a visa overstayer from Chad who wants to be an American is more American than anyone who puts on the ICE mask
Semafor@semafor.com · 4h ago“Based on its extraordinary success in slashing overstays from bonded countries to near zero, the State Department has made the Visa Bond Program permanent,” a State Department spokesperson told Semafor.
I have pretty mixed feelings about the movie but we gotta put a ban on historians reviewing things. We’ve swung too far in the other wrong direction.
It’s so crazy that Hong Kong actually lived up to the hype even in the constant rain and fog. I can’t stop thinking about it, looking through my photos, etc.
Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%
DM: the kobold snickers. "would u adventurers like to go... to pen island?" player: no DM: WIS save please player: 13 DM: u fail player: no way DM: u say "yes i want to go to pen island" player: let me see the DC. give me your notebook DM: please add the attribute "gay" to the character traits sec—
Now I will say that in the shattered clockwork of my mind, Brian Wilson’s “Vega-Tables” renders Sondheim’s Witch’s overprotectiveness of her “greens” more reasonable, aiding my immersion in Into the Woods.
Casaubon@zas.bsky.social · 11h agoLook as you all might remember, I Get the beach boys now, but listening to SMiLE as I read David Leaf’s book about it, Pet Sounds is still clearing.
Look as you all might remember, I Get the beach boys now, but listening to SMiLE as I read David Leaf’s book about it, Pet Sounds is still clearing.
This being trivially true but so many centrist dem* commentators continuing to say the same things and run the same strategic playbooks is insane. Would rather die than lose control of the party. *not who I’m QT’ing
Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST@chathamharrison.bsky.social · 16h agoThe moderates being unable to generate even a modicum of tactical thinking is the through-line for how we got here
Every hour of perfect weather in NYC is slightly soured by the memory that this is what it’s like in the bay every day.
My only complaint is that couldn’t it be taller and wider?
zac@10amlunch.bsky.social · 2d agoi love this building that just got approved by the toronto government to start development thats an 11 story residential apartment building with retail space on the ground floor, with a buddhist temple on the very top
Dalloway done. Now middkemarch for real this time. My reading list is all behemoths. Quixote, Moby Dick, mason & dixon. Will try to break them up w Austen and Faulkner
For the first time in nearly 14 years, a civilian passenger aircraft has landed at Deir ez-Zor International Airport on a domestic flight arriving from Damascus International Airport, Syria.
If I ever run for office, the American people will respect my explicit distaste for most of their beliefs and values* and vote for me regardless. *(for example, I value freedom, peace, and prosperity)
I gotta reread perdido street station but they literally don’t have it in any bookstores in New York City or Hoboken.
People talk a lot about the causes of declining birth rates, but it's really simple. People used to need enough kids to put on a touring Shakespeare production - maybe six, even eight. But with the rising popularity of Samuel Beckett? Two is sufficient.
The city state is truly the most Romantic dramatic setting imaginable, but this includes prewar NYC, Paris, and Hong Kong.
Would you pay ¥199,000 to live in far northeastern Shenzhen a few stops from the Universiade sports center? Looks a bit over an hour from downtown so I’d opt out personally.
Would you live in the type of “ten stories of something resembling a mall and then the roof is a new ground floor that six 20 story tall residential high rises are on” building they have in Shenzhen?
1065. In one year, a succession crisis will throw England into chaos, with rival claimants going to war over the crown. Amid the chaos, the Duke of Normandy will invade, toppling the weakened Anglo-Saxon elite and forever changing English culture and history. It is the Year Of The Linux Desktop.
Linuxiac@linuxiac.bsky.social · 4d agoStatcounter reports Linux at 10.65% of desktop usage in North America, with Cloudflare data lending further support to the milestone. linuxiac.com/linux-deskto... #Linux #OpenSource
