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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 6h

aloes are weird, but also that daylilies are in the same order. meanwhile beets, venus flytraps, and cacti are related. plants are weird! I'm going to check out that game, maybe will help my memory for all this a little bit

aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 9h

think you're doing it fine! they're not complicated after all (and yet, sometimes...)

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 9h

Joyce, who had lightness and play and could write Molly Bloom, which Faulkner couldn't even have dreamed of doing

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15h

Pick one! Once and for all!

Joyce
Faulkner

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 9h

well now I feel compelled to try and find og brussels sprouts! I'm not sure what variety we get at farmers markets here but they are more flavourful than the supermarket ones

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 9h

what thinking about waking up
and reading the news feels like

A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 10h

Twin Peaks: Police car.

Police car. Twin Peaks S01E01 - Northwest Passage.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 10h

Military isn’t getting paid, but ICE Air contractors still are.

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 11h

🧵🧊✈️ ICE AIR – MON 13 OCT 2025

🌍 AFRICA: An Omni 767 (tail: N207AX) departs Baltimore on an ICE mission to Ghana 👀

Follow this thread for updates ⤵️

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 9h

throw poison hemlock in there, as a treat

Apiaceae - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 9h

brassicas are pretty wild! was not a dunk to be clear, it just really is similar for any specific vegetable you can think of and it's cool when people get curious about that

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 9h

the best! so the friend had a partner from napoli who liked to let it simmer and get stronger but that was considered weird in northern italy

when it's gurgling it's done! or should be, lots of sputtering to finish is something a bit amiss and you lose the nice crema

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10h

I was about to bring up that example! casually the same family as parsley and celery and how many other things

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10h

in north america we are almost certainly eating the one most bland commercialized version of a vegetable with an incredible lineage and variety cultivated by generations of brilliant and dedicated people

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10h

and nixtamalization on top of that! pretty close to magic. also potatoes!

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10h

more people need to learn about how literally everything we eat has thousands of years of cultivation behind it

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 11h

i'm sorry WHAT

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Brassica oleracea, also known as wild cabbage in its uncultivated form, is a plant of the family Brassicaceae. The species originated from feral populations of related plants in the Eastern Mediterranean, where it was most likely first cultivated. It has many common cultivars used as vegetables, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, kale, Brussels sprout, collard, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10h

I feel like I am playing whack a mole
with blocks for atlantic collaborators, somehow always another one

aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10h

also only fine espresso grind obviously (not always obvious to people!) it really makes all the difference

I like lavazza crema gusto but don't have a fancy grinder at home

aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10h

the forms this can take are limitless, even facing outright fascist violence. the state of emergency benjamin talks about has existed for a very long time and people have practiced many forms of counter-action. they're there to be learned from. it was no less hopeless in the past.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10h

people who really engage in meaningful political action of any kind are not often driven by ideas or things to implement. ideas and creativity help, but the drive is to do something that will help others, address an injustice, whatever that may be

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10h

don't pack down the coffee! just spoon it in. find a good heat to get it coming out smooth, not sputtering, and remove from heat when you hear a gurgle. only rinse it, never in a dishwasher.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10h

hearing angela davis speak, at the screening of a documentary with former panthers when I was at uc riverside, was one of the formative artistic and personal experiences for me. it changed how I think about most things, that part being important: do what *you* can offer, find something, do it

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 14h

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

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

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 11h

A few years ago The Lancet picked up an estimate from Bloomberg that ~90% of the HK population tasted tear gas during the 2019 pro-democracy protests. The article was filed under oncology because no one knows what happens when a city gets persistently tear gassed over a long stretch of time.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 18h

The deployment of tear gas throughout the Chicago area is a growing health concern. ICE is deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods, near children, playgrounds, stores, etc. What are the health implications on our communities?

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 11h

Is that ... a blowup anglerfish costume in the background?

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 13h

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15h

Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 15h

this has it's downsides (lots happens here, but less culturally important to anglo north america things happen here) but it's mostly rather nice, like there's less pressure to be part of or important to whatever the current Thing is

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 15h

this is a random thought but I like montreal in part because it's a major north american city with lots of international connections and culture that's extremely unimportant to pretty much everyone else in north america except as a cool place they've visited a time or two

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