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x refugee…educator, dabbler (dilettante is too hard to spell) in many things, casual bsky user for now…looking for/posting things that catch my eye.
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45-47 and his followers have been claiming the USA is "under invasion" since his first term. If the prestige media have pushed back on that in any meaningful way, I haven't seen it. I suspect definition 2 is being used here.
1 an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army. the entrance or advent of anything troublesome or harmful, as disease. 3 entrance as if to take possession or overrun: the annual invasion of the resort by tourists. 4 infringement by intrusion.
April 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I was told years ago that Seattle's northern boundary is around 50th, maybe 65th. @theurbanist.org agrees, as this map seems to be their default. Reminiscent of the New Yorker cartoon "View of the World from 9th Avenue." D5 should join Shoreline, I guess. Or break away on its own.
a map of flowering cherry trees in Seattle, bounded to include the areas urbanists care about, versus the actually city boundaries.
March 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Canada can't revoke Phony Stark's citizenship…sez here he renounced it as part of taking USA citizenship. I wonder if Sa will accept him back…does he also disagree with birthright citizenship?

www.uscis.gov/citizenship/...
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
February 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I have been asking the same question since a drug-addled sex tourist ruled the AM airwaves and created an army of unquestioning "dittoheads." Do the Dems need their own version of Phony Stark to clean house, like the other one is doing to the entire government?
But we need to lose the theory that these Dems are "spineless" and just don't understand how to wage political war. We know they can be vicious because we've seen them execute that kind of operation against the left since Ralph Nader caught them sleeping in 2000. We have seen them do it maliciously during Senator Bernie Sanders's two primary runs. We saw Black and brown women stamped as "Bernie Bros" with enough, yes, ruthless, repetition to make it stick. We've seen President Barack Obama with all his rhetorical powers hector young Black men, but not aim his electric cadence at Musk and his Palo Alto brownshirts. It's not that they cannot-they will not. When it was Sanders or an individual who demanded even a modest change in policy on Gaza, they brought out the knives. When it's Musk and his apartheid army of incels, they wield sporks. Yet, as we keep seeing, spork fighting is demoralizing. The question then is why, amid this tornado of anger, are Democratic institutions so soft?
February 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
make your own at gulfof.mapquest.com
A map of the region formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico, now to be known as the Gulf of Senile Tapioca Brained Fascists
February 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
pre-emptively blocked for me, thanks to some kind stranger
January 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
What is the European Shopping Method?
1. Live in Europe (or someplace that predates car-brain/driver-centric development)

There is no step 2. Just go shopping, on foot…you'll know when to head home.

www.foodandwine.com/european-gro...
January 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I learned the phrase "covered land play" last year and it helps me see this more clearly…buy the one true finite resource, put something on it to cover the costs, then, as Henry George told us, wait til it reaches a price worth selling.
January 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
There are bollards that could have prevented this. They were not deployed. Questions should be asked.
January 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I don't know who needs to know this — a lot of people, evidently — but see the "web" button? Click that. It's not perfect but it removes the AI/SEO generated slop. it's not like they hid it from you. And I don't even use Google but I know about this.
December 31, 2024 at 4:04 PM
This reading suggests the apotheosis of Reagan was not Carter's fault but the Dem establishment turning their back on him, a price we will still be paying on Inauguration Day 2025. No Reagan, no Bushes, and no 45/47. Maybe no Obama but I can live with that.
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
December 31, 2024 at 5:10 AM
The only appropriate response
December 28, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Lest we forget…
this is who she is.
A web search for "Jane Galt" reveals that it was a pseudonym for Megan mcardlfe. The "Galt" surname is a reference to the "hero" of Atlas Shrugged and reflected the objectivist slant of the blog she wrote under that name
December 21, 2024 at 5:50 PM
That’s the characteristic of our country. We can get all lathering at the time over some political campaign promise, or some conference pledge, but if the thing just drags along long enough we forget what it was that originally promised. The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. — Will Rogers
December 15, 2024 at 4:10 PM
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have also gotten some invites for meals and meetings…the SMS/unencrypted messages make me think it's a boiler room somewhere in Moldova or wherever. I sent this one a screenshot of my catfish collection (I save the profile pics) and she never came back.
December 14, 2024 at 5:22 PM
One for the "buying/listening to/thinking about books is reading" crowd.

What about burning them? Granted those who burn books don't read them first but the opposite of love isn't indifference…it's hatred. If you hate, you are just as engaged as those who love.

lithub.com/in-praise-of...
November 29, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Tarte Tatin, mangled from an original French recipe.
November 28, 2024 at 10:29 PM
I recognize some faces from the Bad Place, and I was choosy there, so this must be the Good Place.
November 24, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Our task as [humans] is to find the few principles that will calm the infinite anguish of free souls. We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poisoned by the misery of the century. […] [I]t is a superhuman task. But superhuman is the term for tasks we take a long time to accomplish, that’s all. — Albert Camus, The Almond Trees
November 18, 2024 at 5:14 AM
*sigh* one more instance of the regressive right taking a word/idea they don't understand and weaponizing it. "Woke" has a long history that should be better understood. Maybe it can be taken back, like other words that were used a pejoratives but are now a third rail in political speech.
November 17, 2024 at 3:07 AM
bsky.social/about/faq
November 17, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Jacobs, Jane -- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Part 1, ch. 4 (1961)

One of the lessons of the past few elections… City people vote for things for the benefit of people they don't know…others vote to harm people they don't know, and don't like for no reason at all.
The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you. Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) American-Canadian journalist, author, urban theorist, activist The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Part 1, ch. 4 (1961)
November 11, 2024 at 11:55 PM