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aurelius.quest
Failed academic, software developer, cat person, parent of children, maker of pizza, pro-library partisan, Guardians enthusiast, skeptic of your philosophical system
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I wish people who believed that in the civil rights movement, nothing could be blamed on the protesters would read what was actually said about the protesters in the civil rights movement.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

Nothing beats a fresh steaming bowl of Soup Joumou straight from my mother’s kitchen 👏🏾❤️👏🏾❤️👏🏾

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

zuckerberg has set billions of dollars on fire on gibberish and copycat garbage, can't competently manage the scale of his primary business, has zero ethics or original ideas, and can't innovate his way out of a paper bag yet U.S. "business journalism" never makes any of that clear

submitted 58 minutes ago • 18 comments

I get q's whenever I visit my old hometown in Alabama. "You live in *Brooklyn*? Are you safe?" The violent crime rate in Mobile is usually 3x higher. I turn the question back on the asker and get blank looks. Fear of cities is just media/politician-induced delusion and bigotry, nothing rational.

submitted 19 minutes ago • 12 comments

This whole thread but especially this part. I will die on the hill that the last election (hell, the last several) was fucky, but that matters less when it's not close.

submitted 21 minutes ago • 1 comment

I do blame the media for not explaining what was perfectly obvious to all of us paying attention: that you could not have mass deportations the way Trump spoke of them consistent with order and due process.

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

Consider that Rufo isn’t an elected official, and hasn’t ever been anything important. He’s a pundit at a lower-tier right-wing think tank. So why does the mainstream media have to highlight his views? They don’t.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Google is raising my Google Workspace pricing claiming all the “AI value” added. I turned off Gemini in Gmail and Docs because it just doesn’t work / do anything useful for me. So why am I being charged more? Having costs b/c of AI is not the same as generating value with AI…

submitted 10 hours ago • 36 comments

Gift link

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Australia is noticing

submitted 10 hours ago • 7 comments

Just like with Back to the Future, the first Bill and Ted is objectively the best, but I think the third is my favorite. What’s more representative of the 2020s than watching time and space fold in on itself while you try to figure out the one perfect piece of art that will fix everything?

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Okay so now that I'm not trying to cross a border, I've got some tips on how to make sure protests stay safe and peaceful.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

We were talking at dinner about Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year for unclear reasons and my 7yo is very worried they will run out of animals. Even after we explained that they repeat. And now sitting here, I wonder if they think there is a literal snake that only exists for this year.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

"Closed!! Country's full!!" they scream. Meanwhile, I spent twenty minutes in the rain this morning in downtown Cleveland because the hotel doesn't have enough valets.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

my main takeaway after spending the afternoon at the national history day competition is that the kids are pretty alright. also, that reactionaries are right to fear the consequences of kids learning the truth.

submitted 21 hours ago • 123 comments

That was a nice little vacation but now I'm home and reading all the news and wow am I depressed.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Here's the thing about Dave Portnoy, who claims to mostly agree with Democrats but feel disrespected in some nebulous way: he doesn't actually agree with Democrats. Portnoy supports abortion rights if the woman is his inconvenient sidepiece. He supports immigrants who are willing to serve him.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

My heart feels so heavy right now. Love and solidarity to LA.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

thread about LA police violence towards journalists

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So I got real mad and went to town in somebody else's comments last night (not at them) but I think it's a topic that deserves more attention so here we go: Why I talk so much shit about cops in general but LA-area cops in particular and openly cast doubt on their claims every chance I get

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

The "warrant" that they used for the Buona Forchetta raid was based on a nearly five year old tip

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Cops are still out here shooting reporters and we need to take their funding away and charge them with crimes.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Thread.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Trump's order with regard to the National Guard is not limited to California. Our move needs to be to make it impossible for them to focus on any one area. They do not have the manpower to fascist all of us.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments