Goo Truther @thufie@pixie.town

The other day I noted an incident in which Southwest Airlines diverted to Atlanta and were boarded by SWAT because a guy used his phone timer to pray at the prescribed time, which happened to be in flight.

https://yiff.life/@drifa/116194734382854368

VASAviation has the audio about this:

https://youtu.be/eoav99JJAzQ?si=Mbmiw8lD6z7JADLt

There’s more detail there. It was the
SWA flight attendant who was nervous because the passenger had a phone timer going off, he had chanted (prayed) in a foreign language, and he had asked about his hold bag that he wanted with him. This escalated to SWAT, along the game of telephone getting escalated to something about a ticking suitcase before being corrected.

I’ve seen plenty of people really want their gate-checked bag with them. I’ve been one of them. I’ve never had SWAT called on me.

This is some seriously Islamophobic shit, from SWA specifically and the ISA more generally.

Very much not okay.

And neither is the news failing to cover it adequately.

Sometimes i be taking a banger picture

i honestly can't sing the praises of mistserver enough as a discord replacement from the streaming angle, at least 1:1 with another person (alongside using signal for voice/video/chat)

https://mistserver.org/

@scarlet_somnus was streaming via obs using the whip protocol to my server from the UK (my server is sitting on my desk in minnesota) and we were consistently at less than 1 second of latency with a good quality, stable stream

#mistserver #discord #signal #obs #streaming

While oysters lack ears, they still can hear, using statocysts, their balance organ. Researchers have found playing the soundscape from a healthy oyster reef attracts larvae to settle! They have evolved to settle on their ancestors to build reefs, and sound is a useful cue of a good spot! https://phys.org/news/2022-10-sea-soundscapes-summon-thousands-baby.html #clamFacts

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

I'm trying to take care of a household of 6 people, only two of who can work right now, and with my longterm illness (I was bedridden for 16 months) I'm not able to cover all my bills this month, as a bunch of unexpected costs hit right in a row.
(my rent was covered with last week's post, thanks so much! I've still got storage, car, and electric to cover)

If you've can donate any amount at all, it'd really help. Thanks so much.

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

#mutualaid

[ERROR 406i: AI_SLOP_DETECTED]

The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS)

https://406.fail/

"a big beetle is a great kind of horse"

Nothing shows Microsoft's commitment to accessibility like leaving WPF text boxes in a broken state accessibility-wise for over 14 years, and not even bothering to respond to an issue about it. https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/7190

Readers, I cried 😂

"Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper."
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/05/publisher-demands-500-from-impersonated-author-to-retract-paper/

PS: Here's hoping that publicity about this shakedown costs the publisher -- Walsh Medical Media -- more than $500.

#ScholComm

#FlatwormFriday