I drink my horchata warm because
Fuck ICE
a mid-June link roundup
No thrones. No crowns. No kings. Not then, not now, not ever.
Eleni Balakrishnan for Mission Local: U.S. Customs detains Palestinians with valid visas at SFO, prepares to deport them, then Dozens rally at SFO in support of Palestinians denied entry to U.S..
Chris Geidner: Trump is spiraling. We face the consequences. Where are the other branches? and Federal judge says Trump's National Guard activation was illegal, but appeals court stays order.
This pattern—police initiating violence, protesters responding minimally, police escalating further—isn’t accidental. It’s that fascist playbook all over again: manufacture the violence to justify the violence you initiated.
We should all be calling it out for what it is.
Rebecca Solnit: Some Notes on the City of Angels & The Heart of the Matter.
California Sen. Alex Padilla removed from press conference with Homeland Security secretary, forced to ground and handcuffed, by Daniel Macht. I can’t be the only one thinking of the arrest of Senator Oran during the suppression of Ghorman. Christ, that episode of Andor only dropped a month ago.
Trump’s civil war, by Timothy Snyder.
Photographer Rena Blake has a new exhibition, The Rings of Kerry, that celebrates ten years of marriage equality in Ireland by depicting portraits of LGBTQI couples from Kerry who have gotten married in the last ten years.
Lovely. (Though tbh it feels a bit weird to recommend the work of a Ballybunion photographer who isn’t my cousin Gráinne.)
In Romania, A Historic 30,000 People Showed Up For Bucharest Pride This Year, by Melissa Goset.
Thailand’s First Out Trans Diplomat Is Changing the Perception of What Thai Trans Women Can Do, by Audrey Black.
U.K. lesbians are resisting state-mandated transphobia, by Emma Bainbridge.
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity, by Parshin Shojaee, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, and Mehrdad Farajtabar.
My Wildly Incorrect Bias About Corporate Engineers, by Brent Simmons, via Karl.
Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google, by Elilla.
Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade, by Tina Nguyen.
“You know, Commander, having seen a little of the 21st century, there is one thing I don't understand: how could they have let things get so bad?”
“That's a good question. I wish I had an answer.”
New Hampshire Legislature Passes Bill Reversing Its Historic Trans Rights Protections, by s. baum.
Health and Wellbeing, the third of several reports about the contents of the 2022 US Trans Survey. Among the findings, it’s clear that the Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia (also by s. baum).
According to a post on Jesse Thorn’s Instagram, and despite the overwhelming evidence that gender-affirming care saves lives, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has informed its staff that it’s closing its gender-affirming care clinic. Cowards. Quislings. What happened to primum non nocere?
If you’re somewhere on the left politically, yet think banning gender-affirming care for kids is fine and dandy, I invite you to read Erin Reed’s Moderate Case Against Trans Youth Healthcare Bans.
A ton of stuff is coming to WebKit this fall. Speaking of WWDC25, Marcos gave a session!
Eryn’s Switch 2 arrived yesterday. Yay! I’m really looking forward to playing Mario Kart World.
Speaking of which, see Mario Kart 8 is one of my favourite games, by Jasper Tandy.
A brief history of the numeric keypad, by Francesco Bertelli, via Shady Characters.
Calligram Creator, a simple, browser-based tool for making calligrams, via Erin McKean.
Trump throws curveball at Japan tea giant's US expansion swing, by Kentaro Okasaka and John Geddie. How dare he. 私は伊藤園が好きです。