idk I’m sure it’s gonna be fine

Shit is pretty bleak right now. We need a new kind of cheese

See, the thing people don't understand is that what made the subprime mortgage crisis bad was that the securities were TOO valuable

[chanting threateningly]: Pitt, Pitt, Pitt, Pitt

Like once a day I ask myself what small part I can play in fixing any of this shit as a guy who otherwise has to go to work and pay rent and so forth. Maddening!

👏🏼The Choctaw Nation has purchased a warehouse in Oklahoma that ICE was trying to buy and use as a detention center. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/choctaw-na...

SPRING SPRANG

ME: there aren't even three hours left to take advantage of this sale and get 25% off you preorder of Elon Take The Wheel CHOTINER: based on the urgency of this pitch, the book must be out soon ME: it's... forthcoming CHOTINER: would you like to narrow that down? ME: *mumbling* December 1

they should put cowcatchers on muni specifically for waymo obstructions

i love the sportsballesque rules for process servers. I love the comments yelling, “he touched it!”

no notes

now you know I’m gonna read this next (currently reading Sarah Weinman for FH on being a Grand Juror)

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I'm running on fumes like everyone else, but one of the ways I'm trying to build in-person community is via meetups (some free, some not) in Chicago for nerdy Black folk. Truly a "I needed this so I'm making it," situation. If that's relevant to your interests: @melanatedfederated.blacksky.app

heavy handed metaphor alert: sinkhole on the national mall

baby beaver time

Yelamu <3

this probably IS the only condition that could force attrition amongst the 11ty dem candidates

of late, when I log off and go outside —and it’s partly where I live and our current weather—but I think: I would be content to live in the Richard Scarry adult world that was dangled before me. Critters living their busy little lives in collaboration. Not chasing spiritual emptiness over a cliff

i do be wondering that

once again, I say: listen to “Cop Family Survivor” Lisa whenever she pops off lol

Right. If open internet == land minds for developing brains maybe we change that??

love sending “IOC back on its bullshit” text to the homie who did a whole project on Castor Semenya for her women’s studies degree jk jk i fucking hate it

Today Belfast lost a giant of activism, Naomi Connor. Our solidarity and love to her family, friends and everyone who has been lucky enough to have had her in their lives. Naomi was friend and inspiration to End Deportations Belfast and so many other groups fighting for a better world. [1/2]

it’s real Relate to a Meme hrs

A business colleague mentioned Spring in email unprompted so I know y’all are feeling good

HBD to ya boy @beforemoonlight.bsky.social

boosting/pls pass it on. I’m sure I’m connected to some whistlers not already working w Bree and Courtney

thank you Tyler, I’m now wondering why all covers aren’t absolute garbage given the forces at play!

Happy polio vaccine announcement anniversary. "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" remains one of the hardest remarks of all time. Kind of quote every child should be taught

I recently learned that a lot of people don't know that the Environmental Working Group, the people that put out this list every year, is an anti-scientific scam organization in the pocket of MAHA types. Do not trust them, ever. Not about food, not about skincare, not about anything "toxic".

Born in Blackness www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

It's amazing that *multiple* dems spent this week looking at the absolute fucking dumpster fire of the US and went "you know what'll be a big hit with the voters? Homophobia. My McKinsey consultant sent me some great homophobic jokes his chatbot gave him, only cost $500,000"

Castor Semenya: "I have carried this weight. So have other women of colour who deserved better from sport. Reintroducing genetic screening is not progress — it is walking backwards. Women’s sport does not need this. It needs to be abuse-free... This is just exclusion with a new name."

real clustering of: - music heads - dino heads - historic sleuths

I travel back in time to 4 days ago to a village in Cyprus where a guy stole a cop car from a cop and the cop stole a civilian car to chase the cop car and did a Reverse Police Chase

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

This coulda been an email

A woman in Georgia has been arrested for *murder* after allegedly taking abortion pills. Here's everything you need to know—including police lies to watch out for, media missteps, and how you can help jessica.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...

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you could check Apple TV home page multiple x a week and still not know what shows they got going on

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DID A ME CAST THIS???? INCOHERENT YELLING

we queer goblin HR fans rebuke these losers getting homophobic on threads

this will never be a problem for me 😌

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Zimbabwe🇿🇼,which enjoys close relations with Russia🇷🇺,says 15 of its citizens have been killed after being recruited into the war between Russia and Ukraine, as authorities warn of fraudulent schemes to lure recruits from several other African countries into the four-year-old war. Source: @apnews.com

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

that MIGA inflection was a little wild but pretty much a banger? is this what the Lego movies are like??