Tim P Rak
@timprak.bsky.social
You can't just eat food. You've got to talk about it, too, and you've got to talk about it with someone who understands that food. - paraphrased from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"I'm certain as a lost dog pondering a signpost." - DPA MacManus
"I'm certain as a lost dog pondering a signpost." - DPA MacManus
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Let’s talk about abolishing ICE.
Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
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Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
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January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Let’s talk about abolishing ICE.
Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
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Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
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As a Texan this Boston Globe Column made me so insane I had to write about it www.chron.com/culture/arti...
January 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
As a Texan this Boston Globe Column made me so insane I had to write about it www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Ah, dang it. Tomorrow is just another day of this bullshit.
January 2, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Ah, dang it. Tomorrow is just another day of this bullshit.
Nice, calm dinner at our local tex-mex place. Got the kids fried ice cream for dessert because of the special occasion.
Odds of making it to midnight? Not good but that's OK.
Odds of making it to midnight? Not good but that's OK.
January 1, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Nice, calm dinner at our local tex-mex place. Got the kids fried ice cream for dessert because of the special occasion.
Odds of making it to midnight? Not good but that's OK.
Odds of making it to midnight? Not good but that's OK.
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
If you're making a trip to the Heights HEB and only need a couple of shopping bags worth of items and have no mobility challenges, I highly recommend parking on 23rd street between Shepherd and Durham this afternoon.
Curiously, inside the store wasn't so crazy as of about 1:00pm.
Curiously, inside the store wasn't so crazy as of about 1:00pm.
December 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If you're making a trip to the Heights HEB and only need a couple of shopping bags worth of items and have no mobility challenges, I highly recommend parking on 23rd street between Shepherd and Durham this afternoon.
Curiously, inside the store wasn't so crazy as of about 1:00pm.
Curiously, inside the store wasn't so crazy as of about 1:00pm.
Celebrated the mid-December chill in Houston by making a slow braised bowl of pork and red bean stew with veggies.
Just the thing for those dark and brisk days when the temperatures plunge into the low eighties.
Just the thing for those dark and brisk days when the temperatures plunge into the low eighties.
December 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Celebrated the mid-December chill in Houston by making a slow braised bowl of pork and red bean stew with veggies.
Just the thing for those dark and brisk days when the temperatures plunge into the low eighties.
Just the thing for those dark and brisk days when the temperatures plunge into the low eighties.
Electing Republican Clowns Kills Kids!
- That's it. That's all I got.
- That's it. That's all I got.
December 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Electing Republican Clowns Kills Kids!
- That's it. That's all I got.
- That's it. That's all I got.
I voted for Alejandra Salinas today in Houston's at-large city council run-off. There's still a few hours of early voting left until election day on Saturday!
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I voted for Alejandra Salinas today in Houston's at-large city council run-off. There's still a few hours of early voting left until election day on Saturday!
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If you go back a few minutes, you can see the camera get hit by debris and stop working. 🥹
![A blurry, chaotic close-up view of volcanic activity from a live webcam feed at Kīlauea’s south Halemaʻumaʻu crater. The image is dominated by swirling gray-brown ash, steam, and motion blur. Streaks of glowing red lava are scattered across the frame, visible through the haze, with brighter molten patches near the lower right corner. The upper left includes an overlaid timestamp reading “2025-12-06 09:56:59” and the stream title “USGS [V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater).” At the bottom, YouTube interface elements are visible, including the “LIVE” indicator, volume icon, and the progress bar.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:77lswp42lgjyw36ozuo7kt7e/bafkreiflvmt34klqx6v4ccte5vnufbhuxer2anjnfh2bsb6p7kggjvlbqq@jpeg)
December 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If you go back a few minutes, you can see the camera get hit by debris and stop working. 🥹
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This is an irresponsibly favorable profile of RFK Jr, painting him as a vaccine skeptic rather than what he is: fervently anti-vaccine. Whether the reporter caved to pressure from RFK Jr or is so ignorant of science he doesn’t understand how many will come to harm bc of him, this is shameful. +
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This is an irresponsibly favorable profile of RFK Jr, painting him as a vaccine skeptic rather than what he is: fervently anti-vaccine. Whether the reporter caved to pressure from RFK Jr or is so ignorant of science he doesn’t understand how many will come to harm bc of him, this is shameful. +
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fml I forgot to post the link to the new video, here it is youtu.be/GywDEZ4RYT0
Like Honeycrisp Apples? Try These!
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
fml I forgot to post the link to the new video, here it is youtu.be/GywDEZ4RYT0
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The pressed lamb shoulder at Chez Maggy in Denver is not to be missed:
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
The pressed lamb shoulder at Chez Maggy in Denver is not to be missed:
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Justice Sam Alito is so close to understanding that Antonin Scalia was full of shit, like, come on lil guy you're almost there
put 2 and 2 together and see what happens, it might surprise you
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
put 2 and 2 together and see what happens, it might surprise you
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
Sam Alito Forced to Briefly Contemplate the Crushing Weight of His Intellectual Bankruptcy
On Monday, the justice came agonizingly close to acknowledging how freely self-described textualists set aside the text when they find it inconvenient.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Justice Sam Alito is so close to understanding that Antonin Scalia was full of shit, like, come on lil guy you're almost there
put 2 and 2 together and see what happens, it might surprise you
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
put 2 and 2 together and see what happens, it might surprise you
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
At about 12:30 there was almost no line to vote at the SPJST lodge in Houston's Shady Acres. That said, it was pretty busy with a nearly constant flow of voters in and out.
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
At about 12:30 there was almost no line to vote at the SPJST lodge in Houston's Shady Acres. That said, it was pretty busy with a nearly constant flow of voters in and out.
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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I spoke to the Houston chronicle on the conditions that I only be referred to as frog
October 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I spoke to the Houston chronicle on the conditions that I only be referred to as frog
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I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:
October 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:
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Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
October 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:
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I loved this series when @sabs.bsky.social started it for us at Defector.com in March!!! defector.com/meet-the-civ...
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I loved this series when @sabs.bsky.social started it for us at Defector.com in March!!! defector.com/meet-the-civ...
Just ran the numbers on my son's 'typical' weekend breakfast.
October 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Just ran the numbers on my son's 'typical' weekend breakfast.
