Totally nuts!:
85% majority black Alabama town.
All prior mayors white. No elections in decades, position "inherited."
Patrick Braxton decides to run for mayor in 2020. Approaches current mayor, who lies to him about qualification process.
Braxton successfully navigates the correct qualification process nonetheless.
Nobody else bothers to qualify. Braxton elected as mayor.
County judge says: no one bothered to qualify/ be elected to town council positions either, he may appoint his own council.
Weeks after the election, current mayor and council meet in secret, no notice of the meeting published, declare a special election, no notice of that either, and effectively reappoint themselves to their current positions.
Then they release a statement admitting "that Plaintiff Patrick Braxton is Black and is the former Mayor of the Town of Newbern."
!!!???
Now a matter of a federal civil rights lawsuit.
Mindboggling.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/patrick-braxton-black-man-says-he-was-elected-mayor-of-newburn-alabama/
It turns out I was wrong. This might be one of the lichens that is very resistant to pollution. Nevertheless, we know from other sources that the air here *is* clean :)
A nice patch of #lichen on a roof of a house where we had a #RuralBroadband installation a few days ago. Good to see that the air here is clean – lichens are usually a good indicator of air quality.
While on my way around town with the bike because of some business related errands I came across this view.
Workers on a small drilling platform on "#Mühlenteich" are still probing the ground of the lake.
A bridge built during GDR-times, which forms one of the few roads into the town #centre of #Wismar (which historically was an #island in between Baltic Sea, wetlands, lakes and inlets and will be an island again in the future because of rising sea levels) has to be replaced in due time.
@sowa korzystam z Tutanota od jakichś 5 lat, polecam.
zamiast wyszukiwarki - DuckDuckGo
Youtube przez Piped na komputerze, i LibreTube na Androidzie.
zamiast Google Maps - OpenStreetMaps (i korzystające z nich Organic Maps na telefonie)
zamiast Chrome'a - Firefox
Unfortunately we had a small outage this weekend, but this is a good opportunity to remind everyone that you can download entire copies of #Wikipedia and other freely licensed projects for #offline use via #Kiwix!
Check out @kiwix - https://www.kiwix.org and set it up on your smartphone or laptop or boat so you can access free knowledge wherever you go.
📷: The Goodall Family uses Kiwix on their boat while sailing the Pacific (CC BY-SA 3.0)
@didleth @Hogata Jechałam kiedyś do pracy, widzę typ na chodniku się przewraca. Zatrzymuję się. Pytam co się dzieje: typ mówi a) chyba mam zawał, b) opowiada coś o partnerce, która go zostawiła i się zabije.
Może jest pijany, może nie jest - nie mi ocenić. Dzwonię na 112 wyraźnie mówiąc, że chodzi o pogotowie, że być może zawał ale też trudna sytuacja. Zamiast karetki przyjeżdża policja. Odwozi typa do domu, każe mi jechać za nimi. W domu go lżą przed kolegami, mi policjantka zapowiada, że
There are 83 of these "EIRE sign" sites around the Irish coast (many of them much less visible than this example, which was rediscovered and restored in 2017-2019). They were created during World War Two to make pilots aware that they were overflying a neutral country.
The screenshot shows how this one looks in OSM. There has been some creative tagging to get the letters to display (a wall of height zero requires a bit of mental gymnastics), but nobody can say it is not "on the ground".
@grymasTysiaclecia skisnąć.
@Toive8547 Maps? Geoinformatics? Fascinating stuff.
Walking back to the truck in the parking lot, I spotted this #Killdeer that had just landed at the edge of the sidewalk. I was able to get a few shots before it sat on the ground and exhibited a broken-wing distraction display....which they do when a nest is threatened. At that point, I walked away knowing there must have been a nest nearby.
https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/killdeer-profile-debra-martz.html
#bird #birds #aves #birdWatching #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #nature #FeatheredFriends #BuyIntoArt
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.