It’ll come on very serious looking letterhead! Don’t make the course bust out the bigger stamp, it’ll use anton of ink and be very scary.

About half of Oklahoma was recently returned. That’s still working it’s way through the various fallouts.

When we had flagpoles we had a pile of flags to fly. I’d get most of them on AliExpress for cheap.

Universities, states, cities, vikings, pirates, scifi, pride, peace, extinction rebellion, etc. I love flying something for larks more than anything else. Fly what you feel, it’s your flagpole.

He was regarded as an athletic and active teenager. And yet… His father’s personal doctor somehow decided bonespurs after he ran out of college deferments.

The rich don’t die in wars that poors are fighting for the rich.

It’s never really bugged them before.

Berlin would be 100% down if it wasn’t for the S-Bahns being DB unions.

Us too! High five! We’re still getting our sea legs, but it’s way nicer to live in a modern city instead of a US-designed one.

This is one of the reasons I left the US. The Conservatives hate independent thought and education. They have been fucking with my funding for 15 years now, so I went to a country that doesn’t do it. I’ll teach STEM students here, thank you very much.

It’s heading right to the early days of how to right the ship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_Court_Oath

They very much need to sell, it’s been true for a long time now. It need to include the ones at the top too.

Dig in, its rebuild time. If they have the guts to do the right thing, of course.

Does a UK passport allow you to live in other parts of the Commonwealth than just British Isles?

I’m sure there’s many more how to guides out there.

Big one is work, of course. Start applying now. If you score a contract for a long term job you’ll be in great shape.

If you can afford to job hunt for a bit, most people with degrees can get a ChanceKarte visa. That’ll let you move without a job and search/interview for a year, even work small jobs while you land a full time gig.

Start early on reaching visa processes. They’re not hard, just confusing in places.

Sweep up your important docs early. Get your work history documented, ideally any contracts you had for old jobs and letters of recommendation.

Patience matters. Immigration can be slow and opaque. Fortunately it’s not expensive for Germany, just paperwork heavy.

Engineering has a good chance for an English speaking job. Perseverance will make it happen if you want it.

We’re mostly monolingual in English too. Berlin is 30% first and second gen immigrants now. The lingua franca is English here. Not all jobs will let you be English only, but there’s some out there. Going shopping and stuff? You’ll be okay.

Learning the local language should be high on your list anywhere you move to, even if it’s another English dialect, eh?

Don’t worry, Maine’s senator will look grumpy and then vote yes, fucking over millions of people and destroying our healthcare system (even more). But Maine will re-elect their Senator anyway because… They love sending their best, I guess?

A great irony is that the photo from the article is of a bunch of non-starter homes. Those are all huge row houses. Where are the small homes?

We started applying after Jan 6th. Once there was no real response holding those leading a violent coup to overthrow the nation, it was time to go. It took years, but away we are.

The GOP has spent decades cancelling my grants and fucking with my career. The lastest round of cancellations this year is just a swansong and a final goodbye. Fuck em, I’ll teach engineers in Europe instead. Added bonuses: real healthcare, my kids won’t have huge student loan debt, the trains go everywhere, and the food is better.

The big news is that I took a placement course and it suggested I should be in the first level of a CEFR B1.1 course! Last fall I was going to be placed in a A2.2, so apparently something is sinking in.

I finished another manga book (VizBig style Ranma 1/2 #1) in German. It’s very interesting how the different authors of the different series would use vocabulary. Getting a more diverse set of words was great for the vocab.

I’m applying for a job that would start April 2027 and would require significant German language skills by then. The clock is ticking!

Gotta have my B1 by May 2027 for residency. I’ve got about 68 weeks until I qualify. Continuing the countdown.

Denmark doesn’t need to worry because both medical ships the US can deploy are still in dry dock. Unless Alabama itself is moving towards Greenland, the ship is just not showing up.

One of our local public transit advocates did nothing more than present at city council meetings. They ordered the security team to follow him everywhere in the building, to the bathroom, and his car.

Even basic challenges to the people in your government is all too often met with straight up oppression tactics. He got them to stop by going to the press with it. Nothing else worked except more public pressure.

So they’re admitting that it’s not a serious academic institution? Normally if you’re not an institution with academic freedom and a goal of addressing the real world as it is, you try to hide that so you can keep claiming to be more than a mouthpiece for the Christian Nationalists.

Go Texas! The One Star state.