I was 17 the first summer, 18 the second.
I like life in Vancouver 🇨🇦, languages, open-source software, solving confusing problems with data, dogs, distance running, and my 👶 son. It's just everything else that worries me.
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I was 17 the first summer, 18 the second.
I was a camp counselor for a couple summers, and got paid far less than minimum wage. Did I fall under that "teachers, instructors, etc" exemption?
I've been using Linux since the 90s and I feel like I should get this. But I do not get this. Help?! Explain please 😅
I did not have a 4-year old Chinese boy listening to Nickelback on a tiny handheld radio on a trail near Deep Cove on my bingo card for this weekend. 🤷🏻♂️
Mesmerizing! Is there any randomness introduced in it, or is it totally deterministic? I watched it run once for a long time, and then for a shorter time, and couldn't see any obvious changes in the second run.
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The only thing I’ve ever used edge for was to download another browser
If Microsoft can have the courage to ask you if you want to switch to Edge, then you should have the courage to ask that girl out.
Edge: “We are powered by AI now!” Me:
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
On the other hand, I'm a "me and my family did X" sayer. I'm complex! I'm conflicted! I can't be pinned down!
I've never heard this claimed anywhere else. Do you a source for it?
I'm definitely a "this is he" kind of guy, and I'm a deep admirer of the Spanish version, "soy yo," which literally means "[I] am I." 🥲
Sums up America in 2025 pretty well I’d say
Or the late, great Johnny Cash.
Are there examples of 'delegative democracy' other than the two cited South American examples from the early '90s? I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the concept, and wondering whether it's even applicable in the modern world. (With CA, pretty obvious examples abound.)
My descriptivist brain sometimes can't contain the fits of violent pique that erupt from my retrograde, irredentist prescriptivist heart.
💔💔💔
Does this mean NO ONE arrested anywhere besides the immediate vicinity of the border is subject to ER? Or what, exactly?
Bonus points if she has sworn a blood oath not ever to split infinitives.
Linux has had an em-dash keyboard shortcut for years 🙄 Compose dash dash
"It's clearly punitive": Attorney for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Simon Sandoval Moshenberg, explains how the Trump administration is using the threat of deportation as leverage in their criminal prosecution of Abrego Garcia.
Well said. I hope his defense team will basically ask them this… What were those 120 days he spent in El Salvador torture prisons, in the constructive custody of the USA, if they were *not* an unusually cruel form of immigration detention?
Wow. When I first read about this I assumed this was an anonymous letter. But turns out they had the courage to sign their names to it knowing the consequences of a highly vindictive Trump. Lots of respect.
nice of the president to provide the perfect quote for me to use in a column
This is your Democratic campaign message for 2026
Oh, you thought they use those fancy e-ink tags so they can update the product information quickly? Nononononooo, those are for increasing the PRICE quickly.
He has lived in Maryland since he was 16 years old.
I've previously emailed DHS with questions about whether tweets they've sent have been approved by leadership at the agency, given their fascist message. They haven't responded to those questions. But I just emailed to ask if they were hacked for this one. That feels like the way to treat it now.
Everyone should fight everything.
“It’s a daunting task—one migrant taking on the full fury of the president of the United States and his lickspittle government…But Trump’s many other abuses must not give him cover to vengefully oppress Abrego Garcia.” www.thebulwark.com/p/despotism-...
💯 This is the appropriate response! And it should go beyond National Guard deployment. Officials who engage in extra-legal and illegal activities under this administration need to hear, loud and clear, that they'll face prosecution under a prospective Democratic leadership.
This dude was indicted for dozens of felonies in multiple jurisdictions and never once had to post bail
Today I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The courts & public outcry forced Trump to return him to MD, but Trump’s cronies keep lying about his case & are engaged in a malicious abuse of power to try to deport him to Uganda. As I told Kilmar, I won’t stop fighting for justice & due process for all:
My grandkids are going to learn about Kilmar Abrego Garcia with the same sense of past moral rot that we sensed when we learned about Sacco and Vanzetti.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy
ICE: *renditions Garcia to El Salvador* Ppl: Arbitrary despotism! ICE: No, he was renditioned because he's a criminal! Ppl: Prove it! ICE: Sure *Brings back Garcia* Judge: Woah that is flimsy evidence *frees Garcia* ICE: Nevermind the trial we wanted *renditions to Uganda*
It would be genuinely challenge to draw up articles of impeachment for Trump. There are thousands of individual acts which are abuses of power and almost as many breaking statute law. you wouldn't know where to start.
He also wrote a pretty good book which astutely diagnosed Trump's appeal in many parts of the US. Before he sold his soul entirely and decided to join Trump, of course. But that's a sign of moral weakness, not lack of intelligence.
He managed to go from "outsider who correctly and empowerment diagnosed Trump's pathologies and his appeal" to "Trump's right hand man" in about 6 years. Extremely cynical, sinister, and craven he is… but, unfortunately, he's also a very intelligent person with a capacity for strategic thinking.
Why do they do this? Why is dissent from erstwhile allies more threatening than dissent from longtime opponents?
Absolutely. I've been thinking for a while that it'd be a good idea to have a Speak Something Else Day, where citizens speak languages other than English to each other in public. Specifically as a way of wasting ICE's time and flooding the zone with non-English speakers.
Land of the free and home of the brave.
Patriots.
The White House and DHS seem to be claiming any undocumented Latin American guy arrested by ICE in DC has "suspected gang ties" without any evidence for the accusation. That's not new for them, but it's strikingly racist, slanderous shit from the US government. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
The lineup for it proves that this strategy is paying off. The humans just can't get enough of our poop.
Leftist: Yes, Trump’s kind of a fascist. Now let me get back to my obsession, re-litigating fights with Democratic centrists from a decade or two ago. Centrist: Yes, there are signs of fascism. Now let me get back to complaining a lefty used some woke terms a few years ago. American democracy: 🤯🤯🤯
I remember hearing a presentation by an MD. It was clear that she knew basically nothing about Latino culture in the US; she mispronounced a few very basic Spanish words. But she used "Latinx" a bunch of times, in a way that suggested she was confident that it was the RIGHT word to use.
In the late 2010s, many people and institutions with power in the US decided that they WOULD use this term all over the place, with seemingly total ignorance and incuriosity about whether the people it referred to liked the term. I'm glad you don't do that, but MANY others did.
Yeah, this 👇
Okay fine. I remember seeing a "Latinx Employee Appreciation Month" sign on a Macy's in Portland in 2019. The large majority of actual Latino people in actual America in 2019 didn't use the term and didn't like it. It *WAS* foisted on a population who did not want it.
Yes. Latino people I know and talk to overwhelmingly despise the term, and see it as insulting that outsiders with no knowledge of the Spanish language adopted it. (I'd be pissed too if American society decided something was problematic about the word "Jew" and we need to be called "Jxws" instead.)
“Papers, please”
Way >>>1000/yr in '80s. Few were "apprehended" then because there were few BP agents, little surveillance technology, little interior enforcement, and no walls or fences besides one small stretch near San Diego (whose construction was seen, properly I'd say, as a major insult by Mexico).
I don't think quantity is the root of it. 🤔 1,000s of Mexicans would migrate to/from SoCal every year in the 80s. There were signs near San Diego warning drivers to be on the lookout for migrants crossing roads. It was not treated as a serious crime or an invasion, just as a bit chaotic.
It was quite normal, if not technically legal, to cross US/MX border without documentation until the 80s-90s, and even more recently US/CA. Why is this something we as a society should consider a problem AT ALL? As someone who managed to grow up near both borders, it's strange and alarming to me.
Why is it more serious? People would routinely and casually cross the US/Mexico border for work or just visits into the 80s and 90s. With Canada, it was normal until the 00s, with essentially zero documentation. What changed in recent decades that made us collectively find this sinister??
I love that we have a press that's like "John Bolton in classified documents case" instead of "John Bolton, obviously being targeted by the administration for bullshit, as is happening across multiple branches of the regime"
In Middleton, NY. This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs. This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
"your family's gonna be ashamed of you" really got to the Trump goon.
ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.
If we're unwilling to punish the people who are doing this it's only going to get worse.
Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...
For the ancestor who's 🇺🇦 geographically, but 🇹🇷 by successor state, would that be Odessa? I thought Russia had conquered it by late 18th century. I'm stumped by 🇧🇾/🇹🇷 as well. Did the Ottoman Empire actually occupy part of modern Belarus?
