Matt

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MattNov 11
John RegehrNov 10
I hope that I can ruin your day by getting you to read this map (courtesy wikipedia) of US town names that are portmanteaus of the two (or sometimes more) states they are near the borders of
MattSep 18
Melanie D’ArrigoSep 18
Every union that worked on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, and works with Disney, Sinclair Broadcasting, and Nextstar should strike. Just shut it all down. No one’s jobs are safe when corporations put appeasing fascists over workers and their constitutional rights.
MattAug 18
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩Aug 16

This is #healthcare in the #USA

A #doctor argues for approval for a procedure with a #UnitedHealthcare hack

She posted it on social media and is now blacklisted by #UHC and she had to sell her house and get a lawyer, they're ruining her career over this video:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-a-surgeon-facing-retaliation

If you live in the #US dont get too mad- your blood pressure will spike and your healthcare sucks because you're just "a little person" and your moronic country prefers you to just die

#medicine #insurance #UNH

MattAug 13
M.S. Bellows, Jr.Aug 13

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today released a new ICE recruiting poster, under the stilted and sexist tagline, "Which way, American man?"

Why did they use that weird language? Because it's a dog whistle, something ordinary humans won't notice but that those attuned to it will respond to. And it's literally a Nazi dog whistle.

William Gayley Simpson was a Presbyterian pastor who decided Christianity wasn't workable and consciously decided to become a racist instead. In 1978 he published a book, "Which Way, Western Man?" – a manifesto calling on white men to defeat all other races. Some nuggets include:

"Let me preface what I am about to say by declaring frankly that I am prepared to accept violence on the part of our people. The Jews’ hold on our throat is not going to be relaxed until we break their grip. Hitler felt that he had to take to the streets. All normal approach to his people was barred. Today, we are confronted with much the same situation here."

"The point is to reveal organized Jewry as a world power entrenched in every country of the White man’s world...."

You might think that 1978 is too long ago for anyone to remember, but this book was republished in 2003 by a neo-Nazi group called the National Alliance, and is a bestseller among neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.

In other words, the federal government is recruiting Nazis and other racists to join ICE, which is being deployed in cities across the country and arresting both citizens and non-citizens alike.

Folks, this literally is fascism. You think I enjoy posting this stuff here all the time? I don't. But this literally is fascism. They're literally following the Nazi playbook. And they'll follow it to the very end.

Unless we stop them.

Sources: https://share.google/nT0dJ8jYEQYeVoLgA
https://share.google/TTsKfI8dw9ZZAwCo3

^ @jaykuo https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/115017214198700669

MattAug 7
Marco ArmentAug 6

So what are everyone’s excuses for Tim Cook’s behavior this time?

Wake up. He’s an overt Trump supporter, and has been the entire time.

MattJun 24
Marco ArmentJun 24

This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platform vendor’s new movie.

Why not just pop up random ads all the time, always creating new channels that everyone’s opted-into by default so you can never keep up with opting out of them all?

Oh wait, that’s already what happens.

Apple’s as bad as everyone else. They don’t respect their customers — we’re fodder.

They truly have no standards anymore.
https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/114738626109660386

MattJun 12
Mandu 🥟Jun 12

Some timely words by Commander William Adama

#BSG

MattMay 20
kottke.orgMay 20
Biking Is Therapy. “It demands so much of your attention that you have no option but to live in the present. There’s no time to worry. It’s like meditation while moving.” https://kottke.org/25/05/biking-is-therapy
Biking Is Therapy

Derek Bolz made a video about what biking does for his mental health. A partial transcript (boldface mine): Life has been rough

kottke.org
MattMay 10
Heidi Li FeldmanMay 9
It is critical that as many Americans as possible hear what Congressman Menendez says about ICE’s treatment of members of Congress and the mayor of Newark today in New Jersey. His remarks begin at 1:02. https://youtu.be/CUjfHM8l1QQ
'Never seen anything like it in my life': New Jersey congressman reacts to Newark mayor arrest

YouTube
MattMar 5
Federico Viticci Mar 5

Tapbots making a Bluesky client is excellent news and I can't wait to get my hands on it.

https://www.macstories.net/news/phoenix-rising-tapbots-reveals-new-bluesky-client-for-summer-release/

Phoenix Rising: Tapbots Reveals New Bluesky Client for Summer Release

Tapbots, the makers of Mastodon client Ivory, announced today that they are working on a Bluesky client. The app, which will be called Phoenix, is planned for release this summer. There aren’t a lot of details yet, but Tapbots’ history of making top-notch social media apps stretches back many years, to Tweetbot, which was pulled

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John RegehrNov 10
I hope that I can ruin your day by getting you to read this map (courtesy wikipedia) of US town names that are portmanteaus of the two (or sometimes more) states they are near the borders of
Show threadJohn RegehrNov 11
how much better would it have been if the old film Mississippi Masala had been called Missala Masala??
Show threadBen RosengartNov 11
@regehr you know that film’s director’s son is the mayor-elect of NYC, yes?
Show threadJohn RegehrNov 11
@fivetonsflax I only learned this recently! but for sure it's why that movie was in my mind at all
Show threadrntzNov 13

@fivetonsflax @regehr wait WHAT

(!!!) I need to go rewatch some films now

Show threadMichael EngelNov 10
@regehr Latex... 😀
Show thread14missionNov 11
@me_ @regehr No I think it's LaTeX.
Show threadR.L. LENov 11
@14mission @me_ @regehr Yes; but let me indent the first paragraph by hitting the space bar five times on this Win XP Word 98 doc file
Show threadarclightNov 16
@14mission @me_ @regehr The overfull \hbox of Caddo Parish.
Show threadcliffleNov 10

@regehr I successfully hit Cal-Nev-Ari, Calzona, and Calexico in a single trip.

