This but mostly: where’s all the Widow’s Bay in my TL? “You told me to be supportive!” ☠️☠️☠️

Do you really think you've got the stuff to be part of an underground insurrectionist cell if you can't even drive phone calls to the Congressional switchboard? I swear we indulge too many stupid 12 year old fantasies on our side of the aisle.

Deadline EOD tomorrow. Please share and nominate! 📚

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Me, on how we actually do something about our legacy of overwide streets. Please urbanist/yimbyland, share and take this up. www.circulatesd.org/member_guest... Many thanks to @circulatesd.bsky.social for publishing.

California library folks -- please please nominate yourself or your colleague for a CLA tech professional or emerging leader award-- www.cla-net.org/page/718 www.cla-net.org/page/717 we really want to recognize your great work!!! noms due 5/18

Do we have any sort of metric for this? Seems like some cities do better than others.

Julieta Venegas: La Leyenda de Tijuana

Incidentally, I think the same 1-dimensional thinking accounts for the gap between expectations (thiS guaraNtees cEntrists!) and outcomes (progressive wins) in top-two elections.

1. library refresh/remodeling service (hire me!) 2. library software co (only partly out of spite)

In case anyone missed the AV Club New Cult Canon (2012), it's a pretty definitive list. Looks like the original isn't up anymore. This is the only reproduction I could find that retained the order. www.listchallenges.com/the-new-cult... #3 is my fave

Was reminded to tout an open source project I like: @getpublii.bsky.social, a very friendly and capable static site CMS. Good stuff, everyone.

I'm somewhat receptive to the 'culture slowed down' take, but not for dance, no way.

The Vegetarian Cafe and Bakery on 6th Avenue, San Diego, circa 1936.

The unsophisticated normielib take on Fox News is correct

I'm somewhat receptive to the 'culture slowed down' take, but not for dance, no way.

Thinking a lot about the surge of interest in the Bund with the publishing of Crabapple’s book. This is great! The Bund was a huge part of Jewish life in Russia and Poland and remains a vibrant source in some corners today! (1)

Very rare. Alert Level: Cather

1. library refresh/remodeling service (hire me!) 2. library software co (only partly out of spite)

Is Bumble Bee moving out of Petco? Looks like they are packing up.

Farmed shrimp being as high as it is on this list is on account of low efficiency diesel motors, right? Fixable and maybe already happening…?

For Trump, a torch. For Nithya, a priceless in-kind campaign donation.

An MTS manager told me that no one makes LNG-hybrid buses. Is that right? If so, why? (MTS is outfitted for LNG and BEV only)

Okay which one of you did this?

Not all magic has a cover charge. Happy National Library Week ✨

America banned its most affordable housing. SRO rooms once rented 40% below studio rates, no subsidy needed. The ROOM Act would legalize them again, converting empty offices into housing for workers priced out of the market. www.niskanencenter.org/the-bottom-r...

reasonable people disagree but I'm really tiring of the hyperbole this year about top-two, of which this thread is a more steelmanly example or at least, I'm interested to see the comments in June after catastrophe does not happen (yes PR is the answer but it's not on the ballot)

more ambitious Apple News - fund big & small newspapers and magazines to stock it (non-exclusively), publishing agreements and step back - replace Substack - Android & web support - play nice with internet - gently add features is already well used and the sole successful micropayment for news

YOU LIKE PEOPLE YOU LIKE BOOKS BE A LIBRARIAN (may 1945)

The Palantir thing reads like second rate Society of the Spectacle as written by the Spectacle

Randomly wondering with Trump’s meltdown over the Pope if anyone’s checked on Sean Spicer

shocking to compare the rapidity of these "deliberations" with the court's complete lack of action on impoundments, emoluments, and declarations of war

someone's surely posted this theory already but I think the Pope thing is just Trump being mad at Vance for not fixing everything and for being handed distance by the press. And then half sublimating those feelings, half ratcheting JD's allegiance. "Pope weak on crime", said the child.

"Russiagate" isn't a "hoax" in other countries

And there’s more! Narrow streets also mean more land is productively used, more development pencils out, and crossing distances are shorter. The trick for those for existing street narrowings is that some ROW has to pass to the adjacent lots. Am working on a thing about this…

I’m not in the SD beer scene at all, but seems like going on many years now there’s been a big shift here to include craft lagers and pilsners. And the quality is so damn high.

can I still get a good payout on CA Gov ending up D vs D in November?

once more with feeling

At Tecate (photo is Juarez)

hell ya www.mlb.com/news/padres-...

The problem with a president who flamboyantly gorges on foreign emoluments, Constitution be damned, is right here: the inevitability of the national interest conflicting with the objectives of his foreign financiers. That inevitability has arrived. Yay, us.

It’s important to say so repeatedly, the stench of Trump is also the stench of Fox. Another Fox News war crime, another Fox News assault on working people.

do I know anyone who knows anyone in the fashion world? thanks

One of the things that makes me pessimistic about adopting a more efficient and effective approach to transit integration in urban spaces in North America is that the system is definitely not set up to accept anything other than oversizing as the only acceptable design solution.

Road trip tomorrow. In a rented minivan, as is the way.

Seriously though, I want to really note my appreciation for Tim Walz’s specific, by-name defense of our Somali neighbors. “Your great-grandchildren will still be here when this administration is dust” hit me harder than every other speaker combined

Not important but this clip that’s going around I think sells turnout quite short. Pretty sure the march was well up Pac Hwy, out of frame on right, by this time, approximately a mirror image of the march shown.

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feels super weird to look to LA to redeem this election year for California, but there it is, counting on LA and Nithya