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I spent about fifteen minutes hanging out and he was mugging like mad for the cameras; it was absolutely delightful to watch. Also talking to him like the weirdo nerd that I am, because of course I did. One of the warders introduced us and let me give him a snack too; I was over the moon.

Haven Watch is the group that meets people who are being released from Whipple (usually because they were illegally detained), often without coats or phones or any way to get home.

One of the Tower of London ravens poses for the camera on a staircase rail in front of a blue metal lamp and a stone wall.

The problem with crazy holidays is that then you have to go back to responsible adulting.

(That said: ten days of theatre was 100% worth it, even if I came home exhausted, probably dehydrated, and in dire need of doing laundry.
Chief causes of death: Kate Fleetwood’s Witch, Tower murderbaby love.)

Every time I think I’m safe, these fabulous folks make my magpie brain attack me again. Someone buy this before I do and my wallet shrieks. 😂

(And check out all the handcrafted stuff they make, because it’s even *more* fabulous.)

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

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One side: Shoa refugees
Other side: that but with added postwar Communist problem
In both cases, the path was indirect because American immigration policies (afaik) and resulted in actually reaching America years later.

Secondhand exists? People who live beyond their means exist? Knockoffs exist?

Federal ICE Agent Pepper Sprays Person in Face in Santa Barbara Eastside Incident A masked federal agent wearing a vest labeled “police” pepper sprayed a person in the face at close range Wednesday morning on Santa Barbara’s

Local news article with some details, for anyone curious: www.noozhawk.com/federal-ice-...

On what basis do you assume that? Santa Barbara has an immense spread of income levels, and the Eastside (where this occurred) has a lot of lower income residents.

Federal ICE Agent Pepper Sprays Person in Face in Santa Barbara Eastside Incident A masked federal agent wearing a vest labeled “police” pepper sprayed a person in the face at close range Wednesday morning on Santa Barbara’s

According to local news, there was at least one police complaint filed along with evidence. Who knows whether that will gain traction, but it's something.

www.noozhawk.com/federal-ice-...

May their memories be a blessing.

Reedpop, a company tied to multi-million dollar ICE contracts produces NYCC, Emerald City Comic Con, PAX East, PAX unplugged and more

Fascism has no place in the game community and I won't be attending or supporting any of these cons unless they sever ties with Reedpop

Please read. And please forward to people who have asked this question. A quick, clear, and common sense explanation. "Libraries exist for a simple but profound reason: to ensure that everyone, regardless of income, background, belief, or zip code, has access to information, ideas, and stories."

never thought i’d see the strib sharing articles on how to tell apart the types of chemical warfare used by the federal government against civilians but here we are

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is Minnesota and pronounced meeneesawdah

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are stay strong and pronounced aydawah oolahneekeedah

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

kkk I realise how divisive that is but I love the stuff, so. (Realised after that I should've also done onions, but my green onions are all in the freezer.)

A close-up of a bowl of chilli with beef, dark kidney beans, and mushrooms, topped with a dollop of sour cream and a heavy scattering of chopped cilantro.

Leftover chilli for a chilly day. 😋

This is a really good thread. If her name sounds familiar but you can't place her, Margaret Killjoy is the podcaster who does "Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff" (the counterpart to "Behind the Bastards," which is also a good podcast and which she appears on pretty regularly.)

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.

Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

June Tabor with Oysterband? 🤩 Excellent alone, even more so together.

Gonna see a WHOLE lot of quotes from I Have a Dream today. And fewer but still a lot of Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Spend some time with the rest of Dr. King's oeuvre. It's worth it

Hey @ladedida.bsky.social , it you

Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

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This is a lesson I learned as a preteen, listening to Soviet refuseniks talk about how they survived until they were allowed to leave the country. You make art, you make joy, and you fight. Because those three things are the same thing.

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Asterisk leading to footnote, “Favourite (aspirational); we know you hate it.”

Seriously though, talk about visibly throwing a well-known and respected brand identity into the trash.