Katie Ishibashi
@realmaplesyrup.bsky.social
Proud @nytguildtech member, Broadway Goblincore Banjo Folk Punk fan, according to Spotify. My middle child informs me he is a shape-shifting honey badger. katieishibashi.nyc she/her
I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.
Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · yesterdayTurns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
"Technical competence without moral development can become dangerous." True in engineering, true in Silicon Valley, true in the military, true wherever you look.
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 6d ago"Character is rarely noticed while it is being formed. But it becomes unmistakable when it stands before us—and its presence is every bit as obvious as its absence." www.thebulwark.com/p/character-...
🇺🇸 Author. Posted on CSIS “Canada sent more visitors to the United States than any other country in 2024. The U.S. Travel Association estimated that the decline in Canadian visitors to the U.S. cost the U.S. economy $5.7B in travel spending in 2025 alone.” www.csis.org/analysis/elb...
Elbows Up: The Price of Economic Coercion Against Canada
The United States has announced 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian imports. If enacted, the measures would have implications for economic welfare and trade diversification in both cou...
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To every trans Londoner: this city is yours too. Today we celebrate London Trans+ Pride and reaffirm a simple truth: you should be free to live as yourself, without fear or prejudice. You are loved. You are wanted. You belong here.
YIKES BIKES at this takedown of Caraway, Our Place and Great Jones (ie the pink aesthetic cookware Instagram knows my heart craves and I’m always tempted to buy: “The materials science on that coating is peer-reviewed and brutal”
@laperry2.bsky.social · 2w ago
Heard someone say no one cares or even knows whether the chancellor of Germany is a Catholic or a Protestant, which is amazing given the groups' history of doing each other in. This is sincere progress in both places!
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoAndy Burnham is set to be the first lifelong Roman Catholic to become prime minister of Britain when he is appointed on Monday. At one point, that would have been a big deal.
National self conception is wild. Like, in Canada and the UK the redcoats are always good. In the US, the red coats are bad before abruptly turning good in World War I with no explanation. Cannot wait for Ireland, where the redcoats are always horrible.
I don't need a haircut but I'm tempted to get one just for this Sweeney Todd reference
my brother you are English the break is the highlight of every match for your lot
Robert Shrimsley@robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 2w agoDo Americans actually like sport? They seem to feel there must always be something else going on to keep you engaged. Most fans just want the game to restart. We’re capable of enjoying the break.
Tbh the American tradition of the halftime show is pretty great
We (the globe) are not in any way prepared for the scale of fires coming our way. Might not want to nuke the few tools we currently have at our disposal (MUTUAL FUCKING COOPERATION) This happened barely more than a year ago
Canadian ‘Super Scooper’ plane grounded after hitting civilian drone over Los Angeles wildfires | CNN
A Canadian “Super Scooper” aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles had to be grounded after it hit a drone flying in restricted airspace over the devastating blaze on Thursday, the local f...
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This is shitty on a bunch of levels but friendly reminder we depend on Canada and vice versa to help fight fires. This kind of rhetoric isn't helping anything.
Global News@globalnews.ca · 3w ago"If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” said a group of U.S. lawmakers. globalnews.ca/news/1196860...
Americans thinking Canadian wildfire smoke shouldn’t affect them and Canadians thinking FDA cuts won’t affect our food supply. We’re all on this continent together, buckos. Smoke, parasites and viruses don’t care about borders.
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy
Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.
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I arrived in Australia from what was basically still the Soviet Union when I was 6 years old. I don't want to brag, but I really don't think my family needed another 794 years of beach barbeques and test match cricket to get the hang of voting and not executing people for political disagreements.
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3w agoWurman: The English didn’t *demand* assimilation in 1215 but *needed* it for 800 years for liberalism to work. Then, responding to @jdmortenson.bsky.social, Ilan goes ethnonationalist, talking about “importing millions of people [babies]” who are unfit for liberal democracy. How’s that better?
🚨 BREAKING News: New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers
The order will pause state permitting for new large data centers and direct state regulators to create standards that address environmental impacts, energy demand, water usage and other factors, the g...
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The Onion looks back on 250 years of American exceptionalism. Watch now on youtube.com/theonion
also, working class is no longer a class, but a cultural signifier. if you work as a nail technician, you're working class, but no one pitches their entire political campaign at you.
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4w agoA lot of this is also rooted in the fact that left wing men would rather try to win back white working class men than build a coalition with white women with college degrees (who are decidedly economically progressive) and Black voters (older ones are conservative. Younger ones are more left-wing)
See we know I'm leaving the United States because I have moved WhatsApp to my Android home screen
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.
brain poisoned, gutter misogyny. 1) that there is (thankfully) no norm for releasing the play-by-play of personal messages in cases like this and 2) the detail about being explicitly told not to come over and coming over anyway does not in any way complicate this story
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago"she asked for it"
will say it forever: equal pay was a tremendously favorable deal for the men
there are plenty of people taking potshots at this and i don’t really blame them, but we would be in a significantly better place, politically, if our pundits engaged in this kind of public accounting more often
Michelle Goldberg@michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 4w agowww.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...
Going forward, I will be rooting for England to be in third place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZS-...
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As someone who's worked on web systems for awhile, one thing I've learned is no one reads. Anything. At all.
QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social · 4w agowhoopsie
the next USMNT is just the women's team wearing moustaches.
Schatzi Page@schatzipage.bsky.social · 4w agoDon’t send a man to do a woman’s job
