The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Woo is a reactionary force. Its association with hippies concealed this for a long time, but it has always been true.

Virtue is good and it should be signaled.

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

I don’t want to overreact, but I’m *pretty sure* this woman can be the frontrunner for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination starting tomorrow if she wants.

I hoped to get this out earlier but btwn the death in my family+thanksgiving, here we are I think its important to be transparent on my concerns about the “form of government” process being proposed for Arlington County w/vote this month 3 categories: - timing/priorities - approach - substance

When you see the set of footprints in concrete on #columbiapike … just think … that’s Jesus walking next to you wishing he could hop on the streetcar 🤣

Now *that* is how you name a beer 🤣

Vernon I love you man but we got pinball at acme pie on the pike

It’s so funny how Arlington is so culturally and geographically close to Alexandria but the vibe is just tangibly different and delightfully weird. I know I go back to this well a lot, but you have to dig to find out about ‘The Beast of Barcroft’ whereas Alexandria has ‘Goosepigs’ on a city plaque

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

I happen to believe that the best place for trash is the dump. Not, you know, given historic preservation or something.

I can’t even

I feel like parents teaching their sons "You don't actually need to learn be decent to other people, just make sure you can get a job that makes a lot of money" is exactly why we're having this male loneliness epidemic.

Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.

As an Arlington resident I rate this as accurate

WaPo rating every county for raising a family and HATS OFF to the NIMBYS for working overtime to get us this ZERO in affordability #arlingtonVA

While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.

Couldn't help myself.

bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal

this is the most informative label on Bluesky, mufo-gossipy division

What a queen

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

So glad I searched up Edmund Fitzgerald Tok again

Mamdani is not a radical. He has run a tight, smart, fairly standard local campaign. He'll probably get 20 or 30 percent of his platform if he's lucky. The one radical thing he's done is told the Times to go to hell. He has campaigned every step of the way like he doesn't need them, and he's right.

I dislike this world where everyone is 12. Why can’t we promote the world where everyone is 37 and obsessed with Deep Space Nine?

if you’re still posting about how LLMs “don’t know facts and only appear to know things because they are commonly written down” and that concern that they might behave in unexpected ways is anthropomorphism, you’re not being a brave truth teller, you’re *denying the possibility of complex problems*

Wild cuz the USDA shutdown plan is still available online and no the well hasnt run dry, its a choice to stop the payments. web.archive.org/web/20251010...

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

wow, which common vaccine was it?

Gotta love an art thief. In order to do it, you have to be a cold-blooded analytical criminal mastermind. But in order to /want/ to do it, you gotta be downright whimsical. rare combo

christianity is pretty great because they nested a polytheistic deity set (godchrist and humanchrist) inside a polytheistix deity set (father, son, holy spirit) then added even more dieties in the form of saints and then yell at anyone saying theyre not monotheists

Realizing I don't need to get a girlfriend, because then I would still just have a girlfriend under capitalism

As an American, all I want is unlimited social programs, no taxes and no deficits. I want everyone to love my people and I don't want to deal with those people. I want sky high wages. I want the price of my assets to increase, but also everything should be cheap.

Happy Ron Gant was clearly out anniversary to all who celebrate. youtu.be/MiraekmCNv4?...

Top 4 sounds “gh” can make: 4) gh 3) gh 2) gh And the classic 1) gh

Damn, you lost your soul but didn’t even gain the whole world? I’m embarrassed for you.

new lawn sign

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

"Derrida is right about language" you fucking techbro "physical reality exists and we gotta pay attention to it" what is this, some hippie bullshit

The youths will never understand the GOAT World Series, or the blizzard we celebrated it with.

[Stares in Jack Morris]

not with a bang but a whimper

I can’t imagine a less Minnesotan sentiment, TBH

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Ahem. bsky.app/profile/sara...

a russ vought special

I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

death threats are bad and if you death threat the mods you probably will get banned