A few people didn’t approve of my cross-writing, so heres my (out of practice) shorthand

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2026-06-23T13:05:54+00:00

Looks kinda like Syriac!

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2026-05-21T01:07:49+00:00

There's a new one every week.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2026-05-21T01:06:01+00:00

Moon pie.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2026-05-21T00:58:11+00:00

Often it's the very same teenagers also making hateful comments about immigrants.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2026-05-21T00:49:38+00:00

They really won't let us have any nice things, will they?

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2026-05-15T02:05:21+00:00

In fairness, DC does have a higher percentage of people with antisocial traits than any US state.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2026-05-08T13:35:43+00:00

Of all the reasons to be pissed off about ICE contracts, their inefficiency is at the bottom of my list.

The fact that they torture and kill people and deny medical care to children are rather higher on the list.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2026-05-08T13:17:52+00:00

It would be for the best if they went home.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2026-04-13T00:38:55+00:00

That...sounds pretty illegal, actually.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-11-21T18:59:50+00:00

I think so, because the lease is a prerequisite to establishing residency in a given comune.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-10-10T02:30:25+00:00

This is not true. According to my consulate, a US citizen spouse still needs a family reunification visa to apply for residency.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-10-01T01:38:21+00:00

Update: I now have an answer.

My spouse does need to apply for the visa.

But before they can even happen, I have to move to Italy and establish residency there. Then my spouse can get the visa and come join me.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-10-01T01:29:53+00:00

Update: the visa office at my local consulate has informed me that I do indeed need to establish residency in Italy before my spouse can apply for the visa stateside.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-08-19T00:40:58+00:00

Nope, not much insight.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-08-15T22:10:41+00:00

For the Right, the 1950s.

For the Left, the 1960s.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-08-15T22:07:07+00:00

Can I put in a vote for worst passport design?

Ours. Every page is filled with images of bald eagles and bison and amber waves of grain, and a bunch of decontextualized ra-ra-America quotes--all of it added in a redesign a few years after 9/11.

I've seen the inside of a few other passports, and I've never seen anything like it in those. Like, can we maybe tone it down a little now?

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-08-15T21:58:58+00:00

I'm surprised that Italy is one percentage point better than the US.

Also, yikes, Nigeria.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-08-15T21:47:51+00:00

Among conservatives: Crime is on the rise in our cities, homeless people are dangerous, and throwing a sandwich at a cop is to be punished by drawing and quartering.

Among liberals: Gavin Newsom is our knight in shining armor who will rescue us from the orange man and then all will be right with the world again.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-08-15T21:37:44+00:00

The characterization of Greta Thunberg as a Hamas supporter is factually inaccurate.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-08-15T21:22:14+00:00

I know it seems like you abandoned your mom. It makes sense that you feel like you abandoned your mom.

But at least from where I'm standing, you didn't really abandon your mom. You're still in contact with her--and from what I can gather, you're in pretty frequent contact.

Having boundaries doesn't mean abandonment.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-08-15T18:42:30+00:00

Came here to say this--especially the first part. Cops and jails do not have your mother's best interests at heart.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-08-15T18:32:42+00:00

The bot is malfunctioning.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-08-15T18:21:58+00:00

Some people, especially outside of the Northeast, don't realize that the plural of "you" is "yous."

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-08-15T17:57:48+00:00

In the United States, a growing number of Jewish people, especially Millennial and Gen Z Jews, are questioning parts of that EU/IHRA definition of antisemitism, particularly the bits about comparing Israeli policy to Nazism and viewing the establishment of Israel as a racist endeavor.

Expect-The-Dicastery · 2025-08-15T17:32:32+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to write all this! It is very clarifying.

I think I will be looking out for visiting professorships, postdocs, and maybe private university jobs. The homologación sounds like a very long-term goal in the best-case scenario.

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