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Andres
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he/him. from the birdsite (@Andres4NY and before that @NEGreenways).

#Dad #NYC #Bikes #FreeTransit #SafeStreets #BanCars #Debian #FreeSoftware #ACAB […]

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andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
Well THAT'S fun!

https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/massive-climate-induced-earthquakes
The latest piece of research by the Swiss Seismological Service, published summer 2025, links swarms of small tremors beneath Mont Blanc in the European Alps to rapid thawing of ice and snow during a heatwave in 2015. Percolating downwards, the extra water eventually found its way into a major fault zone that slices through the 12km-long (7-mile) Mont Blanc Road Tunnel, lubricating it and causing it to shift sufficiently to trigger a burst of low-level seismic activity. The occurrence of small tremors has since remained elevated, substantially hiking the risk of bigger quakes in the future.
December 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
me: "Oh, you got bok choy? I didn't realize you'd been getting it from the japanese store [around the corner]."

her: "Yeah. Although today they were out, all they had was something called yu choy."

me: "*You* choy? Damn, the political correctness with the pronouns is out of control!"

#dadjokes
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
Yeah, local cops will definitely save us from the federal gestapo stormtroopers.. 🙄
https://gothamist.com/news/pennsylvania-cop-was-offered-a-free-sandwich-as-a-reward-to-arrest-luigi-mangione
“I watch a lot of Fox News,” Detwiler told prosecutors. He’d said he'd seen photos of the murder suspect’s face shared by the NYPD “many, many times.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
@chloe I don't understand this part. It's like the line transitioned from F to M, except for weekends when conservative family members visit and it has to pretend to still be F?
Service will not change on weekends or during late nights: trains will still stop at 21 St-Queensbridge, Roosevelt Island, Lexington Av/63 St, and 57 St on weekends and during late nights.
December 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
Also, 200 people? Rookie numbers. We could turn out 2000 easy; and with a little more advance notice, 20,000. At that point, ICE is trapped and/or running for the hills.
But the mass counter-protest of some 200 people demonstrates the challenges federal authorities will face in enforcing President Trump’s hardline immigration agenda in a city that is rooted in its immigrant identity.
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
lmao

#bancars #fuckthenypost
A skeet (eg, bluesky toot) from The New York Post. Theheadline reads, "Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: 'war on drivers'", with the subhed "Car-hating TRansportation Alternatives boss Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani's transition team for transportation, climate, and infrastructure.." The first response to it is someone named "Lunchtown", saying "Are you guys [meaning the nypost] on bsky for like humiliation fetish reasons?"
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
It's a bit hard to read because my daughter's camera is pretty bad, but the section of the pantry that the cat is sleeping in is labeled "random". #CatsOfMastodon
A kitchen pantry with wood drawers. Each drawer is labeled; there's "dried fruits", with bags of random berries barely visible, another one labeled "bars", and the one on the bottom is labeled "candy" (complete with an open bag of halloween candy), and just barely visible above the candy is the stripes of a curled-up tabby cat (Twig).
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
We don't allow cats on our dinner table, and they full well know that (their punishment when caught is corporal cuddling).

While I was out of the house just now and my wife asleep, the 13yo took this picture.

Oh yeah, my wife's laptop often seems to mysterious crash overnight..

#CatsOfMastodon
A dining room table with a bunch of random stuff on it; laptop, water bottles, a box of markers/art stuff, a kid's backpack, some plastic bags, etc. There are also 3 cats on there. Erie, a mostly black tuxedo cat sits comfortably on the keyboard of the laptop (which has its screen on and is unlocked, because she's obviously hard at work). Clove, a much whiter tuxedo cat (and Erie's mom) sits next to the backpack. Twig, a tabby, loafs on top of some plastic bags. All 3 cats are looking at the camera; non of them look like they're planning to move from their spots, and Twig in particular looks like he's about to go to sleep.
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
@ai6yr @mmasnick.bsky.social I like to hide it inside a treat so I find it more palatable.
A "pill pocket" product for dogs, "Chicken Flavor (tablet size)". There's a picture of of a tan cup-looking thing, with a white pill in one of them, and another loose pill next to it.
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.

AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic […]

[Original post on social.ridetrans.it]
quoted text: "Your approach of submitting very large relatively-low-effort PRs creates a very real risk of bringing the Pull-Request system to a halt, especially given that, in my personal experience, reviewing AI-written code is more taxing that reviewing human-written code." response: "I do not intend to submit any more PRs of this kind. This was a proof of concept and an attempt to push AI as far as it would go. I believe that it has succeeded brilliantly! Also, *I would not call this a low-effort PR.*" quoted text: "we have in fact known this for years and the difficulty is to find a way to do it that maintainers agree comes at a reasonable maintenance burden)." response: "I’m not a compiler developer by trade, although I’ve done all sorts of development over the years. I’m approaching this strictly as a user, perhaps a power user. I used to look at my needs and wants, and sulk because they were not addressed. Damn, I can’t debug OCaml on my Mac because there’s no DWARF info. Oh, wow, Jane St released OxCaml! Yay, native debugging on the Mac! Darn, all kinds of package hell is breaking loose. Let me offer my help… Tarides takes care of maintenance of these bits? I’ll talk to them, maybe they can hire me to fix it. Alas, I’m still here and my needs are not addressed. But, hey, there’s AI and it seems to one-shot fairly complex stuff in different languages, from just a Github issue. Maybe I can try it… Wow, oh wow! My needs are finally taken care of! The code seems clean and well-written. I can understand what AI it’s doing and why. All tests pass, documentation and comments are in order. I can definitely use this!" quoted text: "I think that it is a case of different-to-the-point-of-being-incompatible software development processes (rather than a given process being fundamentally right or wrong), and I think that the uncertainty here is in part caused by our lack, on the upstream side, of a clear policy for what we expect regarding AI-assisted code contributions." response: "That is something I’ve been pondering myself. I tried approaching several projects this way, trying to take care of things that bother me. The reaction is similar across the board. Folks want a nuanced and thorough discussion, as well as buy-in, before an implementation is submitted. This is incompatible with what I found to be the most efficient way of using AI, though. It doesn’t need that much input. I can kick off a project just by telling it to add DWARF debugging information to OCaml, such that breakpoints and source code listings, as well as variable printing, works in lldb and gdb. I tell it to follow the practices of the OCaml code base, and to make sure new tests are compatible with existing test infrastructure. Then I add that I want all new code to be thoroughly tested. AI goes away and does the work, asking me for input. I review what it's doing and make sure it doesn't take shortcuts. This is more art than science at this point. Different models produce different work s
November 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
The ice cream is very much no longer in front of me any more
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
Testing, with the help of a funnel, the theory that cats are actually a liquid. Still having trouble getting his butt through the hole. #CatsOfMastodon
A teenager holding a largish young tabby cat. The cat is looking at the camera. On the cat's butt is a large white plastic funnel. The cats tail is going through the hole in the funnel.
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
I like when the #nypost says the quiet part out loud. See, ending illegal labor practices and paying workers a living wage is "anti-capitalist." Being in favor of #capitalism means being happy crushing your workers and driving them into poverty.

If only […]

[Original post on social.ridetrans.it]
Continuing his anti-capitalist message, Mamdani tweeted: “making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers.
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
just the normal goings-on at my house
excerpt from a chat log (absolutely zero context, baby!): "him. "hurry up and take it, i'm freezing". i'm standing there naked, dripping wet, holding two plungers in one hand, and a pill in the other"
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
When you beat the later levels, Linux restarts the whole game over but in hard mode. Sure, I've installed MySQL on Debian before, but this time around there's extra challenges - like the GPG signature on < […]

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"BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK", and then a bunch of random text that is aligned to look like a square of text. Except the first line of the square has an extra character, messing up the look of the square.
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
I've said it before and I'll say it again: #congestionpricing is too little, too late. It's even worse since Hochul watered down the fees.

But pedestrianizing huge portions of Manhattan? Now *that* is the shit! […]

[Original post on social.ridetrans.it]
Mamdani wants to pedestrianize “vast swaths” of the new congestion pricing zone, along with streets near public open space and schools. It’s an ambitious vision, though not impossible. Paris has transformed even more radically than New York, turning a highway into park space, planting tens of thousands of parking spaces with trees, closing more than 100 streets to cars, charging SUVs extra to park, and making rush hour look more like Copenhagen, with streets filled with bikes. Other cities have also reshaped around pedestrians, like Barcelona, which now has several car-free superblocks.
November 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
Phanpy doesn't support quoots yet, so I'm using Mastodon's stock web interface and.. it's bad. Compare how busy it looks with unnecessary stuff (do I really need a "post" input form on screen at all times? Do I need a link to "favorites" visible at all […]

