White Nationalists can’t be “retrained”: ICE must be abolished
Feb. 1st, 2026 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdI want to remind everyone who thinks ICE, CBP, and/or DHS can be “retrained” of this piece of White Nationalist deport-100-million-people propaganda tweeted out BY OFFICIAL DHS ITSELF over the holidays.
You get to 100 million people by expelling not just every immigrant but every single AMERICAN who isn’t white.
That’s how you get to 100 million, and that’s exactly what they meant.
They didn’t just post it; it was pinned to the top of their profile.
Call your Senators and tell them: ABOLISH ICE. ABOLISH DHS. Put the actual needed services back under their old departments, where they were before the fascist Homeland Security horseshit from Joe Lieberman and Bush II.
End it all, end it now. Nothing less. If the government gets partially shut down for a while, so fucking be it.
ABOLISH. ICE.
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torment matrix, part 23942
Jan. 31st, 2026 11:07 pmsolarbirdHonest to shit the rate at which writing written as warning is turning into writing-as-instruction manual is really starting to fuck with my head right here:
I literally read this short story in… I think it was Asimov’s? Could’ve been Analog but I think it was Asimov’s. Circa 1992 or something. Don’t remember much of anything about it other than they were training an AI by shredding and destroying library after library and it was a huge deal.
That was it, though. That was the entire plot.
Kinda wish these fuckers would, idk, watch The Black Hole and ride a giant spaceship into an event horizon right about now, don’t you?
i mean
that’d be good
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NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus
Jan. 31st, 2026 05:48 am![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
apod_feed
NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a
The Costco before the storm, and remodeling shenanigans
Jan. 30th, 2026 03:42 pmdianec42Then, heaven help us all, we went to Costco. Right before the big snowstorm. Inside was only normal levels of Costco crazy, but the parking lot (West Springfield, MA) was Mad Max levels of insane. That parking lot needs at LEAST one traffic light and probably at least one rotary. Luckily Mr Diane volunteered to drive at that point, otherwise we might still be there trying to turn left.
Bonus: I saw all "8"s out of the corner of my eye and thought the register had tilted. No, that was our total. Ouch. And that was WITHOUT booze or chocolate. Weirdly, wine now costs less than mixed nuts.
Over the last few days: the bathroom contractor came out and measured for tile; I phoned the schmancy fixtures store and placed our order; we changed our minds on the cabinet colour yet again, and ordered the cabinets and countertop; faffed around on the tile a little more, finalized the tile order, and put down the deposit on that. Oh and we picked out a paint colour. IT'S HAPPENING!
Meanwhile it's still colder than a very cold thing. I've learned things about taking the trash bins to the street after a big snow that I really could have gone my whole life without knowing. Oh well, all part of the Vermont experience.
