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There is no debate to have about abortion in 2022. It is an inalienable right for women won after many, many deaths and huge debates, data points, etc.

There is no debate to have about abortion anymore, ever again. It is just a useful tool for half the planet. If you’re part of that half, you probably want that tool to be available. If you’re not, STFU.

Bodily autonomy doesn’t have to be in the damn Constitution because it is an inalienable, human right. It precedes being American. It precedes your political stance and your religious views. Bodily autonomy just is. Therefore,

Who the fuck cares if you call abortion a “Constitutional right” or a “law”? Call it a “fundamental right for women” because that’s what it is. And let it go. Focus on building healthy housing instead, damn. We fail on a straightforward, social no-brainer while playing with Angstroms in tech. That’s so crazy.

I’m pretty angry right now.

It sends me back to someone at the EU parliament saying something like “no one over 60 should be making decisions for societies because they’re not the future.” Still relevant. There’s a bitterness coming in in your 60s apparently, and those folks unleash it on all of us.

It’s still sinking.

*DJ Air Horn sounds x3 *

Over a decade of immigration and life fluttering in my mind.

Right before the ceremony they punch holes in the green card, making it invalid, and keep it. I internally gasped. Oh, it’s realreal now. So absolutely used to having it on me at all times like the law requires it.

Still reading this amazing book, understanding immigration personal processes much better now. I lived it.

It humbles you. It makes you realize a lot of things. The main one being that so many things are relative.

It makes you ponder like a maniac, about everything. I am now at peace.

Relatively.

There was so much love poured into this piece of paper I’m holding up here. In so many ways.

I have an amazing community around me here and things are aligning well.

And I know, welcome 2 overturned Roe vs. Wade hell.

Still thankful and happily exhausted. Onward. Lots going on. Lot to fight for.

Me: NO IT’S NOT

(something needs to happen I mean WTF)

On June 22nd sometime in the past, I was born in Paris and given the name Harold.

On June 22nd today, I officially became a US citizen in Los Angeles. 22/22.

While waiting in line for security, it started raining. It hasn’t rained in LA in months and the heavy humidity in the air felt like a perfectly rendered Parisian summer.

It’s amazing, weight lifting off my shoulders. I feel free, ready. Next plateau, let’s GOOOO.

It’s fucking emotional right now.

Why Phoenix Suns star Deandre Ayton can’t live without video games.

Bro, everyone online jokes that you look 53 while you’re actually 23. It’s because you don’t sleep. Go to sleep, regenerate your cells. Focus on your main job. All that energy spent on trash talking online? Keep it. Channel it.

And then go win a title with the Spurs. I’m just sayin’!

I was looking at Pixar movies because I haven’t watched one in a million years.

I saw The Incredible 2 and didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. But it’s just me, right?

Well, looking at the box office, it seems like Pixar is doing terribly these days:

First four Pixar movies cost $355M and brought in…$1.8B.

Last four Pixar movies cost  $700M and brought in…$364M.

That’s pretty much horrendous. Disney could close Pixar really quickly at this pace.

Things are super fragile in creative productions. It’s all about projects and teams. Money is important but it’s not everything.

Pixar has had issues with its management and parent company Disney for over a decade, for what I see online. So it’s not a surprise that movies are impacted. And yes, competition from Netflix to Fortnite.

This CGI animation, visual effects West coast world—ILM were so big in my teenage mind. I hope they can turn it around.

3D animation is the most liberating medium ever made.

Well, I don’t think she would get sponsored by anyone.

Nice, unique fit though.

It’s Pride month.

Skateboarding has always been one of the most open culture out there yet, we still can do better.

I was reading a thread on queer skateboarding rising up the last few years. Folks writing and being like “bro, it was SO hard to skate in the 80s/90/00s and being LGBTQ+ like, it was impossible to be myself AND love skateboarding.”

It’s always powerful and educational to read about someone in pain with something you take for granted.

Skateboarding is a culture that still struggles so much to include women. We need more effort.

So there’s There Skateboards and they have released a great full-length video this year:

Gathering people around something they love while simply using the space around you? That’s beautiful and peak humanity, in a way.

If you want to read more about non-traditional skateboarding stories, check out Quell Magazine’s archives (and hopefully they get back on publishing soon).

And go. Skate. No. Matter. What.

I’ll say this about IE11: it was the best web reading experience I’ve ever had. All that was needed is Ublock Origin. Everything else was just fine. Heavy on privacy –no JS-, excellent rendering. Bliss.

IE innovated a lot at first (even I didn’t know it was that much). It’s interesting how those facts hurt the narrative that MS is bad, as if you couldn’t possibly be “bad” while making good products, which happens all the time in many fields.

The problem now, is that we have one single browser engine controlled by one single company.

Good job, everyone. We just achieved what we didn’t want to happen. Sigh.

“Nothing is intolerable until an alternative exists, if only as a dream. When Maryam, pregnant with Omar, had fled the Soviets, the limits of her horizon were Pakistan and Iran. Now her children were linked to a diaspora that stretched from Long Island to Melbourne, and the screens in their pockets brought them images of how life could be elsewhere.”

The Naked Don’t Fear The Water by Matthieu Aikins

Super intense and eye-opening book. Read it, and acquire perspective.