caught up on uk politics over the past few months and now I have twice as many worms in my brain

tbh lots of ent brains got cooked once pandemic + social media suddenly exposed them to any dirtbag hobbit being able to call bullshit on their long-winded entmoot incrementalism/neutrality

so we've all been thru this huh lol

genuinely inspiring.

can you make money being +epsilon ahead of the curve on pop music? maybe kalshi is my plan C career path...

maybe it was all a dream 🤞

It's possible to derive joy from other people's joy.

It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press

Being against bike lanes is the number one red flag there’s deeper, darker views a person holds that we just don’t know about

the cars don't drive themselves and we're still nowhere near Mars, but you can't question Elon Musk's ability to deliver screwworms and racial violence

Everyone who says that you need to learn and use AI heavily right now to avoid being permanently left behind is telling you that they believe the future will feature profound and inescapable inequality and they’re okay with that.

got us again I’ll admit

i don't understand people who are weird about adolescent transition. don't you want children to be successful? like kim petras??

before or after “Diet Pepsi” dropped?

Hey, if you're a CA voter who hasn't returned your ballot, and you also want to pass the #BillionaireTax, then there is a great strategic voting opportunity here. If there are no R governor candidates on the ballot in November, then the sub-tabs of recent polling suggest the tax wins easily.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Honestly, I’m going to vote for the candidate that materially proves to me that they will secure trans rights. I don’t have the luxury of waiting for someone perfect or someone I relate to. I would like to be able to live. I would like my trans students and my trans sisters to live.

another grim election season in CA

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

my brother and i got in an argument with our dad about this recently. like he was shocked and angry to learn all our experiences since leaving for college have led us to adopt this worldview. and we had to be like sir you have not been on the job market since like 1999

yuh oh

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

have a blister preventing me from using my bike and it is literally ruining my life

many such cases

to be clear when i say "i rode my bike to the store" i am really saying "if you don't have a bike you shouldn't be allowed to vote or own property"

i for one fall somewhere in the middle of the spectrum between “it’s ableist to expect people to prepare food at home for themselves” and “eating out is a luxury that few if any of us deserve to rely on for sustenance”

i went to a casino for the first time recently and was disturbed by what happened to me in there psychologically

my mind immediately went to like flo rida or LMFAO but idk

Hell yeah a physicist wrote an essay about how all us philosophers are wrong about consciousness. This has never happened before. There is no track record of physicists and mathematicians showing their whole asses while trying to talk about this stuff. It's completely novel

extremely damning that nobody is talking about the new charli xcx on my feed, even on the other place

This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

you think AI is smart because you think you are smart, I think AI is dumb because I think I am dumb, we are not the same

i respect season 2 of the pitt for saying "ignoring your depression & trauma doesn't make you the sympathetic hero, it makes you a problem in the fucking workplace"

academia is a great field if you want to be insanely jealous of someone who fucking hates their job

good morning to everybody except the people who laid the foundation of our current hellscape by being smugly antiwoke during obama 2 / trump 1 i'll never forgive you

idk man I think someone’s gotta do it

genuine q have people who believe "things used to be made higher quality" (an opinion i am inclined towards myself) thought about this

Waymo is not the solution to the US traffic safety crisis Per-capita fatalities are a function of per-mile fatality rates by mode AND number of miles traveled on that mode Improving sa fety requires both increasing safety per-mile AND shifting trips to safer modes First some stats:

in case anyone here is an android tablet user & musician, my lil bro just released a sheet music library app! lecternmusic.com

you can just do things, but what will you do? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

It is really frustrating that this will be viewed as a win for liberals when it is honestly a win for conservatives (and a national embarrassment) that the Court granted cert to begin with.

bleak

I don’t love how every antisocial aspect of Twitter that gets replicated over here is then treated as a unique facet of Bluesky’s culture. Dogpiling is a Twitter thing and it’s still happening exponentially more on X than here

A student once emailed me to say they weren't sure they could justify staying in academia unless they knew they were providing a meaningful service. That email led to a workshop, a community and this post about why so many of us feel a malaise they can't name open.substack.com/pub/senykama...

this is not what therapy is btw www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

DIRECT ACTION GETS THE GOODS: Turns out there WAS room for more safety improvements at 4th and Channel St, as the community-installed curb extension has been officially replaced with a separated bike lane. This is a start, but we need MORE here and across the city.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.