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fleeing to Dubai should be considered an admission of guilt by any court worth having

if the country fits the crime...

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I'm sure that's fine, Santa Cruz / Capitola might be in for an awful winter though, places right on the Pacific and exposed to swells

it's not that the infrastructure is easy to overwhelm, it's mostly not, but everything has limits. if you put multiple atmospheric rivers that can draw on absurdly warm coastal water to drop even more rain into a short sequence things might start breaking.

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at the same time, coastlines are going to be dealing with over a foot of sea level rise (from multiple causes aligning over the same period) compounded by winter storms it's a mild place to live except when it really really isn't

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so everything that's been built in California to handle water, flooding, and debris flows is likely going to be put through scenarios at the limit of what its designed for and possibly never experienced

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they're going to need to start making more Hallmark movies right away

aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 4h

it makes for a reading experience closer to meandering, following a path opened up by each word at the end of a piece without really knowing what it will lead to

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 4h

I love the structure of Thinking From Black so much, the intention of linking each by words at the end, an index woven into the pieces these are from Invitation by @keguro.blacksky.app

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On the streets of Pittsburgh and Seattle and Chicago, I learned how to nod back at Black men I did not know. Those nods from strangers-casual, unexpected-invited me to imagine myself possible in those spaces. The nods acknowledged that those spaces were often hostile and isolating. But they were not angry nods. They said, "I see you. I am glad to see you." Each nod created shared ground.
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And then there is ritual. A visitor is offered food and drink, thanked for their presence, invited to linger. Newborns are welcomed by older family members. Special food is prepared, blessings offered, names bestowed.
Intimate partners are introduced to friends, asked to join the collective practice of being together.

Even though I want to linger in the space of the ordinary, I am also drawn to the extraordinary, to how we are invited to imagine different words and practices. Bob Marley is the first voice I remember singing freedom.
The first voice I remember inviting me to imagine freedom. So often, the seam across Africa and the Black diaspora is filled with the rhythms of people imagining freedom, the sounds that invite us to keep inventing freedom.
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An invitation can be a sound or a gesture or a scent or a dance or a texture.
It might slow time long enough for you to catch your breath, cradle you so that you are not isolated in your sorrow, give you the courage to walk into unfamiliar rooms. An invitation might provide the care you need when you least expect it. An invitation might get you through a difficult period, as it points toward a time of refuge.
Keguro Macharia
See: Tending, Gestures, Unknowing

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 8h

these sound vaguely familiar in a "so much stuff has floated by on the internet" kind of way it's probably a nightmare to make it work well, especially now

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 8h

this is like a holiday for ronaldo haters, we get a document to point at and say case closed

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10h

ending up in a different part of the city around lunch just means a different banh mi place to find and park to eat it in

aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 11h

yeah, the endless problem of the people who do the writing and people who want to read it all being squeezed into being unable to live

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 15h

yes please, this is my actual issue with paywalls, not the idea of paying for what I read

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 15h

Today is the 50th anniversary of the 6 October massacre at Thammasat University, a major moment in modern Thai history The massacre saw state-backed right-wing groups kill at least 41 pro-democracy protestors and ended Thailand's 1973-1976 democratic period No one has ever been held responsible

A man beating the lifeless corpse of a man hanging from a tree on Sanam Luang in Bangkok

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 15h

everything fascist is coming back in style and we get to fucking live through it

mauditanglais @mauditanglais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Montreal is basically a two-party state (PLQ and QS) completely at odds with the rest of Quebec. That's uh, not good for long-term political and social cohesion.

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 16h

we deserve the right to an analog life!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

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has anyone been able to explain even in a wildly fantastical scenario how Iran is potentially hitting airbases in the UK with drones

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I very much do not like him and did not enjoy watching that speech but stuff gets so twisted these days sometimes you've just gotta listen to what people actually say they're going to do

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in any case, PSPP's speech was about rebuilding the nation (quebec) from the ruins of 8 years of the CAQ and finding common ground for big projects, addressing the housing crisis, being eopen to ideas from the other parties, etc etc referendum later, right now we get to work, basically

I guess it's more watersheds than rivers, hence the lakes, but now that's bugging me too probably a better way to do it, but it's a cool attempt to use all that available data I think

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the PLQ is the federalist party, the PQ is the sovereigntist party, which guides a lot more than whether to leave Canada or not the appetite for separatism is low, because right now being a relatively autonomous nation within the federal arrangement of Canada makes more sense

aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

listening to PSPP's speech and I guess I'd say the focus (from outsiders) on a referendum makes it about separatism when the position the PQ takes is sovereigntist: Quebec is a national project, and independence is a goal to work towards to be decided by the population

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in current polls something like 66% of *francophones* in Quebec would vote no on a referendum whatever else is going on, people here feel closer to Canada (Carney polls way higher than any provincial leader) than to the US or any version of going it alone

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

also like, the contemporary PQ aside, Quebec has an actual historical engagement with revolution and demands for self-governance, and the PQ did take that and build a progressive modern democratic socialist state it has taken really ugly turns but that still happened

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

completely wiped off the map is very relieving yeah, I was worried they'd hang around despite doing literally not a single good thing in eight long years

aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they are so different and yet each so uniquely unlikeable

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the referendums were born of a different time and cost them ever winning most of the ridings around Montreal (half the population of Quebec or so) again the *current stance* of PSPP is "when Trump's gone, we'll see"

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the PQ having a baseline party stance that Quebec should pursue independence is so little like whatever the fuck is happening in Alberta that the comparison isn't worth making even as a joke

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

all the articles are going to be "separatist party wins" and just cannot underline enough how much no one here really cares about that right now, including the PQ

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

my partner heard the PQ guy (who looks like SUCH a PQ guy) at a community thing and said yeah he wasn't convincing many people here