no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
-Warsan Shire
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home is the mouth of a shark
-Warsan Shire
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No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. You only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well. The boy you went to school with, who kissed...
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January 17, 2026 at 11:45 AM
no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
-Warsan Shire
www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poe...
home is the mouth of a shark
-Warsan Shire
www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poe...
I remember watching the show because my teenage brain thought anything created by Captain Kirk would be good. I kept waiting for it to get good. It never did.
January 15, 2026 at 11:50 PM
I remember watching the show because my teenage brain thought anything created by Captain Kirk would be good. I kept waiting for it to get good. It never did.
Tonight I remembered that William Shatner "wrote" Tekwar. And they made a TV show.
January 15, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Tonight I remembered that William Shatner "wrote" Tekwar. And they made a TV show.
Yes if only I could go back in time and put body cameras on each brownshirt…
House Republicans have proposed requiring the Trump administration to spend money on body cameras for ICE agents as part of the Department of Homeland Security funding bill lawmakers are currently negotiating, according to a senior GOP appropriator.
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House GOP offer to Dems: Explicit funding for ICE body cameras following Minneapolis shooting
Rep. Mark Amodei, the House Republican negotiating the DHS funding bill, said the agency needs more law enforcement equipment under President Donald Trump.
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January 14, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Yes if only I could go back in time and put body cameras on each brownshirt…
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The data has been turned into a searchable tool on HaveIBeenFlocked.com. It says it has data on more than 2.3 million license plates and tens of millions of Flock searches.
Flock responded to this by threatening the site and by limiting info the public can get via public records requests.
Flock responded to this by threatening the site and by limiting info the public can get via public records requests.
Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error
Flock is going after a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com that has collated public records files released by police.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:16 PM
The data has been turned into a searchable tool on HaveIBeenFlocked.com. It says it has data on more than 2.3 million license plates and tens of millions of Flock searches.
Flock responded to this by threatening the site and by limiting info the public can get via public records requests.
Flock responded to this by threatening the site and by limiting info the public can get via public records requests.
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They’ve already been complicit. Many have recognized the opposition candidate after the 2024 election and Spain let him live in exile in Madrid.
January 3, 2026 at 12:54 PM
They’ve already been complicit. Many have recognized the opposition candidate after the 2024 election and Spain let him live in exile in Madrid.
My pet theory is that the outage cut the connection to the cars from the live safety monitors in India and so the cars just halt. Nothing to do with traffic lights.
“Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars — and halting them in their tracks. Riders and pedestrians posted videos of Waymos stuck at intersections, long lines of drivers behind them.” missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.
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December 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
My pet theory is that the outage cut the connection to the cars from the live safety monitors in India and so the cars just halt. Nothing to do with traffic lights.
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👩💻 Spain boosted LGBTQ+ workers’ rights
💍 Gay marriage became legal in Thailand
🏳️⚧️ Cuba made it easier to change one’s legal gender
I’ve written about some of the countries that advanced queer rights in 2025 👇
💍 Gay marriage became legal in Thailand
🏳️⚧️ Cuba made it easier to change one’s legal gender
I’ve written about some of the countries that advanced queer rights in 2025 👇
Five countries that advanced LGBTQ+ rights this year
Because we all need reasons to believe sometime it does indeed get better.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
👩💻 Spain boosted LGBTQ+ workers’ rights
💍 Gay marriage became legal in Thailand
🏳️⚧️ Cuba made it easier to change one’s legal gender
I’ve written about some of the countries that advanced queer rights in 2025 👇
💍 Gay marriage became legal in Thailand
🏳️⚧️ Cuba made it easier to change one’s legal gender
I’ve written about some of the countries that advanced queer rights in 2025 👇
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Una muestra de que se puede regular el alquiler para que las familias trabajadoras no vean sus ingresos aspirados por una élite rentista.
Lo siguiente es prorrogar los más de 600.000 contratos que finalizan en los próximos meses.
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Lo siguiente es prorrogar los más de 600.000 contratos que finalizan en los próximos meses.
