Gatopotamo

Gatopotamo

@roblave.bsky.social

Teacher, cyclist, disc golfer, lover of towns and cities. Not so into suburbs. Supporter of quality public spaces

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I keep seeing the add where neighbors physically invite neighbors to a World Cup watch party and… I have lots of feelings, but overall it just makes me sad. I’m so glad that they are all meeting neighbors, but sad that their (my) neighborhoods actively discourage it by design (and law).

Short story idea I will never write: high school student using AI for creative writing assignment that needs to be 2000 words and the AI keeps editing to make the writing more concise and the human going crazy trying to get the required word count as it all disappears before their eyes

Short story idea I will never write: high school student using AI for creative writing assignment that needs to be 2000 words and the AI keeps editing to make the writing more concise and the human going crazy trying to get the required word count as it all disappears before their eyes

I’m hearing lots of rumors about Jared Kushner run back-channel negotiations: the Iranians are saying that they will reopen the strait and keep it open if we agree to publicly execute Trump and the Cabinet. Bogging down on Elision’s pay per view position. Negotiations ongoing

It’s gonna be weird when Trump uses the justice department to effectively nationalize oil companies because he doesn’t understand the the price of oil is set globally

If there are any green terrorist cells out there in the world… I’m thinking that they might be thinking that now is the time to take the petro-economy down. A few well placed attacks on production facilities outside the Persian gulf would tip it all over. Ministry for the Future type shit

Hey there Chapel Hill! How’s the school closure discussion going?

Jonathan Berk 🏠@berkie1.bsky.social

‘No-growth’ suburbs are hollowing themselves out & harming Massachusetts’ future. In Marblehead, public school enrollment has fallen from 3,144 students in 2016 to 2,389 today (-24%), while the share of residents 65+ has grown from 17.9% to 22.6%.

Ski Mountaineering is a pretty cool event I think it would be even cooler if they had to storm a Nazi pillbox at the top of the mountain Or just hit a bunch of Nazi mannequins with a sub-machine gun they have to carry up the hill?

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32 people died in ICE custody last year — the agency’s deadliest year in over two decades. Meanwhile, private prison corporations that are building and overseeing ICE detention centers are raking it in. Cashing in on cruelty.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

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I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

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Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

Anyone know where JD Vance attends mass? Who is his priest? Perhaps his priest should remind him of the “thou shall not bear false witness” shit that seems pretty essential to his faith? Perhaps a serious reminder of “Hello Satan!” from the church hierarchy, including the Pope, would be helpful?

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A bonkers, historically accurate sentence: the Trump regime conspired with the Maduro regime to overthrow the Maduro regime and replace it with the Maduro regime instead of the democratically elected Venezuelan government that won the 2024 presidential election there by 34 points