Starting with my SON, I think his ancestors go… 🇨🇦 me → 🇺🇲🇺🇲 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 🇺🇲🇺🇲🏴🏴🇵🇱🇺🇲🛸🇺🇲 🇵🇱🇺🇲🇺🇲🇩🇪🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🛸🛸🛸🛸 🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸
I probably had a few ancestors in Virginia during the Civil War too.
What's the difference between 🛸 and '?'
My parents, grandparents, and 5-7 ggps were born in the US, and then everything gets fully unmoored from modern nation-states 👇, though I think I also have some colonial English ancestors via one great-grandma.
Are you going purely by geographic location, or by some kind of cultural affinity? An ancestor from the Pale of Settlement near the modern 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇧🇾 tripoint, who probably only spoke Russian and Yiddish, should I put 🇷🇺… or 🇺🇦? What about an only-German-speaking Lutheran from now-🇵🇱 with a Slavic name? 🤷🏻♂️
Wow, all of your known GREAT-GREAT-grandparents were born in the US?
elderly white hippies > young white fascists
Ah sorry we had to close your grandma’s nursing home to pay to paint the mad king’s fence.
👁️👁️ My main takeaway from this video is that we shouldn't have renditioned Venezuelan makeup artist Andry Hernandez Romero to CECOT. Seems like JD Vance could’ve used his professional expertise.
U.S. Army vet George Retes was tear-gassed, dragged from his car, and held by ICE for 3 days; no lawyer, no calls, no reason. He’s a citizen. #AbolishICE #StateViolence #ICEWatch #HumanRights #Fascism #4R
How about touch grass and live off-grid… Though I hear the ronin’ charges can be brutal.
Lone Star down below All other stars are above Until we reach Love Town Lake's not a lake Nor was Lady Bird a bird Austin water tastes bad Yet the food's awesome For dessert, Bananarchy Dine at Güeros, yum Shop at H-E-B Love their solid plastic bags And the name's funny
Wow. Shades of Juan Pujol García (real life WW2 Nazi-fooler) and Django Unchained (fictional) in this.
Without taste buds, how do birds distinguish foods which might be dangerous to them?
Questions on the application… Do you identify as Anglx/Eurx-American? Please write a short essay about your lived experiences of white privilege, heteronormativity, toxic masculinity, and boner pill Ponzi schemes (complimentary).
Melatonindivergent Differently aryaned
Hair-straightness-challenged individuals
People are so excited that we might be on the verge of civil war. I’m not. I’m a basic bitch who likes basic things like pumpkin spice lattes and not getting shot at in the grocery store.
My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.
I once playfully asked them "what's shakin’?" and now I've literally been blocked by the entirety of the community across every known social platform 😭
I've been thinking about this one for a couple days, and just got it. 🤣
People experiencing swarthiness
Look, I don't mind the sex tape, but I want to see the Ariernachweis of his on-screen partners before I join his community. Otherwise he's just a filthy race-mixing hypocrite.
They're into classical music, solar panels, goats, and vegan food (🤷🏻♂️)… how bad could they be? Me and my friends Dave, Tamar, Abby, and Jordan should move there. Ahhh wait there's more. Ah shoot. Darn darn darn. I should've seen this part coming, huh.
The weird thing about West Virginia is they were the ANTI-Confederate breakaway part of 1860 Virginia. Though today, the politics of the two Virginias have definitely flipped.
Slightly diminish a band: The Weekdy
I've been thinking about this one for a couple days, and just got it. 🤣
I personally have felt like it's getting a bit LESS "crazy" in recent months. I get less hate for expressing not-totally-lefty opinions, or for critiquing others’ takes. Maybe I've just found my group, or everyone who I annoy has blocked me, but Bsky seems okay to me these days.
They probably also don't know about the phenomena of "night" or "morning" in the desert.
I remember flying home from Europe in the '90s as a kid, and receiving paper US customs/immigration forms where you had to attest to not having worked for/with Nazi Germany. I don't actually remember it being green, but otherwise exactly like this:
NEW Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers seek to dismiss the case for selective and vindictive prosecution, writing that he's being pursed to "punish him for having the audacity to fight back, rather than accept a brutal injustice." Background www.allrisenews.com/p/abrego-gar...
Moira Donegan 
Bagingi da Golden Monkey 🏳️🌈🍉 
