it means huckleberry

[yayaxa]

[2026-01-31] I live here on a Powderhorn Street Where ICE agents walk the beat With a signing bonus fifty thousand dollars When we saw those vicious goons Steal our neighbors from their rooms We went out into the streets and yelled and hollered

[CHORUS] Come out ye cowards ICE Peel away your grim disguise Tell your wife how you take orders from the fascists And how the city you betray Made you run like hell away From the white and snowy streets of Minneap'lis

Won’t you tell her how you stood In the way of Renée Good How she tried to leave but you were too afraid of her How she did just what you said So you shot her in the head For the crime of standing up for her own neighbors

I bet you felt so big and strong, When Nurse Pretti came along And he tried to shield a woman you were beating Six agents held him down, and you shot him on the ground And stood around to watch him as he lay there bleeding

Come let us hear you tell How you serve the country well Gassing children in their schools and cars and houses And how the nation’s great distress Can be solved by DHS If you repress the rage your cruelty arouses

[ryan-sometimes]

When I was about to go to college my dad, who is a thoracic surgeon specialized in lung cancer, sat me down and told me I could be a stoner, but absolutely not a cigarette smoker

[ryan-sometimes]

His logic was:

He’s operated on hundreds of cig smokers but no stoners

The average stoner doesn’t smoke nearly as many joints as a cig smoker smokes cigarettes. Many cig smokers will smoke 10+ cigs a day but the average stoner doesn’t smoke that many joints

Joints don’t have as many carcinogens

It is generally harder to quit nicotine than weed

People can have medicinal cannabis but no one has medicinal cigarettes

He was a stoner in med school and turned out fine but some of his cig smoking classmates are already dead

[ryan-sometimes]

@buticaaba you are absolutely correct! My dad hates vapes. He says the lungs of cig smokers look black and kind of like asphalt, and that the lungs of vape smokers retain their pink color but are covered in burn like blisters. He participated in a double lung transplant on a 20 year old vape smoker and has done multiple drainings of vape smoker lungs that filled with fluids because they’re absolutely full of blisters.

When you smoke cigs you’re clogging your lungs with tar and other nasty stuff, but when you hit a vape you’re quite literally giving your lungs chemical burns.

[stxalq]

it's wild that the vitamin e acetate injuries from years ago have convinced so many people of this neo-dare misinformation

[stxalq]

trying not to blancolirio that hop-skip-and-one-wheeled landing

[doubleca5t]

You know what, fuck you *banishes you to the late 90s music video dimension*

[senator-onahole]

[northchef]

[stxalq]

@generative-adversarial-nitwit the frontrooms

[balaclava-trismegistus]

what you should take away from the current state of Mangione's trial isn't that he got away with it on technicalities, but that police and news media will conspire to fabricate evidence against whoever is a convenient scapegoat

[stxalq]

he hasn't gotten away with anything—mainly because there hasn't been a trial yet, let alone a verdict. the pre-trial hearings are about what evidence and testimony will be admissible during the trial. and so far there's no indication that police or press have fabricated anything.

[stxalq]

a woman from gdańsk blithely watching the holocaust train go by is kind of fucked up, right?

[stxalq]

worldwide shared housing means it's flu season every season

[stxalq]

believing in the myth that street lights stop crime

turning off the lights but not for stargazing or the benefit of wildlife

knowing where to source a grenade but not having an exit plan—heavy wood blinds and heavy glass and they're lucky it didn't just bounce back inside

no ham radio operators

[stxalq]

in the pocket, effortlessly in your lane, cool, laid back, unperturbed

dialed in, this is not your first rodeo, you've learned from past mistakes, just one nudge away from perfection

locked in, the "do it live" of the family, do you even know what you're doing? are you even ready? fuck it. we ball.

[stxalq]

it's that time of year when some Very Online Indians start crashing out about thanksgiving

and tbh i hate it. they're creating a very public image that "authentic" indians are Very Mad About Thanksgiving. and i'm just not that mad

i mean, i think the american myth around the holiday is stupid. but no one said you can't do a secular holiday and just make food and see friends and family

[stxalq]

[iwilleatyourenglish]

something i have always found really weird is when english texts italicize words from other languages.

i remember reading a book as a kid and the author continually italicizing the word tamales

[iwilleatyourenglish]

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[stxalq]

emphasis carries a lot of meanings in writing. it can mark a word the author wants you to pay attention to for rhetorical reasons. it can mark spoken stress in dialogue. it marks that meta use-case when you're talking about a word itself. and, it's used to mark foreign words and phrases.

but that last one is fraught. tamales [meta emphasis] is not a foreign [rhetorical emphasis] word in, i would guess, most english dialects. like c'est la vie or schadenfreude, tamale is well within common english at this point. but i have to imagine something like á bientôt or großzügigen are not in common english and would be set off by emphasis.

and on some level i get it. like fully spelling out abbreviations on first use, i've seen the editorial standard of marking foreign words and jargon the first time only, i suppose as a courtesy to the reader—"hey, here's a word you might need to look up."

but it's not a tool to be used lightly. are you honestly introducing a new word to your audience, or are you implicitly contributing to the othering of a marginalized language?

[junglejim4322]

They really used to play pumped up kicks like it was nothing

[stxalq]

they used to pull it off the air after a shooting. but now i'm not sure they even do that anymore

[nando161mando]

[stxalq]

[stxalq]

i turned off desktop icons around the same time i turned off every sound on my phone. you don't have to live in squalor and bedlam. there is a better Path and i have walked it for going on two decades now

i can tell you it is peaceful when the usually-needy Devices sit quiet and idle and empty

[stxalq]

A quick round-up of the groups I know of organizing in Portland and their public channels:

50501 Portland is rebranding to No Kings Portland, but they've been a consistent group of organizers all year—they were a big part of the June 14th No Kings rally. For continuity, you can see their old linktree (https://linktr.ee/50501PortlandOregon) which now points to their new one: https://linktr.ee/Nokingsportland

Their discord invite is here: https://discord.gg/cPvCurZq7c

They're active and hold town hall meetings about once a month to discuss upcoming events, mutual aid, and sometimes policy items to pass along to city council.

Rose City Resistance is an unaffiliated group that offers support to every other resistance group in town; think medics, corkers, de-escalators, radios, and the like. They have a Bluesky account that's active here: https://bsky.app/profile/rosecityresistance.bsky.social

Indivisible Oregon were also organizing last Saturday, I'm not too familiar with their chanels, but they do at least have a Bluesky account, https://bsky.app/profile/indivisible-oregon.bsky.social, and a classic email list you can sign up for: https://www.indivisibleor.org/subscribe

[lgbtranswoman]

I think the "No Kings Day" protests are useless

A huge protest with tens of thousands of people across the country to peacefully protest a fascist regime sounds great... But where does it go from here? A third organized protest? For what? What are we trying to accomplish?

A fascist regime like Trumps that has stated they don't give a shit about the protests while the president posts pictures to truth social of him with a crown?

What the fuck are we doing?

Why are we peacefully protesting, marching, and shutting down cities? Genuinely, what is the goal?

If the people in power are actively letting us do this and making snarky comments about not giving a damn because it's not effecting them, then it makes no difference. These people do not and will not listen to us.

Community/Mutual aid. Housing, food, clothing, education for young and old. Identifying propaganda and teach people about first aid safety especially for when dealing with tear gas and bullet wounds. Practice self defense for many reasons and be able to protect yourself and others if need be. Protect people from ice, distract and overwhelm the attention and time of police and military. Don't let your neighbors get taken away even if it means ripping them from an officer at a protest.

Go organize or participate in community events, or even join some type of club/organization. Participate in county politics meetings.

Fuck, donate money or volunteer if able! Food banks always need the help and soup kitchens or even places of worship can be in need of workers and/or resources to give to the more needy.

The "No Kings Day" protests have a wonderful idea and theme behind it, but it does nothing in the larger scheme of things because the administration does not give a damn about these protests.

Make them give a damn.

[stxalq]

What the fuck are we doing?

if i can try to answer this in good faith, it's part community building. every month this year i've met new people and our mutual aid networks get a little stronger. it's part recruitment, while out corking the most common conversation i had was people asking how they can get more involved and i had names and discords and other channels for them, and i hope they'll turn up at the next one. it's part recruitment, the biggest standoff at the ice facility since this summer happened saturday night with the folks who stuck it out all day or who were drawn to action because of the sheer size of what we pulled off in downtown portland

it's part attrition. every time they put up the spy planes or helicopters that's hours off those airframes. every boot they put on the ground gets worn a little thinner and there are more of us than there are of them