Big time college football: Everyone's rich and nobody's happy

Most pathetic thing I've ever heard a coach say

Put another way, suburbia is built to minimize all interactions with other people, including purely commercial ones, and it's getting worse over time with both the internet and the designs of newer suburbs. Is it any wonder people are lonely?

I was shocked when I heard Scott Wiener say LA City Council's divided SB 79 vote helped convince state reps to vote yes on the bill. So I mapped it - sure looks like he's telling the truth! The only state reps from LA who voted for SB 79 overlap with city councilmembers who supported the bill. A 🧵:

Last year the dodgers had no starters in the playoffs. This year they are only going to have starters.

I remember hoping the new lanes would be built before my daughter started at her daycare on Arguello in August 2023. She's now in preschool and still nothing has been done. Stop delaying and make this street safe SFMTA

I feel like this is a very strong counter to a lot of arguments about fundamental economic or structural obstacles to decarbonization, or that it requires a comprehensive reorganization of our system of production. It's a political choice, that's all.

One of the most interesting things about Jimmy Kimmel, and what I loved most about his conversation with Bill Burr a few months back, was that they’re both middle-aged white comedians who heard how culture has evolved, took notes, grew up, didn’t get defensive, and became *even more* successful.

More of this please! Autistic people are our brothers and sisters, the goal is to make it a world where they can thrive not one where they are "cured" somehow.

if you want to put in melinda cooper terms you could note that paramount-skydance and sinclair are both family-controlled firms while disney is one of the archetypal public companies of the era

We wander through the old cemeteries up here from time to time. The family plots with collections on smaller headstones for the children are heartbreaking. We learned how to prevent disease and suffering and these asshats are just throwing it all away.

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Good. Disney did the right thing here, it's good that so many people spoke up in defense of Kimmel and Disney pushed back against Sinclair/Nexstar

Daily affirmations

we would be noticeably better off if we swapped the current cabinet for trump’s *own* first term cabinet

Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

This woke me up in the Richmond District

The problem with those books is that (in addition to being terrible to read) is that they work in the way right wingers think liberal propaganda tries to function, by brute force indoctrination. If you want your kid to be a lib teach them good values and read Click Clack Moo or The Lorax.

Dems should genuinely just run everything through the simple English Wikipedia style guide

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Go to the dentist for preventative care if it is available because that shit will fuck your wallet and your mouth when you need crowns and root canals and implants 10 years later

When recent election cycles revolve around the economy's losers, we ignore that there's a lot of winners. Iowan soybean farmers were winners for a long time and now are learning what it's like to lose

This does go back to something I’ve seen @faineg.bsky.social discuss. They saw the video because they’re on a social media platform that algorithmically feeds them snuff films. We had to seek shit like that out on liveleaks or rotten dot com. It’s obviously doing damage just being fed to them daily.

Hot take: every "Democrats need to care about urban disorder" take suffers from a dishonesty about the amount of cruelty necessary to solve the problem they're identifying

I actually believe that some Republicans not wanting to live under mafia government is going to crack up that coalition just enough for it to matter

We really lucked out on largely ending the GWOT juuuuust before FPV drones became a universal insurgent and infantry weapon so to hop back into Afghanistan with a handshake agreement that the Taliban won't fuck us the first chance they get is WIIIIILD.

Hope those of us in tech/tech-adjacent work like waking up early and staying up late to be on meetings with our newly offshored coworkers

If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters

Best pitcher of his generation, an all time great

Bluesky is wild man...

if these companies would just put out a statement saying “we told him to go fuck himself” they would instantly have the type of loyal and dedicated customer base corporations dream of and spend decades trying to cultivate

Of fucking COURSE

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

Absolutely pathetic

we are in really unsettling place that we're facing a deeply unpopular regime that is making everything appreciably worse but the people with the power to stand up to them and takes steps to maintain basic political stability are capitulating without a fight

It's one thing for a state government to say "ignore the CDC, we're keeping the existing vaccine schedules/approvals", but Senators are very powerful and should be doing more here than just telling the citizenry to ignore what Trump/RFK Jr are doing

I think there's a legitimate argument that the Columbian Exchange was a necessary precursor to the Industrial Revolution because before then the stimulants available to Europe were pretty mid

announcing my new think tank, the "people hate inflation, that's like 90% of why harris lost" institute

bro just one more billionaire funded group arguing for milquetoast centrism. bro please just one more, we'll throw gay people to the wolves this time too bro, not just trans ones. bro im begging you

Engardio recall is bad, turns out there's parts of this city where "moderate" really does mean "conservative"

You might think it should be a non-controversial belief among Democrats that "DC should be able to self-govern. But 31 House Democrats just voted to give Trump and Congressional Republicans full control over DC's sentencing laws. Shameful, heinous behavior from Vichy Democrats

Small thread on this: Almost all of the poor energy decisions in the US come from us having massive fossil fuel reserves. Our homes, cars, appliances don't need to be efficient because gas is cheap.

This is true for virtually any point A to point B, even when there is no traffic, and especially when you count parking times. Rare exception: Mission to Sunset, where cars can blaze west on 280. Source: dad who beat other dads to kid’s soccer games repeatedly, on a Tern.

i really do believe that at some point the non-American Anglo nations are going to end up requiring the equivalent of CanCon restrictions on algorithmic feeds, if only to prevent American brainworms from going global

Every brand new suburb sells its residents on "you get to have civilization on one side and untouched natural landscape on the other", and it never works because your new house was once somebody's untouched natural landscape

Fuck, and may I emphasize, yeah

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.