Wanted to hit Mexicali too but the wildfires interfered.

Show threadLRNov 10
@regehr i love this
Show threadrntzNov 10
@regehr "the Calexico-Mexicali metropolitan area" yeesh
Show threadBrian CampbellNov 10

@regehr Was wondering what the heck Kymo is, couldn't even find it on Wikipedia.

Did find the page on Wikipedia with the map, which does have an explanation for Kymo, as well as the legend for what the colors mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographic_portmanteaus

List of geographic portmanteaus - Wikipedia

Show threadmarkusdeNov 10

@regehr "Ucolo" & "Urado"

oh my god it's even worse than I expected

Show threadmarkusdeNov 11
@regehr no wait I take it back "Canida" is the most unforgivable
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Nov 11
@regehr thank you this is upsetting
Show threadSludgeNov 11
@whitequark @regehr Ohiowa
Show threadR.L. LENov 11
@SludgePhD @whitequark @regehr That's 40 percent towards what you'd need to actually yodel
Show threadErika 🔜 39c3Nov 11
@whitequark ready and valid street going across the border
Show threadcomp_ed82Nov 11
@regehr I had to save that for future reference.. thank you for sharing this 😊
Show threadDevNov 11
@regehr this is giving me the same vibes as the Japanese video game makers imagining American names
Show threadJohn RegehrNov 11
@dev also see anime names, they're so bad
Show threadR.L. LENov 11
@regehr @dev Karl Dandleton aptly warned, we have nothing to lose but our crypto wallets
Show threadSteve CanonNov 11
@dev @regehr Ah, Bobson Dugnutt, brings me back.
Show threadme·ta·phil, derNov 11
@steve @dev @regehr oh yeah what's he been up to, lately?
Show threadLRNov 11
@steve @dev @regehr .oO( bobson trucknut )
Show threadDen of EarthNov 11
@dev @regehr
Bonus points if anyone can remember where this is from... Surprised John Bigbootay isn't there!
Show threadJames WidmanNov 11

@dev @regehr i also like that these almost sound like names of star wars characters

(some of them)

Show threadliferstateNov 11
@regehr @jalefkowit Amazing resource for science fiction writers who need character names.
Show threadCharles EckmanNov 11
@regehr (edit: found the article) - huh, doesn't mark the whole Delmarva peninsula
Show threadAsta [AMP]Nov 11
@regehr Welcome to Calzona! Home to definitely not what you're thinking of!
Show thread🚲Nov 11
@regehr @SnoopJ Challenge: reconstruct the actual state names using only this map and logic, pretending you are unaware of their real names
Show threadLRNov 11
@dx @regehr @SnoopJ i did this. works pretty well.
Show threadAnderson for President '80Nov 11
@regehr Lake Wissota was mentioned in Titanic even though it wouldn't exist until 1917 and the Titanic sank in 1912.
Show thread14missionNov 11

@regehr There must be kazillions of really local place names on the borders of towns:

Carlmont High School and Shopping Center: San Carlos and Belmont, CA

Herdondo Blvd: Hermosa and Redondo Beaches, CA.

Show thread14missionNov 11
@regehr Do any other countries do this?
Show threadJohn RegehrNov 11
@14mission unfortunately so! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographic_portmanteaus
List of geographic portmanteaus - Wikipedia

Show threadGeorge BNov 11

@regehr @14mission

The border portmanteaus section is virtually entirely the US though

Show thread14missionNov 11
@gbargoud The US is kind of unique for having mapped out states first and building towns later. And we have a lot of arbitrary compas-grid borders that make border-spanning towns more likely (instead of rivers or mountain ranges).
Show threadRob RicciNov 11
@regehr all the Utah ones are so uninspired
Show threadRob RicciNov 11
@regehr except Wyuta, that's ok
Show threadGood Boy/Slut NickNov 12

@ricci @regehr I live in Cache Valley where "Utida" is supposedly located. I've never heard of it. A quick Google search seems to think it's "A neigborhood of Cornish" which... does a town of 287 have distinct neighborhoods? Or maybe just on the Idaho side of Cornish, but that's Weston and Weston has 587 people. It shouldn't really have distinct neighborhoods either.

And Calneva is a resort on Tahoe I think, not a town...

As such I'm skeptical of all of this map now.

Other than Texarkana.

Show threadeuroplus Nov 11
@regehr @a2_4am Latex 🤭
Show threadShawnT 🔧🐀Nov 11
@regehr My home town is on this map!
Show threadJohn RegehrNov 11
@phaysis which one??
Show threadC.S.StrowbridgeNov 11

@regehr

Wyodak isn't even that close to the border. I am legitimately mad at this.

Show threadleftofcentreNov 11
@regehr keeps gettin worse
Show threadleftofcentreNov 11
@regehr actually now 'texarkana' kinda makes sense
Show threadSpace HoboNov 11
@regehr This is the Bobson Dugnutt of #maps.
Show threadE. C. BigribsNov 11

@regehr
"Florgia"

I think that was Matt Gaetz's constituency.

Show threadBen RosengartNov 11
@regehr this has extremely @janellecshane vibes
Show threadMichael SokolovNov 11
@regehr this nonsense stops at Chicago?
Show threadJohn RegehrNov 11
@msokolov the map stops but the nonsense certainly does not
Show threadMichael SokolovNov 11
@regehr isn't there a Delmarva?
Show threadJohn RegehrNov 11
@msokolov that's the one I was thinking of
Show threadMichael SokolovNov 11
@regehr I think there is also Vershire.
Show threadNicolas BachschmidtNov 11
@msokolov @regehr There is also New York, which is a portmanteau of New Jersey and New York.
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