if the party i didn’t like started pandering to me id infer that conditions were ripe for me to demand the party i already liked pander to me even more, not to switch my support.

one of the most basic political follies is to overexert yourself trying to combat this, rather than raising the salience of your side's strengths. see john kerry "reporting for duty" and still losing to a draft dodger.

there are certain ideas that are really narrative features of American politics more than actual truths. conservatives are patriotic despite their claims that America has degenerated, they're tough on crime despite embracing many criminals, they're free marketeers despite anti-competitive practices

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

Made my partner draw a bike and a horse for me from memory and she nailed it

ME: *points at my "World's Greatest Dad" shirt* CO-WORKER: *points at his own "World's Greatest Dad" shirt* ME: *takes a sip from my "World's Greatest Dad" mug* CO-WORKER: *sips from his own "World's Greatest Dad" mug* ME: [eyes narrow] *draws "World's Greatest Dad" sword*

One of the many ways that the housing crisis is really (1) a housing shortage and (2) a gift to the already-propertied class at the expense of everyone else

yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern

our mad senile pedophile king is at war with a shallow body of water on his front lawn and is losing

The Obama library looks like a matte painting from a later seasons of Star Trek TNG (complimentary)

i recommend having a Miyazaki-esque creature that uproots itself at night and stomps around the place

Me: its time to open up this pit! Construction Contractor: please, no

Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal

I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering.

cops got juked out of their shoes lmao

Was walking home last night and I saw a homeless family doing laundry at the coin-op by my apt and my thoughts went to this one housing dev meeting in east sac I went to where a 20 something social worker said “Homes won’t help the homeless because they’re all mentally ill or addicted to drugs”

6 year old girl playing on an iPad w her mom on the sidewalk next to their pull cart with all their possessions. Idk I think a home would help.

I think it's actually very important to point out that Trump's war ended up empowering the Iranian state, for numerous reasons including that it informs a strong antiwar argument

Cervical cancer gets the headlines because it’s the first one they proved was linked to HPV, but now we know it also causes really deadly head and neck cancers, anal cancer, and penile cancer. Every person, please get the vaccine

Someday soon everyone’s going to pretend they never supported him.

"I also struggle with the persistent focus on privacy as the purported barrier to solving these issues, when we have most of the Epstein list walking around without consequences."

DS9 S1E18, "Duet," is something a large number of people employed by the US administration should watch.

JUST IN: Feds & out-of-state agencies "improperly" accessed San Francisco license-plate surveillance data from Flock cameras, according to an SFPD audit. SFPD says neither ICE nor DHS accessed data directly. missionlocal.org/2026/06/fede...

Permitted land in LA County sells for 50% more than unpermitted land, a $770K median premium per parcel. Permitting accounts for roughly 32% of the gap between home sale prices and construction costs. cayimby.org/blog/economi...

If you want a rough first-order estimate of the regulatory contribution to housing costs, here you go.

When I was 15 I was using social media to learn about abortion rights, LGBTQ identity and history, and of course blog up to 8 hours a day about Supernatural. I demand the next generation have the same rights I did

there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless

one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"

This is the most important thing I learned working with the Right Livelihood Foundation: when civil society is under threat, it’s impossible to keep fighting for your cause without ultimately spending effort fighting _for the continued existence of civil society._

The most secure cryptographic protocol in the world will not stop the fed in your group chat from being a fed, or some guy from not putting a passcode on his phone and leaving it at the bar. This is not Signal’s fault and in fact has nothing to do with Signal at all

There is complete industry consensus on this. Every reputable cryptographer on the planet agrees: Signal’s cryptographic protocols are the most secure in class. Period. Just because your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate told you otherwise doesn’t make it true

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

Sunset on Feb 28th, 2015

Housing Twitter from 2016-2021 was cuckoo bananas. You could just full-ass bait labor leaders, state senators, and journos into a flame war by asking shit like “How much is your home worth?” Or “When exactly did you move to this neighborhood you’re speaking for?”

“how many affordable units did the burger king have?”

Seems hard to believe now but the ecosystem of housing advocacy and housing reporting was so sclerotic and stagnant, asking simple questions online like “Are cities actually building a lot of housing?” “Do random assholes who show up to meetings speak for the public?” Were genuinely disruptive

for iphone users, if you very suddenly regret NOT turning off biometric unlock, press the lock button on the side 5 times in row - this will lock your phone and require the passcode before biometric unlock can be used again, preventing police from using your face to unlock it against your will.

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

oh shit: someone who has actually read the report on the “jailbreak”. she‘s backing up Anthropic’s story that it’s nothing. they got fable to help fix some code with planted vulns www.lutasecurity.com/post/the-fab...

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

I feel it’s sort of underrated the extent to which a Dem Congress and/or states could (1) absolutely destroy car dealerships as a business, and (2) this would cripple a lot of GOP state and local parties

You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer."

i am tired of being told i can never make fun of trump supporters so as not to inflame the passions of old white rural resentments like they don't go on television and say i should be living under armed federal custodianship because of how my community votes every day

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

unfortunately if new york elects a good mayor the knicks will be allowed to win the title

the knicks win, thus proving zohran mamdani has the mandate of heaven

When you paint the basin a darker color, it absorbs more heat. More heat=faster algae growth.

the fact is mamdani, like so many other democratic mayors and governors, does not have control of his own police force, the law be damned. that our politicians are unable to even talk about this openly is a serious problem

Just canceled tickets for 6/25. No interest in seeing @sfgiants.com homophobes protesting pride night on the field.