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House lawmakers force a vote on bill to restore federal workers' bargaining rights


House lawmakers have collected enough signatures to force a vote on a bill that would nullify President Trump's executive order terminating collective bargaining rights for most federal workers.

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Build a Stranger Things Wall You Can Freak Out At In Your Own Home


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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/south-carolina-lawmakers-debate-abortion-bill-imprison-people/story

#SouthCarolina #lawmakers debate #abortion bill that could #imprison people who receive the procedure

..."Currently, the state has a six-week abortion ban, signed into law in May 2023, with limited exceptions for rape and incest up to 12 weeks, for fetal anomalies and to save the life of the pregnant person.

However, S.323, also called the "Unborn Child Protection Action," which is currently being debated in a state subcommittee, would repeal the rape, incest and fetal anomalies exceptions as well as make abortion a felony comparable to "the homicide of a person born alive," which, if it clears a series of legislative hurdles, could send people who have an abortion to prison for up to 30 years.

If the bill clears the committee, there will be a few other legislative steps before it's debated during the state legislature's regular session.
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advocates are continuing to put pressure on lawmakers by having constituents call up their representatives, sharing personal stories of people who have struggled to get abortion care in harrowing situations and legal reasonings behind why some consider the bill unconstitutional.
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"We have seen time and time again, when very restrictive legislation sees the light of day, and if it potentially has a chance of moving through the legislature and getting signed and getting enacted, other hostile states very often follow suit," she said. "Once we see a bill get enacted, we see that kind of momentum get pushed forward. It really opens the door for other states to do something similar."
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Co-sponsors of the bill, including state Sens. Richard Cash, Billy Garrett and Rex Rice,"...




There's a special place in Hell for people who put #10-32 bolts in the #10-24 bin and vice-versa. >:(

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I'll see you that distinction on bolts, and raise you that distinction on nuts.

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I’ve always thought the difference was apparent by feel





FLOSS Weekly Episode 855: Get in the Minecart, Loser!


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Hackers Can’t Spend a Penny


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Secret chemical traces reveal life on Earth 3. 3 billion years ago | ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251118212035.htm







Well said.


This applies basically to any public broadcasting: It may not be perfect. It may have lots of shortcomings. But it's still way better this way than without them. And you have to wonder why people with really much money want public broadcasting gone...

Trump vs The BBC https://youtube.com/watch?v=iCMnJ4KicW8
#bbc #trump #farage #musk







Let's see if this autotransformer works. #AmateurRadio #HamRadio


All that work to build a parallel coax transformer and it still doesn't cover the whole 6m band. :(

I don't know why, but this LMR-240-75 was way harder to strip and break out into terminals than normal 50Ω LMR-240 is. :/

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio


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It's doing what it's supposed to do, but I need to add a variable capacitor to compensate for the added inductive reactance.







Cheap VHF Antenna? Can Do!


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. @clover mentioned a few days ago that AI-generated images are becoming more and more yellow as the LLMs are trained on the output of other LLM runs. #ModelCollapse #AI #LLMs




"Amazon Creek"


Kent took me almost all the way to the end of the trail to see this. We didn't get an awesome sunset, but it was still a great ride.

#dusk #mywork #photog #photography #rural #water










Hundreds of National Guard troops will leave Portland and Chicago


The decision by the Defense Department comes as Guard deployments in Chicago and Portland have been stalled for weeks by the courts.

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"Lost in the Woods"


I ended up wandering in the woods for a total of two hours trying to find my way to the highway. I knew where the highway was, but the hiking trails didn't follow straight lines.

#forest #mywork #park #photog #photography #rural






All that work to build a parallel coax transformer and it still doesn't cover the whole 6m band. :(

I don't know why, but this LMR-240-75 was way harder to strip and break out into terminals than normal 50Ω LMR-240 is. :/

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio

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damn. You could try a balun with a winding ratio of 1:1.4 but I never tried that.