Post-lunch cue taken, my next cue is in two hours.

"[Russian] people are nice. It's nothing like you see on the news or the TV or in the movies. They are not evil. They're just like us." - The family that thinks Texas is ruined by queer people and immigrants and liberals

Chuck Schumer is doing this because he is sabotaging the emergence of a Democratic Party that actually promises real results for working people, in order to protect his phony job and his billionaire friends

As if airlines aren't hit enough by the traffic limits, flying at a low altitude burns way more fuel, so this greatly increases fuel costs. Not sure if this is happening across many flights, but it's extra not good for ops.

Today's FlixBus/Greyhound experience: The computer sold me a ticket for seat 20E on a bus with 14 rows and seats lettered A-D

When will they ban these super-dangerous ebikes?!?!

I'm aware that there are some notable names in the US Nazi movements that lived in the part of rural coastal Maine I grew up in, but I'm looking forward to breaking the six (?) episode streak of @socialistdogmom.bsky.social's Weird Little Guys podcast that open down the road from my childhood home.

And based on the reviews of it, it's easy to see why!

Obviously "we had the most on-time flights ever" is classic Trump doublespeak – referring to a high percentage due to low volume – but cancelling flights to improve the system overall is actually sound dispatching decision making.

twelve hungry men

We make scooter riders take a picture of the scooter to prove it’s parked legally. Can you imagine if we did that to cars?

It's a Rekon M1! (With $20 markup)

Finally, a tech company recognizes that we should be embarrassed about talking to computers in public

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani. Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money. That is how we win.

A big result: Maine voters have rejected the conservative ballot measure that'd have restricted ballot access. The measure was going to impose voter ID, and restrict mail voting significantly. It lost easily, a year before the crucial midterms there. Our coverage: boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

spend all year fucking with federal employees, see what happens to The State Exclusively Populated By Federal Employees

The no side of Question 1 had 60.2% of votes to 39.8% for the yes side when the Bangor Daily News and its national partner, Decision Desk HQ, called the race at 9:26 p.m. Tuesday.

I'd like to believe no one actually thinks this is Trump 4D chess rather than one rich white guy with a bad record of harassment supporting another rich white guy with a bad history of harassment, but I've watched the past three election cycles so

Meanwhile, in the far-left progressive bastion of ... entire State of Utah: "The plan shows 3,100 miles of paths. The network would come within a mile of 95% of Utahns, connect to 33 school campuses, 31 state/national parks, and 74 high-capacity transit stations." www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10...

@universalhub.com the new expansion to the south station bus terminal is completedish. Signage and final touches still ongoing.

What is this monstrosity?! That location could have been such a good abandoned parking lot with deteriorating chain link fencing!

The Repository has been taken over by skeletons! ...they've been very enthusiastic about allocating the xtra bone stash this Halloween. For one night only, step up, and visit a world in which cladistics aren’t enforced & taxonomy is non-euclidean! www.animal-photo-references.com/spoopy-scary...

Well, Affinity didn't go subscription or AI-first, so that's good.

The CA High Speed Rail project is very over budget. With that in mind, the current projection is $132 billion USD. This will connect Los Angeles to San Francisco, a distance of 400 miles in 2.5 hours. With several stops along the way. Corporate investment in AI in the US for 2024 was $252 billion

Vote blue no matter who! (Unless it's that one guy I don't like)

The Massachusetts rainy day fund has 8.6 billion in it right now. Look around @massgovernor.bsky.social - it's raining.

Mamdani's policies poll +24 points nationally, as opposed to the Democrats at -28. Yes, a 52 point difference.

I wrote my most personal blog post to date. It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community. afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...

Fun fact, growing up I learned to handle trailers in a standard transmission Volkswagen Jetta.

MBTA secures $850m state boost for critical upgrades… www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/23/m...

So who’s the hater and who’s the waiter?

ACTUAL GOOD TRANSIT NEWS ALERT: Metro-North will run to Albany, starting this spring. And Amtrak is adding back one train to NYP-ALB and capping prices at $99.

Wow!! @mtametronorth.bsky.social plans to extend service to Albany starting in spring 2026! It'll offer once-a-day round trip service! 🚆 gothamist.com/news/metro-n...

Very disappointing of Mubi, which has links to the Israeli occupation www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

New @techconnectify.bsky.social video! Excited to learn about Alec's very large pet robo-spider.

No, Redfin, I don't think that's why the Miller house is getting so many views.

MassDOT secretary Tibbits-Nutt steps down. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/16/m...

Fun fact, this is a problem in theater and film too: we work with a lot of fabrics that are fire treated and lose their fire rating when wet.

Very weird to watch the livestream from a helicopter camera of a crashed medical helicopter, then to watch it pan over to the hospital right beside the highway that the helicopter was likely landing at/taking off from to capture another medical helicopter landing on the helipad before panning back.

This one block should allow a massive apartment tower, but only so you can live on the 60th floor at 60 and 60, 60 in three dimensions.

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community! gem.coop I am *super* excited about this!

I guess I can stay up long enough for one more commit…

A generational fumble by Ruby Central is now complete. Anyway, I'm happy that the people who disagreed decided to get up and Do Something By Coding. I love to see that and can 100% get behind it 👍

When they say that artists must suffer for their art what they mean is that whatever software the art is made in must constantly crash.