Ameya Warde

Anyway, I have gotten super into oldweb stuff these last few months, and I’ve been hapily building my old, early 00s (/late 90s)-style website. So much nostalgia.

I really want to connect with more people who make such sites! I’m in some discords but not really successfully convo’d yet??

This guy is behind SO much of all the current non-Putin orchestrated horrors. I don’t understand why so few political people in my circles talk about him.

It’s downright bizarre how much life can change in a few months.

Lol, hi. I .. um… (whatever the word for ‘tweeted’ is here) when i was bored and had no one to yap at, but once i had a boy to yap at I just totally forgot this place existed.

He dares to be at work rn though and I’m home alone with my (also new!!!) kitty cat and some mega sized Korean beers.

Thought of this/that thread which is now deleted when I got this ad on FB. SMDH

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

I finally looked at my Storygraph now that it has my goodreads data. And... quite a few items on the 2024 overview are wrong. It must not have imported all of the books. Also it said I only read 8 history books and 4 fantasy books. O.o The 86 books I read were almost exclusively either of those...

What Will Happen to Your Student Loans if Trump Closes the Department of Education? Dismantling the department would put Pell grants and other need-based aid programs at risk.

If the administration moves forward with dismantling the Department of Education, students of all ages could face a more divided, unequal system that restricts opportunities instead of creating them.

Read more here ⤵️

(To be clear, I already don't think the fight between AP and the White House is funny. The implications of this seem serious to me. The fact that they have chosen such a trivial battleground on which to fight feels like a way of not just masking but mocking what's at stake.)

Reminder that you don't own the ebooks you "buy" on Amazon. They can take it all away from you with the click of a button, and if they decide to comply with "any mention of queer or trans lives is pornographic," they can digitally burn your whole library.

It's @george-lakoff.com's Truth Sandwich.

An essential skill for anyone who does any communications. Yet, over and over, people start by privileging their opposition's message or just outright lies.

Only way to deal with guys like Elon and Trump.

I got excited that Foundation, the medieval city builder that has been in beta for 6 years but looked great, was finally released! I watched a vid and ran and bought it! (I dont treat myself to such purchases often (it's only $26ish atm))

Then i tried to download!
Windows only. T_T #sorrow

Book burning?
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."

Oh, thank you!

D:

Did you know?

In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.

The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.

The Most Powerful Crypto Bro in Washington Has Very Weird Beliefs Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. is in “decline” and embraces a cultish tech movement to build “network” societies beyond the reach of nation-states—and he’s got Congress eating out of his h...

5. The plan is simple: Use tech wealth and crypto to buy American democracy and turn it into something else...a "parallel" institution that serves tech billionaire interests. A few days before the inauguration, Trump makes billions from a memecoin. Hello?

newrepublic.com/article/1857...

OMG. I didn't know any of this. JFC

2. I spent last year writing about the Network State cult for the @newrepublic.com. Everything happening now was spelled out in this series. A tech CEO takeover of government, the purging of institutions, the rise of crypto corruption as a dominant economic force, the quest for new territory...

I feel like i'm going to sprain a part of my tongue or something trying to say merry with the /e/ of met. 😅

Marry like mat just sounds jokey, or like I'm trying to say a a Marie with a terribad French Accent!

TIL the Mary-marry-merry merger is mostly North American specific. I assumed they used to be said differently, but I didn't realize they still were, somehow!

Apparently:

"Mary has the a sound of mare, marry has the "short a" sound of mat, and merry has the "short e" sound of met."

image saying lore and law are homophones of lure

Also I just tried to look up lure to see if I should include it with the other -ure words, and this broke my brain:

Of the various ways I can try to say it (I'm really not quite sure how to say it even in my own dialect).. none get remotely close to lore or law 🤯😅.

I found Wikitionary this week and it's super helpful in my lesson planning! But I need more #linguistics types to contribute because I'm teaching elementary kids in a dual British-American taught school in Korea, and I need to be able to reference the IPA & audio files for even more words.~~

If you download a video and re-upload it... those views are not getting tracked by CNN, though? Isn't that what's happening here?

I love waking up feeling like I'm mid-venlafaxine withdrawl. (I'm not!)

As an experienced EDSer, I know I must have tweaked my neck just so while I slept. This is impressive because I already have to sleep with a firm airline-style neck pillow to keep my bones where they belong. So, like, HOW? -_-

Trump Administration Rescinds Freeze on Federal Grants and Loans: Live Updates

This shows that pushing back legally and politically when the would-be dictator crosses the line can succeed. His power has limits. Resistance pays off. Onward!
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

Make me get off the couch and clean. T_T

Starting a non-cozy LitRPG to listen to while I try to make myself work. Maybe I was getting TOO cozy and that's why it's so hard to get up and clean...

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