[Original post on social.ridetrans.it]
Phanpy interface, showing a single column with clearly delineated toots. Up top there's a hamburger icon (that gets you links to everything else), a bell icon (for notifications), and on the bottom right hand side of the screen a little ink quill icon for posting. And the font text is bigger/clearer. Mastodon's official UI home screen. There are three columns taking up the whole screen. Left column has half taken up with an input form for posting a new toot. Then there's some wasted space, and at the bottom a bunch of text links: "social.ridetrans.it: [About] [Profiles directory] [privacy policy]", etc. The middle column has all the toots from my timeline. There is only a single thin grey line separating the toots, and the text is small and somewhat difficult to read. The right column has the mastodon logo on top, and then about 10 links like "Home", "Trending", "Live feeds", etc. At the bottom, "TRENDING NOW" with #caterday, #bikenite, and #cdl2025.
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
@briankrebs *looks over at you with my 3000+ tabs*
James Franco smiling with a noose around his neck, saying "first time?"
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
lol
The banner on top of RedPocket Mobile's (customer) site, with the logo and top bar navigation. Just underneath the navigation, a big red banner that says "syntax error, unexpected '['!"
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
hope these dickheads all get primaried

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-vote-bill-end-government-shutdown-longest-ever-snap-flights-rcna243438
The six Democrats who broke with their party and voted yes all hail from swing districts: Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Don Davis of North Carolina, Marie Glusenkamp Perez of Washington, Jared Golden of Maine, Adam Gray of California, and Tom Suozzi of New York. Golden is not seeking re-election next year.
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
"just use docker-compose!" they said.
error: Failed caching npm package 'debug@4.4.3' Caused by: 0: error sending request for url (https://registry.npmjs.org/debug/-/debug-4.4.3.tgz): client error (Connect): dns error: failed to lookup address information: Temporary failure in name resolution: failed to lookup address information: Temporary failure in name resolution 1: client error (Connect) 2: dns error: failed to lookup address information: Temporary failure in name resolution 3: failed to lookup address information: Temporary failure in name resolution
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
These are just basic facts at this point.

https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago
An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Shore. Roughly three hundred agents deployed flashbangs, busted down doors, and took people indiscriminately. US citizens, including women and children, were grabbed from their beds, marched outside without even a chance to dress, zip-tied, and loaded into vans. Residents returned to find their windows and doors broken and their belongings stolen. Understand what it is to lead Chicago. On October 3rd, Alderperson Jesse Fuentes asked federal agents to produce a judicial warrant and allow an injured man at the hospital access to an attorney. The plainclothes agents grabbed Fuentes, handcuffed her, and took her outside the building. Her lawsuit is ongoing. On October 21st, Representative Hoan Huynh was going door-to-door to inform businesses of their immigration rights when he was attacked by six armed CBP agents, who boxed in his vehicle and pointed a gun at his face. Huynh says the agents tried to bash open his car window. Understand what it is to be a family in Chicago. The next day, October 25th, federal agents tear-gassed children in Old Irving Park. Again, no warnings were heard. On October 26th, agents arrested a 70-year-old man and threw a 67-year old woman to the ground in Old Irving Park, then tear-gassed neighbors in Avondale. That same day, federal agents deployed tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade in Old Irving Park. “Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to a parade do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer. They just don’t. And you can’t use riot control weapons against them,” Judge Ellis said to Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino. Understand how the government speaks about Chicago. On November 3rd, paralegal Dayanne Figueroa, a US citizen, was driving to work when federal agents crashed into her car, drew their guns, and dragged her from the vehicle. Her car was left behind, coffee still in the cup holder, keys still in the car. The Department of Homeland Security blamed her, claiming she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers.” You can watch the video for yourself.
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
😂

https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

#TheOnion #zohranmamdani
Claim: Mamdani will destroy New York City. False: Rapidly rising sea levels will destroy New York City. Claim: Mamdani is a communist. False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
Whee! https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

#bancars
zohran-style political sign that says "BANCARS for BETTER CITIES" zohran-style political sign that says, "HAGUE for ICE AGENTS" zohran-style political sign that reads, "PRISON for GOP LEADERS" zohran-style political sign that reads, "STROKE OUT for TRUMP"
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy
@mathowie Yes. #bancars
Zohran-style political sign that says "BanCars for New York City"
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM