mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06IT is my work, but language and culture are my passions. Frequent crosser between San Diego and Tijuana. Hobbies include video gaming, history, linguistics, collecting books, and running. Spent time growing up in Maryland, and in Hesse (Germany). Straight but not narrow. I have a sweet blue Jetta named Maja.
#tijuana #sandiego #german #germany #spanish #espanol #deutsch #polyglot #running
Eliot and Charlie are enjoying a quiet #Caturday morning. #catsofmastodon
#Caturday is for taking naps.
(Not sure how that’s different than other days, but that’s what Charlie and Eliot tell me.)
Something must have been pretty tasty.
Charlie and Elliot are having a quiet lazy morning after breakfast.
Charlie was so excited to get a midweek visit from me! Normally I only see him on weekends.
#catsofmastodon
All the furor over Virginia's redistricting vote reminds me yet again that the reason "gerrymandering" is possible, is the Federal law requiring Representatives to be elected in single-member districts. There is no *Constitutional* requirement for this. Except for that federal law, states would be free to instead have *proportional* representation, which would better reflect the diversity of their populations. (Germany, for example, has had proportional representation for a long time.)