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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

...check up on yo strong friends...

🔴 So, go to WHO website, click down at the bottom on home and there you will see subscribe to newsletters, so none of us will be left out in the dark when a health crisis happens. This will give us time to prepare. ⬅️

That’s suspicious. That’s weird.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Perfect!

With ICE raids already starting, remember this when you get asked if you've seen anyone they're looking for,

NO
I don't remember
I haven't seen anyone
I don't know
Fuck off

Ok, maybe not the last one, but erase your memory

Be an ally

WHAT TO DO IF ICE COMES TO YOUR DOOR DO NOT OPEN DOORS --Ice cannot come in without a signed warrant. Tell them to pass the warrant under the door before you open. REMAIN SILENT --ICE can use anything you say against you in your immigration case, so claim your right to remain silent. DO NOT SIGN --DO not sign anything ICE gives you without talking to an attorney! REPORT THE RAID --Call Rapid Response Hotline 1-844-724-3737 --Take pictures, videos, and notes FIGHT BACK --Get a trustworthy attorney and explore all options to fight for your case. Protect your family and neighbors!

This is getting wide amplification (rightly so), but needed #AltText
Also, please note that ICE warrants are NOT SIGNED BY A JUDGE, and give ICE agents NO AUTHORITY to enter your home or business without your consent!

Book #3 for 2025 is “Final Girls” by Riley Sager. I only enjoyed this book *just* enough to finish it. For my QBR (quick book review) check out the video.

2/5 ⭐️

#booksky #qbr

The 10th anniversary edition of Heff VanderMeer’s bestselling novel “Annihilation” stands on a bookshelf in front of a collection of graphic novels and other books. Beside it, sits a small, green clawfoot bathtub holding a felted alligator in bath water (also felted) holding a tiny rubber ducky.

An image from the Notes app, which reads as follows: “Annihilation 2025, Book #2 Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer There’s something magical about reading a novel that shouldn’t work but still pulls it off flawlessly. In Annihilation, our narrator is an observer. She is someone who thrives on being on the outside looking in. And so we have a story where much (but certainly not all) of the conflict is viewed from a detached perspective. We see the aftermath of things and hear the biologist’s theories about the events that likely surrounded what she’s observing and recording. What’s so genius about this deliberate setup is that it actually creates more tension and makes Area X more unsettling.”

A screencap from the Notes app, which reads as follows: I first read this novel back when I didn’t read very much. I picked it up because I loved Alex Garland’s (loose) movie adaptation. I still love the movie, but as the cliché goes: the book is better. I read Annihilation again in part because I received the BEAUTIFUL 10th anniversary edition of all four books in the Southern Reach series. And I have to say I love it even more now in my “prolific-reading era.” There’s something so fluid and smooth about the prose here. Few books have such a flow that it is easier to read them than to set the book down. (I think some of you will know what I mean.) Stephen King’s “Carrie” and André Aciman’s “Call Me By Your Name” fall into that category for me, despite the massive differences in genre.

A screencap from the Notes app. Five star emojis are followed by the text, “5/5 Highly recommended.”

My second book of 2025 is Jeff VanderMeer’s “Annihilation.” It was a pleasure to revisit this favorite in its gorgeous 10th anniversary edition. I received the set of all four Southern Reach books for Christmas and look forward to continuing this bizarre (in the best way) journey! #booksky

A completed LEGO set that is a near-life size replica of an old typewriter. It is a soft, sage green color with realistic elements including a fabric ribbon, which is purported to be the first-ever fabric element in any LEGO set.

My best friend bought me the typewriter LEGO™️ set for Christmas. It’s a thing of beauty! The letter keys work, the carriage moves, and it even clacks as you “type.”

#LEGO #BookSky #Writing

I’ll never understand how anyone—ANYONE—can feel entitled to offer up unsolicited criticism, advice, etc. to others.

And re: over-familiarity, yes. The same goes for shortening names without consent. I’m Joshua but people call me Josh all the time. People I don’t even know.

A metal box would creep me out far more because it holds up better/longer. With cardboard, its appearance would give you SOME indicator of where it’s been and how long-ish. But metal? It could be decades or a century old. That rust could be from rain or from sitting at the bottom of a lake.

My first book review of 2025 is “The Unsettled” by Ayana Mathis.

#Booksky

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYKPShNM/

If you love #soups and stews, you need bowl cozies. This bowl is lava-hot, but the cozy means I can hold it comfortably. My friend makes these by hand and sells them in her #smallbusiness, Sew Useful Studios.

Give her a look!!

www.sewusefulstudios.com

The world feels just a little bit more magical if you think of icicles as seasonal stalactites.

#Insomnia: a not-so-poetic #poem:

Blinds drawn.
Lights out.
Covers over my head.*
Sleep mask on…
…tight as it’ll go.

Can’t sleep…
…think I see a little light still.
___________________________

*Yes, I’ve been informed many times that this is a freakish way to sleep. And yet…

#EXvangelical here, venting anout my estranged #narcissist father’s nonsense as an Evangelical conservative. What kind of Christian votes for the Antichrist? Prophecy over principles? #MakeItMakeSense... TikTok video by jpk

Story time: when my Evangelical father voted for Trump despite believing with all sincerity that the man was the literal Antichrist. I have my theory as to why…

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYwDhcaC/

The Meta moderators have been leaning severely conservative for ages. The fact checkers “skew” liberal because right now misinformation is most ubiquitous in conservative narratives. The moderators simply made that all the more obvious by “jailing” liberal users at a much higher rate.

My 2024 in books. Began AND ended with Christmas books!

#booksky @thestorygraph.com

Insanely good.

But Make America Great Again…

FOR SOME!

I’m so confused. Who am I supposed to be rooting for?!

I don’t understand why the working class idolizes either of these men.

YouTube video by RufusWainwrightVEVO Rufus Wainwright - Going To A Town (Official Music Video)

One of these days this song won’t be relevant. I hope…

#RufusWainwright

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