@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

kilroy_was_here

@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town

Semi-human mutant.

Ham radio operator because I'm trying to contact my home. Sewist because I'm trying to make my experience around these alien freaks more comfortable. Writer because an account of what these strange beings are like may be useful to my people.

18+ only. Kids, I hate you.

Not here to debate.

1/3 caffeine, 1/3 asshole, 1/3 pastrami

The Keith Moon of ham radio

Janitor, pennycandy store beyond the El.

#NoBot #noindex

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

Calling for the expulsion of Jewish organizations at Pitt while still claiming to not be antisemitic is an interesting intellectual exercise but not one Jews are going to pretend not to notice.

Pitt chancellor responds to pro-Palestine demonstrations | 90.5 WESA
https://www.wesa.fm/identity-community/2024-06-03/pitt-chancellor-responds-pro-palestine-demonstrations

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@TonyStark

In a city where one of the deadliest antisemitic attacks in US history happened just a handful of years ago too. I live around 2 hours from downtown Pittsburgh, could get to the northern suburbs in about an hour and a half, seeing this so close to home makes me sick.

Too many people think that just because they don't worship a swastika or a man with a funny moustache that means they can't be antisemitic. Way too many people.

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

Not sure how a tyrant can write ‘do not oppress and do not be oppressed’ with a straight face but a lot of this reads like he cribbed it from accounts I’ve blocked in left Fediverse.

Ayatollah Khamenei’s Letter To American College Students:
https://www.thereset.news/p/ayatollah-khameneis-letter-to-american

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@TonyStark

Watch the lefties worship this letter like they did with the Saddam letter.

kilroy_was_here, to hamradio
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

As much as I dislike power poles, and I do significantly dislike them, at this point it seems like trying to use anything else is like trying to use different AC electrical plugs and sockets. Seems like a lot of hams, well, went ham over them and made them into a de facto amateur radio standard.

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@croyle

I've been doing some dramatic simplification of my get back on the air plans. I was gonna go for one of those Blue Sea Systems distribution panels but now I think I'm only gonna need two power connections.

And instead of a linear supply I decided on this switcher. Eventually I wanna completely redo this room and a 5 pound supply is easier to find furniture for, lmao. I figure since they put the powerpole connections on the front may as well use them.

https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/asr-ss-50m-ap

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@croyle

Yea, deciding to go from a 7610 to a 7300 and deciding that said 7300 will be more than enough radio for me kinda started a domino effect.

"Do I really need X or am I just buying it to have it?"

So instead of a bigger radio, samller radio, Same with the supply. Instead of a yuge stable of antennas, just 3-6 well-selected ones. Instead of Bury-Flex, RG8X.

And instead of a "cluttered complex shack" look I never liked, beautiful simplicity.

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

I submit that this is how you actually make progress: build popular support for your good platform and then win primary elections on it while building a wide coalition with people in the party you’re running with.

It's much more effective than trying to threaten your way to power, yell at the Democrats you want to vote for you, and say you want to take over the party from within.

Anti-Trans Dem Loses Primary To Lauren Ashley Simmons, Queer Woman, In Texas:
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans-dem-loses-primary-to-lauren

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@TonyStark

I'd also add that if you don't vote, politicians have no reason to try to appeal to you. If only Coke people vote, no candidate is gonna try to attract Pepsi people, it'd be a waste of time.

People who choose to be prima donnas and refuse to vote unless a candidate passes their purity tests are never gonna get what they want because they aren't active voters in the first place. If you owned a shop, you would never try to attract people who ideologically refuse to come in your shop.

kilroy_was_here, to hamradio
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

Some talk around the #ARRL outage starting around roughly 26:00. One of the panelists is a data security expert and seems to agree with the current ARRL approach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZxW6ebj1s

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio

KC8JC, to hamradio
@KC8JC@mastodon.radio avatar

Got all of the elements cut and crimped. Need to make up some radials and get the hardware on the mast. My assistant has decided she isn’t as interested in helping me with that today, so we will get back at it tomorrow. We’ll know what we have when it’s off the ground and ready to tune.

#hamradio

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@KC8JC

Nice to see another operator who actually follows the science and crimps. I learned in industry that soldering is more likely to cause premature failure, especially when it comes to wires. And that no, crimps don't corrode, it forms a cold weld and if your crimp joint corrodes you did it wrong.

It's possible to do it right, but you need to do what I did and go through an actual IPC soldering course. Even then it's slower and more dangerous. Just crimp folks, it's better for everybody.

