Trick question, the answer was that all of these options happened, on different calls with different people.

Follow-up. After being told that it was definitely possible within ten minutes, and being told that I guess it will be possible after 10-60 minutes, and being told it will be possible after 60+ minutes, I was told there'll be a fee but if I agree to that fee they will send them.

Before being told it will not be possible, I was told there would be a fee but if I agree to that fee they would send them.

After only giving payment details to one person on one phone call (60+ minutes, it will be possible), how many complete sets of the requested documents do you think I have so far actually received?

It has been 0️⃣ days since I saw someone post an image where they had covered up their address on a package but not covered up the barcode underneath

So here's your safety reminder: always, always, ALWAYS censor any barcodes on mail and packages when photographing them! It is often your address or something very close to your address (such as your street). Barcodes may be printed very faintly or in fluorescent ink; double-check before assuming one isn't there, and cover it no matter how faint it seems! If it's a bunch of lines of any kind, it's a barcode!

A century ago yellow peril was about how all Chinese women are whores

This century it’s about how we all love billionaires and spy for China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Lady

Pocket essentials

Nina Simone

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ghhaREDM3X8

You go to a baseball game. The ball park has an organist. The organ starts playing a progression with upwards stepwise.motion that gets gradually faster. It turns into a fan fare like at the start of a car race. Dun dun da dun ta duun! Everyone yells "charge!"

The upwards chord progression has a name. What is its name? I need to be able to play it.

De covidkaart / corona-lokaal van deze week.

https://covidkaart.loketdiversen.nl/locatie/Nederland/waterzuivering/Nederland

Was Noord-Holland vorige week al donkerder, Utrecht is dat nu ook. Opnieuw voor Gelderland en Overijssel te weinig meetgegevens, voor Friesland en Groningen is dat structureel zo. Men raadplege de individuele meetstations.

Imagine: you moved country a while ago. Then you moved country again, a bit less than a while ago. All within Europe.

At some point, you need some bank statements you unfortunately can't find, from a bank from that first country, that you no longer bank with.

How long do you think you will have to spend on the phone, to get them to offer to send you the documents?

Come on, everyone, there are many things one can do.

You don't need to identify as a worker to support the social movement of a strike. You don't need to fight physically the police (I won't either). You don't need to be the perfect activist. There are many levels of activism and plenty of opportunities and tasks. Just look around.
Talk with your neighbors. Organize with your co-workers. Unionize. Bake cookies. Cheer people that are protesting. Tell people that you like their T-shirt with a nice political slogan. Be nice to others. Read a book. Listen to people that fought their whole life. Listen to people that just started their journey.
Question your privileges and use them for good. Do you have access to positions of power that others cannot reach? Cooperate with others and make plans how to share this power.
There are many people that do a lot of activism and a bit interest by new people gives them the energy they need to continue. When somebody does something nice, praise them.
If you can't leave your house, do stuff online.
You are not alone and I hope you find ways to cooperate with other people. Hopefully we achieve to make social movements accessible and inclusive for everyone.

If you can't do anything this time, don't be sad. Others are holding the line for you, as under different circumstances you would do for them.

Care yourself. Care for others. Let us imagine a better world and fight for it. :anarchoheart3:

Good night!

#11N

Employee of the month

Tawny Frogmouth Update:

Chicks are out of the nest. The whole family is hanging out in a couple of branches together.

#bird #TawnyFrogmouth #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

I'm going to listen in to a talk by Prof. James Lowenthal from Smith College called "Darkness at Night: Essential for Health", for the IAU-CPS community education hub. I'll share some highlights (there aren't very many people here listening, which is crappy because James is such an excellent teacher!)

⋆꙳•❅❆ ͙͛ ̊⋆ ❅ ̊

Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]
By Meg Day

I knew I was a god
when you could not
agree on my name

& still, none you spoke
could force me to listen
closer. Is this the nothing

the antelope felt when
Adam, lit on his own
entitling, dubbed family,

genus, species? So many
descendants became
doctors, delivered

babies, bestowed bodies
names as if to say it is to make it
so. Can it be a comfort between

us, the fact of my creation?
I was made in the image
of a thing without

an image & silence, too,
is your invention. Who prays
for a god except to appear

with answers, but never
a body? A voice? If I told you
you wouldn’t believe me

because I was the one
to say it. On the first day
there was no sound

worth mentioning. If  I, too,
am a conductor of air, the only
praise I know is in stereo


(one pair—an open hand & closed
fist—will have to do). I made
a photograph of my name:

there was a shadow in a field
& I put my shadow in it. You
can’t hear me, but I’m there.

embrace change

En last but not least, nog twee beauties… ❤️
Een torentje en iemand die wat groter wilde zijn.

#nachtfotografie #fotografie #utrecht #domtoren

Grachten in Utrecht bij nacht.

#nachtfotografie #fotografie #utrecht

Ever heard of the Network Effect? Your activist group uses insta to communicate with the public because everyone is on insta, so you don't want to move because of your followers who don't want to move because of you.

One work around is to mirror your posts to fedi. Post the same adverts and so forth in both places. This has specific utility when communicating in Signal groups.

Let's say everyone in your signal group is using their code name. You know the 'legal' names of your friends, but not everyone in the group, which tbh, might be compromised. Nobody wants to be doxxed.

Ok, so Alice makes a post about an upcoming picket and Bob posts it to a signal group and forgets to remove the tracking section of the URL, I click on the link and it says 'Bob shared this with you!' I now know that Blackbird also goes by Bob, as does everyone else in the group. Having a fedi copy is a URL that can be shared around Signal without leaking this kind of data.

Yes, its possible to remove the tracking portion of the URL, but this is an extra step that will be often forgotten even by experienced people. It is specifically designed to make this kind of opsec fail.

But there's more....

@eldaking