Diane

The coalition between @indivisibleteam, moveon, working families party, teachers union and nurses, union was really hammering home:

Go to your senators offices in person and tell them

- Don't freeze or cut federal funds
- Don't confirm Vought to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Indivisible's plan is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cru6DBkH5gadq3S-mVhiSU72mC2ZeDHXG93jeiemFH0/preview?tab=t.0

At very least try to call or email your senator with those demands, and if you can, try to get a group to go pressure the senators in person.

The full stream is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yf3AstpQI

For those that want more protests, the resistance groups are working on organizing them.

They mentioned that that there is a protest being planned at the Treasury in DC on Tuesday at 5pm. But didn't give a lot of other details in this call.

uspol

Hey new reason to go hippy granola in your household furnishings.

Plastic is very flammable. "from a fire perspective, a typical couch is akin to a block of gasoline."

"As flames rip through Los Angeles County, burning restaurants, businesses, and whole blocks of houses, it’s clear that the threat of urban fire has returned to the United States. But this time, the urban landscape is different: Modern homes are full of plastic, turning house fires into chemical-laced infernos that burn hotter, faster, and more toxic than their predecessors.

Firefighters are warning that the smoke pouring out of neighborhoods in Southern California is a poisonous soup, in part because of the ubiquity of plastics and other petrochemical products inside them. “It’s one of the reasons why we can’t put firefighters in front of these houses,” the Cal Fire battalion chief David Acuna told me on Monday. After any lifesaving work has been done, keeping firefighters in the toxic air is too great a risk."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/01/los-angeles-fire-smoke-plastic-toxic/681318/

How annoying is it to run a single user activitypub server?

And any recommendations?

So the youtube ad blocker campaign led me to go poke around peertube more, and I thought maybe I should share some of the resources I currently know of.

There's a peertube search engine at
https://sepiasearch.org/

So far I've found
https://tilvids.com/ (edutainment)
https://makertube.net/ (making stuff)
https://diode.zone/ (making stuff, more electronics focused)
https://vod.newellijay.tv/ (retro & community tv)
https://peertube.debian.social/ (Debian project conferences and people)
https://conf.tube/ (various FOSS tech conference videos)
https://urbanists.video/ (Videos for walkable livable communities)

Since peertube was written by the French free software non-profit Framasoft, there's also a bunch French peertube instances, that I'm not qualified to evaluate.

Individual instances look like they peer with friendly instances and may share videos between them.

#Peertube #Fediverse

Here's a cute video of a corgi rolling around in grass.
https://makertube.net/w/hxvLnrDSW1zJfpXW1YueVT

And here's a channel filled with really well done (and working) robot characters
https://makertube.net/c/packabby_robotics@diode.zone/videos?s=1

I hate living in the part of the zombie movie where the mall owner starts shouting about how they're losing money and they need customers back in their zombie infested mall