DW Rowlands

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

Connecticut gas tax could be suspended as prices rise and Lamont calls for action "I would think sooner rather than later. I think the need is right now," Gov. Ned Lamont said of a gas tax holiday.

Watching the CT legislature quietly eliminate free bus fares for high school kids after it passed last year(a few million $) as the governor casually talks about using $500 million on a temporary gas tax holiday is pretty radicalizing

www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

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**nods** Thanks for the explanation...that definitely sounds complicated and unpleasant.

Ugg...the health issues sound terrifying. And I do wonder if "hormone blockers for life" is something one can safely do, or if there are serious health consequences of never pubertying. Because never pubertying sounds at least a bit appealing.

(Also, hi, I'm also in Zuid-Holland!)

At least they make tasty cheese.

Also, I misspelled it, should be "Zuid-Holland Noord".

Basically Leiden and smaller municipalities near it.

The northern portion of the province of South Holland.

Yeah, the Amsterdam system is a pain and much more annoying than the trams in Den Haag. (Admittedly, I don't know if buses anywhere in the Netherlands have all-door boarding. They don't in Zuid Holland-Nord, where I live.)

Those are the exit-only doors and just maintain one-way flow. I don't believe they have turnstiles on the entrance-only doors, and amn't sure how you'd do that without slowing down boarding or keeping wheelchairs and strollers out.

#Glasgow fire yest next to #Central rail station has destroyed the dome & building “known as Union Corner, at the junction of Union St & Gordon St, the B-listed building was constructed in 1851 & pre-dates the station itself” Photos below show the building before the fire & the dome as it collapsed.

He did? I thought he was famous for being a Tuskeegee Airman?

The economy was relatively fine, but the state capacity was absurdly low, wasn't it? Wouldn't that have led to things breaking within a generation or so if they hadn't then, especially as the technologically-driven social change of the early 19th Century hit?

Ugg..._why_...

A lot of people think “surely nobody wants to fuck someone they think is subhuman,” and these people need to be taught about the concept of heterosexual men.

I knew racism is how they managed to kill the originally-planned line out to Lexington, but not that they'd gotten the state legislature to actually prohibit the T from building it in the future.

Huh; I didn't know that there was a state law banning that!

Huh! I didn't realize there was anyone seriously pushing for an extension of the Red Line to Arlington. It's something that's really needed, though I have no idea what it'd take to get it done at a reasonable price, given the political opposition to interfering with the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway.

Interesting parallel between the failure of DC's H Street streetcar and CalHSR: both gambled on prioritizing the least value segments on the idea that the full project would need to be completed, only to have the whole thing go bust.
thetransitguy.substack.com/p/why-the-dc...

An intricate octopus cut from a single piece of paper

Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.

I guess that fit's with the Labour government's "let's make sure _everyone_ hates us" approach to governing.

So what is she supposed to do to get a valid license? She can't revert her gender marker if it was never changed...do they want her to revert her name despite the court-ordered name change, because it's not her "biological name"?

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

The St. Patrick's cross is offset 1⁄30 of the height in a counterclockwise direction, while the St. Andrew's cross are offset by 1⁄30 of the height in a clockwise direction, and the two diagonals each 1⁄15 of the flag's height are bordered on each side by white strips 1⁄30 of the height.

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The blazon is:

"azure, the crosses-saltires of St. Andrew and St. Patrick quartered per saltire counter changed argent and gules; the latter fimbriated of the second [viz., argent]; surmounted by the cross of St. George of the third [viz., gules], fimbriated as the saltire [viz., argent]."

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A thing I just learned!

The Union Jack apparently not left-right or top-bottom symmetric! I'd assumed that the saltire was a St. Patrick's cross (red on white) using the white of the St. Andrew's cross (white on blue) as the background of the St. Andrew's cross. It's not.

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Ah. I thought you'd refused to let them use your bases, and then Iran attacked the bases anyway.

Isn't this not even a war that UK is participating in?