Amal

theres no way that my hours of speaking, reading and revising the French language have led to some semblance of fluency! i reject this notion outright

made some oats for suhoor and snacked on biscuits and leftover pizza while waiting for them to be ready. I think you can see where this is going. Nobody to eat these oats but me….

Some guy in France wrote this cozy little book about a secluded French island and I’m over here whining about it

stuck reading the French Nicholas Sparks, not Nicholas Sparks in French but something equally fatiguant

This is the only correct position, and the inevitable response from knee-jerk centrist reactionaries of "it won't work" is not a valid objection. Every member of Congress has a duty to say that what Noem has been doing is not acceptable.

If you are in mountain or pacific time zones in the U.S., you may want to take a cue from protesters in NJ, who are doing banner drops to catch rush hour commuters. Banner reads : ICE MURDERS WOMAN IN MN

Would be great to see all across the country.

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

@mhdksafa for the record: cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people either (from 2023)

Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

Minneapolis.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

As a reminder, arguing with strangers online does not count as community action. The most appropriate response to ICE violence is direct action within the community you inhabit. Pedantry never stopped a man with a gun.

Kindly, I don’t see how this conversation is relevant to the matter at hand. This is not useful discourse, please consider directing your energy towards action in your community. It would be a more respectful outlet for the grief we both share for a woman’s stolen life and a family’s heartbreak.

But it does not change the fact that he is an orphan.

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

Heartbreaking to hear that her child’s father passed in 2023, they’ve made her son an orphan.

Annual Bridget Jones’s Diary rewatch completed, feeling so good about the upcoming year. 🤍

Avoid carbonated beverages in the two hours following the consumption of sardines

alternative proposal, they can be sold said equipment with guardrails. I’m thinking 5 min time limit and 720p maximum resolution ? open to outside input

it should be illegal to call yourself a polymath, and anyone who does so should be prohibited from purchasing any form of audio/visual recording equipment

I also had a dream in french this morning and ordered some more french books, fully intending to ride this high as far as it will take me

I finished my first whole book in french and I’m so pleased, it has had an IMMEDIATE impact on my grammar and language processing

about to post something truly insufferable…. consider this your only warning 🫵

a woman shaking hands in an office with the words what 's the procedure written above her ALT: a woman shaking hands in an office with the words what 's the procedure written above her

just encountered the simple past tense in a french book for the first time

Made a microwave cookie - discussted

I jest of course! What a delight it is to learn <3

horrendous news - I’ve no choice but to actually engage with the 20+ PDFs I just downloaded

if you call yourself a polymath but none of those skills have anything to do with math, we have no choice but to execute you sorry

Haven’t been in much of a Notting Hill mood lately. Have I found contentment?