Happy Christmas to all and to all a good bike!

Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year. As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

They have been harassing people at this nutrition bar factory in Cato, NY for *MONTHS* first this now the bathroom invasion? @governor.ny.gov when are you going to put a stop to these lawless thugs running a town in your state?

Let myself sit with the line "He took my childhood in his stride" So many victims in these files and behind the redactions. Justice would hear them speak and center their needs. Justice would see these men removed from jobs, power, and freedom.

I encourage people posting to stay mindful of the fact that countless real little girls and young women were horribly victimized by the Epstein network—and there are also MANY other survivors reading what is written here.

We're excited for the Inner Loop North infill to reconnect our community while saving millions in highway maintenance costs! www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2025-...

replacing ‘male loneliness epidemic’ with ‘male maturity epidemic’ never misses

Attn. @governor.ny.gov

Texas Democrats just did something historic under the leadership of new state party chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social. We have filed a candidate in EVERY 2026 race. U.S. Senate: 1 of 1 U.S. House: 38 of 38 State Senate: 15 of 15 State House: 150 of 150 State Board of Education: 8 of 8

Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers. If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers. INCLUDING DRIVERS. The “war on cars” has always been a lie.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Saw the 2nd Wicked movie, and both loved and mourned the songs they added to turn (unsubtle) subtext into actual text in the lyrics. "A pathological liar is turning your home into a dystopian nightmare using racist lies, I know it's comfortable to live in your bubble but open your eyes and fight."

Useful timelapse youtu.be/T6SiYlMD0U8?...

GOP gerrymandering, and also the NYS Senate map for a while because Cuomo let them do it here too. If you're wondering how satisfying it was to watch him lose twice for the job of mayor of a city in a state he used to be governor? Don't miss him. Not a bit.

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Our Costco is right on the canal path - a 5 mile ride to 2 universities and downtown... original plan was an entire neighborhood of 2-4 story residential around it (a tower could have been a bit much) and they are just about to finish Three (3!) drive through chain places and a hotel.

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” is the greatest founding myth of any nation ever.

Moose are our great allies in @thewaroncars.bsky.social

#Montreal 's just leap-frogged other cities in North America by opening the REM. Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (Capable of 110 km/h). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems) And really fun to ride... 🧵

Why not? Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild. Moose Loon Beaver Elk (from a train if that counts...) Road Runner

closing in on an hour after his bedtime, someone asked my son if he wanted pie and he sprinted straight into a wall

Car alarms that go on for more than 10 seconds should automatically trigger a parking ticket sized fine. It's enough that you effectively own & render unusable nearly half of the public space in our city, you don't get to own the air.

This is still the best one

I was genuinely aggrieved when they switched the lights on our street from a warm 3 to a cool-white 2. Would happily pay to have them switched to a warm 4...

Pretty cool! See you tonight, Portland, at @powells.bsky.social.

This headline is journalistic malpractice. This isn't Epstein "alleging" that Trump knew. This is Epstein and Maxwell discussing - in 2011, long before Trump had political salience - how the FACT that Trump knew might play out Both of them took as a given that this was a fact in a private email

As a kid who put his entire self worth into good grades in math & science in Grade school while taking shelter in also being a judgmental jerk about it... Do not do this to your kids. An "A+" in HS (let alone elementary)means basically nothing for real competence. College was a rude awakening.

Funded by taxpayers... Fascist cops are expensive.

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Really seeing once again, it seems, that the real divide in the Democratic coalition is not left/lib/moderate or anything like that. It's the fight/no-fight divide. And the 'fight' dems are the ones winning elections.

Exactly this... The math isn't mathing, and snap comes back whenever the government reopens. The ACA subsidies only come back if Congressional Democrats hold the line and make them come back.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

The government has been shut down for 40 days—the longest in history. All Democrats have fought hard for extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits that make health care affordable for millions. I’m voting against the bill given it doesn’t extend these valuable tax credits.

No cave but Cave Johnson When Republicans give you lemons, don't make lemonade...

“Voters made it clear: the American people want leadership with a backbone. And at a critical moment when they need leaders to stay strong under pressure, the Senate is on the brink of caving on a bill that the American people can't afford.”

Cannot wait for every one of these losers to get Mamdanied to hell the next cycle they’re up. They can all go live with Cuomo on an island in the sea.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

I just don't even understand the math on this... end of the day SNAP going to come back whenever the gov reopens. These ACA subsidies aren't in any existing law... And the cost to American households is almost twice the average snap benefit... We can't organize to cover this need. People will die.

So who's announcing their candidacy for Senate in New York this week? I'm ready to start canvassing.

Don't do it Chuck. You've been here before. Literally all of us know what's going to happen next. Do you?

It's worth noting that FSAs are literally the worst financial instrument known to man... The idea that you would ever except payments on your behalf into an account that disappears at the end of the year 🤯... HSAs aren't great but at least you get to keep them...

I know quite a few comrades on the ACA exchange. I used to be on the exchange for years. A doubling or tripling of premium costs will be a death sentence for people who NEED HEALTH INSURANCE to survive. PERIOD. We've heard Democrats say as much for WEEKS. So what the hell??????

Triple prime voter here who just called senators Gillibrand and Schumer. I will donate, organize, canvas and do whatever it takes to elect somebody who will not cave to fascism if you cave yourselves or cover for those who do.

Are you now - or have you ever been - aware of Zohran Mamdani?

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Want to keep a bunch of cash out of a Nazi’s hands? Take any savings you have out of market indices where TSLA makes up a large share, like the NASDAQ.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Reading more send-ups about this Tuesday's election and I think these local wins are a bigger story than most people give it credit for. Local Republican party machines all across the country are demoralized and out of power.