November is now Black Friday, and that's just how it is.

A real bucket list doing this one

With yesterday’s word that Ford is likely to discontinue their popular, beloved electric F-150 (I own one), I’m about ready to conclude that the battle for the global auto market is over and China has won. The U.S. has dropped out of the race in favor of huffing glue.

After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live! No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.

wrote this in 2023 . terrifying to see all this come to light. when i started writing about this stuff, no one was covering. it was like seeing something happen beneath the ice. and now its all coming out. www.shanley.com/blog/venture...

Mamdani's victory speech was very evocative of Obama's DNC speech that launched his national political career. But I'm old enough to remember the pushback Obama got, that one speech didn't impose an overnight phase-change in the Dem establishment.

I like happy election nights.

Who is that last Minneapolis precinct???

Basically, less "well, I think some parents have some good points about trans students" and more "shut the fuck up about children's genitals, you creep."

Since Conde Nast is nerfing their political coverage by yeeting Teen Vogue's political desk the day before an election, here is a list of Conde Nast properties to reconsider your subscriptions. This includes Wired and Ars Technica. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3...

Minneapolis and New York City, all the good vibes today.

Top developers expect modern tooling and fast feedback loops. Your scarcity mindset makes them update their resume. The talent war isn't won by paying more—it's won by removing friction from the creative process. itrev.io/4ngWheX

While the big man on top has impunity to do whatever he wants, your impunity to do what you want in your fiefdom is 100% contingent on the impunity of those above you.

Hi guys!! I am going to be putting together some bundles from this dragon hoard to raise food bank money. A lot of them are rare and no longer available. 💕 I’ll take some bundle pics for the thread. Send me a food bank donation receipt of $25 or more and I’ll pack one off to you!

Indivisible and No Kings are pushing for this week to be a huge donation week for food pantries and other community aid organizations. What up, Carol Corps.

The tendency to focus on the one thing you can change as the ONLY THING THAT MATTERS is one of the core biases in human thinking. "You can only manage what you can measure." I see this all the time in software availability work.

Attempt #2 at apple butter this year. This time I’ve used the appropriate amount of sugar, so hopefully it will set up. This batch is also made with Honeycrisp, not Gala, because that’s what was on sale this week.

White House Ballroom is the new Inaugural Committee.

Even after my gender transition that removed evident threat I still give off *predator* vibes when I get the Mood. When that happens, 8. It used to be 9. My baseline is probably around 4.

Our range ecologist intern, Nicole Cournoyer, shares insights with a student. Tanka Fund’s mission has always been about creating opportunities for the next generation to reconnect w/traditional food systems & continue the work of restoration. For the land, people, & the Buffalo. #TankaFund #Native

The completely banal thing about that ballroom he's putting up? It's going to be the most slipshod structure you've ever seen kinda maybe pass inspection, but wow the lipstick on that pig.

ffs of COURSE Frey won’t sign on to this, whereas all three of his challengers have this story perfectly illustrates why people should rank Omar Fateh, DeWayne Davis, and Jazz Hampton in their preferred order and leave Frey off the ballot

The only problem indoor farming at scale will solve is feeding orbital habitats.

The Downtown East Side in Vancouver is hard to explain if you haven't been there. It's been very rough my whole life, but it's gotten much much worse in the last 10-20 years.

"This should be setting off alarm bells" It is, but I can't hear the new one in the cacophony. Flooding the zone in the point.

When finally writing something I created the outline of 20 yrs ago, I had to make so many allowances for changing tech & societal norms. Huge swaths & major plot points had to be restructured.

Heck, SF even 25 years old often misses the singularity-like impact of smartphones — which really makes the future seem off if it doesn't include network-connected pocket-computers in it.

I don't doze off, I calm TF down because that's what you do when there is potential blood on the ceiling. In my case it was all digital disaster response, but emotions are emotions no matter what the actual problem is.

Our Baume is off.

Vent hood is broken

Wayzata Blvd. It's not "Way Zata", that's the tourist way. The true way to say it is, "Why Zeta."

Good afternoon. Quaking Aspen www.dnr.state.mn.us/trees/quakin... doing the shimmy at Franz Jevne State Park, Minnesota The Great Northern Adventure #LandYacht #Trip10 Day 14

My most enduring social-circle got its start in dial-up BBSes before the Internet ate everything. I've been here the whole time.

I feel like we've moved from Rubicons Crossed Per Week to Rubicons Crossed Per Hour over the last six months.

The Insurrection Act came up a lot during the run-up to the LA guard call-out. They deliberately avoided using the Act because other legislation was less strictly written, thus easier to lean into the shape they needed. If judges stop other legislation from working, we might get an Act invocation.

Woke up from a dream in which we were having dual, interleaving Raptures. Gotta hand it to stressed logistics brain: scheduling one Rapture would be hard enough. Getting through two successfully is the mark of A+ project management.

The stock-market may not be in recession, but the job market sure is in one.

The 14th Amendment, where birthright citizenship is encoded, was the entire US saying "we fucking mean it: born here, citizen." Creating exceptions violates that original constitutional intent.

As a reminder, Trump can send The Troops to Portland about as effectively as he could send The Troops to Chicago, and we all saw what happened in Chicago. He has an easier time with Memphis because the Governor consented.

The whole "Hegseth gathers the top brass in one place" thing could either be "CEO calling all the directors in for an on-site because he wants to," which happens pretty often in corp-space, or it could be "swear a new oath to dear leader." Won't know until it happens.

I’m spending this week with my godmother, who is a 94 year old Holocaust refugee. She says “I didn’t escape Nazi Germany to deal with a country like this. The Nazis were scary, but at least you knew what to expect. This government is worse.”

meanwhile costco was all “DEI is good and we’re keeping it, fuck you” and they’re now basically printing money

Dad never played "tapes," it was NPR or the classical station. Mom played Traveling Willburys.

I worked with A LOT of people on H1B. This will massively disrupt lives. Many of those people have been in the US 10+ years, have houses, families, and citizen-kids — and will have to go from whence they came.

The people pointing out that "Antifa has no central structure or leadership, how are they going to target this order?" fails to understand how this administration works. Maximum ambiguity give the maximum room to maneuver.

It's the demand-forcing and stock buy-backs that tells you how well the tech industry is doing these days.

Perhaps, maybe, there are more swingable disaffected leftists than swingable soft Republicans.

To clarify why this is a five alarm fire, the clause allowing SecState to deny issuance to anyone supporting foreign terrorist organizations: this administration is definitely trying to list gender-advocacy orgs on the terrorism-supporting list. Support trans rights? No passport for you.

it feels delightfully american to come together to watch two marginalized men give each other brain damage as a funding source for a valley media empire, a vegas arena, and gamblers everywhere