Feral BOO!macker 🦇
@waybackgen.bsky.social
Certified Genealogist, children's television writer, and owner of We Go Way Back®. Love the Cubs, native plants/gardening, and books.
Fenugreek should be in everything send
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Fenugreek should be in everything send
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It was great committing [specific crimes] with you! Attached is the selfie we took while committing the crime. Remember how [witnesses] were there and observed it? Good times. Hope to commit many more premeditated crimes with you soon.
Best,
[full name]
[address]
[SSN]
Best,
[full name]
[address]
[SSN]
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It was great committing [specific crimes] with you! Attached is the selfie we took while committing the crime. Remember how [witnesses] were there and observed it? Good times. Hope to commit many more premeditated crimes with you soon.
Best,
[full name]
[address]
[SSN]
Best,
[full name]
[address]
[SSN]
Oh yay! That meme has lived in my brain for like six years or something crazy like that, and I'm delighted to dig it out again. (I'm not sure who to thank for making it because I first saw it on Twitter.)
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Oh yay! That meme has lived in my brain for like six years or something crazy like that, and I'm delighted to dig it out again. (I'm not sure who to thank for making it because I first saw it on Twitter.)
In Manhattan, they used to (still do?) give you a letter excusing you from jury duty for eight years if you served, even if you didn't get picked for a jury. Not sure if any of the other boroughs do this.
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In Manhattan, they used to (still do?) give you a letter excusing you from jury duty for eight years if you served, even if you didn't get picked for a jury. Not sure if any of the other boroughs do this.
It sounds very cool! Yeah definitely skip GB for now. For modern stuff, I've found it useful for a few random hyperlocal (read: small) papers that had obits I needed, but those were few and far between and not in NY.
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
It sounds very cool! Yeah definitely skip GB for now. For modern stuff, I've found it useful for a few random hyperlocal (read: small) papers that had obits I needed, but those were few and far between and not in NY.
I'd go with Newspapers plus Publishers Extra, then downgrade after a month or whenever you've searched for everything you need. GB is essential for early NYC (esp early 19thc), but much less helpful into the 20thc, for the most part.
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'd go with Newspapers plus Publishers Extra, then downgrade after a month or whenever you've searched for everything you need. GB is essential for early NYC (esp early 19thc), but much less helpful into the 20thc, for the most part.
Completely agree.
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Completely agree.
Ideally, he said all modes of transit are equal so that users will make use in the ways that they need based on route/efficiency and not because of a perception of quality. (I'm guessing the ues whiners have never taken a bus in their lives, so that's a separate thing.)
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Ideally, he said all modes of transit are equal so that users will make use in the ways that they need based on route/efficiency and not because of a perception of quality. (I'm guessing the ues whiners have never taken a bus in their lives, so that's a separate thing.)
I saw a really interesting thread on here from a transit-focused urban planner who was anti free busses because of exactly what you are pointing out: creating a hierarchy where one kind of transit is considered superior or higher class than another is a bad outcome for everyone.
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I saw a really interesting thread on here from a transit-focused urban planner who was anti free busses because of exactly what you are pointing out: creating a hierarchy where one kind of transit is considered superior or higher class than another is a bad outcome for everyone.
I don't know if they're just aired locally, but they have the silliest commercials (complimentary) with some Chicago sports commentators that I love.
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I don't know if they're just aired locally, but they have the silliest commercials (complimentary) with some Chicago sports commentators that I love.
Except law enforcement *can* access basically any records already by going through the proper channels. This way, there would be documentation of their requests as part of investigations rather than having zero transparency.
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Except law enforcement *can* access basically any records already by going through the proper channels. This way, there would be documentation of their requests as part of investigations rather than having zero transparency.
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TL;DR: maybe this is not the best moment in history to be saying law enforcement should have greater access to people's data.
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
TL;DR: maybe this is not the best moment in history to be saying law enforcement should have greater access to people's data.
And like, I'm not naive. I know this is as much about covering their own asses so that they are less likely to be sued if LE uses their databases (which pro genealogists have helped them do, per court filings!). But Ancestry is famously litigious and has the $$$ to sue, unlike some competitors.
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
And like, I'm not naive. I know this is as much about covering their own asses so that they are less likely to be sued if LE uses their databases (which pro genealogists have helped them do, per court filings!). But Ancestry is famously litigious and has the $$$ to sue, unlike some competitors.
TL;DR: maybe this is not the best moment in history to be saying law enforcement should have greater access to people's data.
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
TL;DR: maybe this is not the best moment in history to be saying law enforcement should have greater access to people's data.
What time period for NY?
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
What time period for NY?
It's not just Republican sources (more in the thread below).
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I do not trust Politico and Axios when they spread stuff from unnamed sources.
But I *DO* trust @ezralevin.bsky.social and @indivisible.org when they tell me what they're hearing.
So yes, please do call your US senators and tell them NO shutdown deal without GUARANTEED ACA FUNDING. reps.fyi
But I *DO* trust @ezralevin.bsky.social and @indivisible.org when they tell me what they're hearing.
So yes, please do call your US senators and tell them NO shutdown deal without GUARANTEED ACA FUNDING. reps.fyi
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It's not just Republican sources (more in the thread below).
bsky.app/profile/greg...
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Here are the Democratic senators who are considering caving:
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John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Here are the Democratic senators who are considering caving:
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Yes! I read a reader review that said "maybe he left it open-ended so that we'd all ~use our imaginations~" and I could not have rolled my eyes harder.
Not to mention how he disowned the most essential laws of his own universe(!) maybe because they interfered with the story he wanted to tell?? Idk
Not to mention how he disowned the most essential laws of his own universe(!) maybe because they interfered with the story he wanted to tell?? Idk
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Yes! I read a reader review that said "maybe he left it open-ended so that we'd all ~use our imaginations~" and I could not have rolled my eyes harder.
Not to mention how he disowned the most essential laws of his own universe(!) maybe because they interfered with the story he wanted to tell?? Idk
Not to mention how he disowned the most essential laws of his own universe(!) maybe because they interfered with the story he wanted to tell?? Idk
Have you listened to any of the audiobooks she narrates? Sublime.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Have you listened to any of the audiobooks she narrates? Sublime.
Also I am sorry about your lawsuit! Literal nightmare.
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Also I am sorry about your lawsuit! Literal nightmare.