There's a campaign near me to protect valuable old trees which are slated for destruction. These trees are on public property and being killed to make way for a parking deck. The misguided decision makers have already made it "legal" for them to do this, and some of us intend to fight.

I would love to hear any stories or tips on how to approach strategies for raising public awareness, staging actions, and the like. Tree sitting is already a given. I think our situation is at the point now where we cannot prevail via the legal system. They're doing the murder by the book. I think the only leverage we have is to turn public sentiment so hard against these actors that the political cost for them is too extreme. And even that's a longshot.

Thanks and much love.

Update: I welcome discussion of all methods and actions! After reflecting further I wanted to say I'm particularly interested in agitprop and messaging strategies. Perhaps this is discussed in the Ecodefense link - will be checking that out shortly.

Me: Daughter, isn't it weird how every Guild member, when they get the upper hand on a member of the Port Mafia or Agency, they remark how they're only fighting because it's a job, and without their job they'd be dead or on the streets? It's very similar to how in the real world, people take on and stay at unfulfilling jobs, or even jobs that are detrimental to society as a whole, instead of doing what they really want to do. People are forced into these situations and they can find themselves performing morally questionable deeds because the alternative means losing their job, losing the means to support themselves, and could even lead to them losing their lives.

The Guild characters in part represent the modern alienated worker, and in this way offer a critique of the western capitalist mode of production, namely its reliance and insistence on worker alienation and precarity...

Her: Hey Dad, aren't Chuuya and Dazai so cute and gay together?

Me: Yes.

The show really has something for everyone.

I spun up an instance of paperless-ngx on my Docker host a couple days ago, and just yesterday got my document scanner configured to send things to its Consume folder. So far I'm beyond impressed and I wish I'd learned about it much sooner! I run a FreeNAS server which has collected a lot of important documents in its 10 years of life... all of them arranged in folders as best as I could. Fuck folders, tags are the way.

It was easier than I expected to get the container running and tell it to watch a folder on the FreeNAS share. So I have a decade of pseudo-organized archives to import? Click and drag the folder, and it's done. Amazing.

The automatic tagging seems OK so far. If I'm working on several documents of a similar provenance it starts suggesting appropriate tags after I manually tag about 10 or so. I'll be interested to see how it does as I train it more.

I was never going to pay for a service like this, even though I really needed it. Finding out about paperless has been a revelation for me, haha. And on top of that it's the most "just works" of anything I've tried self-hosting so far. Easy to set up, and it seems feature-rich with a good UI. What's not to love?

Anyone else out there using paperless-ngx and have any tips or tricks to share? Things you wish you knew before?

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

Perfect day for some Sketches

got to hear this at one of Simon's DJ sets in the early '00s and it's been one of my favorites ever since

crunchy synths and drums doing their thing