Picked up a copy of "Life After Cars" by @thewaroncars.bsky.social at Midtown Sacramento's brand new East Village Bookshop. Enjoying it so far!

Only 10 months until Halloween!

"City doing one more study - hopeful this one will conclude that doing nothing about the car-centric status quo is the best way forward." @tomflood.bsky.social nails it again.

Good morning, especially to all the performers that decided to cancel their 15-year running jazz concert at the Kennedy Center to protest Trump’s name being added to the building! www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...

4'33" is a Christmas song

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

archive.org/details/60-m... it isn't going anywhere

Seems like it's worth posting this one again.

a sequel: cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”

This is literally one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen, anywhere.

There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.

There is no question that Donald Trump is the worst person to have ever been elected president. But I think a case can be made that he is the worst person to ever have become famous.

Two-time Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee is due to film “Gold Mountain” in the Sacramento region. A tax program helped pave the way.

I keep coming back to an idea for a real community hub: library/post office/clinic/market/activity center

oh come on

‘Today the Führer… decided that Antiqua type is to be regarded as the standard typeface. Over time, all printed matter should be converted to this standard typeface.’ alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar...

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

The persecution of huge numbers of brown people and even the mass deportations will not create the white country of far-right fantasy. It’s coupled with an attack on reproductive rights that is sometimes openly intended to make white women have more babies....

"How do I make my boss happy?" is the question that dominates the mind of every little authoritarian, and they instinctively assume it's on everyone else's mind as well.

Crypto's like robot farts or something like that.

This is a point that needs repeating. It’s fiscally conservative to house the homeless, it’s also the right thing to do.

My personal guidelines for dealing with people on social media: Assume everyone is a friend you haven't yet gotten to know. Assume everyone is struggling with their mental health Don't promise any emotional labor you might not be able to provide If someone seems like a hater, disengage right away

If it’s tenants, it’s cool to rip them off.

Pocket and Greenhaven homeowners have had decades to get used to the idea. Now it’s time to learn how to share.

If someone's response to an effort to fund social housing is to complain about how a ballot campaign was run 5 years ago, I'm going to interpret that as they oppose social housing, and they are an obstacle to be routed around.

Seeing this makes me proud that I was born in Skokie!

If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.

If you think women here can't be forced backwards... These are women in Parliament in Iran in the mid-1970's. Their decline feels familiar. A reaction to women having too many rights. A fear of what was happening to traditional family. A desire for younger wives. A closing of the fist. #Pinks

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

source for all - Adbusters Fall 2024

i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine "i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people

It really is just simple geometry. You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.

Breaking: Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms.

Vampire spring: sacrifice & resurrection. Catholic aesthetic Vampire summer: stifling southern gothic. Anne Rice we love you. Vampire fall: everything dies & we celebrate it. Not just for witches bitches Vampire winter: cold darkness & mausoleums. 30 Days of Night I’m not elaborating further

The reason why socialism is no longer taboo in America is that our elites have successfully rebranded it as “any attempt by the state to function beyond semi-random violence“ while trying to combat it.

watching these two Christian Nationalists have a conversation and see if you can spot the part where I spit coffee all over my screen.

Scottish Wildcats were, until now, creatures unknown to me. Turns out, they look exactly how you would expect a Scottish Wildcat to look like...

"...it's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a river." - Brent Toderian Really liked this quote and I can imagine it being useful going forward, so I'm posting it for posterity

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

Suffice it to say, this proposal would be the opposite of what is needed for US transportation policy. Federal transportation spending has been ineffective, inefficient, and bad for the environment. The Trump proposal would worsen those problems. US needs a complete rethink of transport policies ⬇️

Look, Vance knows this is false. He doesn’t actually believe it. He has said this outright. For fascist filth like Vance, factual correctness is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it is symbolically correct. It’s vice signaling. Does it accurately represent your imagined fears?

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Whistleblower documents indicate the Jeffrey Epstein associate is preparing a “commutation application” for Trump.

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

“Both of these musicians focus on the materiality of sound and the processes of sound creation, delving in to the tiniest detailed textures and timbres of objects they utilize,” writes Michael Rosenstein. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7994927...

This is one of those headlines that you can't believe -- and the story itself, even wilder.