Lesser Abe
@lesserabe.bsky.social
I like to think about universal healthcare, shelter for all, food security, free higher education and a safe environment.
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Lesser Abe
@lesserabe.bsky.social
· Mar 9
What's the deal with toil?
Yawning is the original meme
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Yawning is the original meme
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This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Let's have a new constitutional convention www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan
States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Let's have a new constitutional convention www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.
October 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.
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Again, chaining up a bunch of Korean engineers was both shameful and an incredibly stupid idea
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
September 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Again, chaining up a bunch of Korean engineers was both shameful and an incredibly stupid idea
Grape flavored Ellios
August 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Grape flavored Ellios
The hubris of science
August 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The hubris of science
I don't work with horses but feeling compelled to attend this conference
August 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I don't work with horses but feeling compelled to attend this conference
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If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.
November 9, 2024 at 12:01 AM
If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.
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just let gargamel have the smurfs. who cares
October 30, 2023 at 1:00 AM
just let gargamel have the smurfs. who cares
Maybe there's just too much news but I hadn't seen this - posted Monday but happened on the 4th: abcnews.go.com/US/10-arrest...
10 arrested after ambush on Texas ICE detention facility, officials say
Officials announced on Monday that 10 people were arrested for engaging in a "planned ambush" on an ICE detention facility in Texas over the Fourth of July holiday.
abcnews.go.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Maybe there's just too much news but I hadn't seen this - posted Monday but happened on the 4th: abcnews.go.com/US/10-arrest...
George W. Bush wasn't the only Texan who said he could read a Russian (Soviet) leader by looking into his eyes. Check out this LBJ quote from Robert Caro's biography, The Passage of Power.
July 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
George W. Bush wasn't the only Texan who said he could read a Russian (Soviet) leader by looking into his eyes. Check out this LBJ quote from Robert Caro's biography, The Passage of Power.
@ryannorth.ca Hey was just recommending your book over on Lemmy and think I noticed there's a typo on the "How to Invent Everything" site - I think you wanted "you *can* find out more"?
July 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
@ryannorth.ca Hey was just recommending your book over on Lemmy and think I noticed there's a typo on the "How to Invent Everything" site - I think you wanted "you *can* find out more"?
From now on if you want to be one of the all timer comedians you have to fly a plane on TV
June 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
From now on if you want to be one of the all timer comedians you have to fly a plane on TV
Exactly, because that's how old the earth is
not sure why only the worst bastards alive are allowed to be in charge of everything. but i guess it's been like six or seven thousand years of that so who am i to argue
June 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Exactly, because that's how old the earth is
Overheard Dad to child as they look in shop window: "You could be wearing that. But you don't like hats."
June 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Overheard Dad to child as they look in shop window: "You could be wearing that. But you don't like hats."
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Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
June 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
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this is such a good representation of American Christianity
June 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
this is such a good representation of American Christianity
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To the extent you feel people can still be reached with ideas, we wrote the pro-immigration, pre free movement case in a handy comic book form, available free at your local library: openlibrary.org/books/OL2824...
Open Borders by Bryan Caplan | Open Library
Open Borders by Bryan Caplan, Zach Weinersmith, Oct 29, 2019, First Second edition, hardcover
openlibrary.org
June 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
To the extent you feel people can still be reached with ideas, we wrote the pro-immigration, pre free movement case in a handy comic book form, available free at your local library: openlibrary.org/books/OL2824...
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🎵 every little thing she does is normal
everything she do not weird at all
everything she do not weird at all
April 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
🎵 every little thing she does is normal
everything she do not weird at all
everything she do not weird at all
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(guys seeing Superman walking towards them)
it's a dog!
it's a car!!
it's a dog!
it's a car!!
September 14, 2024 at 12:49 AM
(guys seeing Superman walking towards them)
it's a dog!
it's a car!!
it's a dog!
it's a car!!