SF Boswell

A cross-section of a homemade breakfast burrito, stuffed with eggs, potatoes, beans.

Cross-section of some breakfast burritos I made for this week's lunch! (I'm a maverick)

Veggies, beans, eggs, vegetarian sausage, cheese. Delicious.

honestly, this goes in the war crimes prosecution file, a pretty clear declaration that the mission is not guided by rules rooted in the law of armed conflict

This is worth mentioning to your friends who traded their ChatGPT for Claude subscriptions - Claude helped kill all of those little girls at school in Iran. Anthropic isn’t ethical AI.

Mike's latest COVID-19 Heat Map is up. To fellow New Yorkers: 1 in 39 people are estimated to be actively infectious. Mask up, and increase ventilation to the extent feasible when indoors.

- The novel is super orientalist, so if that's likely to drive you up the wall, I wouldn't read it

- Also it's written after like the 6th regime change in France in 40 years + the rise of non-titled wealthy people so it's a book super interested in questions of legitimacy/ power

- Dumas is a super cool figure as the grandson of an enslaved Haitian woman and the son of a General in the French revolution

- He was very rich but constantly in debt because he spent all his money on women and castles and such

I mean it's *super* long - typical of a serialized novel - but it is a great work of literature. Much intrigue! So much revenge!

Some points of interest:

- Monte Cristo has at least nine aliases
- One of the characters is a lesbian (and survives the novel)

Switching your mindset from "I'll just get it on Amazon" makes a huge difference in your ordering. Amazon isn't even the cheapest any more, in many cases.

If everyone who still shops on Amazon switched even 25% of their shopping dollars to other sources, Bezos would be screaming.

somehow this feels Southern in the sense of US Southern culture and also in the sense of Global South

FYI Chuck Schumer still has voicemail disabled BUT you can send him a free fax and then call him Monday morning.

Here's the free fax website: faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Chuck I cannot wait until someone primaries you to the fucking moon

I am 35 years old. For over half of my life the United States has been embroiled in middle eastern wars that have not made us ONE IOTA safer. AND THIS IS HOW YOU FUCKING REACT???

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Fuck all the fucking way off

If anybody comes here and tries to argue that Russia got banned because of the 2023 Russian overtaking of Ukrainian sports bodies or because of doping, I will LAUNCH YOU INTO OUTER SPACE

I WAS THERE

I REMEMBER THE ORDER OF OPERATIONS

And to be clear: I think by the rules Russia SHOULD have been banned.

But it's been infuriating the last four years to listen to people say the IOC can do nothing about Israel because Russia *specifically violated the Olympic truce* and Israel didn't.

Well, now they have. And so has the USA.

I don't *expect* the Paralympics (or the IOC) to ban Israeli and American athletes, but following precedent, that is what they should do.

Otherwise, they're proving their critics right: the banning of Russia was politically motivated, and not some kind of neutral "rules are rules" action.

The Olympic Truce starts one week before the main opening ceremony of the Olympics and ends one week after the closing ceremony of the Paralympics.

Attacking Ukraine right before the Paralympic opening ceremony is why Russia got banned from the Olympics.

So a propos of nothing, but the US and Israel just violated the Olympic truce.

With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

Times like these I’m so glad Merrick Garland stuck to “norms” & refused to prosecute Trump for his many crimes. Because yes—while we are facing the very real threat of global nuclear war—at least we don’t have the shame of a former president sitting in prison. Boy would that’ve been embarrassing.

Some masterful outflanking here, well done!

And if you're going to Paris on an EU passport, I think you'll get to use the little automatic gates at the frontier, and you don't have to talk to anyone, which is delightful.

You COULD exclusively use one passport or another, since the EU/USA are usually on visa waivers... but then you might end up getting slowed down by longer lines, or by silly questions like "why are you coming to Austria" that no one will ask you if they see the EU passport.

The reason for this is because the USA needs a record of you leaving and then coming back (hence the US passport in US airports). If you don't leave on a US passport, you might get held up at American border coming back for a bit while they figure it out.

Same deal with the EU.

Hello, this is my particular area of expertise as a EU/US dual national from birth!

When in the US airport, use the American passport. BUT! Once you land and are going through EU related customs, switch to the EU passport. Same deal with coming back to the US.

a fan of this energy tbh, and ambitious politicos should be trying to outdo each other here

"Fun" fact: after ICE was ordered to release this gentleman, they let him released *without any of his IDs or documents*, but *with* an ankle monitor. In the middle of nowhere, 70 miles from NYC.

It took like 12 people to track him down and get him home.

this makes me incandescently angry. it is incredibly difficult for anyone coming out of prison to get a job. the stigma against hiring someone with a conviction - any conviction - is huge, and even if you aren't required to disclose, many of them have a years-long gap in their work history.

the entire pitch of Cuomo was that sure he's a loathsome sex pest but he has what it takes to stand up to Trump, and then the hot leftist starts every phone call with "what's up big dog" and gets Trump to do whatever he wants.

A tumblr post from user nitewrighter: Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

Boss, it's the fascism.