Mark Fischer

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Cloud Boy at the University of Arizona • Geek Dad • We're Doomed! • he/him • fischco.org/about

No nazis, no dictators. 🇺🇸

Web developer since 1998 😱
Cloud architecture since 2016
Wannabe woodworker
Every few years I teach at the University of Arizona because I forgot how much work it is

Black Lives Matter.
Trans lives matter.
LGBT lives matter.
I can’t believe these are still controversial takes.

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SpaceX's highly paid lawyers responded to the hundreds of comments and oppositions submitted to the FCC in one letter, that basically shows they didn't actually read our petitions to deny. And now we astronomers and dark sky advocates who are volunteering our time have to do a shitload more work to respond to their non-response. By Friday.

Fuck you, SpaceX.

What is "autocratic backfire"?
@estranged Hot as hell in AZ and in MN they're getting a foot of snow! Geezus!
@[email protected] we have to deal with feel of 40-43c with uv index of 11. hopefully there are many cooling centers in your area
It was the fuck around of times, it was the find out of times
Ahh March. The (now) traditional start of summer in southern Arizona.
#arizona #tucson #climatechange

I'm not claiming that they're right, that you are actually buying "intelligence" from them by the meter, I think that's misleading.

But also, the fact that that's the *framing* goes to show to you that they absolutely, completely want it to be, and want to sell intellectual slavery, as far as they can get it.

And worth noting also that there's a subset of Americans (namely folks with small kids and/or mobility issues) who end up really alienated by the glibness of bike/public transit folks, who might be more open to car alternatives if their needs were treated with more seriousness by those advocates.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3mguvj3ygvs22

Just what the climate needed — setting Tehran's oil storage facilities on fire.

I am standing in my kitchen, sorting the trash into four different containers, because my country wants the planet to survive; meanwhile Trump and Putin have decided that the planet will not be needed after they are gone.