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@rothaiocht.bsky.social
I am an emigrant who writes love letters. Ireland :: California
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
When I moved here, people sometimes let slip that they saw a fresh immigrant with a tangled Irish name as more American than Asian-Americans born and raised here.
The mildest version was “But why can’t *you * get a Green Card?” while Desi or Korean-American friends got “Where are you really from?”
The mildest version was “But why can’t *you * get a Green Card?” while Desi or Korean-American friends got “Where are you really from?”
lol soon they’ll be deporting JD Vance’s wife
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
When I moved here, people sometimes let slip that they saw a fresh immigrant with a tangled Irish name as more American than Asian-Americans born and raised here.
The mildest version was “But why can’t *you * get a Green Card?” while Desi or Korean-American friends got “Where are you really from?”
The mildest version was “But why can’t *you * get a Green Card?” while Desi or Korean-American friends got “Where are you really from?”
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A breakthrough of bubbles and sound: Canadian scientist gives glioblastoma patients hope #Canada
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A breakthrough of bubbles and sound: Canadian scientist gives glioblastoma patients hope
A new Canadian-U.S. study gives glioblastoma patients hope and doctors a new doorway to treat brain tumours.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A breakthrough of bubbles and sound: Canadian scientist gives glioblastoma patients hope #Canada
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My most phrenology-coded view is stay away from anyone whose face does that Shkreli chin.
You can measure a narcissist’s smirk.
You can measure a narcissist’s smirk.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
My most phrenology-coded view is stay away from anyone whose face does that Shkreli chin.
You can measure a narcissist’s smirk.
You can measure a narcissist’s smirk.
The immigration system has always been a perfect tool for punishing spouses and exes.
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
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![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
The immigration system has always been a perfect tool for punishing spouses and exes.
It hit me when I was looking up Nigella Lawson recipes last night.
Those weren’t @nigella.bsky.social recipes. I had to dig out her books to check.
Those weren’t @nigella.bsky.social recipes. I had to dig out her books to check.
One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.
I think this has not been adequately metabolized.
This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
I think this has not been adequately metabolized.
This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It hit me when I was looking up Nigella Lawson recipes last night.
Those weren’t @nigella.bsky.social recipes. I had to dig out her books to check.
Those weren’t @nigella.bsky.social recipes. I had to dig out her books to check.
Let’s make hi-viz bike jackets that can Airdrop alerts to the approaching drivers who are looking at their phones.
Drivers are never not at it.
This guy was texting on his phone and managed to forget to turn. He ended up driving straight into the segregated cycle-lane.
But hey, remember folks, dress in head-to-toe HiViz when out walking or cycling.
This guy was texting on his phone and managed to forget to turn. He ended up driving straight into the segregated cycle-lane.
But hey, remember folks, dress in head-to-toe HiViz when out walking or cycling.
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Let’s make hi-viz bike jackets that can Airdrop alerts to the approaching drivers who are looking at their phones.
More and more, I want to hear about all the female scientists, actors, researchers, journalists, doctors, athletes, cooks, engineers, filmmakers, policymakers, comedians, etc whose careers were derailed by all the #metoo *crimes.*
Who have we lost? What work have we lost?
Who have we lost? What work have we lost?
Again, shout out to @variety.com writer Rebecca Rubin for mentioning it within the first paragraphs of their article.
The news sources, like @deadline.com which fail to mention this in their articles, are the ones to avoid
The news sources, like @deadline.com which fail to mention this in their articles, are the ones to avoid
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
More and more, I want to hear about all the female scientists, actors, researchers, journalists, doctors, athletes, cooks, engineers, filmmakers, policymakers, comedians, etc whose careers were derailed by all the #metoo *crimes.*
Who have we lost? What work have we lost?
Who have we lost? What work have we lost?
#spéirghorm has mapped the Toppers / Parers / Sharpeners.
Where in Ireland did the youngest pupils go to Junior Infants & Senior Infants vs. Low Babies & High Babies?
Senior Infants vs High Babies: that’s a vibe difference bigger than Little Lunch & Big Lunch.
Where in Ireland did the youngest pupils go to Junior Infants & Senior Infants vs. Low Babies & High Babies?
Senior Infants vs High Babies: that’s a vibe difference bigger than Little Lunch & Big Lunch.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
#spéirghorm has mapped the Toppers / Parers / Sharpeners.
Where in Ireland did the youngest pupils go to Junior Infants & Senior Infants vs. Low Babies & High Babies?
Senior Infants vs High Babies: that’s a vibe difference bigger than Little Lunch & Big Lunch.
Where in Ireland did the youngest pupils go to Junior Infants & Senior Infants vs. Low Babies & High Babies?
Senior Infants vs High Babies: that’s a vibe difference bigger than Little Lunch & Big Lunch.
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Claremont next please
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Claremont next please
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Another day, another pausing an American movie to Google their school grade system because they will not simply say how old a character is and I need to know how horrified I should be
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Another day, another pausing an American movie to Google their school grade system because they will not simply say how old a character is and I need to know how horrified I should be
Current perimenopause symptom is being mad my female friends are texting me but not my partner about Thanksgiving menus, get-togethers, and play dates.
“Surely the men have the menu all figured out?”
In the all-gender chats, the dads are smiling and laughing, just out of the frame.
