Axios is going to report a deal is 48 hours away at least once a week for the next 3 years

OK look bike ppl *are* annoying about being bike ppl! I worked for a bike advocacy org and ran a bikeshare system—I MYSELF AM LIKE THIS. But one’s stance on bike lanes tends to be a decent proxy for whether they can handle more city or not.

"Equal rights for all" is not just the right thing to do, it's such an easily defensible position too.

man's brain is on char

Actual progressive economic policy will come from a Presidential candidate, not some party policy document. But it’s also legitimate to question how much voters, especially marginal swing state ones actually want progressive economic policy. It sucks!

Hot take but: a plank you stand on should not be able to travel at interstate highway speeds

The SpaceX IPO and the flurry of rules-changes around it should really be a bigger scandal. It's not only one of the biggest swindles in human history, it's proof of nearly universal corruption. We are simply ruled by thieves and gangsters.

Everyone loves land back anti colonialism until they take your undeveloped land to build condos

all this stuff is just barely-veiled code for "talarico is a [f-slur] and you're one too if you vote for him"

the thing about this scam of an event is that there’s literally not a single mildly sympathetic person involved in the planning or execution, the whole thing ought to be a free fire extravaganza for house dems when they take the gavel back, drag dana white in front of the house and tear him apart

This is how you solve the housing crisis

Having the government create their own Mastodon server/skin that exclusively hosts official government posts would be very easily achievable and solve this problem.

Shoutout the GOAT.

i know this is just how things work now, but it really ought to be illegal — in an enforceable way — to outright lie to investors about what you’re doing, how you will do it, and how successful you will be at it.

I gotta say it's pretty funny that we went from free public college being the central non-healthcare policy of the left to it being universal childcare. Almost like it's tracking a specific cohort.

We’re taking a huge step today to save Muni, BART & Caltrain from collapse, by turning in the necessary signatures for a November regional funding measure to stabilize these critical systems. We’ve worked nearly 4 years to get here & I was honored to author the law that allows this regional measure.

Oh word? When law enforcement obscures their faces and any insignia identifying their agency it is easy as fuck to impersonate them to do crimes (other than the ones law enforcement is already committing)?

this doesn’t make me mad because without further elaboration, it’s just gibberish. use AI to do what? there are probably use cases, i am sure the grocery sector is currently testing or using plenty of their own.

Paris’ RER is a perfect example of solving phone call problems. Instead of duplicating infrastructure because different agencies controlled it, Paris made sharing work. It saved a fortune and created Europe’s most impressive regional rail network. open.substack.com/pub/infrasto...

Somewhat less controversially: daycare WHIPS and should be the default experience for kids. It doesn’t fit every family or situation of course but the benefits are staggering.

Championship Sunday (derogatory)

they can't fire the coders now that the token costs are going up so they'll try to fire the woman-coded departments next

On Earth 2, gas is $3, the Dow is at 53k, we're still in the cultural afterglow of Double Hockey Gold and Artemis II as we look forward to the World Cup. Trump's lawyers are hoping to have his sentences in Manhattan, DC and Atlanta be served concurrently. Kamala Harris's job approval sits at 42-54

I’m glad to see this quote make its way to Bluesky. My response to this woman is that unless she learns to enjoy what modern Dublin is becoming (wealthier and more multicultural), she should move to Roseville

Official data is in today, and US solar power generation continues to grow rapidly, up 22% compared to this time last year!

What this chart tells me is that the NBA second apron is a crime

A lot of replies being like “Wait something good!?” No you morons, republicans want to be able to allow chud truck drivers to speed through your neighborhood without consequence. You are a fucking sucker if you think congressional republicans care about privacy. This stupid country I swear to god.

These people are virulent antisemites.

Muni fare inspection seen in the wild for the first time in years

Much like the hyperloop and the Tesla Tunnels, this is yet another stupid gadgetbahn idea to distract from HSR at a time when the train is once again under attack. Just build the damn train!

The most profitable business model for AI being enterprise software that pitches itself as a substitute for college educated labor is getting some real insane statements into the news.

The next Dem President needs to just wipe this absurdity away. "Some random district court judge in Texas gets to act like a tyrannical king" is neither how the actual Constitution works nor a sensible common-sense adaptation of the Constitution's failings.

I think it's under-appreciated how much user-hostile recipe sites and news articles smothered in pop-ups and video ads have negatively polarized the average normie against the open web, and helped to drive adoption of AI as an alternative way to get basic information

That Harris and Walz didn't go to fancy schools like elites should is an underrated cause for why the press loathed them.

I believe Mamdani is in the top tier of Democratic politicians who actually want their city to be what Dimon is talking about here

GOAT

Burrito taxi is a luxury and should be expensive, housing is a staple necessity and should be cheap and plentiful

Comedy Roasts used to be private affairs featuring groups of friends having a laugh. They were meant to be invite only. But over the years, Hollywood turned them from a circle of friends into circular firing squads. Comedy roasts stocked with MAGAmedians.

"Sure, not every person and not every trip. Maybe not even as a complete replacement for cars. But as a standard household tool? Absolutely!" Bikes (electric or non) can replace (dare I say it) transit trips. Especially in dense cities depending on where you're going. electrek.co/2026/05/18/w...

This is how you deal with trash

“On Sun May 17th, CAISO's natural gas tracked around 3% of total fuel mix across the day. Natural gas generation has plummeted this spring, decreasing ~4,300 MW on avg. On the flip side, since Sunzia has been coming online in stages, wind has increased substantially along CAISO's grid(~2,000 MW)”

this isn't a point I make that much because I think it could be seen as excusing or justifying google and, you know, fuck em, not my job. but the idea that search was working well right before all the gemini bullshit got added is bafflingly ahistorical. they were losing the SEO war badly.

The most tiresome content online is people complaining that nobody’s doing anything because they’re broke

This is what people in Ventura County, and many places in California, will tell you is “smart growth”. Low density neighborhoods nestled into a landscape that is inevitably going to burn. Whatever can burn, will burn.

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

It's incredibly funny that Bill Cassidy genuinely would have had a better shot of winning reelection if he nuked RFK Jr. and ran as an independent.

One problem with Congress no longer passing any laws is that you need updated tax laws to stay ahead of these tricks, and we’re not getting any of those

Cost differential between MNR and LIRR (same trains, same metro territory, just different work rules) is ~$200m a year.