Dave Ferguson
@daveferguson.bsky.social
Not as bad as you might think. Tangential. Instructional design, job aids, Ensampler.com. May be related to Alistair MacLeod. Francophonesque. Pic: Dad.
Chì mi Ceap Breatuinn, mo luaidh,
Fada bhuam, thar an t-sàil.
Chì mi Ceap Breatuinn, mo luaidh,
Fada bhuam, thar an t-sàil.
A banger that's not in English:
Karen Matheson, Crucán Na bPáiste (The Children's Burial Ground)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RomF...
"She will not see again
the dew on the grass
Nor the snow in the glens
of Maamtrasna..."
Karen Matheson, Crucán Na bPáiste (The Children's Burial Ground)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RomF...
"She will not see again
the dew on the grass
Nor the snow in the glens
of Maamtrasna..."
Crucán na bPáiste with subtitles in English
YouTube video by Donal O'Lochlainn
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:51 AM
A banger that's not in English:
Karen Matheson, Crucán Na bPáiste (The Children's Burial Ground)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RomF...
"She will not see again
the dew on the grass
Nor the snow in the glens
of Maamtrasna..."
Karen Matheson, Crucán Na bPáiste (The Children's Burial Ground)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RomF...
"She will not see again
the dew on the grass
Nor the snow in the glens
of Maamtrasna..."
Don't mind me; I'm busy with Sonos's semiannual Let's Play Network Engineering Instead of Music marathon.
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Don't mind me; I'm busy with Sonos's semiannual Let's Play Network Engineering Instead of Music marathon.
I doubt that many bloviating about fraud actually vote much. Bloviators with podcasts (e.g., Bannon) are likelier to have been lumberjacks in Singapore than poll workers in the U.S.
As a four-time poll worker (in Maryland), I encourage you to seriously consider being one this year.
As a four-time poll worker (in Maryland), I encourage you to seriously consider being one this year.
Being a poll worker is a powerful, life-affirming experience in many ways and I mean that with all sincerity I can muster in this day and age!
And! Each time a new voter check ins, you get to lead everyone in a round of applause for them! (or at least we did in 2024 and it was great!)
And! Each time a new voter check ins, you get to lead everyone in a round of applause for them! (or at least we did in 2024 and it was great!)
Strong endorse for this line of thinking. I worked the polls 2020-24 and learned SO MUCH about the existing safeguards. I love it, and can bore you with a full treatise on how Virginia's elections are secure. (I missed 2025 because life got in the way and I missed the deadline to renew my oath.)
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I doubt that many bloviating about fraud actually vote much. Bloviators with podcasts (e.g., Bannon) are likelier to have been lumberjacks in Singapore than poll workers in the U.S.
As a four-time poll worker (in Maryland), I encourage you to seriously consider being one this year.
As a four-time poll worker (in Maryland), I encourage you to seriously consider being one this year.
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
January 31, 2026 at 4:53 PM
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
I laugh loud enough in my parked car (windows up) to startle a passer-by.
January 30, 2026 at 12:04 AM
I laugh loud enough in my parked car (windows up) to startle a passer-by.
72 hours a week at work.
Say another 42 for averaging 6 hours of that blissful tracked sleep.
Six days a week you have six whole hours for everything else, either before 9 am or after 9 pm…
Say another 42 for averaging 6 hours of that blissful tracked sleep.
Six days a week you have six whole hours for everything else, either before 9 am or after 9 pm…
January 29, 2026 at 3:09 PM
72 hours a week at work.
Say another 42 for averaging 6 hours of that blissful tracked sleep.
Six days a week you have six whole hours for everything else, either before 9 am or after 9 pm…
Say another 42 for averaging 6 hours of that blissful tracked sleep.
Six days a week you have six whole hours for everything else, either before 9 am or after 9 pm…
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This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
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"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 PM
"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ
Protestors should just dress up as CAVA bags because Homan wouldn't look inside.
January 27, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Protestors should just dress up as CAVA bags because Homan wouldn't look inside.
Do better, Pattison.
Do you really want to profit off of Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem's secret police?
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Do you really want to profit off of Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem's secret police?
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
B.C. billionaire Jim Pattison's Virginia warehouse could become ICE facility | CBC News
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is in talks to buy a Virginia warehouse owned by British Columbia billionaire Jim Pattison and plans to turn it into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC...
www.cbc.ca
January 27, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Do better, Pattison.
Do you really want to profit off of Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem's secret police?
