seems like an easy fix for the US to just adopt the sensible EU regs! bsky.app/profile/bubb...

yes it's not the LED tech per se that's the problem (though LEDs have enabled headlights to appear in blue hues which is problematic for light pollution reasons) bsky.app/profile/bubb...

Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year. I don't plan to let anyone forget it.

This.

Musk's "time away from politics" involved having Republicans completely revamp the 2021 infrastructure bill so that a huge swath of the $42.5 billion in taxpayer broadband grants are funneled to his company (and away from better options) in exchange for satellite service he already planned to offer

This is a librarian appreciation post. Librarians are book angels 😇

That pigeon is goin' places!

The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.

I won't consider Starlink for the same reason I won't buy a Tesla and why I'm no longer on the former Twitter: I won't willingly give money to (or be an advertising base for) a Nazi salute-throwing fascist who actively tried to destroy our democracy

Only a couple of major news outlets (CNN, USA) are covering this at all. You would think if the goal was clicks and views, this would be all over the media. If clicks are not the goal, it makes you think about: what is?

Ideally we’d have car free cities, but let’s start with better headlights and smaller vehicles.

I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.

Interesting thread

when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"

The raccoons are getting even cuter!

ACA was their plan. It was the Republican plan, copied from Romney in Massachusetts and expanded nationwide. The reason they have nothing is because the ACA is the most right-wing option that actually (sort of) works. They have no alternatives because they don’t like how any alternative works.

IMD is an opportunity to acknowledge how patriarchal oppression hurts everyone - men included - and find common cause in dismantling systems of power that teach men that their social inheritance is that of violence, cruelty, and isolation. A better world is possible.

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

Really good Wikipedia page for the investment firm that owns Panera

One Republican voted against releasing the Epstein files: Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana.

After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne. So ProPublica did. Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

This is the most normal things will be for the rest of your life

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

if you're wondering why we don't see as much gaza despite the steady trickle of reports that israel continued strikes throughout the "ceasefire," it's because they deliberately killed most of the journalists in palestine

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.

Today is just one long demonstration of the One Special Boy virus that has consumed our polity. Immediate presidency-ending stuff for anyone else from at least Truman to Biden. We're not even pretending to care about the law or the Constitution or any of the norms or duct tape anymore.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever: - taking maternity leave at the wrong time - spending too much time with your kids - reporting harassment - not moving every 2-3 years - taking a partner's job/preferences into account - mouthing off before tenure

Was reminded today that the literal meaning of "good morning" in Japanese, "Ohayō Gozaimasu," is, "It is Early - politely!" It's just "[polite prefix] Early [formal version of 'to exist' as a verb]."

This is incredible, just aesthetically and scientifically beautiful

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows

Why would I work my ass off to provide valuable goods and services to my community when I can become a trillionaire by scamming rubes

predatory men are an enormous tax on women’s productivity (and happiness)

It's the "smell this" of journalism

(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

The media participated in a years-long psyop that convinced voters Biden's actual immigration policy was Trump's and that Biden's was "open borders." They did not tell voters that Trump's actual policy was "kidnap abuelas and put them in concentration camps"

Top 5 Film Genres: Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow Space Normies Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity

Johnny Knoxville landing on his face in 2006 while doing "Bicentennial BMX" made me laugh so loud in the theater even the teenage boys in the audience turned to look. I still laugh at it, 20 years later. May his marriage be full of laughter for twice as long

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Political journalism, and the elite tier of journalism generally, got taken over by billionaire courtiers, conservative activists and sex-pest dipshits and those three groups have largely hounded the real reporters out of the profession as a matter of class self-interest.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C. The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end. “We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.” current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS

Fresh light has been shone on an interview that claims Nintendo of America once suggested Pokémon's beloved mascot Pikachu should look like "a kind of a tabby cat with huge breasts." https://bit.ly/4lc1fJb

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I was not aware of this story, and I'm guessing that the University of Virginia wanted it that way augustafreepress.com/news/shame-o...

Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...