Social Notes

Short posts that are often pushed to social media (a.k.a. tweets).

  • From the principals, kid’s high school had 500 students walk out today. Other kid’s middle school had 200 walk out, half marched around the campus, the other half was my daughter’s group to march to the Capitol. #atx #1a

  • I merged my modernization of Press This into trunk a little bit ago. There are some things I know it still needs, but it can marinate on the main line. I realize the total number of people who still use it could probably fit into a minivan with a row of seats down. #wordpress

  • My 7th grader walked out with other students and marched to the Capitol to protest ICE’s strategy and tactics. Legacy of Tinker continues. #1a

  • When I was a kid, the rumor was that the school district superintendent would decide to have a snow day based on how fast his dog came back to the door when he was let out for his morning constitutional. I could see that being true in the early 90s. If it were true now,…

  • Gov. Abbott actually said ICE needs to “recalibrate” how they are working in Minnesota. Of course, the Kool-Aid flows in his blood so he still blamed others for causing the situation. Nevertheless, more than I expected from him. h/t https://www.statesman.com/politics/texas/article/abbott-ice-minneapolis-shooting-21315704.php #txgov

  • Trying something new. Disconnected my Mastodon instances from Jetpack Social and am using a plugin I wrote to auto-boost from my site’s ActivityPub feed to my Mastodons. #wordpress #activitypub