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Lol of course the day where I do a big post announcing our non-profit fiscal sponsorship is the day I discover I haven't set up @letsencrypt.bsky.social auto-renew correctly 😂 Two hours and one cron job later, everything should be fine?

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Check out this excellent roundup by founder @phildini.net of @civic.band history, from its start helping a few people in the local community (incl. me!) with research to where it stands today as the newest government transparency project fiscally sponsored by the Raft Foundation! Congratulations!

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In 2022, a local #alamtg activist named Rasheed Shabazz was asking around on twitter about digitizing meeting minutes and monthly reports from local organizations as part of his ongoing research into the racial history of Alameda. 1/n

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I got a the self-hosted community edition of www.portainer.io up and running and I am super impressed. Being able to: - spin up and down docker containers - across however many hosts I install the agent on - with web-based logs and shell access is amazing.

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"You can't fire me, I quit!" #oakmtg www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

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Here's some news worth celebrating: AC Judge ruled in favor of the Alameda Food Bank and against #alamtg's Tod "Tiny Trump" Hickman.

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"AI, John, AI, John, for godssakes, John, AI! "Somebody ought to open up Eliza!" "I say chat less! Chat less! Practice your code literacy!" "Will someone shut that man up?" "Never!"

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Hey I'm a pretty big fan of local bookstores, and apparently you can support a local store and win books for life from bookshop.org? woobox.com/r2f4rn/r7l84k

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Guys, you're still trying to replace FDR. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him. Re-create him in the aggregate.

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We have so many things coming up: - Email alerts for searches and cities - Indexing linked docs in minutes and agendas (budgets and legislation!) - Indexing campaign finance date for CA Follow here or sign up for our mailing list to know when we drop these. Boosts appreciated! #OpenData #CivicDate

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Worried about how you'll keep in touch with friends and family following the inevitable collapse of our technological society? @phildini.net will teach you how you can build your very own wireless mesh network at #NBPy. Useful! pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2025/ta... 🎟️ nbpy.link/tickets

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Hey if you get home from the #HandsOff protest and want to make sure fascism isn't taking root where you live, I run civic.band, tracking the meetings for 700+ municipalities. We're going to launch email alerts soon, our mailing list is the best way to know when. @civic.band

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I wish I had more people to talk about baseball with. The problem is, my team abandoned me and the only other team in town is the Giants.

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This is just an extension of the massive shift to Three True Outcomes optimization. This bat isn't ruining baseball, that happened when managers decided any ball that ended up in the field was a bad idea. thelibertyline.com/2025/03/30/y...

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Hey did you know one of the #Oakland mayoral candidates still has #Tesla stock _and_ has businesses under tax liens? Wild choices for the current time. chng.it/N4yDFNgmnZ

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Name a goofier action movie opening than "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" I'll wait.

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Hey if you had databases for all the election contributions, including IEs, for every county in California going back to 2010, would that be... useful for you? (boosts welcome) #opendata #civicdata

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my friend Jo works in LGBTQ health. she told me that queer kids in New York have parties in the back of Indian grocery stores that they rent out, which will likely be in some documentary 20 years from now. the city changes, yeah, but mostly you are just getting older.

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I'm annoyed. No company towns. 8000 pages of #SolanoCounty meetings: solano-county.ca.civic.band 2000 pages of #RIoVista meetings: riovista.ca.civic.band Can someone at @sfist.bsky.social or @sfchronicle.com or an indie use this? Any data help you need, hit me up. Boosts appreciated.

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I've been really worried about @civic.band being too difficult to use... but then I tried to use the #alamtg #OpenGov site and many of my worries went away. These UI problems are _hard_.

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I can't vote in #oakland elections (although I follow #oakmtg with interest) If I could, I'd find this fascinating

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someone should give my boyfriend millions of dollars to buy the old dollar store in west berkeley and turn it back into a second-run theater

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Remy, from ratatouille, is transmasc

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Anyone have a recommendation for an #ip lawyer with public domain experience?

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can't wait for the local spa's biomechanical women's only night

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tired: calling breast implants "fake" wired: big supernaturals

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Just added: 24281 pages from #LancasterCounty, #NE starting in #2019 buff.ly/8OC2Csf Including data from: - Board of Commissioners - Justice Council - Board of Equalization - Local Emergency Planning Committee - Pension Review Committee - Board of Corrections - and more!

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Hey do you know #caddy / @letsencrypt.bsky.social / #networking and want to help @civic.band? Having a real weird one, as documented in this Caddy Forum post: caddy.community/t/wildcard-s...

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Who decided to call them “Musketeers” when “Elon Muscovites” was right there

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It took me 30 seconds to find something I should be asking Alameda electeds about: alameda.ca.civic.band/meetings/min...

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So I saw this article: sjvwater.org/decision-to-... And did a little digging on @civic.band's site for #tulare county: tulare-county.ca.civic.band And found that they cancelled the next water board meeting? tulare-county.ca.civic.band/meetings/age... So curious what's going on out there...

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Trying to add every county in the US means that I have to rebuild the @civic.band pipeline again... this time using my NAS. We're tracking 3.5M pages across 237 municipalities now.

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I was literally spinning up LA County as the fires started, and it just finished and pushed today. We'd love someone to dig into fire prevention and land use policy around what happened here

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Forcefemming the cis guests at NYE

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My headcanon is that Osama bin Laden and Vladimir Putin hated Francis Fukuyama personally

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