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Do you really want to profit off of Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem's secret police?
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
@schumer.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Take the hint.
Take the hint.
January 27, 2026 at 4:20 AM
I'll repeat my ask to Democratic Senators here: don't vote for the DHS funding bill, yes. AND ALSO do not vote for another single thing in the United States Senate until the invasion and occupation of Minnesota ends. Don't vote to name a post office, dedicate a road, or even a procedural motion
January 27, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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Not as dramatic as Minnesota, but quiet nasty is dangerous, too.
ICE delenda est is the moderate position.
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
ICE delenda est is the moderate position.
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
Racist ace of spades cards left behind following ICE arrests in Eagle County, Colorado nonprofit says
ICE said it began an investigation into the allegations and that it "unequivocally condemns" any such actions
coloradosun.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Not as dramatic as Minnesota, but quiet nasty is dangerous, too.
ICE delenda est is the moderate position.
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
ICE delenda est is the moderate position.
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
This entire thread is nightmare stuff for Stephen Miller and the Marauders.
This is midthread. "That notion" in the first sentence is spelled out in post just prior to this one: the idea of "being a basic community supporting itself."
This is midthread. "That notion" in the first sentence is spelled out in post just prior to this one: the idea of "being a basic community supporting itself."
But to the weirdo shut in right if the intellectual dork web, that notion is as foreign as the female orgasm or moving out of mom’s basement. They think because them and their weird online friends can’t coordinate shit, no one can.
January 26, 2026 at 7:13 AM
This entire thread is nightmare stuff for Stephen Miller and the Marauders.
This is midthread. "That notion" in the first sentence is spelled out in post just prior to this one: the idea of "being a basic community supporting itself."
This is midthread. "That notion" in the first sentence is spelled out in post just prior to this one: the idea of "being a basic community supporting itself."
Notice, Kirsten doesn't need a face mask, fifteen magazines of ammo, six canisters of CS spray, or a tactical ballpoint pen.
In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
January 25, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Notice, Kirsten doesn't need a face mask, fifteen magazines of ammo, six canisters of CS spray, or a tactical ballpoint pen.
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If either of your senators are squishes, you may also want to be clear that you want a commitment to vote no on the bill, but *also to vote no on CLOTURE for the bill.*
Make sure they know you know the difference and that they can't do the yes-and-no (really yes) two-step.
Make sure they know you know the difference and that they can't do the yes-and-no (really yes) two-step.
January 25, 2026 at 8:37 PM
If either of your senators are squishes, you may also want to be clear that you want a commitment to vote no on the bill, but *also to vote no on CLOTURE for the bill.*
Make sure they know you know the difference and that they can't do the yes-and-no (really yes) two-step.
Make sure they know you know the difference and that they can't do the yes-and-no (really yes) two-step.
Who wore it better—Iron Felix or Photo-Op Greg?
January 25, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Who wore it better—Iron Felix or Photo-Op Greg?
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it really is government by a bunch of bull connors. basically walking into traps set for them by their opposition. connor also did not understand that beating the hell out of demonstrators was *what they wanted*
January 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM
it really is government by a bunch of bull connors. basically walking into traps set for them by their opposition. connor also did not understand that beating the hell out of demonstrators was *what they wanted*
From the birthday boy:
"Now's the day, and now's the hour;
See the front o' battle lour;
See approach proud Edward's power—
Chains and slavery!
youtu.be/qx8hEoJNVdM
"Now's the day, and now's the hour;
See the front o' battle lour;
See approach proud Edward's power—
Chains and slavery!
youtu.be/qx8hEoJNVdM
Dick Gaughan - Scots Wha Hae
YouTube video by saltwaterballads
youtu.be
January 25, 2026 at 3:03 PM
From the birthday boy:
"Now's the day, and now's the hour;
See the front o' battle lour;
See approach proud Edward's power—
Chains and slavery!
youtu.be/qx8hEoJNVdM
"Now's the day, and now's the hour;
See the front o' battle lour;
See approach proud Edward's power—
Chains and slavery!
youtu.be/qx8hEoJNVdM
Has any Republican member of the House, any Republican Senator, any GOP governor, state speaker, or head of a state house publicly denounced ICE, CBP, Bovino, Noem?
January 25, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Has any Republican member of the House, any Republican Senator, any GOP governor, state speaker, or head of a state house publicly denounced ICE, CBP, Bovino, Noem?
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I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
January 25, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
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There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
January 25, 2026 at 12:34 AM
There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.