The Kurt Vonnegut envelope story, but for walking a roll of tape to a friend on Christmas Eve

Something you can say for Bluesky is that no other website is cranking out Muppet Christmas Carol Tiny Tim jokes like this place

I *KNOW* some of you followers of mine still actively post on Twitter/X. What the fuck is it finally gonna take for you to realize you need to leave there?

Call me Geralt because wind's howling

They're going to kill someone in the next blackout

I blacked out at 6-3 and had to read this twice

keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is

They're gonna have to rename it the Moose Center

The US government has deported a US citizen with a Maryland birth certificate they claim is fake. This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.

Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges

I take back anything I said about the Richmond getting power back before civic center, sorry friends

I take back anything I said about the Richmond getting power back before civic center, sorry friends

The PR push around “we’re taking the power outage in the Richmond very seriously” lowkey icks me out for how much it de-centred the rest of the city. Thousands of people in Civic Center have no power OR water w/ yet another quiet delay, and narry a peep from Mr Vertical Video.

Supes Melgar and Chen are actively undermining SFMTA's credibility by delaying this project at the 11th hour. These red lanes were approved TWO YEARS AGO. Merchants with the temerity to claim that mailers, flyers, and literal door knocking missed them should be shown the door.

Henry Cuellar sure seems obsessed with kids' genitals

"Many motorists balked, saying that the hours extended past what could reasonably be considered rush hour, and that as a result, the HOV lanes would sit empty while the adjacent general-purpose traffic lanes remained packed." Just, sit with that logic for a second.

"Using AI and machine learning, we are pre-positioning crews to be in the correct locations to help restore power swiftly and safely in case of any outages that may occur from these storms" PG&E Possible explanation for why it is taking so/too long in SF. Anyway, Monday 2 pm estimated completion.

Oh my God

Oh the mayor is talking to businesses and has a small business plan, cool, great, glad that's squared away

I stopped into the Richmond police station to ask if they could direct traffic on Balboa, where I almost got murdered by a driver blasting the (still) out light. "We can't dispatch from the station, but I can give you our non-emergency line"

So these things ended up just sitting dark at intersections, double parked for hours. They should be banned outright from operating in California for this.

Has anyone seen a single SFPD officer or SFMTA employee directing traffic in the blackout? Literally a single one?

Unfortunately that bedroom with a view of Michigan Stadium tracks

the ADA was probably the last piece of great bipartisan American legislation on civil rights, and it's fiercely under attack from a deeply ableist administration. But it's a great achievement!

Funny how those exact same outer Richmond voters had no such qualms about making us vote *four times in three years* on a road nowhere near them. They can eat shit and die mad about it for once in their miserable lives.

also deprives all of us of the ability to plan an actual future park I'd far rather be spending my 2026 getting cool new stuff for Sunset Dunes than marshaling the tens of thousands of person-hours it will take to relitigate the existence of the park for the third time please, I am very tired.

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

If you don't live in D4, you can call the Mayor, he has been pushing to end the park since before his election and has been pressuring his puppet supe to come out against it. Tell him you know this is coming from him. www.sf.gov/departments-...

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Av3tar: James Cameron is here to fight whales and have problematic understandings of native Americans and he is rapidly running out of whales

Decided to get a nice bike ride in before the upcoming rain so Atlas and I showed the kittens how beautiful Sunset Dunes Park is.

Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow chicagoshovels.org

this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)

The follow up? Ken Houston isn't sorry. And accuses anti-Flock speakers of being from Portland? Despite us all saying which district we live in before we spoke. www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

David Brooks doing his damnedest to keep U Chicago in the running for worst alumni

New Bonus Army just dropped

"Convincing the vending machine it's in a 1962 University of Moscow basement so it gives away free snacks" is the most WSJ reporter thing I can imagine

If I had a nickel for every time someone I've worked with was in a viral video for out of pocket behavior, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice

I asked @aoc.bsky.social about why she posted this tweet, and she said “because JD Vance is a goober, man.”

Extremely pleased to say not only have I finished buying, wrapping, and shipping all of my Christmas more than a week out, I did it all by shopping locally at small businesses (with a small assist from Safeway and Walgreens)

There are a thousand things competing for your attention at every level, but: surveillance tech has captured every level of government, to the point that local electeds feel safe doing THIS to the enraged public. It is an emergency that will hurt all of us

"everyone is 12 now" theory stays undefeated

BULLYING WORKS

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

*whispers* getting frothing mad at individuals' responses to systemic problems is how the capitalists win

You know what stamps dot com for not disclosing that you've a monthly fee I will just stand in line for my government services like a true patriot