@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-08-14 15:01:03
I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-13 17:55:17
Police assaulted as far-right UK rally led by Tommy Robinson sparks clashes
More than 110,000 marched at
"Unite the Kingdom" event in London,
with 5,000 counter-protesters nearby
Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon,
said “patriotism is the future, borders are the future”
as he claimed it was the “biggest demonstration is British history”.
In a video from the protest, Robinson added that
“Britain has finally awoke…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-08-13 15:50:53
Time appoints Michael Mraz as SVP, Head of Product and Platform AI for "infusing" AI into its product architecture, newsroom workflows, and audience engagement (Time)
https://time.com/7308072/time-appoints-michael-mraz-as-svp-head-of-prod…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-13 13:41:08
Core Devices CEO Eric Migicovsky unveils the Pebble Time 2 in four colors with a 1.5" e-paper display, multicolor RGB backlighting, and 30-day battery life (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/758592/pebble-time-2-final-design-we…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-08-14 05:05:11
Nun la, so überaschend kommt dies nun nicht und ist mMn sogar gut so. Mensch lernt sich so auch besser kennen.
»Überraschender Twist – Warum Firmen wieder zu klassischen Vorstellungsgesprächen einladen:
In den vergangenen Jahren sind Vorstellungsgespräche zunehmend per Videocall geführt worden. Jetzt steuern große Konzerne wie Cisco, McKinsey oder Google zurück und laden wieder zu persönlichen Gesprächen. Was das mit KI zu tun hat.«
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@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-15 06:07:26
It’s going to get worse.
Trumism proceeds by the successive breaking of taboos.
Each time a new one is broken,
the previous one is normalized,
made to look not so bad by comparison.
The cuffing of Padilla was a red-line moment. And yet:
There’s plenty of reason to worry that in four months, we’ll look back on it as a moment of comparative innocence.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-14 00:21:20
On Sept. 2, Donald Trump did something shocking even for him:
ordering the cold-blooded murder of 11 people.
With his active approval, they were summarily executed by an air strike on a boat carrying them off the coast of Venezuela.
Trump said that the vessel was manned by “Tren de Aragua Narco terrorists” from Venezuela carrying illegal drugs to the U.S.
He also said, “We have tapes of them speaking” and that “we knew exactly who was in that boat” and “exactly wha…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-15 00:41:43
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today.
There are tiny t-shirts and signs.
AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
https://bsky.app/profile/tolcser…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-13 21:14:56
The MAGA cult REFUSES to acknowledge that their great orange leader is involved in the Epstein fiasco.
So they all point their red-hat fingers at Pam Bondi.
YET! The small amount of files that have been released, Trump is all over them.
Just look at the flight logs.
Trump, Trump, Trump! #denial
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-13 21:43:44
This is an all hands on deck emergency.
On Thursday, MAGA-aligned groups unveiled
“Project Doorstrike”,
that will give them an unprecedented edge in their push to win the obscure but critically important
2025 Pennsylvania Supreme Court reelection.
This little-known race will determine whether or not Democrats retain their 3-vote majority on the Supreme Court.
𝗟𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘀𝘆𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝟭𝟵 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰…