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@cpultz I think those happen automatically from the city's system — they even recommend using Waze (owned by Google) to keep up to date with closures. lincoln.ne.gov/City/Department

@cpultz I agree — but when the Lincoln Community Foundation is offering matching funds to those who participate, organizations are silly to not take advantage of it. There was a time when it seemed that groups were thinking that November's Giving Tuesday was pretty neat and that every Tuesday could be Giving Tuesday ... I'm glad that didn't seem to get any traction.

I'm very happy to see MLB putting the camo and red/white/blue away this year for Memorial Day—opting instead for the humble poppy that they should have been using all along. U.S. fans may be confused by a symbol that forces one to reflect on the now-silent grounds where thousands died rather than heroic soldiers charging into battle, but we have other days for that. Take time this weekend to reflect on those that served our nation—and especially those that died for it.

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@cpultz no storm woke me up but my station reports 1.01 inches of rain. Hopefully it keeps coming for a couple days here.

@mrwilson Maybe they'll bring back the KarmelKorn that used to be on the first floor :-)

@nirak @aejolene There is an internet bridge that is supposed to be able to connect folks that aren't within radio-range of each other — but I haven't explored this much since I have LOTS of ways to communicate over the interwebs... like Mastodon! :-) meshtastic.org/docs/software/i

@aejolene For sure. I'd love to see more pop up — and slowly, there seem to be. It's license-free, relatively cheap and fun :-) I've laughed at some of the YouTube videos about Meshtastic saying things like “The phone companies do NOT want you to know about this” — but it is neat to build or be part of a mesh and share messages over it.

@nirak @aejolene Yes! I have 3 at the house — one on the north side, one on the south side and one that is portable — has a potential to be a lot of fun, but there aren't a lot of nodes around yet, so there's not much of a mesh. A friend was in LA this week and there were a LOT there

@mrwilson Looks like I'll be hanging out on the backside of route at 48th and Normal. I'll keep an eye out for you. :-)

@mrwilson good luck on Sunday!

@mrwilson I love marathon day and supporting the runners. We haven’t been given locations yet. Supposedly that’s coming today.

@cpultz volunteering for it and enjoying it 😀

@rustywx Thanks for posting here!

A system that requires an emailed verification code for each login, which must be entered within 5 minutes, but takes 20 minutes to send it to you, might as well be offline.

@RonSupportsYou we need something like Keegan-Michael Key’s anger translator… a fascist filter to communicate what is really being said

I’d say Happy Opening Day but MLB.TV seems to be on the injury list already!!

@mrwilson I bet that sounded wonderful in that space

@ajh have you tried removing the house from the equation? Sometimes I do a POTA-like setup in the backyard and I find that even then, the neighborhood noise is quite high compared to when I’m away from the city in a park. Frustrating, for sure.

I had the opportunity to visit the Voice of America museum near Cincinnati last spring at their retired Bethany Station. One of the exhibits that stuck in my mind afterwards was of radios from around the world, usually designed to only tune in the local regime’s broadcasts, but had been modded — sometimes at risk of death — to tune into VoA. Oppressed peoples around the world have risked their lives to hear unfiltered news from VoA — and this week we just shut it down. ☹️

Web services — *cough* Issuu *cough* — that make me jump through a million screens to cancel them, while detailing the extreme loss and sadness I'm supposedly going to feel without them — even though they want to increase my annual cost by nearly 150%, justified by features I have no use for — just reinforce my feelings that this is the right decision.

My wife and I had a couple of days off so decided to spend some time somewhere drivable that we’ve never been — that knocked out easy picks like KC, Des Moines, and Minneapolis and sent us driving to Wichita! We had a lovely couple days, the highlight of which was an awesome German restaurant called Prost — I would drive there again just for that! I was also fun to find the beers from the old Tallgrass Brewing in Manhattan, KS had found a new home/brewer at Wichita Brewing Company…

@FosseLeo Wow. Hadn’t seen one of those in a while. Yes. 50.

Sporting KC season opener! Could be a rough season, but first games are always full of hope! 😀

Installed PixelFed and, it seems to be what Instagram used to be before it was turned in to a scrolling wall of billboards and stories … it’s almost confusing — but welcome!

@cpultz it was a lot of fun and a lot of good music but it’s a real sign of my age. I used to do 6 L and now I’m taking a nap after three. 😴🍺