We need cheap rent so idiosyncratic weirdos can make a living pursuing their passions.
We need cheap rent so idiosyncratic weirdos can make a living pursuing their passions.
Already known as "Rocket City". Their minor league baseball team is the Rocket City Trash Pandas. I have the t-shirt (raccoon in a garbage can rocket) Once again taking credit for something that already exists
“37% believe rabies vaccines could make their dog autistic.” Uh-huh. Even if that *were* a thing - which it’s not - if your dog bites someone and it doesn’t have proof of a rabies vaccine, it has to be tested. And that makes your dog DEAD. So vaccinate your dogs!
Tree won
Cities designed around people enable little girls like these two to play beautiful music on their violins as people walked and biked by.
We need child-safe traffic – not traffic-safe children.
I don't even have words for this sort of devilry
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
First, kids have to survive our violent streets brought on by bloated car culture and the vehicular arms race. Then, they have to survive not being gunned down in school since guns are a more protected class than the children themselves. All of this is preventable.
Occasionally I post an invitation for people with crowdfunding appeals to put them in the comments of a post, and guess what: This is that occasion! If you have (or know someone who has) a crowdfunding appeal, share it here. Everyone else, check them out and it feels right to you, give a little.
See you at Dragon Connnnnnnnnn
Whether the Lil Nas X arrest comes down to substance use or mental health crisis or both, it’s a good time to remember that cops are absolute shit at dealing with disability. 50% of excessive force deaths are disabled people, and that number is even higher when the intersection of race is involved.
I trust steak tartare from a food truck with no refrigerator in August more than Ghislaine Maxwell
No difference in your day to day if you're worth $30B vs $60B. But there's a big noticeable difference if there's 3% unemployment and anyone you treat like shit can tell you to fuck off and 10% unemployment and people desperately cling to their jobs even if it means being abused.
LLMs have a very narrow low-value use case at best and use a stupid amount of resources to achieve it. Definitely not
As a Cards fan, I was happy to see them get something for him. As a Braves fan, I hoped it wouldn't be as bad as I feared. It was worse
Searing, I'd rather be searing
Bluesky can still be accessed via Graysky for Mississippi users. Pass it on.
I lived there 23 years and wholeheartedly endorse
Everyone print out one of these.
The General Strike requires Trump supporters, your asshole racist family members, etc. Actual Americans. Not fantasy Americans. The actual ones.
these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...
You’d think so, but, sadly & predictably, you’d be wrong. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
AI writes code based on code that has been written before, but the code I need to write hasn't been written before
The fact that Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina are sending troops to occupy DC is all very neo-Confederate.
They're trying to convince everyone that building a Dyson Sphere around the solar system is more realistic than increasing the capital gains tax
I love this, it's so broken, an inconceivably small unit combined with an inconceivably large unit to produce a unit that is easily understood by itself yet has no practical significance and does not help you understand the scale of either of its components.
I'm beginning to think the solution to violent crime is banning conservatives from visiting cities.
A guy wore a Nazi shirt to a baseball game in DC.
ICE agents view themselves as an expressly political goon squad in service of an expressly political project. When Dems get into power they need to understand this and treat ICE like a political opposition group in need of reconstruction, because that's what it is.
"There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
You’ll never convince me that the median city experience is more dangerous than a suburban parking lot
She got her walkies
Asking for more walkies
I had almost forgotten about the time a bunch of circus elephants got loose in Newmarket, and the 911 audio is even funnier almost 20 years later
To be clear: They dig hassling + threatening law-abiding citizens. They dig stop-and-frisk searches. They dig overly hard takedowns. They dig the thought of cracking skulls. They dig ignoring rights and due process. They dig unchecked power to do all of the above.
Rule 76: Replace Signals with All-way Stops 1978: Philly replaced 462 signals with stop signs. Crashes ↓ 24% Severe injuries ↓ 62.5% Pedestrian injuries ↓ 68% At quiet intersections, stop signs are safer, cheaper & faster. Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...
Impressive dedication shown here. Over 300 ideas posted so far
Another oped about "crime rates" that never mentions "racism" or "poverty" and somehow manages to blame "defund the police" despite no defunding. We are witnessing a return of Jim Crow, yet it's still the left's fault.
100%. We know what it looks like when the media is trying to hound a public official (or a private citizen like Claudine Gay!) out of office and they do not do it for Trump or his cronies. bsky.app/profile/alwa...
I’m always amazed when well-meaning liberals learn I’ve taken adhd medicine for years and then ask me something like “In your opinion, do you think that stimulants really help your condition?” Like, I just told you that I’ve taken a prescription medicine for years. What answer are you expecting.
Critically important read--esp. for historians of the present.
We do actually need to pay attention to the distraction when death and punishment is the way they’re distracting.
Amazing how peak masculinity for a Republican is swearing that you’re too afraid to go outside
All these alpha males are the biggest bunch of babies who ever walked the face of the planet.
The thing about charging him with assault for throwing a sandwich is that it exposes the historic lie of “assaulting an officer.”
For those saying, "We're approaching martial law," no. We are not APPROACHING martial law. Martial law is when laws are enforced by the military. National Guard is a military, and they are now law enforcement in D.C. D.C. is officially under martial law. Full stop. It is a military police state.
Looking forward to the Smithsonian exhibits on killer wind turbines, heroes of the confederacy, and meticulous recreation of Studio 54.
