"The boys laughed and, as the teacher removed one of them from the class, other students laughed. It wasn’t the note that stayed with my daughter. It was the laughter."

Aaron Rabinowitz writes about #tattoos, #signs, #identity, and #survival: https://longreads.com/2025/03/27/tattoos-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

In this new Longreads essay, Aaron Rabinowitz writes about survival, identity, and the inked and invisible scars that history leaves behind.

https://longreads.com/2025/03/27/tattoos-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Home from a long day of getting stabbed

“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”

Mother Jones has spoken w/friends, family members, & lawyers of 10 men sent to #ElSalvador by the #Trump admin based on allegations that they are members of the #Venezuelan organized crime group #TrenDeAragua. All of them say their relatives have #tattoos & believe that is why their loved ones were targeted.

#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #AbuseOfPower
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/

"Dry-erase ink is not similar to tattoo ink, but it is almost identical to ink from a permanent marker. And if you leave it on a surface for long enough, especially a porous surface, it will remain. The brain is a porous surface. Memory is a porous surface."

A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz: https://longreads.com/2025/03/27/tattoos-signs-history-antisemitism/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

Messed up & totally illegal

#MotherJones is reporting that one of the men “deported” to #ElSalvador’s #CECOT is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An #ICE agent told him they were questioning ALL MEN WITH #TATTOOS.

Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother w/ #autism.

#law #immigration #FreedomOfExpression #Constitution #AlienEnemiesAct #CivilRights
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/

We like amusing paramedic tattoos and this is a sweet one.

Source: Comment in the Combat Hemp Telegram channel - https://t.me/combat_hemp

Why are we DOING this. Why is El Salvador going along with this? What on earth can we do to a. free humans guilty as far as I can tell of having #tattoos b. How on earth do we get rid of a poisonous regime in favor cruelty, xenophobia, and Forever War. #humanrights
https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

It's been at the back of my mind for so long, but I finally took the plunge and got my first tattoo. One that encapsulates me so well. #IronMaiden #Eddie #UpTheIrons #Trans #TransPride #Tattoos #Tattoo #transrights #gettingInkdone #firstTattoo

https://narrativecuriosity.co/getting-ink-done-the-first-tattoo-was-a-long-time-coming/

like someone judgmental out of Milton

Are We Going to Leave the Reception or What
Lee Upton

#Poetry #LeeUpton #Reception #JohnMilton #TheNewYorker #Chompanzees #Tattoos #Goats

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/16/are-we-going-to-leave-the-reception-or-what-lee-upton-poem

My tattoo on mushrooms

It represents the two force equations from Maxwell's Equations of electromagnetism :
∇ ⨯ 𝐄 = – ∂𝐁 / ∂𝑡
∇ ⨯ 𝐁 = μ₀ ( 𝐉 + ε₀ ∂𝐄 / ∂𝑡 )
shown by electrons shooting through space with the electric and magnetic fields swirling around them (artist interpretation).

Tattoo by Calah Wright in Ottawa
#tattoos

Edit: my apologies to those using screen readers. Those equations don't read well. At best you get: "del cross E equals negative dee B over dee T", and "del cross B equals mu sub zero times open parentheses J plus epsilon sub zero times dee E over dee T close parentheses". It makes sense to engineers, physicists, and mathematicians.

An updated #Introduction for 2025:

I’m a mom, #cat whisperer, #maker, avid #reader, #gamer, and #dice goblin. I’m a #chemistry #professor and #education #researcher. I love #traveling, #cooking, #photography, #tattoos and #3Dprinting. Ich spreche und lese etwas Deutsch. I use #Mac and #Linux machines and bought a mechanical keyboard for my birthday. I love #DnD and my #SteamDeck. #Masotodon is my primary social media and I love it here.

I contain multitudes. So do you.

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