Veronica du Lac (She/Her)

People are always shocked when I tell them it took 13 months for my husband to acquire a green card and join me in the US. People just assume it's instantaneous when you're married to a citizen. It's absolutely not.

Tariffing spaghetti pasta, which is a safe food for many, and Tylenol, Trump is declaring mass warfare on autistic people.

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Ursula K. Le Guin - Author Ursula K. Le Guin was author of 21 novels, 11 volumes of short stories, 4 collections of essays, 12 children’s books, six volumes of poetry and 4 of translation.

The next newsletter, on October 21st, will bring with it news of the winner of this year's Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!

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Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown The air traffic tower at Burbank Airport is unmanned on Monday evening as air traffic controllers begin to call out in greater numbers due to the government shutdown.

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown

Everyone making goddamn sure Harrison Ford is absolutely at home

Harsh Nazi Parenting Guidelines May Still Affect German Children of Today The Nazi regime urged German mothers to ignore their toddlers’ emotional needs—the better to raise hardened soldiers and followers. Attachment researchers say that the harmful effects of that teaching...

"Haarer viewed children, especially babies, as nuisances whose wills needed to be broken."

Link was a pretty well known quantity and there wasn't a changing of the guards in management to the point where they didn't know who was on here since early on. Staff used to post a lot more frequently until they did a heel turn.

So I honestly think Link got got to make an example.

so like

who exactly owns bluesky PBLLC?

lots of "it's owned by jay and the board" but no breakdown anywhere of who owns how much. shares? how many? there was a class A funding round at one point. but no transparency on finer details

what are the corporate governance policies the board follows?

Important fact check amid swirling rumors online:

even on its own terms, the democrats’ “we need a strong republican party” thing is ridiculous. they proudly admit they hold the center of the spectrum, and boy do they not want a strong left wing. your little birdy is going to die in this metaphor my friend

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Saw some post somewhere earlier about people “not getting” transness or whatever

You don’t have to get it.

If you believe in bodily autonomy for all, then no one needs you to understand their personal situation to earn being seen as a person by you.

You just treat every human being as a person.

If you automatically assume that anything any media outlet reports is a lie if a cop is the source you’re likely to be far better informed than someone who automatically assumes it’s all true.

Two years. Two fucking years of death and massacres and genocide and we've let it happen in front of our eyes. God have mercy on our souls.

What People Named Their Cats in the Middle Ages: Gyb, Mite, Méone, Pangur Bán & More 'The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,' declares the opening poem in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. But the possibilities are many and varied:

What People Named Their Cats in the Middle Ages: Gyb, Mite, Méone, Pangur Bán & More

I feel like every day for the past month I have said to a new person that I hate living in a world where this man is genuinely dangerous and has way too much power, because he’s the goofiest loser alive and we deserve to be able to sincerely enjoy the comedy he’s providing

one of Elon's arguments for getting the loan to buy Twitter, as I recall, was that he was going to get half the world's transactions on there

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

Ridiculously sweet 🥳

She's so good man. She makes us all look like assholes

I hate to defend the poster’s strike but the reason that people posted like dorks for a few days is because your social media site was so ill-conceived that it allowed users to make profiles with “nigger” in the handle, and so poorly moderated that it didn’t do anything about it after people did so.

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

In the form of dead children

Quarterly vaccination coverage statistics for children aged up to 5 years in the UK (COVER programme): April to June 2025

Vaccination coverage in some areas of London has fallen quite low but for UK as a whole, the 6 in 1 coverage at 5 yrs is over 93%. Varies a little but most of us remain quite sane- fortunately.
www.gov.uk/government/s...

My kids are due for their flu jabs, which is good to hear But these days more and more parents are ticking the red ‘refuse’ box on the form

In Hackney it's currently 60%. I just wrote this, about how destabilising I'm finding the fact we're sleepwalking into this shit.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

"a minority have used these protests as a pretext for stoking antisemitic tropes"

Could that minority be people like him who constantly imply that Israel is committing crimes against humanity to fight antisemitism on behalf of the Jewish diaspora?

Dead eyed stare