👇🎯💯 We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025 If we do the Gerald Ford thing again, or the Rehabilitate Everyone Involved In Iran-Contra thing again, or the Bring Back The Adults Of The GWB WH Who Brought Us Katrina & Torture thing again, we’re doomed
Impression: good at boilerplate code very bad at everything else Most code isn't boilerplate. Net negative
Only used it for work, because surveys from management about usage made me feel like not at least trying would get me labeled a Luddite.
They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.
I know the stimulant med shortages happened before RFK Jr but I’m blaming him anyway
Rookie Pujols, "utility guy" sent me Well done
"my a.i. girlfriend--" buddy I'm gonna stop you right there
The whole Job search industrial complex is the most broken process and the rich don’t care bc they’ve never done it and all the poors are too exhausted from searching to band together to fix it so it will never get better send tweet
The conservative assertion that there is a crisis of masculinity in America is best understood as a confession
bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset
Revealing daily that our highest status news outlets and news personalities are gutter racists themselves.
CNBC recently ranked Indiana as the third best state in the country for "cost of doing business" and the third worst state in the country for "quality of life." It's almost as if those two things are related...
Truly the perfect companion piece to today's calendar page.
it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist
Glad to see someone who understands being annoyed by youths doesn't make those youths criminals
High-speed rail isn't a boondoggle. *Highways* are a boondoggle. North Americans pay thru the nose for the world's most expensive transport system. Highways are publicly funded. But people still buy their own vehicles—car ownership is $12,000/yr on average—for the privilege of driving on them...
It's fine if you don't like dense cities! Just leave us the fuck alone to build and live in them! Instead it's always this preference they insist on forcing on us as if its universal, even as prices for living in dense cities are sky high because of high demand bsky.app/profile/push...
A central tenet of the conservative movement is going on TV to tell the world you’re an giant baby.
One of the great drawbacks about American suburbia is that tons of people don't know how to distinguish between actual safety hazards and things that happen when you're around others in public.
Almost. A substantial number of USians are uncomfortable w/ the existence of autonomous Black people in public life period, followed closely by poor/unhoused people. Poor, unhoused Black people existing is criminalized up to the point of execution. Black Codes are resurging (they never went away).
So much about our current national situation is explained by the fact that a substantial proportion of Americans truly believe that “feeling somewhat uncomfortable” is the same as being the victim of an actual crime
seriously want people who have not been in DC in August to listen to people who have. This mobilization will wreck morale.
Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”
Hot take, people who hate cities shouldn’t be in charge of cities
For the folks suggesting I'm promoting science fiction works from this millennium because I want an extra sale or two 1. I assure you I am doing fine, thanks for your concern 2. Otherwise FUCK YES support currently living/working writers please and thank you, they need to eat and live in a house
THESE GRASS ALLERGIES WHOOPIN MY ASS ON MONDAY
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Also, everyone asserting that a particular book or author you loved as a kid "holds up": nice you think so, now let's go ask an actual kid from today
There just isn't a set of laws that will hold if the president, the majority in both houses of Congress, and six votes on the supreme court want the president to be a dictator
nobody has the perfect answer right now, but one of the greatest challenges (and opportunities) social housing organizers face is how to guarantee true universality and move away from means testing while prioritizing the people most in need of housing. more importantly, fuck Andrew Cuomo
We should defund private equity and REITs by building so much housing that their portfolios stop appreciating.
really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
I appreciate that dem leadership is, 10 years late, finally figuring out that they need to pursue gerrymandering themselves even if they want to maintain a platform that includes anti-gerrymandering measures. however, I do not think we can continue with a leadership that is always 10 years too late
“I love making women upset” is a really underestimated motivation of modern conservatism
The deeper problem - perhaps the fundamental problem in this area - is that we have organized housing so that provision of a basic service is completely intertwined with a speculative asset market. The long run goal should be to disentangle them.
Although I made it work for me as best I could, I still think the switch from pensions to 401ks was one of the worst things that ever happened to average employees.
Restrictive zoning, high housing costs, and the attendant homelessness crisis are a policy choice that we are free to stop making at any time.
For the millionth goddamn time: Trump's base is not working class and the degree to which even too many leftists have brought into this fascist propaganda should be a cause for shame.
"when conservatives say they want to protect women and children they mean as a resource, not as people" -a YouTube comment I just saw
This is very important: Many institutions like universities & corporations bending the knee to Trump aren't just otherwise independent organizations forced to comply. Rather, Trump's actions offer their management & owners an *opportunity* to do the Trumpist things they already wanted to do.
To be fair, they have to sell the dream. And the dream of all drivers is to not ever encounter other drivers.
lol @ the number of times people have proposed that white liberals are being manipulated by Fox News into being racist Y’all the thing only works on you if there’s racism to work with
People who throw trans people under the bus are dead to me, I don’t care
What will happen when Mamdani becomes mayor of course will be that crime will continue to fall (because it has for the 30 years except for the pandemic blip) but there will be some particular kind of crime that will go up (this is statistically certain) and media centrists will fixate on that.
My city would be a LOT better for people if decision-makers would just start using public transit themselves and stop being exclusively car users.
In the US, orthodox traffic engineering treats the safety of walking and the convenience of walking as opposing goods, then purports to make walking safer by making it less convenient. In fact, however, wherever walking is welcomed and convenient, it is also safer.
It’s been 2 months since it came out that a bunch of NYPD cops, including one of Adams’ bodyguards, helped torture that Italian guy for his crypto wallet.
How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn
anyway i was about to write something like, “you cannot live in a free society and also forbid people from living where they would like to live” but it occurs to me that many, many americans do not want to live in a free society