i follow a mongolian family on insta who live a traditional nomadic lifestyle w a dairy heavy diet... THEY DON'T DRINK RAW MILK. they have a lot of kinds of yogurt/creams/fermented dairy drinks and they always boil the milk first at the start of the prep process

It's a term we're good to see more and more. I wish more people had recognized it earlier.

yes, what happened is that Péter Magyar is now PM of Hungary.

every single day: non-profits are a capitalist structure. they won't be where you plant the seed of revolution. they are not structured for collective self-management or anything like that. there's only so much you can fight that before it burns you out.

Have countries in the Americas considered simply not having a president.

Two buildings in Polanco in Mexico City, before and after the 2014 downzoning

the weird recurring brand of anti-agriculture claims is just an Eden myth in a faintly new costume. there was a Perfect World in which You Did Not Have to Work and there was No Suffering and then original sin (farming) was commited.

I am begging people to realize that police do not use this technology is not a "jumping off point" or an "investigative lead"--the computer spits out a name and police arrest that person without follow up. How many people have to spend months in jail "by accident" before we consider the danger?

One of my favorite games to play right now is “is this a new wave cafe ran by libs who will sign my anti-ICE pledge or is this another extractive right wing evangelical ministry front that is trying to funnel young people and minorities”

Thousands of Ukrainians are being held in Russian migration detention centers indefinitely. Instead of deporting them, Russia reportedly uses them for political bargaining and pressures some into joining its army. Read the full story here👇 texty.org.ua/articles/117...

I started living near the New Haven Line when I was 6 and I can't remember a time when there weren't bridge plates in use frequently. What does the concept of "state of good repair" mean if the rider and operational experience is this consistently degraded?

Heads up: if you see a book for sale with this cover * it is nothing to do with me, I didn't publish it * if you pay money for it, none of that money will go to me * this is V1, the old self-published edition of the story, not V2, the overhauled new edition which you (probably) actually want

i've been saying this for years the folks who write and administer our building codes do not live in urban areas, do not care about outcomes of their codes (poor quality of life, absurdly high cost, etc)

🏦| El Ejército tiene hoteles, aeropuertos, una aerolínea, museos y hasta gasolineras. En total las Fuerzas Armadas operan 25 empresas y $87 mil 706 millones en fideicomisos; uno de ellos creció 8,500% en menos de 10 años, informa @MUCDoficial:

These days, the conversation inside US city governments often goes like this: 1️⃣Traffic engineer proposes traffic calming measures, like a road diet with roundabouts, to reduce traffic fatalities. 2️⃣Fire marshal blocks it, citing IFC section 503 (mandates 20’+ of clear width) &/or Appendix D (26’+).

Because once again fire code isn't written in blood. It's written in corporate rent-seeking and questionable (often fear-mongering) tactics that force added cost bloat on needed housing. But damn is it profitable for the companies that are good at it.

Let’s discuss an org called Firefighter Air Coalition (FAC) and how it reflects a contrived safety-need-to-profitable-monopoly pipeline common in fire code. fFAC’s address? PyroChem, a Johnson Controls subsidiary. JCI happens to make the very expensive FARS system this "nonprofit" advocates for.

There is a constellation of Russian satellites broadcasting an interfering signal on GPS/GNSS frequencies all across Europe. It arrives about once a month, usually weekdays office hours CET since 2019. All from a Zach Clemens et al article. Nb, intent is not proven.

(1/2) An ICE Air flight that originated in El Paso, TX with a stop in Harlingen, has just arrived in Morelia, Michoacan in Mexico. It marks the 1st U.S. deportation flight to Morelia since Mar 2024.

Love being told automated vehicles are our inevitable future but speed limiters are a technical impossibility 🤔

🧊✈️ CAMPECHE – they’re just filling up every southern city in Mexico with homeless refugees 🇲🇽

A flight (VIV960) chartered by the Mexican govt arrived in Venezuela from Tapachula, MX today, removing 158 Venezuelans, including families and children. It marks the 1st such repatriation flight from Mexico to Venezuela since Dec 2025.

Russia was "looted" by Western capitalists in the 1990s, Westerners with names like Berezovsky, Potanin, Khodorkovsky, Usmanov, Deripaska---

𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟰 Ukrainian paratrooper (left) and National Guardsman (right) at a checkpoint near Sloviansk.

The real problem here of course is the FRA horn rule. “We find that even using the highest estimates of the benefits, the costs imposed by the increased train noise are likely to be greater by an order of magnitude.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A lot of datapoints now for Putin losing whatever tenuous grip on reality he still had before 2022. That doesn't end the war now, or his regime soon. But it leaves a heck of an unstable mess for whoever his successors will be in 2030s Moscow.

