My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

Bodily autonomy means bodily autonomy. Full stop. Your body belongs to you and nobody else gets to decide what you do to it. Have an abortion. Take HRT. Have sex for money. Have sex for free. Have no sex at all. Gain weight. Lose weight. Get a tattoo. What's right for you is your right.

A point made in 'Life After Cars' is that back in the 1920-30s there was a big backlash against the upheaval cars were causing as they took over cities, particularly re the huge road toll. The authors mention - surprisingly - an early Superman comic book story […] [Original post on aus.social]

PSA: An elective surgery is a surgery you can schedule. It has nothing to do with if a procedure is medically necessary. But that means: your aunt's hip replacement? Generally, elective surgery. So if you see people go 'but it's ELECTIVE they don't NEED it', they're ignorant or willfully so.

Today, the father of a little girl who was 6 and murdered at Sandy Hook said that the courts keep enabling an abuser and my heart actually hurts. That could be Jet. That could’ve been my little girl.

4 seasons of the best ever improv on film, and it all started with these 3 boys, who still find the time to do this with me despite their soaring careers (cue bird sound 🦅) thank you jesh zec & bronnon. see you in S5. ✨

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

it won’t be hard to discern to people in the future that the first black president led to a relentless and hyper-radical effort by conservative elites to destroy not only the voting rights act but reconstruction itself.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

If you have any kind of modern car, it is sharing data about you with your government and data brokers. This includes conversations, weight, passenger info, as well as driving telemetry. The FBI told me the data was so useful to them that they didn’t care about privacy or tech abuse risks. So…

Schools in Milwaukee and Madison are closing for May Day, making Wisconsin the fifth state where students and teachers will be off on Friday (joining Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, and Oregon). We hope you will join the nationwide day of economic disruption: www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/?...

Reupping my video showing that conversion therapy in the UK is mainly caused by about 40 people who simply will not piss off and are ruining the NHS for the rest of us youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

This in the most damning indictment of Gavin Newsom as a person I've heard this week.

Ah shit, Gerry Conway died. He created the punisher & was very outspoken in saying "if you're a cop who wears a punisher logo, frank castle fucking HATES you." He said the punisher only existed because of a fatally flawed system, & so those most harmed by that system have more claim to the symbol:

your chatbot can't "go rogue". your chatbot doesn't know anything and is just spitting out shit that resembles real stuff. it's your fault for using it for anything. it's your fault for using it for anything. it's your fault for using it for anything.

The funniest thing about people who say that chromosomes are determinative of sex and gender is that 99.9% of them have no idea what their own chromosomes actually are and if they had them tested, a good number of them would suddenly have a problem. 🤷🫠

Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.

Yes, as a member of the press core, I am attending the Imperial Press Gala, and not reporting on the successes of the Rebel Alliance in favor of Imperial Propaganda. HOWEVER, I will be carrying a little rock that says "The Emperor is smelly poop" in my pocket while I do so, so I AM doing my part.

We'll go to Mexico for affordable dentistry and Canada to buy our cars!

I don’t think I can take another news cycle of Democrats solemnly tutting about how violence is never the answer while Republicans promise to put their political enemies and whatever immigrants they can find in a wood chipper

you used to be able to take nothing but local trolley networks from washington dc all the way to bangor maine.

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

I feel like more people need to be forward about this. I have an extreme bias against AI. sorry to everyone who wants more "nuanced" discussion about it, but I do. and I don't think there's anything wrong with that, it's just how it is.

Do it. Lean into your worst impulses. Maybe this is what love will feel like.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

"We're not trying to take away your car, we're not trying to send you to prison, we're just trying to change your behavior so you don't kill people." Making a few thousand brazenly dangerous drivers obey speed limits is common sense. Unless you're Assembly Speaker. hellgatenyc.com/stop-super-s...

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On this date, 112 years ago, members of the Colorado National Guard and private security opened fire on striking miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, in the southeast of the state. 21 people were killed, mostly women and children. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_...

I’ve been completely over it with superhero movies for years and now you’re telling me to understand an upcoming film I’ll be required to do homework? LMAO please go away.

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I've been out and about the last three weeks on my annual comedy pilgrimage. Masking all the time, hand sanitising, and SURROUNDED by people sneezing, coughing, and telling me they're just on the tail end of something. Why do you want to get your fluids on strangers so fucking badly you weirdos.

When artists are quitting the industry in droves because they can't afford to feed themselves, thus ensuring eradication by corporations embracing AI further, no I don't think stealing art in any guise is okay. Not even then. Nope. Not then either.

the fact that legislators are trying to say that computers are devices that require id verification and tracking to use should put fear into EVERYONE. FIGHT AGAINST THIS.

Like I said. Kobo has been over there keeping on keeping on this whole time. If you don't know about them, it's a great time to learn!

Schumer is out of step with his caucus and should step aside.

This rules. The policy, obv, but also specifically name-checking a single ultra rich guy who bought a $238 million penthouse he does not live in, you love to see it.

I understand Pope fatigue (I was confirmed by a child molester) and to an extent it's a Let Them Fight situation but it's genuinely important and different that the Catholic Church, a major geopolitical actor with endless resources dating back millennia, is coming out hard against fascism this time

Hostile architecture

Imagine someone suggesting people shouldn't drive when it is dark, rainy, or hilly. Wild how people think bikes exist in some alternate reality where lights, rain gear, and gears or motors don't exist. And don't get me started on vocal entitled road users ...

This is what I use and it's $16 for state, zero for fed. Paying anything is nuts, but $150 is fucking criminal.

Your Tax Day reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax designed to enrich the wealthy and corporations while draining money for the middle class and the poor. Don't let billionaires fool you into thinking we shouldn't tax the rich.

TODAY: The House is expected to vote on reauthorizing a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens. Tell your representative to vote NO and stop the regime from gobbling up mass surveillance data to punish Trump’s enemies and round up immigrants. 👇

Someone is dying in ICE custody EVERY WEEK. And that doesn't even include the American citizens ICE has killed in the middle of our streets in broad daylight. It could not be more clear, ICE needs guardrails, not a blank check from Congress.

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)