“Surely the men have the menu all figured out?”
In the all-gender chats, the dads are smiling and laughing, just out of the frame.
"You’ve been obsessively trying to prepare for it, but who knows what will actually happen."
Thanksgiving or Perimenopause?
1. There’s a turkey neck situation. 2. Is it four thousand degrees in the kitchen, or is it just you? 3. You love your family, but you also wish th...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Current perimenopause symptom is being mad my female friends are texting me but not my partner about Thanksgiving menus, get-togethers, and play dates.
“Surely the men have the menu all figured out?”
In the all-gender chats, the dads are smiling and laughing, just out of the frame.
“Surely the men have the menu all figured out?”
In the all-gender chats, the dads are smiling and laughing, just out of the frame.
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It’s hard to explain what it means to be able to show a trans kid this and for them to feel seen & valued by their president
@president.ie
#transrightsarehumanrights
@president.ie
#transrightsarehumanrights
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
It’s hard to explain what it means to be able to show a trans kid this and for them to feel seen & valued by their president
@president.ie
#transrightsarehumanrights
@president.ie
#transrightsarehumanrights
Ohhhh, Isaac Chotiner is an Oakland guy who went to College Prep.
Now I get why he can savage Northeast cliques with dogged, straightforward questions that don’t care much for insider status.
Now I get why he can savage Northeast cliques with dogged, straightforward questions that don’t care much for insider status.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ohhhh, Isaac Chotiner is an Oakland guy who went to College Prep.
Now I get why he can savage Northeast cliques with dogged, straightforward questions that don’t care much for insider status.
Now I get why he can savage Northeast cliques with dogged, straightforward questions that don’t care much for insider status.
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Thirty years since the best reaction to losing a referendum was spoken! In 1995 one of No Divorce Campaign leaders Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna,on leaving the RDS as the 15th amendment to allow divorce was passed,shouted to celebrating pro divorce campaigners,’Go way ye wife swappin' sodomites’!#speirgorm
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Thirty years since the best reaction to losing a referendum was spoken! In 1995 one of No Divorce Campaign leaders Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna,on leaving the RDS as the 15th amendment to allow divorce was passed,shouted to celebrating pro divorce campaigners,’Go way ye wife swappin' sodomites’!#speirgorm
Regulate. These. Fuckers.
Parents, if you have time to read anything today (and the capacity to feel rage), then these new allegations against two of the largest social media companies, and their apparent disregard of you and your kids’ relationships and mental health, should be it.
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Regulate. These. Fuckers.
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Don't talk to the New York Times about trans issues. They will betray your trust and use your story to undermine access to care. That's exactly what Azeen Ghorayshi did with families of trans kids in Missouri.
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Don't talk to the New York Times about trans issues. They will betray your trust and use your story to undermine access to care. That's exactly what Azeen Ghorayshi did with families of trans kids in Missouri.
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noah smith used to regularly DM me about the fact that his silicon valley venture capitalist buddies were going off the right-wing deep end because they were afraid they would get MeTooed for the fact that promotions for young employees at the startups they were funding were gated by sex
he once DM’d me and a couple of other people to tell us that we were wrong for calling him dumb about lab leak conspiracies and that some people he knew were working on a story that would make it crystal clear and it that was getting ready to drop soon, this was like, 2021, maybe earlier
October 10, 2023 at 5:38 AM
noah smith used to regularly DM me about the fact that his silicon valley venture capitalist buddies were going off the right-wing deep end because they were afraid they would get MeTooed for the fact that promotions for young employees at the startups they were funding were gated by sex
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If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.
The part about reading being different for aphantasics is interesting. I always skip over visual descriptions.
Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound. “I do not miss people when they are not there. My children and grandchildren are dear to me, in a muffled way.” [kottke.org]
Meet the Aphantasics, Those Who Can’t See Mental Images
We’ve talked before about how some people can picture things in their heads quite vividly and others can’t at all. The latter group has a condition called aphantasia.
As soon as I close my eyes, what I see are not eve
kottke.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The part about reading being different for aphantasics is interesting. I always skip over visual descriptions.
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It's absolutely disgusting what the New York Times, and particularly Azeen Ghorayshi, is doing with its coverage of autism. It's so deeply irresponsible.
It's the same playbook they ran on trans kids.
It's the same playbook they ran on trans kids.
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It's absolutely disgusting what the New York Times, and particularly Azeen Ghorayshi, is doing with its coverage of autism. It's so deeply irresponsible.
It's the same playbook they ran on trans kids.
It's the same playbook they ran on trans kids.
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all I see are "they're not engineers" "that's not what engineering is" I want a thick good really real piece to sink my teeth in about all the parts of this that ARE "like engineering"
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
all I see are "they're not engineers" "that's not what engineering is" I want a thick good really real piece to sink my teeth in about all the parts of this that ARE "like engineering"
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Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
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So a while back I was commissioned to do short bios of various rock stars, and they were just about universally total psychopaths, with the huge exception of Freddie Mercury. A lovely man who did good by his wife, his lovers, and his cats.
Today (24 November) marks the passing of Freddie Mercury, lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen. He remains regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock music.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So a while back I was commissioned to do short bios of various rock stars, and they were just about universally total psychopaths, with the huge exception of Freddie Mercury. A lovely man who did good by his wife, his lovers, and his cats.