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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
Join the Rosemead Tenants Union Contingent! Go to the rosemeadtu.org site and sign up for the group, and you’ll eventually get some info.
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
Recently found photos about Boyle Heights and Arts District gentrification, and added them to this old post, also about the same topic.
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
This was a minor pain in the ass, and I’ll go into some detail about the problems I had. I’m complaining a lot in this post.
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Inventing Black and White
Original post on Nov 8, 2024 Inventing Black and White – Learn how Bacon’s Rebellion became a turning point for the way the laws of colonial Virginia distinguished people of different races. (Note that the two classes – poor vs. indentured/slaves – united, but it was to continue the expansion of the colonies into indigenous…
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Getting Off of Big Tech
Messaging Signal and Signal Groups johnk’s haha, a meme and humor group – https://signal.group/#CjQKICj66MMGy-SZzQAflDFLUvPTZex7Hih49TtaEjbq8_5lEhBpaXvFlKR2DFKDw-ph7Thn Signal – a messaging app similar to Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, Line, KakaoTalk. Nonprofit based in the US. Telegram – business based in Russia. Others Matrix / Element – similar to Slack or Discord, but not as smooth. Alternatives to Google…
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
The world was just too depressing for a while, so I didn’t have time to curate the stories I was reading. I just posted a bunch to my bluesky account, @johnkawakami. Instead, I messed around with this crossword puzzle tool. Other Ones Black Reconstruction Racism
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
I made this TikTok about Thomas Nast cartoons about white immigrant opposition to Chinese immigration, and part of it discussed the Draft Riots, which were part of the composition in a cartoon. user6041026417578 wrote: I made a long video, but it was boring and I wasn’t certain my interpretation was correct, so I am going…
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
How Japanese curry (kare) intersected with a right wing anti-Western, anti-imperialist movement.
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
This is a revised and updated repost of an older post about US support for Nazis during the 1930s. Now it’s a closely related post about the rise of the 1920s KKK. This post needs some rewriting, and more detail.
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
I don’t know if this is Homeland Security, but the video says it is. Is it ICE? This happened in Rosemead on Encintas and Mission up in the north side. The cops broke the surveillance camera before breaking in. (If the creator needs to reach me, my tiktok is @johnisveryboring.) My sentiments exactly. This is…
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WP-CLI: wp wc product update images
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Using Flatpaks, Doctrine ORM is Meta, Talking Union, and Indexing Free Blogs
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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MS Access: VBA CRC32 Function
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Marxist Feminism
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Audacity Recording Problems Choosing an Input Source on Linux Mint
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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AB715
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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IP Address Change, DNS, Icecast2, Ezstream
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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Protected: RIP Mark
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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Reporting Anti-Asian Racist Content to Meta
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February Links
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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1908 Anarchist Terrorist Plot by Japanese in America Against the Emperor of Japan!
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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I’m a Trollaholic
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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WordPress Admin Emails Not Getting Through to Gmail addresses, Docker Container Based WordPress with BusyBox
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Prompts to Discover an LLM’s Training about the Anti-Chinese Movement
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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)