Annual PSA that you have the power to greatly improve the zen of your bsky/all socials by adding Fire Island/Fire Island Pines/FIP to your list of muted terms 😊 🏳️‍🌈

I will be voting for Tom Steyer.

Threads is the worst in part because it is the most terminally 2018 site in the world

Ok which one of you did this

Elon committed genocide; it was insane he's permitted in polite society.

some day soon, god willing, we will finally be free of "subway takes"

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

Embarrassing for @wired.com

Important

This is a fantastic example of everything wrong with the "progressive" wing of the San Francisco political establishment. You cannot claim to care about the affordability crisis while espousing pro-car, anti-upzoning policy positions and messaging. Sorry!

If the only way to fix racism is with mind-reading shock collars, we should do it

“That’s right, we made sure we did the alien just like you asked. Real fuckin’ sexy”

What if our country wasn't run by white trash religious freaks. That could be good

I can't be the only one who went from not knowing the LIRR had a union to wanting Hochul to break the strike in the span of a week

After an evening of arguing about fertility on Bluesky, I gotta say: you people are gonna be SO annoying when they pass the constitutional amendment in 2085 disenfranchising citizens over 90 so they can roll back the 10-hour weekly eldercare conscription program and fund more Lingala daycares

a lot of people have moved on from the fact that Russia has been waging a war of ethnic cleansing against Ukrainian civilians for almost half a decade at this point

Based indigenous YMIBY towers

Ms. Kim’s single payer home insurance plan would almost certainly force urban homeowners in low fire risk areas to heavily subsidize homeowners in high fire risk areas. Then, when it inevitably suffers catastrophic losses thanks to a major fire, it will bankrupt the state.

Single payer healthcare makes sense because the risk of getting hurt or sick is random; so price discrimination is unfair to unlucky people. Pricing risk to homes, OTOH, is good and useful. If you choose to buy a house in a flood plain or fire risk zone, you *should* pay higher insurance premiums!

Literally an Onion article

Republicans (2026)

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Truly

The internecine wars about Twitter and Bluesky always feel like a 30 year high school reunion where some middle-aged people still clearly identify as “cheerleader” and “varsity” while other people cannot remember any of the people in the room. The people who ignored the reunion invite won.

a lot of people clearly think that the united states should have a "hukou" style system of controlled migration

the fact that each individual bumfuck town in the Central Valley can arbitrarily refuse to give California the permits it needs to build high speed rail is extremely cursed whose idea was it to build high speed rail without a self-permitting authority??

Jealous that LA is inaugurating new subway projects they worked on for decades, meanwhile Oakland and the surround areas haven't even considered rapid transit expansion since 1972.

This seems like the moderate option

Turns out that starting a new city from scratch is expensive. People love “small government” but don’t realize that small cities are expensive to run

Broken clock et cetera

Wow DSA LA’s straw poll of its membership showed Raman had a plurality just shy of a majority.

@bostongayboy.bsky.social you have competition for Strongest & Most Heroic Massachusetts Man www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...

"Chief Justice Roberts, can you please settle an argument that my friend and I have been having about you? "My friend says you're a partisan hack who's forged disastrous rulings in order to help conservatives win victories they never could through elections. "Me? I just think you're a sociopath."

It’s probably not great that the state budget turns on how well the holdings of about 500 people at four companies do in the market but oh well

Fuck you jack

Yes

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Geography departments are funny because it's like half people who do really cool, cutting edge remote sensing and GIS work (which bring in all the grants) and then half people doing the absolute worst social science work you've ever encountered.

toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite

If you're a young leftist looking for an inspirational model for politics and can't come up with anyone better than Stalin or Mao I'm going to encourage you to read a second book.

The Yale Law School Federalist Society just gave this guy a profile in courage award this weekend.

We should bring back Puritan names like “Thou woouldst be damned were it not for the blood of Christ” or whatever but with a modern liberal humanist twist. Naming my child “Republican Virtue” or “Labor Omnia Vincit” or “General Sherman Did Not Go Far Enough”

Housing is distributed by people’s ability to pay. Refusing to build expensive new homes in your neighborhood does not make the rich people disappear or move elsewhere, it just ensures that they’ll outbid current residents for existing homes and renovate them into luxury housing.

Kathy Hochul seems to be nearing victory on environmental review reform for housing in New York State. Credit to @rachelmayny.bsky.social and @annakelles.bsky.social for pushing on it. gothamist.com/news/hochul-...

SPUR's housing policy director argues San Francisco's fees and affordable housing mandates, each defensible alone, are collectively making projects impossible. Evidence: 74,000 homes in the pipeline, only 4% under construction. www.spur.org/news/2026-04...

Smoking is gross and should be rejected but at least it isn’t as fucking dorky as vaping

I literally do not care

So many AI “solutions” are just the saddest loser ever telling on themselves. Profoundly pathetic shit. Absolute poverty of imagination. And proud of it.

The thing about Zoomers is that if you’re under 30 years old, your opinion isn’t really any of my business

The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.