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@oh2cil @KC8JC

Yup, if you do your crimp right the wire itself will break before the joint will. And the wire or cable will require replacement due to other factors before the joint does.

Sidebar: NASA and other aerospace were able to cut hundres to thousands of pounds of weight off their vehicles when they switched to crimping. All those little solder blobs add up when you have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of connections.

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

The Austin City Council passed a massive housing bill that dramatically cut the minimum lot size down, changed buffer zones, encouraged more density near transit, and more. This will directly lead to more affordable housing.

Austin’s City Council includes 3 alumni of Run For Something: Vanessa Fuentes, Paige Ellis, and Zo Qadri. Elections matter. And so do people stepping up to run.

Austin enacts sweeping reforms to cut down housing costs | The Texas Tribune:
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/16/austin-lot-size-housing-affordability/

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@TonyStark

I hope they've reduced square foot minimums too. A lot of the homes built in the 40's-60's are impossible to build now because of them, despite their size being a lot better from a cost perspective and the fact that many people don't want large families or lots of stuff like they used to.

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

Declines in snowpack have significant implications for:

  • Water resources: Snowpack serves as a natural reservoir.
  • Ecosystems: Changes in snowpack affect plant and animal habitats.
  • Recreation: Outdoor winter activities are impacted by reduced snowpack.
  • Climate change: Decline in snowpack is a clear indicator of climate change.

This is important.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Ensure Environmental Protections of the Antarctic Region |
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/17/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-to-ensure-environmental-protections-of-the-antarctic-region/

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@TonyStark

The first bullet point reminded me of this documentary. Made in 2006.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCytLfHaPw

For your sanity, don't read the comments.

shoq, to random
@shoq@mastodon.social avatar

Twitter can be amusing sometimes. In a really stupid way. Sometimes I just can’t resist.

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@shoq

Nobody tell him you can't shoot cases of light beer in your backyard in other countries.

kilroy_was_here, to amateurradio
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

BUY a logbook!?!? Are you crazy?

If somebody wants the file let me know. I set this up so I can either staple on the side, as done here, or punch holes in the top for a binder.

I took a lot of the layout from this old RSGB logbook: https://archive.org/details/g4apj-logbook-2

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio

kilroy_was_here, to amateurradio
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

Reading the wikipedia article on microwave ovens and found this sentence in the part describing the frequencies they use:

"The third, centered on 433.92 MHz, is a narrow band that would require expensive equipment to generate sufficient power without creating interference outside the band, and is only available in some countries"

You know what this means? With a big enough amplifier, you could cook your food with a Baofeng.

#AmateurRadio #hamradio

shoq, to random
@shoq@mastodon.social avatar

In some respects, these modern MAGA muttonheads are a direct result of some liberal orthodoxies. We made “do your own thing” a prime directive for 2.5 generations. So their grandparents did. And their parents did. And now they do. And here we are.

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@shoq

I've thought that the (now old) line "make the personal political" eventually leads to MAGA. MAGA is a bunch of people who took their personal problems and prefudices and made them overwhelmingly political.

shoq, to random
@shoq@mastodon.social avatar

Morally correct or not, the one thing this repugnant MAGA virus has changed in popular culture is the number of non-violent liberals repeatedly suggesting that strategic political assassinations might have some pragmatic value in saving America, if not the entire planet.

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@shoq

I've had some tense and terse discussions over the past couple years because apparently I'm old fashioned and out of touch when I say "killing anybody is bad, mmkay?"

dukepaaron, to Israel
@dukepaaron@babka.social avatar

Hooboy... the largest left populist movement in the world is wild.

“No cause can justify such degradations that dirty the memory of the victims of the and of the Righteous who saved at risk to their lives,” she said"

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/disgraceful-act-of-hate-holocaust-memorial-in-paris-painted-with-blood-red-hands/

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@TonyStark @dukepaaron

It's absolutely despicable. I used to be a lot further left than I am now (I've taken to saying I'm a liberal, not a progressive) and there was always this vomit-inducing undercurrent of antisemitism in it.

I began to wise up and close to door on that kind of politics last year and then October 7th happened and that welded the door shut.

