my entire feed is just Bay Area people who got woken up and I think that’s beautiful

M 4.6 - 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA Link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492

That one was punchy wasn't it? The other 4.5ish one that woke me up was like waking up in a waterbed but this one was a big jolt

“In humans, curiosity usually begins as a mental stirring, but in octopuses,… it’s a function of bodily design. In a sense, curiosity + intention are dispersed throughout an octopus’s tissues—right out to the tips of its tentacles. Inquisitiveness… ‘is built into the octopuses’ anatomy.’”

ANOTHER UPDATE from Huffpo (because nothing is real or stable in these times) "After initially planning to temporarily close the Broadview facility, the Department of Homeland Security decided Sunday to keep it open and operational, according to agency communications."

UPDATE: Huffpo is reporting the Trump administration "plans to evacuate" the Broadview facility in the wake of recent protests. If you have info about where ICE's processing operations will be happening in the Chicagoland area after this move, I am KMHChi.01 on Signal.

Can't wait to digest all of this and reflect on it

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

have often noticed that a core disconnect is how much meaning is loaded into the word "respect"

american english effectively has a high and low dialect, in addition to its various regionalisms, and when people say "working class" they frequently mean that the person speaks Low American English in public appearances, and not anything else

Thousands of literary fans climbed the steps of the State Capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, on Saturday, Sept. 13, to sit in on panels, attend workshops and ask authors to sign their books as part of the 2025 iteration of the Mississippi Book Festival.

"No dollars for dictatorship."

In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, residents have long struggled to access clean water. Now, developers plan to spend $165 billion on a massive data center complex.

I would like to read a deep dive reported piece on how tech CEOs stopped being clean energy boosters and became fossil fuel promoters. It feels like it happened with the Silicon Valley radicalization, but saying that feels very squishy to me.

🚨 New paper: “Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?” in the Journal of Politics (JOP) (joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social) 👉 Have a look over here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Most important findings in this thread: 1/11

Interested in public ownership of the railroads? Public Rail Now is fighting back against privatization, and laying the way for a future where the public, rather than corporations, own the rails, and actually invest in them with electrification and good jobs publicrailnow.org/research/eco...

Neil deGrasse Tyson: um actually Jimmy Hendrix but the sky isn't actually kissable that's just the atmosphere it is too big to kiss

Are people able to put 2+2 together here with several prominent Democrats only able to say “what are we, North Korea?” every 24 hours?

more like department of homies' insecurities

"We're not North Korea" Sorry can someone point me to all the videos of masked goons kidnapping and murdering parents in North Korea bc I haven't seen those www.latimes.com/california/s...

I'm not even trying to be a snob, I just genuinely don't know what any of us think "normal" looks like anymore. The Biden years were an attempt at a low-key restoration of normal, they failed in no small part because we didn't need "normal," what we needed was an extraordinary response to Jan 6.

I just spent the morning as an observer at the first @bouldercolorado.bsky.social community assembly. It is a work in progress, and I am so proud of my town. At a time when democracy is falling apart, there is hope when we come together for real problem solving. bouldercolorado.gov/community-as...

If the Christian rapture were to happen next week, we'd at least have some real solid information about what the possible futures look like.

Tbh most conversations I am reading about high electricity prices are people using the opportunity to repeat the talking points they've had for anywhere between a decade and when they recently found religion on it.

Rubbing my hands and licking my lips

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The 16th Street Station in West Oakland. It was very cool to learn about the formidable Black history that this site belongs to.

It's wild to sell out for $50,000 like that. Don't get me wrong, that is a lot of money, but to price your one reputation like that says a lot about what you've put into it.

a couple things stand out to me. The battle over IRA's contents in the US marked a fork in this path Ketan describes, as the capital in the climate tent decisively disciplined left civil society out of what they presumed was going to exclusively be their tent going forward.

"The USDA uses the survey to produce its annual food security report, which stands as the official government source of information on how many Americans have—or do not have—enough to eat." www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Making people buy their freedom back from the government isn't just wrong, it also increases crime. www.salon.com/2025/09/20/c...

Fighting a migraine for my life so I can go see an old train station today

Having a son naming him Benmo

“When California proposed a privacy bill that would have affect the Chrome browser, Google reached out to small business owners to go oppose the bill on its behalf, without ever taking a public stance on whether it supported the legislation.” Borrowed this tactic from their fossil fuel friends.

So H1-B visa holders have less than 24 hours to get back here if they were on a trip abroad while this is happening? That’s just insane. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/g...

If you think Hamburger Helper is a 1970s staple and not a 1980s or 1990s or 2000s staple then it doesn’t matter wtf you think about anything. Folks have been eating one of the best meals in a box ever invented FAITHFULLY.

the idea that LGBT people are elite or privileged is unambiguous bigotry. people decide that LGBT people aren't entitled to anything, and therefore when they just exist in public it's unbearable entitlement which must be slapped down.

there are many trans people who are not white. also trans people are disproportionately poor and homeless. they experience employment discrimination; their families also not infrequently disown them and kick them out of the house. 1

I had a whole story ready to publish about this convention center vote, but Yaroslavsky's speech — one of the most powerful I’ve ever seen on the council floor — said it better than I ever could. It's a must-read, and I also included a link to the video

Spot on. Not every city is trying to do what LA is right now but there are some grim fiscal times ahead. I know public service employees are beginning to organize. That’s good.

There are huge organizing projects in this country that have nothing to do with changing the views of anyone in DC or any NYT opinion writer.

Imagine if all the white ladies canceled their Disney+/Hulu subs, stopped paying Amazon, and quit supporting Target and other problematic brands and paid those 320k Black women who lost their jobs monthly instead? Just thinking out loud.

✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 This is action

First U.S.-Built WTIV Charybdis Arrives in Virginia to Begin Installations maritime-executive.com/article/firs...

These folks are real ones. I support them, and I hope you will too.

now i must do what every person loves to do on a friday night, look at a contract. my 24 year old self would not recognize my 38 year old self.

Signs of the times in New York.

love boarding in zone 6 for a flight, wriggling my leprous face tentacles and frightening the children and elderly with my sublime horrible poverty. “no carry-on for me! my master beelzebub shall provision me!!” i wail at the fainting ladies

a friend is sharing this amazing party in nyc tomorrow night, a fundraiser for Sunduq al Sudan, who provide essential support to mutual aid orgs on the ground there. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Began thinking about this today for completely different reasons (i was at my job in city hall) and think we need all sorts of creative ideas like this, everywhere, and quickly...