Developer and linguist based in Chicago. PhD from Berkeley. I've also taught at McGill and UBC. I pretend to hate puns but I really don't
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Nico Baier retweeted
It’s truly wild how the only thing they are running on against Abdul is unvarnished racism.
Vance on El-Sayed: We have to understand what happens when our nation gives into these kinds of people with zero attachment to its land or to its history.
What we saw in France, the hatred, the ingratitude, the desire to destroy rather than a desire to build, that exact same cancer that has corrupted El-Sayed.
Nico Baier retweeted
The fact that JD Vance wrote an entire book about growing up in a neglectful, abusive Ohio home and chose to side with Vivek over someone with a similar experience is so telling about what a soulless, satanic wretch he is.
Asked Ohio Dem gov nominee Amy Acton today about this answer from President Trump.
"The facts are: I was removed from custody from my mom. She was not well. From even a very young age, my brother and I experienced a lot of abuse and neglect, even before my stepfather. But my stepfather was not a good person, and it got worse then. He was indicted in a grand jury. He was a fugitive, and they left together."
"I have not seen her since I was 12 years old in a courthouse. So this is a sad story."
Nico Baier retweeted
I bought this photograph online of a little girl from 1972 who was a member of my tribe (Ponca). She is named on the caption, and it may have probably been a media photo for a newspaper, but unfortunately, she died last year, so I am hoping to give it to one of her children
Nico Baier retweeted
"A birth certificate does not make you American."
One line encapsulates the crude, racist campaign these people are running against AES as well as the future they want, in which those in power get to decide who is American based on opinion and faith.
Nico Baier retweeted
Everyday, a prominent Republican - the president, a cabinet official, a primetime Fox host, the Michigan Senate candidate - says something insanely racist about Muslims or Arabs.
Meanwhile, my timeline is full of prominent Democrats and liberals getting mad about a random ad attacking Israel and screaming about antisemitism.
Crickets from them on the out-of-control Islamophobia from the GOP.
Nico Baier retweeted
This is how ethnic cleansing always starts. You have to delegitimize the ethnic minority's claims to equal rights.
Nico Baier retweeted
This scene, albeit badly, depicts the events of 13 Vendémiaire — when the massively outnumbered French National Guard under Bonaparte's command put down a violent assault by fanatical Royalists whose aim was to reinstate absolutist monarchy. The mob being fired on here is a right wing mob.
Nico Baier retweeted
In no other country in the world do you have a situation where parents who survived a school shooting telling their kids how to survive as they go through their own school shooting.
It does not have to be this way.
Mom who survived school shooting coaches son through Oregon attack: 'Please be as quiet as possible' trib.al/0dxoVCa
Nico Baier retweeted
it's actually very important to me that all o' y'all go see this movie
Laika made Coraline, ParaNorman, Kubo and the Two Strings, and more, all genuine human-crafted stop-motion art, straight outta Portland, OR
and this new movie is set here in Portland and has 100% on RT rn!
Laika’s ’WILDWOOD’ is early tracking to earn only $6M-$10M on its domestic opening weekend.
• Budget was of around $100M
• One of the lowest openings for an animated film in 2026
(Via: boxofficepro.com/long-range-…)
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new post: collecting favours
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a post on the idea of "reputation". tried writing it a few times as an abstract thing and I hated it, so instead I just wrote about my dad.
Feel like pi durable's gonna slap with @CloudflareDev artifacts
