Amelia Abreu

there's like a curve graph for how the badness of UI relates to consolidation and competitiveness in the market. is there like a named law for this yet

What’s interesting here is that, despite the best efforts of unhinged lawmakers, there’s no legal reason for any of this. It’s coming from administrators desperate to avoid a fight.

Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)

YES

The Model T got 25 MPG

G-d forbid a woman be a mid writer and get laid on the job!

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A mom in Portland has been separated from her child since June bc ICE kidnapped her. The only thing standing between her & her baby right now is a $7,500 bond. There's 5k to go. PLEASE let's do this. Many hands make light work. This is literally the reason for the gd mfing season gofund.me/3e980d9d3

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Rounding the corner on episode 5 of Acht Stunden sind kein Tag and I feel like I’m close to accomplishing something (or maybe just buying a curly wig)

Congratulations! they are so lucky to have you!

Page of catalog with soccer referee gear and the headline “referees pulling together”

Page of catalog with soccer referee gear and the headline “trusted gear for every call”

Page of catalog with soccer referee gear and the headline “your referee life, in a bag”

Our kid is a soccer referee and so we‘re getting some really good catalogs

Spiritualism skyrocketed in the US after its brutal Civil War killed roughly 750,000 people - and now in the wake of Covid’s million+ death toll, modern Americans are using ChatGPT to speak with the spirits. In this paper I will

Sign reading "he sold you flowers and ICE took him."

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

sometimes I think I’d do just fine with suburban southern living but then my mom explains the car pickup line system for my nibblings’ school - there‘s a TV monitor and paid staff members who line the kids up and WOOF!

PPS would NEVER. How you get your kids home is not their concern!

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Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever:
- taking maternity leave at the wrong time
- spending too much time with your kids
- reporting harassment
- not moving every 2-3 years
- taking a partner's job/preferences into account
- mouthing off before tenure

Don't forget about LA. The feds never left (& won't be leaving until at least 2028). The people will continue to fight.

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Say what you will about 12-step groups (I have many salty opinions) but one thing they do right is teach chaotic people how to run efficient meetings in 1 hour or less.

(recently joined a board where meetings always run long and it‘s like nah dude, unless someone has a burning desire let’s gtfo)

In 2018ish I heard about at least one local parish where Proud Boys were showing up after Spanish Mass. I’d imagine it‘s the same fuckin’ dudes this time around, only fully state-sponsored.

I guess now is the time for me n’ my fellow lapsed-ass cradle catholics to make our grandmas proud and get our butts to mass (not even going in, just chilling outside to watch)

Ice has kidnapped over 200 people in the last two weeks.

We live in a make-believe world

A 20 year old woman in Minnesota was murdered at work by a coworker this week. Why? He didn't like the way she looked at him. And people are judging her gender presentation in an effort to justify her murder. America hates women. And children. It hates Black, Indigenous, Latine and Asian people too

Kevin and I are at Portland Opera for La Boheme (Puccini, my man!) and he tells me he’s never seen or heard of Rent?! Astonished and a little jealous!

Stop and frisk laid the groundwork for this moment and many many people ignored that stop and frisk was and is a real problem.

NWSL fire an underperforming man challenge

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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

Saw “deliver me from nowhere” on Tuesday and still thinking about the Frankie Teardrop scene which felt so @bestshow4life.bsky.social coded!

I cackled loudly in the sold-out theater.