I don't quite understand the folks responding to this by saying, "Yeah, it's not great but there are no alternatives." That's the point! Calling things out is the first step in fixing a problem. "It's bad, but what can anyone do about it?" is an example of motonormativity!

I wrote about a difficult issue I struggle with:

People regularly attempt to murder people with a dangerous weapon and because it's a car it's framed as impatience or annoyance, instead of the deeply dangerous, violent behavior that it is.

Sabres.

Cow tools

nothing angers me more than people being snarky about those who want more and better mass transit :)

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

@magdalene.bsky.social 👋

need to also highlight the Buffalo fans knocking over the metal barrier during the celebrations at their outdoor watch party

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

Change is in the air, New York. Here are a few things blooming.

This was absolutely one of the most striking things about moving from suburban Atlanta to Manhattan when I was in my 20s. I remember being back home for a visit and, like, struggling to articulate to my parents just how different—and how much better and friendlier—the world felt on foot.

If you live in some of the more typical American sprawl environments and your only shopping choices are big box stores and chains, you're not going to have a lot of say in whether or not you can opt out of an AI-powered shopping experience.

I'm worried that just like living in a walkable neighborhood is a luxury good, living in a place where you can talk to shopkeepers, baristas, and other people is also going to become a benefit available to the wealthy. These things overlap in lots of ways.

Everything is fucking dumb all the time now

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how. www.zdnet.com/article/your...

SARBES

got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it

Raul Rivera yelling outside Mamdani presser. Mamdani: “I want that man to be able to afford to keep living in NYC, because the day that I don't hear him yelling at me, it means he got priced out of this place.” “We need to make this a city where it's affordable enough to yell at your politicians.”

The e-book edition of LIFE AFTER CARS is available for just $1.99 on @bookshop.org for a limited time! bookshop.org/a/9252/97805...

picture, thousan words, etc etc

do you have a power bank that you love? I'm testing a whole bunch for a rewrite of the @wsjbuyside.bsky.social guide and want to make sure I'm not missing anything!

only weirdos will respect this flea market find

Exhausted Nation Lacks Strength To Form Opinion On Donald Glover Being Voice Of Yoshi https://theonion.com/exhausted-nation-lacks-strength-to-form-opinion-on-donald-glover-being-voice-of-yoshi/

Try your damndest to live your life so that if you were fired from your job and about to give a speech that someone would tell you.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Reminder that Trump is receiving some kind of ongoing medical treatment that includes a huge number of blood draws &/or IV infusions, he’s got something on his neck, he’s got dementia, & we know nothing about his diagnoses, treatment (including medications & side effects), capacity, or prognosis

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

the entire pitch of Cuomo was that sure he's a loathsome sex pest but he has what it takes to stand up to Trump, and then the hot leftist starts every phone call with "what's up big dog" and gets Trump to do whatever he wants.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

"Personally, I just think it’s nice to share a bed and a couch and a dog (and, fuck it, a tax return) with a brilliant and beautiful woman whom I love and admire." A really lovely essay on the beauty of marriage from @joshgondelman.bsky.social playboy.substack.com/p/love-can-l...

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

cc: Bills Mafia

Something to keep in mind the next time the city tries to repurpose parking and drivers complain that every last car is necessary at all times. The storm was two weeks ago.

Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.

jeans = 👖 genes = 🧬 Gene =

Sabres did a piss poor job promoting their Black History Night on this website. The specialty crest rules.

lol

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm via hearts530

sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Also the use of the word “suspect”. Suspected of what?

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

genuinely stunning image