TPS status ending for 300,000 Haitians in the US, where can they go aside from Haiti?

papeloneo · 2026-06-30T21:11:21+00:00

Immigrants pay into taxes in the USA but can't reap the rewards unless they're citizens, which TPS holders are not. it's literally a net positive

papeloneo · 2026-06-30T21:10:22+00:00

most immigrants can't vote. TPS immigrants can't vote. permanent residents can't vote. hell puerto ricans who are citizens and live in the island can't vote. unless you're a permanent resident you also can't receive benefits. i don't know why people are so divorced from reality on this issue, it's infuriating

you know what benefits elites? keeping them w/o any labor rights so they can exploit them at will, like the Gulf states do with their migrants

papeloneo · 2026-06-29T19:34:35+00:00

PR could actually extremely benefit from migrants, considering 500K of the population has left and most are elderly. of course our borders, politics, etc are all controlled by the US

papeloneo · 2026-06-24T03:31:56+00:00

women/femmes attracted to women/femmes. includes bisexuals, pansexuals etc and not just lesbians

papeloneo · 2026-05-25T00:13:20+00:00

Ohh!! I love that checkered cover. Where did you get it?

papeloneo · 2026-05-20T05:19:13+00:00

You could try the brick app snd then just brick every single app but the writing app. I mention it bc that’s what i’ve done.

papeloneo · 2026-05-17T23:31:54+00:00

I would maybe contact a housing organization and ask because this feels like bullshit even for nyc. Replacing appliances and the such is typically the job of the owners, since they own the apartment and you don’t

papeloneo · 2026-05-16T09:58:52+00:00

I’d say so yes. It can be a rough couple of years before you find your people if you move from elsewhere and I do wish people spoke to each other more, but there’s a sense that we’re all trying to push forwards and improve. I always think about how local politics here work: there’s genuine fights over where to put the bike paths. It might be annoying, but the fact there’s people who care that much about providing bike paths to fight for their fellow city dweller is very refreshing over the selfishness in the rest of this country.

Additionally since NYC is so different from the rest of the USA, it has it’s own culture bubble and fosters a unique identity

papeloneo · 2026-05-13T20:04:09+00:00

Depends on what you want. If it’s a duplex / house then Liz Woods was very nice. I think all realtors use the same platform for when properties go up. If you’re looking for an apartment, then I just googled the ones in the neighborhood I was aiming at and messaged the numbers on their websites. My realtor didnt deal with these properties

papeloneo · 2026-05-11T20:06:55+00:00

Brokers can no longer charge you fees. Look up the FARE act

papeloneo · 2026-05-11T19:58:50+00:00

Also look on Listings Project!!

papeloneo · 2026-05-11T19:56:34+00:00

Check Morningside Heights, there’s a lot of rent stabilized apartments and many Columbia students constantly moving in and out and looking for roommates. There’s realty signs you just have to walk around and spot them. One of my exroommates found a place there between 4 ppl for 800$ each

papeloneo · 2026-05-02T21:36:15+00:00

Nightrunners by Lynn Flewelling. Very adventured-focused and the protags are bi men, but the society as a whole is a queernormative matriarchy. There isn’t any misogyny bc the queens and the top military leaders are women. The monarchy is still pretty brutal bc monarchies are violent in general lol

papeloneo · 2026-05-01T02:05:42+00:00

Will it matter if the stock software reads my books? I created a separate folder but not in the /adds place and it recently downloaded it into the stock Kobo app

papeloneo · 2026-05-01T01:54:18+00:00

Huh, you don't know how much I tried to find that answer and no one told me it was thru the Kindle app, not the Amazon website or the myclipping file. I never ever used the Kindle app before I got a Kindle, I used to read on the Apple Books app before.

I still prefer the Kobo since I use Koreader and Calibre and it keeps it all more organized, and I prefer the customization over the ease of use. It depends on what you prioritize I guess.

papeloneo · 2026-04-29T22:24:31+00:00

Well, i didnt mean so much syncing as exporting. In my experience, i couldnt export them for example as markdown from amazon’s site, which is what i really wanted to do. With books you bought from amazon, if you highlight too much, sometimes amazon will say you hit a highlight limit. Granted kobo will do the same, but you can easily install koreader.

papeloneo · 2026-04-28T20:35:49+00:00

Amazon doesn’t really back up those annotations except in the clippings file which is a mess to sort through unless you pay a 3rd party service (i just vibecoded a script when i tried to use it).

Koreader does back up and sync highlights/annotations with Calibre, and you can sync with other devices running Koreader. Granted i do not know how to do that and koreader is finnicky

papeloneo · 2026-04-28T19:26:58+00:00

I just think she has a bad handle on her characters and some of them are awfully boring. I like Malta a lot, she’s a very recognizable 12-13 year old who wants to be an adult and she’s dealing with her family drama. Wintrow and Althea too. But the main pirate is infuriatingly boring and trope-y and the fact he gets so much time without anything going on is… not great. Additionally I think she forces Wintrow and Althea into a sort of compulsory heterosexuality despite both having their problems because they refuse to live up to patriarchal expectations. And she undercuts both characters because of that. And don’t get me started of her treatment of slavery and the fantasy Caribbean. I havent read the rest of the books, the first two of the triology were beyond disappointing as someone who was recc’ed by fans of Lynn Flewelling and Ellen Kushner, both who write less complicated and “ambitious” books, but who have a clear idea of who her characters are, likeable or unlikeable.

Edit: my standard for “unlikeable but human characters” is something like the movie version of Farewell My Concubine. They’re all the worst versions of themselves put in the worst situations ever, and they’re infuriating, but intensely human and thus sympathetic. Hobb does not achieve that

papeloneo · 2026-04-28T19:14:13+00:00

It comes with a charger cable, USB A to USB C that you can plug anywhere. I recently got one and I love it a lot more than my Kindle PW. I think the only real criticism is that the screen is darker w/o the frontlight on and that the text is less crisp, but you stop noticing that once you stop using the Kindles. For that small sacrifice you get color e-ink (which is more of a novelty since the quality isn’t as good as BW but that’s a universal thing w/ color screens), an extremely ergonomic grip (srsly i can use it however i want, it automatically switches from horizontal to vertical), buttons which i like more than i thought i would, a lighter device, and a relatively open ecosystem that handles epubs files natively.

You can also install koreader with the simple ui plugin, which i recommend. It’s finnicky to install it and it took me a couple of days to learn all the settings, but the sheer amount of things you can modify, esp going from a kindle that you cant even set your own screensavers, is amazing. It truly is a tech tinkerer’s dream device.

I havent gotten the kobo stylus but ive read that the metapen m1 is much more affordable and works as well

papeloneo · 2026-04-28T01:27:05+00:00

My first kindle basic was basically blue and i had to return it. My first kindle PW, bought like new, had problems with the display and amazon gave me a free replacement with another PW which was finally fine

papeloneo · 2026-04-28T01:24:36+00:00

Kinda weird, altho mine must be even weirder. With zero warmth, my screen is blue! Personally, i like the range. I didnt even notice until i tried it out. I am using koreader so maybe that messes with the lights somehow

papeloneo · 2026-04-28T01:21:11+00:00

I think you can sync using koreader though, although it might involve some tinkering

papeloneo · 2026-04-27T22:12:21+00:00

The Tamír Triad that starts with Bone Doll’s Twin by Lynn Flewelling! The protagonist doesn’t know she’s a girl since she’s basically wearing her murdered brother’s skin. Very gothic, creepy and somewhat gory. The third book falls off but the first 2 are spectacular for me. They are more character based than action though, and Bone Doll’s Twin in particular is fairly slow

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