Iscah
@pinejaysong.bsky.social
sci-fi nerd, amateur crocheter, lesbian jew
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Here is a color version. This is a bit of a departure from my usual colorized calligraphy works - it has much more of a "mosaic" feel.
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Here is a color version. This is a bit of a departure from my usual colorized calligraphy works - it has much more of a "mosaic" feel.
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New calligraphic work: "On Resisting ICE and the DHS"
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New calligraphic work: "On Resisting ICE and the DHS"
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.
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Hi all,
I'm going to need some help making sure I can make rent next month. My progress is still going slowly and my ability to work is still not great, so I'm concerned about making ends meet as winter approaches. We appreciate any and all help! Thank you all!
#helpsky
gofund.me/a0978348
I'm going to need some help making sure I can make rent next month. My progress is still going slowly and my ability to work is still not great, so I'm concerned about making ends meet as winter approaches. We appreciate any and all help! Thank you all!
#helpsky
gofund.me/a0978348
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hi all,
I'm going to need some help making sure I can make rent next month. My progress is still going slowly and my ability to work is still not great, so I'm concerned about making ends meet as winter approaches. We appreciate any and all help! Thank you all!
#helpsky
gofund.me/a0978348
I'm going to need some help making sure I can make rent next month. My progress is still going slowly and my ability to work is still not great, so I'm concerned about making ends meet as winter approaches. We appreciate any and all help! Thank you all!
#helpsky
gofund.me/a0978348
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One of those stories where you wonder why someone would agree to be interviewed for it, like nearly all of the stories in the New York Times real estate section.
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
One of those stories where you wonder why someone would agree to be interviewed for it, like nearly all of the stories in the New York Times real estate section.
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6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
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This is also why people who put in a full military career typically come out with a significant VA disability rating.
We also don't talk enough about how the demands of a sport and the demands of long-term health and longevity are not always compatible.
Football and CTE are the most extreme examples of this, but we need to stop thinking that athletes are healthy, period (said neutrally)
Football and CTE are the most extreme examples of this, but we need to stop thinking that athletes are healthy, period (said neutrally)
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This is also why people who put in a full military career typically come out with a significant VA disability rating.
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Once again, this is where we're heading, because people respond to incentives, even & especially when they are terrible ones:
Again, we’re heading toward a world where we either teach state-approved propaganda, or a world where everyone gets A’s for doing no work &/or choosing their own comforting course content & requirements, lest we get investigated & fired because one student is unhappy.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
A reminder that the DOJ wants to investigate the issue. The DOJ wasting time investigating our classrooms is an open invitation for any frivolous complaint from any student, anywhere with too much time on their hands.
December 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Once again, this is where we're heading, because people respond to incentives, even & especially when they are terrible ones:
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Santa Fe is linking wages to rental prices — a first in the U.S. — as officials try to slow displacement with soaring housing costs
Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach
Santa Fe is the first city in the U.S. to directly link wages to housing affordability, aiming to counter high rents.
apnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Santa Fe is linking wages to rental prices — a first in the U.S. — as officials try to slow displacement with soaring housing costs
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I've been an Immigration Court observer at 26 Fed'l Plaza in NYC. While we're powerless against ICE, we do connect people w/ social workers & legal aid. We also give out children's books in court. A former student created this & we welcome children's books in Spanish. Here's Jeanneane's list:
Check out my list on Amazon
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November 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I've been an Immigration Court observer at 26 Fed'l Plaza in NYC. While we're powerless against ICE, we do connect people w/ social workers & legal aid. We also give out children's books in court. A former student created this & we welcome children's books in Spanish. Here's Jeanneane's list:
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One sign that your brain is super good is when your doctors keep giving you cognitive tests
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One sign that your brain is super good is when your doctors keep giving you cognitive tests
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this wasn’t just TPUSA, by the way, this was libs of tiktok in her endless pursuit of destroying the lives of any queer or trans person she can reach.
this is what we’ve decided will be normalized and acceptable in our society, an endless pogrom driven by heartless grifters, one victim at a time.
this is what we’ve decided will be normalized and acceptable in our society, an endless pogrom driven by heartless grifters, one victim at a time.
what they’re showing is that no institution will support or back a trans woman under any circumstances.
as soon as someone makes a threat or kicks up a fuss, we are abandoned, betrayed, left to twist in the wind.
what place in society is secure for us, while this is the status quo?
what place?
as soon as someone makes a threat or kicks up a fuss, we are abandoned, betrayed, left to twist in the wind.
what place in society is secure for us, while this is the status quo?
what place?
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
this wasn’t just TPUSA, by the way, this was libs of tiktok in her endless pursuit of destroying the lives of any queer or trans person she can reach.
this is what we’ve decided will be normalized and acceptable in our society, an endless pogrom driven by heartless grifters, one victim at a time.
this is what we’ve decided will be normalized and acceptable in our society, an endless pogrom driven by heartless grifters, one victim at a time.
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prices cannot fall more than 100%
Dem leaders should just call him a lying sack of shit.
First, it’s memorable.
Second, it’s true
First, it’s memorable.
Second, it’s true
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
prices cannot fall more than 100%
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Did the people who designed the airport to be impossible to walk to think that maybe the most predictable thing ever would happen with increasing frequency
November 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Did the people who designed the airport to be impossible to walk to think that maybe the most predictable thing ever would happen with increasing frequency
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I’d boycott Amazon a third time if I could
Amazon has had many opportunities to create dubbing projects filled with authentic storytelling, emotional connection, and believability. Instead they have chosen to create AI slop dubs of Banana Fish, Vinland Saga, and No Game No life. Many are calling these dubs "insulting" and "disrespectful".
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I’d boycott Amazon a third time if I could
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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Again, we should have stopped this wildly unethical, corrupt, & almost certainly illegal nepotism all the way back in 2017, when Ivanka Trump was representing the US at international conferences alongside Christine Lagarde. An entirely different set of rules & norms just for this One Special Boy.
I’d rather question why is Kushner there and why is he laying out a vision? We did not vote him into any gov position nor the senate we voted for has approved his candidacy.
This isn’t a grey zone anymore, it’s 50 shades of grey.
This isn’t a grey zone anymore, it’s 50 shades of grey.
December 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Again, we should have stopped this wildly unethical, corrupt, & almost certainly illegal nepotism all the way back in 2017, when Ivanka Trump was representing the US at international conferences alongside Christine Lagarde. An entirely different set of rules & norms just for this One Special Boy.
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The same people who are telling you to bootstrap it are the same people telling you that empathy is a sin and starting meme wars with the pope. From their “winter” homes.
November 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The same people who are telling you to bootstrap it are the same people telling you that empathy is a sin and starting meme wars with the pope. From their “winter” homes.
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
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There's emotional and psychological toil that comes with not knowing if you'll have a place to live or food to eat over extended periods of time. There are very specific stressors that come with poverty.
November 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
There's emotional and psychological toil that comes with not knowing if you'll have a place to live or food to eat over extended periods of time. There are very specific stressors that come with poverty.
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The most important issue facing our Democracy is whether there are capital C Consequences or not.
November 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The most important issue facing our Democracy is whether there are capital C Consequences or not.
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I'm a single-issue voter and that issue is investigating and prosecuting Jared Kushner for what is sure to be a whole lot of illegal business investments and the use of state secrets to line his pockets.
I’d rather question why is Kushner there and why is he laying out a vision? We did not vote him into any gov position nor the senate we voted for has approved his candidacy.
This isn’t a grey zone anymore, it’s 50 shades of grey.
This isn’t a grey zone anymore, it’s 50 shades of grey.
November 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I'm a single-issue voter and that issue is investigating and prosecuting Jared Kushner for what is sure to be a whole lot of illegal business investments and the use of state secrets to line his pockets.
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This is infuriating on so many levels, but partly because it ignores Congressional intent to penalize immigrants who followed the rules. And partly because these are people who have done nothing wrong beyond trying to negotiate a broken system.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is infuriating on so many levels, but partly because it ignores Congressional intent to penalize immigrants who followed the rules. And partly because these are people who have done nothing wrong beyond trying to negotiate a broken system.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Stop interviewing CEOs
Stop interviewing CEOs about AI.
"Why stop at AI use? We could have mandatory disclosures for what shampoo brand the developer uses" — Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Steam should ditch its AI generated content disclosure. https://bit.ly/4a193vt
November 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Stop interviewing CEOs