Mastodawn

“In the detention center, his father says, Liam has been lethargic, sleeping a lot. He asks about his family and classmates. He asks for his bunny hat.

What would you tell him?”
– Scott Meslow: https://www.theverge.com/policy/870720/ice-minneapolis-parenting-liam-conejo-ramos #uspol #parenting

Parenting in ICE-occupied Minneapolis

An essay from Scott Meslow about raising two daughters in Minneapolis during the ICE raids.

The Verge

Shaun (he/ him)Jan 31

Beta.NYC

Jan 31

Early bird gets the worm!

Our annual #civictech #opendata #servicedesign conference, NYC School of Data, is back as a 2-day weekend! To celebrate a decade of community, we’re doubling the fun! 🎂

Mar 28–29 @ CUNY School of Law.

🎟️ Grab your early bird tickets today! https://schoolofdata.nyc/earlybird2026

Shaun (he/ him)Dec 28

Michael H Dec 27

Hey theATL.social! Hope everyone is having an alright holiday weekend. Lots of announcements:

First, I've written a wrap up for this year on theATL.social: https://join.theatl.social/news/wrapup-2025

Learn about what happened, what's new, what's next, and let me know your thoughts!

Next, I'm happy to report that all our core software: Mastodon, Lemmy/yall, and Pyfed/PeachPie are now all updated to their latest stable nightly versions.

That's a fancy way of saying that everyone now has the latest-and-greatest version of each of those platforms on theATL.social.

Reply here, or send an email/DM, with what you'd like to see in 2026.

Thanks again for everyone's support this year - both financial and from just being excellent people.

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Shaun (he/ him)Dec 28

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Michael H Dec 22

@ShmosKnows I'm glad that there is finally focus to develop this. Other cities have something like this, and it's time we do too!

Shaun (he/ him)Dec 20

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Aaron Dec 20

@ShmosKnows Expecting the figure to shake its hips from side to side any second now.

Shaun (he/ him)Dec 20

Logan Five Thousand Dec 17

Why are there only parallel universes and not perpendicular universes? You don’t know how they parked their universe.

Shaun (he/ him)Dec 20

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Adrianna Tan Dec 20

Even though I often describe the gilded life in Singapore, it is a deeply unequal society. In many ways, even more neoliberal and capitalist than where I live now.

There hasn’t been much public discussion about that, but this book was a start: https://teoyouyenn.sg/this-is-what-inequality-looks-like/

This Is What Inequality Looks Like

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A vivid ethnography of the lives, dreams and disappointments of low-income Singaporeans… the mental ideologies, social structures and bureaucratic institutions th…

Teo You Yenn

Shaun (he/ him)Dec 20

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