I’m just going to repost it

Spoilers for WEAPONS

THE FACT THAT ONE OF THE POP-TARTS CHOSE TO LIVE MAKES THE WHOLE THING WORSE SOMEHOW

There is so much happening here

Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

“Hey girl, do you like trains? Because that ass looks like two Bakken crude tankers being laid up at Selkirk”

The Republicans on the council believe they can use Mamdani as a punching bag to restrain his policy ambitions while boosting their own state/national profiles. I would love to see them keep trying this. It will not backfire on them. They will not accidentally stumble into promoting oppression

I cannot stop laughing. Mamdani is responsible for what the landlord charges after he left? Article sources are basically a list of Republican council members and all of them are *MAD*. Alas, being mad is not a terminal illness. Probably promotes aging tho

Doesn’t need context

These are STRONG and they should be

Sigh. I did not mean to poke the hive with this, and I am (seriously!) on vacation, so I have not read all the responses. But the little red circle tells me there are a lot, and like the man says on here, I've seen enough. So: as much of a response as I can cram into a few minutes:

Mods on holiday, time to post Hydrated Shrek

Not to mention, a freight rail operator is largely responsible for the rail service being curtailed & then eliminated. States need to eminent-domain these lines, they can't be shared with these vampire-like Class 1s anymore

for a good laugh, review all the top news stories from January and February

oh. no. not diplo

Transit's main competition is cars. If you raise fares from $2.50 to $3, you're still way more affordable than driving. But if you cut the bus from every 15 to every 20, you're screwed because cars have infinity frequency and 24 hr service span.

But that one white guy couldn’t get a job in Hollywood because woke!!!!

They get it. They just like him and want to help him rule over us like a king

THE CUT every six months:

1) we’ve had the productive capacity to produce food for every living person on this planet 2) we have the logistics to deliver these to every person on this planet 3) we have ideologies and philosophies to know that’s good That we don’t is a choice. And a moral failure.

That time of year again!

Something to keep in mind when the press is up Mamdani's ass about campaign promises during his first week in office When you're a billionaire you can just say anything. For anyone else...

Or maybe that hits a nerve in the moment, perhaps not being helpful or accurate but documenting the Big Mood

This administration lied about the people it sent to an overseas torture prison. It lies about the people it’s deporting. It lies every day to gain political advantage. Not a chance in hell they won’t lie about huge swaths of people they suspect might vote for the other party.

People say “Avatar had no cultural impact” as though teaching a whole generation about the sacrifice of our brave boys who died fighting on Pandora doesn’t count as a cultural impact

Empty threats aside, Dems should run in 2026 and 2028 on imposing a federal wealth tax much of the proceeds from which be returned to the states. The federal government essentially serving as the wealth tax collector for the states is far harder to evade.

Nah this ain’t it

Barely snowing lmao

I think it’s not an exaggeration to conclude that the NYT is directly responsible with denying some of the worst genocides to have happened since the Holocaust, especially when the US is complicit in them jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...

Story sucks, reporting is flimsy, framing is crap. Today’s “I wish I could cancel these fuckers again” exhibit

Private equity firms and the like tend to do unpleasant things to companies, but what happened here should have been made illegal for future transactions. It’s also a strong warning against allowing “zombie companies” to linger, because strip-mining ends up killing value rather than extracting

I have a joke about this I’m not sharing

Love to get a random email from Citizen (haven’t opened their app all year) saying “Mayor Adams Briefs New Yorkers About Winter Weather” like we fall for this strong-Eric-Adams right wing messaging anymore. Literally do not need the mayor on this one. It’s not a blizzard

Part of modernization and leveling up competence will have to involve undoing passenger trauma

Make a Bond film casual A View To A Kiss

The last issue of the year, where I talk about what's on a lot of people's minds: what they can try to do to stop their 2026 from being like their 2025. Unfortunately, the answer is not as simple as "try twice as hard." Against systemic causes, even the power of spite can only get you so far.

"Hey are you going anywhere for the holidays?" No, because I have been burned on this country's air travel system before & I don't want a repeat of what is happening today to a lot of people (one measly NE snowstorm & everyone's flights are canceled for a week)

People are much more comfortable pretending Stephen Miller doesn’t know what he’s saying than contending with the fact of white supremacy.

“Moms don’t have time to stage a picture” how come everyone managed to do it before LLMs? We’re just making shit up now and using normal kid behavior as a wild excuse for not even attempting to take a real family photo You shouldn’t have to explain it like this to sell the tech to people.

“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome

These are real “Omar’s coming!” hours around here

I guess they don’t coordinate with the department that keeps banning a lot of users for life on sketchy or erroneous grounds

Confirmation that the New York Times has changed their internal style guide to cease using the term "gender affirming care" and instead use the term "gender related care."

I always thought Plato was pretty pollyannaish on this point, but this is decent evidence for the view that a man of bad character will therefore be unhappy even with every external trapping of success and good fortune.

What is compelling The Times to repeat the obviously stupid things Trump says? “Protect Christmas” is braindead propaganda.

Spoiler alert: that baby dies. Eat arbys festively.

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

An important story that gets to the crux of the issue with severe mental illness: If you cannot process information rationally, you often won’t seek help or will resist it. And temporarily stabilizing, releasing, repeating once they deteriorate again is cruel to the ill and solves nothing.

UPDATE: We may see the first time English is displaced as the most popular language among Bluesky posters as soon as Americans head to sleep tonight. Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.