Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

"CAPTCHAs help separate bots from humans. But what if you only want your content to be seen by humans in their 30s with passions for subway tile and posting JLaw reaction GIFs in Slack? For this purpose, we have created the Millennial CAPTCHA."

All of this feels very much like @greatdismal.bsky.social's description of the slow apocalypse of The Jackpot in the Peripheral series.

Bowser shows that tyranny is a structure of compulsion. An empire consuming itself with a decaying, mechanical hunger. His ideology is escalating desperation, a tantrum for control in the jaws of annihilation. Fascism fails because it cannot stop devouring the very humanity it requires to exist.

do NOT call me a NIMBY. I FULLY support new housing if it is AFFORDABLE, passes my personal VIBE check, will not be lived in by people I consider UNCOOL and is constructed only when the MOON is waxing, upon the APPROPRIATE ley lines

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

San Francisco folks, “Steal This Story, Please!” Is showing at the Roxie from April 17-23 (I made the music)

"Thanks to its porous border with Italy, millions of migrants from around the world flock to the Vatican every year. In fact, even the year-round population of the Vatican seems to be entirely made up of immigrants, as its birth rate is virtually zero."

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

Glad to see that the Sacramento Bee is advertising a cool new newsroom meteorologist position! Frankly, I think every major regional/national newspaper needs in-house expertise like this. Role requires degree in meteorology/atm science (as it should!)

YES… HA HA HA… YES!

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

We didn't clear house following Reconstruction or following the Civil Rights Movement and we absolutely have to do it next time.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Yes, a SF-based coffee chain — which has a shop on Castro Street, just a few doors down from Hand Job Nails and Spa and a gigantic, car dealership-size rainbow flag! — is going to ban Pride flags to appease imaginary people who cannot deal w/ seeing gay people. www.coyotemedia.org/philz-coffee...

@muni.sfmta.com what’s up with the subway this AM?

"Is your country ruled by an aging megalomaniac whose supporters worship him with an almost cult-like zeal?"

Oh my god the California Dems are really off the rails. The candidates who have no chance are holding the process by which the field would (and should!) further narrow hostage. Voters need debates.

This is kind of making me insane as I think about it.

The 2025 budget of the National Endowment for the Arts was $210m

Source Callout: for a story at the Guardian, I'm interviewing folks who were asked to keep working with someone after sexual assault or harassment or relationship abuse, and told to stay silent "for the good of the movement" (more info in pic with alt text). reach out on Signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68

I posted about this on my Facebook page, but I'm heartbroken about the God Squad's recent decision to allow oil and gas companies to harm Rice's Whales. You can learn more about these whales here: www.ourgulfwhale.org

The source of the world's most valuable red dye was a Spanish state secret for 200 years. A French botanist had questions. Uncover them at Fool's Errand on April 7th! Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/fools-erra...

Did he intentionally time this announcement for the anniversary of the second Fort Hood shooting

One of the most backwards part of the many years long Clipper 2 delay is that MTC is allocating more funds to continue the operation of Clipper 1. Cubic should be paying MTC and transit operators significant funds for the rollout debacle, and it’s good to hear MTC is exploring this.

this passover lets remember: criticism of israel or its government is not antisemitism. and saying that it is diminishes real antisemitism.

Earthquake 👀

They were soliciting duck pics?!?!

To me peak Twitter was 1) MERL asking Royal British Museum to “show us your best duck”, kicking off a thread of museums & art galleries posting ducks & 2) someone asking a biologist on behalf of her kid if some particular animal farts, causing biologists to post about which animals do & don’t fart.

As a Strayan, this one always gets me.

I sing this aloud to myself whenever I hear this song

As a note, the census data maxes out on income at $250K/yr, and home values at $2M. So whenever you see those values in Census data (like Census Reporter), know that's the case. I'd guess the Marina is significantly more than $250K/$2M

In other words, Georgia Republicans successfully took the worst parts of California's Prop 13 and fused it with yet another regressive sales tax that disproportionately punishes renters and poor people, months before an election where they could lose their trifecta for the first time in 22 years

BREAKING: President Trump has issued an unlawful executive order attempting to severely restrict mail-in voting. The Constitution is clear: Only the states or Congress can change election laws.

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“I am the Lord your God. It is time that you start using my correct pronouns. Which are They/Them. Capitalized.” The people were distraught and cried out, “My Lord, My God! ... What?” And God frowned, for They knew this was going to be a whole thing.

The girl is running from the house, finally.

A staggering list. There’s even an Atrocity Key:

Something worth considering: it is incredibly radicalizing to hear the media lie about something you personally saw 9 million people are at home right now going "what the fuck, tens of thousands of people marched in my city alone" Some percentage are gonna wonder what else the media is lying about

Camera selling your location data ^

People always describe the Winchester Mystery House (it has 2nd floor doors that open to a straight drop to outside among many weirdnesses) as the outcome of a haunted lady trying to escape ghostly retribution. My dad was a contractor and all I could ever see was "ripping off lady with dementia."

Similarly, public trees - even beloved, historical ones - have a lifespan beyond which they're dangerous and need to be removed.

Incredible instant karma: old fur in a Camry tailgating a minivan that’s trying to find parking on Valencia. He honks, waits, honks, waits, honks, swerves into the oncoming lane to overtake. The oncoming vehicle beeps at him. He beeps aggressively back.

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... The news cycle hasn’t ended for us - we in Canada are paying respect to the victims, the pilots of the plane: First Officer Mackenzie Gunther Captain Antoine Forest