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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
Join the Rosemead Tenants Union Contingent! Go to the rosemeadtu.org site and sign up for the group, and you’ll eventually get some info.
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
Recently found photos about Boyle Heights and Arts District gentrification, and added them to this old post, also about the same topic.
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
This was a minor pain in the ass, and I’ll go into some detail about the problems I had. I’m complaining a lot in this post.
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Inventing Black and White
Original post on Nov 8, 2024 Inventing Black and White – Learn how Bacon’s Rebellion became a turning point for the way the laws of colonial Virginia distinguished people of different races. (Note that the two classes – poor vs. indentured/slaves – united, but it was to continue the expansion of the colonies into indigenous…
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Getting Off of Big Tech
Messaging Signal and Signal Groups johnk’s haha, a meme and humor group – https://signal.group/#CjQKICj66MMGy-SZzQAflDFLUvPTZex7Hih49TtaEjbq8_5lEhBpaXvFlKR2DFKDw-ph7Thn Signal – a messaging app similar to Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, Line, KakaoTalk. Nonprofit based in the US. Telegram – business based in Russia. Others Matrix / Element – similar to Slack or Discord, but not as smooth. Alternatives to Google…
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
The world was just too depressing for a while, so I didn’t have time to curate the stories I was reading. I just posted a bunch to my bluesky account, @johnkawakami. Instead, I messed around with this crossword puzzle tool. Other Ones Black Reconstruction Racism
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
I made this TikTok about Thomas Nast cartoons about white immigrant opposition to Chinese immigration, and part of it discussed the Draft Riots, which were part of the composition in a cartoon. user6041026417578 wrote: I made a long video, but it was boring and I wasn’t certain my interpretation was correct, so I am going…
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
How Japanese curry (kare) intersected with a right wing anti-Western, anti-imperialist movement.
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
This is a revised and updated repost of an older post about US support for Nazis during the 1930s. Now it’s a closely related post about the rise of the 1920s KKK. This post needs some rewriting, and more detail.
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
I don’t know if this is Homeland Security, but the video says it is. Is it ICE? This happened in Rosemead on Encintas and Mission up in the north side. The cops broke the surveillance camera before breaking in. (If the creator needs to reach me, my tiktok is @johnisveryboring.) My sentiments exactly. This is…
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Computer Programmers Labor Union
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Lifehacks Here
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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Taking Over “Public School”
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Protected: ULA: United to House LA
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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Etsy Helps Create Microbusiness Caucus, a Challenge to Labor Organizing
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The Return of Public Housing
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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Replacing the Washer on a Price Pfister 3H – 8 Series Stem Cartridge
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Creating Email Messages with Clickable Links that Add Events to Your Calendar
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Dead Pages, Alpine, Docker, Cloud
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Protected: RIP Mark
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Facebook 2009, Part 1
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
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Audacity Recording Problems Choosing an Input Source on Linux Mint
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Update for April 29, 2019
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PHP Attributes Overview, plus Symfony, Doctrine ORM, laravel-php-attributes
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DALL-E as Cheese Hegemon and Destroyer of Words: Hamburgers and Pizzas with Mandatory Cheese, and Erasure of Pigs in Blankets
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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Commissar-General Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the End of America
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WordPress and JSON Schemas Noob Notes
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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Links About the Insanity Plea and Housing
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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The Western Gender Binary
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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Exiting Amazon (Again)