Pabel Martin
@pabel.bsky.social
Christian, husband, father, son, brother, immigrant, sneakerhead, #GoGators, #BHAFC, #USWNT, #USMNT
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Disney didn't watch Andor
September 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Disney didn't watch Andor
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Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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Bringing a dependent?
We need to show we have enough money not just to cover our own costs but also theirs. Then there's the NHS surcharge.
If we get a 3 year visa, we need to pay costs upfront. That's thousands of pounds and months and months of stress.
And even then we don't qualify for welfare
We need to show we have enough money not just to cover our own costs but also theirs. Then there's the NHS surcharge.
If we get a 3 year visa, we need to pay costs upfront. That's thousands of pounds and months and months of stress.
And even then we don't qualify for welfare
July 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Bringing a dependent?
We need to show we have enough money not just to cover our own costs but also theirs. Then there's the NHS surcharge.
If we get a 3 year visa, we need to pay costs upfront. That's thousands of pounds and months and months of stress.
And even then we don't qualify for welfare
We need to show we have enough money not just to cover our own costs but also theirs. Then there's the NHS surcharge.
If we get a 3 year visa, we need to pay costs upfront. That's thousands of pounds and months and months of stress.
And even then we don't qualify for welfare
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As an immigrant, disinfo like this pisses me off.
We don't move here penniless. We can't.
EVERY international student brings £150K for tuition fees & living expenses. Then we work hard to make that money back and pay taxes.
Moving countries & careers is VERY HARD and we do it and we succeed.
We don't move here penniless. We can't.
EVERY international student brings £150K for tuition fees & living expenses. Then we work hard to make that money back and pay taxes.
Moving countries & careers is VERY HARD and we do it and we succeed.
July 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
As an immigrant, disinfo like this pisses me off.
We don't move here penniless. We can't.
EVERY international student brings £150K for tuition fees & living expenses. Then we work hard to make that money back and pay taxes.
Moving countries & careers is VERY HARD and we do it and we succeed.
We don't move here penniless. We can't.
EVERY international student brings £150K for tuition fees & living expenses. Then we work hard to make that money back and pay taxes.
Moving countries & careers is VERY HARD and we do it and we succeed.
An actual advisor to the president said this.
And look at what that 65 million number likely represents.
Glad to have made some of the decisions we’ve made.
And look at what that 65 million number likely represents.
Glad to have made some of the decisions we’ve made.
July 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
An actual advisor to the president said this.
And look at what that 65 million number likely represents.
Glad to have made some of the decisions we’ve made.
And look at what that 65 million number likely represents.
Glad to have made some of the decisions we’ve made.
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www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j... genuinely impressive to be able to write this many words and interview this many people without using the words "tax" or "visa" once
‘My mind was shrieking: “What am I doing?”’ – when the digital nomad dream turns sour
Working remotely from a beach in a far-off land sounds like bliss – and the number of people doing it has soared since 2019. But between bouts of illness, relentless admin and crushing loneliness, man...
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j... genuinely impressive to be able to write this many words and interview this many people without using the words "tax" or "visa" once
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If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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History lesson: Before and during the Civil Rights Movement, folks actually made religious arguments against integration and interracial marriage. Indeed, in the decision that gave rise to Loving v VA, the VA trial court said that God put the races on different continents to prevent race mixing.
June 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
History lesson: Before and during the Civil Rights Movement, folks actually made religious arguments against integration and interracial marriage. Indeed, in the decision that gave rise to Loving v VA, the VA trial court said that God put the races on different continents to prevent race mixing.
So. Smart.
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
So. Smart.
We still talking about record high grocery prices or nah?
Has all the insanity you can all see with your own eyes in the US and now the rest of the world worth that vote for the orange toddler king?
Good luck America.
Has all the insanity you can all see with your own eyes in the US and now the rest of the world worth that vote for the orange toddler king?
Good luck America.
June 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
We still talking about record high grocery prices or nah?
Has all the insanity you can all see with your own eyes in the US and now the rest of the world worth that vote for the orange toddler king?
Good luck America.
Has all the insanity you can all see with your own eyes in the US and now the rest of the world worth that vote for the orange toddler king?
Good luck America.
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There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.
June 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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I’m relatively new to British politics but I would willingly inject this directly into my veins if they somehow turned it into a drug.
June 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I’m relatively new to British politics but I would willingly inject this directly into my veins if they somehow turned it into a drug.
Wish everyone would shout this from the mountaintops.
Obvious point: Most of the undocumented immigrants who are being rounded up are better Americans, in the ways that matter, than Donald J. Trump.
June 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Wish everyone would shout this from the mountaintops.
This is a troubled woman
May 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is a troubled woman
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Former MP for party that doesn’t believe in a social safety net would like a luxury social safety net for MPs www.politico.eu/article/brit...
May 28, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Former MP for party that doesn’t believe in a social safety net would like a luxury social safety net for MPs www.politico.eu/article/brit...
Anyone know what the UK equivalent of bootstraps is?
Because to my growing up in America brain, it sounds like Baker and all the other fired Tory MPs need to pull themselves up by them…
Because to my growing up in America brain, it sounds like Baker and all the other fired Tory MPs need to pull themselves up by them…
May 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Anyone know what the UK equivalent of bootstraps is?
Because to my growing up in America brain, it sounds like Baker and all the other fired Tory MPs need to pull themselves up by them…
Because to my growing up in America brain, it sounds like Baker and all the other fired Tory MPs need to pull themselves up by them…
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modems screaming at us in the 90s was a warning and we didn't take it
May 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
modems screaming at us in the 90s was a warning and we didn't take it
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If I was a person involved in exiling a two year old child with cancer to another country I would simply walk into the ocean and never return
April 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If I was a person involved in exiling a two year old child with cancer to another country I would simply walk into the ocean and never return
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How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
April 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵
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The most enraging but also weirdly the only encouraging thing about that latest Once In A Generation (if only) crash is this one is so fixable. There’s no Covid, no subprime lending, just a dumb move that could be undone tomorrow. One man’s ego is the only obstacle.
April 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The most enraging but also weirdly the only encouraging thing about that latest Once In A Generation (if only) crash is this one is so fixable. There’s no Covid, no subprime lending, just a dumb move that could be undone tomorrow. One man’s ego is the only obstacle.
Turns out folks have been warning about this guy for years. How could anyone have known? 🙄
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Turns out folks have been warning about this guy for years. How could anyone have known? 🙄
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