Sunny is free. We are so glad that she is with family and on the way home. Sunny and her 5 coworkers were taken to Broadview and then moved to Juneau, Wisconsin where they were finally released from ICE custody. We were lied to the entire time about her location. DHS needs to answer for this.

I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down. Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book. (And would much appreciate a RT please)

Apparently they have developed 0.00033 spine at least when it comes to “humanity” now

watching countries clamp down on citizenship, making naturalisation or ius soli considerably more difficult, digging into people's pasts to strip them of citizenship on technicalities, it's hard not to feel that anti-trans sentiment was partially paving the way by reinforcing natal determinism

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That’s it. I am stupider than a 12-year old in 1965 😭

India is coming out of this looking like the most weak and spineless blobfish in the deep seas.

An amazingly insightful, thoughtful and nuanced piece by a writer who clearly knows his subject. A long piece but worth every moment of your time.

Sunny Naqvi is a US citizen. "Afzul said the three [Pakistani] Green Card holders were taken elsewhere Thursday after landing back in Chicago." Brown people are not safe from CBP regardless of their status.

During Trump 1 the director of my division refused to travel from India to the US for CES. This terrifying Sunny Naqvi situation forcefully reminded me of that :/

A real critique is not a pass/fail gate. It structures the conversation to answer questions about the artifact that the designer has. Is it fit for purpose? What is working about it? What isn't? Scaffolding the conversation to lead towards those answers are the purpose of the artifact.

Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about. Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.

come to my goddamn concert www.northlondonchorus.org/tickets

SOMEONE was very keen to be let out into the garden without realizing how cold it is and now is mewing like Cathy Heathcliff to be let back inside

Scientist 1: what shall we name this bird? Extremely tired scientist 2, trying to wrap up: well -

Headline from both the 16th Century and tonight's Spurs game: Questions For Tudor Following Palace Catastrophe

Instagram is offering me ads to learn Bangla 🤔

In fact I misread the letter. It seems she wants a 10-year wait for ILR + followed by an additional 15-year wait for citizenship, so 25 years of limbo. Unless you earn a lot (consistently) in which case it’s only 20 years.

Indeed. So if you came to the UK as a 25-year old, you would presumably (if you stuck around) get ILR when you were 30, and then get citizenship when you were 45. In all this while you’re a total foreigner in the land you work in, your kids pay 3X the cost that others do for college, you…

Love to be classified as a historic error

Absolutely reeling at the insanity of Modi not saying a word about the US murdering a bunch of unarmed state guests engaging in naval exercises. That the traitorous filth are getting hammered by the likes of ARUN PRAKASH on REPUBLIC TV is everything that Bhakts deserve.

I was getting convinced but then I saw the results for India. This survey is not reliable.

Wang Shishen 汪士慎 (1686-1759), October 1728: 每餐先备买鱼钱，曾记携归小似拳， 一自爪牙动黠鼠，傍人安稳卧青氊。 I set money aside for fish before each meal. She used to be no bigger than my hand -- Now with claw and tooth she routs the crafty rat, And drowses by her humans on her mat.

an example: it's probably possible right now/soon, to create an AI tool that searches the web for people whose online presence betrays feelings of loneliness/latent mental health issues, finds them, then creates multiple virtual friends or even entire communities, & pushes them to violence

A good thing about being Bengali is that it is highly likely that no one in the last 14 generations has been in the military.

this is excellent

- chemist in a fertilizer factory - foreman in a steel factory (very strange job knowing his personality)

You need the sound up for this one. (You are not prepared for the sound they make).

End of level boss

I’m obviously no geopolitical expert but is it normal and expected to attack a ship that was not part of the conflict and was doing its own thing an ocean away?

lol

This will automatically deter: - people who want to have families - people who don’t want to rent all their lives - people who care to get involved in the community - generally people in senior-ish work who are more likely to fall into one of the above categories - women, usually Sounds good?

This. The hypocrisy is irritating.

“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Quite bold for a yard fence in Lancashire

Asking this on Bluesky out of laziness, but would any south London/south London adjacent folks who work in tech be interested in taking part in a "work in progress" night to try out new talks? (quick 🧵)

oh my GOD

I didn’t know individual penguins had names and surnames these days. My apologies to various penguins

It’s worse. Their assumption is that shy Asian women don’t have political opinions of their own and/or wouldn’t have voted at all in the first place.

This lol. Me getting melon seeds at the Turkish supermarket: man Waitrose has barely an useful spices or herbs

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

I can’t emphasise leading w/ empathy for civilians *everywhere* on a day like today enough. The first casualty here in the UAE, where I live, is an Asian civilian at a residential building. Many Ukrainians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Syrians, Sudanese & other war-traumatised people live here. 1/2

All of the smug liars who fomented the US atrocities in Iraq are still snug in their sinecures, so the mongers of our latest war of aggression against Iran are hardly bothering to pretend they believe their own justifications. Nothing learned, same blithe evil over and over.

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance. Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

Apparently yes. Not just this. Banker’s wife, who may be a relatively low earner, will probably qualify after banker’s kid.

It’s too early in the morning and I misread this as something else entirely 😭

“But our systems are not like that” — It is a NON DETERMINISTIC SYSTEM! OF COURSE it can be “like that” !!!!

Meanwhile in crimes against ecosystems and Indigenous communities “Absurdly, to make up for felling an estimated 1 million trees on the island, the government has approved compensatory afforestation faraway on the mainland, in Haryana.”

The only explanation is that he or his advisers genuinely think we can’t read English

I am just happy for a fellow woman in STEM *personally I think trades are STEM!