If you are an architect, developer, or contractor who works on high-rise buildings in the US and has some very vague familiarity with the costs and complexity of high-rise systems (fire command centers, stair pressurization, generators, etc.), could you email me? [email protected]

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

And that’s deliberately not mentioning Los Banos, Chico, Madera, Vacaville, and Manteca. (And Las Pulgas, out over in rich people land on the peninsula.)

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Can’t believe someone was singing in Spanish in Santa Clara, California, where San Francisco’s football team plays. Going to have to talk to my old high school and college friends from San Rafael, San Anselmo, Tiburon, Corte Madera, Novato, Sausalito, Alameda, El Cerrito, and Santa Rosa about this.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-bad-bunny/

Frequently these days I am grateful for my recent MMR booster, a relatively recent TDAP, and that I got the full MPOX sequence.

THIS. They’re in the South Metro now, hitting Carver County & Minneapolis suburbs HARD. NOTHING HAS CHANGED. They’re detaining observers because ICE & CBP believe the real problem is people filming them, not that ICE & CBP is committing domestic terror. Less footage = less national news coverage.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

America: where the alignments of $100B transportation projects are chosen based on whether a chain store would have to be relocated.

Just a nice habitat photo by @thebirdherder.bsky.social 🪶

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

There were 89,000 polling places in 2022. 8 states have all-mail elections. At least 5,000,000 Americans marched in the October No Kings demonstrations. They have 15,000 guys. They couldn't "surround the polls" if they wanted to.

Hi all! There will be two windows to share your story in the form of written testimony to support the Maryland Long Covid Innovation bill. The first is: This Friday 2/6 from 8am-3pm To make it easier, @viralpersistence.bsky.social and I have written up a how-to: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

I went to get my elbow xrayed, after a month of off an on pain that doesn't seem to get better for long. Got out of the elevator and turned left towards the imaging office and was confronted with the profile banner photo of a friend who passed away in 2024.

“Why are men afraid of women?” “If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,” Ged said. “Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.” “Are they ever taught to trust themselves?” Ged asked “No,” she said.

ICE being extremely professional

For people with tech background concerned about the Clipper 2 upgrade/migration, check out the Cubic slides being presented today at Clipper Executive Board. Many of the problems are failures of basic scaling and QA missing predictable corner cases. mtc.legistar.com/LegislationD...

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

Signal will never message you like this. If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL. DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

The house is threatened with development as a block of apartments. The girl will only render more cruel its renovation.

Do we know what hotel chains are hosting ICE & CBP in Minneapolis? It's wild that business schools don't teach "There are still people who don't buy Volkswagons bc of World War 2." But there's no time like the present for a refresher, I guess.

YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents** substack.com/@gelliottmor...

"Erik, he’s all like, 'I don’t give a fuckin’ shit, yah fuckin’ pricks, I don’t need yah anyway ‘cause I hear there’s this fuckin’ beautiful land out there even farthuh tah the west where nobody even lives, so I’m gonnah sail on ovah there n’ fuckin’ claim it fah myself.'"

This is tomorrow’s front page for The Minnesota Star Tribune. In a moment in which much of legacy media are enabling and condoning the worst actions of the Trump admin, the reporters and editors of the Star Tribune are not holding back one bit.

the destruction of local news has done more damage than just about anything else to our ability to process reality as a country and this is a shining example of why

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

A business card that's also a catapult? Perfect! Sadly discontinued 😭

Remind me, have I ranted to y’all about lace yet?

Also: The Minnesota Historical Society has this flag but *doesn’t keep it on display,* because it’s, you know, a confederate flag and that’s gross. So deeply Minnesotan. “We humiliated our opponent but the real prize is that we refuse to display the trophy. They know we have it.”

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

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This really well written guide by Defend 612 explains what’s going on. They’ve really developed this to. drive.proton.me/urls/NQBEQE8...

If you are organizing folks in Minneapolis right now, you may find this guide to Signal for beginners by @mshelton.bsky.social useful: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

M 6.0 earthquake off the coast of Oregon earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Bitcoin was invented 16 years ago. If crypto provided any utility beyond buying drugs online, creating a new form of gambling or indulging Libertarian anti-state fantasies, it would have broken into the mainstream by now.

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

Remember, Scott Adams won't see your posts focusing on his late-career bigotry, but J.K. Rowling might.

The greater metropolitan area is 3.7M people, and boy the administration is hellbent on creating 3.6M opponents to the administration in that area alone.

This is what every housing and traffic argument boils down to.

On the phone with them right now. You can host the armed goons terrorizing our families, or you can host us.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.