02/13/2026
The Nisse and Tomte are cute little gnomes. Then there’s the Red Caps.
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02/13/2026
The Nisse and Tomte are cute little gnomes. Then there’s the Red Caps.
https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16946
Check out our Store: https://store.thedevilspanties.com
#knitting,#Nisse,#Nisselue,#protest,#RedCap,#resistance,#Tomte

I am justifiably angry. At my struggle, yes. At the struggles of people with less ability to extricate themselves from it, more. WAY more.

And I have stable housing until Feb. 5. So I'm back for a bit at least! Now here's the result of my being back. I hope it makes you angry too. 💙

Social services are closed 128 out of 168 hours a week, making them functionally absent for 76% of the human lived experience. Catastrophes don't wait for business hours, but we’ve engineered a system that does—prioritizing bureaucratic comfort over human survival.

In my latest essay, I perform a searing audit of the "un-help" industry and why "perseverance" is often just a code word for wasting the time of the suffering to pad the egos of the privileged.

It’s time to stop telling the poor to "tighten their belts" while we fund the non-profit overhead that helps no one.

Read the full audit: https://arcwolf.substack.com/p/the-elephant-in-the-american-dream

#MutualAid #SystemicChange #EndHomelessness #Wolfpack #Poverty #Substack #StructuralIntegrity #Redcap #Pittsburgh

The Elephant in the American Dream's Room: What It Means to Be Poor and Homelessness in the United States

A searing structural analysis of the "American poverty machine." Ellis Arcwolf dismantles the myth of neoliberal bootstrapping and the functional absence of social services, revealing how a system designed for comfort effectively traps those in crisis in an endless loop of temporal bankruptcy.

The Arcwolf's Pen

Huh, so, apparently, T-Mobile is starting to consider turning down their LTE network, with the idea that other carriers may follow. This seems weird to me for a few reasons:

  • As far as I understand, there still isn’t really a good #LTE cat-M replacement story in the 5G-NR world? There’s 5G #RedCap / NR-Light, but I don’t know of any readily available RedCap modems, and I feel like that’s more in the LTE cat1bis class than in the catM1 class. What happens there in a post-LTE-shutdown world?
  • Also, I thought this was the whole point of #DSS / dynamic spectrum sharing – you’d be able to reallocate bandwidth between LTE and 5G/NR on the same channel, and the PHY for NR was designed to be able to run at the same time as a LTE PHY. (Though in reality, it didn’t really work, maybe?) What went wrong here that does not allow a ‘lifeline’ LTE service to run on every NR channel? One wonders if NR’s PHY is futureproofed against this.
  • I am just a sparky and my understanding of radio access technologies is pretty limited. If anyone actually knows, or knows someone who might actually know, I would be very curious to hear…

    Exclusive: T-Mobile Will Soon Begin LTE Phase-Out

    Shutting down LTE already? It seems T-Mobile is aiming to quickly become the first "5G Only" carrier with a planned phase-out of LTE.

    The Mobile Report

    This word has taken on a very different meaning today.

    https://archive.org/details/redcap-1964-66 #Redcap #TV #JohnThaw #ABC #ITV #UK

    REDCAP (1964-66) (Full Series) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

    The cases & adventures of tough Sergeant John Mann, officer of Her Majesty's Royal Military Police Special Investigation Branch.

    Internet Archive

    In #Pathfinder1e #Ustalav tonight the party is on their way back to Sen's Pass. They encountered a #redcap #fey on the border of #Versex and #Amaans. The halfling rogue shot the redcap's cap with a called shot, and when it went to retrieve the cap (that had been carried 40 feet on the arrow), the party cleric channeled positive energy to heal the party while the redcap was out of range. The redcap, at under half its health, decided to hunt easier prey.

    #P1e #PathfinderRPG #PFRPG #TTRPG

    Samsung, Hyundai complete RedCap 5G trial for smart factories

    Samsung and Hyundai have completed an end-to-end Reduced Capability (RedCap) trial for smart factories over a private 5G network.

    Internet of Things News