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Catalunya aprueba limitar el precio del alquiler de temporada
Es la primera comunidad autónoma que somete al tope de precios unos arrendamientos a los que recurrían miles de caseros para esquivar la Ley de Vivienda
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December 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Una muestra de que se puede regular el alquiler para que las familias trabajadoras no vean sus ingresos aspirados por una élite rentista.
Lo siguiente es prorrogar los más de 600.000 contratos que finalizan en los próximos meses.
www.eldiario.es/catalunya/ca...
Lo siguiente es prorrogar los más de 600.000 contratos que finalizan en los próximos meses.
www.eldiario.es/catalunya/ca...
I don’t think many people appreciate the sheer genius of “Who Let the Dogs Out”
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I don’t think many people appreciate the sheer genius of “Who Let the Dogs Out”
Her: we were supposed to light the candles at sunset
Me: well it’s 5:00 somewhere
Me: well it’s 5:00 somewhere
December 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Her: we were supposed to light the candles at sunset
Me: well it’s 5:00 somewhere
Me: well it’s 5:00 somewhere
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this video has become very important to me
December 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
this video has become very important to me
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THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.
How do I become a professional family transer?
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
How do I become a professional family transer?
I think it’s wild that:
a) Microsoft bought a media company, MSNBC, in 1996
b) even though Microsoft divested from MSNBC in 2005(!) the company has kept the “MS” part of their name, and now goes by MSNOW
a) Microsoft bought a media company, MSNBC, in 1996
b) even though Microsoft divested from MSNBC in 2005(!) the company has kept the “MS” part of their name, and now goes by MSNOW
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I think it’s wild that:
a) Microsoft bought a media company, MSNBC, in 1996
b) even though Microsoft divested from MSNBC in 2005(!) the company has kept the “MS” part of their name, and now goes by MSNOW
a) Microsoft bought a media company, MSNBC, in 1996
b) even though Microsoft divested from MSNBC in 2005(!) the company has kept the “MS” part of their name, and now goes by MSNOW
It turns out Alejandro Jodorowsky, the famed director of The Holy Mountain and of an aborted attempt to film Dune (later taken over by David Lynch), is also somehow an expert on tarot and an author? And he published a restored Tarot de Marseille deck?
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Pop Tart's review of The way of tarot - BookWyrm
Social Reading and Reviewing
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December 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It turns out Alejandro Jodorowsky, the famed director of The Holy Mountain and of an aborted attempt to film Dune (later taken over by David Lynch), is also somehow an expert on tarot and an author? And he published a restored Tarot de Marseille deck?
bookwyrm.social/user/aster/r...
bookwyrm.social/user/aster/r...
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Augustine could never have dreamt this
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Augustine could never have dreamt this
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Alex Cocotas might just be the best living Anglophone writer about Berlin and its outcroppings thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Alex Cocotas might just be the best living Anglophone writer about Berlin and its outcroppings thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
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Finally, Magic the Gathering quit congress.
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Finally, Magic the Gathering quit congress.
Happy Thanksgiving to all the expats/emigrants! youtu.be/hQEQS8E1zvQ?...
Miss... Sometimes things can happen just like this.
YouTube video by David Samuel Peckinpah
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November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all the expats/emigrants! youtu.be/hQEQS8E1zvQ?...
Very nice news to wake up to. There’s a whole marathon ahead!
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Very nice news to wake up to. There’s a whole marathon ahead!
Now is a good time to mention, if you would like your own local copy of Wikipedia or Gutenberg Proejct books, etc., check out kiwix.org
No Internet? No Problem
Download and browse Wikipedia along with hundreds of educational websites. Free knowledge anytime, anywhere, without an internet connection.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Now is a good time to mention, if you would like your own local copy of Wikipedia or Gutenberg Proejct books, etc., check out kiwix.org
Maybe the way we make AI less toxic is that we only allow it to ask questions and never give answers. As long as they’re not rhetorical questions.
October 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Maybe the way we make AI less toxic is that we only allow it to ask questions and never give answers. As long as they’re not rhetorical questions.