And the loss has become greater and more painful as it becomes clear that his death was not inevitable. He was murdered violently in a context of homophobia. One of our most brilliant minds and kindest hearts, gone due to a likely hate crime. We academics must demand justice for Raúl Pacheco-Vega.

Platner very much is a discernible type, but it’s not “flawed but basically decent working class joe.” It’s “prep school creep with a sadistic streak and an ironclad confidence that it will never catch up to him.“

We don’t need senators from Maine, thanks. There’s hardly any people there. The only reason places like that have senators is because slavery.

“Unsettling behavior” is apparently CNN for domestic violence.

So basically the best case scenario right now is that Platner engaged in fairly significant intimate partner violence and is also a serial liar, including about his deathcamp tattoo, which he apparently got because the SS were "killers." But surely he's telling the truth that this is it.

Preparing paperwork for a woman who has been waiting for 25 years to be able to apply for permanent residence

pretty much all "micro plastics" found around the world are more accurately described as "car tire dust" would describing them as such mach action to reduce them more or less likely? I know my answer

Picked up the keys yesterday for a two bedroom market-rate apartment I’m moving into with my girlfriend that is renting at 60% AMI (and was built within the last 5 years). Something tenant advocates, legal advocacy orgs, and community groups have categorically said cannot happen.

I need to write to Cambridge city council and ask why: Citations overall are down 56% from peak (2014) Fail to stop/yield: -65% (2010) Crosswalk: -80% (2015) Unsafe door open: -97% (2017) Blocking bike lane: -65% (2019) Speeding: -80% (2019) Data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is what annoys me about so much of the anti-lanyard talk on the left. All of this shit is upheld by a bunch of underpaid civil servant experts toiling away at problems few know exist. The lanyards are load-bearing.

This intersection in Prato, that according to most engineering standards should probably not exist, actually seems to work pretty good in real life. Quite busy edge-running bus lanes alongside a roundabout from which buses can enter/exit the bus lanes

I saw a driver run a red as I was entering a crosswalk and gave a very visible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. When I walked by them waiting half a block down for the next light I got called a “f*ggot p*ssy piece of sh*t” out their window. So glad the cops stopped enforcing any laws.

Meta had a token leaderboard and AI usage was part of promotion evaluations. Devs would use AI for EVERYTHING, including review and making documentation. Then Meta announced layoffs, and devs tried to keep their jobs by... using AI more. #CraftConf

Tsarist Russia was kinda the Nazi Germany to people living before 1914. It was the symbol of all evil and barbarian Kautsky has a rant of how the destruction of Tsarism is the grand cause of all Socialists

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Ab... you gotta go a bit further north in Caucasian to find the black people

I usually try to explain it like this: picture Mark Carney as Jerry Chen. Now imagine they're Kurdish. Doesn't look so much like the Dreyfus Affair was caused by Grateful Dead groupies playing Touhou now, does it?

Jesus Christ, yeah. Even a person *granted* SIJS. So what, they think Congress ordered that someone be granted SIJS and then just wait in detention until the green card become available?! Monsters.

Most of our district, including the triple deckers everyone loves, was technically illegal to build. That's not an accident. It's the result of decades of rules that quietly banned the cheapest housing we ever built. Cambridge changed it last year. Every city in Massachusetts can too.

This single family home in my neighborhood sold for $1.1M in late 2023. It’s had a thorough rehab, and is now being marketed as… a $3.63M single family home. Please tell me exactly how that is a better outcome than anything that the new base zoning allows, Cathy Zusy. redf.in/j0vMjR

It’s really important for people to understand that there is no such thing as a national citizenship database. Cases like this are uncommon, but they keep happening (even under prior administrations) because the paperwork is never 100% accurate. That is why due process matters.

The level of self-own that we’re doing is hard to overstate. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/w...

For an assignment, I spent 1.5 hours at a stop sign by U of T. Out of 228 vehicles, 208 did not stop. 59 when pedestrians were waiting or actively crossing. I saw 20/228 (9%) lawful interactions w/ that stop sign. If police showed any force to even one of those 208 drivers, there would be riots.

silicon valley men convinced themselves that if they create a token rearranging machine big enough to satisfy god, it’ll instantly solve all our problems bro I just want my parents to be able to visit me without being killed on the side of I-95. i don’t need a data center. build a train

The tricky thing is that many police departments are not under full effective civilian control, but one of the ways in which they exercise that undue autonomy is through selective shirking to punish pols they dislike, which is something that the ACAB/prison abolition people have no real answer for