Notices by ghouls for commensality 🧿 (inquiline@assemblag.es)

Blooming yucca and bonus hummingbird

#bloomscrolling

"As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined"

TWO-THIRDS

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html

#Uspol #ICE #AlligatorAlcatraz #DoNotAtMeThatsItsName

Local media in #Chicago on what happened in an #ICE raid where ICE killed someone they were pursuing
https://unraveledpress.com/what-happened-to-silverio-villegas-gonzalez/

#uspol #SilverioVillegasGonzalez

Imagine being threatened by this instead of pissed that it's so dangerous for kids to cross the street

thank an antifascist extremism researcher today

UC-Berkeley gave a list of 160 names to the feds for their antisemitism probe. One is Judith Butler, in case anyone's wondering how that's going
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-gives-160-names-antisemitism-probe-21043760.php

archive link: https://archive.ph/WPln3

#HigherEd #academia #uspol

fuck you, ezra klein

Mood:

yo @ai6yr maybe of interest if not known to you?

"contains over 55,000 scanned images (garments & pattern schematics) from 61,000 commercially produced patterns, dating back to 1847"

https://copa.apps.uri.edu/

The sky did sky things today

Why am I talking about hay rakes on a decentralized #opensocialweb network? This history is at play in some of the arguments we’re seeing about #Fediverse #atproto #activitypub right now

Whatever one thinks of Bluesky, *the* most innovative cultural and technical experimental space there right now is Blacksky; *and* it’s also the clearest example of decentralized possibility on the AT protocol. When people double down saying “AT isn’t decentralized”, they are denying that Blacksky exists. 4/

(CW antiBlack racism) 3/

Here’s Fouché describing what happened when an enslaved Black person invented a piece of agricultural equipment:

Rayvon Fouché’s research in history of technology reveals that Black inventors were largely excluded from “shop” cultures and “school” cultures where white Americans honed their technical skills through informal apprenticeship or formal education, then finding routes into scientific and industrial cultures where credentialed invention occurred. Even when they invented, though, they were often gatekept out of receiving credit for innovation. 2/

Yo computer touchers: there's a history of Black invention and ingenuity you may or may not know about, *and* a history of Black inventors' ingenuity being denied at a systemic level

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Man RFK Jr can fuck *right* off

Printable zines for how to report ICE, by state, city, county. Friend is sharing them in a media studies class tomorrow 🙂

(do not @ me about this being a google link, I know)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R3l0A9ZHspfPH1OoLi6VjQB1dg1e1mw7?usp=drive_link

#ICE #uspol #zines

@skinnylatte @seachanger

you like it now? or you reject it now?

A horror in its own right and more horror in the making: TB is spreading in ICE detention centers
https://prospect.org/health/2025-08-18-tuberculosis-spawning-in-crowded-dirty-ice-detention-centers/

#ICE #uspol

Saddling human companion animals with human problems (Norbert Schiller Collection, early 1900s)

#Asstodon #Militarism #AnimalStudies

I think I've said this before but in the relatively short time between when #asstodon took off (late 2022) and now, poking around for donkeys online has become a lot less fun because of AI slop. (I don't have access to IRL donkeys, sadly, so I'm always filtering my posts through existing artifacts and my own peculiar sensibilities. This suits me fine as a chronicler and interpreter more than creator, if that makes sense--but I could do without the AI garbage for several reasons.) +