schroedinger's HSR: we're simultaneously too wealthy and too poor to build high speed rail

In Dublin last year, an annoying interviewer demanded of me: “Your country has been overtaken by fascists. Why are you smiling?” I was too jetlagged to have a sensible answer so I said, “I’m smiling because I have a knife between my teeth.” The knife might look like this:

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

nazi youth clubs

New paper from Terner Center at UC Berkeley affordable housing finance at the state level. California’s uniquely fragmented finance system drives delay and cost increases. ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

Some from Toronto

The entire purpose of the SAVE Act is to make sure trans people and married women can no longer vote. That's it.

my big takeaway from @emmaruthless.bsky.social's SFUSD strike diary: anyone trying to tell you it's families vs. teachers is trying to sell you a load of crap www.coyotemedia.org/area-teacher...

“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.” Works for me.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

if there are no repercussions mrbeast is going to be the epstein of the next generation

fuck the chronicle

its ro khanna so nobody knows including himself

Day 2 of daniel luries teacher strike maybe he could put the money spent on AI bullshit on these teachers salaries instead

the IRA could do the funniest thing

Erika Kirk heard there were a bunch of Republicans in Ireland and didn't read any further

One of the rolls i developed somehow got flashed, however through the magic of camera scanning and darktable i was actually able to get a decent bit out of it. the photos look obviously a bit colorful and ridiculous for what fuji 100 should look like but hey ill take it

This morning, I wrote about struggling under the weight of this moment and offered a few reflections on why it's important to still seek out joy and rest in the midst of our feverish struggle. Don't let the burnout getcha, folks, we have a world to win.

Age verification? I remember the animated windows 95 aquarium screensaver

mr beast would secretly smuggle a xenomorph to earth

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

The onion remains undefeated in delivering the most accurate news. theonion.com/ai-chatbot-t...

This is why everyone in Minneapolis was telling you not to trust our mayor even though he was all cool and edgy and said a naughty word on TV

We hit the SF Teachers picket lines on Strike Day 1, and we learned something new: fulfilling quality special education is at the heart of the strike. bayareacurrent.com/we-are-out-h...

The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939

this was never going to do anything if scott really wants to protect people he would push to gain control of the CA national guard and use them to arrest every single ice agent who so much as runs a red light

Yeah the right wing of the country got way more openly racist and the secret police have been emboldened to tear gas random children whenever they feel like but at least the labor market is terrible and we'll all be poorer forever

cope and seethe megyn what culture have white women like her given us???? (i am a noted white woman but at least im queer and a leftist so i dont suck as a human being)

watching her say the word “Latinos” like that was genuinely one of the most racist things I’ve ever witnessed short of just seeing someone use a slur

i have been thinking about this nonstop after i saw it for the first time last night. this is an immaculately crafted joke. maybe the best joke ive ever seen

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

Emma here. Massive turnout at SF Civic Center rn in support of UESF and the teachers strike. Teachers, principals, parents, students.

gasolina is girl gasoline

I need seattle hotel recs for 1-2 days pls and ty

Day one of the teachers strike dont forget Daniel Lurie cut SFUSDs budget last year!

like Ring but an army of mostly empty autonomous surveillance cars driving all over your city 24 hours a day

ty sonic fans for doing ur thing

call me "woke" or whatever but I think the Superbowl should have less football and more dancing latinas

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Any Berkeley / Oakland area artists interested in painting some benches? dm me.

dont forget that in the lead up to the super bowl SF and SJ displaced a ton of homeless people to "make the cities look nicer for visitors" and now its supposed to pour rain wednesday and this weekend of course none of them will have been offered stable housing in the process

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

true autism has never been tried

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

Seattle votes for a car-free, transit-first mayor and they win the Super Bowl…just observing and noticing (this post does not contain any judgments)