeared.
The right to exist at all.
For anyone.
That’s what he wants to take away. That’s what they want to take away.
This alone should be cause for impeachment, conviction, and removal.
That it’s not is a complete condemnation, by their own hands, of the Republican Party.
If you’re not getting out there on the streets, why the hell not? Here are some places to look for protests near you:
The more effective we are, the more of us there are, the more radical and scary they’ll get up to the point where they piss off enough people that they get taken down. But we have to keep building, and we have to keep getting out there, and dragging as many people out there with us as we can if we ever want to reach that point.
It’s been said a bunch, but the rubber has hit the road, and if you’ve ever wondered what you would do in the 1930s, you’re finding out now, because it’s what you’re doing right now.
Make it the right thing.
Get out there, team. And stay out there. If we want to keep a republic, we have to get this done.
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solarbird2 Line Eastside Bike Connector updated their map to include the new train stations opening today! If you’re seeing this on May 10th, you can go to the opening events!
Naturally, we’ve picked up the new version, and Greater Northshore Bike Connector and MEGAMAP 1.7 – 10 May 2025 – are now available to download.
Move Redmond have also expanded their core area further north. Online, they’ve started doing the Seattle thing where they have some infrastructure information outside their region.
I’m not including their extended area at all, and I’ve also only extended their core map very slightly further north. There are a few reasons, the biggest of which being that we have features they don’t, and I think those features are important in lower-density infrastructure areas like north Kirkland and north Redmond. Without them, Briar wouldn’t have any markings at all.
They’ve also left me with a bit of a quandary: they’ve changed their map key on me. The markings are different, now. Fortunately, only a little, but it’s still a change.
In their area, fully separate bike paths are now dark green, rather than red. Given that I specifically used their key system – before expanding upon it – for consistency, I should probably go along. But to be honest, I don’t like the change. I think it adds confusion, because before, all bike infrastructure was red. Now most is red, but some is dark green, instead.
All one colour was simpler and easier.
On the other hand, having now three different systems – two of which are only very slightly different to each other – is more confusing than having two, and I could fix that.
Any thoughts on what I should do? Should I move to theirs, despite not liking the change? I’m genuinely uncertain.
Anyway, additions and changes since 1.6.1:
All permalinks continue to work.
If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because it doesn’t. If you have an iPhone, please use the website interface and not the app, because Apple takes 30% if you use the app. I’ll keep doing this regardless, but you know. Thank you! ^_^
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annathepiperCatchup post for my Elessir Skyrim run from last year. This post dates from mid-September.
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umadoshipetra described as "what you get when you blend 2048 and match-3 games". It's all numbers and I very much do not have a numbers brain, so I imagine my scores are nothing to write home about. But it quiets my brain a bit. Also, hats off to whoever named it. I hope they're very pleased with themselves.
solarbird - since this bullshit is going around againsolarbird - Save the date: June 14umadoshi - Weekly proof of life: media intake, mainlyannathepiper - In Which Nona Quests into Faceted Stonessolarbird - Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 1.6.1solarbird - threatening the supreme courtsolarbird - Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 1.7, and a quandaryannathepiper - In Which Elessir Explores Nchardakumadoshi - Weekly proof of life (two weeks' worth): media intake + various foodstuffsbranchandrootinoru_no_hoshi