Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

Ice cold take: edge lords of all stripes suck & 13 year old me's edge lord phase is still embarrassing almost 40 years later.

No need to delay: Not only did the Board of Elections clearly state that they are ready and capable of implementing ranked choice voting, but the voters already told us how they "assessed the need" by overwhelmingly passing it at the ballot box.

A partial summary of Bowser's recent transportation accomplishments: • Streateries canceled • Circulator canceled • Bus lanes & busways canceled • Streetcar extensions canceled • Streetcar itself canceled • Bike lanes canceled • Bike lanes ripped out

A low-hanging fruit for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the new City Council in their first 100 days would be to approve legislation making outdoor dining year round and have it go into effect immediately. Given all the existing design regulations it should be easy to flip the switch on this.

Downside; I won't get to vote against her my first time voting in DC. Upside; literally everything else. I know what I'm thankful on Thursday.

Not having to worry about Black Friday and the whole holiday shopping season... Priceless. At my first job, it wasn't really a thing. But in 2021 I experienced it first hand, working at KB Toys. For the next 15 or so years, it was an annual nightmare. Corporate retail sucks.

Duffy is a completely unserious person who is focusing on this because he has undone all the Airline Passenger Rights enacted under Biden and Buttigieg and he doesn't want people to focus on that. Ironic, of course, because if you're delayed you're going to want some comfy clothes and shoes.

This situation is becoming an increasing issue for those on the vendor/supplier/operator side of travel because AI literacy is low even among seasoned travelers and social media users. It is increasingly easy to get duped or not realize that your source is AI-generated. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

AOC with the facts on MTG

Don't miss this week's opportunities to get involved locally: 💸 The Punk Rock Flea + a clothing bazaar for Gaza Relief ✏️ A teach-in on migrant sanctuary policy 🎥 A documentary screening on the history of the vote in D.C. ✊ Picketing at Whole Foods

I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.

Steak ’N Shake Employee Screams After Nude RFK Jr. Climbs Out Of Beef Tallow Fryer

An extra (and extra nerdy) video on the channel this week.

Two recent shootings by federal agents in D.C. have highlighted the big gaps in training, transparency, and accountability that exist between them and D.C.'s local police officers. MPD has one set of rules, federal agents another: 51st.news/federal-poli...

If I believed in the gods, I would ask that they grant me the oblivious effrontery of Ted Cruz thinking about running for president. Whatever the opposite of imposter syndrome is.

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

An English basement, you say?

I sometimes think Cillian Murphy might be my spirit animal. My creepy, gaunt spirit animal.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —

This is a really excellent piece of local journalism:

Gene Shalit is still alive?!

reposting because hell yeah, but also i just want more opportunities to see this goofball on my feed. (…the dog with two tennis balls in their face, to be clear.)

VA Rep. James Walkinshaw leading a @freedcproject.bsky.social rally at the Capitol against bills interfering with DC criminal justice bills. He observes most of his colleagues only see the city on the drive “from their apartments in Navy Yard to the Capitol complex.”

I think a lot about how stupid 80s cartoon villains did so much to prepare me for the now we're all living through...the dumbest timeline. But I was just thinking about someone I used to play a lot of Warhammer against, who CONSTANTLY cheated...but was so bad, he still lost. Every time. Huh.

Finally got a chance to take a peek inside of Earthdawn 4th Ed. Weird but cool to see my old character appear in an example of play.

60% of DC households are renters. 35% of DC households have no car. The Washington Post's Editorial Board thinks those are requirements for self-rule. They simply hate the majority of DC residents, because we are poorer than them.

Kids, you don’t know how easy you have it. In my day, when someone bent the rules so kids could have fun with D&D, you couldn’t instantly rage post on your phone. No, you went home, fired up the Smith-Corona, hammered out a salty editorial, and mailed it to 8 confused subscribers two months later. 😅

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Autumn is the perfect time of year to take yourself on a Main Character walk around town. Here are a few of our team's favorite spots:

I know there are stereotypes and whatnot. But every dang list of things to do in Dublin or Ireland in general is mostly variations of "drink beer" or "drink whiskey."

Having heard occasional bits of Country music from the last 35 years...how could you even tell if it were generative AI?

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

🚌 You spoke. We listened. Starting Dec. 14, DC's C63 route, serving Washington Hospital Center, will extend to Georgia Av-Petworth, providing a connection to the Green line and neighborhoods to the west of the hospital center.

Be on the lookout for our next giveaway later this week #ActionGlow

Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is going into the public domain on January 1st in case anyone wants to make a horror film about an adorably drunk couple and their dog chasing, like, a killer clown or something.

Netflix's new four-part miniseries dives into the plot to assassinate President James Garfield. Death by Lightning is full of recognizable arrogance, political intrigue and unexpected betrayal. n.pr/43Qlg1W

I see a lot of folks pointing toward the VA governor's race in 2021 as though Younkin was popular. He won. Yes. But Terry McAuliffe essentially didn't run a campaign. He got his name on the ballot and that was the extent of his attempt to get elected. You have to at least try.

I'm really going to need people buying stuff on eBay to A) not turn out to be international when I have it clearly indicated that I don't ship internationally, and B) not immediately cancel orders when I accept a bid.

I was just thinking about a company I worked for that was always short-staffed, but insisted on 90 min team calls every Mon & Fri, where they would make "exciting" announcements of new benefits for staff nobody asked for...which they'd never actually deliver. F that company. I'm glad it's dead.

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

We need permanent solutions to streateries in D.C. — but for their improvement, not their removal, Woodley Park ANC commissioner Samuel Littauer argues. Why he says the math on losing them doesn’t add up:

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

I will henceforth only respect TV journalists who, after getting a typical response from a politician, follow up with: "Cool. That's not what I asked you tho."