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It's just off Route 3 South of Boston near the Cape: Plymouth County Correctional Facility (Google Maps link).

And the "Feedback and Complaints" tab on the ICE site lists a Burlington, MA address.

If you feel that an ICE employee or contract services employee mistreated you and wish to make a complaint of misconduct, you may: Contact the Field Office Director at: Field Office Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 1000 District Avenue Burlington, MA 01803 (781) 359-7500

Are folks aware of any ongoing efforts to protest or close these sites? There's an account of successfully closing a detention center in PA.

 

Some key steps I take from this: identify decision makers / funders, coordinate organizations to campaign, and perform sustained protests and civil disobedience. Working to close concentration camps seems potentially more feasible than fighting armed goons. ICE conveniently provides a list of their locations so you can see what's in your state.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Here's a category link. I reported a few items as not meeting Etsy policy due to threatening minorities, plus my own commentary that I won't use Etsy any more if they continue to sell this. But agree with the general sentiment that Etsy has lost its value.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

On June 24, behind-the-meter solar made up as much as 22% of the power being used in New England at any given time, according to the Acadia Center. At 3:40 p.m., total demand peaked at 28.5 GW, of which 4.4 GW was met by solar installed by homeowners, businesses, and other institutions.

Nice!

Today, in the mid 80s and partly cloudy, our solar has been covering and sometimes exceeding the cooling load as well as charging the EV slowly. A residential battery would definitely help even things out (covering nighttime load as well), but there's no time-of-use rates or battery program like Vermont's where I am so it's not quite worth it.

24hr power outage and generation

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Every petition starts empty, right? Don't present it until it has millions, but no harm in signing it now.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (3 children)

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the suspect opened fire at the entrance of the federal government building, and border patrol agents and local police "helped neutralize the shooter."

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 60 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It was funny until she did the same thing to me.

I wonder if they'll learn empathy, or just outrage.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It's just a magic constant embedded in the standard conversational header, referencing an obsolete firmware version, but most users never update the client package so you have to ack it or you get undefined behavior.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

My union-member partner is constantly horrified at the shenanigans my non-union employer pulls are not illegal. Starting with the whole "at will" employment contact setup.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I skipped right past Toyota in my EV search when I learned they weren't one of the manufacturers with a near horizon for all-electric.

 

I was teaching someone to fly in a simulator (FPV SkyDive) and they were very confused by the way you turn. I certainly remember finding it unnatural, but now I'm used to it: With the drone pitched forward slightly for normal flight, you would coordinate a yaw right and roll right to make a smooth turn.

Is there a reason it's not set up so that pitch/roll attitude are maintained as you yaw? So if you're pitched forward 30 degrees and the horizon is level, when you yaw those both stay the same? Are there moves that are easier using the existing standard? Or on the other hand, are there folks who have changed their setup (either FC settings or tx mixes) for different behavior?

Thanks for any insights!

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Nice!

The method is something that looks kinda like a pressure washer that pieces the burning battery cell and injects water into it.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Vice President JD Vance, during a visit to Los Angeles on Friday, said [sanctuary city] policies have given agents “a bit of a morale problem because they’ve had the local government in this community tell them that they’re not allowed to do their job.”

“When that Border Patrol agent goes out to do their job, they said within 15 minutes they have protesters, sometimes violent protesters who are in their face obstructing them,” he said.

Keep protesting!

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

From the ACLU, it sounds like having an attorney's number and asking for a supervisor might have been helpful steps. Still seems like obvious free speech suppression by CBP though.

Refusal by non-citizen visa holders and visitors to answer questions may result in denial of entry.

If the officers’ questions become intrusive or improper, you should complain and ask to speak to a supervisor. (This goes for citizens, lawful permanent residents, or non-citizen visa holders and visitors.) Although CBP takes the position that you are not entitled to an attorney during primary and secondary inspection, we encourage you to have the telephone number of an attorney or legal services organization with you and ask to contact them if you feel your rights are being violated or if you have been detained for an unusually long period.

 

I'm having trouble with a couple scenarios where I want to zigzag. One of two gates that are slightly offset, another is approaching a gap where I'm not quite lined up right.

Coming from fixed wing, I would use rudder. But I'm not sure what the best movement is for a quad.

Would you start with yaw, and coordinate with a little roll, similar to a regular coordinated turn? Or just do a quick roll and back?

Thanks for any tips about how you'd accomplish the movement or practice it!

 

I've had a couple of this style of plastic clip crack. Wrapping it in thread and then applying super glue seems to work pretty well. I also tried wrapping with fishing line, but it came undone pretty quickly. Just wanted to share the tip! Now if only I had a fix for when the prongs on the other half break off.

 
 

First router project. My family had a trivet like this when I was growing up, and I wanted to recreate it. Made from a scrap end of an oak board.

finished trivet

One of the channels on the bottom has a little deviation but otherwise they came out pretty much straight. And there's a fair amount of burning on the sides. I was moving very slowly at full depth, so I wouldn't have to try to get to the exact same endpoint multiple times at different depths. Curious if that's a likely source of burn and what a better way would be; it's not really a problem on the oak but would be on lighter wood (and I have an ash scrap waiting to be v2).

I started with a practice on a plywood scrap.

blank in jig

The jig mostly just holds it in place, with a fence along the back and 1", 2" and 3" spacers (then flip it around to work in from the other side).

plywood mockup

For the real thing, I cut it out first on a bandsaw circle jig. That left a pinhole in the center, still slightly visible after a sawdust + glue patch, but it's on the bottom. Placing a channel in the center could avoid that.

circle cutout

After all the criss-cross cuts (routes?) I used a 1/4" roundover. The set of the bandsaw left the outside a little rough, so I'd probably smooth that out before doing the roundover next time.

roundover

Finally, 80 + 150 + 200 with the orbital sander (just holding the trivet in my hand to do the edge and rounded corner), and butcher block finish.

 

I'd been following instructions to take stand 2 and put it between 3 and 4 etc, and I could execute the steps but not understand what was happening.

But this finally clicked for me, hope it helps others. (1) Twist the two center stands. (2) Twist the two outer stands, but (3) lay them down overlapping the center two, so the new center stands are one from the first twist and one from the second twist.

 

Came with an L bracket I was using to put planters on a fence.

 

Boston May Day 2025: Workers Should Have Power, Not The Billionaires!

Thursday, May 1 5:30 – 7:30pm EDT

Parkman Bandstand 139 Tremont St

 

Bottom shelf is right over the light bulb, so that one was way over proofed and deflated further when I brushed on the egg wash.

baked

They both tasted good, and actually the flat one makes for nice breakfast sandwiches. At least the better proofed one was also my better plait!

torn overproofed

cut well proofed

 

Jewish students chained themselves to gates at Columbia University Wednesday in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia student protest leader now in an ICE jail in Louisiana. On March 8th, federal agents detained Khalil at his university-owned apartment building, even though he’s a legal permanent resident of the United States. They revoked his green card.

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