My dad (mid-70s) got hit by a car while cycling yesterday. He escaped with just a few abrasions, but it could have been drastically worse. Fuck cars and fuck our car-first infrastructure.

Watched Ken Burns' Statue of Liberty documentary this weekend and, oof, some of the quotes about the vulnerability of freedom and democracy to apathy and authoritarianism hit hard.

Pretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU. You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.

🇺🇸 trifectas get <one> shot at doing something Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem The platform must be <immediate> institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said

To trivialize this as a "sex scandal" is, in the kindest construction, myopic. A high status journalist (inter alia) sat on highly incriminating information about the guy currently bringing measles and whooping cough back as head of HHS!

Wtf are we doing? "CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets."

“If you believe the MAGA postliberal project is real, then liberalism must understand MAGA is not a reaction to economic consequences or “elite failures,” but an affirmative preference for illiberalism. Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.” www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...

Not that I need to feel more pessimistic about "AI", but this article does a great job of conveying the gut-wrenching surreality of the current moment. We're on the cusp of an epistemic collapse and the worst people you know are doing everything possible to press the pedal to the metal.

San Francisco can fuck right off with this performative, anti-science nonsense.

"You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked." - Foucault

There has to be a term, concept for how the virtues of a free society fall apart in the face of nothing but advertising, soliciting, and propagating, and glorifying vice.

We're excited to announce that The Urbanist has relaunched a podcast, in partnership with KVRU 105.7 FM. In the first episode, @metropolitanglide.bsky.social and @amysundberg.bsky.social break down this month's election results. www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/27/u...

I still don't grasp how this is defaulted to on when the feature makes shows look like trash. To say nothing of the fact that many viewers presumably leave it unchanged. Legit thought my buddy's TV was malfunctioning when I first came across it.

Referring to the fall of Al Franken as a "lynching" is quite a tell, almost as much a tell as referring to him as a progressive warrior. Also, "weaponize a joke photo" lol, lmao. At least 8 women came forward to accuse Franken of harassment.

this is what legal homeschooling allows. it should be completely banned; but failing that, the rule proposed in this article (you can't pull a child whose family is under CPS investigation from school) should be passed as a bare minimum www.thecut.com/article/home...

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

A week to Thanksgiving and "Black Friday" sales have already started. Don't get me wrong, I'm not nostalgic for the better days of "when Black Friday actually meant something". But I just don't understand how diluting the big name sale over weeks actually effectively drives sales.

I hate this sort of meme. “The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.” Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?

Well, if you needed another reason not to use Intuit's services, here's an absolute show stopper.

a common misconception! there are actually exactly 7 types of guys online:

i kind of get "i find twitter's new owner objectionable but it's a big ask to leave my social graph behind" but the inertia of people who, in theory, find spotify ethically objectionable but stick to it instead of subscribing to one of a half-dozen basically identical services is baffling to me.

Not very often you see a new product that feels like major religions should issue edicts specifically forbidding it

It boggles my mind that there are people who apparently think it's okay to, in a public restroom, be watching a video on your phone with the volume on. At LEAST have the decency to put in earbuds, guy.

This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

I'm a bit perplexed that the Democrats had a handful of defectors, but the response is castigating the party as a whole. Refusing to vote for my non-defecting senator is not the right conclusion to draw from this, but people apparently can't see the party as anything but a unitary entity.

Let me put it another way: false nostalgia for a better past that didn’t actually exist is a pillar of fascism. You can (and should) work to help Americans who are struggling without boosting fascist narratives in the process. Both really is possible.

We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

The one time I was in the same room with Sara Nelson was a community meeting in which she declared the National Guard should clean up Seattle. Good riddance.

The moderate left needs to challenge this kind of nonsense. NATO is a diminished alliance that is finding its feet at a critical moment – pushing back against an actual imperialist power.

I still can't get over the fact that the people who think Buttigieg briefly working for McKinsey is disqualifying are somehow caping for a blackwater mercenary with a death camp tattoo who said he loved to fight in colonial wars.

Moving to New York and pulling the ladder up behind myself, but wokely

I do think we have a pretty good chance of turning gambling into a genuine popular moral crusade 19th century style, because it's becoming a social evil that's destroying young men's lives in particular but also making sports coverage really shit.

TEMBA, HIS ARMS WIDE!

Just disgusting.

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.” Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

I'm beyond desperate for the decision-makers in the Democratic Party to 1) actually recognize that this is happening, and 2) commit to punishing every single person who donated in this manner or in any other way paid to play with this administration.

Me 10 years ago: You know people are always calling political opponents Nazis even if they aren’t anything like Nazis, I wish that would stop Monkey‘s paw:

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

Let us know if you see these around New York tomorrow on your commute. “Life After Cars” comes out on Tuesday!

1/ We need to have a chat about Seattle Police and how they're handling the No Kings protests. They've been really… good. It's a marked departure in both tone and tactics from SPD's approach to protests in the past, and I think it could be a model for police forces nationwide. …

Unlike the their brutal escalation of the 2020 protests, Seattle police were incredible chill at the last No Kings march. Kept a low profile, and nearly all the officers I saw were POETs ("Police Outreach Engagement Team"). No reason to fear Saturday's march won't be as peaceful and safe.

I dabbled in AI for coding early on in the delusional hype cycle and dropped it quickly. Why use a fundamentally broken tool when I can just apply my skill set? In the years since, I've closely observed colleagues who are deep into AI coding and my perspective has been reinforced again and again.

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries. time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess. (@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

😫😵‍💫🤢🤮 I have enough faux-AI BS shoved down my throat on my computer, he can fuck all the way off with the thought of polluting public spaces with it.

A lot of people heard of the legitimate critique of respectability politics found in e.g. queer theory and interpreted it based almost solely on the name as "it's okay to be maximally unpleasant all the time"

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop