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The atlas-eater with a jaw for news :: Writing for Flaming Hydra :: Formerly: Providence Journal, Tampa Bay Times, Boston Phoenix, Boston magazine, Bloomberg :: si at arrr dot net

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 21d

Don't break bread. Don't accept gifts. Make sure you spell their name right. If you're INSIDE the salt circle you're ON the record.

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 21d

the rules of journalistic ethics and the rules of Faerie ethics are eerily similar

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 3h

the more terrifying the implications grow for trans people in the US, the madder i get about colleagues like Chris Jones. At the time it seemed like a personality limitation; now, it just sounds like protofascism

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 3h

it would be a person with deep brain damage. you see similar things in several pathologies

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4h

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 4h

it's worth at least chatting with an immigration expert about. I think you might could make an S-corp, have your freelance pay go there, pay yourself a salary out of that, and qualify on a digital nomad visa.

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

By then HORRORS OF WAR was depicting current events in Europe and elsewhere. DON'T LET IT HAPPEN HERE was another Cambridge company's attempt to compete/cash in on the successful war-card trend

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

One company, GUM Inc, which moved most of its production to Japan, decided that boys probably liked grisly war scenes and started producing THE HORRORS OF WAR series of cards. This began with past wars, and eventually more recent ones, which is when Japan kicked him out >

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

wow ok. The story is that Cambridge was a hub for the candy business in the early 20th c- "Confectioner's Row." The NECCO company is still there, or was last time I checked, one of the last remnants of the district. Anyway chewing gum cards became a thing - not ust baseball, but all kinds >

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

whoa. Cambridge MA. Who printed these? what's their story?

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

me either! It was a surprise!

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h

We are all lucky tabletop RPG games got invented later bc otherwise the Inklings would have done nothing but that

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Adele @theartofcharts.bsky.social · 17h

Migration is hard, even on the relatively easy setting (which is how I've made my moves). IMO, it carries an obligation to other migrants - preferably to help others, but at least not to burn their bridges.

Also, resistance takes many forms. Removing your labour and resources is one of them

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 20h

I hate that people do this incredibly difficult, painful thing in countries that work hard to make it MORE difficult and painful. It's obscene to me.

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 15h

You need to read "Purity Tests" by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social for @flaminghydra.com. Brilliant writing and analysis, and quite entertaining on a sensitive (trans kids) subject:
flaminghydra.com/issue-418/#p...

Base meddling / Machine learning

S.I. Rosenbaum on a wretched amicus brief; Paul Ford and Maria Bustillos sort out the AI thing

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 10h

thank you!!

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

Kupel's Bakery in Brookline is pronounced "Couples" by its owners but all locals call it "Koopel's" - pronounce it correctly and face unending shame

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

OK but what about the TARDIS

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

a dear friend in NY is sick so I will probably come back sometime this winter to see her and I'll try to make a stop off on Pleasant Street. We miss you! Also, consider coming over for a Lisbon vacation!

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

DANG Heron you can WROIT this was so good. Keeping this one in the link file.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 20h

I get excited and wonky about this until I remember that they're trying for christofascist theocracy so

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 20h

We've made it through the first year and I think we're going to be fine. Hope your situation goes well too.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 20h

I hate that people do this incredibly difficult, painful thing in countries that work hard to make it MORE difficult and painful. It's obscene to me.

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 20h

We're very lucky to have done this on easy mode, with financial resources and racial biases in our favor, and we landed in a beautiful city that's very pleasant to live in where we have civil rights protections, and where we've made friends.
But it's one of the hardest things I've ever done.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 20h

This is something we did quickly but not lightly. It wasn't something I wanted to do. At all.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 20h

we got our residency cards this month, just about a year since we started seriously discussing the possibility of leaving the US.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 20h

I think the insistence on using immutability as the model of all minority rights is actually, bigoted; it implies that people deserve protection because 'they cant help being that way' while continuing to assume they are inferior

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 20h

thanks for the reference. There's a whole body of jurisprudence protecting choices of faith and conscience and sincerely- or deeply-held beliefs, including stipulating that the belief need not be shared or seem logical to others

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