Dad, immigrant rights advocate, lawyer, DC resident, joggerhttps://bsky.app/profile/ajgenz.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ajgenz.bsky.social/post/3muzgsibygk2bOne way to see how awful slavery was is to recall that life in the early 1800s was grim and yet even then slavery was uniquely & unspeakably abhorrent. It was shorthand for the worst possible treatment imaginable *by enslavers themselves*, even as they justified/defended the Peculiar institution. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Sep 2026 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:yn7mhdm2c2h7qi645mdcczdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzgsibygk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/ajgenz.bsky.social/post/3murdlhwgqk2sFun/interesting thread on two things that I knew little about [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:yn7mhdm2c2h7qi645mdcczdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3murdlhwgqk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/ajgenz.bsky.social/post/3murchosdg22sWhen I worked in a closed restaurant kitchen, our boss explicitly said that the less the customers saw of us the better. He wasn’t wrong. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:yn7mhdm2c2h7qi645mdcczdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3murchosdg22shttps://bsky.app/profile/ajgenz.bsky.social/post/3mukhx7lmqs2wTime for Apple Maps and Google to issue another update [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:yn7mhdm2c2h7qi645mdcczdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukhx7lmqs2w