I've also had to divorce myself from the LGBT community over it. So much antisemitism there too that was emboldened by Oct. 7th.

mrcompletely, to jazz
@mrcompletely@heads.social avatar

As a young fella just getting into in the late eighties my first impressions of David Sanborn were that he was corny and overly smooth, in an unhip bag I didn't dig with guys like Metheny and the Breckers. Then he blew my fucking mind with the Night Music show and I've respected him ever since. There was almost no really cool weird music on TV in 1988-90 except that show, and man, Night was legit!!! Nick Cave, Bongwater, Pere Ubu, Miles Davis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EryYTq-voz0&list=PLpR40se-_3M8QnHhIReAR-s-wTJCOJGBg

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@mrcompletely

Some Metheny, I like it. Some Metheny I'm still like "What the hell was this guy thinking?"

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@mrcompletely

So you wear a toga and a blue beret. Got it.

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

Media’s breathless, hysterical, round-the-clock, clickbait coverage of the protests is yet another example of how the fourth estate has abandoned any and all responsibility to inform and educate in exchange for advertiser-luring clicks.

I am still waiting for the major part of the media to own up to their role in helping to elect Trump in 2016. Their coverage of everything else has been failing us all and this is no different. A large portion of people have also apparently learned nothing.

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@TonyStark

In my history classes, we were taught to spot yellow journalism and sensational journalism.

I pretty much only read wire services anymore because the rest falls under one or both of those two. Even sources I came to trust went into a death spiral in 2014-2015.

The presstitutes are looking for easy money nowadays and stoking the flames of chaos is the easiest money there is.

TheJen, to random
@TheJen@beige.party avatar

I gripe about New Mexico and trying to get anything done, but credit where credit is due. Maggie Toulouse-Oliver, our Secretary of State, has done an incredible job fortifying and modernizing our voter registration and voting systems. I was able to change my voter registration online in 5 minutes. Securely. Big fan.

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@TheJen

Here in PA it's super easy too. Takes me a little longer than 5 mins but most of that time is going to my purse and digging out my driving license to double-check the ID number.

I registered to vote at the DMV when I got my license so I never registered with an actual form, but helping people with the online registration form, it's just as easy as changing an existing one.

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

Here’s an example. This account is a kook who’s been suspended from other instances, trying to back up another kook that did get suspended and had also been suspended before for bigotry. mastodon.world doesn’t give a fuck about it. But I do.

If this is someone you enjoy, get away from me.

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@TonyStark

"The Torah, or the Tanakh"

I'm not Jewish and even I know those two aren't the exact same. That's like saying the Yankees are the entire MLB.

I also had this guy blocked. When I blocked him, I can't remember, when you have over 1000 blocks like I do that's pretty much impossible to remember.

Sidebar: I used to see guys like this all the time on certain forums. Men willing to use women to bolster their own arguments, but unwilling to help women's causes. I can tell em a mile away.

mentallyalex, to random
@mentallyalex@beige.party avatar

That is correct. Your righteous anger is misplaced and you are at fault, yes.

History will record you as complicit and cooperative to the groups you claim to demonstrate against and protest about. They will refer to you as a "useful idiot" and you will disagree and think it has value.

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@TonyStark @mentallyalex @GreenFire

This is something I have been trying to say for a long time. When you kick off a revolution, you can no longer control that power vacuum. Whatever is the strongest force will fill it. That force will either be the US military or right wing militias that have been training and salivating for decades for this kind of thing.

Calling for revolution is like thinking that a redeal in a poker game will guarantee you a royal flush. That ain't how it works hoss.

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@GreenFire @TonyStark @mentallyalex

It didn't go that easily though, it was relatively standard with regard to how difficult it was. They were literally fighting against the largest and most powerful military the world had ever known at that time.

However, education has been gutted so much and the textbooks have been tinkered with so much that the material around the Revolutionary War has been reduced to a series of footnotes. So people think it was as simple as buying a can of Coke.

kilroy_was_here,
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

@MJ @TonyStark @GreenFire @maddad @mentallyalex

It'd be just like most wars. The rich kids get off, the poor kids die. Now think of which group these kids calling for revolution tend to come from. It's not the group that would die.

It's damn easy to write checks with your mouth that other people gotta pay for.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • ngwrru68w68
  • everett
  • InstantRegret
  • magazineikmin
  • thenastyranch
  • rosin
  • GTA5RPClips
  • Durango
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • khanakhh
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • provamag3
  • tacticalgear
  • osvaldo12
  • tester
  • cubers
  • cisconetworking
  • mdbf
  • ethstaker
  • modclub
  • Leos
  • anitta
  • normalnudes
  • megavids
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •