It's budget season in NYC, and despite promises to commit .5% to NYC libraries, Mamdani has instead proposed cuts. The budget is now with the City Council, which will counter-propose--so it's time to contact your council member. @nycplan.org has all the info you need: nycplan.org Takes ~2 mins

Lotta folks who promised they were gonna hold @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s feet to the fire and yell at him when he’s wrong are be awwwfullyy quiet right now. Y’all lying about not putting political celebrity over people’s lives? Y’all too busy pretending he can do no wrong? Hold him accountable!

The karmic beauty and torment of Swanboy Dandolos is that he's what you deserve, which is why Rona gets a steadfast friend, Cassie an earnest yet low-pressure fuckboy, and for Noel, Juggalo Bugs Bunny

CEOs when the money-printing machine prints slightly less money:

American journalists in 2036

They just let anyone teach anything now

the airport really is the ultimate pressure point for senators, huh

Again, Democrats should run on investigating, prosecuting and convicting all this stuff. None of this "look forward to heal the nation" no "avoid the appearance of a partisan revenge spree". People are breaking laws and the next government needs to send a message that will be remembered.

how very different from Europe, ruled through monarchy for a mere twenty centuries, and certainly with no conception of any kind of 'divine right of kings,' multi-ethnic empires, conflicts between church and state, or any of these other histories that so burden the Orient

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are

Neat fact: This would likely make it appear as though people are breaking contracts. Like there is a lot of stuff that relies on extremely specific language - and even stuff like RELATIVE FONT SIZE can be tightly controlled - and this would trample all over that.

Citibike users have pedaled more than 650 million miles since the program's launch, replacing hundreds of millions of motor vehicle trips. Sounds like mass transport to me.

Sorry my post aren't as lighthearted lately. It's just that my country is run by an octagenarian pedophile cult, my taxes fund the ethnic cleansings, every dollar I spend supports something evil, and my representatives are barely capable of writing a strongly worded letter in opposition to all this.

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

Limitation drives ingenuity in design. Using the slop shortcut not only gets you an inferior version of your vision, it denies you the opportunity to learn and innovate by coming up with your own solution. It makes you a weaker creator, full stop. If you care about your craft, care about honing it.

It took four years of hate-filled propaganda for Slobodon Milosevic to convince people of committing atrocities. It took less time in Rwanda. Steady messaging that designates internal enemies should never be taken lightly.

television: “nobody would start a fight with Reacher, just look at him, this is so unrealistic” reality:

There were some strong contenders (complaining about ebikes, and cleaning streets for ICE), but my ultimate winner is "Schools are actually not indoctrinating children nearly enough and that's a significant part of how we got into this mess" commoninja.site/8571321f-a97...

Here's another photo of the year candidate from Getty contributor Megan Varner:

I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.

If I were a TSA agent not getting paid, and then I had to see these assholes show up and loaf around, I would simply [nod a cheery hello and go about my day]

anyone asking you to man up is showing their ass re: lack of convincing argument and is resorting to other means to coerce you

Watched the new Tom Scott on Nebula, and he's so back! Didn't realize how much I missed him.

Most seniors in Hong Kong do not own or drive a car, because they can get anywhere they want to with the city's robust public transport system at a taxpayer-subsidized cost of $0.26 per trip. My parents just take random day trips for fun. That is true freedom that American seniors will never have.

I do not understand why some people are so adamant in their refusal to understand that one very important difference between ICE and the Sturmabteilung is that the latter included one out of every six German men in 1934, and we outnumber the former 10,000 to 1.

How do Democrats not understand that defunding and dissolving this miserable group of homicidal turds is a winning platform?

3,300 passengers travel through LaGuardia every hour, every day, every year. 29 million total. Running that airport with a single ATC in charge of both sky and ground traffic is inexcusable and if the shortage is that bad then we need to shut some airports down

If I'm a Dem his name is not "Sean Duffy" it is "former Reality TV Star Sean Duffy"

The British state getting into bed with Palantir is just incredibly blackpilling, especially since it is being done by a Labour government who are composed of the exact sort of people that Palantir's owners and operators openly say they wish to drive from power forever! Inept self-loathing fools.

If the government doesn't need my religious affiliation on my passport it shouldn't need my gender, and if it doesn't need my weight at birth it doesn't need my reproductive type at birth, and if it doesn't need my appendectomy status it doesn't need to know my current genital configuration

really really funny that the american commentators still believe that negotiations to end the war are even possible atm. what part of "american diplomacy is now considered untrustworthy because they keep killing the people theyre supposed to negotiate with" is hard to get

My solution as mayor would be to burn down the data centers.

the same way eliminating car dealers, realtors and other parasitic right-wing industries needs to be a goal of the left for its own survival, eliminating chriorpactors, the supplements industry and other quack medicine needs to be on the agenda too

Perfect

Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.

every time some tech psycho giddily says unemployment could hit 30% soon I'm like ok man and then what. what happens after that usually. how about I give you fifteen minutes to skim wikipedia and then you can get back to me. its fine i'll wait

Sorry but "He's got six genders, insults to Jesus, only vegan food" could be a stanza from Come Together

The very special president picked a very special boy for a very special job. What do you expect congressional Dems to do? Vote against it?

They should rename the city to Mean

This is definitely a hot take and the sort of thing they love to speciously misinterpret in conversations about "toxic masculinity" but we'd be a lot better off if we could deal frankly with the fact that most men are taught that being actively stupid is an integral part of gender performance

Showed my roommate Into the Spider-Verse today. Perfect movie!

For the sake of the ill-informed, let's break down the myths and facts surrounding Mayor Zohran Mamdani's new bike enforcement policy.

One of the major problems we face is that people don't understand the things/processes/structures that allow them to live lives of plenty that would have been unimaginable in the past, and as such think we can just abolish them for basically aesthetic reasons

Air power bombs the fuck out of a much weaker but more motivated country, quickly runs out of military targets, pivots to threatening vital economic infrastructure in the hopes of exerting pressure. Instead engenders defiance. Same damn playbook every time.

Dems need to hold the line. The idea of ICE being put airports and cause harm to the entire air travel industry is so dangerous and stupid, but every place people have been forced to see the agency’s work up-close they realize it needs to be abolished. This is the domestic version of attacking Iran.

a semiconductor shortage caused a gummy bear shortage because they're made out of gelatin, which is in part of a byproduct of the leather industry that was in shutdown because nobody was manufacturing cars that needed semiconductors

Decades from now, when our children ask us why nobody can go into space any more, we can tell them that the richest people in the world filled low Earth orbit with lethal shrapnel, competing with each other to see who could spend the most money trying to create a computer that gave wrong answers.

The legacy of Mueller is that if you do diligent methodical careful work on a damning report, trusting to our institutions to do the right thing, damned liars will just tell damned lies about your work and the lies will stand, because institutions won't confront power and nobody does the reading.

The purpose of studying anything isn't the subject itself but to learn how to *think* like an expert about it. People outsourcing their thinking to genAI are not learning how to think, at all. Part of the cognitive atrophy that genAI immediately induces is no longer being able to understand this