ICE is making its way through Columbus. CRIS (Community Refugee and Immigration Services) is giving gift cards to families to keep them home and fed. If you want to join in giving, here is the link to the specific area and team handling it: crisohio.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/c...

ICE activity appears to be accelerating in Columbus and central Ohio this week. A real Happy Holidays from ICE to our families.

"Each time I tried to speak, I was muted. Participants were not allowed to voice their concern." - my Rep, Joyce Beatty

I really hope the French translators get together and agree that the going rate for fixing AI translation is 1.5x the cost to do the translation in the first place.

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There’s a valid case to be made that voting for Trump’s nominees is voting for Trump’s agenda. Sorry about that.

Thread. Reminds me of the person on reddit complaining that they had tried to outsource the writing of their romances to ChatGPT but it was taking more time to finish a project and was more annoying and asking for advice on how to streamline, but refusing to take "just do it yourself" for an answer.

I know that the administration is trying to demoralize the country, and to a point it' working, but I don't think he's counting on the First Infantry of Perimenopause. It's hard to demoralize volcanic lava rage.

I'm worried about AI taking my job because the people who control my job also have no idea what my job is. But I'm not worried about AI keeping it. If we all get replaced with AI-written code, within 18 months, they'll be paying us double to fix it, like the COBOL developers of old.

Oh my other worry: that publishing is going to ditch every publishing professional and the complete loss of How Everything Is Done knowledge will fuck the industry in irretrievable ways. That's definitely in the cards.

Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.

Honestly authors, if your contract has language in there about faithful translation, TALK TO YOUR EDITOR AND AGENT because this isn’t it.

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Hey there! As the year ends, some people at least are thinking about business and taxes, so here's my periodic reminder: If you operate a small business with a partner, please consider the problem of what happens if one of you dies.

RIght now it feels like a bit in anc history: —Degenerate ruler puts up grotesque inscriptions denigrating predecessors —Literary source mention and quote them —Modern historians think it's fiction or satire —Archaelogists find fragment of inscription proving ruler was indeed grotesque

Never forget and never forgive

Worth the trip to a translation app, trust me.

Look at this perfectly round little mammal.

This is deeply cruel.

I didn't play any new games in 2020 because I spent the whole year working full time with a Spouse who was working full time while both of us tried to take care of toddlers and an infant full time. Now, uh... CK3 I guess?

It's funny how many weird dudes think women need special treatment to get hired in STEM due to innate inability to math but then they'll confuse percentages with absolute numbers and act like a declining percentage means fuck-all about their personal odds of getting hired.

also notable that supplying a value for $Profession where the amount of stable, competitive-rate work has never been harder to come by, such as “Hollywood Screenwriter”, can result in individuals having a much harder road to success than expected regardless of demographics!!

This. The conversation about publishers expecting people to do video is entirely valid but it's a tangent from his original point. His actual point was "don't lecture people about how they should be on X if they want to influence people because that's factually wrong," and he's correct

Everyone who told me they wouldn’t be this bad … keep away from me And everyone who spent a lot of their time fucking teeheing and watching immigration and their advocates being “civilly marginalized” and punished You can go to hell too You’ve watched us warn. This for YEARS

everything he says sounds like a villain monologue written by Chris Claremont

Holy shit YES

We need to normalize this tbh

when I was doing teacher training at extremely-conservative-BYU I was explicitly taught how to do all these tricks w/posture, breath, energy etc to control my classroom & this week reels has been showing me dominatrix lessons & anyway that’s how I learned I’ve been running my class like a dominatrix

Wilfried should just show up at Crew HQ and act like none of this ever happened.

The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power

We talk a lot about how race and gender grievance are offered to white men to distract them from exploitative working conditions that are in fact universal, and this piece is a beautiful example of how the work of that distraction gets done.

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In 2025, I'm not re-explaining Reagan's impact on homelessness, the war on drugs, police violence, mental health treatment, and poverty, and those changes' impact on Black life expectancy in the US. This isn't "too complicated" to understand. Many have earned PhDs by helping others understand it.

Nothing Kennedy has done will make us healthier. Like his other interventions, this will lead to more death and more suffering.

This is why I knew, as a swimmer up thru college levels, that the sudden, frothy-mouthed focus on THE INTEGRITY OF WOMEN'S SWIMMING?! was a distraction lolsob And yet we're still here. At least be honest with yourselves, people.

Ok, I'm cold and I'm not motivated to do more work right now so Awkward Holiday #storytime. Some years ago, around the turn of the new century, it was the morning of Christmas Eve. I was off work, and would be driving back to my ancestral homeland for dinner, but right then, I needed a haircut.

I don’t want to import contacts, there are still people in my life who don’t know that I’m a hopeless weirdo

The Republican Party has been the natural home of all these various factions for decades but Trump has been the wizard who’s loosed them from any restraint and certainly from any sense of responsibility to the country.

Let’s bring a family together!

You know it’s hard out there when you bring homemade cookies to your pharmacy and the tech holds up the box like Rafiki held up Simba and announces GUYS LOOK COOKIES and everyone stops and looks up with huge goofy grins Be sweet to your healthcare folks pls

Staff at immigration court inside the federal Whipple Building at Fort Snelling are increasingly barring government watchdogs, reporters and the public from witnessing judges’ decisions about who can stay in the U.S. and who will be deported.

In case you were in any doubt about how brilliantly ridiculous this cat is from the thread below, I thought I would post this exclusive video clip as absolute confirmation.

🤔What part of "Ronald Reagan was more racist than Donald Trump" are y'all not getting? What part of "Mass incarceration decreased under Trump, but literally doubled under Reagan?" is hard to understand? Black male life expectancy decreased significantly under Reagan. Literal megadeath.

I may have phrased this poorly. *I* have enough blankets. I just ran out of ones to give away and spent all my cash buying more. So now I need more cash to get more blankets, and I am asking mutual aid folks to help me out here. Too cold to do less.

A Statue of Liberty replica in Brazil fell due to a bad storm. Did you know a metaphor can walk up and punch you in the face.

this is the first time the FCC has had to testify before Congress in five years. And it won't be a cake walk for Carr, because even folks like Ted Cruz seem to realize that weaponizing the FCC to stifle speech could be used against the right wing in the future

The picture on the right is so goddamn relatable right now.

See also alcohol, hot sauce, and bacon, though the bacon meme has thankfully died down It is okay to like or even love any of those things! But I GUARANTEE YOU that the person who just posted about what they're eating/drinking is aware that they exist and didn't omit them by accident

Just a reminder, Girl Scouts openly welcome all girls, nonbinary kids, and trans youth. They also have a program where you can donate cookies in communities, and host troops for unhoused kids in the shelter system. So get those cookies!