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same cranky dorky person posting the same cranky dorky stuff that I did on the old site #French #SloppyFrenchHistory
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You knowe the cool thinge about Gen AI? The thinge that trulye doth redeem it? Aye, me neither. Let it be derided. Let it be abandonid. Let it take fortunes down in its wake. Let it be a cautionarye tale. Let it be a joke for centuryes.

Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.

Seen in passing: "Donald, Joe Biden was able to bring Brittney Griner home from a Russian Gulag, and you're unable to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home from El Salvador? You mean Joe is a better dealmaker than you?" (Good one, @godpod.bsky.social !!)

RYAN HOLIDAY: “.. Roughly an hour before my talk was to begin, I received a call: Would I refrain from any mention in my remarks of the recent removal of 381 supposedly controversial books from the Nimitz library on campus?” @dailystoic.com.web.brid.gy www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

Better yet, try this one cool trick: don’t use Gen AI. 100% success rate.

I think the other important corollary here is that men _expect to be forgiven_- that the cultural narrative is women endure & forgive & men, at best, blithely apologize. Think of the enormous backlash & anger regarding the few men who have faced consequences. But women wear scarlet letters.

One more reason to hate Charles X. He was a truly awful human.

If you know history, then you know why Haiti is a country in poverty.

Biblical scholars now believe that if Jesus had covered up his gang tattoos, he might’ve avoided crucifixion.

I saw advice to buy extra cans of food when you’re at the grocery store to donate to the food bank. I want to politely nudge you to give the money directly to food banks (or to mutual aid groups if you know of any). We can usually stretch a dollar farther than a dollar’s worth of canned goods

Family dinner tonight. Baby will be at dinner so we’re all wearing masks because she’s still little and doesn’t have all the vaccinations yet. I’ll breathe when she turns one and can get her MMR vax.

It has been weeks since he was detained, and there are still no specific accusations about why they revoked his visa and detained him. He didn’t write an op ed or attend protests (not that those are valid reasons anyway). Why is this mechanical engineering doctoral student being deported???

I want to teach an honors course called “Every Regulation is Written in Blood” and just teach the young everything that had to be put in place to make the safe, clean American life they take for granted

I told you this would happen. Fight this with every fiber of your beings. It can not happen! Despicable and rotten to the core.

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

Also, my crows have left. I’ve had crows harass me for food for at least 8-9 years now. I haven’t seen them since last week. I have no idea what happened.

There’s a French pop song from a few years back that tells the story of the devil. That he’s broke and has no more power because no one needs him anymore, that we humans have surpassed him in our ability to do evil. I think of the dong every day with each latest bit of evil that 47 is doing.

this administration is the closest thing to pure evil that the world has witnessed in generations

Tesla pulling every filthy trick in the book news.yahoo.com/news/finance...

oh fuck there's been an E. Coli outbreak and the Trump administration essentially hid it

US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z

I’ve lived in a relatively developed country that also lacked basic food regulation (China) and you get sick on a very regular basis.

I want to make a joke about this but I can't because he's a shitbag eugenicist who knows nothing about any kind of medical science at all.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

I’m alone in my house. It’s amazing.

Not to mention the actual rocket scientists who have been laid off (aka fired) from NASA.

Alums of any rich universities should take whatever money you were going to donate to them, and instead donate it to your local community college. Seriously.

If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next? This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

Thank you!

Oddball fostering ask- does anyone have contact with a NICU or Pampers corporate? Foster is looking for P3 preemie diapers. Pampers is the only company who make them and they’re not available online

Indeed, all of the major extermination camps—Sobibor, Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Auschwitz—were all in occupied Poland because even the Nazis wanted to outsource their worst crimes outside Germany proper

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele gets $20,000 for every person Trump deports to his country. That’s $6 million so far this year. Bukele says it makes the prison system self-sufficient.

"I know I’m splitting hairs. When higher education is outlawed and your local post office is sold to a used car dealer, most people aren’t worried about naming conventions. But rules are rules dammit."

going to need to start hearing from governors what they intend to do to protect residents of their states from the federal government

The purpose of higher education is to understand ourselves better, and to understand the world better. It also serves a lot of other purposes. But anyone attacking education and educators is fundamentally uncomfortable with the truth. #HigherEd #education

At a PD in August a few years back, we were asked to discuss in our table groups what was one goal we were working on. I was sitting with either single teachers or teachers who were married, but no kids. My table group had lovely noble goals like reading more books, getting into shape, etc.

Tesla Cybertruck sales are declining rapidly, the company won't accept them as trade-ins, 46,000 have been recalled, and the used price of the vehicle has plunged 55% year over year.

We have a gazillion eagles, hawks, ospreys, and crows, but seeing a heron is sacred.

When I ask my buddy if she’s seen any herons lately, because I really need to see some herons, and she texts me this picture a couple hours later.